Art Exhibitions in Liverpool
Art exhibitions in Liverpool’s museums and art galleries and creative spaces
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New Mini Documentary From LaBeouf , Rönkkö & Turner’s #TOUCHMYSOUL Performance at FACT
There is now a mini documentary from LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner’s #TOUCHMYSOUL performance at FACT available online. The project #TOUCHMYSOUL by LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner took place at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) in Liverpool from 10 to 13 December 2015, as part of the group exhibition Follow, open to visitors until 21 February 2016 (admission free). Over the four days, LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner invited the public to pick up the telephone…
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‘The Army of Noise’ Bring Their Innovative Show To Constellations
The Army of Noise is an innovative theatrical production merging puppetry, video-projection mapping and live turntablism provided by DJ Rasp. Think digital theatre production merging puppetry, 3D video-projection mapping and a Live DJ… “Sometimes the voices inside our head are all we have left. They speak of the things we fear the most, make the sounds we need tohear and compose our innner song, enabling our souls to dance. It’s just sometimes… sometimes other people’s frequencies…
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Luminous Landscapes At Festival Gardens 18th-20th February
The Lantern Company in partnership with Liverpool City Council, are bringing a brand new Spring Festival of Light, Luminous Landscapes, to the Festival Garden site at Otterspool, Liverpool. The environmentally themed Lantern Festival will take place over 3 evenings, 18th 19th 20th February 2016. The gardens and woodlands will be transformed into an extraordinary and strange luminous landscape, where what is usually hidden beneath the lake beds and woodland floors creep, crawl and belch up…
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Ryoichi Kurokawa: unfold Exhibition at FACT, Liverpool 11 March – 12 June 2016
unfold is a major new commission by acclaimed Japanese artist Ryoichi Kurokawa, exploring the birth and evolution of stars in a groundbreaking immersive and tactile audiovisual installation. This unique sensory experience will be part of Kurokawa’s first ever solo exhibition in the UK, premiering at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) in Liverpool 11 March – 12 June 2016. unfold will offer viewers an artistic, yet scientific, representation of how the solar system was born, and how…
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Threshold Reveal 2nd Wave Of Acts Ahead Of April Festival
Threshold Festival returns in 2016 for its sixth annual festival of grassroots music and arts, and organisers have now revealed an alchemic array of acts set to play the event on the 1st-3rd April in Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle. The twelve acts join the six already released in December of last year and Artistic Director, Kaya Herstad Carney is looking forward to seeing her programming work come to fruition for the sixth edition of the festival: “We aim to…
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Metal Presents; Big Mouth Art Exhibition In Liverpool City Centre – Church Street
As part of Liverpool Provocations, Metal presents BIG MOUTH, by MEYOUANDUS. Each evening from 18th January, an illuminated orb will appear in central Liverpool, within which a human mouth appears to silently repeat and absorb the deepest thoughts and secrets of the public. Big Mouth, a mobile installation, aims to tempt participants to speak in confidence away from the superficial veneer of social dialogue. The thoughts are then displayed on the 360° projection, before being…
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Left Hand to Back of Head: New Art Exhibition At The Bluecoat 23rd Jan-28th March
Bluecoat launches its new exhibtion this month exploring how we can experience art beyond what we are able to say about it. The exhibition presents a collection of works that set out to affect the audience on a physical level, through sensations and emotions. Artists include: Rowena Harris // Mary Hurrell // Natalie Finnemore // Mitra Saboury // Marianna Simnett // Marie Toseland // Hannah James // Becky Beasley Left Hand to Back of Head…
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#TOUCHMYSOUL by LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner
The project #TOUCHMYSOUL by LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner took place at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) in Liverpool from 10 to 13 December 2015. Over the four days, LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner invited the public to pick up the telephone and touch their soul on +44 (0)151 808 0771 during gallery opening hours, while being sat in FACT’s Gallery one which was open for visitors. The performance culminated in Rönkkö tattooing the words…
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Threshold Announce First Six Acts For 2016 Festival
With less than 4 months until Threshold Festival 2016 takes place in Liverpool, organisers have revealed the first six acts set to light up the Baltic Trangle’s stages in April. Making a welcome return to the festival are genre-busting 13-piece The Destroyers as well as Threshold favourite Natalie McCool, along with first-timersBaba Soul & The Professors of Funk and local funk/dance/hip-hop purveyors, Galactic Funk Militia. Completing the first wave of artists are folk duo Gilmore & Roberts and Brighton’s finest psychadelic outfit,…
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#TOUCHMYSOUL LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner Live At FACT
