Night in the Museum: Ryan Gander Curates the Arts Council Collection

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For the exhibition Gander has selected artworks which appear to be involved in the act of looking. He has presented these works so that they appear to gaze at works featuring the colour blue; a colour which is important in Gander’s work, and which for him represents the abstract ideas often found in modern and contemporary art.

Gander’s approach will provide an entirely fresh view of the Arts Council Collection and of modern and contemporary British art. His show will challenge traditional methods of selection, prompting us to rethink the role of the curator, the art object and the spectator. 

The exhibition will represent the work of over thirty artists, including Reg Butler, Patrick Caulfield, Jacob Epstein, Roger Hiorns, Henry Moore, Ben Nicholson, Kerry Stewart, Wolfgang Tillmans and Rebecca Warren. Also included are major loans of work by artists including Angela Bulloch, Matthew Darbyshire, Don Brown, Mario García Torres and Thomas Houseago. One of the commissions, As old as time itself, slept alone, by Ryan Gander will be presented as part of this exhibition.

This exhibition is part of the Arts Council Collection National Partners Programme supported by Arts Council England. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery is one of four National Partners hosting exhibitions drawn from the Collection over the coming three years.