Nottingham Contemporary

Nottingham Contemporary
Weekday Cross
Nottingham
Nottingham
Nottinghamshire
NG1 2GB
England

Website

www.nottinghamcontemporary.org

E-mail

info@nottinghamcontemporary.org

Telephone

0115 948 9750

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Nottingham Contemporary
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Our building has been designed by the award winning architects Caruso St John. It has four galleries – a huge combined space of 750 square metres – superb education and study areas, a performance space, a café-bar and shop.

Our Opening Hours from 14 November 2009

Mondays Closed (Shop Open)
Tuesday – Friday 10am – 7pm
Saturdays 10am – 6pm
Sunday 11am – 5pm
Bank Holidays 10am – 6pm

Venue Type:

Gallery

Opening hours

Tue - Fri, 10:00 - 19:00
Sat, 10:00 - 18:00
Sun, 11:00 - 17:00

Admission charges

FREE

General services and facilities
  • Brochure or leaflet available with directions to museum
  • Information point provided
  • Pre-booking service for groups
  • Toilets
  • Cafeteria
  • Refreshments
  • Restaurant
  • Shop
Children and families
  • Activities for pre-school children
  • Events and resources for children and families
  • Baby changing facilities
Disability access
  • Braille information and/or interpretation
  • Events/teaching/resources for people with disabilities
  • Toilets for disabled
  • Wheelchair access to all public areas
Schools services and facilities
  • Member of staff available with responsibility for education
  • Primary school education service available
  • Secondary school education service available
  • Education facilities available
  • Reception and lunch facilities for educational groups
Research and adult learning
  • Adult lectures and courses held
  • Teaching/resources available for HE/FE students
  • Library
  • Research facilities for academics
  • Study facilities
Commercial and hire services
  • Facilities for private functions and events
  • Meeting room available

Nottingham Contemporary
Weekday Cross
Nottingham
Nottingham
Nottinghamshire
NG1 2GB
England

Website

www.nottinghamcontemporary.org

E-mail

info@nottinghamcontemporary.org

Telephone

0115 948 9750

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.

Collections services

  • Specialist publications on collections available

Nottingham Contemporary
Weekday Cross
Nottingham
Nottingham
Nottinghamshire
NG1 2GB
England

Website

www.nottinghamcontemporary.org

E-mail

info@nottinghamcontemporary.org

Telephone

0115 948 9750

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
Exhibition details are listed below, you may need to scroll down to see them all.
The Light Village

The Light Village

10 February 2012 *on now

Come and inhabit The Light Village, and enter our beautiful dwellings in The Space. Make your own lanterns and help to illuminate them. Part of Nottingham’s Light Night.

Suitable for

  • Any age

When

4-9pm

Where

The Space, Nottingham Contemporary, Weekday Cross, Nottingham, NG1 2GB

Admission

FREE

Website

http://nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/light-village

Boy in Family Room

Shoebox Cities

18 — 19 February 2012

Inspired by DAAR’s artwork Colonies: P’sagot, this workshop will give you the chance to transform some regular looking boring shoeboxes into a new world of interconnected homes- each one individual, each one special.

Suitable for

  • 5-6
  • 11-13
  • 0-4
  • 7-10

When

11am-3pm

Where

Nottingham Contemporary, Weekday Cross, Nottingham, NG1 2GB

Admission

FREE

Website

http://nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/shoebox-cities

Decolonizing Architecture, Palestinian Legislative Council

Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency – Common Assembly

28 January — 15 April 2012 *on now

Decolonizing Architecture is an international architectural practice based outside Bethlehem in the Palestinian Territories. They analyse the role of architecture and urban planning in the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Rather than proposing new buildings, they offer ingenious new propositions for future Palestinian occupants.

The centrepiece of the exhibition will be a life-sized installation of a section of the Palestinian parliament built in East Jerusalem in 1993. It has remained unoccupied, isolated by the “security” wall that Israel has built within the West Bank, and divided by the “green line” that happens to run right through it. Videos and live presentations by Palestinian politicians will act as a symbolic parliament-in-exile.

