MK Gallery explained
MK Gallery (also 'Milton Keynes Gallery' or 'MK G'[1]) is the municipal art gallery of Milton Keynes,[2] [3] a city in Buckinghamshire about 50 miles (80 km) northwest of London. The gallery was extended and remodelled in 2018/19 and includes an art-house cinema.[4] [5] It does not have a permanent collection.
History
The gallery was founded in 1999 under the management of the Milton Keynes Theatre and Gallery Company.
The Gallery partially closed from 2015 to 2019 for a substantial expansion and renovation.[6] The building now has five exhibition galleries, an auditorium/cinema and a studio.[7]
Exhibitions
The more notable exhibitions presented by the gallery include:[8]
1990s
- Gilbert & George: The Rudimentary Pictures (1999-2000)
2000s
- Mark Francis: Elements (2000)
- Richard Hamilton: New Technology and Printmaking (2000)
- Printers inc.: Recent British Prints from the Arts Council and British Council Collections (2000)
- Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2000 (2000)
- Alison Turnbull: Houses into Flats (2000)
- Layla Curtis (2000)
- Richard Wright (2000)
- Conversation: An Exhibition of Figurative Sculpture (2000)
- Richard Ross: Gathering Light (2000–01)
- Jan Dibbets: Ten Cupolas (2000–01)
- John Riddy: Recent Work (2000–01)
- FaceOn (2001)
- Mark Wallinger: Cave (2001)
- Marta Marcé: New Work (2001)
- Abigail Lane: Tomorrow’s World, Yesterday’s Fever (Mental Guests Incorporated) (2001)
- Andy Warhol: Cars (2001)
- The Silbury Group: 10th Anniversary Exhibition (2001–02)
- Art Crazy Nation Show, Curated by Matthew Collings (2002)
- Dalziel + Scullion: Home (2002)
- Tim Noble & Sue Webster: Ghastly Arrangements (2002)
- Air Guitar: Art Reconsidering Rock Music (2002)
- Jiri Georg Dokoupil: Every Cloud is a Way (2002)
- Boyd Webb: Horse & Dog (2002)
- Georgie Hopton: Laughed – I Could Have Cried (2003)
- Sarah Lucas, Colin Lowe & Roddy Thomson: Temple of Bacchus (2003)
- Boyd & Evans: Landmarks (2004)
2010s
- The Lie of the Land (2019)
- Paula Rego: Obedience and Defiance (
- George Stubbs: 'all done from nature' (2019–20)
2020s
- MK Calling 2020 (2020)
- Memphis: Plastic Field (2020–21)
- Laura Knight: A Panoramic View (2021–22)
- Ingrid Pollard: Carbon Slowly Turning (2022)
- Vivian Maier: Anthology (2022)
- Larry Achiampong: Wayfinder (2022–23)
- Trickster Figures: Sculpture and the Body (2023)
- Boyd & Evans: High Time (2023)
- Beyond the Page: South Asian Miniature Painting and Britain, 1600 to Now (2023–24)
- Saul Leiter: An Unseen World (2024-)
Current and former directors
Cinema
The top floor of the gallery has a multi-purpose auditorium overlooking Campbell Park. In its cinema configuration, the auditorium shows international films curated by Curzon Cinemas, as well as live-streamed National Theatre and Royal Opera House performances.[10]
Notes and References
- Web site: MKG - Milton Keynes Gallery . clutch.open.ac.uk.
- Web site: About . MK Gallery . 20 April 2024.
- Web site: Milton Keynes Gallery . Destination MK . 8 February 2019.
- Web site: MK Gallery by 6a architects to open doors this weekend . 11 March 2019 . The Architects'Journal . Fran . Williams . 11 March 2019.
- Web site: New cinema set to open in Milton Keynes this month . 1 March 2019 . Milton Keynes Citizen . Paige . Brown . 11 March 2019.
- Web site: New art gallery built by B&K in Milton Keynes opens to public .
- News: Reopened £12m MK Gallery captures 'spirit' of new town . BBC News . 16 March 2019 .
- Web site: Exhibitions . MK Gallery. 20 April 2024.
- News: Michael Stanley, rising star in art firmament, dies aged 37 . The Guardian . 25 September 2012 . Brown . Mark .
- Web site: Cinema . MK Gallery . 22 April 2024 .
