Disclosures II was part of Nottingham Contemporary’s Histories of the Present, our year long series of exhibitions and events in historically significant places in and...
Vito Acconci, Shaina Anand, Atelier Van Lieshout, Angela Bulloch, Chris Evans, Harun Farocki, Dan Graham, Group d’Information sur les Prisons, Mona Hatoum, Thomas...
While our building was being finished in the summer 2009, we showed two exhibitions in our main window, overlooking Weekday Cross in the Lace Market.
Josephine...
A mass gathering, coming together to set sail eighty five paper boats in the fountains at Old Market Square. That's eighty five days until Nottingham Contemporary opens...
On Wednesday the adventure begins....
Get Involved 17's beautiful Nottingham Contemporary Sofa will begin its journey, starting at 9am in the heart of our city: Old...
Language is central to the work of Brannon, Stark and Wilcox. Each of these American artists exploits words for their literary, historical, psychological and graphic...
Hockney in the 60s was that rare thing – an artist at the forefront of the avant-garde of the day, and a well-known public figure. With his Yorkshire accent, bleached...
Frances Stark is one of the most intriguing artists to have emerged from the vibrant Los Angeles art scene in the last two decades. Visually her stylish collages are...
We commissioned the artist Pablo Bronstein to create a 21st century take on a “cabinet of curiosities” or wunderkammer – the root of the modern museum.
Four...
Downloadable publications, texts and essays that extend the themes in our exhibition programme. Written by international curators, academics and cultural commentators....
Your invitation to our opening.
Free family fun with the world’s biggest butterflies, Zig and Zag the Zebras, the Living Logos, face painting, magic and music –...
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Five poets read their responses to the work of David Hockney and Frances...
Join a compelling conversation between cultural commentator Michael Bracewell and Andrew Wilson, Curator of Modern and Contemporary British Art at Tate Britain, as they...
A conversation between cultural commentator Michael Bracewell, and Tate Britain Curator, Andrew Wilson. Within the galleries, they discuss Hockney's role in the British...
Parade reflects Leckey’s interests in music, fashion and the male dandy. Gigantic images of both high fashion and street culture fill the screens in this feverish...
We were delighted to welcome David Hockney to Nottingham Contemporary on 30th November. You can hear more about his visit on Radio 4's Today Programme on Tuesday 29...
A Bigger Splash is a fascinating and experimental up-close documentary of three years in the life of David Hockney. Stuart Comer, Tate’s Curator of Film, and Mark...
Three poetry writing workshops will look at the aesthetic principles of form, fragment, and line as they resonate in works by David Hockney, Frances Stark, Walt Whitman,...
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A magician pulls seemingly random images from his pocket, including family photographs, playing cards and film stills, arranging and rearranging them in mid air. ...
Condensed into palatable and frivolous art trivia, questions will range from the seminal to the downright silly, and knowing your Turner from your Turner Prize and your...
A feature-length documentary on the young Southern Californian Latinos who idolise Morrissey and his former band The Smiths. The film makes revealing links between the...
Morgan Fisher collected strips of film while working in Hollywood. Narrative features, news footage, adverts and trailers were then filmed in a single continuous shot....
Inspired by our current David Hockney and Frances Stark exhibitions this workshop will encourage writers to incorporate collage into their work, looking especially at the...
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Alex Farquharson, Director of Nottingham Contemporary, and Francis McKee, Director Centre for...
This one-hour talk will examine the city of Los Angeles in contemporary visual culture and literature, and its influence on the arts.
Presented by Dr Mark Rawlinson,...
Wayne Koestenbaum is the Distinguished Professor of English at the City University of New York and an extraordinary cultural commentator and poet whose work spans Andy...
This series of study sessions will explore notions of ‘opacity’, ‘imperceptibility’ and ‘disappearance’ from a number of different perspectives, and in relation to questions of ethics,...
The imperative to ‘do deceleration’ is less a call to ‘slow down’, to withdraw or retreat from the process of production as such. Instead, the invitation is to explore ways in which we might...
Ahead of her performance commission, Steffani Jemison presents her work in the form of a listening session through works and music created from 2007 to the present. Works addressed will include:...
Led by visual artist Steffani Jemison, this workshop examines the phenomenon of artificial, planned, constructed, utopian, auxiliary, and artistic languages and writing systems—created by authors...