14 March 2020 - 21 February 2021
Image credit: Otobong Nkanga The Weight of Scars 2015 Woven textile and Photography, inkjet print on viscose, wool, mohair, bio cotton and laser cut forex 10 plates 253 x 612…
14 March 2020 11:45 am - 14 March 2020 4:00 pmPLEASE NOTE: MIMA remains open for business. However, as a precautionary measure we are suspending some of our larger events. This is due to the evolving situation around the Coronavirus…
28 January 2020 10:00 am - 31 May 2020 4:00 pmArtists Foundation Press have spent the past year working with people in South Bank, Middlesbrough. Their artwork ‘Notes On The Black Path’, located along the public footpath off Old Station Road, is…
28 November 2019 10:00 am - 8 January 2020 4:30 pm29 Nov – 8 Jan 2020 Creative Job Studio Tees Valley offers sustainable support for creative career development for young people in the Tees Valley. Driving forward the Skills…
12 October 2019 to 23 February 2020
Image credit: Mikhail Karikis, No Ordinary Protest, 2018. Commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art and Whitechapel Gallery, London. Supported by Arts Council England. The first survey…
23 March 2019 2:00 pm - 20 August 2020 4:00 pmMiddlesbrough Institute of Modern Art’s (MIMA) year-long Middlesbrough Collection display reveals new narratives within the institute’s collection. Through a collaboration with research group Black Artists & Modernism, the collection is…
Ongoing
Our display Art in Action, reflects the voices, stories and experiences of the extraordinary people we work with. Each season we share projects that contribute to life in our area….
Every Saturday, 1.00pm - 4.00pm
We encourage you, family and friends to explore, make and wonder using the exciting materials available on the Art Trolley. Children to be supervised by their adult at all times.
12 October 2019 11:00 am - 12 October 2019 4:00 pm
Join us for a day of making activities, talks, lunch and exhibition introductory tours of our new exhibition Mikhail Karikis, For Many Voices. Mikhail Karikis’ videos, photographs and installations amplify the…
7 November 2019 5:30 pm - 7 November 2019 7:00 pm
Through local news reports, Tyne Tees Television documentaries, trade union campaigns, community films and more, this film show examines how the welfare state has impacted on the social development of…
27 November 2019 5:30 pm - 27 November 2019 6:30 pm
Image: Sonia Boyce, She Ain’t Holding Them Up, She’s Holding On (Some English Rose), 1986, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art Artist and academic Sonia Boyce (OBE, RA) is an influential figure within…
30 November 2019 10:00 am - 30 November 2019 4:00 pm
Our Festive Makers Market features a selection of local makers offering a range of design-led goods at this festive pop up event. Makers include: Lazy Luna @lazylunafashion and insta: @lazyluna…
5 December 2019 5:30 pm - 5 December 2019 7:00 pm
Are you an artist, current or former art teacher, art student or arts professional connected with painting in the Tees Valley? Join us for an evening of conversation to map…
Every Thursday 10:30am - 12:30pm (during term time only)
PLEASE NOTE: Cloth Club runs during Middlesbrough Council school term dates. Cloth Club is on every Thursday from 10.30am to 12.30pm This workshop is a chance to learn textile skills within…
6 February 2020 5:30 pm - 6 February 2020 7:00 pm
The Social Model of Disability What are the key topics of the day and how do we start to make change together? Tees Together is a round-table discussion series which…
15 February 2020
On the occasion of Mikhail Karikis’ first survey exhibition, For Many Voices, we bring artists and academics together for an afternoon of discussion and performance to explore the politics…
14 March 2020 11:45 am - 14 March 2020 4:00 pm
