Philip Lumbang – New Arrival at the Unit 44 Gallery

‘New Arrival’ sees a number of landmark occasions moving forward as one between the artist & Unit 44 itself. First with Philip recently becoming a father he also becomes a new arrival himself with this being his first show within the UK. With regards to the gallery this marks the first US artist to grace the space as Unit 44 goes into its second year. Philip with LA collective The Hundreds. ‘Philip Lumbang...

Andrea Zittel – Lay of My Land opens 10 February at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art

BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art is showing a major exhibition of the work by the American artist Andrea Zittel. Born in Escondido, California in 1965, Zittel received a BFA in painting and sculpture from San Diego State University in 1988 and an MFA in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1990. She began her practice in New York in the early 1990s and established A-Z East, a small house in Brooklyn...

Between Dimensions: The representation of the object – Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

MIMA’s major winter exhibition Between Dimensions showcases still life works from Tate alongside selected objects from mima’s collection, to explore the concept of the still life in the last century. Important modern and contemporary artists including Pablo Picasso, David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein and Ben Nicholson are represented, alongside British ceramics and artworks from mima’s collection. The...

Elizabeth Price: Here – BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art

BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art  presents the first major solo show by British video-maker Elizabeth Price. The exhibition comprises of three works: Choir 2011, shown for the first time in its entirety, User Group Disco 2009 and the new West Hinder 2012. Price creates dense and immersive video installations that bring together image, text and music in apocalyptic, phantasmagorical narratives. She uses existing...

The Wonders of the Visible World at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art

The Wonders of the Visible World’ brings together 21 international artists who use photography and video to explore the relationship between the visible and the invisible worlds. The artists explore the ongoing potency of myth and illusion in the visual arts – finding that the world we imagine we know is far less secure than we might first believe. As all of the artists use lens-based media, they all...

Bani Abidi: Section Yellow at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art

BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead presents the first UK solo public exhibition of Pakistani artist Bani Abidi. Predominately working with photography and video, Abidi’s work highlights the changing parameters of nationhood and citizenship. The artist draws our attention to the relational, often sensitive space, between the citizen, the state and the individual. The body of work Section Yellow comprises...

The Turner Prize Goes To BALTIC In 2011

Tate and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art are delighted to announce that The Turner Prize will be presented at BALTIC in 2011. In 2007 the Prize was staged at Tate Liverpool as a curtain-raiser to Liverpool being European Capital of Culture in 2008. Following its success there, it has been decided that the Prize will be presented at Tate Britain and at a gallery outside London in alternate years. The first...

Mike Kelley and Michael Smith: A Voyage of Growth and Discovery at the Baltic

After its great success in New York and Los Angeles, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead is delighted to announce the UK premier of A Voyage of Growth and Discovery, a remarkable collaboration between renowned American artists and longtime friends Mike Kelley and Michael Smith. A Voyage of Growth and Discovery centres on Baby IKKI, a character developed by Smith for over thirty years. Here the pre-lingual...

Maurizio Anzeri at the Baltic Gateshead

BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead presents an exhibition of work by Italian artist Maurizio Anzeri from Saturday 25 June to Sunday 2 October. The exhibition includes a series of delicate portraits created from found photographs and hand embroidery alongside sculpture. Using individual and group portraits of unknown people from the 1930s and 1940s found in flea markets, Anzeri overlays meticulously...

Robert Breer: Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead

BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead and Museum Tinguely,Baselare organising a major exhibition of the work of painter, filmmaker and sculptor Robert Breer. Born inDetroitin 1926, Breer is one of the most ground-breaking and celebrated animators in history. This will be his most comprehensive exhibition to date, spanning two floors at BALTIC with work from 1950 to the present day. The son of an amateur 3D...