Suitable for

  • Any age

Where

Nottingham Contemporary, Weekday Cross, Nottingham, NG1 2GB

Admission

Free

Website

http://nottinghamcontemporary.org/art/decolonizing-architecture-art-residency

Thomas Demand - Segel 25, 2011

Thomas Demand, Model Studies

28 January — 15 April 2012 *on now

Thomas Demand - one of leading German artists of his generation - is presenting a new series of photographs for the first time at Nottingham Contemporary. The photographs show models for buildings designed by the Californian modern architect, John Lautner. The models are a far cry from the sleek, futurist buildings themselves.

Demand’s beautiful photographs seem organic, as they scrutinize the worn, physical models from different angles and distances. Close-up, the models look almost abstract, recalling the history of Modernist painting and sculpture – Picasso’s metal reliefs from his Cubist period, for example, or abstract painting of the 1950s.

Suitable for

  • Any age

Where

Nottingham Contemporary, Weekday Cross, Nottingham, NG1 2GB

Website

http://nottinghamcontemporary.org/art/thomas-demand

Nottingham Contemporary
Weekday Cross
Nottingham
Nottingham
Nottinghamshire
NG1 2GB
England

Website

www.nottinghamcontemporary.org

E-mail

info@nottinghamcontemporary.org

Telephone

0115 948 9750

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
Events details are listed below. You may need to scroll down or click on headers to see them all. For events that don't have a specific date see the 'Resources' tab above.
Light Night

The Light Village

10 February 2012 *on now

Come and inhabit The Light Village, and enter our beautiful dwellings in The Space. Make your own lanterns and help to illuminate them. Part of Nottingham’s Light Night.

Suitable for

  • Any age
  • Family friendly

When

4-9pm

Where

Nottingham Contemporary

Website

http://nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/light-village

Weekend Family Room

Surface Sculptures

11 — 12 February 2012

Tear, arrange and layer materials to make Thomas Demand inspired artworks. There are lots of textures on offer, but only a limited number of colours. We can’t wait to see what you create.

Suitable for

  • 5-6
  • 11-13
  • 0-4
  • 7-10

When

11am-3pm

Where

Nottingham Contemporary, Weekday Cross, Nottingham, NG1 2GB

Admission

FREE

Website

http://nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/surface-sculptures

The Specialist (1999), Momento Films

The Specialist

12 February 2012

The Specialist charts the sensational trial of an appallingly ordinary man – the main administrator of the Nazi death camps, Adolf Eichmann. It is made entirely from footage of Eichmann’s 1961 trial. The film is inspired by Hannah Arendt’s book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil.

When

3-5:30pm

Where

The Space, Nottingham Contemporary

Admission

Book for free online at http://ncthespecialist.eventbrite.com/?ebtv=C or call 01159489750

Website

http://nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/specialist-1999

Play & Learn Family Fun

Half Term Holiday Happenings

14 — 17 February 2012

Have fun with your family in the galleries over half term. We’ve got two very special activities on offer to get you exploring the galleries and trying some unusual ways of making art.

Time Drawing
15 & 17 Feb
You and your family will be under strict instructions to draw in times set for you. No questions allowed. The clock is ticking, pencils on the ready and GO....

Build it up!
14 & 16 Feb
Explore the galleries and choose your favourite artwork. Now work together to recreate your artwork and add it to the giant stand up sculpture.

Suitable for

  • 5-6
  • 11-13
  • 0-4
  • 7-10

Where

Nottingham Contemporary, Weekday Cross, Nottingham, NG1 2GB

Admission

FREE

Website

http://nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/half-term

The Media in Israel/Palestine

Mike Berry, Zahera Harb, Razia Iqbal - The Media in Israel/Palestine

15 February 2012

Rarely off our television screens for long, the reporting of the Israel / Palestine conflict is itself a contentious political issue. Claims of objectivity and neutrality often go questioned. Mike Berry, Lecturer in Culture, Film and Media at Nottingham University, Zahera Harb, Senior Lecturer in International Journalism at City University London, will discuss the media representation of the Israel/Palestine conflict. Chaired by Razia Iqbal, the BBC’s Special Correspondent and presenter.

When

7-10pm

Admission

Book online at http://ncberryharbiqbal.eventbrite.com/

Website

http://nottinghamcontemporary.org

Play and Learn

Scale up! Scale down.

24 — 25 February 2012

A large black line suspended from the ceiling hovers in Gallery 2.

Now have a go at inverting the scale- make it teeny tiny or even bigger (if possible!). Once you’ve done this, choose another artwork and play with its scale. And then choose another and another....

