ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts

Helen Johnson: Warm Ties

Warm Ties will be the first public solo exhibition of Australian artist Helen Johnson, in collaboration with Artspace, Sydney. Johnson weaves and overlays historical and contemporary signifiers creating points of tension and reflection through the medium of painting.

Helen Johnson

Wednesday 01 February 2017 to Sunday 02 April 2017
Art exhibition in Greater London, United Kingdom.

Sonia Boyce: We move in her way

Sonia Boyce presents a new body of work created especially for the ICA. We move in her way involves the exploratory vocal and movement performances of Elaine Mitchener, Barbara Gamper and her dancers: Eve Stainton, Ria Uttridge and Be van Vark, with an invited audience.

Sonia Boyce Elaine Mitchener Barbara Gamper Eve Stainton Ria Uttridge Be Van Vark

Wednesday 01 February 2017 to Sunday 02 April 2017
Art exhibition in Greater London, United Kingdom.

Carmel Buckley and Mark Harris: Sparrow Come Back Home

Sparrow Come Back Home by British artists Carmel Buckley and Mark Harris takes its title from a 1962 album by calypso singer Mighty Sparrow, which points out the irony of being appreciated only once he had left Trinidad for the US.

Carmel Buckley Mark Harris

Tuesday 06 December 2016 to Sunday 05 February 2017
Art exhibition in Greater London, United Kingdom.

Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2016

Showcasing new and recent fine art graduates, Bloomberg New Contemporaries returns to the ICA. The panel of guest selectors comprising Anya Gallaccio, Alan Kane and Haroon Mirza has chosen 46 artists who now join an illustrious roster of New Contemporaries alumni that includes Tacita Dean, Mona Hatoum, Damien Hirst, Mike Nelson and Laure Prouvost amongst many others.

Richard Nicholson Sebastian Jefford Jamie Fitzpatrick Jemma Egan Victoria Adam Katja Angeli Diana Anghel Saelia Aparicio Torinos James Berrington Jack Bodimeade Anna Bunting Branch Leah Carless Michael Cox David Donald Kate Fahey Harry Fletcher Mary Furniss Roxman Gatt Christopher D.A. Gray Jamie Green Thomas Greig Byzantia Harlow Seungjo Jeong Alfie Kungu Janina Lange Lana Locke Georgia Lucas Going Sophie Mackfall Karolina Magnusson Murray/Leon Platt Richie Moment Zarina Muhammad Mooni Perry Lisa Porter Alicia Reyes Mc Namara George Ridgway Rodrigo Red Sandoval Zsofia Schweger Leonor Serrano Rivas Ruth Spencer Jolly Oriele Steiner Margreta Stolen Reece Straw Maryam Tafakory Tenant Of Culture Jack West

Wednesday 23 November 2016 to Sunday 22 January 2017
Art exhibition in Greater London, United Kingdom.

Fluorescent Chrysanthemum

This display highlights the ICA’s rich heritage as a home for radical contemporary arts and culture. In 1968, Fluorescent Chrysanthemum, was the first presentation of experimental Japanese art, music, film and design in Europe.

Tadanori Yokoo Kohei Sugiura Jiro Takamatsu Ushio Shinohara Seiichi Hayashi Yoji Kuri Tatsuo Shimamura

Tuesday 04 October 2016 to Sunday 27 November 2016
Art exhibition in Greater London, United Kingdom.

James Richards: Requests and Antisongs

James Richards presents new and recent works which continue his ongoing exploration of collage, installation and sound.

James Richards

Wednesday 21 September 2016 to Sunday 13 November 2016
Art exhibition in Greater London, United Kingdom.

Detroit: Techno City

A studied look at the evolution and subsequent dispersion of Detroit Techno music. This term, coined in the 1980s, reflects the musical and social influences that informed early experiments in merging the sounds of synth-pop and disco with funk to create this distinct music genre.

Juan Atkins Blake Baxter Eddie Fowlkes Derrick May Kevin Saunderson

Wednesday 27 July 2016 to Sunday 25 September 2016
Art exhibition in City of London, United Kingdom.

Artistic Differences

To coincide with the Lower Gallery exhibition Judy Blame: Never Again (29 June – 4 September 2016), which features designer Judy Blame’s work since the 1980s, Artistic Differences in the Upper Gallery aims to present Blame’s work within a wider artistic context, drawing on connections in the art and design worlds in the UK from the 1980s and 1990s.

Derek Jarman Juergen Teller Jake & Dinos Chapman Linder Charles Atlas Dave Baby Malcolm Garrett Jim Lambie Mark Lebon John Maybury Peter Saville Trojan Nicola Tyson Tim Noble Sue Webster

Wednesday 29 June 2016 to Sunday 04 September 2016
Art exhibition in Greater London, United Kingdom.

Judy Blame: Never Again

The first major solo exhibition by accessories designer, art director and fashion stylist Judy Blame.

Judy Blame

Wednesday 29 June 2016 to Sunday 04 September 2016
Art exhibition in Greater London, United Kingdom.

