Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art
@balticgateshead.bsky.social
Contemporary art gallery ✨
Open Wed-Sun 10am-6pm
Free entry, no booking needed
Gateshead Quays, South Shore Road, Gateshead NE8 3BA
https://baltic.art/
Open Wed-Sun 10am-6pm
Free entry, no booking needed
Gateshead Quays, South Shore Road, Gateshead NE8 3BA
https://baltic.art/
Nadia Huggins swims daily, documenting her body in the ocean alongside marine life near her home in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
Transformation No. 4 explores separation between human and marine worlds through a self-portrait & an image of a brain coral which can live up to 900 years.
Transformation No. 4 explores separation between human and marine worlds through a self-portrait & an image of a brain coral which can live up to 900 years.
November 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Nadia Huggins swims daily, documenting her body in the ocean alongside marine life near her home in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
Transformation No. 4 explores separation between human and marine worlds through a self-portrait & an image of a brain coral which can live up to 900 years.
Transformation No. 4 explores separation between human and marine worlds through a self-portrait & an image of a brain coral which can live up to 900 years.
✨ Now Open: For All At Last Return 🌊
Explore ocean ecology through sculpture, video, photography & installation by 12 international artists, highlighting their concern for the health of the ocean.
Open until June 2026 | Wed-Sun 10:00-18:00
🤝 Exhibition Partner: Schmidt Ocean Institute
Explore ocean ecology through sculpture, video, photography & installation by 12 international artists, highlighting their concern for the health of the ocean.
Open until June 2026 | Wed-Sun 10:00-18:00
🤝 Exhibition Partner: Schmidt Ocean Institute
November 17, 2025 at 11:26 AM
✨ Now Open: For All At Last Return 🌊
Explore ocean ecology through sculpture, video, photography & installation by 12 international artists, highlighting their concern for the health of the ocean.
Open until June 2026 | Wed-Sun 10:00-18:00
🤝 Exhibition Partner: Schmidt Ocean Institute
Explore ocean ecology through sculpture, video, photography & installation by 12 international artists, highlighting their concern for the health of the ocean.
Open until June 2026 | Wed-Sun 10:00-18:00
🤝 Exhibition Partner: Schmidt Ocean Institute
At the review's heart lies a renewed commitment to creative subjects, putting creativity at the centre of every child's education. Learning & Participation has always been vital to our mission, engaging 183k children & young people annually. It's encouraging to see this reflected by our Government.
November 6, 2025 at 11:48 AM
At the review's heart lies a renewed commitment to creative subjects, putting creativity at the centre of every child's education. Learning & Participation has always been vital to our mission, engaging 183k children & young people annually. It's encouraging to see this reflected by our Government.
Today marks a milestone for the arts in the Government's Curriculum and Assessment Review.
Shaped by over seven thousand voices, it sets out a bold vision for a rich, inclusive, and innovative education plan. We're proud to have championed this movement and to be a part of this conversation.
Shaped by over seven thousand voices, it sets out a bold vision for a rich, inclusive, and innovative education plan. We're proud to have championed this movement and to be a part of this conversation.
November 6, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Today marks a milestone for the arts in the Government's Curriculum and Assessment Review.
Shaped by over seven thousand voices, it sets out a bold vision for a rich, inclusive, and innovative education plan. We're proud to have championed this movement and to be a part of this conversation.
Shaped by over seven thousand voices, it sets out a bold vision for a rich, inclusive, and innovative education plan. We're proud to have championed this movement and to be a part of this conversation.
✨ Now open: Qi Fang Colbert pop-up shop
Limited-edition linocut prints, original collage paintings & handmade ceramics inspired by Phenomenology, Taoism, Renaissance art & Surrealism to embrace alternative storytelling.
All works available to purchase from Baltic Shop
#BalticGateshead #BalticShop
Limited-edition linocut prints, original collage paintings & handmade ceramics inspired by Phenomenology, Taoism, Renaissance art & Surrealism to embrace alternative storytelling.
All works available to purchase from Baltic Shop
#BalticGateshead #BalticShop
October 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
✨ Now open: Qi Fang Colbert pop-up shop
Limited-edition linocut prints, original collage paintings & handmade ceramics inspired by Phenomenology, Taoism, Renaissance art & Surrealism to embrace alternative storytelling.
All works available to purchase from Baltic Shop
#BalticGateshead #BalticShop
Limited-edition linocut prints, original collage paintings & handmade ceramics inspired by Phenomenology, Taoism, Renaissance art & Surrealism to embrace alternative storytelling.
All works available to purchase from Baltic Shop
#BalticGateshead #BalticShop
What a pleasure hearing artists Laura Lancaster and Rachel Lancaster discuss their exhibition 'Remember, Somewhere' at Baltic. If you haven't experienced it yet, this is your final week – it closes this Sunday, 12 October.
