Event 22.09.2023–22.12.2023
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Ikon is an internationally acclaimed contemporary art venue located in Birmingham, UK. Free entry.
IKON SHOP
Choose Ikon Gallery for your Christmas shopping this year! Browse our books, prints, stationery, jewellery, homeware and gifts.
All profits support Ikon’s charitable artistic and educational programme.
HIRE IKON FOR YOUR EVENT
Housed in a beautiful Victorian building, Ikon Gallery has versatile spaces, accommodating 10 to 500 guests.
Get in touch today to discuss your event with a member of our team.
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.
Current Exhibitions
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Exhibition 15.04.2023–01.04.2024
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Mit Jai Inn
Dreamworld. Exhibition in Chiang Mai, Thailand
Following Mit Jai Inn’s exhibition at Ikon Gallery (15 September – 21 November 2021), Dreamworld now travels to MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai for a year-long presentation.
Exhibition 20.09.2023–22.12.2023
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Banners
At Ikon Gallery and regional art schools
Ikon presents Banners by Mali Morris, an off-site installation organised to coincide with Calling, her solo exhibition of paintings at the gallery.
Exhibition 20.09.2023–22.12.2023
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Mali Morris
Calling
Ikon presents a major solo exhibition by British artist Mali Morris. Calling includes nearly 30 works from the last 25 years and documents a notable change in Morris’ artistic practice from the late 1990s when she considered new painterly directions.
Exhibition 20.09.2023–22.12.2023
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DEAN KELLAND
IMPOSTER SYNDROME
Ikon’s exhibition features a number of Dean Kelland’s new films, prints and sketchbooks that reimagine the psychoanalytic dialogue that has occurred between Pop Art and Prison Art since the 1960s.
Exhibition 13.10.2023–31.03.2024
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Maryam Wahid
Dreams of Brum. At Handsworth Library.
Ikon tours Dreams of Brum, an exhibition of photographic portraits by Birmingham-based photographer Maryam Wahid, taken at Handsworth Library during a series of creative community workshops with printmaker Haseebah Ali.
Upcoming Exhibitions
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Exhibition 07.12.2023–17.12.2023
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Art at HMP Grendon Showcase
Curated by a current prisoner at HMP Grendon, this showcase features artwork made by prisoners who participate in the Art at HMP Grendon programme.
Exhibition 09.02.2024–21.04.2024
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Exodus Crooks
EPIPHANY (TEMPORAIRE)
Ikon hosts Midlands-based artist Exodus Crooks’ exhibition Epiphany (Temporaire), commissioned by Ort Gallery and International Curators Forum (ICF), originally presented at Block 336 in Summer 2023. Curated by Orphée Kashala, the exhibition includes sculpture, film, text and sculptural installation.
Exhibition 09.02.2024–21.04.2024
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Start the Press!
The centrepiece of Start the Press! is a vintage, flatbed printing press from Wolverhampton School of Art, taking its position in the gallery as a form of protest or occupation in the tradition of the student art-school sit-ins of the 1960s, and in response to the current challenging economic landscape. A cohort of West Midlands printmakers will operate the press, producing original prints and filling the gallery walls as work is made in real time.
Exhibition 10.05.2024–08.09.2024
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Dion Kitson
Rue Britannia
Ikon presents the first major solo exhibition and an ambitious off-site commission by British artist Dion Kitson in partnership with English Heritage.
Exhibition 10.05.2024–08.09.2024
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National Treasures / Jesse Jones
Artemisia in Birmingham
Ikon is a partner in National Treasures, a key strand of the programme celebrating the National Gallery’s Bicentenary, NG200. Simultaneously, Ikon shows a solo exhibition by Dublin-based contemporary artist Jesse Jones whose practice crosses film, performance and installation.
Latest News
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Ikon Shop 23.11.2023
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Meet The Maker - The Nine of Hearts
Meet Bryony Criddle, founder of The Nine of Hearts who will be a stallholder at this year’s Winter Craft Market on Thursday 7 December.
Ikon Shop 16.11.2023
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Christmas Gift Ideas
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Exhibitions 07.11.2023
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Meet the curator
Sam Cornish
Ikon presents a major solo exhibition by British artist Mali Morris. Calling includes nearly 30 abstract paintings and is curated by independent curator and writer Sam Cornish, author of the monograph Mali Morris: Painting. We asked him a few questions about himself and how he met Mali.
News 26.10.2023
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Ikon announces 2024 exhibitions & celebrates 60 years
Ikon announces plans for 2024, during which time the gallery celebrates its 60th anniversary. 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 Grendon 19.10.2023
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Artist in Residence - Art at HMP Grendon
Ikon are currently recruiting for an Artist in Residence – Art at HMP Grendon.