What’s On
Liverpool is a vibrant city, with plenty of activities to suit all tastes. Find out what’s happening and when with our handy ‘What’s On’ calendar.
Bees: A Story of Survival
Bees: A Story Of Survival is a visually stunning and immersive adventure that explores the epic tale of these incredible creatures and their essential relationship with the natural world. In a unique partnership with the award-winning artist Wolfgang Buttress, Bees: A Story Of Survival is a beautiful harmony of art and science featuring cutting edge technology. Using sculptural sound...
Sara Sadik XENON PALACE CHAMPIONSHIP
Sara Sadik presents XENON PALACE CHAMPIONSHIP (2023), an interactive film and installation environment that reflects on brotherhood and belonging, exploring the relationship between alienation, ambition, and securing your legacy. Sara Sadik explores loneliness, love and empowerment through a fantastical blend of film, installation and games; creating worlds that sit between fiction and documentary. In XENON PALACE CHAMPIONSHIP (2023), Sara...
R.I.P. Germain “After GOD, Dudus Comes Next!”
R.I.P. Germain presents “After GOD, Dudus Comes Next!” (2024), an immersive installation that considers the complex overlaps between alternative currencies, gate-kept spaces and odd logics that structure hidden worlds. In “After GOD, Dudus Comes Next!”, R.I.P. Germain explores the concept of ‘false fronts’: spaces that look like one thing, but function as something else, or otherwise occlude some...
EONARIUM Enlightenment
Have you ever dreamt with your eyes wide open? Today, it’s possible thanks to Enlightenment. After a resounding success in Zurich, the immersive experience of the year is finally arriving in Liverpool, within the heart of an exceptional historical monument – St George´s Hall. Explore the four seasons through a breath-taking visual and auditory experience,...
Roots & Resilience at The Bluecoat
Are you a young person with an interest in history? Do you want to learn new skills and share your creative practice? Join us to explore our history as the UK’s first arts centre, and think about our legacy as part of the story of Liverpool, its people and its artists. At Weekly workshops, we...
Harun Farocki: In Comparison
See Harun Farocki’s 61-minute film In Comparison at Tate Liverpool + RIBA North. It showcases the different traditions and methods of brick production across the world, including brick burning, brick carrying and bricklaying. It investigates the colours and sounds of different cultures through their literal building blocks. Farocki was a pioneering filmmaker and theorist. He...
Brickworks
Iconic works from the Tate collection turn the humble brick into the hero in a new display at Tate Liverpool at the new gallery space at RIBA North. Consisting of sculpture, photography and works on paper Brickworks shows the diverse ways that this material has been used to make art. Shown in Liverpool, a city...
Into the Wyld
Material Matters presents Into the Wyld: a festival of contemporary art at the Williamson Art Gallery & Museum exploring the continuing legacy of the medieval poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and its unique connection to the Wirral. From 1st August to 21st December 2024 the Material Matters Collective will be in residency at...
Now you see me: Chris Day
‘Now you see me’ is a stunning blown glass and mixed media modular installation. It will be shown in Room 9 with the painting that inspired it – The Card Party by Gawen Hamilton (1698-1737). Chris Day rediscovered his love of art after twenty years working as a heating engineer. He studied ceramics and glass...
Ever Forward
An exhibition celebrating the Liverpool Everyman Theatre at 60. In 1964, as the Beatles embarked on their first world tour and the Metropolitan Cathedral was still under construction, Martin Jenkins, Peter James and Terry Hands opened the Everyman. They had no mission statement, no business plan, no carefully prepared marketing material. What they had was...
