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Our team are always happy to help you with your access requirements. Please go to the reception desk or ask our friendly gallery assistants should you require any assistance.
Our programme is structured across long-term strands. We believe that complex topics require time for long-term conversations. These activities promote a durational engagement with artistic, social and political issues and are shared via our free public ev...
A morning encounter with Linder and guests where artist and perfume expert Paul Schütze, artist Naima Karlsson (Moki Cherry’s granddaughter), Chatsworth House Head of Collections’ Kate Brindley and Nottingham Contemporary’s director Sam Thorne will be in conversation di...
Slavs and Tatars is an internationally-renowned art collective devoted to issues of language in an area east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China known as Eurasia. This lecture-performance focuses on the Turkic languages of the former Soviet ...
Take a trip to Weirderland – the place where everything is what it isn’t.
Things are about to get weird and wonderful this summer at Nottingham Contemporary! What awaits you in Weirderland? The strange, bizarre and wonderful! You’ll be dazzled by optica...
Glenn Ligon is one of the most significant American artists of his generation. Each of his works is a dialogue with other works of art, literature or culture. They relate, in particular, to American history, black experience and sexuality. For this exhibition he has brought to...
For Season 1 of The Grand Tour at Nottingham Contemporary Pablo Bronstein has chosen 62 works of fine and decorative art to bring to our galleries – Chatsworth’s largest UK loan for 30 years.
Works by Rembrandt and Franz Hals, Delft porcelain, the coronat...
Ye Funa’s practice concerns the boundaries between daily life and contemporary art. Her work explores the effects of new media and globalisation on cultural identity and gender. For our exhibition, Ye produced a new episode in her online Peep-Stream series, addressing societ...
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 reduced to a minimum, yet they reveal rich areas of thought.
Writing, used visually, has alwa...
Gert and Uwe Tobias’ large woodcuts, gouache paintings, typewriter drawings and ceramic sculptures combine influences from traditional folk art and abstract art from the early 20th century. Their vividly coloured images, objects and environments evoke a world that is halluci...
Acclaimed German artist Thomas Demand is best known for his large scale photographs that question the medium as a faithful record of reality. His exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary is a result of a residency at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles where he discovered...
Francis Upritchard’s psychedelically coloured human figures “live” on islands of ornate furniture. There is a festival feeling to their gatherings, emphasised by Upritchard’s acid-bright colours, hand-woven blankets and tie-dyed silks. Upritchard has said “all the th...
We presented a major exhibition of Haitian art, the UK’s first for many years. Nearly 200 paintings, sculptures and sequin flags by 35 artists from the 1940s to the present day trace the representation of Vodou, reflecting Haiti’s historical experience through the supernat...
Francis Upritchard talks about the inspiration behind her exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary, including the use of some well-known local motifs.
Francis Upritchard talks about why she does not think artists need to get history right, how she collaborates, and using colours and shapes she hates.
Alex Farquharson, Director of Nottingham Contemporary, introduces the 2012 exhibition, Kafou: Haiti, Art and Vodou, focusing on the representation of Vodou in Haitian art.
Sir Nicholas Serota (Director of Tate) and Alex Farquharson (Director of Nottingham Contemporary) discusses the 2013 exhibition, Aquatopia: The Imagining of the Ocean Deep.
Featuring Peter Mörtenböck (on the World of Matter project) and Nabil Ahmed (on Radical Meteorology) this discussion departs from the concerns of the current special issue of Third Text, guest-edited by TJ Demos and dedicated to the intersection of art criticism, politico-ec...
Workers from the Occupied Factory and Worker’s University in Tuzla in conversation with Nottingham’s Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation
In 2015 workers at the DITA Factory in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, occupied and took control of a factory inactive du...
In this gathering Linder and guests Paul Schütze (artist and perfume expert), artist Naima Karlsson (Moki Cherry’s granddaughter) and Kate Brindley (Head of Collections, Chatsworth House) and Sam Thorne (Director, Nottingham Contemporary) will be in conversation discussing ...
Slavs and Tatars are an internationally-renowned art collective devoted to issues of language in an area east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China known as Eurasia. This lecture-performance focuses on the Turkic languages of the former Soviet Union, as...
The Midlands Higher Education & Culture Forum is a dynamic network bringing together and building partnerships between higher education and the cultural sector across the Midlands.
Our forum comprises working groups each focused on themed priorities, deve...
We actively engage those that are living with dementia as well as older people. We offer support which enables individuals to access arts and culture, improving mental and physical health and wellbeing.
In collaboration with arts, cultural and social care par...
Join us for free family fun. This half term, we’ll be exploring how we can play, capture and manipulate light and sound through movement, making and projections.
Free. No need to book, just drop in and stay as long as you like.
Suitable for all ages...
Join us for a Wednesday Walkthrough – a gallery tour where artists, experts, researchers and academics give short talks in their field of expertise relating to the concepts explored in our exhibition.
Andrew Brown is the Course Leader of MFA at the School of Art and ...
Join us to celebrate the launch of two new ambitious solo shows by Turner Prize-winning video installation artist, Elizabeth Price, and the first major UK solo show of Daniel Steeg...
With each new exhibition we have a Learning Preview especially for teachers and tutors. One of our Associate Artists will show you around and suggest ways the exhibition can be used with your group. Explore our galleries and take part in a practical workshop, then try out our ...
This event is off-site, taking place at The Empire, Coventry
Explore the territories of cultural education, collaborative research and placemaking in the Midlands in this one-day conference. We will investigate the cultural landscapes of time and place in the context...
Collaborators Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz excavate forgotten “queer” moments by revisiting films and photographic imagery. Their complex and playful works unsettle traditional historical narratives and propose possible queer futures. In their latest film, I Want, Shar...
Mark the end of Daniel Steegmann Mangrané & Elizabeth Price with 1525! Sing in our karaoke party and check out some sweet art candy in our pop-up exhibition. Together, let's explore the iconography of pop culture through the decades.
Expect Britney, Artist FKA Pri...
If museums represent one of the most effective technology through which modernity and coloniality are constituted, what is the potential of epistemodiversity to transform research methodologies and art institutions?
This conversation was with Clémentine Deliss and David...
