Based on Paper brings together an encyclopaedic collection of western avant-garde art from the 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition and catalogue will present selected works from the Marzona collection including drawing, painting, collage, video work and sculpture. The work in the exhibition has its quality in the consistent concentration on works of Minimal Art, Conceptual Art, Arte Povera, Performance Art and Land Art.

Artists include Art & Language, Carl Andre, Gordon Matta-Clark Gilbert and George, Richard Long, Bruce Nauman, Blinky Palermo and Robert Smithson.

Organised in partnership with the Kupferstichkabinett - Museum of Prints & Drawings, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. In further cooperation with the Kunstbibliothek and the Nationalgalerie SMB

This exhibition is drawn entirely from mima's permanent collection and presents almost a century of British painting. It includes the work of many of the finest artists of the modern era, including David Bomberg, Ivon Hitchens, Christopher Wood, Keith Vaughan, Joseph Herman, Leon Kossoff and Hughie O'Donoghue. The exhibition reflects on the way that artists engage with and utilise the character of a given place or situation: From urban to rural and from the surreal to the everyday. The wide ranging selection of works suggests that painters exploit the climate, terrain and nature of their depicted environments, real or imagined, to strengthen their ideas about the world we inhabit.

The sound work was built with voice, sleep-machine, electric organ, prepared recordplayer, melodion, homemade theremin, neon, cardboard, upright piano, accordion, palm tree, dymax pump, electric guitar, synthesizer, drumkit, delay, bandradio, chair, bucket, water, textile, shortwave radio receiver, sampler, electro-physiological instrument, custom-built percussion, distortion, dictaphones, blue box, reel-to-reel machine with 6.25 meter tapeloop, compact cooker, plywood, mdf, bottles, glamour box, acoustic guitar, handheld radio, fan organ, tremolo, found tape, Chinese hand drum, phaser, tabla machine, prepared 7" flexi, maracas, alto saxophone, hydrophone, portable PA-speaker, bicycle, sellotape, slide machine, mist machine, Swedish national air-raid alarm & feedback happenings.

Written assembled and recorded by Nina Canell & Robin Watkins

Photographs from mima's first year of opening, revealing the width and breadth of its education work with a range of audiences, documented by photographer Gilmar Ribeiro.

A limited edition postcard book of the work on show will be available in the shop for £2.00.