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EVENT01.10.2024 / 5.00pm8.00pm
FREE

Exhibition Launch

FRIENDS IN LOVE AND WAR - L’ÉLOGE DES MEILLEUR·ES ENNEMI·ES

Join us to celebrate the launch of Ikon’s new exhibition Friends in Love and War – L’Éloge des meilleur·es ennemi·es

Ikon and macLYON present works by over twenty artists from the British Council Collection and macLYON that explore the theme of friendship.

Curated collaboratively, the exhibition interrogates friendship as a fundamental human relationship that is essential to individual well-being and society. Taking place in the partner cities of Birmingham and Lyon, Friends in Love and War – L’Éloge des meilleur·es ennemi·es also reflects on diplomatic friendships and how regional capitals and cultural organisations can create new ways of living and working together in a post-Brexit climate. The exhibition spans painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, textile, film, sculpture and installation, combining existing and new works by international and Birmingham-based artists to form a rich depiction of our complex personal and political friendships.

Artists: Kenneth Armitage, Sonia Boyce, Tereza Bušková, Pogus Caesar, Patrick Caulfield, Jimmie Durham, Tracey Emin, Marie-Anita Gaube, Lola Gonzàlez, Emma Hart, Lubaina Himid, Géraldine Kosiak, Delaine Le Bas, Markéta Luskacová, Rachel Maclean, Goshka Macuga, Madame Yevonde, Gordon Matta-Clark, Hetain Patel, Paula Rego, Luke Routledge, Niek van de Steeg, Francis Upritchard, Fabien Verschaere, Gillian Wearing, Bedwyr Williams, Rose Wylie and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.

This exhibition is supported by the British Council and is presented as part of UK/France Spotlight on Culture 2024 Together We Imagine, with additional support from Fluxus Art Projects and Birmingham City University.

This exhibition is presented as part of Ikon’s 60th anniversary year.

FREE

Event Date

Tuesday 1 October 2024
5.00pm8.00pm

Event Details

Free entry, donations welcome

No need to book, just drop in

First and Second Floor Galleries, Ikon Gallery, Brindleyplace

Information on Ikon Gallery’s accessibility is available here.

For additional access enquiries please contact education@ikon-gallery.org

This event is being photographed. Please speak to the photographer if you prefer not to be included.

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Ikon Gallery

1 Oozells Square, Brindleyplace, Birmingham B1 2HS

Image Credits
2. Hetain Patel, Don't Look at The Finger (2017) Single channel HD video, colour and stereo sound. Duration: 16 minutes 9 seconds © Hetain Patel Courtesy of British Council Collection. 3. Pogus Caesar, Dinner Ladies, Birmingham, UK (1984) Series Schwarz Flaneur, started in 1983. Black-and-white photograph, 35mm. 34 x 44 cm Courtesy of the artist and OOM Gallery Archive. 4. Tereza Buskova, Clipping the Church (2016) Video, colour, sound. Duration: 8 minutes 14 seconds. Courtesy of the artist. 5. Lola Gonzalez, Anouk & Lola (2020) Coloured video, sound. Duration: 2 minutes 42 seconds Courtesy of the artist and Marcelle Alix, Paris.
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