Keiken brings a post-human world 1,000 Years into the future to Baltic
18 August 2026 • Mark Westall
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art is to present the first major UK public gallery exhibition by artist collective Keiken, transforming… Read More
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Tish Murtha & Kuba Ryniewicz: Close to Home
13 July 2026 • Yichun Huang
Yichun Liu reviews Close to Home at Baltic, where Tish Murtha’s powerful documentary photography is placed in conversation with Kuba Ryniewicz’s intimate contemporary portraits of Newcastle.
Sting backs Baltic with major donation
12 June 2025 • Mark Westall
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead has announced a major donation from North East musician Sting
Exploring Blackness, Queerness and the body as an archive: Black on Black A solo dance performance by Zinzi Minott
24 May 2022 • Mark Westall
Ground-breaking dancer, filmmaker and activist Zinzi Minott will perform Black on Black a solo dance performance that explores queerness, blackness… Read More
Sutapa Biswas to present major solo exhibition at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
1 June 2021 • Mark Westall
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art will open a major solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Sutapa Biswas in late June. Spanning Biswas’ extensive career, the exhibition will include a major new film commission titled Lumen.
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and Siobhan Davies Dance announce new partnership and open call to artists:
22 May 2018 • Mark Westall
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and Siobhan Davies Dance have just announced a new four year partnership CONTINUOUS. The ambitious collaboration initiates a step-change in the commissioning, creation and presentation of experimental independent contemporary dance within visual arts contexts.
Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson Song for Armageddon
19 September 2017 • Staff
It has competition, but the actual location of Armageddon, in what is now the northern part of Israel, is said to have seen more conflict than any other place in history.
BALTIC Artists’ Award 2017
16 July 2017 • Mark Westall
The BALTIC Artists Award is different to most others – there isn’t a winner! All the chosen shortlist get the same cash £30k and a 13 week show at BALTIC.
Marcelle Joseph Interviews Sculptor Holly Hendry
23 February 2017 • Staff
Holly Hendry doesn’t do anything by halves.
Leading international artists select future global talent in new award.
12 November 2016 • Mark Westall
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead has launched a major new international artist award. The BALTIC Artists’ Award
Artist Opportunity: BALTIC Fig 1 Open Submission Exhibition
1 July 2013 • Mark Westall
BALTIC has announced Fig.1, an open submission exhibition to be held in the project space at BALTIC 39
Robert Breer at Baltic Review Jareh Das
16 July 2011 • Jareh Das
Spanning across two main galleries of Newcastle’s BALTIC gallery is a presentation of Robert Breer’s extensive oeuvre. This encompasses painting, movable sculptures, stop-motion animation films and drawings produced over the last sixty years.
Baltic Centre Presents A Duck for Mr. Darwin: Evolutionary Thinking & the Struggle to Exist from April 10th
10 April 2009 • Mark Westall
Mark Dion, Department of Tropical Research, 2005. Mixed media. Dimension variable. Courtesy: in Situ fabienne leclerc, Paris. Photo: Marc Domage…. Read More
Yoko Ono: Between The Sky And My Head
14 December 2008 • Mark Westall
Yoko Ono is one of the pioneers of conceptual art and has an international exhibition career spanning nearly 50 years…. Read More
SPANK THE MONKEY at The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art,
22 September 2006 • Mark Westall
SPANK THE MONKEY The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, 27th September – 7 January 2007 This show should be incredible… Read More