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THE ENDLESS VILLAGE : GENERAL PUBLIC
Mar 30 - Jun 10, 2018
Central to this exhibition is a science fiction satire set in an imagined future, post-Brexit Britain

THE INVENTORS : WORKSHOPS, RESIDENCIES & EVENTS
Jun 1 - Aug 27, 2018

PUSH & PULL : WILL CRUICKSHANK
Jun 22 - Sep 16, 2018
Crossing the boundaries between sculpture, craft & design.

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EMMA SMITH : EUPHONIA
Apr 27 - Jun 24, 2018
Bluecoat’s gallery is transformed into a sonic chamber for collective singing in this ground-breaking new sound installation by Emma Smith, based on the music of social communication. Euphonia is an interactive sound work illustrating how we unconsciously make music through interlocking rhythms, pitch and tone when we engage in friendly interactions - such as chitchat with friends. Smith will draw from sounds created by the many people who visit Bluecoat on a daily basis –parents and babies, visitors to the café and the choirs and groups who rehearse there in the evenings.

WORKSHOP WITH SERENA KORDA
Jun 21, 2018 11:00am - 4:00pm talk/event
This season, Bluecoat is incredibly excited to welcome performance, sound and sculpture artist Serena Korda, who will be discussing her new public art work at Speke Hall which has been commissioned by the National Trust, with our support, as part of their Trust New Art Programme.
 
In this workshop using slip casting (a method for creating objects from hollow plaster moulds) Korda introduces some of her ceramics techniques. Sharing and discussing processes involved in the research and making of the artist’s new commission, participants will have the chance to make a work to take away.
 
To learn more about the artist visit serenakorda.com
To book: www.thebluecoat.org.uk/events/view/events/3848
Tickets £8/£10

ARTIST'S TALK: SERENA KORDA
Jun 22, 2018 6:30pm - 8:00pm talk/event
This season, Bluecoat is incredibly excited to welcome performance, sound and sculpture artist Serena Korda, who will be discussing her new public art work at Speke Hall which has been commissioned by the National Trust, with our support, as part of their Trust New Art Programme.
 
Serena Korda will be joining us at Bluecoat to talk about her work and the new commission at Speke Hall, as well as her recent, highly acclaimed exhibitions at BALTIC and The Hepworth, Wakefield.
 
To learn more about the artist visit serenakorda.com
To book: www.thebluecoat.org.uk/events/view/events/3843
Tickets £3/£4

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MUSEUM OF TRANSOLOGY
Jul 20, 2017 - Jun 3, 2018
This bold, brave and profound collection of artefacts and photographic portraiture began with donations from Brighton’s vibrant trans community. It is now the largest collection representing trans people in the UK – if not the world.

JOHN PIPER’S BRIGHTON AQUATINTS
to 3 June

ARTIST ROOMS | GILBERT & GEORGE
Apr 28 - Sep 2, 2018
GILBERT (B.1943) & GEORGE (B.1942) are a Turner Prize-winning artist partnership, who have worked and shared their lives together for fifty years. The playful and ambiguous works on display, drawn from the ARTIST ROOMS collection, and the TATE collection, explore themes essential to humanity and contemporary society including sex, faith, and identity.

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BARRY PARKER: ARCHITECTURE FOR ALL
May 4 - Jul 15, 2018
Celebrating the architect of the world’s first Garden City and a key figure in the Arts & Crafts movement

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GROUNDWORK
May 5 - Sep 30, 2018
With a focus on place and an emphasis on moving image, sound and performance, Groundwork is a season of contemporary work by internationally acclaimed artists, organised by CAST. The programme opens on bank holiday weekend 5 - 7 May.
In May and June, the CAST building in Helston presents moving image installations by Steve McQueen and Francis Alÿs. Work by artists including Janet Cardiff, Andy Holden, Sean Lynch, Rosemary Lee, Christina Mackie, Steve McQueen and Simon Starling is shown in nearby locations. New commissions by Manon de Boer and Semiconductor launch the season, at Kestle Barton and Goonhilly Earth Station respectively.
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TAMAR GUIMARÃES AND KASPER AKHØJ
Feb 24 - Jun 3, 2018
'I blew on Mr Greenhill’s main joints with a very ‘hot’ breath'

FLORENCE PEAKE
May 12 - Sep 2, 2018
RITE: ON THIS PLIANT BODY WE SLIP OUR WOW!

