In 2016, Modern Art Oxford celebrates 50 years as an internationally acclaimed powerhouse of contemporary visual culture. KALEIDOSCOPE is a year long series of interlinking exhibitions, performances and events, presenting an unmissable opportunity to reflect on some of the great moments in Modern Art Oxford’s history. Because it’s a special year, we decided to try… Continue reading KALEIDOSCOPE Transition #1 Timelapse
Category: Past event
The Archive: Hanne Darboven, 1974
Hanne Darboven exhibited in what was previously known as the Middle Gallery (currently the café and shop area) at the Museum of Modern Art Oxford between 30 June and 4 August 1974. Hanne Darboven (b. 1941, Munich, d. 2009, Hamburg) studied painting at the Hochschule für bildende Kunst Hamburg, under one of the best Op-painters… Continue reading The Archive: Hanne Darboven, 1974
Re-Visit: Dan Graham & Mark Francis
In February 2016, Modern Art Oxford hosted a celebration of the reissue of Buildings and Signs with artist Dan Graham (who exhibited at Modern Art Oxford in 1978) and Gagosian Gallery Director, Mark Francis. Press play to listen to the full talk from the event:
Re-Visit: 1989 / Yayoi Kusama
Frances Morris, Tate Director of Collection, International Art, discusses the work of the influential Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama who exhibited at Modern Art Oxford in 1989. This event was live-streamed in collaboration with Oxford Digital Media. In March 2016, as part of our 50th anniversary celebrations Kaleidescope programme, we launched a series of lectures highlighting important artists from… Continue reading Re-Visit: 1989 / Yayoi Kusama
Mark Making Over Time
Watch the brilliant results of a free painting workshop at Modern Art Oxford in February 2016, hosted with OVADA.
The Director’s Archive: Paul Nash, 1974
One of the early shows during Nick Serota’s tenure as Director of the then Museum of Modern Art Oxford in 1974 was an exhibition of photographs and a small selection of accompanying watercolours by the British painter, Paul Nash. An exhibition of Nash’s photographs had been shown at Tate Gallery in London the previous summer,… Continue reading The Director’s Archive: Paul Nash, 1974
The Archive: FLUXSHOE, 1973
FLUXSHOE, a year-long travelling exhibition, was shown at the Museum of Modern Art, Pembroke Street, and OSAC, Worcester Place, Oxford, from 10 – 25 February 1973. FLUXSHOE began its journey around Britain in autumn 1972, with two very eventful visits to Falmouth and Exeter. After Oxford, it travelled to Edinburgh, Nottingham, Sunderland, and a few… Continue reading The Archive: FLUXSHOE, 1973
Re-visit: Sally O’Reilly Live Illuminated Manuscript
In February 2016 we launched the first in a sequence of commissions devising a new form of performance. In Sally O’Reilly’s Live Illuminated Manuscript, choreographed text, live music and performing bodies collude to reconsider experience, knowledge and the fantastical. Read the text O’Reilly has composed to accompany the performance, here.
The Director’s Archive: Callum Innes, From Memory, 2007
In February 2007, almost a decade ago, Modern Art Oxford presented From Memory, a major exhibition of paintings by the acclaimed Scottish artist, Callum Innes (b. Edinburgh, 1962). Innes has attracted international admiration since the 1990s and was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1995 for his large paintings where paint is applied then removed, reapplied… Continue reading The Director’s Archive: Callum Innes, From Memory, 2007
The Archive: Popa at Moma: Pioneers of Part-Art, 1971
Popa at Moma: Pioneers of Part-Art opened and closed in a single evening at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in Oxford in 1971. MOMA was a much younger organisation than either the Tate or the ICA, having opened only in late 1966. Its founder, Oxford architect Trevor Green, intended it to house England’s first modern art collection, but it… Continue reading The Archive: Popa at Moma: Pioneers of Part-Art, 1971