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Nottingham Contemporary presents the first UK retrospective of Trix & Robert Haussmann – one of the most significant and intriguing Swiss architects and designers of the twentieth century. The exhibition celebrates the duo’s playful innovations, concerning illusion and...
Climate change, imminent financial collapse, a rising tide of racism and political tensions: in an increasingly interdependent, unevenly globalised and intensely divided world, there is an urgent need to track connections between events, detect their impact in the here and now...
In honor of Anna Biller feminist masterpiece, The Love Witch, our Halloween celebration is a happening of cinema, performance and music inspired by 1960’s Los Angeles, psychedelia and the occult. Fancy dress encouraged!
The film screening of The Love Witch ...
The most critically acclaimed volume of poetry by Syrian-Brazilian poet Waly Salomão (1943-2003), Algaravias: Echo Chamber takes its title from an entangled history, referenced in an etymological epigraph: “From al-garb, the West; that language of the Arabs considered corru...
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...
To mark the closing of Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance, we hosted a two-day gathering where multiple voices questioned the production of feminist discourse, resistance strategies, gender abolition and more.
We had workshops, talks, music, performances, food...
The first exhibition in the UK devoted to the work of Sun Ra, the legendary jazz musician and Afro-Futurist. It aims to present him as a “total artist”. Besides his compositions, recordings and concerts, Sun Ra was a writer, philosopher and poet. He also designed his Arkes...
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...
Huge tapestries, performances, drawings and installations trace all kinds of different botanical and geological histories in Otobong Nkanga’s work. This is the Antwerp-based Nigerian artist’s first solo show in this country.
The exhibition is made up of t...
The starting-point for this exhibition is a pivotal decade for British culture and politics: the 1980s. Spanning painting, sculpture, photography, film and archives, The Place Is Here brings together a wide range of works by more than 30 artists and collectives. The questions ...
States of America focuses on a generation of photographers that experimented with innovative approaches to documentary photography. Drawing from the collection of the Wilson Centre for Photography, the exhibition includes key works by Diane Arbus, Louis Draper, William Egglest...
The House of Fame is an ambitious exhibition conceived by Linder. At the heart of the presentation is a retrospective of the influential British artist and musician’s work, spanning more than 40 years of photomontage, graphics, costume and performance. Emerging from the Manc...
How was the future imagined under Communism – and why is that vision so important to us today? These are the questions that Star City, named after the USSR’s secret cosmonaut training base, sets out to explore.
It features the work of leading artists who ...
The British Art Show is held every five years, presenting new and recent works by contemporary artists based in Britain. This major exhibition is a unique opportunity for an overview of the concerns of art today. A Hayward Touring Exhibition, it is opening for the first time i...
Klaus Weber’s art works create ruptures with what we would call reality. In so doing they call our deepest belief systems into question. They provide an ironic counterpoint to the shared understanding – social, natural, scientific – that underpins our society. They also ...
Haunting drawings of death, trauma and fantastical creatures inhabiting imaginary worlds sprung from Alfred Kubin’s pen at the beginning of the 20th century. His work, executed in a delicate, atmospheric ink wash technique, anticipated some of the horrors of the First World ...
Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Leckey has curated an exhibition that explores the magical world of new technology, as well as tracing its connections to the beliefs of our distant past.
Historical and contemporary works of art, videos, machines, archaeologi...
Ninety percent of the earth’s oceans remain unexplored. Science knows outer space better than the ocean deep. Scores of new species, weirder than any fiction, are found each time a submersible descends to the ocean’s deepest trenches.
In the absence of knowledge th...
Geoffrey Farmer is a unique and disconcerting voice in Canadian art. Borrowing elements from conceptual and installation art, he combines poetry and social commentary with specific cultural histories and memories. He presents these findings in a new and unfamiliar light, creat...
Virtually every significant artistic movement since the Second World War is touched on in this major exhibition drawn from The Arts Council’s own national collection, curated by Nottingham Contemporary’s Director Alex Farquharson. Spanning seven decades of art made in Brit...
Joanna Malinowska and Christian Tomaszewski’s, Mother Earth Sister Moon, is an oversized sculpture based on the space suit worn by the first woman in space – Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova.
It was exhibited as part of Nottingham Contemporary’s ex...
Klaus Weber introduces his exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary, which took place at Nottingham Contemporary, Oct 2011- Jan 2012. Divided into two distinct acts, the part titled ‘Already There!’ featured 200 objects spanning a million years, from museum and gallery collec...
Asco were formed in the early 1970s by four Chicano artists - Harry Gamboa Jr, Gronk, Willie F. Herrón III and Patssi Valdez - who met in high school in East LA, the centre of Los Angeles's Mexican American community. They emerged from the Chicano civil rights movement of the...
Catherine Spencer, University of St. Andrews, discusses the work of the famously elusive artist Prunella Clough featured in Somewhat Abstract, Nottingham Contemporary’s 2014 exhibition. Spencer references Clough’s on other artists and her exploration of the urbsc...
Victoria Tischler, Professor of Behavioural Science at University of Nottingham, looks at the emotional significance of everyday objects found in the work of Carol Rama.
How do we understand the present, past and future as the passage of time constantly destroys and creates new states of affairs? Do objects exist only in the present?
Reflecting on the work of Agnieszka Polska and Raphael Hefti - who both exhibited solo shows ...
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...
Artist Marlene Smith, exhibited as part of Nottingham Contemporary’s 2017 exhibition, The Place Is Here, which looked at black British culture and politics from the 1980s. In this film, she discusses her art, and the political context it grew from. Filmed and edited by Emma ...
Sam Thorne, Director of Nottingham Contemporary, discusses the 2017 exhibition, The Place Is Here, which explores a pivotal decade for British culture and politics: the 1980s. The Place Is Here was curated by Nick Aikens and Sam Thorne.
Linder talks about her potential first encounter with The Goddess of Fame as part of The House of Fame exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary, 2018.
Linder talks about how her art residency at Chatsworth inspired The House of Fame exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary, 2018.
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 ...
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...
In January 2016, we opened The Place is Here, a major exhibition looking at black British culture and politics in the 1980s, that re-addressed questions about identity and representation today.
