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The Modern Institute The Modern Institute is a contemporary visual art gallery founded in Glasgow in 1997.

Dike Blair
Dirk Bell
Martin Boyce
Julia Chiang
Jeremy Deller
Alex Dordoy
Duggie Fields
Urs Fischer
Kim Fisher
Luke Fowler
Martino Gamper
Marco Giordano
Henrik Håkansson
Mark Handforth
Thomas Houseago
Richard Hughes
William E. Jones
Chris Johanson
Andrew Kerr
Liz Larner
Jim Lambie
Victoria Morton
Scott Myles
Nicolas Party
Toby Paterson
Simon Periton
Manfred Pernice
Walter Price
Mary Redmond
Eva Ro

thschild
Monika Sosnowska
Simon Starling
Katja Strunz
Tony Swain
Spencer Sweeney
Joanne Tatham & Tom O’Sullivan
Pádraig Timoney
Sue Tompkins
Hayley Tompkins
Cathy Wilkes
Michael Wilkinson
Richard Wright
Gregor Wright

Openings taking place as part of this year's Glasgow International program as well as projects around the city featuring...
03/06/2026

Openings taking place as part of this year's Glasgow International program as well as projects around the city featuring the gallery's artists!

Thursday 4 June:

6–8pm
Luke Fowler
A Sensation Never Yet Known
GLOSS (Glasgow Library of Synthesised Sound)
5 Florence Street, G5 0YX

Friday 5 June:

10AM–5pm
Sue Tompkins
Giveth & Takeaway
Studio 32
32 Washington Street, G3 8AZ

4–6pm
Alberta Whittle .mongrel
The Ocean’s Edge
Invisible Dust
Kelvin Hall Cinema, G3 8AW

6–9pm
Richard Hughes & Sue Tompkins
New Waves
Transmission
28 King Street, G1 5QP

Saturday 6 June:

6–8pm
France-Lise McGurn
I only have apple juice... (group show)
Curated by France-Lise McGurn & John Douglas Miller
Bonny doesn’t live at home .dontliveathome
The Coach House, 12 Sydenham Lane, G12 9EU

From 7.30PM
Sue Tompkins
At The Foot, At The Belt, Of The Raincoat
Presented by Jim Lambie & Martin Boyce
The Poetry Club 100 Eastvale Pl, G3 8QG

David Wojnarowicz 'some day this will all be crumbling ruins' opens at our Carlton Place gallery tomorrow, Thursday 4 Ju...
03/06/2026

David Wojnarowicz 'some day this will all be crumbling ruins' opens at our Carlton Place gallery tomorrow, Thursday 4 June, 3–5pm.

Pictured:

David Wojnarowicz, Jean Genet Ma********ng in Metteray Prison (London Broil), 1983, Silkscreen on supermarket poster, 84.46 x 63.5 cm

We are delighted to be presenting work by Cathy Wilkes at this year's Art Basel . This sculpture was part of an untitled...
03/06/2026

We are delighted to be presenting work by Cathy Wilkes at this year's Art Basel . This sculpture was part of an untitled installation first shown in the British Pavilion at the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia – 2019.

On view 16 - 21 June at Booth R3.

Pictured:

Cathy Wilkes, Untitled, 2019 (detail), Mixed Media, Dimensions variable

Opening tomorrow as part of !A Sensation Never Yet Known is a new work by Luke Fowler (). It explores the history of ele...
03/06/2026

Opening tomorrow as part of !

A Sensation Never Yet Known is a new work by Luke Fowler (). It explores the history of electronic music in Scotland through a film portrait of Janet Beat, a pioneering composer and educator whose contribution has been overlooked until recently. Filming the now 88 year-old Beat over the course of a year, Fowler uses film as a medium that attests to presence: of Beat in the here and now, of the camera within her domestic space, and of her life’s work within the larger context of experimental music. Rather than a biographical or narrative work, A Sensation Never Yet Known weaves together moments of conversation. We hear Beat recount her childhood experiences of listening to the natural world, her graphic scores for dancers and the obstacles she faced as a female composer of electronic music. If attentive listening has been central to her work, attentive listening and looking is the foundation of Fowler’s project as it traces the collected objects in Beat’s home, the natural world and animal life that surrounds her, and the ever-present potential in her musical scores.

Extending his long-standing interest in how cultural and political figures of the 1960s and 1970s are remembered, 'A Sensation Never Yet Known' also reflects Fowler’s practice as both an artist-filmmaker and a musician in his own right.

Outer Spaces have supported the artist, as a member of the Outer Spaces studio network, with production support for this new work.

‘A Sensation Never Yet Known’ by Luke Fowler
Presented by GLOSS ; curated by Dominic Paterson

📍GLOSS, 5 Florence Street, Glasgow
Preview, Thursday 4 June, 6 - 8pm
5 - 18 June, 22 – 24 June by appointment.

Images:

Luke Fowler, A Sensation Never Yet Known, 2026 (still)

‘The paintings are made and repeated till they’re finished. After a while I know what should be there: I start again ove...
03/06/2026

‘The paintings are made and repeated till they’re finished. After a while I know what should be there: I start again over and over. I can feel the speed of each action, which is fast and has no real duration — just the briefest moment compared to long periods of waiting and looking. It doesn’t feel like production, production is too aggressive — it feels like continuous preparation, and then eventually recognition when I see it.’ - Cathy Wilkes

Recent works by Cathy Wilkes’ paintings are on silk and linen panels primed with gum arabic and painted with pigments. They show subtly constructed landscapes and compositions of hypostatic objects. Rather than focussing on the visual, their creation is iterative and conceptually led. Wilkes finds a correlative to the interior relationships of her installations, with their careful negotiations of space and placement, on the painted surface.