This event was presented in two parts, starting with a Study Day and culmiating with a Public Discussion & Film Screening.
Public programming can be equally aligned with radical experiment in pedagogy and the disconnected neoliberal staging of critical conte...
From the 1960s, accessibility to lightweight technology allowed for new methods and pioneering changes in cinema that put filmmaking into the hands of a new generation. Inspired by underground cinema, the historical avant-garde or the new political activist cinema, independent...
Join us for a Wednesday Walkthrough – a gallery talk where artists, experts, researchers and academics share their unique perspectives on our exhibition.
This walkthrough will be led ...
Join philosophers, writers, artists and activists from across the country for a collaborative discussion exploring issues that are at the forefront of contemporary social debates: gender identity, and race and racism. These two panels pose questions to how we live together; wh...
The Architecture in Conversation event series address the current debates in architecture planning and its social functions. Our guest speakers will explore contemporary debates in architecture and social movements linked to both our shows. Through different approaches, both e...
Cinema and the Anticolonial Liberation Struggles is a series of screenings and talks explore the political projects of anticolonial struggles and how cinema shapes political events. The series focuses on African liberation mo...
This series of screenings and talks explore the political projects of anticolonial struggles and how cinema shapes political events. The series focuses on African liberation movements, solidarities across borders in America and Asia, and how the future of liberation movements ...
This series of screenings and talks explore the political projects of anticolonial struggles and how cinema shapes political events. The series focuses on African liberation movements, solidarities across borders in America and Asia, and how the future of liberation movements ...
This season's Study Sessions 'A Darkened Room: On Feminism, Rituals, Death and the Occult' touch upon Linder’s wide constellation of artistic influences and further explores the subjects presented in the exhibition. The topics discussed by guest speakers spa...
This season's Study Sessions 'A Darkened Room: On Feminism, Rituals, Death and the Occult' touch upon Linder’s wide constellation of artistic influences and further explores the subjects presented in the exhibition. The topics discussed by guest speakers spa...
This one-day workshop aims to bring together photographers, historians, criminologists and anyone interested in questions around the ethics of representation within the context of incarceration and detention. We will also be considering photography at sites of defunct prisons ...
Symbolic Devices: On the Hieronymous Machine and Other Magical Technologies was a talk by Mark Pilkington.
"If, as Arthur C Clarke famously observed, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, then can we accept that any sufficiently advanced...
An anointing oil making workshop - learn about the history and magical properties of herbs with Herbalist Cristina Pandolfo, whilst making your own anointing oil for protection from everyday stresses and strains.
All materials provided.
This event...
Is there a sixth sense? Can you smell a ghost? What IS vision?
Consultant Neurosurgeon at the Queen’s Medical Centre here in Nottingham, John Firth will take us through the history of the senses and perception, proposing answers for visionaries, explaining how memory...
Join us for the book launch of Undead Uprising: Haiti, Horror and the Zombie Complex and the conversation with John Cussans and Wendy Asquith.
Undead Uprising traces the history of racist and xenophobic representations of Haiti through the chimerical ...
The Study Sessions: 'Women Writers and the US South: Violence, Aberration and the 'Southern Gothic' are focusedon different versions of the American South as realised in the work of four of its authors. Beginning with Flannery O'Connor (1925 - 1964) and moving on to A...
The Study Sessions: 'Women Writers and the US South: Violence, Aberration and the 'Southern Gothic' are focusedon different versions of the American South as realised in the work of four of its authors. Beginning with Flannery O'Connor (1925 - 1964) and moving on to A...
The Study Sessions: 'Women Writers and the US South: Violence, Aberration and the 'Southern Gothic' are focusedon different versions of the American South as realised in the work of four of its authors. Beginning with Flannery O'Connor (1925 - 1964) and moving on to A...
The Study Sessions: 'Women Writers and the US South: Violence, Aberration and the 'Southern Gothic' are focusedon different versions of the American South as realised in the work of four of its authors. Beginning with Flannery O'Connor (1925 - 1964) and moving on to A...
Join us for the launch of the Coming of Age: 1976 and the road to anti-racism and a Q&A with Roger Tanner (local historian), Pushka Lail (Indian Workers Association) chaired by Darshna Soni (Channel 4 News).
Coming of Age pays homage to the forefa...
The vote to leave the European Union in June 2016 touched upon some of big themes about the future of the Britain as a nation state. Issues such as the backlash to globalization, inequality, the growing divide between cities and rural areas, identity, and blaming of migrants i...
Free. Open to all 15-25 year olds
Led by artist Harry Martin, this guided meditation aims to explore the ways quiet contemplation can affect our ways of experiencing art.
Join us for a peaceful session.
The Three Ecologies Research Group at Nottingham Contemporary is holding a series of free reading sessions. Join us every third Monday of the month at 7pm.
Come along, we are currently reading together (literally, aloud, and slowly) and discussing Part Two of 'Witches,...
Develop your creative skills in fun hands-on workshops.
Each week we will explore different ways of making images, through experimenting with collage, light, photography and text.
We will look at how our exhibiting artist, Lis Rhodes, makes her films, and how i...
What is it about the film, arts, cultural practices and products and social debates of the decades of the 80s/90s that make them resonate so closely with contemporary life in the UK today?
Curated by June Givanni, The Time Is Now? programme runs together with ...
An evening discussion with artists and community activists, examining the role of art and culture at key moments in the struggle for racial justice in Britain.
The Black writer and activist, John la Rose once commented that for Black and Asian people, "we experience th...
Museumand is a mobile social history project, or a museum without walls, featuring the contributions made by Caribbeans to British society.
Founded by Catherine Ross and Lynda Burrell, Museumand will lead a series of informative sessions on some of the artists featured...
'Surviving Art School' Publication Launch
Fri 28 Oct, 5pm, NTU lecture theatre
Join Collective Creativity for the launch of the zine about how art students of colour survive art school today. Produced at Nottingham Contempora...
Dr. Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández, author of The Best of the Best: Becoming Elite at an American Boarding School and Dr Eleonora Belfiore, discuss the class divide in arts education in the UK and the US. Chaired by Patricia Thomson, University of Nottingham.
