Institute of Contemporary Arts

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The ICA in London

The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is a major center that has been based in London since 1947 and has an art gallery for the presentation of temporary exhibitions . Contemporary works by British artists will be given particular consideration when planning the program. The curator Stefan Kalmár has been director of the ICA since 2016.

founding

With the aim of providing a space for experimental art of all kinds, Roland Penrose , ELT Mesens , the publisher Geoffry Grigson and the art critic Herbert Read joined forces in 1947 to found the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London. Of these founders, Penrose remained the driving force for 30 years. In the mid to late 1950s, critic Lawrence Alloway was the ICA's Assistant Director. The art collector and patron Peter Watson was one of the early sponsors and supporters .

Originally located on Dover Street, the ICA moved to Nash House in 1968, at the end of the mall leading from Buckingham Palace , near Admiralty Arch . It houses galleries, a theater, two cinemas, a restaurant and a bar.

The ICA is largely financed by the Queen's funds and is therefore politically free and independent. A high-tech media center goes back to a donation in 1998 in the amount of around 4 million euros by Sun Microsystems .

The ICA has been a partner of the London International Mime Festival (LIMF) since 1980 and offers the festival space every January.

The material from the ICA archive up to 1987 has been in the Tate Gallery (Hyman Kreitman Reading Rooms) since 1995 and is being cataloged there.

Exhibitions

1948

  • 40 Years of Modern Art: A selection from British Collections. Academy Hall, Oxford St., February 10, 1948 - March 6, 1948: This exhibition was an extensive retrospective of Cubism. Curator: Roland Penrose.

1949

  • 40,000 Years of Modern Art: A comparison of primitive and modern. Academy Hall, Oxford St., December 20, 1948 - January 29, 1949: This exhibition features mostly African art. Curator: Roland Penrose.

Since it was founded in 1947, it has organized numerous exhibitions of often provocative young artists, including the famous 1976 “ Prostitution ” campaign by Coum Transmissions .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Adrian Clark: Peter Watson, Francis Bacon and the ICA , online ( memento of the original dated November 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ica.org.uk
  2. ↑ Overview of the participants from 2000 to 2009 ( memento from October 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) in the Internet Archive, accessed on September 16, 2012.
  3. ↑ LIMF the ICA 2012 ( Memento of 10 March 2013, Internet Archive ).
  4. ↑ Emily Down, blog post: Tate Archive 40 | 1995 Institute of Contemporary Arts 'Digitally Artistic' , December 8, 2010, English, accessed September 16, 2012.

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