THIS COULD HAPPEN TO YOU : IKON IN THE 1970S
Jul 21 - Sep 5, 2010
Ikon presents This Could Happen To You: Ikon in the 1970s. The second chapter in the story of Ikon, the exhibition surveys the gallery’s programme from 1970-1978 and follows the 1960s survey Some of the best things in life happen accidentally (2004). The works of 32 artists will be displayed throughout Ikon’s Brindleyplace galleries, augmented by other installations at Ikon Eastside and Birmingham’s Pallasades shopping centre.
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THE LONG DARK
Jul 17 - Sep 19, 2010
9 contemporary British and German artists explore 'medievalism' in contemporary art. Eva Berendes, Simon Bill, Alexandra Bircken, Nicholas Byrne, Raphael Danke, Peter Linde Busk, Kalin Lindena, Maria Loboda and Bernd Ribbeck
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DISASTERS OF WAR
Nov 19, 2009 - Sep 19, 2010
Free entry
See the Chapman Brothers’ gruesome sculpture Disasters of War (1993) alongside the Goya etchings that inspired it. From late November, a surprise addition will join the display, developed by a dynamic group of young people (our Creative Consultants) together with artist Katy McCall.
 
Visual Dialogues: Young People and artists interpreting art together.
 
Visual Dialogues is a partnership programme managed by Tate Britain working with regional museums and galleries. The programme is funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Department for Children, Schools and Families as part of the Strategic Commissioning Programme for Museum and Gallery Education.

A WORLD OBSERVED 1940-2010 : PHOTOGRAPHS BY DOROTHY BOHM
Apr 24 - Aug 30, 2010
A World Observed 1940 – 2010 is the first comprehensive retrospective tracing one exceptional woman’s photographic career across six decades and several continents.
 
From vintage portraits to abstract Polaroids, our absorbing exhibition features around 200 prints by leading photographer Dorothy Bohm.
 
Discover a vast collection of aesthetically striking and deeply humane works that document the people and landscapes of Africa, Europe and North America in a rapidly changing world.
 
Plus, explore a recreation of Bohm’s 1940s portrait studio and (re)discover the fading art of film processing in our gallery dark room.

HEROES AND MONSTERS
Jul 20 - Sep 19, 2010
Family friendly show with work by artist Jim Medway.

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IAN KIRKPATRICK : SWIFTER, HIGHER, STRONGER
Jul 2 - Sep 1, 2010

SORTED!
Jul 8 - Oct 1, 2010
Selection of work from BA (Hons) Fine Art, Illustration and Photography

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HOWARD HODGKIN : TIME AND PLACE
Jun 23 - Sep 12, 2010
This major exhibition of paintings by Howard Hodgkin explores the acclaimed British artist’s use of abstraction as an expression of subjective experience. Spanning ten years of the artist’s career, the exhibition will include paintings not previously seen by a broader public, including a powerful body of new work developing out of his 'Home, Home on the Range' series of 2008.

HOWARD HODGKIN IN CONVERS...
Aug 26, 2010 7:00pm - 8:00pm talk/event
A very special event in which art critic, writer & broadcaster Andrew Graham-Dixon talks to Howard Hodgkin about developments in his recent work, and looks back at various aspects of his distinguished career.
£5/£4 concessions, FREE to Friends.

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LET THERE BE SCULPTURE!
Jul 31 - Sep 19, 2010
An exhibition of young and emerging artists, in collaboration with the Hannah Barry Gallery.
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TATSUMI ORIMOTO : LIVE IN TRANSLATION
Jul 10 - Sep 18, 2010
Japanese performance artist Tatsumi Orimoto shows work from 1972 to present

THE HOUSE OF FAIRY TALES : EXQUISITE TROVE
Jul 23 - Oct 2, 2010

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JULIAN MEREDITH : BEE, EEL, TREE (EXTINCTION)
May 25 - Aug 22, 2010
Prints & installations of fish, birds, animals, insects & trees and their relationship with their environment

STEPHEN CHAMBERS : PRINTS & PAINTINGS
Aug 28 - Sep 25, 2010
Chambers is a painter who makes prints. The prints, the main focus of this show, are similar in subject matter and structure to the paintings but, being collaborations, differ in methods of approach and manufacture.

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ARTUR ZMIJEWSKI
Jul 30 - Oct 9, 2010
A major UK touring exhibition of the work of Polish artist Artur Zmijewski, spanning from 2003 to the present day. Exhibition produced by Cornerhouse and curated by The Salford Restoration Office. All work courtesy of Foksal Gallery Foundation.

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EASTGOESEAST
Jul 10 - Aug 7, 2010 FINAL WEEK
Programmed in association with EASTinternational, this show features the work of 3 Hungarian Artist's, Istvan Csakany, Krizstian Krisztof, Beatrix Szorenyi

KRISTIN SHERMAN
12.08.10
Unsatisfactory Unification of Control

LAURE PROUVOST BURROW ME / PIG
Aug 16 - 17, 2010
A two day screening of Prouvost's film moving image work Burrow Me/Pig

KIMI CONRAD OUTPOST AVENTY
21.08.10
All day event

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TONY SINDEN : EARLY WORKS
Jul 3 - Aug 7, 2010 FINAL WEEK
Tony Sinden is increasingly considered a prominent figure within the development of British moving image – producing a body of innovative work throughout his career until his premature death in 2009. Tony Sinden: early works includes single screen works produced by Tony Sinden in the 1970s as well as two reconstructions of key installation and performative works.
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JERWOOD CONTEMPORARY PAINTERS
Jul 7 - Sep 18, 2010
This innovative and diverse exhibition features work by: Neil Clements,
Stewart Cliff, Natasha Conway, Kevin Cosgrove, Lotte Gertz, Nick Goss, Tommy Grace, Charlie Hammond, Iain Hetherington, Thomas Hylander, Ellen Macdonald, Jill Mason, Lucy Kumara Moore, Jack Newling, J.A. Nicholls, Ben Pritchard, James Ryan, Daniel Sinsel, David Small, Lucy Stein, Shaan Syed, Mimei Thompson and Hanneline Visnes.

THE DRAWING SHED
Jul 7 - Sep 18, 2010
The Drawing Shed is an ongoing participatory project which evolves as artists make new drawings on the exterior of a shed, painted with blackboard paint. Starting as a pristine blank space the shed will be temporarily transformed by invited artists over the course of the 10 week project. Featuring Phill Harding, Pippa Hale, Helen Entwisle and Emily Speed with more artists to be confirmed over the course of the project.

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DINU LI : YESTERDAY IS HISTORY, TOMORROW IS MYSTERY
Jun 3 - Sep 5, 2010
‘Yesterday is History, Tomorrow is Mystery’ is a solo show by Dinu Li, a UK and China based artist, featuring past and recent works, plus a work from a new commission for QUAD. Li’s exhibition illuminates his continuous research into the structures defining contemporary China’s cultural development. Li draws upon a rich archive of materials including films, drawings, family snapshots, old postcards, and propaganda imagery, to reconstruct a complex world of fantastical imagination, against the backdrop of a historical and political epoch of time.

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