Art Exhibitions in Liverpool
Art exhibitions in Liverpool’s museums and art galleries and creative spaces
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Liverpool Arts Bars Share Details of Pride Exhibitions
Arts Bar Hope Street has had multiple exhibitions in 2023, but this month marks the first visual arts events at their newer location, Arts Bar Baltic. We spoke with their Curator, Laura McCann, to understand why they chose this moment to launch events simultaneously at both locations. “Arts Bar has always strived to be inclusive and we always planned to hold an exhibition in the lead up to Pride, but I wanted to make it…
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Arts Bar Hope Street To Host Unique, Interactive Exhibition, ‘Invert’
Arts Bar Hope Street has held a number of special visual arts events this year. However, their latest exhibition, Invert, is like nothing else they’ve shown or even seen before and they’re sure its, “hidden surprises” are going to leave a lasting impression on anyone who visits. North West based artist, Krystan-Grace started painting at twenty two, initially as a way to connect to her late father who was also an artist.…
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Liverpool Art Fair 2023 At The Royal Liver Building
This summer will see the much-anticipated return of Liverpool Art Fair, with the highly successful event taking place at the iconic Royal Liver Building for the first time. The event, which is free to attend, will be open to the public from 30 June to 20 August, Tuesday – Sunday, 12-6pm. Visitors will be able to view an amazing array of paintings, sculptures and prints by 175 local artists. Art prices start at £20, there…
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Arts Bar Hope Street To Host World Refugee Day Event
Arts Bar Hope Street have always prided themselves on providing a safe space for all and supporting causes they believe. Tuesday 20 June will mark World Refugee Day by hosting an event to raise awareness and prove how visual art can unite us all. The exhibition will feature more creatives than the venue has ever hosted at one event before, including some who have personal experience in re-locating to a new country. Marzieh, who is…
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Enjoy Art, Sangria, And Sunshine At Arts Bar Hope Street With Their ‘Celebrating Summer’ Event
Summer is here and people have been flocking to outdoor spots to make the most of the sunshine. So how do indoor venues compete in hot weather? In sunnier climates all kinds of businesses have outdoor spaces, including art galleries some of which boast roof top lounges or courtyard bars. However, creative hubs with terraces are rare in the UK and according to Art Bar Hope Street curator, Laura McCann, that’s another good reason to…
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Liverpool Businesses To Launch City’s ‘Answer To Edinburgh Fringe’ For Artists With ‘Look Up’ Exhibition
A new annual art festival will provide emerging local artists with the opportunity to exhibit in some of Liverpool’s most prominent spaces. Artists will be given the keys to display work in otherwise inaccessible buildings across the city region, as well as receiving mentorship and support from the business community. The initiative is being launched by the “Liverpool Radicals” – a new collective of prominent business leaders headed by Ian Seddon – with a mission…
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Arts Bar Announces Wellness Weekend To Mark The End of Mental Health Awareness Week
This year Arts Bar Hope Street committed to hosting more visual art exhibitions but as their curator Laura McCann explains, “there’s more to this project than just supporting local artists. The venue prides itself on being inclusive and we want to maximise every opportunity to highlight matters we feel passionately about”. This is certainly the case for their Wellness Weekend, being held on the 20 – 21 May, which marks the end of Mental Health…
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Reflections Exhibition Opening At dot-art Gallery From 26 May – 15 July
A new exhibition at dot-art, ‘Reflections’ is open to the viewer’s interpretation of the word. Some may envision sky reflected in bodies of water, mirror images or perhaps are drawn to a more personal reading of inward-looking moments of reflection. The artists in this exhibition have interpreted the theme through these various lenses and offer up their diverse artistic approaches through portraiture, landscape and photography to support the viewer’s own contemplation of what ‘Reflections’ mean…
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Arts Bar To Host Solo Exhibition of Former Ukraine-Based Artist Aram Manukyan
Eurovision is everywhere in Liverpool, no matter where you look, somebody is doing something to mark the fact that the city is hosting the event. However, rather than focusing only on the contest itself, Arts Bar Hope Street is hoping to remind us all why Eurovision is here in the first place. When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 thousands fled the country as enemy troops advanced. One of the people who had to leave his…
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Liverpool Art Fair 2023 – Call for Artist Submissions
This summer dot-art are partnering with the Royal Liver Building for the long-awaited return of Liverpool Art Fair! dot-art are bringing Liverpool Art Fair to the city’s most iconic landmark, the Royal Liver Building, after a pandemic enforced 3-year break. They want to offer visitors the best possible range of locally sourced, affordable art work, so they need artists from across the region to get involved. They will be open to the public 6 days…
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Liverpool Takes Top Spot For Visitor Attractions
