Ikon Youth Programme reveals 2021 project
Slow Boat launching for the Summer.
Summer in the city centre
Summer schedule of pop-up events announced to welcome people back to Brindleyplace.
Ikon gallery re-opening with fundraiser
Ikon for Artists aims to support artists suffering through lockdown.
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group returns home
BCMG returns to ticketed indoor performances in Birmingham.
Ikon celebrates twenty years in Brindleyplace
City gallery marks landmark anniversary with new exhibitions.
The library story
Alan Clawley on an upcoming literary event.
Artists for Ikon auction achieves £785,375
Funds raised will begin gallery’s anniversary endowment fund.
Ikon announces Black Country Voyages for summer 2015
Converted narrow boat will tours the region’s canals.
Arts Connect announce latest grants
£130,000 invested in arts & cultural opportunities for young people.
Musicians set for half-term festival
Family attractions for holidays.
Black Country Voyages
Project to link young people with Black Country arts, heritage and cultural organisations.
Those were the…
Ikon gallery continues to mark their anniversary with a look back at a decade of style and subversion.
City gallery takes to the water
Ikon awarded £210,000 to take art into the Black Country – by boat.
Arts Connect investment boosts arts activities
Creative career opportunities will follow grant awards.
Iraqi former shepherd to exhibit at Ikon
Images offer insight into post-Saddam Iraq.
Visual artists given boost with return of initiative
New Art West Midlands promotes new talent.
Events at the Ikon
The Ikon Gallery in Birmingham has unveiled its Learning and Events diary for October and November.
Johnson and Tremlett coming to town
A city centre gallery has announced two major exhibitions for late 2013.
Keeping up with the Jones’
The ‘real’ Brummie family have been unveiled.
Ikon’s Slow Boat hosts Navinland for summer 2013
This summer, Ikon is calling for people called Navin to join Navinland, a global community of people sharing the same name.
Ikon Director prepares to open major exhibition of Iraqi art
Ikon Gallery Director Jonathan Watkins is preparing to open his most challenging exhibition to date – the official Iraqi Pavilion at the world renowned Venice Biennale.
Crystal artwork to be permanently installed at Ikon
An artwork made in the crystal-works of renowned French company Hermès is to be unveiled at Ikon Gallery on 1 May 2013.
Art Bus – Free Galleries Night, Thursday 16 May
This year sees the tenth anniversary of Birmingham’s free Galleries Night and Art Bus.
Northfield residents exhibit artwork at Ikon Gallery – and in Berlin, Bologna and Castellón
A group of Birmingham residents are to take part in an extraordinary exhibition at Ikon Gallery later this month.
Ikon Gallery marks 15 years in Brindleyplace
Ikon Gallery hosts a number of events next month to mark the 15th anniversary of its move to the former Oozells Street School in Brindleyplace
Birmingham gallery awarded over £457k to modernise Grade-II listed building
Ikon Gallery has been awarded £457,387 by Arts Council England to replace, repair and modernise parts of its Grade II-listed building.
Defiance: Two years on from the Egyptian revolution
Marking the second anniversary of the Egyptian revolution, Ikon presents an exhibition by photojournalist Mosa’ab Elshamy.
Ikon Learning and Events Diary November 2012 – January 2013
Exhibition opening Wednesday 21 November, 6–8pm – FREE Join us for a glass of wine to celebrate the opening of our new exhibition of photography, New Street by Beat Streuli Afternoon Tea Thursday 29 November, 2.30–4.30pm – FREE* Contemporary art – is it your cup of tea? Join us for an exhibition tour, followed…
Autumn Almanac: The Voice and the Lens
Autumn Almanac, Ikon’s annual weekend festival of music, returns this November with an exhibition and sequence of events exploring the treasures of the human voice.
Celebrate the art of walking
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts has teamed up with fellow Birmingham gallery Ikon and the National Trust to celebrate the art of walking with a day of walks, talks and feasting.