IMA - Institute of Modern Art

Gallery in Fortitude Valley Art Precinct Queensland Australia

http://www.ima.org.au

Founded in 1975, we are one of Australia’s first contemporary art spaces. We run a program of exhibitions and events featuring local, national and international artists; emerging and established artists. Our program takes in aspects of the moving image, sound art and new music. We also publish. We receive major funding from Arts Queensland and the Australia Council and are a member of Australia’s Contemporary Art Organisations network (CAOS).

Address
420 Brunswick Street
Fortitude Valley Precinct
Fortitude Valley Queensland
4006
Australia
Postal Address
PO Box 2176 Fortitude Valley BC QLD 4006 AUSTRALIA
Australia

Opening Hours
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Price
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Wheelchair Access

Yes

Email

Phone
07 3252 5750

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Japanese experimental guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama, with support from Ur Duo. MONO is curated by Lawrence English

Ken Jacobs: Star Spangled to Death

Peter Madden: Come Together

Over the last fifty years, New York film artist Ken Jacobs has made a massive contribution to experimental film and expanded-cinema performance. He is known for his pioneering two-hour 1969 structuralist film Tom, Tom, The Piper’s Son, which probes, deconstructs, and reorganises a D. W. Griffith short.

Ken Jacobs - Ontic Antics 2006–9

The Sign of the Cross: On Blasphemy and Christian Art

American-Australian Kraig Grady composes for microtonal acoustic instruments of his own design, including metallophones, marimbas, hammered dulcimers, and reed organs. Steel guitarist and MONO regular Mike Cooper explores exotica.

microMONO8: Kraig Grady and Mike Cooper

Brisbane Airport Fresh Cut is the IMA ’s annual showcase for emerging Queensland artists. This year’s instalment will feature four artists born or based in Queensland, up to six years out of art school, who have not shown at the IMA before. Each will be given $5000 towards the development of new work for the show.

Brisbane Airport Fresh Cut 2010 Call for Submissions

Feminism Never Happened

Serbian artist Marina Abramovic has been called the grandmother of performance art. Her works have often involved pain and endurance. In Art Must Be Beautiful, Artist Must Be Beautiful, her iconic 1975 performance-for-video, she agressively combs and brushes her long hair, teasing it up, while repeating ‘art must be beautiful, artist must be beautiful’.

Marina Abramovic

Mirror Mirror: Then and Now

Two years ago, we presented Greatest Hits / Previously Unreleased Tracks, a selection of video works from Queensland artists. It toured. Volume II is a follow up, presenting recent and not-so recent work by Queensland artists that we have worked with over the last couple of years.

An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar

Jemima Wyman: The Declaration of Resemblance and Fluid Insurgents

Tamar Guimaraes’s fascinating and poetic slide-show A Man Called Love (2007) tells the true story of Francisco Candido Xavier (1910–2002), a Brazilian psychic medium who dedicated his life to writing down the words spoken to him by the dead.

Tamar Guimaraes: A Man Called Love

Emory Douglas talk

man jumps above pier

Brisbane Airport Fresh Cut 2009

Massive white cube with shavings

Environmentally unfriendly monoliths

Cao Fei: Utopia

This show places the paintings of Dorothy Napangardi and John Reynolds in conversation.

Dorothy Napangardi / John Reynolds

Greek philosopher Heraclitus is famed for his observation that ‘no man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.’ With its stellar international line-up, The Same River Twice deals with a hot theme in recent art—historical reenactment. The artists all remake or recall history, with a twist.

The Same River Twice: Part 2

Photo of police combatting rioting workers

The Same River Twice

Flat coloured abstract shapes

Diena Georgetti: The Humanity of Abstract Painting

Picture of two men, one upside down, joined at beard

The New Fresh Cut