IMT Gallery (also known as IMT or Image Music Text) is a

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gallery in

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in London's East End.

History

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

O Zhang O Zhang (; born November 23, 1976, Guangzhou, China) 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. She was trained as an ...

. Other artists to have been given their first London solo exhibitions with IMT Gallery include Laura Pawela, Marek Chołoniewski, Lotte Rose Kjær Skau, Henrik Schrat, Mark Peter Wright and Mathew Parkin. In January 2011 IMT became IMT Gallery and began representing artists alongside its exhibition programme. The gallery currently represents Ra Tack, Maggie Roberts, David Burrows and

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. From 2005 to 2023 IMT Gallery was curated by Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson, with Nicole Sansone joining as a co-curator from 2014 to 2016, and Kirsten Cooke joining as co-curator in 2021. Lindsay Friend took on sole curatorial responsibility for the gallery in 2023 when Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson moved to

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to become director of

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Programme

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

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and

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alongside exhibitions of represented artists. Notable exhibitions include ''Wandering/WILDING: Blackness on the Internet'' with Niv Acosta, Hannah Black, Evan Ifekoya, E. Jane, Devin Kenny, Tabita Rezaïre and Fannie Sosa, curated by Legacy Russell with associated events at the

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; ''Campaign'': an exhibition acting as the campaign headquarters for Shrigley's 2015 general election bid for

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; ''P&S Recipe Shop'' in 2006 in which the gallery was transformed into a fully functioning 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 experiments with

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alongside work by artists, writers and musicians including Steve Aylett,

Lawrence English Lawrence English (born 1976) is an Australian composer, artist, and curator from Brisbane. His work is broadly concerned with the politics of perception, specifically he is interested in the nature of listening, and sounds' capability to occupy ...

Anthony Joseph Anthony Joseph FRSL (born 12 November 1966) is a British/Trinidadian poet, novelist, musician and academic. In 2023, he was awarded the T. S. Eliot Prize for his book ''Sonnets for Albert''. Biography Joseph was born in Port of Spain, Trin ...

Negativland Negativland is an American experimental music band that originated in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1970s. The core of the band consists of Mark Hosler, David Wills (aka "The Weatherman"), Peter Conheim and Jon Leidecker (aka "Wobbly" ...

( David Burrows & Simon O'Sullivan),

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, Scanner,

Terre Thaemlitz Terre Thaemlitz is an American musician, composer, owner of the record label Comatonse Recordings, and a public speaker. Thaemlitz's work critically combines themes of identity politics – including gender, sexuality, class, linguistics, ethnici ...

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, Laureana Toledo and

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. In 2009 Mark Peter Wright was awarded the

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British Composer Award in Sonic Art for his work ''A Quiet Reverie'' which was premiered at IMT in 2008 as part of the sound art exhibition ''Audio Forensics''. In 2014 Lotte Rose Kjær Skau won the Helle & Arenth Jacobsen's Grant for Young Artists award at the

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Spring Exhibition for her video ''How to Get Somewhere'' (2012), exhibited at IMT Gallery earlier that year. From 2009 to 2015 the gallery also hosted regular screenings and events curated by Filmarmalade, a London-based publisher and DVD label specialising in contemporary artists' film and video works. IMT Gallery's exhibitions have been supported by a number of institutions, including the

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, the

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, the

Japan Foundation The is a Japanese foundation that spreads Japanese culture around the world. Based in Tokyo, it was established in 1972 by an Act of the National Diet as a special legal entity to undertake international dissemination of Japanese culture. I ...

, the OCA: the Office for Contemporary Art Norway, the

Statens Kunstfond The Danish Arts Foundation ( Danish: Statens Kunstfond) is the principal Danish government funded arts foundation founded by a special Law on 27 May 1964. Statens Kunstfond alongside the :da:Statens Kunstråd (English sometimes State Arts Council ...

and the Polish Cultural Institute.

References

External links

IMT Gallery
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