IMA - Institute of Modern Art

Art Enquirer

Art Enquirer is a young artist development program in critical writing skills especially for senior students of visual arts from Queensland state and non-state high schools. Join us as a residential or day student to engage with inspiring art and learn from industry mentors.

Friday 17 March 2017 to Friday 17 March 2017
Art workshop in Queensland, Australia.

First Thursdays

Artists play host at the IMA on the first Thursday of the month from 6–9pm. Join them for some unmissable evenings of art, music, dance, food, and cultural experiences!

Archie Moore Chantal Fraser Jemima Wyman Zach Blas Hannah Bronte Shahmen Suku David M Thomas

Thursday 02 March 2017 to Thursday 02 March 2017
Art special_event in Queensland, Australia.

QFF X IMA Screenings

Continuing our partnership with the Queensland Film Festival in 2017, QFF X IMA will bring the best of contemporary international cinema to the Institute of Modern Art. With a dedicated program of free screenings, QFF X IMA seeks to re-energise local film culture, providing a simulating environment for thinking and talking about film.

Barbara Hammer

Saturday 18 February 2017 to Saturday 18 February 2017
Art screening in Queensland, Australia.

Screening, Sheltering Islands

Presented as a partnership between Queensland Film Festival and the Institute of Modern Art, this free screening draws on the concept of the island, distinct yet connected, for thinking through history and the dynamics of power.

Christopher Becks Emmanuel Le Fran Joana Pimenta Samuel M. Delgado Helena Girón Alexander Carver Daniel Schmidt

Saturday 18 February 2017 to Saturday 18 February 2017
Art screening in Queensland, Australia.

Artist Talk, Willem de Rooij

Please join us for an artist talk by Willem de Rooij and preview of his exhibition Ebb Rains and at 5pm. IMA members and patrons receive a complimentary glass of Howard Park Jeté Brut Blanc NV.

Willem De Rooij

Saturday 11 February 2017 to Saturday 11 February 2017
Art talk in Queensland, Australia.

Exhibition Opening, Willem de Rooij

Celebrate the start of the season on Saturday 11 February, with the opening the first solo exhibition in the Asia-Pacific by Berlin-based Dutch artist Willem de Rooij.

Willem De Rooij

Saturday 11 February 2017 to Saturday 11 February 2017
Art opening in Queensland, Australia.

Caitlin Franzmann: The Foundry

The IMA is pleased to present an ambitious new installation, The Foundry, with visuals by Caitlin Franzmann and sound composed by Dale Gorfinkel from recordings made with Ross Manning as part of our Green Room program. The project will open at 5pm on Saturday, 28 January, in the front space on the Judith Wright Centre, and run until 11 February.

Ross Manning Dale Gorfinkel Caitlin Franzmann

Saturday 28 January 2017 to Saturday 11 February 2017
Art exhibition in Queensland, Australia.

Vernon Ah Kee: Inaugural Ima Courtyard Commission

Curated by Aileen Burns and Johan Lundh A new initiative designed to activate the exterior space of the IMA, the inaugural IMA Courtyard Commission runS in parallel to our exhibition program, activating a public space in the heart of Fortitude Valley. This will be an ongoing commissioning platform, engaging with Australian and international artists to produce dynamic new work.

Vernon Ah Kee Aileen Burns Johan Lundh

Saturday 30 July 2016 to Sunday 01 January 2017
Art exhibition in Queensland, Australia.

Nicholas Mangan: Limits to Growth

Join us on Saturday 29 October to celebrate the opening of Limits to Growth, the first survey exhibition of Melbourne-based artist Nicholas Mangan. Consisting of five major projects made between 2009-2016, Mangan’s installations combine video, photography, and sculpture to intersect stories from the Asia-Pacific region concerning ecology, economics, and sustainability.

Nicholas Mangan

Saturday 29 October 2016 to Sunday 18 December 2016
Opening: Saturday 29 October 2016
Art exhibition in Queensland, Australia.

IMA Talk, Dieter Roelstraete

In this lecture, co-presented with Monash University Museum of Art, international curator Dieter Roelstraete considers his past notions of art as an historical or historiographic tool using retrospective exercises.

Dieter Roelstraete

Tuesday 13 December 2016 to Tuesday 13 December 2016
Art benefit in Queensland, Australia.

Publication Launch, Gordon Bennett: Be Polite13 December 2016 – 5:30PM-6:30PM

Gordon Bennett: Be Polite follows the exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia’s most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett (1955–2014). The exhibition and publication are the first to present the work of Bennett since his untimely death.

Gordon Bennett

Tuesday 13 December 2016 to Tuesday 13 December 2016
Art launch in Queensland, Australia.

QFF Screening, Melting Into Air

Presented in collaboration with Queensland Film Festival, and programmed especially for our current exhibition Nicholas Mangan: Limits to Growth, this free screening brings together four works that bend the frictionless ideal of modernity against the presence of time and its physical origins.

Len Lye Louis Henderson Terra Long Beatrice Gibson William Gaddi

Saturday 03 December 2016 to Saturday 03 December 2016
Art screening in Queensland, Australia.