PLEASE NOTE: MIMA remains open for business. However, as a precautionary measure we are suspending some of our larger events. This is due to the evolving situation around the Coronavirus…
3 April 2020 6:00 pm - 3 June 2020 6:00 pm
MIMA making is a series of fun adventures for all the family to enjoy inspired by objects from the Middlesbrough Collection in partnership with artist Katie Chappell. Weeks one’s adventure…
7 April 2020 11:00 am - 7 June 2020 6:00 pm
Together with artist group Foundation Press, we are launching MIMAZINA, the hot new Community Journal that brings together voices of communities & artists from the Tees Valley. This online publication…
9 April 2020 10:00 am - 30 June 2020 11:00 am
Image: David Lissar, Protomould no1 2019, Stainless steel, polyurethane rubber and acrylic Hearing from Artists: no.2 out now. David Lisser talks with MIMA’s Olivia Heron about working with young…
28 April 2020 12:30 pm - 30 June 2020 1:30 pm
Our third edition of MIMAZINA #3 made with artist group Foundation Press is out now! MIMAZINA is a digital community journal that shares ideas, stories and voices from the Tees…
23 April 2020 2:00 pm - 30 June 2020 3:00 pm
Image credit: Cathal Carey Hearing from Artists: no 4 out now. Deb Covell talks with MIMA’s Helen Welford about thoughts on the material qualities of paint. Her three-dimensional paint forms…
30 April 2020 2:30 pm - 30 June 2020 3:30 pm
In the fourth of our series of Hearing From Artists where at this time of uncertainty, we are listening to artists. This week our Head of Programme, Elinor Morgan talks…
5 May 2020 2:30 pm - 30 June 2020 3:30 pm
Our fourth edition of MIMAZINA made with artist group Foundation Press is out now! MIMAZINA is a digital community journal that shares ideas, stories and voices from the Tees Valley…
29 April 2020 3:00 pm - 30 June 2020 4:00 pm
This painting explores the role of woman as mother, artist and worker on the production line of new life. These conflicting modes of femininity are embodied through the figure of…
16 April 2020 4:30 pm - 30 June 2020 5:30 pm
Photo: PaperBoat Photography by Laura Tindall In the third of our series of Hearing From Artists, Kate Moses our Public Programmes Assistant Curator is in conversation with artist Lisette Auton….
2 April 2020 6:00 pm - 30 June 2020 7:00 pm
Image caption: Still from Pineapple Suicide, 2016, courtesy Zina Saro-Wiwa. In the first of our series of Hearing From Artists where at this time of uncertainty, we are listening…
31 March 2020 6:30 pm - 30 June 2020 7:30 pm
We are committed to supporting the ideas, practices and careers of artists and arts practitioners and our team have a range of skills and experiences that we’re putting at your…
9 July 2020 2:30 pm - 9 July 2020 3:30 pm
In this week’s Hearing From Artists, Head of Programme Elinor Morgan is in conversation with Faiza Ahmad Khan & Hanna Rullmann. Faiza Ahmad Khan is a documentary filmmaker and Hanna…
15 July 2020 1:30 pm - 15 July 2020 2:30 pm
Image credit: Esther Knobel, Poland, 1949. Crusader brooch, 1983, galvanised metal, paint, textile coated plastic, segmented polyurethane. These artworks are brooches made from recycled tin cans. They depict colourful warriors….
30 July 2020 12:30 pm - 30 July 2020 1:30 pm
Len Tabner, England, 1946, Number 3 Furnace Casting and Running Scaw, 1978. Pastel on paper. Gifted by the artist When I was an A-Level student at Stockton Sixth Form my…
6 May 2020 2:30 pm - 31 July 2020 3:30 pm
Peter Chang, Bracelet, 2007 The starting point for this bracelet is a block of polystyrene which is meticulously carved into a doughnut form. Peter Chang coats this circular base with…
7 May 2020 5:30 pm - 31 August 2020 6:30 pm
In this week’s series of Hearing From Artists, our Assistant Curator Helen Welford is in conversation with Anna Barham. Anna Barham’s practice comprises writing, video, drawing, sculpture and performance. She…
16 September 2020 5:30 pm - 16 September 2020 6:30 pm
