Contemporary Exhibition-Making and Management

This book provides a unique insight into contemporary curation and management in an innovative London-based gallery.
Using a critical in-depth case study exploration of IMT art gallery's 'successes' and 'failures', it illustrates and evaluates contemporary issues and challenges in curatorial initiatives and exhibition-making strategies. IMT operates as a 'hybrid space', combining characteristics of both the commercial gallery sector with non-profit artist-led or garage spaces while retaining affiliations to academic teaching and research. This book explores its structure, behaviour, history, partnerships and exhibition programme through a variety of disciplinary lenses, bringing together cultural, creative, economic, and pedagogical perspectives, as well as the effect of recent sociocultural impacts of the global financial crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Research-based and thought-provoking, this study will be of great interest to researchers, advanced students and professionals in curatorial studies, museum and gallery management, and art markets.

Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson is a curator and Assistant Professor in Fine Art Critical Theory and Curatorial Practice at Northumbria University, UK.

1. Orientations 2. The Cult of Possible Elements 3. This is a Not-Me 4. Five Mouths that Form a Diagram of Desire 5. Hybrid Eggs and Deterritorialization 6. Gallery as Third Mind 7. Bric-à-brac and the Artist-Run 8. All Money Is Blood 9. Death 10. A View from Elsewhere 11. The Dream at the Periphery of the Centre 12. Collectivity and 'a Plan of Living' 13. The Long 1990s 14. 2008 15. Being Public: The Threshold and the Café 16. Dead Fingers Talk: A Place that Holds 17. Making a Fucking Mess of It 18. Curatorial Practice 19. Five Mouths Reprise 20. Ends