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The Ikon is an internationally - acclaimed contemporary art gallery housed in a neo-gothic school building.

She has also participated in various group exhibitions at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, 2008, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 2000, P.S. 1, New York, 1999, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 1997, and Tate Liverpool, 1995.

Solo exhibitions include Kunsthalle Helsinki, Finland (2015); Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow (MoCAK), Poland (2014); National Portrait Gallery, London, UK (2011); IVAM, Valencia, Spain (2010); MAK, Vienna, Austria (2008); CAC Malaga, Spain (2006); Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Germany (2003); Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK (2001); Kunstverein Hannover, Germany (1994) and Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK (1985).

Commissioned by Ruya Foundation for Contemporary Culture in Iraq (RUYA), established in 2012 to promote culture in Iraq, Welcome to Iraq is curated by Jonathan Watkins, Director of Ikon Gallery, Birmingham.

There is no more appropriate moment to examine new and recent contemporary art from Iraq and we are privileged that this talk will be led by curator and Director of Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, Jonathan Watkins, who curated the highly acclaimed Pavilion of Iraq at the 55th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale in 2013.

He has had solo shows at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver and Galerie Ben Kaufmann, Berlin.

Patterson has exhibited in Chisenhale Gallery, London; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; MOMA, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn; The Victoria and Albert Museum and Tate Britain, London.

It will be distributed to V&A Museum London, Tate Britain, Turner Contemporary Margate, Arnolfini Bristol, Impressions Gallery Bradford, Ikon Gallery, Library of Birmingham, Baltic Centre of Contemporary Art Newcastle, Open Eye Gallery Liverpool & Norwich University of the Arts.

Representatives from the following organisations will be in attendance Art Fund / Artangel / Arts Council England / East Street Arts / Edinburgh Art Festival / Elephant Magazine / FACT Liverpool / Glasgow School of Art / Hiscox / Holden Gallery / Ikon Gallery / Iniva / Jupiter Artland / Leeds Beckett University / Leeds College of Art / London College of Communication / Magnum Photos / Max Mara Art Prize for Women / Nesta / Nottingham Contemporary / Open Eye Gallery / PHOTOFAIRS / Photomonitor / Royal British Society of Sculptors / Tate Liverpool / University of York / Visual Arts South West / Wellcome Trust / Whitechapel Gallery / World Photography Organisation / York St John University / Zabludowicz Collection

She has had solo exhibitions at DHC, Montreal (2011), MOCA, Miami (2010), KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2009), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2009), the Swiss Institute, New York (2006), and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2001), and has participated in the Biennale di Venezia (2009).

Solo exhibitions have been staged at Fosun Foundation, Shanghai, China (2017); Fundacion Bancaja, Valencia, Spain (2017); Kunsthalle Helsinki, Finland (2015); Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow (MoCAK), Poland (2014); National Portrait Gallery, London, UK (2011); IVAM, Valencia, Spain (2010); MAK, Vienna, Austria (2008); CAC Malaga, Spain (2006); Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Germany (2003); Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK (2001); Kunstverein Hannover, Germany (1994) and Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK (1985).

Perhaps because of the incandescence of the YBAs in the 1990s, British art in the 1980s often gets short thrift in terms of column inches in histories of modern and contemporary art, but — as Ikon's new show on the decade should demonstrate — it was a period of free - wheeling experimentation, in which figurative painting made a comeback, the variety of abstract styles increased, installation art grew in ambition and cut - and - paste appropriation prevailed.

The new film Zamach was commissioned by Artangel, Outset Contemporary Art Fund, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture and Zachęta National Gallery of Art in association with Annet Gelink Gallery, Sommer Contemporary Art, Ikon Gallery, Netherlands Film Fund, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and Artis and produced by My - i Productions in association with Artangel.

João Maria Gusmão (b. 1979, Portugal) & Pedro Paiva (b. 1977, Portugal) live and work in Lisboa; In the last decade the duo has participated in international contexts such as the 27th Bienal de São Paulo, the 6th Mercosul Biennial, Manifesta 7, PhotoEspaña 08 along with exhibitions at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco and Kunstverein Hanover, or the Ikon Gallery.

She has shown extensively for the past five decades, in solo and group contexts, and has been the subject of numerous survey exhibitions including Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (2003); Generali Foundation, Vienna (2002); New Museum, New York (2000); The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2000); Kunstverein München, Munich (1992); Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England (1991); and Alternative Museum, New York (1987).

«As the inaugural exhibition for Ikon Arts Foundation, we wanted to show the breadth of high - quality work that is being produced in Croatia, as well as its relevance in the contemporary art scene in New York City», writes Linda Mateljan, Ikon Arts Foundation director.

