Ikon presents the first solo exhibition of work by Spanish artist Ignasi Aballí. Involving a wide variety of media, it is concerned with the nature of nothingness. Absence and disappearance are themes threaded through a selection of work. People (2000 - 2005) consisting of shoe scuff marks on the wall, suggests a queue of waiting individuals, now moved on. Big Mistake (1998 - 2005), is based on a black square (1m2) painted directly onto a wall. This shape, signifying pure, modernist abstraction is obliterated by thousands of small Tipp-Ex brushstrokes, barely visible now as a geometrical ghost. Other works in 0-24 h reiterate a tendency to counteract conventional practice. Waste (2001) comprises a number of opened cans of white paint, informally arranged on the floor. Close inspection reveals that the cans are not full - but, on the other hand, the paint has not been used. Simply, it is in the process of slow evaporation, occurring through human inactivity. English and Portuguese text.

Ikon presents the most comprehensive UK exhibition of work by Czech artist Kristof Kintera (b. 1973, Prague).00Internationally acclaimed for his sculptural, often kinetic works imbued with a characteristic energy and imaginative wit, Kintera offers an overview of new, recent, and archival works, shown in the UK for the first time.00THE END OF FUN! is a timely exhibition probing the apocalyptic environmental issues we currently face, taking on a new poignancy in today?s climate.00Crafted with a dark sense of humour, Kintera?s artistic practice addresses current affairs. Striking a balance between feigned triviality and fatality, his works comprise a lively and philosophical critique of hyper-capitalist systems, especially with respect to ecological concerns.00Exhibition: Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK (17.09.-22.11.2020).

This is the first monographic study of Shearer's work. The work has been selected in close consultation with the artist and includes key works made over the past decade as well as numerous new paintings and drawings.

Published to accompany the exhibition Bernard Frize: Hands On at the Ikon Gallery, 3 June - 20 July 2003, this is the most comprehensive exhibition of work by French artist Bernard Frize in the UK to date. Combining recent painting with rarely seen sculpture and photography, audiences will have an opportunity to see the impressive stylistic and technical diversity of his work. Frize has likened his various ways of making work to recipes. More often than not he chooses paint as his main ingredient and then it becomes a question of process and editing. Frize makes crucial decisions as to how to proceed with his painting and the rest is virtually automatic. The repetition with which paint is applied to the canvas leaves no room for any new inspiration that will significantly effect the outcome.

This volume surveys the American artist, Paul Ramírez Jones' work from over the last ten years offering an insight into his fascination with mechanical and redundant technologies.

Martin Boyce represents Scotland at the 2009 Venice Biennale. This catalogue accompanies Martin Boyce's exhibitions at Westfaelischer Kunstverein, Frac des Pays de la Loire and Ikon Gallery in 2008. Martin Boyce is interested in urban landscape, transforming galleries with groups of works which poetically recall conventional public areas; for example, the playground or the pedestrian subway. The artist is one of the most original of the Scottish artists who came to international prominence during the 1990s. He works at the interface of design, architecture, and the social environment. For this major exhibition, the artist creates 'a place out of time'. Individual works comprising sculptural forms are reminiscent nostalgically of the phone booth, the streetlamp and the recliner. Ikon Gallery presented a series of new works made especially for their gallery spaces alongside recent pieces never before seen in the UK. Estranged from their original place and purpose, Boyce's subjects draw on the visual language and fabrication of iconic Modernist designs to form an eerie dreamlike landscape. We are encouraged to consider alternative lives for them, away from their natural habitats. This is a joint publication between Ikon Gallery, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Westfalischer Kunstverein and produced by JRP Ringier. English text.

Deze publicatie is tot stand gekomen naar aanleiding van de eerste retrospectieve van het werk van Martha Rosler. Sinds de jaren zeventig is deze invloedrijke Amerikaanse kunstenares op verschillende terreinen actief zoals in de fotografie, videokunst, performance en schrijven. Zij engageert zich voor een kunst die een breder publiek wil bereiken dat dit in het artistieke milieu. Naast de toegankelijkheid van haar werk, is de rol van de toeschouwer als deelnemer in het proces van betekenis geven aan haar kunst één van haar grote bekommernissen. Zij wil de toeschouwer ertoe brengen om de grenzen tussen openbaar en privé en de grenzen tussen het sociale en het politieke te herzien.