Middlesbrough unveils spectacular new arts centre

26 January 2007

Middlesbrough today unveiled a spectacular new modern and contemporary art gallery for the Tees Valley and North East region, built with European support. Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (mima) is a £14.2 million project to which the European Regional Development Fund contributed £4.8 million. 'This is a great project that really puts Middlesbrough on the European map,' said Reijo Kemppinen, head of the European Commission's office in London. Now mima will provide a new home for a civic collection that includes works by David Hockney and Bridget Riley. The inaugural exhibition features works by Picasso, Matisse, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol and Joseph Beuys, along with contemporary British artists including Damien Hirst and Chris Ofili.

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