What's On in Glasgow Life

Featuring work by Joseph Beuys, Martin Boyce, Boyle Family, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alan Currall, Thomas Demand, Graham Fagen, Peter Hujar, Barbara Kruger, Emily Jacir, Patricia Macdonald, Joseph McKenzie, David Maljkovic, Chad McCail, Scott Myles, Toby Paterson, David Shrigley, Corin Sworn and Daphne Wright.

Tales of the City is an exhibition of artworks from the contemporary art collection brought together under the broad theme of art and the urban environment.

Responses to man-made urban spaces are a common theme for the artists represented here. This exhibition demonstrates how artists document cities as they change, how they re-imagine the urban spaces we live in and how they respond to details of such manmade environments and to the social or political incidents that take place within them.

This is the first of several new displays at GoMA celebrating our spectacular new Art Fund International purchases and displaying them alongside our existing collection. Examples of these new purchases included here are Fotoecke/Photobooth by Thomas Demand and Untitled (You have searched and destroyed) by Barbara Kruger. Since 2007, GoMA, in partnership with The Common Guild, Glasgow, has been spending £1 million on a world-class collection of art, creating an exciting international context for works from our UK collection.

This scheme, funded by the charity Art Fund, London, has so far enabled GoMA to purchase artworks by artists from Croatia, Germany, Holland, North America, Palestine and Switzerland.

Future Tales of the City exhibitions

Gallery 1: 20 July 2012 - 24 February 2013

Fiona Tan, Disorient

Gallery 2: 22 June 2012 - 23 June 2013

Featuring work by Derek Boshier, Rob Churm, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Alex Frost, David Hockney, Scott Myles , David Sherry and Simon Starling

Gallery 3: 8 June 2012 - 20 January

Featuring work by Eve Arnold, Frank Auerbach, Beagles & Ramsay, Matthew Buckingham, Kate Davis, Douglas Gordon, Roni Horn and Jo Spence