We worked with poet Pa...
You are invited to join us in developing a Future Machine – an interactive artwork that records the past, makes predictions, and informs decisions as the future comes, in response to environmental change.
...Nottingham-based writer Graham Caveney will be running four sessions exploring and facilitating the writing of autobiography. Life-writing is a practice rooted in collective experience and these workshops will aim to bring together critical reflection with creative feedback. E...
Theo Reeves-Evison, Great Expectation Machines in Art, Ecology and Green Capitalism
In the face of looming environmental catastrophe, practices of nature conservation, preservation and ecological restoration are increasingly using ne...
The Contemporary Journal is our online publishing platform. It brings together interdisciplinary modes of enquiry in the fields of critical theory, artistic research, the curatorial, and visual cultures to widen our communities...
Sheila Harding and Lynne Wayman share the story of their two woman show, The Caged Bird Sings, and tell us what they think of our exhibition, Still I Rise.
Join us for a special event, where we explore the findings and outputs of a city-wide research project, The Bigger Picture.
The Bigger Picture investigates the impact of intergenerational arts programming on the experiences of exclusion and isolation within minority co...
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...
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 reading together (literally, aloud, and slowly) and discussing contemporary ecology. We r...
Rana Hamadeh presents The Fugitive Image, the latest chapter of her long-term project Alien Encounters, for this, her first solo exhibition in the UK. The original impetus for her Alien Encounters series was Sun Ra’s film Space Is the Place. Her sculptural installations, exh...
For the National Bystander Awareness Day, Communities Inc will be holding a free screening of The Witness (2015) at Nottingham Contemporary.
The name Kitty Genovese became synonymous with bystander apathy. The New York Times reported that 38 witnesses watched her being...
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.
Catherine Grant is lecturer in Visual Cultures and in Critical Stu...
Free. Open to all 15-25 year olds
Booking essential
Meditate and immerse yourself within the beautiful installation by Daniel Steegmann Mangrané. Led by artist Harry Martin, this guided meditation aims to explore the ways quiet contemplation can affect our ...
How can we move from life looked at and enjoyed from a distance to achieving authentic, first-hand living?
Welcome to States of Independence. The game where you must navigate your way through the zones of impediments in order to find your independent future.
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We're proud to announce that we have been shortlisted for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2019. This year marks our tenth anniversary, and over 2 million of you have walked through our doors. T...
This study session presents two film screenings: Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa’s Promised Lands (2015, 20’) and Lis Rhodes’ Pictures on Pink Paper (1982, 35’). A short talk by Sarah Hayden will probe how the two films use polyvocality and the written word to ...
This session places Lis Rhodes’ film Riff (2004, 18’) in dialogue with Laure Prouvost’s Swallow (2013, 12’) followed by a brief discussion of the interaction between breath, the body and phrasing in both films. Eleni Ikon will discuss how the female-s...
In this session we will navigate between the writing we hear onscreen and voiced printed text. We will consider ideas including the self in art and under law, anger and its abstraction, and the possibility of political agitation through unruly aesthetic experiment. Alongside a...
Join us for the launch of the new publication, The Place Is Here: The Work of Black Artists in 1980s Britain, continuing the legacy of the international exhibition The Place is Here (2016-17).
The Place is Here exhibition traced the...
The Venice Biennale is undoubtedly one of the most well-known and prestigious large-scale international art exhibitions with a rich, over 120 years tradition. Curated by Ralph Rugoff, the 58th International Art Exhibition opened to the public last Saturday. Titled "<...
How might our bodies speak in different tongues, human and non-human alike? Can sacred, otherworldly and nonsensical tongues tell us about the multiple voices we carry within? Hosted by Lou Lou Sainsbury, this writing-listening session, explores nonsensicality, glossolalia (sp...
Heady, sumptuous, restless and rebellious visions of youth in eight classic films.
For our summer season of The Screen at Contemporary we look back to the long days, languid nights and haze of our youth.
Girlhood (2014)
Céline Sciamma
A young wom...
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 ...
Finding Fanon Trilogy is a film inspired by the lost plays of Frantz Fanon, (1925-1961) a politically radical humanist whose practice dealt with the psychopathology of colonisation and the social and cultural consequences of decolonisation. Directors Achiampong and Bl...
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 ...
Join us for a Wednesday Walkthrough – a gallery talk where artists, experts, researchers and academics share their unique perspectives on our exhibition.
28 Mar, 2pm...
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...
The Procedure, hosted by Fionnuala Kennedy, brings clinicians from the nation’s leading agencies to you. This talk show delves into the lives of clinicians and clients, each with unique and compelling reasons for embarking on the life-altering journey of exploring p...
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...
The Study Sessions "After Orientalism - Contemporary Politics of Representation of the Middle East" took Edward Said’s canonical book Orientalism as the point of departure. Our guest speakers brought new and critical understandings of the violence involved in Wester...
The Study Sessions "After Orientalism - Contemporary Politics of Representation of the Middle East" took Edward Said’s canonical book Orientalism as the point of departure. Our guest speakers brought new and critical understandings of the violence involved in Wester...
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...
The 2017 edition of October Dialogues hosts public conversations, presentations and performances exploring issues of representation, race and equity in contemporary society and in the cultural sector.
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...
This series of study sessions explore notions of ‘opacity’, ‘imperceptibility’ and ‘disappearance’ from a number of different perspectives, and in relation to questions of ethics, politics and aesthetics.
In collaboration with Centre for Criti...
This series of study sessions explore notions of ‘opacity’, ‘imperceptibility’ and ‘disappearance’ from a number of different perspectives, and in relation to questions of ethics, politics and aesthetics.
In collaboration with Centre for Criti...
This series of study sessions explore notions of ‘opacity’, ‘imperceptibility’ and ‘disappearance’ from a number of different perspectives, and in relation to questions of ethics, politics and aesthetics.
In collaboration with Centre for Criti...
This series of study sessions explore notions of ‘opacity’, ‘imperceptibility’ and ‘disappearance’ from a number of different perspectives, and in relation to questions of ethics, politics and aesthetics.
In collaboration with Centre for Criti...