South African-born novelist Gillian Slovo in conversation with Ross Bradshaw from Five Leaves Bookshop. This event is part of the Nottingham Festival of Literature.
Gillian Slovo is a playwright and the author of thirteen books, including five crime novels, the courtro...
Rebecca Lee and Frank Abbott have brought together artists and musicians to introduce and demonstrate live performance works that explore notions of uncertainty, value and decline and collective decision-making. An informal introduction to the scores that influenced the This C...
How do local histories of industrialisation register in local geology? These sessions explore how we account for and act upon the relationship between humans and other-than-human things.
The term 'Anthropocene' was introduced into the lexicon in 2000 by Paul Crutzen an...
Dr Howard Caygill presents recent work on Antonin Artaud and the crossovers between the art of the asylums and the art world that break from its position as “outsider art”. Introduction by Lucy Bradnock, University of Nottingham.
In collaboration wit...
Protests, Plenums and the struggle for the commons
In 2015 workers at the DITA Factory in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, occupied and took control of a factory inactive due to bankruptcy and ...
The Politics of the Art School: Art and Worker Solidarity Study Day
On the occasion of the visit of occupiers of the DITA factory in Tuzla, this event brings together researchers and participants from radical art and worker movements in th...
Artists Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz with Sharon Hayes, who appears in their new film installation In Memorandum of Identity, re-construct of a performance by Kathy Acker.
A panel discussion focusing on the role of science fiction in thinking about what is ‘other’ to mainstream culture. Speakers include writers Nina Allan, Dave Hutchinson and Professor Farah Mendlesohn.
Ray Bradbury once defined science fiction as “any i...
The Midland Group was one of the most significant organisations for the display and promotion of new art in Nottingham. The exhibitions and activities it organized helped to create a local audience for contemporary art, and brought international developments in the field to th...
Presented in association with the Loudspeaker Conference, join us for the screening of two films made by local filmmakers: Carol Savage, Beth Smith and Donna ...
Graham Caveney examines themes of transgression and departure within the letters of prominent aristocrats.
Jessica Mitford, sister of the last Duchess of Devonshire, was a human rights activist and journalist who renounced her aristocratic status to join the American C...
For this Study Session Roger Tanner and Christopher Richardson run a walking tour through sites of resistance rebellion in the city.
Departs from the Nottingham Contemporary Lobby.
This event is part of The Grand Tour Study Sessions, organised in ...
Pablo Bronstein discusses his 2015 exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary with international New York Times design critic and author of Hello World: Where Design Meets Life, Alice Rawsthorn.
A panel discussion led by historian and broadcaster Kate Williams that traces The Grand Tour from its history as a rite of passage for young aristocrats, to its legacy in collections. Includes alternative perspectives, including those of women writers, post-colonial critics an...
Bow Belles String Quartet will be performing alongside the Nottingham Clarion Choir to present the other side of the Grand Tour with words and songs of the people’s resistance and rebellion in the 19th century. Referencing land ownership, revolution, and the Chartist and Lud...
Join us for a Wednesday Walkthrough – a gallery tour where artists, experts, researchers and academics give short talks in their field of expertise relating to the concepts explored in our exhibition
The Study Sessions are informal reading and discussing groups. This season's sessions will touch upon subjects explored in our exhibition Glenn Ligon: Encounters and Collisions...
To celebrate May Day, groups share their campaigns for better working conditions in the arts, in the UK and the US. With Precarious Workers Brigade, W.A.G.E and Intern Labour Rights.
In collaboration with Politicized Practice Research Group and Anarchist Research G...
Convened in collaboration with the Centre for Research on Race and Rights at University of Nottingham, this panel discussion focuses on the subject of critical whiteness - from it's emergence as a area of enquiry through to its significance within contemporary struggles around...
Memphis, Spring 1968 marked the dramatic climax of the Civil Rights movement. At the River I Stand skilfully reconstructs the two eventful months that transformed a strike by Memphis sanitation workers into a national conflagration, and disentangles the complex histor...
At this event, key members of the 1980s ‘Black Arts Movement’ Keith Piper, Claudette Johnson and Said Adrus were hosted by London-based group Collective Creativity, who offered critical reflections on this history and the contemporary circumstances under which students and...
How do artists and cultural institutions relate to oil?
A conversation on how artists and cultural institutions engage in issues related to oil, with Art Not Oil/Liberate Tatere, Pcarious Workers Brigade, W.A.G.E and Intern Labour Rights. Art Not Oil Liberate Tate will...
Being in a Band: When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Pop
The Study Sessions are informal discussion groups. Our season Sonic Bauhaus is a series of study-as-listening-sessions exploring critical pedagogies of twentieth-century art schools and...
Compositional practices of Gertrud Grunow and Daphne Oram as early pioneers of electronic music
The Study Sessions are informal discussion groups. Our season Sonic Bauhaus is a series of study-as-listening-sessions exploring...
Join us for an evening conversation with artist Iman Issa and critical theorist Colin Wright about the critique and desconstruction of the modern canon of art and architectural hi...
Free!
Open to all 15-25 year olds
Wheelchair Accessible
Enhance your CV and learn how to tailor your job application to the arts industry. This event is open to 15-25 year olds.
Join us for free family fun. This Oct half term, make costumes and props to become a moving sculpture.
Suitable for all ages.
Free. No need to book, just drop in and stay as long as you like.
Scarlett Cannon and Juliana Sissons join us for a special one-off gallery talk. Both were heavily involved in the vibrant, transitional youth culture and clubbing scene in London during the 1980s.
Cannon features as a model in two of the Robyn Beeche pieces in Gallery ...
Free
Open to all 15-25 year olds
Wheelchair Accessible
We’re pooped from parties, tired of 2020 and sick of being skint.
But this is nothing like you expect.
New year new you? Be someone else for a couple of hours and get to know another ...
Join architect Martin Glover for a talk and tour focussing on aspects of the gallery building, inspired by the current exhibition 'Still Undead; Popular Culture in Britain Beyond the Bauhaus'. Stay for an optional social chat in our ca...
Philosopher and writer Paul B. Preciado discusses agency, gender, dissent and subjectivity with queer theorist Jack Halberstam.
The conversation explores Preciado’s upcoming book, An Apartment on Uranus, which recounts the author’s process of transitioning...