Image: Tomoko Takahashi, Japan, 1966, Dive 3 = H.Q. (Head Quarter) with 25 sections in ‘Deep Sea Diving für Kunsthalle’, OR. a world in 6×4 2003, Photographs, paint, pen, acrylic…
12 May 2020 1:00 pm - 30 September 2020 2:00 pm
Issue #5 of MIMAZINA made with artist group Foundation Press is out now! MIMAZINA is a digital community journal that shares ideas, stories and voices from the Tees Valley at…
19 May 2020 2:00 pm - 30 September 2020 3:00 pm
MIMAZINA is a digital community journal that shares ideas, stories and voices from the Tees Valley at a time of change. We publish a weekly journal with artist group Foundation…
21 October 2020 3:30 pm - 21 October 2020 9:30 pm
Image © Lubaina Himid Lubaina Himid , Zanzibar, 1954 , Toussaint L’Ouverture 1987 Paint and collage on wood. Purchased with assistance from Art Fund and Arts Council England/Victoria and Albert Museum Purchase Grant Fund, 2017. …
27 May 2020 11:00 am - 31 October 2020 12:00 pm
Image: : Elisabeth Frink Shearwater 1975, Lithograph Riddle in the room is an activity used by the MIMA Learning Team to understand, explore and unpick an artwork. It is a…
2 June 2020 8:00 am - 30 November 2020 9:00 am
Issue #8 of MIMAZINA is out now! MIMAZINA is a digital community journal made with artist group Foundation Press, that shares ideas, stories and voices from the Tees Valley at…
20 May 2020 2:00 pm - 30 November 2020 3:00 pm
Image: Felike Van der Leest, Emperor Penguin Freddie with Polar Pear Claw (2005) We take a closer look at works within the Middlesbrough Collection in our Collection Reflection series. Felike…
26 May 2020 2:00 pm - 30 November 2020 3:00 pm
MIMAZINA is a digital community journal that shares ideas, stories and voices from the Tees Valley at a time of change. We publish a weekly journal with artist group Foundation…
21 May 2020 3:30 pm - 30 November 2020 4:30 pm
Image credit: A Story of its Own Telling 2018. Photo credit: Hynes Photography Anne Vibeke Mou investigates histories and ancient landscapes through drawing and sculpture, using botanical and geological elements….
11 June 2020 11:00 am - 31 December 2020 12:00 pm
Image credit: Portrait, 2016, credit Jake Curtis In the tenth issue of our Hearing From Artists interviews, this week Kate Moses, our Public Programme Assistant Curator is in conversation…
25 June 2020 11:00 am - 31 December 2020 12:00 pm
Harold Offeh works with performance, video, photography, learning and social practice to inhabit and embody histories. He lives in Cambridge, UK. In 2016 and 2017 he made performances at MIMA…
24 June 2020 11:30 am - 31 December 2020 12:30 pm
Image credit: Mirjam Hiller b. 1974, Heap of Cubes, 2008, Stainess Steel, PVC, Silver, 105 x 8 x 39 mm “My jewellery attempts to capture living forms and movement…
23 June 2020 12:00 pm - 31 December 2020 1:00 pm
Issue #11 of MIMAZINA is out now! MIMAZINA is a digital community journal made with artist group Foundation Press, that shares ideas, stories and voices from the Tees Valley at…
30 June 2020 12:00 pm - 31 December 2020 1:00 pm
Issue #12 of MIMAZINA is out now! MIMAZINA is a digital community journal made with artist group Foundation Press, that shares ideas, stories and voices from the Tees Valley at…
1 July 2020 12:00 pm - 31 December 2020 1:00 pm
Image: Richard Slee, England b.1946, Cornucopia Vase 1984, Earthenware In this week’s Collection Reflection, we hear from Gallery Assistant Carly Rybak on Richard Slee’s Cornucopia Vase. Cornucopia means horn of…
17 June 2020 12:30 pm - 31 December 2020 1:30 pm
Image: Image: MIMA © Andrew Logan Andrew Logan, Oxford, England, 1945, Wing earrings, 1991 Resin, glass and plastic beads, mirror shards, glitter, metal earring clips Andrew Logan is a distinctive…
3 June 2020 1:30 pm - 31 December 2020 2:30 pm
Image: Angus Suttie, Cup and Stand 1988, Earthenware Angus Suttie, Scotland, 1946-1993 This energetic and joyful ceramic piece plays with the conventional shape of a teapot. The work is composed…