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KAROLINA LEBEK : WATRA
Feb 22 - Jun 30, 2018
Lebek investigates her Polish Lemko heritage through performance, sculpture & folk-song.
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DOMINIC FROM LUTON
Feb 22 - Jun 30, 2018
Dominic from Luton looks back at 20 years of creative labour in Luton.

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NATHAN COLEY
May 15 - Jul 7, 2018
East Gallery is delighted to show the work of Nathan Coley, a Glasgow-based artist whose work examines the nature of belief in our society through a range of media. His gallery based work and interventions in public space seek to enquire into our relationship with sacred and secular architecture, signage and protest, exploring systems of faith and how these are represented and demonstrated. Nathan Coley was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2007.

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MIXRICE AT EASTSIDE PROJECTS
Jun 2 - Jul 28, 2018
Private view Fri Jun 1 6pm - 8pm
Mixrice’s show is part of Korea/UK 2017-18. The collective work with refugee labourers in Seoul and will build connections with Birmingham migrant communities.
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STATES OF PLAY : ROLEPLAY REALITY
Mar 22 - Jun 17, 2018
An immersive and participatory show examining gaming as both a critical and artistic tool, focusing on the unparalleled importance of role-play within the genre. Collected works illustrate how games are a site of contested power and identity, playing out across both the physical and virtual worlds.

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GET OUT AND PUSH!
May 12 - Aug 19, 2018
As a precursor to the British New Wave, Free Cinema marked a broader attitudinal shift in cinema and the arts against the exclusion of whole areas of life. Through a supporting programme of film and events, the exhibition will examine how the movement reflects the present challenges and methods of resistance employed by filmmakers and artists alike. This will include a temporary cinema space built into gallery one.
 
Gallery two will house an installation presentation of artist Ed Webb-Ingall's new community video project originally commissioned by Studio Voltaire. 'We Have Rather Been Invaded' looks at the impact and legacy of Section 28 and a historic ‘lesbian invasion’ of the BBC six o’clock news on May 23rd 1988. Comprised of archival material and interviews, the video examines the role of activism and our understanding of this piece of legislation 30 years on which prohibited local authorities in England and Wales from promoting homosexuality.

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PREP HE SUMMER SHOW
May 18 - 26, 2018 FINAL WEEK
AUB celebrates the achievements of our Foundation Diploma students.

BA SUMMER SHOWS
Jun 7 - 16, 2018
AUB Summer Shows celebrate the achievements of our 2018 graduating students.

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INHERITED PREMISES : RAMI GEORGE & TAKO TAAL
May 25 - Aug 3, 2018
Private view Fri Jun 1 6pm - 9pm
Inherited Premises is a two-person show by artists Rami George and Tako Taal that seeks to articulate both personal and national narratives, situating itself between moments of political rupture and socio-familial histories.
 
Making reference to domesticity, language and ideas of nationhood, both artists explore their cultural and social lineages in relation to broader understandings of political traumas including conflict, war and imperialism.
 
As George moves towards a meditation on the spectre of Civil War within the Lebanese diaspora, Taal looks to linguistic boundaries and folklore in her understandings of matrilineal relations in Gambian culture.
 
Curated by Associate Curator Seán Elder.

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ROY VOSS : THE WAY THINGS ARE
Mar 24 - Jun 23, 2018
Stretching through the Grundy’s two ground-floor gallery spaces, The Way Things Are is a sculpture, precisely and elegantly constructed in poplar wood that approximates to the form of a pier. Inspired by Victorian lithographs, contemporary architects’ drawings and the artist’s own recollections, The Way Things Are extends the artist’s interest in romantic longing; between desire and lived experience, between memory and fact.

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ALEXANDER CALDER. FROM THE STONY RIVER TO THE SKY
May 26 - Sep 9, 2018
Private view Fri May 25 6pm - 8pm
Hauser & Wirth Somerset is proud to present a major solo exhibition of works by Alexander Calder, the majority of which have never before been exhibited in the UK.