#BalticGateshead #PaintTechniques
#BalticGateshead #PaintTechniques
October 8, 2025 at 10:38 AM
What a pleasure hearing artists Laura Lancaster and Rachel Lancaster discuss their exhibition 'Remember, Somewhere' at Baltic. If you haven't experienced it yet, this is your final week – it closes this Sunday, 12 October.
#BalticGateshead #PaintTechniques
#BalticGateshead #PaintTechniques
Baltic becomes a living video game for one night.
Created by Kerolaina Linkeviča this immersive club night blends DJ sets, live-action role-playing, quests & bioluminescent visuals.
Every guest becomes a character. Sat 22 Nov | 20:00-01:00 | 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/kerolaina-...
Created by Kerolaina Linkeviča this immersive club night blends DJ sets, live-action role-playing, quests & bioluminescent visuals.
Every guest becomes a character. Sat 22 Nov | 20:00-01:00 | 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/kerolaina-...
October 4, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Baltic becomes a living video game for one night.
Created by Kerolaina Linkeviča this immersive club night blends DJ sets, live-action role-playing, quests & bioluminescent visuals.
Every guest becomes a character. Sat 22 Nov | 20:00-01:00 | 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/kerolaina-...
Created by Kerolaina Linkeviča this immersive club night blends DJ sets, live-action role-playing, quests & bioluminescent visuals.
Every guest becomes a character. Sat 22 Nov | 20:00-01:00 | 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/kerolaina-...
Enter a playful dimension of hybrid forms in Saelia Aparicio's A Joyful Parasite. Open Wed-Sun 10:00-18:00
#BalticGateshead #ContemporaryArt #HybridForms
#BalticGateshead #ContemporaryArt #HybridForms
October 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Enter a playful dimension of hybrid forms in Saelia Aparicio's A Joyful Parasite. Open Wed-Sun 10:00-18:00
#BalticGateshead #ContemporaryArt #HybridForms
#BalticGateshead #ContemporaryArt #HybridForms
Dive into @Harold_Offeh's The Mothership Collective 2.0 - a sci-fi sound world inspired by Sun Ra's vision of music as intergalactic freedom. Jam with instruments, play, and reimagine the future. 🎹🎸
Open Wed-Sun 10:00-18:00
Open Wed-Sun 10:00-18:00
September 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Dive into @Harold_Offeh's The Mothership Collective 2.0 - a sci-fi sound world inspired by Sun Ra's vision of music as intergalactic freedom. Jam with instruments, play, and reimagine the future. 🎹🎸
Open Wed-Sun 10:00-18:00
Open Wed-Sun 10:00-18:00
Beyond our exhibitions, explore guided Behind-The-Scenes and Quayside tours, our viewing deck with the best views of NewcastleGateshead, a shop full of independent goodies and a menu of refreshments in our cafe. www.baltic.art/whats-on
Something for everyone this autumn 🫶
Open Wed-Sun 10:00 | 18:00
Something for everyone this autumn 🫶
Open Wed-Sun 10:00 | 18:00
September 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Beyond our exhibitions, explore guided Behind-The-Scenes and Quayside tours, our viewing deck with the best views of NewcastleGateshead, a shop full of independent goodies and a menu of refreshments in our cafe. www.baltic.art/whats-on
Something for everyone this autumn 🫶
Open Wed-Sun 10:00 | 18:00
Something for everyone this autumn 🫶
Open Wed-Sun 10:00 | 18:00
Rachel Lancaster transforms overlooked stills from 1980s-90s into luminescent paintings, capturing intimate details like light on skin. Her dreamy technique reveals beauty in insignificant moments, creating suspended-in-time scenes that feel familiar. 📅 Remember Somewhere is open Wed-Sun 10:00-18:00
September 15, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Rachel Lancaster transforms overlooked stills from 1980s-90s into luminescent paintings, capturing intimate details like light on skin. Her dreamy technique reveals beauty in insignificant moments, creating suspended-in-time scenes that feel familiar. 📅 Remember Somewhere is open Wed-Sun 10:00-18:00
Artist Ali Cherri speaks about the tangibility of mud as a primary material that brings together the sculptures found in his exhibition in our level 4 gallery.
Experience Ali Cherri: How I Am Monument, Wed-Sun 10:00-18:00 until 12 Oct.
Experience Ali Cherri: How I Am Monument, Wed-Sun 10:00-18:00 until 12 Oct.
September 6, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Artist Ali Cherri speaks about the tangibility of mud as a primary material that brings together the sculptures found in his exhibition in our level 4 gallery.
Experience Ali Cherri: How I Am Monument, Wed-Sun 10:00-18:00 until 12 Oct.
Experience Ali Cherri: How I Am Monument, Wed-Sun 10:00-18:00 until 12 Oct.
