Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

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Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art
Art Museum
DirectorLaura Sillars
Websitemima.art

MIMA, or Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, is a contemporary art gallery based in the centre of Middlesbrough, England. The gallery was formally launched on Sunday 27 January 2007; since 2014 it has been part of Teesside University.[1]

History and estates

The gallery's opening marked the completion of an accumulative journey for the art collection of post-industrial Middlesbrough. The early artistic heritage of a town as young as Middlesbrough rested largely on the success of the Linthorpe Art Pottery (1879–1889), co-launched by

School of Art
opened alongside the Mechanics' Institute in the old town's Durham Street, in 1870, and by the 1950s that, too, had relocated to Linthorpe. The region's cultural profile was further amply boosted by the Cleveland International Drawing Biennale, until that competition's extinction in the 1990s.

A site for the town's first art gallery was granted by the father of the Mayor, Sir Arthur Dorman, in 1904. This was on Linthorpe Road opposite, and conceived in the same spate of events as, what was to become the Dorman Museum outside Albert Park. Funding shortfalls amid the onset of war, however, ensured that only a rest garden was eventually sited there. In the meantime, from 1927, the Carnegie library and Grange Road Methodist Church housed the collection of paintings. No permanent provision for the pieces materialised until 1957, with the purchase by the Council of a former doctor's surgery on Linthorpe Road. It was not until 2003 that this building was vacated.

University of Teesside
's graduate incubation studios in aid of new business start-ups.

Following the closure in January 2003 of the two surviving galleries, construction of the present accommodation comprising the gallery spaces, education suite, auditorium, café-bar, shop, roof terrace, collection stores and conservation studio commenced in 2004. The centre was designed by Erick van Egeraat Associated Architect. Whilst construction was underway, mima programmed a series of offsite exhibitions and events including such artists as John Harrison and Paul Wood, Susan Pietzsch, Yuka Oyama, Graham Dolphin, Chicks on Speed, Martin Creed, Oliver Zwink and Mah Rana.

MIMA's founding director was Godfrey Worsdale, who left in 2008 to become director of the

Whitworth.[6] The current director is Laura Sillars, who joined from Sheffield's Site Gallery.[7]

MIMA has participated in the Tate's programme Artist Rooms, featuring exhibitions by Gerhard Richter, Jannis Kounellis and Louise Bourgeois.[8][9]

On 21 and 22 November 2009, the cast of the BBC motoring programme Top Gear – Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May – held an exhibition of automotive art at MIMA, which featured in the 5th episode of the 14th series of the show,[10] setting an all-time record for the gallery.[citation needed]

Middlesbrough Collection

MIMA's Middlesbrough Collection comprises outstanding fine and applied art from 19th century to the present day, with many pieces acquired by mima's forerunners, Middlesbrough Art Gallery and the Cleveland Craft Centre.

Works include;

L.S. Lowry, Ben Nicholson, Eduardo Paolozzi, Adrian Piper, Katherine Pleydell-Bouverie, Anne Redpath, Paula Rego, David Remfry, Lucie Rie, Stanley Spencer, Nancy Spero and Kara Walker
.

In 2015, Tees Valley Arts donated a collection of significant artworks to the gallery as the Tees Valley Arts Collection, including works by artists Vivan Sundaram, Len Tabner and Adrian Wiszniewski.[11]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Mima to transfer from council to Teesside University". The Museum Association. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
  2. ^ Baltic's latest director – the Guardian
  3. ^ New director appointed at mima – the Gazette
  4. ^ Oliver-GAZ, George (26 February 2014). "Former NE Arts Council director Mark Robinson appointed interim director of mima". gazettelive. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
  5. ^ "New Director for mima is announced". Teesside University. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
  6. ^ "Alistair Hudson appointed as new Director for Manchester Art Gallery and The University of Manchester's Whitworth". Alistair Hudson appointed as new Director for Manchester Art Gallery and The University of Manchester’s Whitworth. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
  7. ^ "New Director for Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art | Media centre | Teesside University". www.tees.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
  8. ^ "About mima". mima (official0. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
  9. ^ "ARTIST ROOMS Louise Bourgeois – Middlesbrough". The Tate.
  10. Evening Gazette
    . Retrieved 19 November 2009.
  11. ^ "Our Art Collection". tees valley arts. Retrieved 5 February 2020.

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