From 11am GMT on 10 December 2015, #TOUCHMYSOUL by LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner will commence at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), 88 Wood Street, Liverpool. Over the following four days, LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner invite you to pick up your telephone and touch their soul on +44 (0)151 808 0771 between the hours of 11am – 6pm GMT. The project will also be broadcast live for the duration at touchmysoul.net #TOUCHMYSOUL is part…
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Liverpool Biennial Announces Artists For 2016
Liverpool Biennial have announced the participation of thirty-seven international artists in the 2016 Biennial festival of contemporary art. Among the eclectic mix of artists is Birkenhead born Mark Leckey, who won the Turner Prize in 2008. Liverpool Biennial 2016 will unfold through the landscape of the city. It is organised as a story narrated in several episodes: fictional worlds sited in galleries, museums, pubs, unused spaces, stations, hotels, parking lots, shops and supermarkets. For the…
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Kids’ Event ‘Square Pegs FESTIVal’ To Bring Children’s Creativity Out of Hibernation
Bring your child’s creativity out of hibernation this winter for a second helping of Square Pegs’ feast for the imagination. The Pegs, along with the guys from everyone’s favourite Baltic warehouse, Constellations have been working like elves since their last event to put together an act that will do more than entertain: little ones become immersed in a magical world where individuality triumphs and wonders never cease. The collaboration will be bringing a host of…
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Top Regional Businessmen Gather For Groundbreaking Art Project
A local artist is gathering key male leaders from Merseyside to take part in a unique wellbeing project that aims to open up conversations around preventing suicide and promoting wellbeing for young men. Big Love My Brother, is a collaboration between artist Clare Campbell and innovative social organisation, Knowsley Youth Mutual, and follows the success of Big Love Sista programs, which involved more than 100 high-flying females and CEOs including MP Luciana Berger and Morecrofts’…
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Capstan’s Bazaar Announce Free Pop-up Festive Arts & Crafts Market At Constellations
Capstan’s Bazaar are excited to announce their family-friendly winter market on Sunday 13th December at Constellations, Liverpool. Expect to see much more of their usual artistic and intriguing stalls, but with a festive twist. As always, there will be a diverse variety of makers selling everything from quirky clothing to creative prints and seasonal gifts. Rummage through vintage and up-cycled clothing from Junkbox Vintage, amazing illustrations from Caroline Dowsett and original screen prints from Alex…
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Winter Arts Market 2015 At St Georges Hall 5 & 6th December
The seventh annual Winter Arts Market will take place on 5 & 6th December 2015. The Winter Arts Market is Merseyside’s largest arts and crafts market. Held in Liverpool’s glorious Grade-I listed St George’s Hall, it’s the perfect place to pick up some truly unique, handmade Christmas gifts for all those hard-to-buy for friends and family. See this beautiful neo-classical space transformed into a hive of festive activity with thousands upon thousands of items for…
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Threshold Six: Festival Puts Out Call For Visual Artists
With less than a month until their submission window closes, Threshold are on the look out for applications from artists to be part of Threshold Festival 2016. For 2015, their exhibition was entitled ‘Contrasting Geometries’ and platformed the work of over 30 artists across 3 venues in the Baltic Triangle including the fantastic Liverpool Craft Beer Space, a warehouse on the cusp of renovation that was turned into a pop-up gallery. As they look forward to their 6th Festival, the…
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Sound City+ 2016 Passes On Sale Now in Partnership with Skiddle
The Sound City conference will return in 2016 as Sound City+ Taking place on Friday 27th May at the mesmerising Titanic Hotel, the UK’s premier international music & digital business conference will feature Sound City’s most incisive conference programme yet. Sound City+ passes are now on sale in partnership with Skiddle. For £150 + booking fee, your pass will grant you access to all Sound City+ has to offer AND entrance to the Sound City music…
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Fiestival Bombarda – Carnival Across The Baltic Triangle; 21st November
The carnival of colour rolls into town as Fiesta Bombarda transforms a number of incredible warehouse spaces into a geometric jungle for our biggest ever event & inaugural festival. Four stages of reggae, afrobeat, jungle, brass & carnival sounds will engulf an entire area of the Baltic Triangle for a day and night of riotous rhythms, which includes the pioneering Jungle MC, CONGO NATTY, and the legendary Chicago cohort of horn-blowing brothers; HYPNOTIC BRASS ENSEMBLE.…
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Independent Liverpool; Winter Wonderland Coming To The Baltic Triangle 11th-13th December
On the 11th, 12th and 13th of December the Independent Liverpool team are turning a warehouse in the Baltic Triangle into a winter wonderland. There’ll be Christmas trees, a secret mulled wine garden, Santa’s grotto, street food, an arts market, choir singing, mince pies and more. Exclusive weekend tickets are available now, get them here.
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Threshold Six: Alchemy – First Details Released For April 2016 Festival
As with every year, the creative side of Threshold Festival will be driven by a theme and the event’s organisers are very proud to reveal this to you today: “Alchemy in its basic definition is the obsessive pursuit of something greater, turning base metal into gold or creating the elixir of life. To us, it’s a chance to get back to our true multi-arts roots. More than ever before we will be combining music, arts, performance and…