Baltic is a registered charity. Your donations are crucial in helping us to safeguard the incredible free access to our constantly changing exhibitions and quayside building.
On #InternationalDayOfCharity we ask you to support this by donating at www.baltic.art/donate
On #InternationalDayOfCharity we ask you to support this by donating at www.baltic.art/donate
September 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Baltic is a registered charity. Your donations are crucial in helping us to safeguard the incredible free access to our constantly changing exhibitions and quayside building.
On #InternationalDayOfCharity we ask you to support this by donating at www.baltic.art/donate
On #InternationalDayOfCharity we ask you to support this by donating at www.baltic.art/donate
☀️ While the sun shines enjoy a free scenic tour along the Quayside to learn more about NewcastleGateshead, and discover local stories and historical facts, led by our friendly Baltic Crew.
⏰ Every Thursday | 10:00-10:45 Book free tickets at baltic.art/quayside #BalticGateshead #FreeEvents
⏰ Every Thursday | 10:00-10:45 Book free tickets at baltic.art/quayside #BalticGateshead #FreeEvents
August 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
☀️ While the sun shines enjoy a free scenic tour along the Quayside to learn more about NewcastleGateshead, and discover local stories and historical facts, led by our friendly Baltic Crew.
⏰ Every Thursday | 10:00-10:45 Book free tickets at baltic.art/quayside #BalticGateshead #FreeEvents
⏰ Every Thursday | 10:00-10:45 Book free tickets at baltic.art/quayside #BalticGateshead #FreeEvents
🏺 Ali Cherri's 'Sphinx' reimagines ancient Assyrian and Egyptian civilizations. This winged hybrid sits with exaggerated muscles and a serpent coiling around its legs. Where monuments once declared permanence, Cherri's creature is made from mud, balanced on bronze prostheses - fragile yet defiant.
July 29, 2025 at 12:40 PM
🏺 Ali Cherri's 'Sphinx' reimagines ancient Assyrian and Egyptian civilizations. This winged hybrid sits with exaggerated muscles and a serpent coiling around its legs. Where monuments once declared permanence, Cherri's creature is made from mud, balanced on bronze prostheses - fragile yet defiant.
“It gives the paintings this feeling of luminosity as if they’re almost backlit” Rachel Lancaster's technique of not using white paint gives her pieces a dream-like quality of faded memories, drawing on cinematic imagery 1980s and 1990s films as her inspiration.
July 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
“It gives the paintings this feeling of luminosity as if they’re almost backlit” Rachel Lancaster's technique of not using white paint gives her pieces a dream-like quality of faded memories, drawing on cinematic imagery 1980s and 1990s films as her inspiration.
The Mothership Collective 2.0 explores Harold Offeh’s interests in Afrofuturism, joy and imagination 🚀
Explore different sensory experiences where you can make patterns with sound, as well as prophecies and predictions for the future.
#BalticGateshead #HaroldOffeh #InteractiveArt
Explore different sensory experiences where you can make patterns with sound, as well as prophecies and predictions for the future.
#BalticGateshead #HaroldOffeh #InteractiveArt
July 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The Mothership Collective 2.0 explores Harold Offeh’s interests in Afrofuturism, joy and imagination 🚀
Explore different sensory experiences where you can make patterns with sound, as well as prophecies and predictions for the future.
#BalticGateshead #HaroldOffeh #InteractiveArt
Explore different sensory experiences where you can make patterns with sound, as well as prophecies and predictions for the future.
#BalticGateshead #HaroldOffeh #InteractiveArt
Drawing on classical mythology and the transformative forms found in Ancient Egypt and pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, A Joyful Parasite by London-based Spanish artist Saelia Aparicio blends the state of animals and humans to shape a surreal and fictional world.
July 9, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Drawing on classical mythology and the transformative forms found in Ancient Egypt and pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, A Joyful Parasite by London-based Spanish artist Saelia Aparicio blends the state of animals and humans to shape a surreal and fictional world.
🚀 Harold Offeh: The Mothership Collective 2.0
An interactive sci-fi playscape created with communities. Designed for young people and families, this imaginative space celebrates Afrofuturism, joy and creative play. Which world will you explore first?
An interactive sci-fi playscape created with communities. Designed for young people and families, this imaginative space celebrates Afrofuturism, joy and creative play. Which world will you explore first?
July 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
🚀 Harold Offeh: The Mothership Collective 2.0
An interactive sci-fi playscape created with communities. Designed for young people and families, this imaginative space celebrates Afrofuturism, joy and creative play. Which world will you explore first?
An interactive sci-fi playscape created with communities. Designed for young people and families, this imaginative space celebrates Afrofuturism, joy and creative play. Which world will you explore first?