Exhibition tour, Ruth McDougall

Join Ruth McDougall, Curator of Pacific Art at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art for a tour of our current exhibition Nicholas Mangan: Limits to Growth.

Ruth Mc Dougall

Saturday 26 November 2016 to Saturday 26 November 2016
Art tour in Queensland, Australia.

Publication Launch, Reparative Aesthetics by Susan Best19 November 2016 – 3:00PM-4:00PM

Reparative Aesthetics: Witnessing in Contemporary Art Photography (Bloomsbury 2016) is the latest book by Susan Best, Professor of Art Theory and Fine Art at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University.

Susan Best

Saturday 19 November 2016 to Saturday 19 November 2016
Art launch in Queensland, Australia.

The Artist As… Quarry

Artists are always falling prey to something or other. Censorship, curators, bad lighting, jet lag, bigotry, cultural prejudice, institutions in particular, and The Institution At Large. Never are they complicit in any of these things.

Tirdad Zolghadr

Tuesday 08 November 2016 to Tuesday 08 November 2016
Art talk in Queensland, Australia.

Green Screen: Queensland Shorts

The IMA has teamed up with the Queensland Film Festival to curate a selection of recent and rarely seen screen-based works connected to Queensland. From a diverse and exciting mix of practices and projects, we have put together an event in three acts.

Daniel Mc Kewen Paul Bai Sam Cranstoun Aishla Manning Amanda Wolf Leena Riethmuller Callum Galletly

Thursday 03 November 2016 to Thursday 03 November 2016
Art screening in Queensland, Australia.

IMA Annual Party

Our Annual Party will take place on Saturday 29 October – please save the date and join us to celebrate what has been another busy year at the IMA!

Saturday 29 October 2016 to Saturday 29 October 2016
Art special_event in Queensland, Australia.

Publication Launch, Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll: Art in the Time of Colony

Artist, art historian, and Professor of Global Art at Birmingham University, Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll launches the paperback edition of Art in the Time of Colony at the IMA. She will be in conversation with Dr Amelia Barikin, Lecturer in Art History at the University of Queensland.

Amelia Barikin Khadija Von Zinnenburg Carroll

Saturday 15 October 2016 to Saturday 15 October 2016
Art launch in Queensland, Australia.

Luke Willis Thompson: Misadventure

Shown across three galleries at the IMA, Luke Willis Thompson’s exhibition of conceptual sculpture and film binds together three projects that mark the first five years of the artist’s work.

Aileen Burns Johan Lundh Luke Willis Thompson

Saturday 30 July 2016 to Saturday 08 October 2016
Art exhibition in Queensland, Australia.

Maryam Jafri: Independence Day 1934–1975

Curated by Aileen Burns and Johan Lundh This first solo exhibition in Australia of Maryam Jafri's work presents fifty-seven photographs from her project Independence Day 1934–1975 (2009–ongoing) form an installation that documents the first independence day ceremonies in former European colonies across Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, between 1934 and 1975.

Maryam Jafri Aileen Burns Johan Lundh

Saturday 30 July 2016 to Saturday 08 October 2016
Art exhibition in Queensland, Australia.

Screening, Ken Fero’s Injustice

In conjunction with Luke Willis Thompson’s exhibition Misadventure, we present a free screening of Ken Fero’s Injustice (2001), a film that The Guardian called ‘one of the most powerful and despairing films ever to have been made’ in the United Kingdom.

Ken Fero Tariq Mehmood Kasim Abid Donovan Fontaine Koutaiba D. Salman Roya Salari David Fox Richard Horn Ivan Fawzi Kathy Tyson

Thursday 06 October 2016 to Thursday 06 October 2016
Art exhibition in Queensland, Australia.

Exhibition Tour, Sancintya Simpson

Join the IMA’s new Public Engagement Assistant, Sancintya Simpson, for a guided tour of our current exhibitions: Luke Willis Thompson: Misadventure; Maryam Jafri: Independence Day 1934–1975; Vernon Ah Kee: Inaugural Courtyard Commission; and Judy Watson: the names of places.

Sancintya Simpson

Saturday 01 October 2016 to Saturday 01 October 2016
Art exhibition in Queensland, Australia.

Centenaries: Artists Destabilising Irish Histories

This has been dubbed the decade of centenaries in Ireland: 2013 marked 100 years since the Dublin lockout; this year is a century since the Easter Rising; and 2022 will be the centenary of the Irish Free State.

Jesse Jones Aileen Burns Johan Lundh Seamus Harahan Tom Flanagan Megs Morley

Saturday 24 September 2016 to Saturday 24 September 2016
Art screening in Queensland, Australia.

Richard Bell’s Embassy at the IMA

In 1972, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy was established on the parliamentary lawns in Canberra to challenge the status, treatment, and rights of Aboriginal people in Australia.

Richard Bell Pekeri Ruska Cheryl Buchanan Dale Ruska Sam Watson Christopher Matthews Aileen Moreton Robinson Sandra Phillips Amy Mc Quire Leesa Watego

Saturday 24 September 2016 to Saturday 24 September 2016
Art special_event in Queensland, Australia.

