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This summer, the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in collaboration with Lubaina Himid, will present the major exhibition Connecting Thin Black Lines 1985 – 2025. Celebrating 40 years since The Thin Black Line, the groundbreaking group show of young Black and Asian women artists curated by Himid at the ICA in 1985, the exhibition will present work by the original artists Brenda Agard, Sutapa Biswas, Sonia Boyce, Chila Kumari Singh Burman, Jennifer Comrie, Himid, Claudette Johnson, Ingrid Pollard, Veronica Ryan, Marlene Smith and Maud Sulter.
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5 February 2025
This spring, the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is proud to present the first solo exhibition in the UK by Amsterdam-based artist Nora Turato (b. 1991, Zagreb). Taking place across the ICA’s Lower Galleries and Concourse, pool7 features a site-specific exhibition of newly commissioned work spanning performance, writing, graphic design, video and sound. With this exhibition, Turato introduces new experimental work in an ambitious project that is the artist’s most personal to date.
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1 December 2024
In December 2024, the New Contemporaries annual exhibition opens at the ICA. Thirty-five emerging and early career artists from across the UK have been selected to take part in the prestigious touring exhibition. As well as being included in the exhibition, the artists have access to a range of opportunities including mentoring, talks, and workshops through New Contemporaries’ Bridget Riley Artists' Development Programme. New Contemporaries and the ICA share a long-standing relationship and commitment to supporting early career artists.
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25 September 2024
This autumn, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (ICA) presents, Under Construction, a solo exhibition by Geumhyung Jeong (b. 1980, Seoul) featuring a newly commissioned installation of sculpture and video, and series of live performances. Working from her background in choreography and a studied interest in the role of objects and technology in our lives, Jeong uses her body and animatronic figures built from DIY parts to parse the uncanny relationships between people and machines.
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10 June 2024
This summer the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (ICA) will stage the UK’s first exhibition of artist Rheim Alkadhi. Addressing ongoing consequences of war and colonialism exemplified in present-day Iraq and the region at large, Templates for Liberation presents a sculptural installation, archival documentatioon and emancipatory counter-histories in image and text.
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28 Nov 2023
In February 2024, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (ICA) presents Aria Dean: Abattoir, a solo exhibition of the New York-based interdisciplinary artist’s recent work and Dean’s first exhibition in the UK. The exhibition explores the foundational relationship between modernity and death on conceptual and material levels.
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11 July 2023
In September 2023, the ICA presents Eve Stainton’s new performance work Impact Driver, co-commissioned with Sadler’s Wells, Take Me Somewhere, Wysing Arts Centre and Dansehallerne.
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26 June 2023
From September 2023, ICA London presents the first solo institutional exhibition of cross-disciplinary artist Gray Wielebinski (b. 1991 Dallas, TX, USA; based in London and L.A.). The exhibition will feature all new site-specific work across painting, sculpture, installation and sound addressing the complex state of individual agency today, specifically, anxieties underpinning apocalypticism, simulation and the systems that mediate our behaviour.
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12 June 2023
The upcoming season is the second under ICA Director Bengi Ünsal. The season includes a diverse music programme exploring R&B melodies to cutting edge club sounds; exhibitions by Moki Cherry and Gray Wielebinski; two new live commissions by Eve Stainton and Jose Funnell; a film programme collaboration with Frieze London; and an ICA × Counter Editions portfolio (launching September 2023).
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29 March 2023
Each month, the ICA cinema’s new series, Screen Practices invites unconventional film collectives to curate an experimental programme over the course of a weekend. As one of the last remaining independent spaces in its geographical area, the ICA cinema aims, with this series, to bring audiences together, resisting current large-scale industry developments that tend to scatter them.
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29 March 2023
From April 2023, ICA London will host an ongoing series of collaborations with Nicolas-Tyrell Scott and invited guests. The Town Hall focuses on platforming interdisciplinary artists, informing critique and conversation about a range of topics and concepts related to the intersection of music, art, poetry, fashion and activism in British culture.
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8 March 2023
From May 2023, ICA London presents the first solo exhibition in a UK institution of Swedish artist, designer and educator, Moki Cherry (1943 – 2009). The exhibition explores Cherry’s expansive and collaborative practice across textile, sculpture, painting, drawing, writing, collage, and video.
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13 February 2023
ICA Poet-In-Residence Nick Makoha continues his research into American painter Jean-Michel Basquiat’s practice through his writing and an event workshop series.
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13 January 2023
R.I.P. Germain: “Jesus Died For Us, We Will Die For Dudus!”
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