Visit - Ikon

Ikon is an internationally acclaimed art gallery situated in central Birmingham.

Housed in a magnificent Grade II listed neo-gothic school building, the gallery features temporary exhibitions over two floors, alongside Ikon Shop and Café.

IKON GALLERY

Entry to Ikon is free. The gallery shows work by artists from around the world and a variety of media is represented, including sound, film, mixed media, photography, painting, sculpture and installation. Donations welcome.

OPENING TIMES
Open Tuesday – Sunday and Bank Holiday Mondays, 11am-5pm

PHONE
0121 248 0708

IKON SHOP

Ikon Shop is Birmingham’s only specialist art bookshop, stocking a range of books, cards, artists’ limited editions and gifts. Ikon is a charity and all purchases support the gallery’s exhibition and education programme. You can also shop online.

OPENING TIMES
Monday, 9am – 4pm
Tuesday – Sunday, 10am – 5pm and Bank Holiday Mondays

PHONE
0121 248 0708

Yorks Café at Ikon

Visit our café and enjoy all day brunch and speciality coffee inside or or out on the large terrace area. Yorks offers a wide range of house-baked cakes, loose leaf teas, craft beers and wine.

OPENING TIMES
Monday – Friday & Sunday, 8am – 4.30pm
Saturday, 8am – 5.30pm

Yorks Café at Ikon

PHONE
0121 309 0011

FREE DIGITAL GUIDE

Explore Ikon with our free digital guide on Bloomberg Connects, the arts and culture App.

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ACCESS & SAFETY

Ikon is fully accessible with a range of facilities to make your visit enjoyable. We have guidelines for all our activities to ensure a safe experience for everyone who visits, offering hand sanitisers throughout and enhanced cleaning of the building.

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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Exhibition 27.08.2024–30.03.2025

Jaskirt Dhaliwal-Boora

Green Spaces, at grounded. Hall Green.

Ikon and Living Well Consortium collaborate to raise awareness of, and engagement with, topics centred on mental health and wellbeing. Birmingham-born artist Jaskirt Dhaliwal-Boora has worked with communities in Erdington, taking photographic portraits against the backdrop of the city’s green spaces, and exploring the benefits of nature to our health.

Exhibition 20.03.2025–01.06.2025

Mahtab Hussain

What Did You Want To See?

British artist Mahtab Hussain explores the fine line between photographic documentation and surveillance culture, addressing the intelligence sites established by the media and the state to monitor the Muslim community in Britain.

Exhibition 20.03.2025–01.06.2025

Htein Lin

Escape

Ikon presents a major solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Htein Lin from Myanmar. Evoking his lifelong commitment to documenting human experience in difficult times, it shows a comprehensive selection of the artist’s paintings made while he was a political prisoner from 1998 to 2004 on prison uniforms and found textile, alongside drawing, sculpture, video and new work.

Exhibition 27.03.2025–16.06.2025

Tomoko Yoneda

At the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London

Curated by Melanie Pocock, Ikon Artistic Director (Exhibitions), this show presents a selection of photography by London-based Japanese artist Tomoko Yoneda, produced over the past thirty years. It is shown at the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation.