Liverpool Contemporary
The oldest arts centre in the country, a gallery built for photography, a home for film and digital work, and Tate's northern outpost — the part of Liverpool's art scene that shows what is being made now.
The national museums hold what Liverpool inherited. These four commission and show what is being made this year, and between them they cover the disciplines a Victorian gallery has no room for — photography, film, digital work, architecture.
4 venues
Bluecoat
The oldest building in central Liverpool and the oldest arts centre in the country, which is a strange combination and produces a stranger programme — contemporary work in a Queen Anne school.
Explore venue →Tate Liverpool + RIBA North
The bridge item. Tate's northern outpost now shares a Mann Island building with RIBA North, so a visit can put a contemporary art show and an architecture exhibition in the same hour — two disciplines that argue with each other more usefully than either does alone.
Explore venue →FACT
Built for the things a gallery struggles with — film, digital work, art that needs a dark room and a power supply. The cinema downstairs is part of the argument, not a sideline.
Explore venue →Open Eye Gallery
One of the few UK galleries dedicated to photography since the 1970s, on the dock and free to enter — a narrow remit held for fifty years rather than broadened.
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