Green Screen: Caitlin Franzmann

An off-site experimental film screening and audiovisual performance with Caitlin Franzmann, Dale Gorfinkel and Ross Manning.

Ross Manning Dale Gorfinkel Caitlin Franzmann

Saturday 17 September 2016 to Saturday 17 September 2016
Art screening in Queensland, Australia.

The Artist As… Archivist

In the fifth lecture in our The Artist As… series, co-presented with Curatorial Practice at Monash Art Design and Architecture, Brook Andrew will reflect on his collaborations and interventions in museums both within Australia and internationally.

Brook Andrew

Tuesday 13 September 2016 to Tuesday 13 September 2016
Art talk in Queensland, Australia.

Green Screen: Judy Watson

To inaugurate the IMA’s Green Screen project, which focusses on moving image works with a connection to Queensland, Judy Watson‘s film the names of places will be shown at the gallery from 10 September–8 October. the names of places presents research-based mapping of Aboriginal massacre sites across the country.

Judy Watson

Saturday 10 September 2016 to Saturday 10 September 2016
Art screening in Queensland, Australia.

Publication Launch, Rattling Spears: A History of Indigenous Australian Art

Rattling Spears: A History of Indigenous Australian Art is the latest book by Professor Ian McLean, whose research and publishing in this field has been pioneering.

Ian Mc Lean

Saturday 10 September 2016 to Saturday 10 September 2016
Art launch in Queensland, Australia.

Artist Workshop with Sam Cranstoun

Join Brisbane artist Sam Cranstoun for a hands-on workshop utilising vintage and found photographic images as the foundation for collage-based artworks.

Sam Cranstoun

Saturday 03 September 2016 to Saturday 03 September 2016
Art workshop in Queensland, Australia.

LA2016 Brisbane: Listening at the Edge of a Knife

Liquid Architecture in association with Room40 present – Listening at the Edge of a Knife: a tension and a balance between a sense (that one listens to) and a truth (that one understands).

Puce Mary Johannes Kreidler Thembi Soddell Tralala Blip

Friday 26 August 2016 to Friday 26 August 2016
Art performance in Queensland, Australia.

The Artist As… Initiator

In the fourth lecture in our year-long series The Artist As… co-presented with Curatorial Practice at Monash Art Design and Architecture, Associate Professor Tara McDowell will focus on the ‘artist as initiator’.

Tara Mc Dowell

Wednesday 24 August 2016 to Wednesday 24 August 2016
Art talk in Queensland, Australia.

QFF: The Hunchback

We continue our series of free screenings in partnership with the Queensland Film Festival, featuring three international experimental films:

Gabriel Abrantes And Ben Rivers Jon Rafman And Daniel Lopatin Peter Burr

Saturday 20 August 2016 to Saturday 20 August 2016
Art screening in Queensland, Australia.

IMA Members Tour & Drinks

IMA Directors Aileen Burns and Johan Lundh invite gallery Members and Supporters to join them for drinks and a private tour of our current exhibitions: Luke Willis Thompson: Misadventure; Maryam Jafri: Independence Day 1934–1975; and Vernon Ah Kee: Inaugural Courtyard Commission on Friday 19 August at 6pm.

Vernon Ah Kee Maryam Jafri Aileen Burns Johan Lundh Luke Willis Thompson

Wednesday 17 August 2016 to Wednesday 17 August 2016
Art tour in Queensland, Australia.

Publication Launch, Frontier Imaginaries Ed Nº1

Join us at QUT Art Museum on Saturday 13 August to launch the first Frontier Imaginaries publication on the final weekend of the exhibition in Brisbane. Frontier Imaginaries Ed Nº1 offers a chance to reflect upon how, why, and with what tools locally-focused projects can be meaningfully connected across vastly separate geographies.

Dale Harding Amelia Barikin Vivian Ziherl Amanda Cahill Léuli Eshraghi Pekeri Ruska

Saturday 13 August 2016 to Saturday 13 August 2016
Art launch in Queensland, Australia.

Exhibition tour, Professor Susan Best

Art historian Professor Susan Best will give a tour of Maryam Jafri: Independence Day 1934–1975 on Saturday 6 August at 3pm. This is the first solo exhibition in Australia of Jafri’s work and presents fifty-seven photographs from her project Independence Day 1934–1975 (2009–ongoing).

Professor Susan Best Susan Best

Saturday 06 August 2016 to Saturday 06 August 2016
Art exhibition in Queensland, Australia.

IMA Opening, Luke Willis Thompson, Maryam Jafri, Vernon Ah Kee

Join us on Saturday 30 July as we unveil three exciting new projects by three leading contemporary artists: the first solo exhibitions in Australia by Luke Willis Thompson and Maryam Jafri; and a monumental outdoor artwork by Vernon Ah Kee to inaugurate our new initiative, the IMA Courtyard Commission.

Vernon Ah Kee Maryam Jafri Luke Willis Thompson

Saturday 30 July 2016 to Saturday 30 July 2016
Art exhibition in Queensland, Australia.