We will open an exhibition of new work by Wilkes tomorrow. The preview is from 6-8pm.

Pictured:

Cathy Wilkes, Leaving and coming back, 2025, Pigment, gum arabic, paper and rice paste on silk and linen, 102 x 96 x 3.7 cm

Times of our exhibition previews taking place on Thursday 4 June at The Modern Institute, part of 2026!3–5pm David Wojn...
02/06/2026

Times of our exhibition previews taking place on Thursday 4 June at The Modern Institute, part of 2026!

3–5pm
David Wojnarowicz
some day this will all be crumbling ruins
48 Carlton Place, G5 9TW

5.30–7.30pm
Victoria Morton
Hitting The Lift
14–20 Osborne Street, G1 5QN

6–8pm
Cathy Wilkes
1 & 3 Aird’s Lane, G1 5HU

David Wojnarowicz 'some day this will all be crumbling ruins' opens at our Carlton Place gallery on Thursday 4 June, 3–5...
02/06/2026

David Wojnarowicz 'some day this will all be crumbling ruins' opens at our Carlton Place gallery on Thursday 4 June, 3–5pm, part of 2026.

The exhibition comprises photography, writing, moving image, and paintings by Wojnarowicz made throughout the 1980s and early 1990s until his passing from AIDS-related illness in 1992. Wojnarowicz lived in New York City’s East Village, and many of the works illuminate his friendships and relationships with fellow downtown artists including Peter Hujar, Kiki Smith, and Andreas Sterzing.

The gallery will host works made by Wojnarowicz in and around the piers located on the Hudson River waterfront of lower Manhattan. In the 1970s and early 1980s, the piers became a popular cruising spot and meeting place for artists and the gay community in the ruins of the city’s industrial past. Wojnarowicz was attracted to the erotic charge of these spaces as a place for meaning to exist.

Pictured:

Andreas Sterzing, David Wojnarowicz (Silence=Death); New York, 1989/2025, Gelatin silver print, Image: 57.1 x 44.5 cm, 22 1/2 x 17 1/2 in, Print: 61 x 50.8 cm, 24 x 20 in

Victoria Morton's 'Hitting The Lift' opens at our Osborne Street gallery on Thursday 4 June, 5.30–7.30pm, part of 2026....
02/06/2026

Victoria Morton's 'Hitting The Lift' opens at our Osborne Street gallery on Thursday 4 June, 5.30–7.30pm, part of 2026.

A key aspect of Victoria Morton’s exhibition is the artist’s ability to draw apparently disparate elements together, allowing space for correspondences and associations across media. The presentation mixes paintings – some dense and busy with activity, others spare and focussed, holding or framing more singular gestures – with a listening zone where visitors can take in new music via tape decks and headphones.

Experimentation, accumulation and layering unite these musical and visual practises. Both are the result of accreted influences and their ambience is infused with the artist’s studio and its surrounds. The paintings come first, with the listening area located at the end of the gallery. They vary in size, density and format – some mimicking the vertical formats of East Asian ink wash paintings while others correspond more closely to the scale of Post-War abstraction. Many feature collaged items and studio objects, with dried oil paint, clothes pegs, sections of aluminium, or additional canvas populating their varied surfaces. They feel part of the world, rather than a window out of it. Letters are occasionally discernible too. Some have a hint of a Rorschach test, with silhouettes mirrored and pigmented areas soaking into the canvas and blooming.

Pictured:

Victoria Morton, Field Recording, 2026, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 230 x 220 x 3 cm

Wishing Simon Starling a Happy Birthday!Last autumn, Simon presented a solo exhibition at Abbot Hall, Lakeland Arts. The...
30/05/2026

Wishing Simon Starling a Happy Birthday!

Last autumn, Simon presented a solo exhibition at Abbot Hall, Lakeland Arts. The exhibition brought together nearly all Starling’s works in which ‘the boat’ acts as the central character in stories of migration, metamorphosis, and change.

Simon’s work is a process of physical and historical unravelling, where objects are transformed to trace their layered journeys and material histories. Through this act of metamorphosis, Starling’s projects disrupt our assumptions about art and design, showing how an object’s transformation can critically re-write the prevailing narratives of our shared past. This poetic act of material and contextual shift lies at the heart of Starling’s practice.

Images:

(1, 3) Simon Starling, Autoxylopyrocycloboros, 2006 (2, 5, 8-9) Installation view ‘Boat Works’, Lakeland Arts, Kendal, 2025 (4) Simon Starling, Island For Weeds, 2003 (6-7) Simon Starling, Project for a Rift Valley CrossingA canoe built with magnesium extracted from Dead Sea water and used on the 30th of November 2016 in an attempted crossing of the Dead Sea from Israel to Jordan, 2015-2017 (still) (10) Simon Starling (with Yasuo Miichi), Self Portrait (as Henry Moore), 2011

In 2012, Victoria Morton presented ‘Tapestry (RADIO ON)’ at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston following a resi...
30/05/2026

In 2012, Victoria Morton presented ‘Tapestry (RADIO ON)’ at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston following a residency in 2009.

During her residency in the Museum’s galleries, Morton immersed herself in the collections of paintings and rare books, engaging with the Old Masters in the Museum and with Isabella Gardner’s distinctive and idiosyncratic installations.

Victoria Morton 'Hitting The Lift' will open at our Osborne Street gallery on Thursday 4 June, 5.30–7.30pm, as part of .

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