Private View: New Contemporaries 2026: Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, UK
Forthcoming event
Overview
Join us for the opening of New Contemporaries at MIMA, Middlesbrough, Thursday 14 May 2026:
4:30 - 7:00pm: Exhibition preview
4.30 - 5pm: Quiet viewing
5.30pm: Introduction speeches
6.00pm: Artists’ spotlight tours begin
6.00pm: Food trucks open
7pm - 12am: New Contemporaries Opening Party at Auxiliary Project Space, featuring a programme by pioneering electronic music duo A Man Called Adam plus Performance Art, Teesside Dub, Smoggy Queens, Italo Disco and UTB.
The exhibiting artists are: Viviana Almas, Kat Anderson, Hadas Auerbach, Timon Benson, Lakshya Bhargava, William Braithwaite, River Yuhao Cao, Ali Cook, Shaun Doyle, Ally Fallon, Samantha Fellows, Alia Gargum, Oliver Getley, Makiko Harris, Manuel Alejandro Hernandez Rivera, Deborah Lerner, Gregor Petrikovič, Will Pham, Isobel Shore, Maya Silverberg, Aaron Alexander Smyth, Christopher Steenson, Varvara Uhlik, Eliza Wagener, Benjamin Waters and Yimin Xiang.
4.30 - 5pm: Quiet viewing
5.30pm: Introduction speeches
6.00pm: Artists’ spotlight tours begin
6.00pm: Food trucks open
7pm - 12am: New Contemporaries Opening Party at Auxiliary Project Space, featuring a programme by pioneering electronic music duo A Man Called Adam plus Performance Art, Teesside Dub, Smoggy Queens, Italo Disco and UTB.
The exhibiting artists are: Viviana Almas, Kat Anderson, Hadas Auerbach, Timon Benson, Lakshya Bhargava, William Braithwaite, River Yuhao Cao, Ali Cook, Shaun Doyle, Ally Fallon, Samantha Fellows, Alia Gargum, Oliver Getley, Makiko Harris, Manuel Alejandro Hernandez Rivera, Deborah Lerner, Gregor Petrikovič, Will Pham, Isobel Shore, Maya Silverberg, Aaron Alexander Smyth, Christopher Steenson, Varvara Uhlik, Eliza Wagener, Benjamin Waters and Yimin Xiang.