MK Gallery


MK Gallery is the municipal art gallery of Milton Keynes, a city in Buckinghamshire about 50 miles northwest of London. The gallery was extended and remodelled in 2018/19 and includes an art-house cinema. It does not have a permanent collection.

History

The gallery was founded in 1999 under the management of the Milton Keynes Theatre and Gallery Company.
The Gallery partially closed from 2015 to 2019 for a substantial expansion and renovation. The building now has five exhibition galleries, an auditorium/cinema and a studio.

Exhibitions

The more notable exhibitions presented by the gallery include:
1990s
  • Gilbert & George: The Rudimentary Pictures
2000s
  • Mark Francis: Elements
  • Richard Hamilton: New Technology and Printmaking
  • Printers inc.: Recent British Prints from the Arts Council and British Council Collections
  • Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2000
  • Alison Turnbull: Houses into Flats
  • Layla Curtis
  • Richard Wright
  • Conversation: An Exhibition of Figurative Sculpture
  • Richard Ross: Gathering Light
  • Jan Dibbets: Ten Cupolas
  • John Riddy: Recent Work
  • FaceOn
  • Mark Wallinger: Cave
  • Marta Marcé: New Work
  • Abigail Lane: Tomorrow’s World, Yesterday’s Fever
  • Andy Warhol: Cars
  • The Silbury Group: 10th Anniversary Exhibition
  • Art Crazy Nation Show, Curated by Matthew Collings
  • Dalziel + Scullion: Home
  • Tim Noble & Sue Webster: Ghastly Arrangements
  • Air Guitar: Art Reconsidering Rock Music
  • Jiri Georg Dokoupil: Every Cloud is a Way
  • Boyd Webb: Horse & Dog
  • Georgie Hopton: Laughed – I Could Have Cried
  • Sarah Lucas, Colin Lowe & Roddy Thomson: Temple of Bacchus
  • Boyd & Evans: Landmarks
2010s
2020s
  • MK Calling 2020
  • Memphis: Plastic Field
  • Laura Knight: A Panoramic View
  • Ingrid Pollard: Carbon Slowly Turning
  • Vivian Maier: Anthology
  • Larry Achiampong: Wayfinder
  • Trickster Figures: Sculpture and the Body
  • Boyd & Evans: High Time
  • Beyond the Page: South Asian Miniature Painting and Britain, 1600 to Now
  • Saul Leiter: An Unfinished World
  • Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour

    Current and former directors

  • Stephen Snoddy
  • Michael Stanley
  • Anthony Spira

    Cinema

The top floor of the gallery has a multi-purpose auditorium overlooking Campbell Park. In its cinema configuration, the auditorium shows international films curated by Curzon Cinemas, as well as live-streamed National Theatre and Royal Opera House performances.