Of Clouds and Clocks is an afternoon of talks and discussions with leading artists and academics crossing the boundaries of arts, science, and computing, developed as part of the multidisciplinary exhibition
6.30-9pm
Interactive Artwork: ~Macro~Wave~
Play with waves of light and sound and enter a world of interactive light show fun.
10am-10pm
Art Installation: Time for Change
Our terrace will be taken over by the colourful cubes of Raphael Daden, a ...
Due to concerns around COVID-19, contributions to this event will appear in The Contemporary Journal.
The fourth instalment of the symposia series Award winning documentary The Forgotten Space (Allan Sekula & Noel Burch, 2010. 112mins) seeks to understand the contemporary maritime world in relation to the symbolic legacy of the sea. The evening starts with a discussion between film critic, radio documentary maker and...
In Linnaeus and the Terminator Seed (2017), Neves Marques asks if there is a deterministic, evolutionary line connecting modern botany to the contemporary transgenics. Gathering botanical drawings by European naturalists in Latin America and Southeast Asia, plant geno...
Hello everyone, my name is Charlotte and I'm an artist and I work at Nottingham Contemporary. As part of my job I work in schools, and in two schools in particular, Edna G Olds Academy and Southwold Primary School. (So, a very big hello to all the children, families and staff ...
In recent years, the development of media has transformed the way we experience moving images. Sets and Scenarios explores our heightened proximity to images and what it means to live under their influence. From 15 until 21 June, we invite you to navigate a programme that unfo...
In this fictional essay by Nottingham Contemporary’s writer in residence, Jota Mombaça considers a global scenario of enclosure, biological surveillance and increased militarisation.
We're proud to announce that we've signed up to the Family Arts Standards, a national standard and checklist to make arts organisations welcoming and r...
See Sung Tieu's film No Gods, No Masters (2017), followed by a conversation with the artist and Haus der Kunst curator Damian Lentini. Watch online on our Facebook page.
The event marks the release of Sung Tieu's...
Study Sessions are informal and intimate discussion groups. This study session opens out the ideas and themes of our exhibitions and research strand Sonic Continuum, and explores how...
Study Sessions are informal and intimate discussion groups. This study session opens out the ideas and themes of our exhibitions and research strand Sonic Continuum, and explores how...
Study Sessions are informal and intimate discussion groups. This study session opens out the ideas and themes of our exhibitions and research strand Sonic Continuum, and explores how...
Study Sessions are informal and intimate discussion groups. This study session opens out the ideas and themes of our exhibitions and research strand Sonic Continuum, and explores how black ...
You can virtually walk around our exhibition. V21 Artspace have scanned and documented our shows, giving visitors a new experience of our galleries.
Listen to 1525 Collective member Madison Fiorenza read an excerpt from performance studies scholar, Tavia Nyong'o's 'I Feel Love: Disco and its Discon...
Katy Culbard
Programme Manager, Loudspeaker
Apologies, due to unforeseen circumstances this event has been cancelled.
Join us for a live, online talk by writer and scholar Alexander G. Weheliye where he discusses the interplay between the conceptual and the material in black life.
Departing from...
Study Sessions are informal and intimate discussion groups. This study session opens out the ideas and themes of our exhibitions and research strand Sonic Continuum and explores how black fem...
Study Sessions are informal and intimate discussion groups. This study session opens out the ideas and themes of our exhibitions and research strand Sonic Continuum and explores how black fem...
Available to book from Tue 13 Apr.
Study Sessions are informal and intimate discussion groups. This study session opens out the ideas and themes of our exhibitions and research strand <...
Available to book from Tue 16 Mar.
Study Sessions are informal and intimate discussion groups. This study session opens out the ideas and themes of our exhibitions and research strand <...
Listen to 1525 Collective member Regina Eyite read an excerpt from sound scholar, Tim Lawrence's 'Life and Death on the Pulse Dance Floor'. In this text, Lawrence argues that queer Latinx communities were excluded from reports on the Pulse nightclu...
We’ve loved presenting our Grace Before Jones: Camera, Disco, Studio and Jimmy Robert: Akimbo exhibitions.
Take a look at our exhibition guide, available in large print and as an audio guide (above)
Take a look at our exhibition guide, available in large print and as an audio guide (above)
Take a look at our exhibition guide, available in large print and as an audio guide (above)
The Play and Learn Team has grown to a team of seven!
We thought you might want to find out a little bit about the them all.
Click on the names of the Play and Learn Facilitator and find out what they like to do.
Episode 3. Community Organising and Creative Practice in Nottingham
An online talk and screening exploring captioning abundance and access with scholar, artist and activist, Louise Hickman and Disability Studies scholar, Tanya Titchkosky.
In this event, Tanya Titchkosky considers access as a language that puts us in...
An online talk and screening exploring captioning as protest and in practice with historian and disability scholar-activist, Jaipreet Virdi and creative captioners, Collective Text.
In this event, Jaipreet Virdi considers the social history of captioning and ...
Study Sessions are informal and intimate discussion groups. This season's series Dust to Earth expands on our current exhibition Our Silver City, 2094. The title refers to extra-terrestrial particles known as cosmic dust, a key source for life on earth. Readings an...
Join us for our Five Bodies series of free monthly workshops exploring creative-critical writing, hybrid methodologies and experimental thinking.
Click here to watch the livestream
Join us for our Five Bodies series of free monthly talks and readings exploring creative-critical writing, hybri...
Click here to view the livestream
Join us for our Five Bodies series of free monthly talks and readings ex...
Join us for our Five Bodies series of free monthly workshops exploring creative-critical writing, hybrid methodologies and experimental thinking.
Click here to watch the livestream
Join us for our Five Bodies series of free monthly talks and readings exploring creative-critical writing, hybri...
Click here to watch the livestream
Join us for our Five Bodies series of free monthly talks and readings exploring creative-critical writing, hybri...
Free. Booking required
Premiere performance commissioned by Nottingham City Council in association with Inspire Youth Arts.
A stunningly visual, immersive dance performance, performed inside a digitally projected landscape to an evocative music score - featurin...
