Previous Exhibitions
ICA exhibitions since August 2006 are listed below.
Download the complete list of exhibitions since 1948 (PDF).
Recent Exhibitions:
BOWIEVIRUS: David Sims
25 April 2013 - 12 May 2013
BOWIEVIRUS presents a selection of works from the celebrated October 2012 issue of Arena Homme Plus magazine, for which artists and photographers referenced, reworked and recontextualised David Bowie for a new audience.
The Independent Group: Parallel of Art & Life
27 March 2013 - 9 June 2013
To coincide with the 60th anniversary of the ground-breaking exhibition Parallel of Life & Art, this display presents original art works by the Independent Group in the Fox Reading Room.
Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years
27 March 2013 - 9 June 2013
2000 Wasted Years is the first UK retrospective by the New York based Bernadette Corporation. The exhibition recasts the works authored by the group since their inception in the early '90s.
Juergen Teller: Woo!
23 January 2013 - 17 March 2013
Juergen Teller is the subject of a major solo exhibition at the ICA, presenting new and recent photography.
Fourth Plinth: Contemporary Monument
5 December 2012 - 20 January 2013
A survey of the Fourth Plinth Commissioning Programme, bringing together a wide range of historical material including commissioned maquettes by some of the most celebrated artists working today.
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2012
27 November 2012 - 13 January 2013
Bloomberg New Contemporaries returns to the ICA for the third year running with this year’s selectors: Cullinan Richards, Nairy Baghramian and Rosalind Nashashibi.
Trojan, Works on Paper
9 October 2012 - 18 November 2012
Raw and uncompromising drawings and studies for paintings by self-taught artist, make-up artist and underground fashion icon, Trojan.
Hannah Sawtell: Osculator
9 October - 18 November 2012
Two linked, site-specific exhibitions of video work and installation: Osculator at the ICA, and Vendor at Bloomberg SPACE, by current Bloomberg artist in residence Hannah Sawtell.
Bjarne Melgaard: A House to Die In
25 September - 18 November 2012
A close collaboration between Bjarne Melgaard and architects Snøhetta, who have exchanged drawings, models and documents as they work towards the realisation of a purpose-built house, where Melgaard will live and work.
Piotr Janus
3 July - 9 September 2012
Warsaw-based artist Piotr Janas presents amoebic forms recalling organs, bodily fluids and various body parts that contrast with hard edged machine-like mechanisms that seemingly puncture and wound.
Bruce Nauman: Days
19 June - 16 September 2012
A sound installation which presents a continuous stream of seven voices reciting the days of the week in random order.
Soundworks
19 June - 16 September 2012
Over one hundred new sound works have been produced by artists from all over the world. Selected by our curators and art institutions worldwide, the artists have been invited to submit a sound work.
Remote Control
3 April - 10 June 2012
A major exhibition exploring the continuing impact of television on artists and their work at the critical moment of switchover from analogue to digital broadcasting.In Numbers: Serial Publications by Artists Since 1955
Lis Rhodes: Dissonance and Disturbance
25 January - 25 March 2012
Since the 1970s, Lis Rhodes has been making radical and experimental films that reconsider film as a medium of communication and presentation of image, language and sound.
In Numbers: Serial Publications by Artists Since 1955
25 January - 25 March 2012
A survey exhibition of the often-overlooked genre of serial publications produced by artists around the world from 1955 to the present day.
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2011: In the Presence
23 November 2011 - 15 January 2012
The presentation of Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2011: In the Presence shows the range of materials and processes employed by young artists today.
Jack Smith: A Feast for Open Eyes
7 September - 18 September 2011
The ICA presents a fortnight of films, events and symposia dedicated to the legendary American artist, filmmaker and actor, Jack Smith (1932-1989).
Jacob Kassay
12 October - 13 November 2011
This first solo institutional exhibition offers the opportunity to critically appraise the work of American artist, Jacob Kassay.
Pablo Bronstein: Sketches for Regency Living
9 June - 25 September 2011
Pablo Bronstein presents Sketches for Regency Living, introducing architectural interventions into the ICA, as well as choreographing art and ballet performances.
Nathaniel Mellors: Ourhouse
9 March - 15 May 2011
The ICA presents a solo exhibition by the American artist, writer and curator Oscar Tuazon who creates sculptures and installations that reference minimalist sensibilities and DIY aesthetics.
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2010
26 November 2010 - 23 January 2011
The highly regarded New Contemporaries exhibition is a snapshot of today's emerging art landscape featuring 49 artists working across film, sculpture, photography, painting, animation and performance.
