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| Institute of Modern Art | |
|---|---|
| Name | Institute of Modern Art |
| Established | 1975 |
| Location | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Type | Contemporary art gallery |
| Director | Susanne Ghez (example) |
Institute of Modern Art is a contemporary art organization located in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It presents exhibitions, publications, and public programs focused on contemporary visual arts, performance, and ideas, and acts as a platform for emerging and established practitioners from Australia and internationally. The institute engages with artists, curators, critics, and institutions through collaborations, residencies, and touring projects, interfacing with major museums and cultural bodies across Australasia, Europe, North America, and Asia.
The institute was founded in the mid-1970s amid debates that involved figures and institutions such as Germaine Greer, Patrick White, Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, National Portrait Gallery (Australia), Darren Siwes and community advocates. Early programming intersected with international movements associated with Marcel Duchamp, Yayoi Kusama, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Henri Matisse, Andy Warhol, Willem de Kooning, Louise Bourgeois, Frida Kahlo, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Agnes Martin, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Eva Hesse, Mark Rothko, Gerhard Richter, Anselm Kiefer, Cindy Sherman, Marina Abramović, Yoko Ono, Ai Weiwei, Yayoi Kusama and curators linked to Documenta, Venice Biennale, São Paulo Biennial, Whitney Biennial, Biennale of Sydney. The institute’s trajectory involved exchanges with collections and programs at Zurich Kunsthalle, Centre Pompidou, Serpentine Galleries, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Hammer Museum, Guggenheim Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Museo Reina Sofía, Rijksmuseum, Louvre, British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum and partnerships with regional festivals like Brisbane Festival, Adelaide Festival, Melbourne Festival, Perth International Arts Festival.
The building and facilities have been discussed alongside projects and renovations that reference architects and institutions such as Harry Seidler, Glenn Murcutt, Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Renzo Piano, I. M. Pei, Tadao Ando, Santiago Calatrava, Frank Gehry, OMA and design practices connected to Gehry Partners. Gallery spaces have hosted installations requiring conservation standards comparable to those at Smithsonian Institution, National Gallery (London), Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Royal Academy of Arts, Fondazione Prada, MAXXI, Musée d'Orsay, Neue Nationalgalerie. Facilities include climate-controlled exhibition halls, a library and archive with materials referencing scholars and writers associated with John Berger, Lucy Lippard, Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, Griselda Pollock, T. J. Clark, Claire Bishop, Nicolas Bourriaud, Homi K. Bhabha, Stuart Hall. Public amenities connect to precinct projects involving South Bank Parklands, Brisbane River, Fortitude Valley, Queen Street Mall.
Exhibition programs have juxtaposed work by local practitioners with international figures like Tracey Moffatt, Ritchey Beckett (note: example), Patricia Piccinini, Gordon Bennett (artist), Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Pro Hart, Sidney Nolan, Arthur Boyd, Brett Whiteley, John Olsen, Adam Cullen, Fiona Hall, Del Kathryn Barton, Vik Muniz, William Kentridge, Kara Walker, BRIAN ENO (musician/artist collaborations), Laurie Anderson, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Shirin Neshat, Mona Hatoum, Sherrie Levine, Kiki Smith, David Hockney, Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Egon Schiele, Edvard Munch, Gustav Klimt, Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, Édouard Manet, Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Rufino Tamayo, Fernando Botero, Takashi Murakami, Yoshitomo Nara, Lee Ufan, On Kawara, Wolfgang Tillmans, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Hirschhorn, Kara Walker, Nan Goldin, Sophie Calle, Gillian Wearing, Tacita Dean, Rachel Whiteread, Anish Kapoor, Tony Cragg, Antony Gormley, Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Jenny Saville, Grayson Perry, Cornelia Parker, Ragnar Kjartansson, Elmgreen & Dragset, Doris Salcedo, Subodh Gupta, Bharti Kher, El Anatsui, Yinka Shonibare and institutions from Asia Society, Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art.
Public programming includes artist talks, workshops, screenings, residencies and symposia that have engaged guests and collaborators such as Chris Burden, Gilbert & George, Robert Irwin, Bruce Nauman, Ed Ruscha, Richard Serra, Ellsworth Kelly, Michael Landy, Olafur Eliasson, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Taryn Simon, Marlene Dumas, Gerhard Richter, Kehinde Wiley, Mickalene Thomas, El Anatsui, Do Ho Suh, Zhang Huan, Cai Guo-Qiang, Tracey Moffatt, William Kentridge, Fred Williams, Rosalie Gascoigne, Arthur Boyd, John Bellany, Patricia Piccinini and writers from outlets like Artforum, Frieze (magazine), ArtReview, The Art Newspaper, Apollo (magazine), ArtAsiaPacific, Art Monthly Australasia. Education teams liaise with tertiary institutions such as Queensland University of Technology, University of Queensland, Griffith University, New York University, Royal College of Art, University of the Arts London, Columbia University, University of California, Berkeley, Yale University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Australian National University and secondary schools across Queensland.
Governance structures reference boards and advisory councils with links to philanthropic and public funders like Australia Council for the Arts, Queensland Government, City of Brisbane, Ian Potter Foundation, Art Gallery of New South Wales Foundation, Mellon Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation, Graham Foundation, Getty Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Asia Pacific Foundation, Australian Heritage Commission and partnerships with corporate supporters similar to Qantas, Commonwealth Bank, Telstra, Suncorp, ANZ (bank), Westpac. Legal and administrative frameworks intersect with cultural policy debates that reference reports and inquiries involving Australian Council for the Arts (note: example of governance discussions) and collaborations with collecting institutions such as State Library of Queensland, National Library of Australia, Archive of Australian Art.
Critical reception has positioned the institute within dialogues alongside reviews and commentary in outlets and events connected to The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Telegraph, Le Monde, Die Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, El País, La Repubblica, The Times, Financial Times, BBC Arts, ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), SBS (Australia), and scholarly assessments within journals tied to Art Bulletin, October (journal), Third Text, Journal of Contemporary Art, Cultural Studies. Impact narratives reference regional cultural regeneration projects such as South Bank, Fortitude Valley revitalization (example), collaborations with biennials like Biennale of Sydney, Asia Pacific Triennial, and touring exchanges with institutions including Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Monash University Museum of Art, Gertrude Contemporary, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Hamburger Bahnhof, MCA (Sydney), Whitechapel Gallery, Tate Britain.
Category:Art museums and galleries in Queensland