4 June 2020 1:30 pm - 31 December 2020 2:30 pm
Image credit: Flom Snag 2019. Courtesy of the artist. In the ninth issue of our Hearing From Artists interviews, this week our Head of Programme Elinor Morgan talks with artist…
22 July 2020 1:30 pm - 31 December 2020 2:30 pm
Image credit: © The artist, Chowdhary, Tanzania, 1964, Five Pods, 1996, Glazed earthenware Gift of Dr Terry Friedman, 2007 Each of these five sculptures by ceramicist Lubna Chowdhary is about half the size of a…
14 April 2020
Our first edition of MIMAZINA made with artist group Foundation Press is out now! MIMAZINA is a digital community journal that shares ideas, stories and voices from the Tees Valley…
18 June 2020 2:00 pm - 31 December 2020 4:30 pm
Image credit: Otobong Nkanga portrait. Photography by Wim van Dongen In the latest in our series of Hearing From Artist interviews, Helen Welford, Assistant Curator is in conversation with Otobong…
16 June 2020 9:00 am - 31 December 2020 10:00 pm
Issue #10 of MIMAZINA is out now! MIMAZINA is a digital community journal made with artist group Foundation Press, that shares ideas, stories and voices from the Tees Valley at…
8 March 2021 1:00 pm - 8 March 2021 5:00 pm
Ed Pien, Taiwan, 1958, Dance Macabre (1999), Ink on paper Dance Macabre comprises nineteen black ink drawings on individual sheets of paper presented in a grid arrangement. The humanlike studies can be viewed…
19 August 2020 5:30 pm - 20 August 2026 6:30 pm
Carol McNicoll, England, 1943, Teapot c. 1980s Earthenware Image credit: Carol McNicoll Carol McNicoll is known for her striking and playful ceramics. She graduated from the Royal College of…
12 August 2020 10:00 am - 12 August 2028 11:00 am
Image credit: Maura Heslop, Fat Man 1987 Steel This artwork is a brooch made from steel, both designed and crafted by Maura Heslop. It shows the figure of a gentleman with no clothes on. The surface design has been created by…
5 August 2020 11:30 am - 22 August 2028 12:30 pm
Image credit: Gijs Bakker, Dahlia Necklace 1983 , Flower petals and PVC laminate Netherlands 1942 © The artist Dahlia Necklace is a piece of wearable art created by Dutch jewellery designer Gijs Bakker in 1983. It comprises…
26 August 2020 2:30 pm - 31 August 2028 3:30 pm
Alexander Blank, Germany, 1975, Banane 2007, Silver Purchased through the Northern Rock Foundation Craft Acquisition Scheme Alexander Blank studied jewellery from 1997 to 2010 at a number of different schools….
9 September 2020 6:30 pm - 9 September 2029 7:30 pm
Image: Pineapple 1987, Stoneware Penkridge Ceramics, Established England, 1984 by Lorraine Taylor and Nicky Smart Penkridge Ceramics was established in 1984 by MA Ceramic graduates Lorraine Taylor and Nicky…
2 September 2020 3:30 pm - 30 September 2029 4:30 pm
Anthony Green, England, 1939. The Bathroom at 29, Working Drawing 1979-86. Pencil crayon and gouache on paper. Purchased with assistance from the V&A Purchase Grant Fund 1987/88 This working…
30 September 2020 7:30 pm - 30 September 2029 8:30 pm
Image © APRA Foundation Berlin Adrian Piper, United States of America, 1948 , Hypothesis Situation #7 1968, 1968 Photo-diagram collage, vintage photo offset,…
29 October 2020 3:00 pm - 29 October 2029 4:00 pm
Keith Piper, Malta, 1960, Go West Young Man 1996, Single channel video, 3 min 50 sec. Gifted by the artist, 2017. In this video Keith Piper collages historical and contemporary imagery…
2 December 2020 2:00 pm - 2 December 2029 5:00 pm
Gillian Ayres, England, 1920-2018, Composition 1964. Pastel on paper. Purchased with assistance from the Victoria & Albert Museum Purchase Grant Fund Gillian Ayres was an English painter who lived from 1930 to 2018…
16 December 2020 3:00 pm - 31 December 2029 4:00 pm
