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Film Selection Leckey 03
events - Film
Film Selection Leckey 03
28 May 2013
7pm Free The Space Editors Lucy Mercer and Lauren Houlton, introduce Westworld – a thriller starring Yul Brynner as an android in a futuristic Western-themed...
Selected Touring Programme 2013
events - Film
Selected Touring Programme 2013
29 May 2013
7pm Free The Space Brought together by the artists shortlisted for the Jarman Award 2012, Selected is a showcase of some of the best emerging film and video...
Family Weekends
events - Family Events
Family Weekends
01 June 2013 - 30 June 2013
Borrow a BagEvery day during the exhibitionFree, Available from ReceptionThese little bags of wonder offer families practical and playful ways to explore and enjoy the...
Sunday Jazz
events - Live
Sunday Jazz
02 June 2013
From 10am - Live Jazz from 1pm Free EntrySunday Jazz is the ultimate in contemporary Jazz, Electronica, and Avant Garde.Beginning at 10am with resident Djs Alex Traska...
I know that fantasies...
events - Talks
I know that fantasies...
04 June 2013
6.30pm - 8pm Free The Space Artist David Raymond Conroy examines how our experiences of images, from online advertising to Hollywood cinema, affect our...
Alastair Smith
events - Gallery Tours
Alastair Smith
05 June 2013
1 - 1.45pm Free Alastair Smith, Lecturer in Psychology, The University of Nottingham, will read the show based on how we recognize objects and how or why we attach...
Pentatronix
events - Live
Pentatronix
07 June 2013
Friday 7 June. Doors at 8pmThe Space Tickets £8 in advance / £10 on the doorTickets are available from our Reception, Alley Cafe, The Music Exchange, Jam Cafe or online...
Manière des Bohémiens
events - Live
Manière des Bohémiens
08 June 2013
8pm, live music from 9pm Cafe.Bar.Contemporary Free Every night's a full house and not to be missed when these boys play at Café.Bar.Contemporary. They are known...
Free music workshop with professional musicians
events - Special Events
Free music workshop with professional musicians
08 June 2013
Saturday 8 June, 1 - 4pmFreeThe Space
Good Things and Bad Things
events - Talks
Good Things and Bad Things
10 June 2013 - 11 June 2013
£75 or £60 DRS, £35 students, low income, unwaged Booking essential The Space Organised by the Objects, Practices, Experiences, Networks (OPEN) Group at...
Death of a Mauve Bat
events - Gallery Tours
Death of a Mauve Bat
12 June 2013
1 - 1.45pm Free Artist collective Death of a Mauve Bat lead a tour exploring animist ideas. With members Peter Stonhold, Calvin Sanster and Tim Hattrick. No need...
Metamorphic and Royst
events - Live
Metamorphic and Royst
13 June 2013
Doors 8pmTickets £7 in advanceNo age restrictionsThis double bill with Røyst Trio and Metamorphic is part of a UK tour. The tour will also feature collaborative pieces...
Made For TV
events - Film
Made For TV
14 June 2013
12noon - 7pm Free The Space Works from the history of artists' broadcasting will be presented on TVs in The Space including works by John Hoppy Hopkins, Ilene...
Mas Y Mas
events - Live
Mas Y Mas
15 June 2013
7.30pm - 12am, live music from 9pm Free Entry Mas Y Mas play their own irresistible mix of Latino, flamenco and Afro-Cuban influenced music woven together by driving...
Made for TV Discussion
events - Talks
Made for TV Discussion
15 June 2013
2pm - 5pm Free The Space 'Made for TV' will take the form of a talkshow and invited experts on the subject of artist broadcast include Johan Grimonprez (Director...
Sunday Jazz
events - Live
Sunday Jazz
16 June 2013
From 10am - Live Jazz from 1pm Free EntrySunday Jazz is the ultimate in contemporary Jazz, Electronica, and Avant Garde.Beginning at 10am with resident Djs Alex Traska...
Refugee Week Launch Event 2013
events - Special Events
Refugee Week Launch Event 2013
16 June 2013
Sunday 16 JuneThe Space and The StudioFree 2pm - 5pmNottingham Contemporary and Nottingham Beyond Borders would like to invite you to the launch event for Refugee Week...
OOO
events - Talks
OOO
19 June 2013
6pm - 8.30pm Free The Space 6pm Screening: Elizabeth Price User Group Disco 6.30pm Discussion: With Graham Harman, Michelle Kasprzak, Kevin Love and Francis...
Chris Fite Wassilak
events - Gallery Tours
Chris Fite Wassilak
19 June 2013
1 - 1.45pm Free Chris Fite Wassilak is a writer, curator and a regular contributor to frieze, Art Review and Art Monthly magazines. He is interested in time travel...
Enchantment
events - Talks
Enchantment
27 June 2013
6.30pm - 8pm Free The Space In the catalogue that accompanies Leckey’s exhibition, Erik Davis describes a world exploding with technologies, products, and...
COCKTAIL
events - Live
COCKTAIL
28 June 2013
8pm - 1amFreeThe SpaceThe final Friday evening of the exhibition takes its cue from Leckey’s 1999 work Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore – a compilation of found footage from...
Gaffa
events - Live
Gaffa
29 June 2013
Free, 7.30pm - 12pm, live music from 9pmGaffa’s debut at Nottingham Contemporary generated a mass of fan’s requests.When Wayne Evan’s lyrics finally sliced through...
July Family Weekends
events - Family Events
July Family Weekends
20 July 2013 - 28 July 2013
Borrow a BagEvery day during the exhibitionFree, Available from ReceptionThese little bags of wonder offer families practical and playful ways to explore and enjoy the...
Collabor-8
events - Young Events
Collabor-8
03 August 2013
A collaboration of talentSat 3 August, 5pm - 8pm The SpaceG17 are throwing a pebble into the creative pond and watching the ripples travel across...
Happenings
events - Talks
Happenings
06 May 2008 - 18 May 2008
Talk Marco Scotini, curator, Luca Frei, designer of Disobedience and Alex Farquharson, Director of Nottingham Contemporary. Venue: ‘Beatties’, Angel Row,...
That Beautiful Pale Face Is My Fate (For Lord Byron)
events - Talks
That Beautiful Pale Face Is My Fate (For Lord Byron)
26 July 2008
Splendid Vices, our symposium in the Orangery, was standing room only, as our guests crowded in to hear speakers discuss Byron’s lasting influence on popular...
Disclosures II, Laxton
events - Talks
Disclosures II, Laxton
06 September 2008
Part I 11:00 Meeting in Mount Street, Nottingham. A bus tour of Nottingham’s former common lands and open fields led by artist and historian Chris...
Impossible Prison
events - Talks
Impossible Prison
10 November 2008 - 08 December 2008
Meaning, Truth and Prisons: The Legacy of Michel Foucault David Macey in conversation with Jonathan Rée David Macey, Foucault’s biographer, will discuss the...
Get Involved 17
events - Young Events
Get Involved 17
21 August 2009
A mass gathering, coming together to set sail eighty five paper boats in the fountains at Old Market Square. That's eighty five days until Nottingham Contemporary opens...
SOFA - A documentary film by Benjamin Wigley
events - Young Events
SOFA - A documentary film by Benjamin Wigley
28 October 2009
On Wednesday the adventure begins.... Get Involved 17's beautiful Nottingham Contemporary Sofa will begin its journey, starting at 9am in the heart of our city: Old...

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