Join creative sessions with choreographer/dance teacher Deane McQueen as we take inspiration from the current exhibition Our Silver City, 2094 to get our bodies movin...
In March 2023 a new immersive film festival launched across a number of cultural organisations in Nottingham.
Delivered in partnership between Nottingham Contemporary, Broadway Cinema, Nottingham Playhouse and the University of Nottingham; Light After Dark Fi...
Join us for our Five Bodies series of free monthly talks and readings exploring creative-critical writing, hybrid methodologies and experimental thinking.
A collaboration between the Critical Poetics Research Group at Nottingham Trent University and Nottingham Contempo...
Join us for an evening exploring the artistic practices of Celine Condorelli and Hannah Catherine Jones, the artists involved in our current exhibition Our Silver City, 2094.
Celine Condorelli and Hannah Catherine Jones discuss their collaboration an...
After Growth is a symposium, a gathering of bodies and minds, but it is also an invitation to construct another future. At its core is the belief that prosperity does not...
After Growth is a symposium, a gathering of bodies and minds, but it is also an invitation to construct another future. At its core is the belief that prosperity does not...
After Growth is a symposium, a gathering of bodies and minds, but it is also an invitation to construct another future. At its core is the belief that prosperity does not...
Join us for a slow wander around the galleries in an overview of our new exhibitions Assemble + Schools of Tomorrow: The Place We Imagine and Meriem Bennani: Life on the CAPS.
Wednesday Walkthroughs are opportunities to explore our exhibitions in more...
This is an edited recording of an evening exploring the artistic practices of Celine Condorelli and Hannah Catherine Jones, the artists involved in our current exhibition Our Silver City, 2094.
Celine Condorelli and Hannah Catherine Jones discuss the...
Join us for our Five Bodies series of free monthly talks and readings exploring creative-critical writing, hybrid methodologies and experimental thinking.
A collaboration between the
In his 1970s book, The Child in the City, radical writer Colin Ward uses the sandpit – a common element of playgrounds worldwide – to reflect on the relationship between people and their environments in post-war Britain. On the one hand, the sandpit is a confined ...
Click here to view a recording
Radical Pedagogy in the Jungle: Towards the Trans-species Architectu...
Join us for a walkthrough and a conversation between Jane Hall, a founding member of Assemble, and Lisa Jacques, Nottingham Contemporary's Learning Programme manager about The Place We Imagine.
More than thre...
Join us for our Five Bodies series of free monthly talks and readings exploring creative-critical writing, hybrid methodologies and experimental thinking.
A collaboration between the Critical Poetics Re...
Join us for our Five Bodies series of free monthly talks and readings exploring creative-critical writing, hybrid methodologies and experimental thinking.
A collaboration between the Critical Poetics Re...
Hollows, spheres, caves and chambers are the resonant, amplifying spaces out of which sound emerges and intimate listening takes place. Resonance amplifies and enhances but it also acts as both metaphor and agent of empathy, intimacy and fellowship. David Toop's participatory ...
This is a recording of a walkthrough and a conversation between Jane Hall, a founding member of Assemble, and Lisa Jacques, Nottingham Contemporary's Learning Programme manager about The Place We Imagine.
More than three years in the making, The Place We Imagine by Ass...
Radical Pedagogy in the Jungle: Towards the Trans-species Architecture of Lina Bo Bardi In this keynote talk, Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley explore the concept of Radical Pedagogy in architecture in the 1960s and 1970s, from the experiments in the classroom, the battles in ...
In his 1970s book, The Child in the City, radical writer Colin Ward uses the sandpit – a common element of playgrounds worldwide – to reflect on the relationship between people and their environments in post-war Britain. On the one hand, the sandpit is a confined box where...
There are subtle interventions around our building inviting you to play.
Can you find them all?
Cool Company is a dance improvisation ensemble for people aged 55 and over based in Nottingham Contemporary. Referencing current exhibitions we explore and develop relationships between visual arts and movement. Key to these workshops is the integration of social and creative ...
As part of Nottdance 2022, Nottingham Contemporary will host To Earth, an intimate performance by Julie Cleves and Robbie Synge that invites the audience on a journey exploring friendship, cooperation, time and space.
Together, Julie and Robbie weave...
Join in for the screening of REMOTE, the debut feature-length film by Mika Rottenberg and Mahyad Tousi at Broadway Cinema. The duration of the film is 85 minutes and will begin with an introduction by artist and lecturer Candice Jacobs.
REMOTE follows Unoaku, an expat ...
Come to meet new people and get creative in an afternoon of making, experimenting and sharing as we recognise International Older Persons Day 2022.
Inspired by our current exhibition‘Hollow Earth:...
Explore Hollow Earth through our Large Print Exhibition Notes. Printed copies of these are also available to borrow at our reception desk.
Explore Hollow Earth through audio recordings of our Wall Texts and Artwork Labels.
This audio recording follows the texts through the galleries from Gallery One to Gallery Four. If you'd like to skip ahead you can find the timecodes below:
00:00 Gall...
Private Tours
Building and Exhibition Tours last up to one hour and are suitable for groups of up to 20 people. They cost £5 per person, with a minimum overall fee of £50 per group.
If your group would like to book a private Exhibition or B...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Mozart's Requiem at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of cand...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Vivaldi at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight.<...
Mutation / Resilience is a day-long gathering reflecting on speculative, transdisciplinary practices that deal with food, land and communing, to speculate about how to contribute to building resilient communities. The gathering br...
You can virtually walk around our exhibition. V21 Artspace have scanned and documented our shows, giving visitors a new experience of our galleries.
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Vivaldi at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of can...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Vivaldi at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of can...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Hans Zimmer at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of festive film soundtracks at Nottingham Contemporary under the g...
You are warmly invited to Create and Connect; an event encouraging playful creativity and social connection.
The afternoon will be filled with interesting activities to encourage thinking, playing, looking and moving in different ways. Guided by staff and artists, visi...
You are invited to join us to view original artworks made by women from across the region inspired by the Hollow Earth exhibition. Loudspeaker creative projects are for women to explore and make contemporary art with artists: sharing women’s creative voices.
Loudspea...