His solo exhibitions have been seen in international galleries and museums, including Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo, Brazil; the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut; the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas; a survey at Ikon Gallery (UK) and Cornerhouse (UK); Koenig & Clinton (NYC); Nara Roesler Gallery (Brazil); Alexander Gray (NYC); Roger Björkholmen (Sweden); and Postmasters Gallery (NYC).

Continental Shift - Artists from the African continent in Europe, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands Intelligence: New British Art 2000, Tate Britain, London South Meets West, Accra, Ghana and Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland 1999 From where - To here, Art from London, Konsthallen Göteborg, Sweden Kunstwelten im Dialog, Museum Ludwig, Cologne Missing Link, Museum of Arts, Bern, Switzerland Heaven, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany; Tate Gallery, Liverpool Mirror's Edge, Bild Museet, Umeå, Sweden; toured to Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada; Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy; Tramway, Glasgow; Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize, Photographers» Gallery, London In the Midst of Things, Bournville Village, Birmingham Secret Victorians, Arts Council Touring Exhibition, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Firstsite, Colchester; Arnolfini, Bristol; Middlesborough Art Gallery; Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton; Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA Sensation, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA 1998 Cinco Continentes y una Ciudad, Museo de la Ciudad de México, México D.F. Personal Effects; Sculpture & Belongings, Spacex Gallery, Exeter; toured to Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham Ethno - antics, Nordic Museum, Stockholm, Sweden Crossings, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada Liberating Tradition, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, New York, NY, USA Transatlantico, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Canary Islands, Spain Beyond Mere Likeness: Portraits from Africa and the African Diaspora, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina, NC, USA Global Vision; New Art from the»90s, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece 1997 Sensation: Young British Art from the Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London; toured to the National Gallery of Berlin, Germany and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA Portable Personal Histories Museum, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham Trade Routes: History and Geography, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa Transforming the Crown: African, Asian and Caribbean Artists in Britain, 1966 - 1996, Caribbean Cultural Center / African Diaspora Institute, New York, NY; Studio Museum, Harlem, NY; the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY, USA Pictura Britannica, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; toured to the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide and the City gallery, Wellington, New Zealand What, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London 1996 Pledge Allegiance to A Flag?

1999 Dressing Down, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; toured to Henie Onstad Art Centre, Norway; Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield; Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales (catalogue) Brent Sikkema, New York, USA

Traveled to: Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, April 14 — June 15, 1993; Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, July 24 — September 4, 1993.

Traveled to: Wiels, Brussels, September 23 — December 31, 2011; The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, March 18 — April 22, 2012; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, May 16 — July 8, 2012; Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, September 20 — November 11, 2012; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland, December 1, 2012 — February 17, 2013.

His work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at venues including Museum Dhondt - Dhaenens, Belgium and Musée d'art Contemporain de Montréal (2016); Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore and Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City (2015); Manchester Art Gallery and Centre for Contemporary Art, Derry (2014); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2012); Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich (2010); Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York (2010); Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2008); MUMOK, Vienna (2007) and the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco (2007).

2006 The word made flesh, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England 2005 Satyr: Ikon, Galleria Continua, San Gimigano, Italy The Fall, Sorry we're closed, Brussels, Belgium Hung, Drawn and Quartered, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA; toured to Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA (catalogue) The Fall, Sorry, We're Closed, Brussels, Belgium

Paul Ramírez Jonas» selected solo exhibitions include Pinacoteca do Estado, Sao Paulo, Brazil; The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut; The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas; a survey at Ikon Gallery (UK) and Cornerhouse (UK); Alexander Gray Gallery (NYC); Roger Björkholmen (Sweden); Nara Roesler Gallery (Brazil); and Postmasters Gallery (NYC).

1999 Love Bites, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK; touring to Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK Zac 99, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France Bildung - information, communication and didactics in contemporary fine arts, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria Getting the Corners, Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Shopping, London, (organised by FAT), England GREEN, Exedra (Foundation for Contemporary Art), Hilversum, Netherlands Plug In, Salon 3, London, England Word enough to save a life, Word enough to take a life, Clare College Mission Church, London, England Common People, British Art between Phenomenon and Reality, Fondazione Sandretto re Rebaudengo per L'arte, Torino, Italy Waste Management, Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada Free Coke, Greene / Naftali Gallery, New York, USA Ainsi de suite 3 (deuxième partie), Sétè, France Diary, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK Lè Grând Præmière Opénïng Shöw, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhacontemporary fine arts, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria Getting the Corners, Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Shopping, London, (organised by FAT), England GREEN, Exedra (Foundation for Contemporary Art), Hilversum, Netherlands Plug In, Salon 3, London, England Word enough to save a life, Word enough to take a life, Clare College Mission Church, London, England Common People, British Art between Phenomenon and Reality, Fondazione Sandretto re Rebaudengo per L'arte, Torino, Italy Waste Management, Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada Free Coke, Greene / Naftali Gallery, New York, USA Ainsi de suite 3 (deuxième partie), Sétè, France Diary, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK Lè Grând Præmière Opénïng Shöw, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, CopenhaContemporary Art), Hilversum, Netherlands Plug In, Salon 3, London, England Word enough to save a life, Word enough to take a life, Clare College Mission Church, London, England Common People, British Art between Phenomenon and Reality, Fondazione Sandretto re Rebaudengo per L'arte, Torino, Italy Waste Management, Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada Free Coke, Greene / Naftali Gallery, New York, USA Ainsi de suite 3 (deuxième partie), Sétè, France Diary, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK Lè Grând Præmière Opénïng Shöw, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark

