[5] Notable exhibitions during Kalmár's tenure include presentations on and collaborations with artists and curators such as Chris Kraus and Julie Ault, Danh Vo, Bernadette Corporation, Cameron Rowland, Laura Poitras, Zilia Sánchez, Lukas Duwenhögger, Marc Camille Chaimowicz and The Estate of Charlotte Posenenske.
[8] In 2012, Kalmár introduced a second location, Artists Space Books & Talks, which has become a platform for critical discussion in contemporary art and culture.
[11] Under Kalmár's directorship, the ICA signed the No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge and became an accredited Living Wage employer.
[13] In an interview published in Frieze in 2017, Kalmár outlined his future ambitions for the ICA to be an organization that revitalizes the belief and the civic responsibility of cultural institutions by trying to create an organizational structure that not only disclaims its own contradictions but actively tries to overcome them.
[14] He oversaw exhibitions by Cameron Rowland and Forensic Architecture as well as retrospectives of work by Kathy Acker and Julie Becker.