Exhibition02.10.202423.02.2025
FRIENDS IN LOVE AND WAR - L’ÉLOGE DES MEILLEUR·ES ENNEMI·ES.
Works from the British Council Collection and macLYON
Event05.03.202420.12.2024
Support Ikon: 60 for 60
Event07.12.2024 / 11.00am3.00pm
Family Saturday
with Luke Routledge
Event06.10.202422.12.2024
Sunday Spotlight Tour
Exhibition02.10.202423.02.2025
FRIENDS IN LOVE AND WAR - L’ÉLOGE DES MEILLEUR·ES ENNEMI·ES.
Works from the British Council Collection and macLYON
Event05.03.202420.12.2024
Support Ikon: 60 for 60
Event07.12.2024 / 11.00am3.00pm
Family Saturday
with Luke Routledge
Event06.10.202422.12.2024
Sunday Spotlight Tour
Exhibition02.10.202423.02.2025
FRIENDS IN LOVE AND WAR - L’ÉLOGE DES MEILLEUR·ES ENNEMI·ES.
Works from the British Council Collection and macLYON
Event05.03.202420.12.2024
Support Ikon: 60 for 60
Event07.12.2024 / 11.00am3.00pm
Family Saturday
with Luke Routledge
Event06.10.202422.12.2024
Sunday Spotlight Tour

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ART AT HMP GRENDON

With a focus on the development of the prisoners’ artistic practice, Ikon has opened the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Studio at HMP Grendon – a dedicated space for workshops, in printing and painting, and a changing programme of exhibitions, art historical and contemporary.

Funded by the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust.

IKON YOUTH PROGRAMME

Over three years (2021-24) Ikon Youth Programme (IYP) navigates the waterways on board Slow Boat, a converted narrow boat. IYP are collaborating with creative thinkers and makers to reimagine Slow Boat as a local art school.

Funded by Freelands Foundation.

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Events

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Current Exhibitions

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Exhibition27.08.202430.03.2025
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Jaskirt Dhaliwal-Boora
Green Spaces, at grounded. Hall Green.
Ikon and Living Well Consortium collaborate to raise awareness of, and engagement with, topics centred on mental health and wellbeing. Birmingham-born artist Jaskirt Dhaliwal-Boora has worked with communities in Erdington, taking photographic portraits against the backdrop of the city’s green spaces, and exploring the benefits of nature to our health.   

Upcoming Exhibitions

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Exhibition20.03.202501.06.2025
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Htein Lin
A solo exhibition by Htein Lin, a multi-disciplinary artist from Myanmar, comprising a selection of textile paintings, monoprints, video and performance, evoking the artist’s lifelong quest for artistic freedom.
Exhibition20.03.202501.06.2025
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Mahtab Hussain
What Did You Want To See?
British artist Mahtab Hussain explores the fine line between photographic documentation and surveillance culture, intervening in the intelligence sites established by the media and the state to monitor the Muslim community in Britain.
Exhibition25.06.202507.09.2025
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Thread the Loom
Ikon celebrates the medium of weaving by bringing an AVL Studio Dobby loom on-site to the gallery and activating it through a series of micro-residencies with West Midlands weavers and artists.
Exhibition25.06.202507.09.2025
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Seulgi Lee
Born in Seoul and living in Paris since 1992, Seulgi Lee’s artwork is shaped by the use of colour, gesture, simple yet elegant forms and performance.
Exhibition01.10.202511.01.2026
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Donald Locke
The first major survey of Guyanese artist Donald Locke (1930-2010).  

Latest News

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News05.12.2024
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Meet our new Curator & Curatorial Fellow
We caught up with the new members of Ikon’s Exhibitions team: Daphne Chu, Curator and Amrit Sanghera, Curatorial Fellow (supported by the Frieze x Deutsche Bank Emerging Curators Fellowship).
News24.10.2024
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Ikon announces 2025 exhibition & education programmes
Ikon is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition and education programmes for 2025. Established as an artists-led alternative space in the Bullring in 1964, Ikon remains free to all and committed to showcasing the very best of British and international art.
HMP Grendon09.10.2024
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Interview with HMP Grendon Artist in Residence
Simon Harris
Dr Simon Harris is Ikon’s Artist in Residence at HMP Grendon. James Latunji-Cockbill, Ikon’s Producer, Art in Prisons, interviews the artist after his first three months of working at the prison.
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