This event is the first public outcome of The Building as a Body; a project between Manual Labours (Sophie Hope and Jenny Richards) and the staff at Nottingham Contemporary. Through a series of workshops, they have been assessing the health of different parts of the b...
Coinciding with his solo exhibition at Nottingham gallery TG, Remko Scha's The Machines will make their first UK performance since playing at the ICA in 1983. The Machines consist of mechanical devices that play suspended electric guitars via lengths of rope. A composer contro...
Made in the aftermath of the First World War, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is the quintessential German Expressionist film masterpiece. Robert Wiene’s distorted sets, sinister shadows and unnerving characters creating a paranoid, unreal world at a time of despair thr...
The Other Film Club presents Penny Slinger: Out of The Shadows (2019), a newly released documentary produced and directed by Richard Kovitch, that focusses on the practice and life of the radical artist, filmmaker and performer Penny Slinger. Out of The Shadows explor...
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.
We will be reading together (literally, aloud, and slowly) and discussing 'The Ends of the World' by Déborah Dan...
This event is part of Outsider Artist Collective residency in The Zebrario at Nottingham Contemporary.
How can drawing unit...
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We are proud to host our friends DIRTY FILTHY SEXY for their Alternative Pride After- Party for the second year! With the biggest line-up of drag queens, kings, dancers and DJ’s that we have ever had.
Last year's sell-out event was so incredible that even Sharon...
Launch of the new book by local writer Graham Caveney ‘The Boy with the Perpetual Nervousness: A Memoir of an Adolescence’, published by Pan Macmillan.
Graham Caveney was born in 1964 in Accrington: a town in the north of England, formerly known for its cotton mill...
Artist and curator Lorenzo Sandoval explores possibilities of spatial arrangement in art institutions, focusing on the potential of domestic spaces as sites for formal and informal encounters. This event is part of TIER (The Institute of Endotic Research).
Join us for a Wednesday Walkthrough – a gallery talk where artists, experts, researchers and academics share their unique perspectives on our exhibition The Place Is Here: The Work of ...
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 ...
In response to the current exhibition The Place is Here, the Anti Gallery will be exploring the themes of exclusion and inclusion within society. Participants will be given the opportunity to create artworks through visual and digital mediums reflecting their own personal expe...
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.
Rebecca Lee and Samuel Rodgers bring their new project to Nottingham. They will perform with prepared flute, field recordings, and an array of objects and handmade instruments, exploring resonances between materials, synchronicity, and the precarity of listening.
Field...
Free
Booking Essential
Wheelchair Accessible
*This event is specifically catered for 15-25 year olds
We invite you join us in a collaborative workshop and discussion with Nottingham’s artist-led spaces to share resources and expertise in pathw...
The World in Which We Occur (TWWWO) is a curatorial research-based entity that explores themes concerned with artistic inquiry, philosophy of science, ecology and ecology. TWWWO began as a live event series over the telephone co-curated by Margarida Mendes and...
Who participates in shaping our city and how are these processes generated? Join us in answering the questions in a series of workshops and facilitated by designer Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad.
Some sessions will take place in different locations but will start from Nottingha...
Rex Lawson, the world's foremost exponent of the pianola, and University of Nottingham alumnus, plays a very special concert in the galleries.
In concert halls throughout the world, Rex Lawson’s name is synonymous with the pianola; not the brash, mechanical variety f...
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...
Artist Emma Smith presents an orchestral score based on whistles, hums and songs from the history of music at work in Nottingham.
The Whistling Orchestra is an orchestral score and performance for human whistlers based on the history of music at work. Looking specifica...
Visit the gallery after hours on International Day of the Disappeared 2019 to honour the people who have lost their lives or remain ‘missing’ as a direct result of migration, conflict or detention. Reflect on personal thoughts, memories or prayers and contemplate The List,...
A session of performances and walking tours exploring Luddites’ histories in Nottingham. We will be following the footsteps of the Luddites, between 1811 and 1818. Through spoken word, contemporary songs and written accounts we shall explore this movement of resistance by wo...
Film screening of The Shelter (L’Abri) (2014), directed by Fernand Melgar with an introduction by Roger Bromley, Nottingham Beyond Borders.
This is the final part of a powerful trilogy on the migrant experience by the award-winning document...
The Study Sessions are informal reading and discussing groups. This season's sessions will touch upon subjects explored in our exhibition Monuments Should Not Be Trusted.
Thu 28 Jan, 6.30-8.30pm
Humour in former Yugoslavia: ...
In The Nottingham Statement (2016) MilicaTomić re-works RašaTodosijević's 1975 Edinburgh Statement - a list of 200 “profiteers” from the art-making process. Originally commissioned by Jelena Vesić in Pančevo, Serbia.
Is the gap between biological and digital function closing? Are digital technologies making life easier?
Discussions about media and madness hosted by Making Waves and the Social Futures Research Centre, Institute for Mental Health. An open-format for public debate.
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...
Naomi Wood presents her latest novel The Hiding Game, which focuses on a group of young art students living and studying at the Bauhaus Art School until it was forced to close by the Nazis. Whilst researching the Bauhaus, Wood focused on the parties, the practices and...
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...
The Study Sessions are informal reading and discussing groups. This season's sessions will touch upon subjects explored in our exhibition Alien Encounters.
Thu 19 November, 6.30-8.30pm
Sun Ra and the Astro Black
Sun Ra expert and author of Travelling the Spaceways: Sun Ra, The Astro Black, and Other Solar Myths (2010) John Corbett in conversation with Irene Aristizabal (Head of Exhibitions) about Corbett’s activation of the Sun Ra archive.
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...
A conversation addressing the spectacle of justice, focusing on the case of Rayya and Sakina: two infamous sister serial killers and the first women to be executed by a legal court in the modern history of Egypt, and subject of Hamadeh’s installation at Nottingham Contempora...
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 ...
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...
The Draughtsman Contract (1982), Dir. Peter Greenaway, 1h 48 min, AA
Mr. Neville, a young and arrogant artist and something of a Byronic hero, is contracted by Mrs. Virginia Herbert to produce a series of 12 landscape drawings...
