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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.

Milly Carter Hepplewhite
Pelham Communications
milly@pelhamcommunications.com
020 8969 3959

Laura Jaunzems
Ikon Gallery, Communications and Digital Assistant
l.jaunzems@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

Bill Woodrow Richard Deacon – We Thought About It A Lot, and other shared drawings

15 September - 21 November 2021 

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UK/Australia Season (2021 – 2022)

25 June - 24 June 2022 

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Mit Jai Inn – Dreamworld

15 September - 21 November 2021 

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Ikon Youth Programme: Slow Boat Launching Summer 2021

 

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A Very Special Place: Ikon in the 1990s

18 June - 30 August 2021 

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Ikon Board of Trustees Announcement

 

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Ikon appoints new curator: Melanie Pocock

 

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Ikon wins Ampersand Foundation Award for Carlo Crivelli Exhibition

 

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Artist in Residence at HMP Grendon (2019-2022)

 

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Ikon History

 

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Ikon in Brindleyplace

 

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Press Archive

Exhibitions and Events

2021 +–

Ikon for Artists: Art Sale

2020 +–

Krištof Kintera: THE END OF FUN!

Judy Watson / Yhonnie Scarce

Lindsay Seers, Care(less)

Lahore Biennale: A Rich Tapestry

John Newling: Dear Nature

2019 +–

Events Diary: December 2019 – February 2020

Ikon Forward Programme 2020-2021

ZouZou Group – door open –

John Walker: New Paintings

Events Diary: September – November 2019

Claudia Losi: Being There

Meryl McMaster: As Immense as the Sky

Stuart Whipps: The Kipper and The Corpse

Barry Flanagan

Events Diary: June – September 2019

The Migrant Festival

The Aerodrome: An Exhibition Dedicated to the Memory of Michael Stanley

Venice Biennale – Kate-Groobey: Pure-Pleasure

Lin Ke: Fly

Events Diary: March – June 2019

Hew Locke: Here’s the Thing

Forward: New Art from Birmingham

2018 +–

Events Diary: November 2018 – February 2019

Ikon Forward Programme 2019-2020

Ikon Slow Boat – Looping the Loop Autumn 2018

Lucy Orta – Procession Banners

Events Diary September – November 2018

Haroon Mirza – reality is somehow what we expect it to be

Family Events Diary: July – September 2018

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

Young Birmingham Artists

Events Diary June – September 2018

The Migrant Festival

Vladimír Kokolia – Epiphany

Francis Alÿs – Knots’n Dust

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

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Exterior of Ikon. Photo: Handover Agency
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Interior 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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Exterior of Ikon. Photo: Handover Agency
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Exterior of Ikon. Photo: Stuart Whipps
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