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Previous exhibitions

Marc Bijl, <cite>Iraqi Stars (proposal for a monument)</cite>, 2007, Polystyrene, paint, concrete plaster, warning tape 490 x 368 x 100 cm. Courtesy of the artist and The Breeder, Athens
Marc Bijl, Iraqi Stars (proposal for a monument), 2007, Polystyrene, paint, concrete plaster, warning tape 490 x 368 x 100 cm. Courtesy of the artist and The Breeder, Athens

ICA exhibitions since August 2006.

Loris Gréaud
25 April - 22 June 2008
The young French artist's first UK solo show, part of his ongoing Cellar Door project drawing on interweaving interests in architecture, music and science.

Double Agent
13 February - 6 April 2008
A group exhibition with artists who use other people as a medium, creating works which are often slippery in meaning or disquieting in effect.

Emily Wardill
5 December 2007 - 27 January 2008
Continuous screening of a new short film, Sick Serena and Dregs and Wreck and Wreck.

Peter Hujar
5 December 2007 - 27 January 2008
The first UK solo show for one of the most important and influential New York photographers of the 1970s and 1980s.

Enrico David
27 September - 11 November 2007
The first major public exhibition by one of Britain's most original artists includes paintings, works on paper, sculptures and vitrines, as well as two large-scale installations.

Insider Art: Art from the Koestler Awards Scheme
12 July - 9 September 2007
Paintings and sculpture by prisoners and inmates at young offender institutions, high-security psychiatric hospitals, secure units and immigration removal centres.

Memorial to the Iraq War
23 May - 27 June 2007
Twenty-six artists from around the world present proposals for a memorial to the Iraq War, addressing the invasion and occupation of the country, its slide into civil war and the conflict's relation to global jihadism and the War on Terror.

The Secret Public, The Last Days of the British Underground 1978 - 1988
23 March - 6 May 2007
A disquieting, playful, and intensely urban exhibition examining the dark flowering of creativity in the UK between 1978 and 1988.

Tino Sehgal, This Success or This Failure
29 January - 4 March 2007
For the final part of his trilogy of solo shows at the ICA, Sehgal presented a constantly changing piece, titled either This Success or This Failure.

Alien Nation
17 November 2006 - 14 January 2007
Science fiction, race and contemporary art collide in the work of twelve contemporary international artists.

Cerith Wyn Evans: take my eyes and through them see you
20 September - 29 October 2006
Evans' first solo public exhibition in the UK was a set of entirely new works in direct response to the history, location and architectural particularities of the ICA itself.

Surprise, Surprise
2 August 2006 - 10 September 2006
Forty high-profile artists displaying pieces atypical of the work for which they are best known.

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