The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (La prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV) (1966) Dir. Roberto Rossellini, 1h 30mins
The death of chief minister Cardinal Mazarin, the construction of the palace at Versailles, the e...
Author of the blog Desecration Hardware and the book Combined and Uneven Apocalypse, Roman Letters, Evan Calder Williams leads a two-day writing workshop using objects in the exhibition and the city as inspiration.
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 a walk through Nottingham, retracing the 1831 Reform Riots.
On the 10th October 1831 Nottingham Castle was burned down during the Reform Riots. This guided walk through the City Centre follows in the rioters' footsteps, looking into their identities, motives as we...
A book launch and discussion with Rebecca Gordon Nesbitt.
The book To Defend the Revolution Is to Defend Culture: The Cultural Policy of the Cuban Revolution is a documentation of how artists, writers, and the people of Cuba contributed to the...
This three day school draws from Felix Guattari's notion of The Three Ecologies, which locates a political understanding of ecology at the nexus of environmental, social and mental concerns. The School will look at theories and struggles at the juncture of these areas and play...
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...
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...
The...And Beyond Institute for Future Research - a think tank led by artist Sonya Dyer - presents an exploration of intersectionality, and the Black, female body in time and space. Joined by artists Sutapa Biswas and Ope Sarah Lori, this event uses the artists work - and their...
The Institution, Dir. Ian Breakwell, UK, 1977-1979, 54 mins, Colour, sound,16mm
The Institution (directed by Ian Breakwell and Kevin Coyne) emerged from Breakwell’s work at Rampton Hospital as part of the Artist Placement Group which placed ...
John Cameron Mitchell, 2001
With Live Drag performance from our friends at Dirty Filthy Sexy
90 Min. Cert 15
Doors 6.15pm
After the film Cafe Contemporary will stay open until late.
Join us for a ...
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Sex, Politics, Love & Hate told through music, song and dance.
This season of The Screen at Contemporary we look to the often overlooked, sometimes controversial and frequently subversive world of musicals where love, hate,...
The Study Sessions are informal reading and discussing groups. This season's sessions will touch upon subjects explored in our exhibition Alien Encounters.
All sessions run 6.30-8.30pm and texts will be circulated in advance.
Thursda...
The Truth Behind the Dash for Gas, Dir. Marko Jackson, 2014, RT, 59mins
This film examines the potential impacts of fracking and coal bed methane extraction in Somerset and beyond. It includes the social, health and environmental co...
Academics, artists and activists have increasingly come to describe our current conjuncture as the “age of the Anthropocene” or the “epoch of the human” in which human activities have become a newly determining geological force on Earth’s ecosystems. Debated amongst ...
The Prediction Machine is a new interactive artwork by artist Rachel Jacobs, and marks ‘moments of climate change’ in our everyday lives, tracked and recorded by a machine that prints out predictions...
The Hornsey Film (1970), Dir. Patricia Holland, 1h
A student revolt as re-lived by the students themselves, The Hornsey Film reconstructs the arguements and succession of events that led to the occupacion of Hornsey College of Art between May and July 1968....
How do we understand the present, past and future as the passage of time constantly destroys and creates new states of affairs? Do objects exist only in the present?
Reflecting on the work of Agnieszka Polska and Raphael Hefti - who both exhibited solo shows ...
O Horizon, 2018
HD Video, colour, sound, 90'
Join us for the UK premier of O Horizon (2018), a film that emerges from The Otolith Group's long-standing research interest in Rabindranath Tagore and his founding of Visva-Bharati, a school in Santi...
This event is part of Outsider Artist Collective residency in Gallery Zero at Nottingham Contemporary.
November is an important month in Cambodia...
The Wave
(2008) (15)
Free!
Open to all 15-25 year olds
Wheelchair Accessible
Booking Essential
We are proud to present this screening with Communities Inc.
Join us for a post-brexit f...
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.
Cults, prophets, devotion and hysteria in eight classic films.
This season of The Screen at Contemporary we explore the world of unbound worship, blind faith, dangerous ideas and violent reverence. Join us.
£5 per ticket or any five tickets for £20
W...
The Screen at Contemporary presents its winter 2018 film season, Funny Girl. This season we explore outspoken, quietly rebellious, sometimes nasty and subversive female characters.
Lady Macbeth (2016)
Dir. William Oldroyd
A young woman is married off to a...
The Other Film Club presents Jane Arden's The Other Side of The Underneath (1972), the only British feature film of the 1970s to be directed by a feminist filmmaker. The film stars members of Jane Arden’s Holocaust theatre company as a group of schizophrenics who re...
Join this 'make and share' workshop to create your own personal protest banners and placards to make women visible.
Facilitated by Nottingham Contemporary associate artists and supported by staff from Equation we're getting ready for Nottingham’s biggest and loudest ...
For our tenth anniversary, lace designer, Louise West, reflects on her experience of creating the lace design on our building's facade.
High Pavement has always been famous for being a haunted place. It is believed that spirits of the criminals that stood trial in what is now the National Justice Museum roam the streets at night and cause mischief in the neighbouring buildings.
Earlier this month we ha...
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No need to book, just drop in!
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DKUK is the original hair salon that got rid of mirrors, offering haircuts and colour in front of art. Live in Gallery 3 of Nottingham Contemporary, they will recreate one of Vidal Sas...
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 ...
2019 was an important year for us, which saw a run of pathbreaking exhibitions, a redoubled focus on education and performance, and transformations including a new website and VR experiences. We are honoured to have had this work recognised in our nomination for Art Fund Museu...
Christmas is only around the corner. To make the stressful shopping time more enjoyable for you, our team at Shop Contemporary put together a list of gift inspirations that you can get in our shop.
For Zero Waste Enthusiasts
Browse our Zero Waste ra...
Our vibrant events programme, research projects, and opportunities for young people could not have been achieved without our collaboration with both Nottingham Trent University (NTU) and University of Nottingham (UoN).
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For 15-25 Year Olds
"Though light and sound both come to us in waves, it is only the sonic blast which can knock us over and even kill us." - Marta Zarzycka. Showing Sounds: Listening to ...
This season, our film programme, The Screen at Contemporary, presents 24 Frames: the films and influences of Martin Scorsese.
