A.R. PENCK : I THINK IN PICTURES
Jun 28 - Nov 3, 2019
This is the first solo museum exhibition of A.R. Penck's in the UK in over 30 years.
A.R. Penck was an internationally acclaimed German artist,best known for his work in painting, drawing, print and sculpture. His interests in systems theory and cybernetics, as well as pre-historic cultures and science fiction, guided his art towards an investigation of the relationships between man and society. This is his first solo museum exhibition in the UK for 30 years. It features work from the '70s and '80s that represent the artist's energetic style, focusing on the motif of the stick figure.
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EXCHANGE
Jul 5 - Sep 22, 2019
Artists Rhiannon Armstrong, Monica Bonomo & Susan Stockwell respond to the theme of Exchange and all of its potential meanings.

EXCHANGE : DESIGNED FOR LIFE
Jul 5 - Sep 22, 2019
Celebrating the traditional exchange of weaving.

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SERENA KORDA : THE BELL TREE
Sep 8, 2018 - Jul 28, 2019
Bluecoat is delighted to be working with artist Serena Korda and Trust New Art, the National Trust’s programme connecting people to places through contemporary art.
Serena Korda works across performance, sound and sculpture to find and highlight ritual in the everyday, which is developed through encounters, conversations and the researching of abandoned histories.
Set in Speke Hall’s ancient woodlands and grounds, The Bell Tree draws on the hall’s hidden history. Korda reconsiders aspects of communion and tradition, including underexplored feminist narratives or ‘herstories’ and alternative histories of folklore and witchcraft. The public commission is at Speke Hall, with a smaller element installed in Bluecoat's garden.
Speke Hall is free to visit with a National Trust Membership.

SERENA KORDA: UNDER THE ROSE
Mar 13 - Jul 28, 2019
Under the Rose is a new sound installation made for Speke Hall’s courtyard, inspired by the acoustics of secrecy.

SHEZAD DAWOOD : LEVIATHAN
Jul 6 - Oct 13, 2019
Shezad Dawood’s epic film series Leviathan comes to Bluecoat this summer as part of a season examining society and migration. Presented alongside paintings, resin sculpture, and woven textiles, Leviathan follows migratory patterns between Europe and Africa. The works combine marine biology, climate change, political systems and mental health to show how human activity and marine ecologies are intertwined.

GRACE NDIRITU : THE ARK
Jul 6 - Oct 13, 2019
Following exhibitions in 2010 and 2017, Ndiritu returns to Bluecoat with a new exhibition drawing on her 2017 research and live art project, The Ark: Center For Interdisciplinary Experimentation which took place at Les Laboratories Aubervilliers, Paris. Scientists, artists, gardeners, economists, a chef and spiritual workers joined the artist for an intensive, intimate 10-day experience focusing on the role of art, science, spirituality and politics. The resulting exhibition features archival material, costumes, signs and research materials.

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TOM HAMMICK : DREAMS AND VOYAGES
Jan 29 - Jul 30, 2019
A display of prints by artist Tom Hammick recently acquired for the Royal Pavilion & Museums’ collections. These exquisitely coloured woodcuts and etchings are very personal interpretations of several operas inspired by a visual arts residency at the English National Opera in London during 2015-16.

WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
May 18 - Sep 8, 2019
Discover awe-inspiring images capturing the incredible diversity of the natural world, from extraordinary animal behaviour to breathtaking landscapes. Uncover the surprising and sometimes challenging stories behind the photographs

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LOIS WALPOLE : WEAVING GHOSTS
May 24 - Sep 8, 2019
Lois Walpole: Weaving Ghosts is an exhibition that focuses on ghost gear*, basketry skills and sustainability. The work of Lois Walpole is intrinsically linked to the materials used to create it, and tells a powerful story of our attitude to the environment, exploring the artist’s personal history to express universal issues. Using ancient and almost forgotten basketry techniques, Walpole’s cheerful, colourful vessels belie a deeper truth and stand as silent testaments to the problems facing our planet.

RICHARD CLARE : YOU LEFT THE DOOR WIDE OPEN ALL NIGHT
May 24 - Sep 8, 2019
You Left the Door Wide Open All Night represents a small selection of the work Richard Clare has produced since settling in Letchworth in 2010. Previously an abstract painter while living in Barcelona, Clare’s recent work has become more figurative, developing a cast of characters and motifs that inhabit the artist’s ‘other world’, a psychologically skewed universe that, although dreamlike, they are given a realness and authenticity through expressive and intuitive mark-making.

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HOW CHICAGO! IMAGISTS 1960S & 70S
Jun 15 - Sep 8, 2019
The first significant exhibition in the UK in almost 40 years of work by the Chicago Imagists.

LAUREN GODFREY: GROUP HAT
Jun 15 - Sep 15, 2019

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BACK CATALOGUE : MATERPIECES OF UK EUROPEAN & CANADIAN PHOTOGRAPHY
Aug 1 - Sep 14, 2019
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ANTHONY CARO: IRON IN THE SOUL
May 8 - Jul 20, 2019 FINAL WEEK
Explore some previously unseen works by Caro, including sixteen drawings, prints and sculptures.

