Ikon News

AUDIO: Ruth Claxton in conversation

m.hogan@ikon-gallery.co.uk (Matt Hogan) — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:35:29 GMT

Artists Ruth Claxton and Richard Deacon met again with Ikon Director, Jonathan Watkins before an audience on 1 May 2008. They discussed Ruths' exhibition at Ikon, shared themes and topics including ideas of the art object and computer generated realities. Visit Ruth Claxton's Media Gallery to listen to the conversation.

Click Media Gallery on other exhibition pages for image, audio and video resources.

Ikon Family Day at Perrott's Folly

e.luxford@ikon-gallery.co.uk (Emily Luxford) — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:25:09 GMT

Join Ikon staff for a one-off badge making session. Explore the famous tower, make a series of drawings and then turn these into your very own Folly badges. Open to all ages (adults positively welcome), this activity will engage, challenge and inspire. No need to book, just drop in – please note that children should be accompanied by an adult at all times.

Saturday 10 May 2 – 5pm, free
Perrott’s Folly, Waterworks Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham

International Dance Festival at Ikon Eastside

e.luxford@ikon-gallery.co.uk (Emily Luxford) — Thu, 08 May 2008 10:55:30 GMT

As part of the first International Dance Festival Birmingham, acclaimed Japanese choreographer Saburo Teshigawara presents his only UK performance in 2008 in the new Ikon Eastside space, performed on a massive square of thousands of broken glass pieces.

Performances will start at 8pm on Thursday 15 and Friday 16 May. Tickets cost £12.50, £9.50 concessions (booking fees apply), to book please contact Birmingham Hippodrome on tel. 0870 730 1234 or email birmingham@hippodrome.com Running time approximately 45 minutes.

To accompany this performance, there is an installation at Ikon Eastside on both performance days from 2pm until 7pm (free of charge and no need to book)

For more information and images about the event, please click here. For further information about the Festival visit www.idfb.co.uk

New Ikon Eastside Space

e.luxford@ikon-gallery.co.uk (Emily Luxford) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:24:49 GMT

27 May sees Ikon’s itinerant Eastside programme re-open in a new location on Fazeley Street, Digbeth. It is located 30 minutes walk from Ikon,
10 minutes from Moor Street Station and 5 minutes from Digbeth High Street.

Launching with Soi Project, an artists’ collective from Thailand and Japan, Ikon Eastside feature new work by artists from all over the world and
collaborations with Birmingham’s most dynamic cultural organisations.

Ikon Eastside will be open from Thursday - Sunday, 1-5pm

Admission Free.

183 Fazeley Street, Fazeley Studios, Digbeth, Birmingham, B5 5SE

New Jürgen Partenheimer catalogue

e.luxford@ikon-gallery.co.uk (Emily Luxford) — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:41:39 GMT

This catalogue has been produced to accompany the Jürgen Partenheimer exhibition currently on show at Ikon. This beautifully produced catalogue includes colour images of the works in the exhibition, a foreword by Ikon Director, Jonathan Watkins and Kunstmuseum Director, Stephan Berg; texts by Ikon Curator, Nigel Prince, Kunstmuseum curator Christoph Schreier, composer Kevin Volans, Jürgen Partenheimer, Kostantinos Karachalios and Laymert Garcia dos Santos. A CD of The Partenheimer Project, composed by Kevin Volans and performed by BCMG also accompanies the catalogue.

Available to buy from Ikon Shop or Online for £25

Performances by BCMG at Ikon

r.small@ikon-gallery.co.uk (Rebecca Small) — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:58:47 GMT

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group will perform The Partenheimer Project by composer Kevin Volans, commissioned as part of Jürgen Partenheimer's exhibition at Ikon.

Saturday 19 April, 10am-1pm, Ikon - free

Open rehearsal for public viewing, Ikon

Sunday 20 April, 12.30pm and 3.30pm, Ikon – free

Premiere live performances, Ikon

Visitors are encouraged to move around the exhibition during the performances, places are free but should be reserved by calling Ikon on tel. 0121 248 0708. For more information on associated events with Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, including workshops for young people, visit www.bcmg.org.uk

BCMG Insight: Art and Music

Saturday 3 May, 3–5pm – free

Performance at CBSO Centre, includes ‘Meet the composer and the artist’ with Kevin Volans and Jürgen Partenheimer in conversation about their unusual collaboration. To book contact BCMG on tel. 0121 616 2616, email info@bcmg.org.uk or turn up on the day (places are subject to availability).

