IMT Gallery is a contemporary art

Contemporary art

Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced...

 gallery in Bethnal Green

Bethnal Green

Bethnal Green is a district of the East End of London, England and part of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, with the far northern parts falling within the London Borough of Hackney. Located northeast of Charing Cross, it was historically an agrarian hamlet in the ancient parish of Stepney,...

 in London's East End

East End of London

The East End of London, also known simply as the East End, is the area of London, England, United Kingdom, east of the medieval walled City of London and north of the River Thames. Although not defined by universally accepted formal boundaries, the River Lea can be considered another boundary...

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History

IMT Gallery was founded by Lindsay Friend in 2005 and launched with the first London solo exhibition by O Zhang

O Zhang

O Zhang is a Chinese artist based in New York. Although she is best known for her photographs depicting Chinese youth, Zhang also makes paintings, short films and installations...

. Other artists to have been given their first London solo exhibitions with IMT Gallery include Laura Pawela and Marek Chołoniewski. The gallery currently represents David Burrows

David Burrows (contemporary artist)

David Burrows is British artist and writer. His work consists of drawings and paint-spattered, debris-littered, haphazard installations. He writes articles on art and aesthetics and is the editor of Article Press at Birmingham City University...

, Corrado Morgana, Carlos Noronha Feio

Carlos Noronha Feio

Carlos Noronha Feio is a Portuguese artist. His work is in a variety of media, including video and book works, occasionally requiring craftspeople and industrial makers such as in a series of war rugs made in the Arraiolos tradition....

, Alejandro Ospina, Plastique Fantastique, Gordon Shrigley, NaoKo TakaHashi, Kate Terry and Mark Peter Wright

Mark Peter Wright

Mark Peter Wright is a British sound artist who works with field recording and phonography.He studied at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, London and Manchester Metropolitan University and has exhibited and broadcast works internationally including Flat Time...

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Programme

The gallery has shown an eclectic programme with particular emphasis on installation

Installation art

Installation art describes an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called Land art; however, the boundaries between...

, sound art

Sound art

Sound art is a diverse group of art practices that considers wide notions of sound, listening and hearing as its predominant focus. There are often distinct relationships forged between the visual and aural domains of art and perception by sound artists....

 and Polish new media art

New media art

New media art is a genre that encompasses artworks created with new media technologies, including digital art, computer graphics, computer animation, virtual art, Internet art, interactive art, computer robotics, and art as biotechnology...

 alongside exhibitions of represented artists.

Notable exhibitions include P&S Recipe Shop in 2006 in which the gallery was transformed into a Malaysian style café by artists Yak Beow Seah and Chong Boon Pok and 2010's Dead Fingers Talk: The Tape Experiments of William S. Burroughs, an exhibition of unreleased tape experiments by William S. Burroughs

William S. Burroughs

William Seward Burroughs II was an American novelist, poet, essayist and spoken word performer. A primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author, he is considered to be "one of the most politically trenchant, culturally influential, and innovative artists of the 20th...

 alongside work by artists, writers and musicians including Steve Aylett

Steve Aylett

Steve Aylett is a satirical science fiction and slipstream author of several bizarro books. He is renowned for his colorful satire attacking the manipulations of authority, and for having reams of amusing epigrams and non-sequiturs only tangentially related to what little linear plot the books...

, Lawrence English

Lawrence English

Lawrence English is a composer, media artist and curator living in Brisbane, Australia. For over a decade he has been an increasingly active force in Australian sound art and experimental music - both as a creator and curator.- Sound works :...

, Anthony Joseph

Anthony Joseph

Anthony Joseph is a British poet, novelist, musician and lecturer.Joseph was born in Trinidad and was raised by his grandparents. He began writing as a young child and cites his main influences as the Calypso, surrealism, jazz, the spiritual Baptist church that his grandparents attended, and the...

, Negativland

Negativland

Negativland is an experimental music and sound collage band which originated in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1970s. They took their name from a Neu! song, while their record label is named after another Neu! song...

, Plastique Fantastique (David Burrows

David Burrows (contemporary artist)

David Burrows is British artist and writer. His work consists of drawings and paint-spattered, debris-littered, haphazard installations. He writes articles on art and aesthetics and is the editor of Article Press at Birmingham City University...

 & Simon O'Sullivan), Giorgio Sadotti

Giorgio Sadotti

Giorgio Sadotti UK is a conceptual artist based in London.In the 1993 he exhibited at City Racing with Gavin Brown, and in 1996 participated in a group show in Vienna curated by Muntean and Rosenblum on behalf of City Racing...

, Scanner

Robin Rimbaud

Robin Rimbaud is an electronic musician who works under the name Scanner due to his use of cell phone and police scanners in live performance...

, Terre Thaemlitz

Terre Thaemlitz

Terre Thaemlitz is a musician, public speaker, and owner of the record label. His work critically combines themes of identity politics - including gender, sexuality, class, linguistics, ethnicity and race - with an ongoing critique of the socio-economics of commercial media production...

, Thomson & Craighead

Thomson & Craighead

Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead are London-based visual artists, who work with video, sound and the internet.-Life and work:Jon Thomson was born in London, England and Alison Craighead in Aberdeen, Scotland....

, Laureana Toledo

Laureana Toledo

Laureana Toledo is a Mexican artist.Toledo lives and works in Mexico City. She began as a photographer, who later added drawing, painting, video, sound and sculpture into her work...

 and Ultra-red

Ultra-red

Ultra-red are a sound art collective founded in 1994 by two AIDS activists. Originally based in Los Angeles, the collective has expanded over the years with members across North American and Europe...

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In 2009 Mark Peter Wright was awarded the BASCA

British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors

British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors was founded in 1947.It represents its members within the industry, to the government and to the European Commission....

 British Composer Award in Sonic Art for his work A Quiet Reverie which was premiered at IMT Gallery in 2008 as part of the sound art exhibition Audio Forensics.

IMT Gallery's exhibitions have been supported by a number of institutions including the Arts Council England

Arts Council England

Arts Council England was formed in 1994 when the Arts Council of Great Britain was divided into three separate bodies for England, Scotland and Wales. It is a non-departmental public body of the Department of Culture, Media and Sport...

, the Henry Moore Foundation

Henry Moore Foundation

The Henry Moore Foundation is a registered charity in England, established for education and promotion of the fine arts — in particular, to advance understanding of the works of Henry Moore. The charity was set up with a gift from the artist in 1977...

, the Japan Foundation

Japan Foundation

The was established in 1972 by an Act of the Japanese Diet as a special legal entity to undertake international dissemination of Japanese culture, and became an independent administrative institution under the jurisdiction of the Foreign Ministry of Japan on 1 October 2003 under the "Independent...

, the OCA: the Office for Contemporary Art Norway and the Polish Cultural Institute

Adam Mickiewicz Institute

The Adam Mickiewicz Institute is a government-sponsored organization funded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland. Its goal is to promote Polish language and Polish culture abroad. It is based in Warsaw...

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External links

• IMT Gallery official website