COOKING SECTIONS
to September
East Gallery have commissioned spatial practitioners Cooking Sections to create a new public art work which will be presented in a coastal location in September.

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MONSTER CHETWYND : HELL MOUTH 3
May 18 - Jul 27, 2019 FINAL WEEK
Monster Chetwynd’s Hell Mouth 3 channels the decline of Western Civilisation and legacies of Heavy Metal. Part of Home of Metal season.
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REAL WORK
Jul 12 - Oct 6, 2019
Featuring Liz Magic Laser and Candice Breitz. Presents 15 people’s stories about precarious and unrecognised forms of work.
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DAY TRIPPER : LIZ ARNOLD, MARIA FARRAR AND SAMARA SCOTT
Jul 20 - Oct 13, 2019
Private view Sat Jul 20 6pm - 8pm
The posthumous exhibition of Liz Arnold paired with two contemporary artists Maria Farrar and Samara Scott, will consider the impact of Arnolds time in Southend, her aspirations and dedication to her practice.

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EDUARDO PAOLOZZI : GENERAL DYNAMIC F.U.N.
Jun 17 - Aug 11, 2019
Exhibition hang at AUB curated by William Hernandez Abreu.
A Hayward Touring Exhibition from Southbank Centre, London
Eduardo Paolozzi: General Dynamic F.U.N. presents 50 screenprints and photolithographs by the pioneer of Pop Art, Sir Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005).
Created between 1965 and 1970, Paolozzi’s canny alchemy is vividly apparent in General Dynamic F.U.N. The series illustrates how the self-styled ‘Wizard in Toytown’ employed the technologies of mass-reproduction to gorge on its idols – the household names and familiar faces of consumer advertising, high fashion and Hollywood in the 1960s.

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COOKING SECTIONS:THE EMPIRE REMAINS SHOP—BIRMINGHAM FRANCHISE
Jun 14 - Sep 28, 2019
Building on a previous attempt to open an Empire Shop in Birmingham in January 1931, the first franchise of The Empire Remains Shop opens in Junctions Works, the future home of Grand Union in the historical Canal & River Trust Office grade-II listed building in Birmingham, in the heart of the post-post-industrial landscape of Digbeth. Conceived for the renovation period of the building, the Empire Remains Shop will take over the facade and windows to host a range of new commissions and existing works that employ food as a tool to assemble new sites and geographies, while exploring origins, destinations and exchanges across the present and future of our postcolonial planet. Visitors to The Empire Remains Shop—Birmingham can take part in the rolling programme of visual and sound installations facing Fazeley Street, the railway and the canal. The series of works aim to uncover Birmingham’s past and present relationship to Empire through culinary, chemical, cultural and agricultural extractions, inventions and interventions, while exploring other possible futures.

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ARTIST ROOMS ROY LICHTENSTEIN
Jul 13 - Sep 7, 2019

NDACA AT THE GRUNDY
Jul 13 - Sep 7, 2019
'Art, Anger and Rights from the Disability Arts Movement'.

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HASTINGS CONTEMPORARY
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Hastings Contemporary, an independent art gallery of modern and contemporary art on sea, opens on 6 July 2019. See website for details.

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UNCONSCIOUS LANDSCAPE. WORKS FROM THE URSULA HAUSER COLLECTION
May 25 - Sep 8, 2019

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YORKSHIRE SCULPTURE INTERNATIONAL
Jun 22 - Sep 29, 2019
For Yorkshire Sculpture International at The Hepworth Wakefield, a series of new commissions and debut UK presentations will be presented by established and emerging artists from around the world including Tarek Atoui, Nairy Baghramian, Jimmie Durham, Wolfgang Laib and Tau Lewis.

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NEW GEOGRAPHIES
Mar 1 - Dec 1, 2019
An Arts Council England funded project creating a new map of the East of England based on personal thoughts, reflections and stories.
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BARBARA HEPWORTH : ARTIST IN SOCIETY 1948-53
Mar 23 - Sep 8, 2019
This major exhibition explores a short but significant period in the life of one of Britain’s most celebrated artists.

STUART WHIPPS : REFLECTIONS ON THE DEATH OF A PROCUPINE [SIC]
Jun 26 - Aug 31, 2019
Artist Stuart Whipps presents his research into a number of sites in Essex and Hertfordshire, with particular focus on New Town architecture and the lives that interplay around these sites. You will have an opportunity to see some of the research from local archives, photography and conversations with residents.
This is part of the New Geographies project, which aims to redraw the map of East England. In the summer of 2017 people were invited to nominate places in East Anglia that resonated due to personal stories or sites that were overlooked or unexplored. Artists are now developing artworks in respond to some of the nominated locations, and in spring/summer 2019 there will be events and activities relating to these commissions. Keep an eye out on our website and social media.

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THE AERODROME
Jun 12 - Sep 8, 2019
Co-curated with David Austen and George Shaw and structured loosely on Rex Warner’s war-time novel The Aerodrome (1941), a book that made a great impression on Stanley, it includes a wide variety of work and features many of the artists he worked with.

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