For further information about Jürgen Partenheimer's exhibition at Ikon please click here

VIDEO: Claxton installation film online

m.hogan@ikon-gallery.co.uk (Matt Hogan) — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:58:22 GMT

Visit Ruth Claxton's Media Gallery to view a film documenting the fabrication of Ruths work at Ikon Eastside and the installation of her solo show, Lands End at Ikon Gallery.

Click Media Gallery on other exhibition pages for more videos, audio and images.

Ikon and The Barber Institute of Fine Arts

e.luxford@ikon-gallery.co.uk (Emily Luxford) — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:58:14 GMT

Ikon and The Barber Institute of Fine Arts form a unique partnership to present new works by Ruth Claxton.

Coinciding with her exhibition at Ikon, a stunning new series of works by Ruth Claxton will be shown at The Barber Institute of Fine Arts from 2 April – 6 July. Using postcards of works from the Barber’s permanent collection, Claxton has manipulated the top layer of the cards to raise questions about the nature of representation and our relationship with the object. This marks another chapter in the strong relationship between Ikon and The Barber Institute who have collaborated on projects by John Murphy, Richard Deacon and Braco Dimitrijevic.

www.barber.org.uk

Jürgen Partenheimer in conversation

r.small@ikon-gallery.co.uk (Rebecca Small) — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:56:55 GMT

Thursday 3 April, 7pm

Goethe-Institut, London

Join Jürgen Partenheimer and Jonathan Watkins as they discuss the current exhibition, including the off-site project at Perrott’s Folly and Partenheimer’s collaboration with acclaimed composer Kevin Volans. Tickets cost £3, to book please contact the Goethe-Institut on tel. 020 7596 4045. For more information visit www.goethe.de

Jürgen Partenheimer Small works #12 2005 Ink on paper

International Dance Festival Birmingham

e.luxford@ikon-gallery.co.uk (Emily Luxford) — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:27:45 GMT

Ikon is proud to be part of the inaugural International Dance Festival Birmingham. The festival brings a programme of dynamic world class dance from around the word to Birmingham throughout May. Ikon Eastside is hosting the only UK performances by the much acclaimed Japanese choreographer Saburo Teshigawara in its new 2008 Eastside space on Fazeley Street, Digbeth. A festival highlight, Glass – Fragments of Time on 15 and 16 May is performed on a vast square of broken glass producing a stunning visual experience.

Tickets cost £12.50, £9.50 concessions (booking fees apply), to book please contact Birmingham Hippodrome on tel. 0870 730 1234 or book online at
www.birminghamhippodrome.com Running time approximately 70 minutes.

For further information on International Dance Festival Birmingham please visit www.idfb.co.uk

New off-site project at Perrott's Folly

e.luxford@ikon-gallery.co.uk (Emily Luxford) — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:13:12 GMT

Perrott’s Folly, the original inspiration for J R Tolkien’s ‘The Two Towers’ is being brought back to life as part of the major exhibition by German artist Jürgen Partenheimer from 2 April – 25 May

The 96ft mock-gothic tower in Edgbaston was built in 1758 as an elaborate hunting lodge for the entertainment of the landowner, John Perrott’s wealthy friends. Perrott’s Folly has been closed to the public for many years, and this will be the first opportunity to climb the spectacular tower and see paintings and sculpture by Partenheimer installed on each floor. This project forms part of Ikon’s offsite programme which develops the relationship between art, artists and audiences outside the gallery, challenging expectations of where art can be seen and by whom.

For further information about Jürgen Partenheimer's exhibition at Ikon please click here

www.perrottsfolly.co.uk

A celebration for Dr Roi Kwabena

e.luxford@ikon-gallery.co.uk (Emily Luxford) — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:22:45 GMT

On Thursday 20 March at 6.30pm, Ikon is holding a celebratory event to mark the life of Dr Roi Kwabena who sadly passed away in January. Roi was part of the exhibition by Yuri Leiderman in July – September last year. The exhibition dealt with legacies of history and their manifestation in contemporary society, themes very close to Roi’s heart.