Image © Sara Radstone Sara Radstone, England, 1955 . Ceramic Form 1980s. Glazed stoneware Sara Radstone was born in 1955 in London. She is a leading British ceramic artist with a career spanning nearly 40 years. Her…
9 December 2020 2:30 pm - 31 December 2029 4:30 pm
Betty Blandino, England, 1927-2011 Balloon Vase 1990s Stoneware Betty Blandino worked as an art gallery director and teacher prior to studying art at Goldsmith’s College, London from 1957. It was during this time that she studied…
13 January 2021 2:00 pm - 30 January 2030 5:00 pm
Evert Nijland, The Netherlands, 1971, Waddenzee 2009. Image: Courtesy of MIMA © Evert Nijland Evert Nijland is a Dutch visual artist. He is one of the most eminent and inventive jewellery artists of…
10 February 2021 3:00 pm - 28 February 2030 7:00 pm
Gwen John, Wales, 1876-1939, Portrait of a Young Woman (c.1910), Graphite and ink on paper. Purchased with assistance from the Eugene Cremetti Fund and The Art Fund, 1986. Gwen John was a…
24 February 2021 3:00 pm - 28 February 2030 7:30 pm
Käthe Kollwitz , East Prussia (now Russia) 1867; d. 1945 Germany. Worker Woman with Sleeping Child (1927) Lithograph on paper. Presented by the Oberbürgermeister of Oberhausen, Germany, 1964 This image, a lithograph of a…
17 March 2021 10:00 am - 31 March 2030 6:00 pm
Susanna Heron, England, 1949, Wearable 1982, Cotton and metal Image: Copyright Susanna Heron Wearable – as the name suggests – is a piece of wearable art which was created by…
7 October 2020 3:00 pm - 31 October 2030 4:00 pm
Jack Whitten , United States of America, 1939-2018 , Topographical Space 6 1974. Dry pigment on paper. Presented by Art Fund under Art Fund International, 2010. This grainy, greyscale image evokes satellite or radar imagery…
12 November 2020 2:00 pm - 30 November 2030 6:30 pm
Chila Kumari Singh Burman, England, 1957, Self Portrait with Lipsticks 2014 Purchased with assistance from the Victoria and Albert Museum Purchase Grant Fund, 2019 Image courtesy of the artist ©…
5 November 2020 3:00 pm - 30 November 2030 8:00 pm
Image credi:t © Magdalene Odundo. Born in Kenya, 1950 , Vessel, 1983. Ribbed symmetrical red pot with angled top. Purchased with assistance from the Victoria and Albert Museum Purchase Grant Fund, 1984/5 Middlesbrough…
30 December 2020 2:30 pm - 30 December 2030 3:30 pm
Image: Courtesy of MIMA © Hilda Bernstein Hilda Bernstein, England, 1915-2006. Sealine date unknown. Etching on Paper This piece is written by Kingsley Hall in response to work by Hilda…
20 January 2021 2:00 pm - 31 January 2031 6:00 pm
George Baxter, England, 1804-1867, The Ascent of Mont Blanc, 1855. Print on paper Image © George Baxter This charming colour print depicts a long winding line of figures making their way up to the summit of…
27 January 2021 2:00 pm - 28 February 2031 3:00 pm
Sheila Fell, England, 1931-1979, Hayrick in the Snow, Oil on board. Image © Sheila Fell The colour pallet of Sheila Fell’s Hayrick in the Snow is what first captured my attention. The smudge of ochre…
31 March 2021 4:00 pm - 30 March 2031 5:00 pm
Gésine Hackenberg, Netherlands, 1972, Big Makkum Kitchen Necklace 2009. Earthenware and nylon thread. Based in Amsterdam, jewellery maker Gésine Hackenberg uses everyday objects sourced from antique markets to create exceptional…
2 April 2021 10:00 am - 30 April 2031 7:00 pm
Carol McNicoll, England, 1943 Earthenware, Bowl 1983 This Bowl by Carol McNicoll, to me, screams futurist architecture, dreamlike geometry and unconventional appliance. Looking more like a set maquette for a…
6 December 2019
Children from primary schools across the North East, part of the Ironstone Academy Trust, have visited Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA) across the year as part of a yearlong…
8 November 2019
MIDDLESBROUGH’S JAMIE SAMPLE WINS NORTH EAST VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR AWARD Volunteer worker Jamie Sample has won the North East Volunteer of the Year Award, awarded by the British Museum and…
