Curated by Jens Hoffmann

Jonathan Monk loves first-generation Conceptualists like family: unconditionally and without compunction about teasing them for their foibles. The autobiographical tilt of the British artist’s output ensures its comic, critical impurity, whether in photographs taken on a car journey with his mother whenever she checked the route, wall texts inviting the viewer to dubious future assignations, or animations of both Sol LeWitt’s gouache cubes and a Rubik’s Cube. Monk’s first London retrospective will repurpose the ICA’s lower gallery as storage and its upper gallery as a daily-changing display space, destabilizing the institution while showcasing the bulk of his nimble historical maneuvers. An accompanying catalogue features an interview between Monk and Hoffmann.

— Martin Herbert