Institute of Modern Art

Institute of Modern Art Australia's oldest independent public art gallery. Free entry. Open Tuesday–Sunday, 10am–5pm.

The IMA is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, the Australian Government through Australia Council for the Arts, and the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian Federal, State, and Territory Governments. The IMA is a member of Contemporary Art Organisations Australia (CAOs).

01/06/2026

Queensland’s premier charitable gala for contemporary art returns. 

The annual IMA Gala and Benefit Auction unites our community of artists, cultural leaders, collectors, corporate supporters, arts patrons, and fans for an evening of style and spirited bidding.

Tickets on sale now. Limited group packages available—get in quick.

IMA Gala and Benefit Auction 2026
Friday 7 August, 6pm–late
🔗 Ticket link in bio

Visit the IMA’s annual Zine Fair to discover a massive selection of independent, experimental, alternative publications,...
31/05/2026

Visit the IMA’s annual Zine Fair to discover a massive selection of independent, experimental, alternative publications, and meet local and interstate artists, designers, and makers.

Ease into browsing with tunes spun by IMA staff and friends, and take a dive into our rare art magazine rummage pulled from the IMA archives.

IMA Zine Fair
Saturday 13 June, 10-3pm
🔗 RSVP at the link in bio

Photos: Madeline Brewer.

29/05/2026

Transforming harsh steel wool into comforting forms, Trawlwoolway/Tasmanian Aboriginal artist Mandy Quadrio expresses the dualities of her indigeneity.

Quadrio’s ephemeral works bring forward new narratives as they rust and reconfigure over time. Accompanying the austere forest of sculptures is Quadrio’s first video work ‘Tugrannah (A Black Pause at the Beginning)’. An evolution of her practice, the moving image work captures steel wool igniting in brilliant flashes and streams.

Explore Quadrio’s exhibition ‘Kukunna Wurraweena’ at the Institute of Modern Art until Saturday 28 June.

Open Tuesday–Sunday, 10am–5pm
Free entry, all welcome.

Producer: India Kapernick-Philippi
Videography: Nick Maguire

Mandy Quadrio: ‘Kukunna Wurraweena’ is supported by the IMA Commissioner’s Circle, and Creative Australia through the Visual Art, Craft and Design Framework Funding.

Surprise addition to tonight’s Free Range: vegetable.machine.animal .Mainstay of the Te Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington soun...
28/05/2026

Surprise addition to tonight’s Free Range: vegetable.machine.animal .

Mainstay of the Te Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington sound world, Kieran Monaghan presents interspecies science-based improvisation. Vegetable.machine.animal transforms the electrical signals of living plants and fungi into sound, fusing modular synths and live percussion into unpredictable, sublime, and absurd performance.

Tickets available online or at the door.
All welcome, pay what you can.

Free Range 6: SCRAPS, BlackBlue Tulpa, Ode2Joy, and vegetable.machine.animal
Thursday 28 May
Doors at 6pm

Registrations open 10am Friday 29 May 2026. Everyone welcome but space is limited—prompt registration essential.Join IMA...
28/05/2026

Registrations open 10am Friday 29 May 2026. Everyone welcome but space is limited—prompt registration essential.

Join IMA Assistant Director Program Nicholas Aloisio-Shearer for Essay Club No.4 to unpack Dean Kissak’s ‘The Vulgar Image’ (2025). Published in Spike Magazine, Kissak’s essay unpacks the proliferation of AI-slop to ask whether we are chasing machines into a pastiche hell.

Nicholas will discuss his work as Assistant Director at the IMA, as well as his projects as a curator and artist.

Essay Club is a reading group, meets salon, meets networking drinks.

Everyone welcome. Space limited.
Registrations open 10am Friday 29 May.

Essay Club No.4
Nicholas Aloisio-Shearer on The Vulgar Image
Wednesday 24 June, 6pm

Registrants will be sent the reading material via email upon registration.

27/05/2026

Since exhibiting in Platform, our 2025 cohort of emerging Queensland artists have reached new heights. Their works have exhibited nationally, been profiled in national art publications, and acquired by public and private collections.

Look back on their exhibition at the IMA with the Platform 2025 publication now available at .

There are only days left to support Platform 2027, and elevate the next generation of Queensland artists. Give before this Sunday 31 May to have your donation doubled, thanks to ’s Plus1 Matched Funding.
Thanks to the invaluable support of our patrons and community, we’re only $10,000 away from our fundraising goal.

With your generous support, we can propel more emerging artists to the national stage in 2027. Visit ima.org.au/donate to give today.

25/05/2026

A landmark work of anti-colonial cinema, ‘Statues Also Die’ (1953) was banned for fifteen years in France for questioning the relegation of African objects to ethnographic display.

Join us for a screening of the film and a discussion on French cinema next Saturday as part of the publication launch for ‘Assembly Lines,’ the first book by post-war French film academic Ivan Cercina.

Cercina joins QAGOMA Cinémathèque curator Robert Hughes in conversation on the book’s themes. Together, they’ll unpack the use of montage in French film and its aesthetic role in post WWII France.

Copies of ‘Assembly Lines’ will be available for purchase from the .

Book Launch + Screening
Assembly Lines/Statues Also Die
Saturday 30 May, 2pm

Free, all welcome.
Registration essential.

Image: Still ‘Statues Also Die’ (1953) directed by Alain Resnais, Chris Marker, and Ghislain Cloquet.

23/05/2026

These cartoons aren’t the Saturday morning lineup you remember. Subverting popular characters and genre conventions, Takeshi Murata and Bunny Rogers use 3D-animation to interrogate how animated media reflects and perpetuates gendered violence.

Explore their works in ‘Cartoon Violence’, curated by Nicholas Aloisio-Shearer, on show in the Screening Room at the Institute of Modern Art until Saturday 28 June.

Open Tuesday–Sunday, 10am-5pm
Free entry, all welcome.

Narrator: Nicholas Aloisio-Shearer, Assistant Director Programs
Producer: India Kapernick-Philippi
Videography: Nick Maguire.

Ira Hadžić is a Berlin-based sound artist with a background in cultural anthropology. Her practice unfolds at the inter...
21/05/2026

Ira Hadžić is a Berlin-based sound artist with a background in cultural anthropology. Her practice unfolds at the intersections of improvisation, composition, and introspection.

Working with gongs, radiophonic forms, field recordings, resonance, minimal sonic gestures, and silence itself, she explores sound as a site of presence and perception. 

This June for Mono 60, Hadžić joins Canadian composer Loscil , who brings an intense interrogation of pulse, harmony, and texture.

Mono 60 | Loscil, Ira Hadžić
Wednesday 17 June, 6:30pm
Tickets on sale now
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Next Thursday 28 May, the IMA’s Thursday night sound club goes to upside-down-pop-town.SCRAPS (.c.r.a.p.s) presents arpe...
19/05/2026

Next Thursday 28 May, the IMA’s Thursday night sound club goes to upside-down-pop-town.

SCRAPS (.c.r.a.p.s) presents arpeggiated analogue bliss-bombs. BlackBlue Tulpa () brings bedroom zoned confessionals. Ode2Joy () conjures complex, ecstatic pop music.

Thursday 28 May, 6pm
All welcome, pay what you can.
🔗 Ticket link in bio

Doors at 6pm.

Image: Alastair Taylor/Ode2Joy.

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