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The Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) is the main gallery of contemporary art in Glasgow, Scotland.. GoMA offers a programme of temporary exhibitions and workshops. GoMA displays work by local and international artists as well as addressing contemporary social issues through its major biannual projects.
Based in the heart of Glasgow City Centre, the Glasgow Gallery of Modern art is a neo-classical building offering temporary exhibitions, featuring work by local, national and international artists. The building was built as a townhouse for a tobacco trader. [ 6 ]
In 2015, Glasgow City Council tested hi-tech CCTV software worth £1.2m, checking to see whether it could automatically detect people putting cones on the statue, which it could. [17] On Brexit Day (31 January 2020), pro-European supporters placed a cone painted to represent the EU flag on the statue's head. [18]
The Galleries housed Glasgow School of Art from 1869 to 1899. [5] In October 1986, the shop frontage building housing the Galleries was ravaged by fire, [6] but they re-opened in 1990 as the largest quality, climate-controlled, temporary exhibition gallery in Scotland. They continue to be the largest exhibition space in the city-centre.
This exhibition was accompanied by a catalogue with essays by Simon Critchley, Heike Munder and Slavoj Zizek. [16] The video work shown, titled 'New Meat', was acquired for the Gallery of Modern Art/Glasgow City Museums Collection in 2010. [17]
The city was host to the three Great Exhibitions at Kelvingrove Park, in 1888 (International Exhibition), 1901 (Glasgow International Exhibition) and 1911 (Scottish Exhibition, Art and Industry). It later hosted the Empire Exhibition in 1938 and the Industrial exhibits of the Festival of Britain at the Kelvin Hall in 1951.