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Fox Reading Room

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.

ICA Theatre

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.

Fox Reading Room

The Grantchester Pottery are transforming the Fox Reading Room with a presentation of works made collectively, including hand-made wallpaper, a woven pottery blanket, murals and screens alongside functional ceramic items including lamps, vases, paperweights, pots and cups.

Lower & Upper Galleries

Keep Your Timber Limber (Works on Paper) explores how artists since the 1940s to the present day have used drawing to address ideas critical and current to their time, ranging from the politics of gender and sexuality, to feminist issues, war and censorship.

ICA Theatre

Points of Departure features new commissions by British and Palestinian artists exploring the concept of liminality and resulting from residencies organised by Delfina Foundation, in London and Ramallah.

Fox Reading Room

A presentation of work from award-winning typographer and book designer Gerald Cinamon, including books and posters.

A major new off-site project at The Old Selfridges Hotel in London, illustrating a perceived thread of creativity between the post-punk era and the present day - a legacy that underpins London's incredible creative potential in the present.

Lower & Upper Galleries

Black Beauty is the first major solo exhibition in the UK by the artist Lutz Bacher, featuring new and recent works which combine striking installations with film, sound and sculpture. 

Fox Reading Room

John Cheim is known to many as one half of influential New York gallery Cheim & Read, but what is less well known is that Cheim has produced and designed a number of important artist publications over the last 30 years, which this display aims to explore for the first time.

ICA Theatre

A unique project with Shanghai-based artist Zhang Enli, who has transformed the ICA Theatre with a painting covering the floor and walls.