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Press

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Ikon’s online press office provides downloadable resources for journalists including news releases, listings, selected high resolution images and credits.

For exhibition images, interview requests and other enquiries, please contact us.

Lisa Hopf
Pelham Communications
lisa@pelhamcommunications.com
020 8969 3959

Emily Luxford
Ikon Gallery, Communications Manager
e.luxford@ikon-gallery.org
0121 248 0708

You can also follow Ikon on Twitter for latest news announcements, @ikongallery

See below for recent press releases and listings information

Kate Groobey – Pure Pleasure

19 September - 18 November 2018 

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Ikon Slow Boat: Looping the Loop – Summer 2018

 

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Family Events Diary: July – September 2018

04 July - 09 September 2018 

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Polly Apfelbaum: Waiting for the UFOs (a space set between a landscape and a bunch of flowers)

19 September - 18 November 2018 

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Events Diary June – September 2018

20 June - 09 September 2018 

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Vladimír Kokolia – Epiphany

04 July - 09 September 2018 

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Francis Alÿs – Knots’n Dust

20 June - 09 September 2018 

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Ikon Slow Boat Spring 2018

 

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Ikon Director Jonathan Watkins announced as guest curator of the ninth Quebec City Biennial

 

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Ikon celebrates 20 years in Brindleyplace

 

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Ikon Board of Trustees Announcement February 2018

 

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Ikon Media Kit 2018 – 2019

 

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Ikon History

 

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Ikon in Brindleyplace

 

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Press Archive

Exhibitions and Events

2018 +–

Young Birmingham Artists

The Migrant Festival

Max Eastley – Aeolian Harp and Sculptures for Perrott’s Folly

Osman Yousefzada – Being Somewhere Else

Events Diary March – June 2018

Rie Nakajima – Cyclic

Clément Cogitore – Assange Dancing

Langlands & Bell – Internet Giants : Masters of the Universe

2017 +–

Edmund Clark – In Place of Hate

Events Diary: December 2017 – March 2018

Events Diary: September – November 2017

Ikon Slow Boat 2017

Edmund Clark

Sofia Hultén

Kathe Kollwitz

Sheela Gowda

Sidney Nolan

Jean Painlevé

Oliver Beer

2016 +–

Roger Hiorns

Mahtab Hussain: Mitti Ka Ghar – Clay House

Sara Barker

Žilvinas Kempinas

Philippine Hamen

Black Country Voyages 2016 – The Auspicious Journey

Jesse Bruton

Kan Xuan

Ikon at Plinth

Dan Flavin – It is what it is and it ain’t nothing else

2015 +–

Dinh Q. Lê – The Colony

Janet Mendelsohn – Varna Road

Julie Brook – Pigment

Takehisa Kosugi – SPACINGS

Fiona Banner – Scroll Down and Keep Scrolling

Black Country Voyages 2015

At Home with Vanley Burke

Pavel Büchler – (Honest) Work

Nástio Mosquito at Venice Biennale

Caroline Devine

2014 +–

Artist in Residence at HMP Grendon 2014 – 2017

A K Dolven

Nástio Mosquito: Daily Lovemaking

About Town

Black Country Voyages

Imran Qureshi: Deutsche Bank’s “Artist of the Year”

As Exciting As We Can Make It – Ikon in the 1980s

Lee Bul

Those Were The Decades 1970s: Politics and Protest

Michel François – Pieces of evidence

Those Were The Decades

2013 +–

As Exciting As We Can Make It: Ikon in the 1980s

Ikon Icons

Jamal Penjweny – Saddam is Here

Amikam Toren – Carrots

Dean Kelland – The Englishman’s Panacea

Ikon 50 Exhibitions and Events Programme

David Tremlett – 3 Drawing Rooms

Tim Johnson – The Luminescent Ground

Hurvin Anderson – reporting back

Tapa – Barkcloth paintings from the Pacific Press Release

François Morellet Press Release

Nina Könnemann – Bann

Giorgio Sadotti – Monster

A Real Birmingham Family

Shimabuku – Something that Floats / Something that Sinks

General News

Archive

Visit our archive of Ikon's exhibitions, projects and events with resources including gallery guides, press releases, films with artists and audio recordings of events.

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Interior of Ikon. Photo: Stuart Whipps
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Exterior of Ikon. Photo: Stuart Whipps
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Interior of Ikon. Photo: Nigel Barker
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Ikon Sign, Ron Terada.
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Press Photos

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