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Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art
Gateshead Quays, South Shore Road, GATESHEAD, NE8 3BA
International centre for contemporary art housing five art spaces, studios, media lab, library/archive, performance area, cinema/lecture theatre, retail outlet and bookshop.
Reviews
Matt Calderwood: Paper Over the Cracks [9 May 2013]
There's a clinical sense of the unknown in Calderwood's presentation at the Baltic's auxilliary project space siteBaltic 39, a feeling somehow that one has emerged in a strangely familiar yet completely alien land. On the Read on…
Baltic 39, Newcastle
15 March 2013 to 23 June 2013
Reviewed by: Sunny Cheung »
Janet Cardiff – The Forty Part Motet [8 July 2012]
10 years since it was originally commissioned by BALTIC as part of their pre-opening events, Janet Cardiff’s The Forty Part Motet makes a poignantreturn to the North East. Upon reaching level 3 of the BALTIC the view into the gallery space is Read on…
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, GATESHEAD
16 June 2012 to 14 October 2012
Reviewed by: Iris Priest »
Janet Cardiff: 40 Part Motet [8 July 2012]
This year sees BALTIC celebrating its tenth anniversary. It seems fitting therefore that Janet Cardiff’s audio installation Forty Part Motet (originally co-commissioned by BALTIC as part of it’s pre-opening programme B4B in 2001 and Read on…
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
16 June - 14 October 2012
Reviewed by: Rebecca Travis »
Looking back at the Turner Prize 2011 [8 June 2012]
2011 was a big year for the Turner Prize. For the first time ever, the exhibition was held outside of a Tate gallery and traveled north to the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead. The Turner Prize, as we all know, is a Read on…
The Baltic, Gateshead
1 January - 29 February 2012
Reviewed by: Clare Nattress »
Bani Abidi: Section Yellow [10 January 2012]
Bani Abidi’s Pakistani roots are inextricable from the art that she creates. The sensibilities of the nation in which she was born have always inspired her practice and her first UK solo show, Section Yellow, currently at Baltic Centre for Read on…
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
11 November 2011 - 12 February 2012
Reviewed by: Rebecca Travis »
Why George Shaw should have won the Turner Prize [5 January 2012]
I always take an interest in art’s biggest bauble, the Turner Prize, and usually have my favourite entrants, but for once, in 2011, I was actually excited about a nominee. It was through the prize I learned about the work of George Shaw, Read on…
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
21 October 2011 - 8 January 2012
Reviewed by: Kenn Taylor »
The Most Powerful Weapon In This World [8 November 2010]
Nestled at the back of the ground floor of Newcastle's BALTIC gallery lies the Jordan Basman's reflective and introspective 'The Most Powerful Weapon In This World'. Somewhat overshadowed by Jenny Holzer's maze of LED screens on higher floors, Read on…
Baltic Mill, Newcastle
6 February - 9 May 2010
Reviewed by: Olivia Oldfield-Beechey »
Jordan Baseman- The Most Powerful Weapon in this World [24 April 2010]
Entering the exhibition from the light-filled atrium into darkness suddenly shifted the perception of the audience, as if dropped into a basement without feeling the descent. Faced with an empty space but for 3 screens and one seating area, Read on…
BALTIC- Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle
6 February - 9 May 2010
Reviewed by: Beth Bramich »
David Shrigley [7 November 2008]
To enter the exhibition you have to manually open a heavy iron gate with the words 'DO NOT LINGER AT THE GATES' suspended in a black, gothic spider's web. As it swings open you can almost hear the trembling voice of God (or Vincent Read on…
Baltic, Newcastle
10 September - 9 November 2008
Reviewed by: Andrew Bryant »
Variations VII [21 March 2008]
John Cage’s Variations VII, first performed in New York in 1966, relocated to Gateshead’s BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art as a centrepiece to the region-wide AV Festival. The festival itself promises a wide variety of Read on…
BALTIC Centre for contemporary art, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear
29 February 2008
Reviewed by: Daniel Carey »
You Shall Know Our Velocity [2 March 2006]
‘You Shall Know Our Velocity’ at Baltic features sixteen artists from the north east of England, and this would seem to be the limit of its curatorial ambition. The result looks like an ‘open’ exhibition with all the faults Read on…
Baltic Centre of Contemporary Art, Gateshead
21 January –26 March
Reviewed by: Mike Golding »
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