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Wed 12 Feb, 6.30pm
Shutter Island
Martin Sc...
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For years, research from The Children's Society has demonstrated young people's views about their own lives. From poverty and crime to exploitation and bullying - the reality of modern childhood can be a harrowing experience. That's why we are opening the...
You can virtually walk around our past exhibitions. We've worked with V21 Artspace to document our shows, and give visitors a new experience of our galleries.
Still Undead: Popular Culture in Britain Beyond the Bauhaus, Sep 2019 – Jan 2020, explores how the Bauhaus s...
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...
Post-colonial theorist David Scott is a Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University, New York City, and Editor of the journal Small Axe, a platform for Caribbean focused social, cultural and political criticism. Scott's Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of...
Loudspeaker is an artist-led creative project for women from across East Midlands. Together, women explore contemporary art in a safe and inspiring environment. Women make new friends and try new things. Activities are designed to encourage the expression of ideas and opinions...
Our building is like Marmite - some people love it, some people hate it.
Kasia Kotlarska, our Marketing Assistant, is a fan. She's been photographing Nottingham Contemporary long before she joined the team. Take a look at her amazing works.
Have you taken any p...
Publius Ovidius Naso, known simply as Ovid was a Latin poet of the Roman Empire. Banished from Rome by decree of the emperor Augustus in 8 AD, Ovid spent the remainder of his life in the remote town of Tomis (1). The reasons for Ovid’s exile are uncertain; Ovid considered th...
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...
Sun Ra expert and author of Travelling the Spaceways: Sun Ra, The Astro Black, and Other Solar Myths (2010) John Corbett in conversation with Irene Aristizabal (previous Head of Exhibitions) about Corbett’s activation of the Sun Ra archive.
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 ...
Nottingham Trent University students have worked with Nottingham Contemporary, to produce a new publication - This is Our Response, Issue 3, which was launched with a celebratory event at Nottingham Contemporary Café on Thursday 20th February.
Since Autumn 20...
The Useless Machine
In 1992, I produced an artist book, entitled “Free-fall.” (1) The sketchbook consisted of pages of frottage; each page reproduced a section of a long length of climbing rope. The accompanying text listed a recipe for t...
If you’re missing Nottingham Contemporary’s exhibitions and events, join three young people as they delve in to the exhibitions of Denzil Forrester, Sung Tieu and Diane Simpson and hear how children react to contemporary art.
In this fictional essay by Nottingham Contemporary’s writer in residence, Jota Mombaça considers a global scenario of enclosure, biological surveillance and increased militarisation.
The Slow Lives of Still Moving Images
In this CAMPUS talk, Tina Campt builds on her recent work on listening to images by engaging a key concept of what she calls “black visual frequency” through an exploration of still-moving-images: images that hover betwe...
Account 3 / 29.04.2020
Ghost
“I can't see ya, but I know you're here. I feel it! You've been hangin' around since I got here. I wish I could see your face. Just look into your eyes and tell you how good it is to be here. Just to touch someth...
Now that children are starting to go back to school and families and friends are beginning to meet up, here's some safe, creative activities for teachers, parents and carers to use to bring children back together. Designed to support wellbeing; they involve being outside and n...
In between silence
“How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot! The world forgetting, by the worl...
If you are visitng our Denzil Forrester exhibition with children, we have developed some activities for you to watch on your phone, or even do at home!
Simply watch the videos below to find out more:
1...
The Changing the Story network recently developed a call to action for Nottingham’s cultural sector to share informa...
How do imagined futures help us articulate a multidimensional approach to cultural production?
Join us for a live, online conversation with performance studies sch...
The neon American-style sign for Nottingham Contemporary has become an iconic landmark in the city. We speak to the artist behind the sign, S Mark Gubb, to find out more.
How did the sign come about?
I lived in Nottingham (from 2001-2009) and I was teaching a...
Listen to 1525 Collective member Pablo Paillole read British cultural theorist Mark Fisher's 'I, The Object' from the influential blog, k-punk. In this text, Fisher presents a son...
Listen to performance studies scholar, Ricardo Montez read an excerpt from his new publication Keith Haring’s Line: Race and the Performance of Desire. Describing a performance at the Paradise Garage that saw Grace Jones’ body painted with symbols, Montez consider...
How do imagined futures help us articulate a multidimensional approach to cultural production?
Exploring music and forms of polytemporality in black expressive cultures, this conversation with performance studies scholar, Tavia Nyong'o and author and media studies scho...
This activity is about how we can look at things differently, just like an artist might.
You can do th...
Inspired by artist Jimmy Robert this activity explores how parts of a picture can be hidden and revealed by cutting, folding, using light, shadow, and reflection.
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We have a FREE materials pack to support this activity which has...
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...
Passers-by-Playground: Let’s create and share activities that bring our communities back together.
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Jean Luc Goddard once wrote “all you need for a movie is a girl and a gun” so what better way to launch our new film programme The Screen at Contemporary. Partners in Crime. Films about lovers on the run.
Bonnie & Clyde (1967)
dir. Arthur Penn
Base...
Noun: a style of low-budget film typically characterised the use of nonprofessional actors and naturalistic or improvised performances. We explore the mid 2000’s Independent American Film movement that’s launched the careers of the most cherished voices of Contemporary Ame...
Join us this season for Europa, Mon Amore: classic love films set in the summer heat of Europe. See Rome, Paris, Venice, Vienna and the Mediterranean through the eyes of some of cinemas greatest visionaries.
Tickets available online or at reception £5. Wednesday ev...
Delusion, dreams and the subconscious explored in nine classic films. What happens when our world fractures from reality, explored by cinema’s most intriguing minds.
Whirlpool (1949)
Dir. Otto Preminger
A woman suffering from Kleptomania is hypnotised to ...
Outsiders and loners in nine classic films.
This season of the screen we explore those on the periphery. We celebrate the other, the outsider, the misfit and the loner of American Cinema.
Hotels and Motels in eight classic films
“Hotels throw strangers together in chance arrangements”
Wayne Koestenbaum, Hotel Theory
This season of The Screen we invite you to check in to our new season of classic films set in hotels and motels. Hotels h...