Recent solo exhibitions and projects include «Down Over Up», Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (2010); «Ballet Work No. 1020», Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh (2010); «Things», The Common Guild, Glasgow (2010); «Work No. 409», Royal Festival Hall, London (2010); Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima (2009); Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2008) and the Duveen Commission, Tate Britain, London (2008).

Solo exhibitions of Lee Bul's work have been organized at museums throughout the world, including Artsonje Center, Seoul (2016); Vancouver Art Gallery (2015); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2015); Espai d'art contemporani de Castelló, Castellón, Spain (2015); Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Saint - Etienne Métropole, France (2015); National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (2014); Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom (2014); Musée d'Art Moderne Grand - Duc Jean, Luxembourg (2013); Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2012); Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris (2007); Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney (2004); Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2003); The Power Plant, Toronto (2002); New Museum, New York (2002); The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia (2001); and The Museum of Modern Art, New York (1997).

This exhibition is the fruit of several years of joint curatorship and enthusiasm on behalf of Espai d'art contemporani de Castelló, Ikon Gallery from Birmingham, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo and the Japan Foundation.

He has had solo exhibitions at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, U.K.; Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland; Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland; Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow; Kuntshalle Wien, Vienna, Austria; and the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, among others.

Hannah Collins» career began in the UK, and her institutional recognition has been marked by solo exhibitions at Ikon Gallery, 1988; ICA London 1989; Chisenhale Gallery, 1996; Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, 1996; Contemporary Art Centre, Glasgow, 1996; as well as a nomination for The Turner Prize in 1993.

2008 Heralded as the new black, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK Heralded as the new black, South London Gallery, London, UK Something Vague, St Gallen Kunstverein, Switzerland, CH Something Vague, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, DE How I learnt to use my senses, how I learnt to think and how I learnt to feel, Taro Nasu Gallery, Tokyo, JP Championed by Rigour, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, US And it came to life, Marz Galleria, Lisbon, PT Basquiat, STORE Gallery, London, UK 2007 GHOSTWRITER SUBTEXT (TOWARDS A SIGNIFICANTLY MORE PLAUSIBLE INTERROBANG), Taro Nasu Gallery, Tokyo, JP More than the weight of your shadow, DAIWA Press Viewing Room, Hiroshima, JP Passengers, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, US Short cut through the trees, MUMOK, Vienna, AT The Last Work, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam NL Of Any Actual Person, Living or Dead (with Aurélien Froment), STORE, London, UK 2006 Ryan Gander, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, IT Ghostwriter Subtext, Premier Container, Art Basel Premier with STORE, Miami, US Didactease, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, USCinema Verso, Whitechapel East Wing, London, UK Spencer, forget about good, Art Basel Unlimited with Annet Gelink Gallery, Basel, CH The title taken from reading that book (with George Henry Longly), Elisabeth Kauffman, Zurich, CH Is This Guilt In You Too --(The study of a car in a field), MUMOK, Vienna, AT Your clumsiness is the next man's stealth, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL Nine Projects for the Pavilion de l'Esprit Nouveau, MAMbo, GAM, Bologna, IT

Hannah has exhibited widely across Canada and internationally, including exhibitions at the Samsung LEEUM Museum, Seoul; Prague Biennial; Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Zendai MoMA, Shanghai; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Koffler Centre of the Arts, Toronto; and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham.

* Secret Victorians: Contemporary Artists and a Nineteenth - Century Vision, The Minorities Art Gallery, Colchester, England; Traveled To: Arnolfini, Bristol, England; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England; Middlesbrough Art Gallery, Middlesbrough, England; UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA; The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA; Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY.

