This year marks fifty years since the Institute of Modern Art first opened its doors. For five decades, we’ve presented the latest contemporary art—connecting the local, national, and international, the established and the emergent—and offering a hub for the art life in Brisbane. We’ve navigated the chops, changes, and paradigm shifts that have marked the art of our times. To celebrate our fiftieth anniversary, we are presenting three public forums. The first two excavated our past; the last imagines our future. Join us for this final forum.

What will things be like in fifty years’ time. Will the ice caps have melted? Will First Nations sovereignty have been recognised? Will everything be run by AI? What will the current issues for art be? What form will the IMA take? Troy Casey and Owen Cafe from Blaklash, Sarah Poulgrain and Llewellyn Millhouse from Wreckers Artspace, and Dirk Yates and Tara Heffernan will present their visions for the future pecha-kucha style. Their presentations have been developed in consultation with story-thinking expert Joanne Anderton from the University of Queensland’s WhatIF Lab.

This is a free, seated event. All welcome. Please RSVP to confirm your attendance.

Stay on for our Annual House Party at 8pm.