This is an edited recording of the keynote talk Rethinking Geologic Subjectivity in Broken Earths by Kathryn Yusoff, moderated by Andrew Goffey. This discussion took place during day 1 of Caves, Dwellings & Vibration, a two-day programme deepening and complexifyin...
This is an edited recording of Sonic Meditation with Zeynep Bulut and Ignota Books This discussion took place during day 2 of Caves, Dwellings & Vibration, a two-day programme deepening and complexifying our relationship with caves through talks, music, film and performanc...
This is an edited recording of a conversation between Louis Henderson and Nicole Yip (Chief Curator of Exhibitions and Live Programmes). This discussion was preceded by a screening of Louis Henderson's film Bring breath to the death of rocks. This discussion took plac...
Our Welcome Walkthrough is a great introduction to Nottingham Contemporary, the current exhibitions, featured artists and their work.
Led by our friendly and knowledgeable team and community partners, the Welcome Walkthrough is a relaxed but social space to experience ...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Taylor Swift at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candleli...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Mozart's Requiem at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of cand...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Hans Zimmer at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelig...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Coldplay at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight....
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Coldplay at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of ca...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of romantic classical and pop favourites at Nottingham Contemporary under th...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Queen at the Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Taylor Swift at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candleli...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Taylor Swift at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candleli...
It's time to dance, make and play, but not in the usual way.
Using our new exhibitions Charlotte Johannesson,
This is an edited recording of The Shape of Emptiness by Flora Parrott and Frank Pearson. This discussion took place during day 1 of Caves, Dwellings & Vibration, a two-day programme deepening and complexifying our relationship with caves through talks, music, fil...
Explore Carolyn Lazard, Long Take through our Large Print Exhibition Notes. Printed copies of these are also available to borrow at our reception desk.
Explore Rosalind Nashashibi, Hooks through our Large Print Exhibition Notes. Printed copies of these are also available to borrow at our reception desk.
Explore Charlotte Johannesson's exhibition through our Large Print Exhibition Notes. Printed copies of these are also available to borrow at our reception desk.
Nottingham Contemporary's mission is to be a home for collaboration. Everything we do is collaborative. We believe art can be a prism for better understanding the world and each other.
We believe in the power of contemporary art to inspire, challenge, and transform. Ou...
Join us for a live conversation delving into the relationship between conservation and land rights, highlighting different modes of relating to land and the urgency of centring reparative approaches.
...Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Taylor Swift at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candleli...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Coldplay at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight....
Our Welcome Walkthrough is a great introduction to Nottingham Contemporary, the current exhibitions, featured artists and their work.
Led by our friendly and knowledgeable team and community partners from Ubuntu, the Welcome Walkthrough is a relaxed but social space to...
Join us for our teacher CPD and a special preview of our new exhibition.
Suitable for all educators, including Early Years and SEN/D practitioners, teachers of all Key Stages, tutors at FE and HE and early career teachers.Our team of artists work in schools across the ...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Queen at the Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Coldplay at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight....
Our Welcome Walkthrough is a great introduction to Nottingham Contemporary, the current exhibitions, featured artists and their work.
Led by our friendly and knowledgeable team and community partners from Ubuntu and Juno, the Welcome Walkthrough is a relaxed but social...
Join us for a special screening in relation to our current exhibition Carolyn Lazard Long Take, which responds to the legacy of dance for the camera.
In the 1960s, dance for the camera emerged as an experimental choreographic form t...
Join us for our exhibiting artist Kresiah Mukwazhi presenting Hera Hera (hail hail), a performance lecture on sacred resistance, resilience and magic.
Mukwazhi’s work is informed by her observations of gender-based violence, exploitation and abuse in he...
Join artist David Blandy to explore the impacts of colonial food production through his new collaborative world-building game, Gathering Storm.
For the past few years, David has been experimenting with the form of group world-building; using voice, writing and...
Join us for an intimate conversation on the representation of sex and sexuality. Expanding on our current exhibition Kirawa
Language Matters consists of a creative-critical symposium involving workshops, papers and readings. This will be followed by an evening even...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Queen at the Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Queen at the Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Queen at the Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Queen at the Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Queen at the Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight...
"We like our curation like our sexuality – ambiguous"
– Ridykeulous
From September 2023 to January 2024, Ridykeulous takes over all of Nottingham Contemporary’s spaces with Ridykes’ Cavern of Fine Inverted Wines and Deviant Videos, conti...
How can we consider care as a collective, rather than individual, concern? Through their artworks and published writings, Carolyn Lazard explores the social and aesthetic dimensions of dependency, care, and access. Their work considers care as a collective, rather than individ...
To celebrate the final moments of Holding a Heart in Artifice, Abbas Zahedi invites poet Nisha Ramayya and artist Zhuo Mengting to activate the gallery space. Earlier this summer, Zahedi, Ramayya and Zhuo worked together at the Ma...
Join artist AURA for a workshop aimed at trans* people, who are interested in exploring notions of identity and fluid states of the body.
This workshop will take place over two days, 14th and 15th October 3-6 pm.
How to history and transpose our experience? ...
The underground radical scene in 1980s London and Nottingham was a place for learning, organising and making. From art, sex, and politics, we will go through artistic interventions and methods for social organising to connect the strategies of resistance underpinning all of th...
In this performance, Mantawoman will serve her signature blend of Chinese folk, contemporary classical and original hypnopop music for yangqin and voice. The set, which will incorporate conversation with the audience, reflects on the nature of change, identity as performance, ...
This is the place.
I am here, the mermaid whose dark hair
streams black, the merman in his armored body.
We circle silently
about the wreck
we dive into the hold.
I am she: I am he...
This is the place.
I am here, the mermaid whose dark hair
streams black, the merman in his armored body.
We circle silently
about the wreck
we dive into the hold.
I am she: I am he...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Nottingham. Get your tickets now to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Warner Bros. and discover astonishing cinema, music, and iconic magical ...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Queen at the Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Taylor Swift at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candleli...
How many times have you seen the world end today? Do you want to watch it together?
A-pop-calpyse now! presents a screening and discussion exploring the gayness of fantasies of the world’s end. Exploring the queer and dramatic desire for the abolition o...