To launch our exciting project 'Future of Futures', we invite you to take part in an exploration of how to create fictional otherworlds using extrapolation, informed guesswork and wild, wild fantasy, with speculative novelist Liz Jensen.
This workshop is an opportunity...
Dystopian visions and alternate worlds for an age of anxiety.
Videodrome (1983)
Dir. David Cronenberg
Debbie Harry stars in this nightmarish exploration of a pirate TV channel that controls its viewers. A commentary on the power of media and our relationsh...
When a stranger appears told in eight classic films.
Wed 11 Apr, 6.30pm
The Imposter (2012)
Dir. Bart Layton
In a small town in Texas, a 13-year-old boy goes missing - three years later, a man claims to be him. The family take him in as their son, but...
lot can happen in just 24 hours. Join us this summer for moody, feverish and frantic stories told with a day.
Touch of Evil (1957)
Dir Orson Wells
The police, border patrol, crooks, honeymooners and a fortune teller converge one night in a Bordertown ...
Episode 5: The Important Role of Black Studies
This book presents the outcomes of creative explorations over nine weeks made by a ...
‘We left a riot and went to one’, eleven theses on p-funk
The study sessions are informal dis...
"A glorious meditation on geology, early art and shamanic visions", ★★★★ Hettie Judah, The Guardian
"A powerful and thought-provokin...
This session will look into dub and its association with both communal reverie and spiritual transformation. Led by Edward George, it will dwell on the influences, dimensions, and spaces of dub by combining critical theory, social history, and live dub mixing. It will bring fo...
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.
Dr Karen Chantrey Wood is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Socia...
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 Adventure Playground: Architectures of Contemporary Play is a series of exploratory talks and propositions that investigates processes of play and imagination and their role in built environments and the designed spaces of playgrounds in Britain. It brings forward t...
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
Aberrant Architecture’s talk will explore how we can re-think our entire idea of play and adopt a...
This event will examine how children can be part of the city through the lens of six film clips from 1948 and 1972 produced in the UK, US, France, Italy, Sweden, and Denmark. They show how children negotiate, appropriate and master their environment, and how, thr...
Each month we will be highlighting one of the fantastic independent makers we stock.
This month is 2D Illustrator CurrentlyKimmy.
After 13 years in Nottingham, CurrentlyKimmy is now based in Hampshire.
Working in pencil drawing, pointillism and wa...
Like many musicians around the world, Tamaki Higashi and Carmen Flores spent much of 2020 in isolation as the music industry took a difficult blow. In this hybrid performance of video and live music, this concert at Nottingham Contemporary explores their unique story of workin...
Join us for a slow wander around the galleries in an overview of our new exhibition Assemble + Schools of Tomorrow: The Place We Imagine with Gallery Assistant Simon Withers. Simon talks about the history of Lina Bo Bardi, the architect who inspired the play sculptures in The ...
An overview of our new exhibition Meriem Bennani: Life on the CAPS with Assistant Curator of Exhibitions, Niall Farrelly.
Niall talks about Meriem Bennani’s acclaimed eight-channel video installation Party on the CAPS and its newly commissioned sequel Life on the CAP...
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.
Off the back of their latest album "Wilds", Nottingham's finest, The Soundcarriers, are giving a rare live performance at Nottingham Contemporary on the 24th September 2022 alongside DJs spinning library cuts, Eastern Bloc nuggets and World psych.
Tickets available fro...
An overview of our new exhibition Assemble + Schools of Tomorrow: The Place We Imagine with Learning Programme Manager, Lisa Jacques.
Lisa talks about the beginnings of the collaborative project between design collective Assemble and Nottingham Contemporary's Schools o...
This informal session will explore the sonic and social legacy of David Mancuso’s Loft, the influential invitation-only, audiophile community party that came into being on Valentine’s Day 1970, sometimes referred to as the Love Saves the Day party.
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...
Aberrant Architecture’s talk explores how we can re-think our entire idea of play and adopt a playful attitude to everything we do.
Imagining play as a way of being in the world, Aberrant’s designs blend some of the characteristics of play into all our non-play act...
Imagine a Nottingham but not as we know it...
Combining popular fantasy tabletop game ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ with world-building and cartography game ‘The Quiet Year’, you are invited to join an epic quest! Join us over the course of a weekend for a table top...
This event examines how children can be part of the city through the lens of 5 film clips from 1948 and 1972 produced in the UK, US, France, Italy, Sweden, and Denmark. They show how children negotiate, appropriate and master their environment, and how, through struggles, pers...
The Houdini Club seeks to gather people across the East Midlands who are excited by contemporary choreography, performance and live art. We welcome experienced practitioners (performers, poets, skateboarders and Sunday painters) and those who have yet to find their home. Who i...
Can you introduce yourself and describe what you do?
Hey weʼre Mark & Ali, a couple who recently left East London for a quieter life closer to nature near the south coast. We craft contemporary abstract jewellery and homewares from wood, and aim to create pie...
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 our Translated Exhibition Notes. Printed copies of these are also available to borrow at our reception desk.
Explore Hollow Earth through audio recordings of our Exhibition Notes.
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...
… then a sound like the slow sun rising brushed against the lips of the cave, quivering where only stillness reigned, dispelling solid darknesses which gathered within. Somewhere, above ground, on the other side of skin, a stomach rumbled.
We all ma...
Join this collaborative group workshop as we create larger-than-life banners of protest.
Inspired by ideas of safe underground community spaces in our Hollow Earth exhibition, we’ll be guided by artist Charlotte Tupper experimenting with fabric and stitch, sharing st...
Our Director Sam Thorne gives a brief tour of the themes and highlights of our current exhibition Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & The Subterranean Imaginary.
This season we delve into the dark and explore psychoanalyst Carl Jung's concept of "the shadow". These films span the last century and probe those ignored or repressed parts of our collective unconscious. What happens when they surface?
This season we delve into the dark and explore psychoanalyst Carl Jung's concept of "the shadow". These films span the last century and probe those ignored or repressed parts of our collective unconscious. What happens when they surface?
This season we delve into the dark and explore psychoanalyst Carl Jung's concept of "the shadow". These films span the last century and probe those ignored or repressed parts of our collective unconscious. What happens when they surface?
