Milly Thompson: My Body Temperature is Feeling Good is now open - a playful yet pointed exploration of the female body navigating the pressures of unattainable beauty standards.
📅 Open Wed-Sun 10:00-18:00
📍 Level 2 gallery
Sunday, 22 March 2026.
Newcastle-Gateshead quayside held 600+ Kittiwakes. Many rested at ledges, singly and in pairs with others river bathing. Great to see and hear so many back safely after wintering away. Photo today at @balticgateshead.bsky.social. (Survey and photo by @dant-ne.bsky.social).
Artists presenting their film work includes Marco Barotti, Julian Charrière, Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Max Hooper Schneider, and Emilija Škarnulytė.
Free, drop-in during gallery hours 10:00-18:00.
🤝 Presented by Baltic x Schmidt Ocean Institute
#BalticGateshead #ContemporaryArt #OceanArt
For one weekend only Sat 9 – Sun 10 May, experience film screenings and installations exploring the intersection of art and ocean science.
The Immersion weekender coincides with @schmidtocean.bsky.social celebrating ten years of their world-renowned Artist-at-Sea programme.
Artist, composer and underwater sound recordist Jana Winderen invites us into the reimagined world of the deep sea through sound, vibration and hidden acoustics.
🎧 Book: bit.ly/40yU5qx
📅 Sat 11 April | 19:00–20:00
Supported by Office for Contemporary Art Norway
#JanaWinderen #ContemporaryArt
'Breathing Deep Currency' by Kristina Ollek focuses on the fragile deep-sea habitat and the complex issues surrounding commercial deep-sea mining, particularly the extraction of manganese nodules.
Part of group exhibition For All At Last Return
🤝 Exhibition Partner: Schmidt Ocean Institute
As We Fade is filmed on the sacred mountain of Sulaiman–Too located in Kyrgyzstan.
Each silk panel serves as a fragment of a larger, interconnected narrative, integrating archival footage of various rituals performed on the mountain.
Weds – Sun 10:00 – 18:00
Saelia Aparicio | A Joyful Parasite - exhibiting until Sunday 8 March @ 6pm
Experience a colourful world that challenges our lack of empathy toward other living beings through murals, sculptures and light installations.
🙏Supported by Foundation Foundation and Acción Cultural Española (AC/E)
One weekend. Seven screenings exploring the Soviet borderlands. Sat 28 – Sun 29 March 📽️
Responding to Saodat Ismailova’s exhibition As We Fade, Kino Perestroika is a special weekender event of rarely-screened and newly-digitised films.
Tickets on sale now.
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Open Wed-Sun | 10:00-18:00 until Sunday 8 March.
🙏 Supported by Foundation Foundation and made possible thanks to the support of Acción Cultural Española
#BalticGateshead #ContemporaryArt #HybridForms
Last chance to see | Saelia Aparicio: A Joyful Parasite
Enter a playful dimension of colourful hybrid forms with London-based Spanish artist Saelia Aparicio. A Joyful Parasite uses installation, sculpture and murals to weave together narrative, science fiction and ecological speculation.
Otobong Nkanga's 'Tied to the Other Side' explores the cycle of life, death and rebirth in the ocean. Created using over 140 thread types and weaving techniques.
Part of our group exhibition 'For All At Last Return' | Open Wed–Sun, 10:00–18:00
🤝 Exhibition Partner:
@schmidtocean.bsky.social
Ever wondered what goes on behind-the-scenes at Baltic? 🤔💭
Our Behind The Scenes Tour allows you to go places in the building that are normally out of bounds. Discover the inner workings and marvel at Baltic's industrial past that is still fundamental today.
Every Sun | 11:00-11:40 Free, drop-in
GemArts x Baltic Holi Festival of Colours is back! 🎉
Saturday 14 March 12:00-16:00
Celebrate spring and the festival of Holi with a spectacular colour throw, creative workshops, henna, dance, music, and delicious Indian food.