New figures have revealed attractions in Liverpool as some of the most visited in England – with World Museum taking the top spot in the North West. Nearly 2.5million people visited National Museums Liverpool’s venues during 2022 and there is anticipation of further growth this year, as the region enters the Eurovision spotlight, and a series of new exhibitions and special events get underway. Latest figures from the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA) named…
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Ukrainian Artist’s Powerful Installation ‘Izyum to Liverpool’ Coming To Liverpool Cathedral
Liverpool Cathedral is preparing to welcome a poignant new art installation, which depicts the one-way journey of escape that has been taken by many Ukrainians since the full-scale Russian invasion began. Izyum to Liverpool by Ukrainian artist, Katya Buchatska, opens on 28 April and is free to experience until 19 May. In her first UK exhibition, Buchatska delivers a heart-wrenching reminder of why the Eurovision Song Contest is being held in Liverpool instead of Ukraine. Commissioned as part…
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Arts Bar Hope Street To Host Earth Day Exhibition
This month Arts Bar Hope Street is hosting an event to mark Earth Day and you’re all invited. The exhibition, curated by Laura McCann, is free to attend and will showcase four artists who are all inspired by the world around them. Below we introduce the artists to give you a taste of what you can expect from the exhibition. Lena and the Sea Lena Lena (known on Instagram as “Lena and the Sea”), found that…
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Experience A Virtual Reality Joyride Into The Heart of The Acid House Movement at FACT This Spring
To coincide with Eurovision celebrations, FACT Liverpool has announced the arrival of In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats, a multi-sensory virtual reality rave experience taking place from 20 April to 15 May. Created by immersive artist Darren Emerson, the euphoric, interactive adventure transports audiences to the heart of the Acid House movement, taking visitors back to the heyday of the UK’s Acid House scene. Combining the latest in VR technology with 3D modelling, archive materials, 360° video,…
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Step Into The Fantastical Worlds of LuYang In new Exhibition At FACT
This spring, renowned multimedia artist, LuYang, presents a free, immersive exhibition at FACT Liverpool. LuYang Arcade Liverpool transforms the gallery into a retro-futuristic arcade, complete with vibrant graphics and interactive gaming consoles. Displaying a collection of LuYang’s previous works, including both video and gaming installations, the showcase centres around the ambitious Material World Knight (2018 – 2020) project. LuYang Arcade Liverpool is the Tokyo-based artist’s first UK solo exhibition outside of the capital. Combining animation, live-action cos-play, video games, and specially…
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Art Explora Launches Mobile Museum With Tate Liverpool
Tate has joined forces with the international art foundation, Art Explora to launch the Mobile Museum in the UK, taking masterpieces from its collection out of its store to communities across the Liverpool City Region on a 10-week tour until 29 April 2023. The Art Explora Mobile Museum in collaboration with Tate and MuMo, aims to make great art accessible to everyone. The tour will bring works from Tate’s collection directly to communities in St Helens,…
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FACT Reveals 2023-24 Programme
Liverpool’s creative arts hub, FACT, has revealed its upcoming programme for 2023-2024. The programme also celebrates their 20th anniversary. For 2023 – 24 FACT’s line-up of immersive exhibitions and art experiences will be shaped by artists’ practices rooted in hope and joy. From ‘living on the internet’ to occupying space, artists share their reimaginings of a ‘better’ world where we hold a deeper understanding of each other. From a retro-futuristic arcade to an Acid House…
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Equalise Nightlife: Exhibition Exploring Femininity, Sexuality & Gender Relations In Drinking Culture
A new art exhibition, Equalise Nightlife, is launching on Monday 27 February, which explores women and LGBTQ+ people’s experiences of alcohol and nightlife spaces such as bars and clubs. The Equalise Nightlife project is a programme of research, led by Dr Amanda Marie Atkinson, with research support from Beth Meadows. Taking an intersectional feminist perspective, it investigated how drinking and nightlife are experienced unequally and are influenced by alcohol brand and nightlife venue marketing. The…
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‘The Wrong Sex’: Exhibition For ‘Forgotten’ Liverpool Artist
A major exhibition of a forgotten female artist opening this month in Liverpool marks the start of a reappraisal of her work which was largely disregarded because she was “the wrong sex”. While the world is very familiar with many of her male contemporaries like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko or Willem de Kooning, Fanchon Fröhlich, an American-born Liverpool artist has been long underappreciated because – she was a woman. The exhibition, The Wrong Sex, a world premiere…
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‘Coalescence’ Huge Sculpture Suspended From Ceiling At Liverpool Cathedral As Artist Shines A Light On Energy Consumption
Thousands of pieces of coal are suspended from the ceiling at Liverpool Cathedral as part of a monumental artwork, created by internationally acclaimed British designer Paul Cocksedge. The Coalescence art installation, which makes its world debut at Liverpool Cathedral, opens today (9 February) and runs until 12 March. Spanning six metres in diameter, the thought-provoking artwork is made up of over half a tonne of coal, creating a visual representation of how much power it takes to keep a…