Alasdair McLellan

Photographer Alasdair McLellan presents a collection of archive and unseen images of Palace Skateboards’ renowned team and its extended family in the London skate gang, the Palace Wayward Boys Choir (PWBC). McLellan has been documenting the scene around Palace since its launch in 2009.

Alasdair Mc Lellan

Friday 08 July 2016 to Sunday 24 July 2016
Art exhibition in Greater London, United Kingdom.

Olivetti: Beyond Form and Function

Founded as a typewriter manufacturing company by Camillo Olivetti in 1908 in Ivrea, Italy, Olivetti is considered one of the leading manufacturers of the mid-20th century.

Bbpr Louis Kahn And Le Corbusier Gae Aulenti Walter Ballmer Mario Bellini Milton Glaser Costantino Nivola Marcello Nizzoli Giovanni Pintori And Ettore Sottsass Xanti Schawinsky Herbert Bayer

Wednesday 25 May 2016 to Sunday 17 July 2016
Art exhibition in Greater London, United Kingdom.

Guan Xiao in association with K11 Art Foundation

Working mainly in sculpture and video, Chinese artist Guan Xiao (b.1983) explores how ways of seeing are now influenced by digital image circulation as an increasingly dominant source of knowledge and information exchange.

Guan Xiao

Wednesday 20 April 2016 to Sunday 19 June 2016
Art exhibition in Greater London, United Kingdom.

Martine Syms: Fact & Trouble

An exhibition of new and recent photography, video, and sculpture by Martine Syms (b. 1988), a Los Angeles-based artist with an ongoing interest in historiography, semiotics, and pop. Syms is interested in how language and physical gestures are used within the American media as expressions of identity.

Martine Syms

Wednesday 20 April 2016 to Sunday 19 June 2016
Art exhibition in Greater London, United Kingdom.

Dennis Morris: PiL - First Issue to Metal Box

A presentation of rarely seen photographs and ephemera relating to the early stages of the band Public Image Ltd’s (PiL) design from 1978-79 with a focus on the design of the album Metal Box.

Dennis Morris

Wednesday 23 March 2016 to Sunday 15 May 2016
Art exhibition in Greater London, United Kingdom.

Betty Woodman

The first UK solo presentation of works by Betty Woodman (born 1930), one of the most important contemporary artists working with ceramics today. The exhibition focuses on work Woodman has created in the last ten years, including a number of major new mixed media pieces.

Betty Woodman

Wednesday 03 February 2016 to Sunday 10 April 2016
Art exhibition in Greater London, United Kingdom.

Art into Society – Society into Art

This archival display documents the seminal 1974 ICA exhibition Art into Society – Society into Art: Seven German Artists (29 October – 24 November 1974).

Gustav Metzger Joseph Beuys Norman Rosenthal Christos M. Joachimides Albrecht D. Kp Brehmer Hans Haacke Dieter Hacker Klaus Staeck Michael Ruetz

Tuesday 19 January 2016 to Sunday 06 March 2016
Art exhibition in United Kingdom.

Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2015

The ICA is delighted to welcome back Bloomberg New Contemporaries to its galleries the sixth year running. Selectors Hurvin Anderson, Jessie Flood-Paddock and Simon Starling have chosen works by 38 of the most outstanding artists emerging from UK art schools from a record number of applicants.

Sïan Astley Kevin Boyd Lydia Brockless U. Kanad Chakrabarti James William Collins Andrei Costache Julia Curtin Abri De Swardt Melanie Eckersley Jamie Fitzpatrick Justin Fitzpatrick Hannah Ford Sophie Giller Richard Hards Juntae T.J. Hwang Jasmine Johnson Tomomi Koseki Hilde Krohn Huse Pandora Lavender Jin Han Lee Hugo López Ayuso Beatrice Lily Lorigan Scott Lyman Hanqing Ma & Mona Yoo Scott Mason Oliver Mc Connie Mandy Niewöhner Hamish Pearch Neal Rock Conor Rogers Katie Schwab Tim Simmons David Cyrus Smith Francisco Sousa Lobo Aaron Wells Morgan Wills Andrea Zucchini

Wednesday 25 November 2015 to Sunday 24 January 2016
Art benefit in Greater London, United Kingdom.

Radical Disco: Architecture and Nightlife in Italy, 1965-1975

A presentation exploring the relationship between architecture and nightlife in Italy during the 1960s and 1970s.

Tuesday 08 December 2015 to Sunday 10 January 2016
Art exhibition in Greater London, United Kingdom.

Fig-2

fig-2 presents 50 projects over 50 weeks in the ICA Studio, in association with Outset. Please join us for fig-2 openings every Monday from 6-8pm throughout 2015. As the ICA is closed on Mondays, to reach the Studio please use the ramp entrance to the Studio from Carlton House Terrace, at the top of the Duke of York Steps.