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DAUGHTERS OF NECESSITY : SERENA KORDA & WAKEFIELD'S CERAMICS
Dec 2, 2017 - Jul 5, 2018
The Hepworth Wakefield is home to a rich and eclectic collection of ceramics made by some of the great names of modern pottery, including Hans Coper, Lucy Rie and Albert Wainwright. For this exhibition, British artist Serena Korda will choose a selection of these ceramics to display alongside her own new and existing works, exploring where these objects sit between function and sculpture.

SCHOOL PRINTS
Jan 12 - Jun 24, 2018
During the 1940s, artists including Henri Matisse, Henry Moore and Pablo Picasso were commissioned to create prints as part of a project to bring contemporary art to school children.
 
Inspired by this project, we have invited Martin Creed, Jeremy Deller, Anthea Hamilton, Helen Marten, Haroon Mirza and Rose Wylie to create limited edition prints for schools. The new prints will be displayed alongside the original 1940s works.

ANTHONY MCCALL : SOLID LIGHT WORKS
Feb 16 - Jun 3, 2018
Solid Light Works will be the first major UK exhibition of artist Anthony McCall’s work in over a decade. It will explore all facets of his work and will include the UK premiere of three new ‘solid light’ installations.
 
McCall describes his practice as existing in the space where cinema, sculpture and drawing overlap. He is best known for his large-scale, immersive sculptural light installations that incorporate the visitor and invite them to become active participants in the work.

LEE MILLER : AND SURREALISM IN BRITAIN
Jun 22 - Oct 7, 2018
Lee Miller (1907 – 1977) first entered the world of photography in New York as a model in Vogue in the 1920s. In 1929 she moved to Paris and worked with Man Ray, establishing her own studio and becoming part of the Surrealist milieu. A rich strand of Surrealist practice emerged in Britain in the 1930s and developed in the immediate pre-war period, during which Miller moved to London.
 
This exhibition will explore the creative networks between artists in the UK in the 1930s and 40s through Miller’s lens. Miller’s photographs of and collaborations with Surrealists working in the UK, including Eileen Agar, Leonora Carrington, Max Ernst and René Magritte will be presented alongside their own paintings and sculptures.
 
It will also focus on Miller’s own practice and how she turned her Surrealist eye across disciplines to the worlds of fashion and journalism, revealing and revelling in the strange and extraordinary.

VIVIANE SASSEN: HOT MIRROR
Jun 22 - Oct 7, 2018
Echoing the career of Lee Miller, internationally renowned artist Viviane Sassen (b. 1972) straddles the fashion and fine art worlds. Central to this exhibition is the inspiration of Surrealism, a movement Sassen recognises as one of her earliest artistic influences, seen in the uncanny shadows, fragmented bodies and dreamlike landscapes of her work.
 
Hot Mirror will bring together photographs from several collections made over the last ten years, including the celebrated Flamboya and Parasomnia series (2013), shown alongside new photographs and collages, to create image-poems that draw on the Surrealist strategies of collage to offer new and unexpected juxtapositions.
 
As well as an overview of Sassen’s artistic practice, the exhibition will present a new version of her immersive film installation, Totem.

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LOUIS HENDERSON: OVERTURES
Apr 21 - Jun 10, 2018
The film will chart the progress of Henderson, alongside producer Olivier Marboeuf, devising a performance for the forthcoming Ghetto Biennial with a collective of eight young Haitian actors, poets and slammers. Taking as a point of departure the play Monsieur Toussaint by Édouard Glissant, Overtures explores the complexities of both translation (from French to Créole) and fiction when looking at Haitian history.
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RIE NAKAJIMA : CYCLIC
Mar 21 - Jun 3, 2018

LANGLANDS & BELL : INTERNET GIANTS: MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE
Mar 21 - Jun 10, 2018
Ikon presents an exhibition of new and recent work by British artists Ben Langlands and Nikki Bell, marking the 40th anniversary of their artistic partnership. Featuring the iconic new architecture of global technology companies such as Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Google, the exhibition includes relief sculptures, installations, and portraits exploring the increasingly profound influence these huge companies will have on all our lives as we enter the Information Age. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, with an essay by Anthony Vidler and an interview with the artists by Dr Hans-Michael Herzog.

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