This special event brings together the musicians who collaborated with him as part of the exhibition, including Chinese lute and harp players, an English folk violinist, African drummers and an Albanian clarinettist. All are welcome to join the event to listen to and move amongst the musicians.

Ikon project space becomes artist studio

e.luxford@ikon-gallery.co.uk (Emily Luxford) — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:22:40 GMT

British artist Ruth Claxton has been creating new work in Ikon’s former Eastside space on Heath Mill Lane in Digbeth. Ikon closed its 2007 Eastside space on Halloween with a hugely successful party in collaboration with 7inch Cinema. Claxton moved in at the end of 2007 and has been using the old factory’s large spaces as a studio to make work for her major exhibition at Ikon from 2 April – 18 May.

For further information about Ruth Claxton's future exhibition at Ikon please click here

Printmaking Now event recording online

m.hogan@ikon-gallery.co.uk (Matt Hogan) — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:17:52 GMT

For more information and an audio recording of the Printmaking Now event last week , please click here.

Preview Tim Maguire's new video

m.hogan@ikon-gallery.co.uk (Matt Hogan) — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:30:35 GMT

Visit Tim Maguire's Media Gallery for a preview of his new video work, Canal, Birmingham currently showing in Ikon's Tower Room.

Click Media Gallery on other exhibition pages for image, audio and video resources.

New limited edition prints available

r.small@ikon-gallery.co.uk (Rebecca Small) — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:08:16 GMT

To coincide with their exhibitions at Ikon, Tim Maguire and Ryan Gander have produced limited edition prints.

Tim Maguire Starnbergersee 2007

Digital pigment print on paper

27.2 x 38.9cm (image), 42.5 x 53cm (paper)

Edition of 50, £150

Ryan Gander You, the reader 2007

Archival digital print, 42cm x 59.4cm

Edition of 50, £175

Available from Ikon Shop or shop online for Ikon's full range of editions including works by Cornelia Parker and Simon Patterson.

Gander installation video online

m.hogan@ikon-gallery.co.uk (Matt Hogan) — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:24:51 GMT

Visit Ryan Gander's Media Gallery to view a documentary made during the installation of his Ikon show, Heralded as the new black.

Click Media Gallery on other exhibition pages for image, audio and video resources.

Ikon Shop Sale

e.luxford@ikon-gallery.co.uk (Emily Luxford) — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:58:02 GMT

Visit Ikon Shop during January and February and enjoy 20% off all full price books and huge savings on selected catalogues (excludes current exhibition publications). Ikon Shop is open 12-6pm on Mondays and 10.30am-6pm Tuesdays to Sundays.

Reduced price catalogues also available online

Offers available while stocks last and not in conjunction with other discounts.

New Steven Shearer exhibition catalogue

e.luxford@ikon-gallery.co.uk (Emily Luxford) — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:37:07 GMT

Ikon is delighted to announce the arrival of the long-awaited catalogue for Steven Shearer. The Canadian artist exhibited at Ikon in the summer of 2007, showing his work in the gallery, as well as off-site at Ikon Eastside.

The new publication includes a foreword by Ikon Director, Jonathan Watkins and The Power Plant Director, Greg Burke, essays by Ikon Curator, Nigel Prince, art critic Nancy Tousley and curator Helena Reckitt, full colour images with details of the work featured in the exhibition including installation shots.

Available at Ikon Shop for £19.95 or buy online.

Ikon partnership nets £1 million art award

m.nisbett@ikon-gallery.co.uk (Melissa Nisbett) — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:00:50 GMT

A three-way partnership between Ikon Gallery, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and New Art Gallery Walsall has been selected as one of five projects nationally as part of a new £5 million scheme from The Art Fund, the most significant and ambitious scheme in its history devoted to international contemporary art.

Ikon, whose exhibition programme often includes work by international artists inspired by or made in the region, will provide support and curatorial advice to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and New Art Gallery Walsall in acquiring contemporary works of art of international significance.

Ikon’s Director, Jonathan Watkins, said: "This is great news for Birmingham, Walsall and the region as a whole which deserves an exemplary collection of international contemporary art. Ikon is very proud to be part of this winning partnership, enhancing opportunities for both artists and audiences alike. The next five years will be an exciting adventure, surely bringing us closer to the realisation of a new national museum of contemporary art in Birmingham."

Visit the Art Fund website for further details.