In 1974, Pauline Oliveros collaborated with her friend Alison Knowles on a series of postcards containing witty declarative statements such as ‘Beethoven Was a Lesbian’ and ‘Brahms Was a Two-Penny Harlot’. This ‘postcard theatre’, as they called it, ...
Join us for a preview of our new exhibition and educational resources and take part in discussions about LGBTQ+ inclusion in schools.
Curated by internationally renowned artists Nicole Eisenman and A.L Steiner, the exhibition features over 3...
This is an edited recording of Sustaining Resilience: Land Rights and the Politics of Conservation, a conversation delving into the relationship between conservation and land rights, highlighting different modes of relating to land and the urgency of centring reparative approa...
No Shadow Between the Thighs: A Ridykeulous Film Programme
A delicious meander through classic, cult and unknown films of Queer Cinema
This season of The Screen we conspired with our exhibiting artist-curators Ridykeulous (Nicole Eisenman & A.L. Steiner, ...
No Shadow Between the Thighs: A Ridykeulous Film Programme
A delicious meander through classic, cult and unknown films of Queer Cinema
This season of The Screen we conspired with our exhibiting artist-curators Ridykeulous (Nicole Eisenman & A.L. Steiner, ...
This is an edited recording of 'From Desire Lines to Singing the Dead', a keynote talk by Malika Booker and Hanan Issa.
This talk was part of Language Matters, a creative-critical symposium involving workshops, papers and readings.
This event was organised by t...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Nottingham. Get your tickets now to discover the music of Love Actually, Home Alone & more at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Nottingham. Get your tickets now to discover the music of Love Actually, Home Alone & more at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover music of ABBA at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight.
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Coldplay at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight....
Join published writers, archivists, book prize judges, and visual and AI researchers for an evening exploring writing and experimentation!
Nottingham is a hub for writers who pushed the boundaries of writing and science, combining the creat...
Over the summer we worked with Nottingham Forest Community Trust, Nottingham Playhouse and a host of local arts and sports providers to put on free activities for young people aged 6- 16 years at schools and venues across the city.
Hundreds of young people took part i...
Join us to celebrate the launch of our new exhibitions, Dora Budor: Again and Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Exposure.
Hello Everyone! I’m Holly, it’s lovely to meet you all! I’d like to share a wee bit about myself so that you can get to know me better. I have recently joined Nottingham Contemporary, and I am absolutely delighted to be here. I have been running workshops for families, c...
I’m Pasha and I am very happy to have joined the Play and Learn team as a Facilitator in October 2023. I am an artist working with multi-media installations. These have included performances and work with clay, print, paint, and video. My work often invites people to join in...
why do i do what i do? because i enjoy the process of welcoming you, unpacking the invitation and seeing where you all go with it, what you do and how you all surprise us with your curiosity and play. i hope through the process, you take an idea or thought away with you to try...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Coldplay at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight....
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Nottingham. Get your tickets now to discover the music of David Bowie at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight.
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Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Coldplay at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight....
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Taylor Swift at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candleli...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover music of ABBA at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight.
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Hans Zimmer at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelig...
A listening session based on a sonic conversation between Masimba Hwati and Paul Stan Nataraj. The experimental sonic conversation will be based on the albums: A Thank you Mr DJ by Yvonne South C...
For this screening programme in conjunction with Dora Budor's exhibition Again at Nottingham Contemporary, Budor presents a selection of s...
Nottingham Contemporary is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in a UK institution of Peruvian artist Claudia Martínez Garay. This major new commission will take place in summer 2024, celebrating the artist’s unique perspective and diverse practice with an ambitiou...
Our Welcome Walkthrough is a great introduction to Nottingham Contemporary, the current exhibitions, featured artists and their work. We will explore our current exhibitions, Dora Budor: Again and
Designed for primary, secondary and post 16 students, our resources can be used as part of a range of curriculum areas: Art & Design, Photography, Geography, History, PSHE, SRE, Citizenship, English and creative writing as well as discussion of contemporary issues.
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Nottingham. Get your tickets now to discover the music of David Bowie at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight.
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This is a recording of a small section of a listening session based on a sonic conversation between Masimba Hwati and Paul Stan Nataraj. The experimental sonic conversation was based on the albums: A Thank you Mr DJ by Yvonne South Chaka Chaka and Fear of a Black Planet by Pub...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Queen at the Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Taylor Swift at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candleli...
Put on your best office attire and join us this International Women's Day weekend for a free screening of 9 of 5, an office-based satire about women taking charge to deal with their sexist boss and success in creating an inclusive workplace.
In keeping with the film's ...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Coldplay at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight....
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Nottingham. Get your tickets now to discover the music of Queen and ABBA at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight.
...Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Vivaldi at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight.<...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Hans Zimmer at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelig...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Adele at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight.
Join us for a screening of exhibiting artist Claudia Martínez Garay’s short film, Ñuqa Kausakusaq Qhepaykitapas / I Will Outlive You (2017) followed by a Q+A with Curator, Diego Chocano.
After encountering a 1200-year-old ceramic vase at the Ethnological Mu...
Our Welcome Walkthrough is a great introduction to Nottingham Contemporary, the current exhibitions, featured artists and their work. We will explore our current exhibitions, Julian Abraham 'Togar': Reꓘonciliation<...
We are excited to announce the launch of Portland Forecast, a new moving-image commission from Seo Hye Lee. In the culminating event of the Caption-Conscious Ecology programme at Nottingham Contemporary, programme co-convenors Hannah Wallis and Sarah Hayden will prese...
A menu of creative walks created by Associate Artist Amelia Daiz and Sneinton C of E Primary Year 4.
Around the building and in the outdoors
For individuals, pairs, small and larger groups
Dora Budor makes artworks about the world around us. U...
Here, there, and everywhere!
Be absorbed in this creative activity as you take over our Space to decorate every surface...
Join us for a Sunday Walkthrough - a gallery tour where artists, experts, researchers and academics give short talks in their field of expertise relating to the concepts explored in our exhibitions.
In Gallery One we are currently presenting REꓘONCILIATION, the first...
[mobil]isation - a performative lecture and participatory performance by Dipesh Pandya as part of Feedback Loop, our series of events relating to themes in Julian Abraham 'Togar''s exhibit...
