Institute of Modern Art

Writer/artist, poet and researcher Rachel O’Reilly’s discusses her ongoing collaborative project in 'Frontier Imaginaries: No Longer at Ease', 'The Gas Imaginary' (2011-). 26/05/2016

Hookey and Aird discuss Hookey's commission for the exhibition 'Frontier Imaginaries'. The work is part of an ongoing series of 10-metre long canvasses that re-imagine the history of Queensland from an Indigenous perspective. Hookey has set up a studio in the gallery and is continuing to work on the ambitious painting during the exhibition. 02/06/2016

Guerrero (Colombia, 1983) is the Estrellita B. Brodsky Adjunct Curator of Latin American Art at Tate in London. From 2011-2014 he was the Associate Artistic Director and Curator at TEOR/éTica, an independent not-for-profit art space founded in 1999 in San José, Costa Rica. 30/03/2016

Curator Emily Pethick speaks about the artist as collaborator through examples from The Showroom, a non-profit independent contemporary art space in London, UK. She will discuss some of the artists’ projects produced that have involved diverse forms of participation, as well as in relation to how the organisation works with artists through co-production. 12/04/2016

Lyndall Milani interview with Marysia Lewandowska (excerpt) by Institute of Modern Art

Malcom Enright Interview with Marysia lewandowska (excerpt) by Institute of Modern Art

Daniel Boyd speaks about his Green Room exhibition and artistic practice. Boyd is a descendant of the Kudjla/Gangalu peoples from Far North Queensland. Boyd’s acclaimed practice deftly layers colonial history, European modernism and its connections to the Pacific, and the subtle interplay between lenses and techniques of Western and Indigenous art of Australia. 24/03/2016

In this talk, Daniel Barber discusses the role of image making and distribution as a central arena for rethinking the relationship between architecture and climate in the 1940s and 1950s. Drawing on discussions from numerous fields, he emphasises the complicated role of academic institutions and non-governmental organisations in reframing the relationship of architecture to global ecological knowl...

'The Artist As…’ is a year-long lecture series co-presented with Curatorial Practice at MADA (Monash Art Design and Architecture), Melbourne, examining the multitude of roles artists occupy and adapt today. This talk is presented in partnership with the 20th Biennale of Sydney, and was made possible with generous assistance from the Nelson Meers Foundation. Sydney-born, Berlin-based artist Adam Li...

Rana Hamadeh is speaking about her practice and recent project, 'The Sleepwalkers', 25 February 2016.

'The Artist As…' is a year-long lecture series co-presented with Curatorial Practice at MADA (Monash Art Design and Architecture), Melbourne, examining the multitude of roles artists occupy and adapt today. Céline Condorelli is an artist living and working in London and Milan; she is the author and editor of Support Structures, Sternberg Press (2009), and one of the founding directors of Eastside...

A lecture by Anne Barlow, Director of Art in General, New York. This is the inaugural presentation in a series of lectures running throughout the year titled 'What Can Art Institutions Do?' At Art in General, Barlow has most recently curated projects with artists Basim Magdy, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Jill Magid, Shezad Dawood, Meriç Algün Ringborg, Anetta Mona Chişa and Lucia Tkáčová, and launch...

Prince has been the Executive Director of the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver, Canada, since 2011. Prior to this he was Curator at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK, where he was responsible for an international program, making solo exhibitions and publications with artists including Arturo Herrera, Donald Judd, Olafur Eliasson, Andrea Zittel, Martin Boyce, Shahzia Sikander, Ryan Gander, Victor M...

A talk by curator Stephanie Rosenthal. This is the ninth presentation in a series of talks running throughout the year titled 'What Can Art Institutions Do?' Rosenthal has held the position of Chief Curator at the Hayward Gallery in London, UK, since 2007, and she is the Artistic Director of the forthcoming 20th Biennale of Sydney. 20/11/2015

IMA’s Operations Manager, Madeleine King looks at current exhibitions Dale Harding: 'White Collared' and Patrick Staff: 'The Foundation' through the lens of fashion. 19/09/2015

The IMA is pleased to present a talk by art historian Ian McLean. This is the seventh presentation in a series of talks running throughout the year titled 'What Can Art Institutions Do?', and features a response by Brisbane artist, Richard Bell. 26/09/2015

Panel discussions addressing the role and function of the art institution, through case-studies of art institutions and institutions by artists, and reflections on publics and publicness. Leading artists, writers, and curators such as Callum Morton, Monica Narula, Maud Page, Nikos Papastergiadis, and Courtney Pedersen;

Panel discussions addressing the role and function of the art institution, through case-studies of art institutions and institutions by artists. Leading artists, writers, and curators such as Peter Anderson; Sean Dockray; Courtney Pedersen; Ann Stephen

Melbourne-based art historian and writer Helen Hughes responds to keynote lecture by Pittsburgh, New York, and Sydney-based art historian and writer Terry Smith that reflects on Australian and international independent art spaces in 1975 and today. 11/07/2015

A keynote lecture by Pittsburgh, New York, and Sydney-based art historian and writer Terry Smith that reflects on Australian and international independent art spaces in 1975 and today. 11/07/2015

This is the sixth presentation in a series of talks running throughout the year titled 'What Can Art Institutions Do'? Born in Poland, Lewandowska now divides her time between London, UK, and Hong Kong. Through collaborative projects she has explored the public function of archives, collections and exhibitions in an age of privatisation. She was Professor of Art in the Public Realm at Konstfack, S...

A talk by Elizabeth Ann Macgregor OBE, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA). This is the fifth presentation in a series of talks running throughout the year titled 'What Can Art Institutions Do?' Originally from Dundee, Scotland, Macgregor has been Director of the MCA since 1999. After negotiating a new funding model to allow the MCA to flourish, she has consolidated the MCA’...

An artist talk by Patrick Staff followed by a conversation with IMA’s Executive Directors Aileen Burns and Johan Lundh. This talk took place at the IMA Thursday, 13 August, at 6pm.

Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art’s Curator of Indigenous Art Bruce McLean in-conversation with Brisbane-based artist Vernon Ah Kee. McLean has worked with Ah Kee on a number of occasions, including My Country, I Still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art from Black Australia (2013) at QAGOMA. For this event, they discuss Ah Kee’s practice, engaging specifically with his new work for I...

The IMA presents a talk by Charles Esche, Director of the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. This is the forth presentation in a series of talks running throughout the year titled 'What Can Art Institutions Do?' Esche has been a leading voice in curatorial practice for two decades, and has been directing the Van Abbemuseum since 2004. In 2014, Esche was awarded Bard College’s Audrey Irmas...