Ink on paper; Inscribed «For Dwight, Love From David H., L.A. 1979» in ink on recto; Provenance: Louis Stern Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA; Posner Gallery, Milwaukee, WI; Ikon Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Douglas Udell Gallery; Gallery tags on verso Image: 17 x 14 inches; Framed: 24.5 x 21.5 inches; Estimate: $ 30,000 / $ 40,000

In 2007, along with Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham who joined together to become the West Midlands Consortium they are one of 5 consortium's in the UK to be awarded the # 1 million Art Fund International award to purchase international contemporary art over the following 5 years, under the theme of the Metropolis - an interim exhibition Metropolis of acquisitions was launched in the Autumn of 2010.

1997 Sensation: Young British Art from the Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London; toured to the National Gallery of Berlin, Germany and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA 1997 Portable Personal Histories Museum, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham 1997 Trade Routes: History and Geography, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa 1997 Transforming the Crown: African, Asian and Caribbean Artists in Britain, 1966 - 1996, Caribbean Cultural Center / African Diaspora Institute, New York, NY; Studio Museum, Harlem, NY; the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY, USA Pictura Britannica, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; toured to the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide and the City gallery, Wellington, New Zealand 1997 What, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London, England

Ikon is a contemporary art venue and an educational charity established in 1964 in Birmingham, working to promote public engagement with contemporary art.

Paesaggio e appropriazione, MART, Rovereto (2014), Studio Matters, Fuitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh and SMAK, Gent (2013), HUM, MARCO, Vigo and Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome (2012), Il cuore in mano, Center of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, Torun, Poland; Dialoghi Con La Città, curated by Laura Cherubini, MAXXI, Roma (2008); Massimo Bartolini: Concert Room with Voice», D'Amelio Terras, New York (2008); Triple Loop, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK (2007) Massimo Bartolini, Museu Serralves, Oporto (2007).

Curators: Jonathan Watkins （ Director, Ikon Gallery ） Mizuho Kato （ Visiting Associate Professor, Museum of Osaka University ） Koichi Kawasaki （ Chief Curator / Assistant Director, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art ） Yuko Hasegawa （ Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo ） Lorenza Barboni （ Director, Espai d'art contemporani de CastellÓ ） (MOT Venue Program) Akio Seki (Senior Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo ）

His work has been widely exhibited in solo shows, among them «Studio Matters», Fuitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh and SMAK, Gent (2013), HUM, MARCO, Vigo e Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome (2012), «Il cuore in mano», Center of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, Torun, Poland; «Dialoghi Con La Città», curated by Laura Cherubini, MAXXI, Roma (2008); «Massimo Bartolini: Concert room with voices», D'Amelio Terras, New York (2008); «Triple loop», Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK (2007) «Massimo Bartolini», Museu Serralves, Oporto (2007).

Ikon Gallery, Birmingham: Exhibition, Hamish Fulton: Walk, 15 February - 22 April 2012 in collaboration with Turner Contemporary, Margate 17 January - 7 May 2012 - # 8,000

Clients include Schinkel Pavillon (Berlin), Vancouver Art Gallery, The Vinyl Factory UK, Burnaby Art Gallery, Walter Phillips Gallery at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, SFU Galleries, Simon Fraser University, Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, White Columns (New York), Hauser & Wirth (Zürich), Lisson Gallery (London), The Power Plant (Toronto), University of British Columbia, Art Gallery of Alberta, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Ikon Gallery (Birmingham), Presentation House Gallery, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Or Gallery, Museu Picasso (Barcelona), Seattle Art Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston), University of California (Berkeley), and The Museum of Modern Art (New York).

Located here is a small but significant gallery, Eastside Projects which along with Ikon attracts both British and international contemporary artists to exhibit in the city.

The successful collective has exhibited widely at international museums and biennales, including the Biennale de Lyon (2013), the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (2012), Hayward Gallery (2012), Kiev Biennale (2012), Ikon Gallery (2010), and S.M.A.K. (2009), among others.

The original installation was commissioned by Ruya Foundation for Contemporary Culture in Iraq (RUYA), established in 2012 to promote culture in Iraq, and was curated by Jonathan Watkins, Director of Ikon Gallery, Birmingham.

Solo exhibitions include National Portrait Gallery, London (2011), IVAM, Neues Museum, Nuremburg, Germany (2003), Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK (2001), Kunstverein Hannover, Germany (1994) and Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (1985).

Other notable solo exhibitions include Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (2011 - 12); Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland (2010); Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2009); and Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2007).

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Shearer's work has been exhibited worldwide, recent solo exhibitions include: De Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam, 2007; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 2007; The Power Plant, Toronto, 2007; Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, 2006; Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, 2005; Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, 2005; and Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2004.

Through a variety of talks, tours, workshops and seminars, our Learning team aims to build a meaningful relationship with Ikon's audience that enables visitors to engage with, discuss and reflect on contemporary art.