Join artist Mac Collins, Devoneex Brissett and Premier League Dominoes for a Mampir session in our galleries as part of Feedback Loop, our series of events relating to themes in Julian Abraham 'Tog...
Click here to view the large print exhibition notes
Join Paul Stan Nataraj for a listening session based on a sonic conversation with Masimba Hwati.
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Queen at the Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of c...
A special event for artists and creative practitioners exploring inclusive creative practice working with and for people from refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds.
Join us to hear about current research and projects. Learn more about the experiences of people living ...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Hans Zimmer at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Nottingham. Get your tickets now to discover the music of Rings and Dragons at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight.
Join us for a Wednesday Walkthrough – a gallery tour where artists, experts, researchers and academics give short talks in their field of expertise relating to the concepts explored in our current exhibition.
This season, we are presenting a major retrospective of th...
Click here to view the large print wall text
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Nottingham. Get your tickets now to discover the music of Rings and Dragons at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight.
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Hans Zimmer at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Adele at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight.
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Nottingham. Get your tickets now to discover the music of Christmas Pop Hits On Strings at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of can...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Nottingham. Get your tickets now to discover the music of Christmas Movie Soundtracks at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candl...
Join us for art-making, practice sharing and networking with a special preview of our new exhibition Donald Rodney: Visceral Canker.
Suitable for educators of all stag...
We warmly welcome schools, colleges and university groups. If you are visiting our exhibitions, then don't miss out on our teacher notes
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Adele at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight.
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Nottingham. Get your tickets now to discover the music of Rings and Dragons at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight.
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Nottingham. Get your tickets now to discover the music of David Bowie at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight.
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Please join us at Nottingham Contemporary before the Reclaim The Night march for a free print and banner making workshop. Make your own shirts, bags and placards as well as contributing to the collective banner that will be taken on the march. This is a wonderful opportunity t...
Film experts Delphine Lievens and Rógan Graham discuss the current season of The Screen at Contemporary: Sonic Textures, Shattered Scenes, and the breadth of Black film-making, particularly from Black female directors.
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Vivaldi at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight.<...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Hans Zimmer at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Nottingham. Get your tickets now to discover the music of Rings and Dragons at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight.
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Nottingham. Get your tickets now to discover the music of Rings and Dragons at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight.
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Nottingham. Get your tickets now to discover the music of Rings and Dragons at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight.
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Nottingham. Get your tickets now to discover the music of Rings and Dragons at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight.
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Adele at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight.
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Adele at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight.
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Adele at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight.
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Nottingham. Get your tickets now to discover the music of Oasis at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight.
Progr...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Nottingham. Get your tickets now to discover the music of Pink Floyd at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight.
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Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Nottingham. Get your tickets now to discover the music of Ed Sheeran meets Coldplay at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlel...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Nottingham. Get your tickets now to discover the music of Ed Sheeran meets Coldplay at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlel...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Nottingham. Get your tickets now to discover the music of Ed Sheeran meets Coldplay at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlel...
Cool Company is a dance improvisation ensemble for people aged 55 and over based in Nottingham Contemporary. Referencing the current exhibitions at Nottingham Contemporary, the group explore and develop relationships between visual arts and movement. Key to these workshops is ...
Join us to celebrate the launch of our two new exhibitions by Allan Weber and Daniel Lind-Ramos - both artists' first major exhibitions in a European gallery.
The power of memory and storyt...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Adele at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight.
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Nottingham. Get your tickets now to discover the music of Céline Dion at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight.
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Vivaldi at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight.<...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Valentine's Day Special at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow ...
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Click here to view the large print wall text for Allan Weber: My Order
Click here to listen to an audio recording of the exhibition notes for Allan Weber: My Order.
Click here to view the large print wall text for Daniel Lind-Ramos: Ensamblajes.
Click here to listen to an audio recording of the exhibition notes for Daniel Lind-Ramos: Ensamblajes.
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Nottingham. Get your tickets now to discover the music of Rings and Dragons at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight.
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Nottingham. Get your tickets now to discover the music of Pink Floyd at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight.
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If you are visiting our gallery, make sure you pick up one of our Family Explorer Activities to help you and the family explore the galleries together.
There are a variety of activities to suit a range of ages and abilities, addressing key themes of the work in the
We warmly welcome schools, colleges and university groups. If you are visiting our exhibitions, then don't miss out on our teacher notes,
Click here to view the teacher resources for Allan Weber: My Order and Daniel Lind-Ramos: Ensamblajes (Feb-May 2025)
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Adele at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight.
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Nottingham. Get your tickets now to discover the music of Rings and Dragons at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight.
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Vivaldi at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight.<...
Join our Associate Artist Charlotte Tupper for an artmaking and practice-sharing educator session in our galleries with a special tour of our new exhibition
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Nottingham. Get your tickets now to discover the music of Rings and Dragons at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight.
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Adele at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight.
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Joe Hisaishi at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlel...
Join us for a Listening Walk – an immersive gallery tour where Dr. Andrew Brown will share his practice in relation to the concepts explored in our current exhibition. This season we are presenting You...
Our popular family activities are back for May Half Term!
Our new Hannan Jones and Shamica Ruddock present Reimagining In Conversation, a research-based sonic venture encompassing speculation, jazz poetics, improvisation and dreaming. This performative exploration of the in-conversation format explores a myriad of identified shared and diver...
Cool Company is a dance improvisation ensemble for people aged 55 and over based in Nottingham Contemporary. Referencing the current exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary, the group explore and develop relationships between visual arts and movement. Key to these workshops is t...
We warmly welcome schools, colleges and university groups. If you are visiting our exhibitions, then don't miss out on our
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Hans Zimmer at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Hans Zimmer at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Nottingham. Get your tickets now to discover the music of Rings and Dragons at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight.
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Nottingham. Get your tickets now to discover the music of Rings and Dragons at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight.
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Joe Hisaishi at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candleli...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Joe Hisaishi at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlel...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Adele at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight.
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Queen at the Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Queen at the Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight...
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Nottingham. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Coldplay at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candlelight....
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Nottingham. Get your tickets now to discover the music of Christmas Movie Soundtracks at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of candl...