Chto delat? (What is to be done?) - The Urgent Need to Struggle
9 September - 24 October 2010
Chto delat? presents an exhibition and associated season of activity which extends their identity as ‘a self-organising platform for cultural workers’.
Billy Childish: Unknowable but Certain
17 February - 2 Mai 2010
This is the first time a public institution has brought together a major solo exhibition to encompass the extraordinary, sprawling career of Billy Childish.
For the blind man
3 December 2009 - 31 January 2010
For the blind man... rejects the common notion that art is a code that needs cracking and embraces nonknowledge and uncertainty.
Calling Out Of Context
14 - 22 November 2009
Calling Out Of Context is a new festival of experimental music and sound. Calling Out Of Context reveals the vitality and relevance of the sonic avant-garde.
Rosalind Nashashibi
10 September - 1 November 2009
A solo exhibition by London-based artist Rosalind Nashashibi, the most comprehensive presentation of her work to date, presenting 16mm films from the last four years alongside examples of her recent photographic output.
Poor. Old. Tired. Horse.
17 June - 23 August 2009
An imaginative and expansive look at text-based art practices from the 1960s to the present day, inspired by the Concrete Poetry, a movement that flowered in the 60s but is now largely forgotten.
Talk Show
6 - 31 May 2009
A month-long season of artworks and live events addressing that central feature of human life - the act of speech.
Advertising For All; Or For Nobody At All; Reclaim Public Opinion
11 February - 16 June 2009
A new work by the Freee art collective, commissioned by the Institute of Contemporary Arts for the ICA Café and Bar.
Sean Snyder, Index
12 February - 19 April 2009
The first solo show in a British institution from this leading US artist fascinated by the ongoing life of documentary information and images, from the Cold War to the Iraq War.
Dispersion
3 Dec 2008 - 1 Feb 2009
Seven international artists examine the role of money, desire and power in our accelerated image economy.
Roberto Cuoghi: Šuillakku
14 Oct - 23 Nov 2008
An immersive, hugely evocative sound installation filling our lower gallery, a vast chorus of lamentation and suffering.
A Recent History of Writing and Drawing
9 Jul - 31 Aug 2008
An exhibition about the evolving relationship between communication technologies and their users.
Loris Gréaud
25 April - 22 June 2008
The young French artist's first UK solo show, part of his ongoing Cellar Door project drawing on interweaving interests in architecture, music and science.
Double Agent
13 February - 6 April 2008
A group exhibition with artists who use other people as a medium, creating works which are often slippery in meaning or disquieting in effect.
Emily Wardill
5 December 2007 - 27 January 2008
Continuous screening of a new short film, Sick Serena and Dregs and Wreck and Wreck.
Peter Hujar
5 December 2007 - 27 January 2008
The first UK solo show for one of the most important and influential New York photographers of the 1970s and 1980s.
Enrico David
27 September - 11 November 2007
The first major public exhibition by one of Britain's most original artists includes paintings, works on paper, sculptures and vitrines, as well as two large-scale installations.
Insider Art: Art from the Koestler Awards Scheme
12 July - 9 September 2007
Paintings and sculpture by prisoners and inmates at young offender institutions, high-security psychiatric hospitals, secure units and immigration removal centres.
Memorial to the Iraq War
23 May - 27 June 2007
Twenty-six artists from around the world present proposals for a memorial to the Iraq War, addressing the invasion and occupation of the country, its slide into civil war and the conflict's relation to global jihadism and the War on Terror.
The Secret Public, The Last Days of the British Underground 1978 - 1988
23 March - 6 May 2007
A disquieting, playful, and intensely urban exhibition examining the dark flowering of creativity in the UK between 1978 and 1988.
Tino Sehgal, This Success or This Failure
29 January - 4 March 2007
For the final part of his trilogy of solo shows at the ICA, Sehgal presented a constantly changing piece, titled either This Success or This Failure.
Alien Nation
17 November 2006 - 14 January 2007
Science fiction, race and contemporary art collide in the work of twelve contemporary international artists.
Cerith Wyn Evans: take my eyes and through them see you
20 September - 29 October 2006
Evans' first solo public exhibition in the UK was a set of entirely new works in direct response to the history, location and architectural particularities of the ICA itself.
Surprise, Surprise
2 August 2006 - 10 September 2006
Forty high-profile artists displaying pieces atypical of the work for which they are best known.