This season we delve into the dark and explore psychoanalyst Carl Jung's concept of "the shadow". These films span the last century and probe those ignored or repressed parts of our collective unconscious. What happens when they surface?
This season we delve into the dark and explore psychoanalyst Carl Jung's concept of "the shadow". These films span the last century and probe those ignored or repressed parts of our collective unconscious. What happens when they surface?
This season we delve into the dark and explore psychoanalyst Carl Jung's concept of "the shadow". These films span the last century and probe those ignored or repressed parts of our collective unconscious. What happens when they surface?
Please note the 3pm showing of Nosferatu is sold out.
Our film programmer Niki Harman gets together with Kevin Lu from University of Essex, Professor of Psychosocial and psychoanalytic studies to talk all things Jung, film and the Shadow.
They delve into a selection of the films from The Screen at Contemporary's current 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 Hans Zimmer at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow of...
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...
“Was hoping to leave inspired and I did!”
Join us for our teacher CPD and a special preview of our new exhibition.
Suitable for all educators, including Early Years Practitioners and SEN/D practitioners, teachers of all Key Stages, tutors at FE an...
This exhibition presents t...
Liv Preston talks about her works in our current exhibition Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & The Subterranean Imaginary
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...
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...
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.
...Join Communities Inc in collaboration with Nottingham Contemporary as we settle in to watch a Sunday afternoon film together.
Our Community Screen events are social gatherings. They’re a place to watch a range of films together which highlight a range of social theme...
A playlist of Film Noir in devotion to Her.
B movies, shorts, and newsreels played on a loop, cinema was once a place to move in and out of with fluidity. You might enter a film halfway through, or you might stay all day in the dark seeing the same recurring images.<...
Eva Koťátková’s installations invite us to enter a different kind of world – one where social rules and relationships are critically reimagined. Combining sculpture, drawing, collage, costumes, text and sound, her vast and playful scenographies centre the agency of the ...
Albino Mosquito presents a screening of brain-controlled movie The MOMENT with live score to celebrate the Album Launch, plus a special preview of new film Before We Disappear.
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 in reading Bruno Latour's Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime.
Continuing our exploration of the multiple ecologies of the contemporary, the Slow Reading Group will be tackling Bruno Latour’s Down to Earth. Politics ...
on (in)audibility, silenced and vulnerable archives and the politics of futurity
Join us for the listening and screening of Voices of the Rainforest: A Day in the Life of Bosavi by Steven Feld. The event will be followed by an online in conversation with Jol Thoms.
Directed and produced by acclaimed ethnomusicologist and anthropologist Ste...
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 a performative screening of Our Songs Were Ready for All the Wars to Come, 2021 , super 8mm film with live sound performance by Dirar Kalash.
Choreographed scenes based on historicised folktales ...
This is an audio recording of the wall text for Eva Koťátková: How many giraffes are in the air we breathe?
Click here to view the exhibition notes in Arabic
Can you Introduce yourself and describe your practice?
I am Edwina, I’m a visual artist and illustrator From Hong Kong. I create works inspired by stories! My works explore our relationship with memories, people and places through abstract whi...
If you are visiting our gallery, make sure you pick up one of our Family Explorer bags from reception 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 i...
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...
Monstrous Flesh x The Screen at Contemporary present Hideous Thing Inside
Delving into fairy tales and folklore to explore the wild feral, forbidden, feminine.
A living nightmare of black magic... and unspeakable evil!
Part of the ...
Monstrous Flesh x The Screen at Contemporary present Hideous Thing Inside
Delving into fairy tales and folklore to explore the wild feral, forbidden, feminine.
Jezebel! Slut! Sinner! Satan’s Child! Delilah!
Lifelong friends Mari and Michel...
Monstrous Flesh x The Screen at Contemporary present Hideous Thing Inside
Delving into fairy tales and folklore to explore the wild feral, forbidden, feminine.
People are both the devil and god—and are truly mysterious
In medieva...
Monstrous Flesh x The Screen at Contemporary present Hideous Thing Inside
Delving into fairy tales and folklore to explore the wild feral, forbidden, feminine.
And the little woman, whom we call hysterical, alone and unhappy, isn't she sti...
Monstrous Flesh x The Screen at Contemporary present Hideous Thing Inside
Delving into fairy tales and folklore to explore the wild feral, forbidden, feminine.
She was marked with a curse of those who slink and court and kill by night!
...Monstrous Flesh x The Screen at Contemporary present Hideous Thing Inside
Delving into fairy tales and folklore to explore the wild feral, forbidden, feminine.
Help us come ashore, there's no need to fear, we won't eat you, my dear, eat yo...
Expanding on our current exhibition Holding a Heart in Artifice by Abbas Zahedi, A Space for How to activates Zahedi's exhibition space through events that focus on the gallery as a point of gathering and intimate exchange. The events invite people to expand ...
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...
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...
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, ...
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, ...
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, ...
Monstrous Flesh x The Screen at Contemporary present Hideous Thing Inside
Delving into fairy tales and folklore to explore the wild feral, forbidden, feminine.
Programme:
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...
Can you Introduce yourself and describe your practice?
I’m Dick, I live and work in Macclesfield with my partner, embroidery artist Leigh Jennings, and our two-year-old, Eddie. I’m an illustrator and my practice is often traditional techniqu...
The Map Zine is a zine-making project initiated by 1525 Collective – a group of young people who meet weekly at Nottingham Contemporary to work on creative projects together, learn skills and expand their networks. The aims of this project, The Map Zine, are to inspire senti...
We are happy to announce that Shahana Rajani (b.1987, Pakistan) is the first recipient of the Han Nefkens Foundation – South Asian Video Art Production Grant in collaboration with Prameya Art Foundation, Delhi, India and in partnership with Nottingham Contemporary, UK; Ishar...
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...
Join us in reading Bruno Latour's Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime.
Light After Dark Film Festival 2024
Immersive encounters in cinema
A film festival dedicated to immersive experiences in cinema. Pairing films with performance, music, technology, and art. Light After Dark will give audiences a d...
Click here to book for 11am (for those with under 5s)
1pm (for those with under 11s)...
