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

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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 (Chinese: 张鸥, pinyin: Zhang Ou, 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 inst ...

. 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 David Burrows, Paola Ciarska, Lotte Rose Kjær Skau and

Plastique Fantastique Plastique Fantastique is a London-based art group active from 2004–present envisaged as a group of human and inhuman avatars delivering communiqués from the extreme past and the future. The group was originally conceived of by Simon O’Sulliv ...

. Since its founding IMT Gallery is 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.

Programme

The gallery has shown an eclectic programme with particular emphasis on

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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 1975/76) 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 occ ...

Anthony Joseph Anthony Joseph (born 12 November 1966 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago) is a British/Trinidadian poet, novelist, musician and academic. Biography Joseph was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, where he was raised by his grandparents. He beg ...

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( David Burrows & Simon O'Sullivan),

Giorgio Sadotti Giorgio Sadotti (born 1955 in Manchester, UK) is a conceptual artist based in London. In 1993, Sadotti exhibited at City Racing, and in 1996 participated in a group show organised by City Racing at Bricks and Kicks in Vienna run by Muntean and ...

, Scanner,

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

Thomson & Craighead Jon Thomson (born 1969) and Alison Craighead (born 1971) 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. They have ...

Laureana Toledo Laureana Toledo (born 1970) is a Mexican conceptual artist. She has had solo exhibitions at Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo and at Museo Jumex in Mexico City. A work of Toledo's outdoor sculpture is included in the permanent collections o ...

and

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

. 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

Kunsthal Charlottenborg Kunsthal Charlottenborg is an exhibition building in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is the official exhibition gallery of the Royal Danish Academy of Art. History Charlottenborg Palace was constructed in 1672–83 as a residence for Ulrik Frederik G ...

Spring Exhibition for her video ''How to Get Somewhere'' (2012), exhibited at IMT Gallery earlier that year. From 2009-15 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

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 arti ...

, the

Japan Foundation The was established in 1972 by an Act of the National Diet as a special legal entity to undertake international dissemination of Japanese culture, and became an Independent Administrative Institution under the jurisdiction of the Ministry o ...

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

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and the

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References

External links

IMT Gallery
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