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
Published on Wednesday 14 December 2016. Art workshop in Queensland, Australia.
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!
Thursday 02 March 2017 to Thursday 02 March 2017
Published on Wednesday 08 February 2017. Art special_event in Queensland, Australia.
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.
Saturday 18 February 2017 to Saturday 18 February 2017
Published on Wednesday 08 February 2017. Art screening in Queensland, Australia.
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.
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.
Saturday 11 February 2017 to Saturday 11 February 2017
Published on Wednesday 08 February 2017. Art talk in Queensland, Australia.
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.
Published on Wednesday 08 February 2017. Art opening in Queensland, Australia.
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.
Saturday 28 January 2017 to Saturday 11 February 2017
Published on Wednesday 11 January 2017. Art exhibition in Queensland, Australia.
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.
Saturday 30 July 2016 to Sunday 01 January 2017
Published on Thursday 04 August 2016. Art exhibition in Queensland, Australia.
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.
Saturday 29 October 2016 to Sunday 18 December 2016 Opening: Saturday 29 October 2016
Published on Thursday 06 October 2016. Art exhibition in Queensland, Australia.
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.
Tuesday 13 December 2016 to Tuesday 13 December 2016
Published on Wednesday 16 November 2016. Art benefit in Queensland, Australia.
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.
Published on Wednesday 30 November 2016. Art launch in Queensland, Australia.
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.
Saturday 03 December 2016 to Saturday 03 December 2016
Published on Wednesday 23 November 2016. Art screening in Queensland, Australia.
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.
Saturday 26 November 2016 to Saturday 26 November 2016
Published on Wednesday 02 November 2016. Art tour in Queensland, Australia.
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.
Saturday 19 November 2016 to Saturday 19 November 2016
Published on Wednesday 02 November 2016. Art launch in Queensland, Australia.
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.
Tuesday 08 November 2016 to Tuesday 08 November 2016
Published on Tuesday 18 October 2016. Art talk in Queensland, Australia.
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.
Thursday 03 November 2016 to Thursday 03 November 2016
Published on Wednesday 26 October 2016. Art screening in Queensland, Australia.
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
Published on Thursday 13 October 2016. Art special_event in Queensland, Australia.
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.
Saturday 15 October 2016 to Saturday 15 October 2016
Published on Thursday 06 October 2016. Art launch in Queensland, Australia.
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.
Saturday 30 July 2016 to Saturday 08 October 2016
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.
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.
Thursday 06 October 2016 to Thursday 06 October 2016
Published on Wednesday 21 September 2016. Art exhibition in Queensland, Australia.
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.
Saturday 01 October 2016 to Saturday 01 October 2016
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.
Saturday 24 September 2016 to Saturday 24 September 2016
Published on Thursday 15 September 2016. Art screening in Queensland, Australia.
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.
Published on Thursday 15 September 2016. Art special_event in Queensland, Australia.
An off-site experimental film screening and audiovisual performance with Caitlin Franzmann, Dale Gorfinkel and Ross Manning.
Saturday 17 September 2016 to Saturday 17 September 2016
Published on Wednesday 07 September 2016. Art screening in Queensland, Australia.
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.
Tuesday 13 September 2016 to Tuesday 13 September 2016
Published on Wednesday 07 September 2016. Art talk in Queensland, Australia.
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.
Saturday 10 September 2016 to Saturday 10 September 2016
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.
Published on Wednesday 07 September 2016. Art launch in Queensland, Australia.
Join Brisbane artist Sam Cranstoun for a hands-on workshop utilising vintage and found photographic images as the foundation for collage-based artworks.
Saturday 03 September 2016 to Saturday 03 September 2016
Published on Wednesday 24 August 2016. Art workshop in Queensland, Australia.
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).
Friday 26 August 2016 to Friday 26 August 2016
Published on Wednesday 10 August 2016. Art performance in Queensland, Australia.