In an evening of music, discussion, photos, and videos, writer and former Hacienda DJ, Dave Haslam shares his love for Grace Jones, and his recent research into her life and the cultural currents that flowed into the making of her 1980 album Warm Leatherette.
...
Between January and early May we have 2 solo exhibitions - Dora Budor: Again and Paul Mpagi Sepuya:...
Can you Introduce yourselves and describe your practice?
Hello! We're Ruth & Brendan (or Brendan & Ruth depending on which one of us you like the most!) We met at art school back in 1999 and have been making cheerful acrylic jewellery an...
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For the first time, Nottingham Contemporary is taking part in The Big Give – the UK’s biggest matched funding campaign.
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...
"The Dream of all religious parents is to see their children devoted to God. You grow up with the fear of being yourself, embracing your sexuality openly, because you’re constantly reminded by them and the bible that homosexuals will all go to hell. So, you live their ideal ...
Here, there, and everywhere!
Be absorbed in this creative activity as you take over our Space to decorate every surface...
Join us for a dub poetry jamming session with Brother Portrait as part of Feedback Loop, our series of events relating to themes in Julian Abraham 'Togar''s exhibition.
and they danced til their bodies were bu...
Join practitioner Qaa’Sim Uhuru, for a session spanning capoeira and music. This event is part of Feedback Loop, our series of events relating to themes in Julian Abraham 'Toga...
Come and celebrate Refugee Week with us in this expressive dance session with music from around the world. The session is led by Colombian Dancer, Monica Gracia in partnership with Refugee Roots. No previous dance experience required, just come and enjoy the music and movement...
The Lyceum is a social space to facilitate discourse and engage in critical thinking and conversations through an art lens. This space is a 2-part event series where talks will be hosted about non-mainstream education, creative failure, activism, and politics of art. The hopes...
Vivien Sansour, founder of the Palestinian Heirloom Seed Project—an initiative centred on caring for and preserving seeds as keepers of ancestral connection and models of subversive advocacy - joins us to share her work and the context of land justice in Palestine.
The Screen at Contemporary presents SLOW. FAST. STRANGE. A collection of films where the soundtrack is the main character.
The Screen at Contemporary presents SLOW. FAST. STRANGE. A collection of films where the soundtrack is the main character.
The Screen at Contemporary presents SLOW. FAST. STRANGE. A collection of films where the soundtrack is the main character.
The Screen at Contemporary presents SLOW. FAST. STRANGE. A collection of films where the soundtrack is the main character.
The Screen at Contemporary presents SLOW. FAST. STRANGE. A collection of films where the soundtrack is the main character.
Join us in reading Bruno Latour's Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime.
Continuing our exploration of the multiple ecologies of the contemporary, the Slow Reading Group will be tackling Bruno Latour’s Down to Earth. Politics in the New...
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...
Come and join our dance workshop led by Capoeira instructor Qaa’sim Uhuru and Dancer Haddy Touray. The workshop will focus on the similarities and differences found in Capoeira and Hip Hop by exploring and experimenting with the fundamental movements in both styles.
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As part of ongoing upskilling for Young People, Cor Creative visited Nottingham Contemporary to deliver a collaborative peer-to-peer workshop focused on portfolio building and the concept of personal archives for our 1525 Collective members.
Facilitated by Amira Dabbou...
Can you introduce yourself and describe your practice?
I am the founder of Anisha Parmar Studio, a multidisciplinary space for innovative design and creative exploration. Established in 2015, my journey began in product design, specialising in j...
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...
£6 (or £30 for season ticket)
An anthropologist, Hess, is stabbed with an ancient ceremonial dagger by his assistant, rendering him imm...
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...
6.30pm £6 (or £30 for season ticket)
A thoughtful philosophy professor and her charismatic artist husband decide to rent a house for th...
6.30pm £6 (or £30 for season ticket)
A young man, Pierce, works at his family dry cleaners in LA. Amidst the malaise of the day-to-day r...
6.30pm £6 (or £30 for season ticket)
Pica, alarmed by the rate at which the young Black men around her are dying, attempts to preserve ...
6.30pm £6 (or £30 for season ticket)
Set in 1960s Louisiana, an affluent African American family unravels following the infidelities of...
6.30pm £6 (or £30 for season ticket)
Bleek, played by a young Denzel Washington, is an intense, self-centred jazz trumpeter whose ambit...
The Screen Presents: Sonic Textures, Shattered Scenes - A selection of landmark films by Black artists working in independent cinema in the 1970s-90s.
This public lecture is the second annual event organised by the Centre for Media, Politics and Communication Research which is based at the University of Nottingham.
The speaker is the distinguished and experienced BBC Radio 4 producer, Phil Tinline.
In this fa...
Join us for a lovely christmas afternoon in The Space, celebrating the most festive time of the year with the Robin Hood Youth Orchestra, InterConnect and other music hub ensembles.
Can you introduce yourself and describe your work?
Hi, I am Laura, founder of Dear Prudence St...
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...
Join us in reading Ideas to Postpone the End of the World by Ailton Krenak. Krenak is an eminent figure in Brazilian activism, in the struggle for the recognition of the rights of indigenous peop...
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 Bollywood and Tollywood on Strings at Nottingham Contemporary under the gentle glow o...
In March 2025, for a second time, we took part in The Big Give – the UK’s biggest matched funding campaign.
The Big Give pledged £2,500 in matched funds to our free BIG Room Family Films proj...
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...
Taking place in conjunction with Dylan Robinson’s artwork wó:thel sq'eq'ó telhlímelh, sthí:ystxwes te syó:ys (Listening Work), this workshop begins from the Stó:lō First Nations saying “we don’t do any real work unless we are also sharing food.” In this...
Hi Lauren! Can you introduce yourself and describe your work?
Hi, I’m Lauren, an artist, illustrator, and poet living and working by the sea in Poole, Dorset. I create hand-drawn work that’s largely inspired by my mindful appreciation of local natu...
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 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...
Hi Becca, Let’s start off with an introduction. Can you introduce yourself and describe your work?
Hello! I make hand-built pottery with drawings on the surface. I’ve been based in Sheffield for almost 8 years but I’m originally from Inv...