Jeremy Deller Richard Hamilton Fatoş Üstek Mark Francis Jay Jopling Runa Islam Oliver Payne Nick Relph Will Self Patti Smith Caruso St John Philip Treacy

Monday 05 January 2015 to Sunday 20 December 2015
Art exhibition in Greater London, United Kingdom.

Smiler: Photographs of London by Mark Cawson

An exhibition of unseen photographs by Smiler (aka Mark Cawson) of London squats from the late 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s. The content of the exhibition focuses on a body of work that Smiler mainly shot between West London and Kings Cross.

Mark Cawson

Saturday 12 September 2015 to Sunday 29 November 2015
Art exhibition in Greater London, United Kingdom.

ICA Off-Site: Hannah Perry

To celebrate the first anniversary of the Diesel Black Gold global flagship store on London’s Conduit Street, the ICA, in association with Diesel Black Gold present an installation of video work by artist Hannah Perry. The off-site project sees Perry occupy the courtyard of the flagship store for one month with a large-scale video installation.

Hannah Perry

Thursday 15 October 2015 to Sunday 15 November 2015
Art exhibition in Greater London, United Kingdom.

Prem Sahib: Side On

For his first institutional solo exhibition in London, Prem Sahib will present new and recent work in the Lower and Upper Galleries at the ICA.

Prem Sahib

Thursday 24 September 2015 to Sunday 15 November 2015
Art exhibition in Greater London, United Kingdom.

ICA and K11 Art Foundation present Zhang Ding: Enter the Dragon

ICA and K11 Art Foundation present Zhang Ding: Enter the Dragon. The exhibition consists of an installation that directly references the final scene from the seminal Bruce Lee film Enter the Dragon (1973).

Zhang Ding

Monday 12 October 2015 to Sunday 25 October 2015
Art benefit in Greater London, United Kingdom.

ICA Off-Site: Digbeth, Birmingham in association with Selfridges Live + Loud

The ICA, in association with Selfridges, presents ICA Off-site: Digbeth, Birmingham.

Fergadelic Tim & Barry / Just Jam Tyrone Lebon Ben Sansbury Ashley Williams.

Friday 02 October 2015 to Sunday 04 October 2015
Art exhibition in Greater London, United Kingdom.

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Everything is Architecture: Bau Magazine from the 60s and 70s

The ICA is delighted to present the first significant presentation in the UK of the influential Vienna-based architectural magazine Bau: Magazine for Architecture and Urban Planning, published by the Central Association of Austrian Architects. The seminal architect Peter Cook, founder of experimental group Archigram and former ICA Director discussed the period around the exhibition on 19 June 2015

Hans Hollein Walter Pichler Günther Feuerstein Oswald Oberhuber Sokratis Dimitriou Gustav Peichl

Wednesday 29 July 2015 to Sunday 27 September 2015
Art exhibition in Greater London, United Kingdom.

ICA ASSOCIATES: Blackest Ever Black presents Ashtray Navigations, Stefan Jaworzyn, Dalhous & supporting acts

London-born, Berlin-based record label Blackest Ever Black was founded in 2010 to document a new gothic impulse in underground electronic music; over the past five years it has evolved into something far more idiosyncratic and genre-blind, though its fondness for the mysterious, the disquieting, and the melancholic remains intact.

Ashtray Navigations Stefan Jaworzyn Dalhous F Ingers

Saturday 26 September 2015 to Saturday 26 September 2015
Art exhibition in Greater London, United Kingdom.

ICA ASSOCIATES: Blackest Ever Black presents Jac Berrocal trio, Officer!, Af Ursin and Raime DJs

London-born, Berlin-based record label Blackest Ever Black was founded in 2010 to document a new gothic impulse in underground electronic music; over the past five years it has evolved into something far more idiosyncratic and genre-blind, though its fondness for the mysterious, the disquieting, and the melancholic remains intact.

Jac Berrocal Trio Officer! Af Ursin Raime D Js

Saturday 26 September 2015 to Saturday 26 September 2015
Art performance in Greater London, United Kingdom.

Culture Now: Juliet Jacques

Author Juliet Jacques discusses her new publication TRANS (Verso, 2015), a moving memoir and insightful examination of transgender politics.

Juliet Jacques

Friday 25 September 2015 to Friday 25 September 2015
Art exhibition in Greater London, United Kingdom.

Culture Now: John Roberts and Peter Osborne

Art theorist John Roberts discusses his new book Revolutionary Time and the Avant-Garde (Verso, 2015) with philosopher Peter Osborne.

John Roberts Peter Osborne

Friday 18 September 2015 to Friday 18 September 2015
Art exhibition in Greater London, United Kingdom.

Adam Linder: Choreographic Service No. 3: Some Riding

Choreographer and dancer Adam Linder’s Choreographic Services (2013-ongoing) are a series of works, hired on a per-hour basis. His first Choreographic Service, entitled Some Cleaning (2013), sees Linder available for hire on a per-hour basis to clean the gallery, embodying the associated concepts with mimetic movements.

Adam Linder

Tuesday 08 September 2015 to Sunday 13 September 2015
Art performance in Greater London, United Kingdom.