Two new exhibitions now open ✨
🌱 Saelia Aparicio: A Joyful Parasite
Playful yet urgent – explore the body, ecology & care systems through surreal sculpture and installation. Surreal and speculative, Aparicio imagines alternative worlds where humans and non-humans coexist in unexpected ways.
🌱 Saelia Aparicio: A Joyful Parasite
Playful yet urgent – explore the body, ecology & care systems through surreal sculpture and installation. Surreal and speculative, Aparicio imagines alternative worlds where humans and non-humans coexist in unexpected ways.
July 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Two new exhibitions now open ✨
🌱 Saelia Aparicio: A Joyful Parasite
Playful yet urgent – explore the body, ecology & care systems through surreal sculpture and installation. Surreal and speculative, Aparicio imagines alternative worlds where humans and non-humans coexist in unexpected ways.
🌱 Saelia Aparicio: A Joyful Parasite
Playful yet urgent – explore the body, ecology & care systems through surreal sculpture and installation. Surreal and speculative, Aparicio imagines alternative worlds where humans and non-humans coexist in unexpected ways.
Dreaming of summer evening swims 🌊
Laura Lancaster’s work centres around the figure, often abstracting its presence to create ambigious and surreal imagery. Using found photos, cine films and slides of strangers, her work explores a dialogue between photography and painting.
Laura Lancaster’s work centres around the figure, often abstracting its presence to create ambigious and surreal imagery. Using found photos, cine films and slides of strangers, her work explores a dialogue between photography and painting.
June 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Dreaming of summer evening swims 🌊
Laura Lancaster’s work centres around the figure, often abstracting its presence to create ambigious and surreal imagery. Using found photos, cine films and slides of strangers, her work explores a dialogue between photography and painting.
Laura Lancaster’s work centres around the figure, often abstracting its presence to create ambigious and surreal imagery. Using found photos, cine films and slides of strangers, her work explores a dialogue between photography and painting.
Baltic Cinema is a new year-round film programme that brings new+ otherwise rarely screened work to the North East.To launch the prog,we present 2 films about the power of cinema itself. www.eventbrite.co.uk/cc/baltic-ci... Close-Up screens Wed 2 July, 18:30 & Tale of Cinema on Thu 10 July, 18:30
June 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Baltic Cinema is a new year-round film programme that brings new+ otherwise rarely screened work to the North East.To launch the prog,we present 2 films about the power of cinema itself. www.eventbrite.co.uk/cc/baltic-ci... Close-Up screens Wed 2 July, 18:30 & Tale of Cinema on Thu 10 July, 18:30
During @refugeeweek.bsky.social & always, we champion solidarity for those rebuilding lives in the North East. As a Gallery of Sanctuary, we offer language cafés, pay-what-you-can refreshments, wi-fi & charging, and essential supplies including nappies & wipes.
👉 Learn more: baltic.art/communities
👉 Learn more: baltic.art/communities
June 20, 2025 at 8:13 AM
During @refugeeweek.bsky.social & always, we champion solidarity for those rebuilding lives in the North East. As a Gallery of Sanctuary, we offer language cafés, pay-what-you-can refreshments, wi-fi & charging, and essential supplies including nappies & wipes.
👉 Learn more: baltic.art/communities
👉 Learn more: baltic.art/communities
Now open ✨To Own Both Nothing and the Whole World
Presented by @hennaasikainen.bsky.social with Roua Horanieh for Moomin's 80th Anniversary, and created with migrant communities from Gateshead & Newcastle to raise awareness of climate emergency and displacement during @refugeeweek.bsky.social
Presented by @hennaasikainen.bsky.social with Roua Horanieh for Moomin's 80th Anniversary, and created with migrant communities from Gateshead & Newcastle to raise awareness of climate emergency and displacement during @refugeeweek.bsky.social
June 18, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Now open ✨To Own Both Nothing and the Whole World
Presented by @hennaasikainen.bsky.social with Roua Horanieh for Moomin's 80th Anniversary, and created with migrant communities from Gateshead & Newcastle to raise awareness of climate emergency and displacement during @refugeeweek.bsky.social
Presented by @hennaasikainen.bsky.social with Roua Horanieh for Moomin's 80th Anniversary, and created with migrant communities from Gateshead & Newcastle to raise awareness of climate emergency and displacement during @refugeeweek.bsky.social
Congratulations to Baltic Honorary Patron, Sir Antony Gormley OBE who has been made a member of the Order of the Companions, for services to art in the King's Birthday Honours. Revisit the artist’s 2003 Baltic exhibition at Baltic Archive site archive.baltic.art/exhibition/a...
June 16, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Congratulations to Baltic Honorary Patron, Sir Antony Gormley OBE who has been made a member of the Order of the Companions, for services to art in the King's Birthday Honours. Revisit the artist’s 2003 Baltic exhibition at Baltic Archive site archive.baltic.art/exhibition/a...