🎫 Tickets released Wed 11 Feb at 18:30
Saelia Aparicio's A Joyful Parasite invites you into a playful dimension, exploring how humans prioritise their own species while criticising other living beings - simply for existing as they were created. Aparicio examines our lack of empathy toward non-human life. 🐛🦋🪱
Open Wed-Sun | 10:00-18:00
Estonian visual artist Kristina Õllek's work Breathing Deep Currency focuses on the relationship between fragile deep-sea habitats and the complicated issues surrounding deep-sea mining operations of manganese nodules.
Part of group exhibition For All At Last Return | Open Wed-Sun 10:00-18:00
📅 Part of an immersive exhibition featuring four films, open Wed-Sun 10:00-18:00
📍 Level 3 Gallery
Free entry, donations welcome
#BalticGateshead #SoadatIsmailova #AsWeFade #CentralAsianArt #ContemporaryArt
Projected through 24 silk panels, Saodat Ismailova's As We Fade was filmed on Kyrgyzstan's sacred Sulaiman-Too mountain. It weaves together rituals, 1929 archival footage, & recent drone material. The panels form fragments of narratives, filtering & fading between layers to symbolise waning memory.
Parr was also commissioned by Art Review to document the opening of Baltic back in 2002.
In 2009, much of this was captured in Baltic exhibition PARRWORLD. We were proud to present an expansive survey of Parr’s work alongside his personal collection of work by other photographers and curious popular culture memorabilia from Princess Diana plates to Barack Obama flip-flops.
A prolific, acclaimed, and celebrated photographer Martin Parr captured in glorious detail his surroundings for over 50 years. He uniquely and obsessively documented the quirks, colour, and intricacy of everyday life from Ladies Day horseraces to swimming pools and village fetes.
Baltic extends its condolences to the family and friends of British photographer Martin Parr.
Still from Ffasiwn, The Film features four unsmiling children dressed in elaborate pink clothes – one is standing, whilst the other three are seated on a concrete ledge. Text reads: “Baltic Cinema: Uncommon Voices. A special programme of short films exploring class – with a filmmaker discussion and mixer. Thursday 4 December. BALTIC | 18:30 | £6/£4”.
We’re joining forces with @balticgateshead for Uncommon Voices – an evening dedicated to bold short films that spotlight contemporary working-class perspectives across Britain.
Expect powerful storytelling, a lively filmmaker Q&A, and a BFI NETWORK mixer.
bit.ly/3JDO336
🌊 See it in our ground floor lightbox as part of For All At Last Return
🤝 Exhibition Partner: Schmidt Ocean Institute
#BalticGateshead #OceanArt #ContemporaryArt
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.
Still from Ffasiwn, The Film features four unsmiling children dressed in elaborate pink clothes – one is standing, whilst the other three are seated on a concrete ledge. Text reads: “Baltic Cinema: Uncommon Voices. A special programme of short films exploring class – with a filmmaker discussion and mixer. Thursday 4 December. BALTIC | 18:30 | £6/£4”.
We’re teaming up with @balticgateshead.bsky.social for Uncommon Voices, a special evening of short films exploring how working-class filmmakers are capturing class experiences in Britain today.
4 December | BALTIC, Gateshead
Book your ticket: bit.ly/3JDO336 🎟
📷 Tom Carter
Featuring: Monira Al Qadiri / Michele Allen / Bianca Bondi / Shezad Dawood / Taloi Havini and Michael Toisuta / Joan Jonas / Otobong Nkanga / Katja Novitskova / Kristina Õllek / Leticia Ramos / Emilija Škarnulytė / Rob Smith
#BalticGateshead #NewExhibition #OceanArt #ContemporaryArt
✨ 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
✨ Now Open ✨ Saodat Ismailova: As We Fade
Journey through the rich, layered culture of Central Asia in this major new exhibition.
Swan Lake is made with the support of @Kunstenfestivaldesarts, @sava.uea and Baltic.
See the exhibition now until 2026, Wed-Sun | 10:00-18:00 www.baltic.art/saodat
"This curriculum review affirms what we’ve long championed at Baltic: that every child deserves access to the arts, not just to enrich learning, but to unlock imagination, confidence, and critical thinking." - Amanda Rennison, Head of Learning at Baltic
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