In Caligola, Pessoli made a beautiful and macabre animation from thousands of his watercolour and ink drawings over a period of four years.(10 mins 30 secs)
Saturday...
An adult fan of Snow White dresses up as her heroine – and is promptly banned from Disneyland. Security guards and management try to explain why this multi-national...
In the run up to Halloween, the working-class suburbs of Detroit become a nightmarish home-grown theme-park – kitchens are turned into tombs, “bodies” are cut up...
This major survey of contemporary British art is held every five years, generating intense speculation around the selection of artists, the ideas it will advance and the...
An investigation by The New Art Exchange and the Centre for Contemporary Art Nottingham
In 2007, two hundred years after the slave trade was abolished in what was then...
In partnership with the Broadway Media Centre we traced the legacy of 1968, the year when the underground went overground, and mass protests erupted across Europe and the...
Peter Watkins is Britain’s most uncompromising political filmmaker of the last 50 years. Nottingham Contemporary collaborated with Broadway Cinema to present a...
The artists in this exhibition are taking part in a séance, establishing contact with Lord Byron, both as he was in his lifetime, and as he might be today. It is an...
Olivia Plender presented her video Bring Back Robin Hood in the Picture Gallery at Nottingham Castle as part of Disclosures II: The Middles Ages. The video weaves...
Disclosures II was part of Nottingham Contemporary’s Histories of the Present, our year long series of exhibitions and events in historically significant places in and...
Vito Acconci, Shaina Anand, Atelier Van Lieshout, Angela Bulloch, Chris Evans, Harun Farocki, Dan Graham, Group d’Information sur les Prisons, Mona Hatoum, Thomas...
While our building was being finished in the summer 2009, we showed two exhibitions in our main window, overlooking Weekday Cross in the Lace Market.
Josephine...
Frances Stark is one of the most intriguing artists to have emerged from the vibrant Los Angeles art scene in the last two decades. Visually her stylish collages are...
We commissioned the artist Pablo Bronstein to create a 21st century take on a “cabinet of curiosities” or wunderkammer – the root of the modern museum.
Four...
Downloadable publications, texts and essays that extend the themes in our exhibition programme. Written by international curators, academics and cultural commentators....
Hockney in the 60s was that rare thing – an artist at the forefront of the avant-garde of the day, and a well-known public figure. With his Yorkshire accent, bleached...
Parade reflects Leckey’s interests in music, fashion and the male dandy. Gigantic images of both high fashion and street culture fill the screens in this feverish...
A magician pulls seemingly random images from his pocket, including family photographs, playing cards and film stills, arranging and rearranging them in mid air. ...
A feature-length documentary on the young Southern Californian Latinos who idolise Morrissey and his former band The Smiths. The film makes revealing links between the...
Morgan Fisher collected strips of film while working in Hollywood. Narrative features, news footage, adverts and trailers were then filmed in a single continuous shot....
These seven short films use a DIY aesthetic to portray dramatic natural phenomena. With a nod to school science projects tin-foil meteors fly down visible threads in a...
Des Hughes
The two largest cabinets contain a new exhibition by Des Hughes, who has gathered an eccentric and engaging collection of found objects, including “antlers,...
Eija-Riitta Berliner-Mauer describes herself as an “objectum sexualist”, meaning that she is “emotionally and sexually attracted to objects.” In 1979 she married...
Diane Arbus is one of the most important photographers of the twentieth century, an influential figure whose compellingly honest style of photography paved the way for...
Gert and Uwe Tobias’ large woodcuts, gouache paintings, typewriter drawings and ceramic sculptures combine influences from traditional folk art and abstract art from...
Subtitles is an episode of the Swedish children’s television programme Det Bara Hander from 1972, with a commentary by Anders Kreuger. Viewing the programme as an...
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