Suitable for

  • 5-6
  • 11-13
  • 0-4
  • 7-10

When

11am-3pm

Where

Nottingham Contemporary, Weekday Cross, Nottingham, NG1 2GB

Admission

FREE

Website

http://nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/scale-scale-down

Support Structure

Support Structure Artist Talk and Publication Launch

24 February 2012

Support Structure are architect Celine Condorelli & artist-curator Gavin Wade. For six months in 2011 they were in residence at The National Trust’s Clumber Park, in North Nottinghamshire. They focused on the absent Clumber House, researching the uses of the building before it was demolished in 1937.
They have imagined the future of Clumber Park in a publication which will be available at the park itself, and at Nottingham Contemporary. There will be a temporary installation in The Space that will be accompanied by a series of events - including the screening of horror films.

Suitable for

  • Any age
  • Family friendly

When

7-9pm

Where

The Space, Nottingham Contemporary

Admission

Book online at http://ncsupportstructuretalk.eventbrite.com

Website

http://nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/support-structure-clumber-park-tour

Girl Drawing

Mapping Your Routes

25 — 26 February 2012

How did you get to the gallery today? Can you illustrate your journey using colourful sticky tape and paper?

Take your materials for a walk up and down the studio walls and floor to show us where you’ve been.

Suitable for

  • 5-6
  • 11-13
  • 0-4
  • 7-10

When

11am-3pm

Where

Nottingham Contemporary, Weekday Cross, Nottingham, NG1 2GB

Admission

FREE

Support Structure (Celine Condorelli & Gavin Wade) with a Clumber Spaniel and owners

Support Structure: Clumber Park Tour

26 February 2012

A free coach trip to Clumber Park with a specially curated tour by Support Structure, connecting the installation at Nottingham Contemporary with the grounds of this former stately home. Dress warmly. Booking essential. Pick up 11am outside Nottingham Contemporary. Return at 5pm.

When

11am-5pm

Where

Clumber Park, leaving from Nottingham Contemporary.

Admission

Book online at http://ncclumberpark.eventbrite.com/

Website

http://nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/support-structure-clumber-park-tour

Thomas Demand, Segel 25 (detail), 2011

Davide Deriu - Modernism in Miniature: Points of View

1 March 2012

The architectural model gained new prominence in the early 20th century, when it became a popular tool for design education, playing a key role in the Modernist image. Davide Deriu is Research Fellow in Architecture at the University of Westminster and Curator of Modernism in Miniature: Points of View at the Canadian Centre for Architecture.

When

7-9pm

Where

The Space, Nottingham Contemporary

Admission

Book online at http://ncdavidederiu.eventbrite.com/?ebtv=C

Website

http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/davide-deriu

Wall Writing

Changing dimensions: 3D to 2D

3 — 4 March 2012

Take a very close look at Thomas Demand’s photographs. Can you see the textured, layered landscapes flattened through photography?

Follow the artist’s unique technique by making models and then photographing them to make your Demand inspired photograph.

Suitable for

  • 5-6
  • 11-13
  • 7-10
  • 0-4

When

11am-3pm

Where

Nottingham Contemporary

Admission

FREE

Website

http://nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/changing-dimensions-3d-2d

‘What Is Democracy?’ Oliver Ressler, 118 Min, 2009

Radical Aesthetics–Radical Art present: Oliver Ressler

9 March 2012

Experimental film has played a significant role in contesting the political status quo, from Lenin’s early 20th century declaration that cinema was the most revolutionary art form, to DIY footage of the Arab Spring and anti-capitalist occupations. Locally and globally, film is being used to provoke, agitate, ask questions and generate new politicised communities.
A selection of short radical films and commentaries will explore the potential of film to contribute to social-political change. The day’s debate will be initiated by Oliver Ressler’s introduction to his film What is Democracy? Ressler featured in our 2010 exhibition ‘Uneven Geographies’.
RadicalAesthetics-RadicalArt is a research network based at the Loughborough University School of Art and Design.

When

11am-7pm

Where

Nottingham Contemporary

Admission

Book for free online at http://ncradicalaesthetics.eventbrite.com

Website

http://nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/radical-aesthetics%E2%80%93radical-art-present-oliver-ressler

Flight Paths

Flight Paths

10 — 11 March 2012

DAAR’s Oush Grab offers a new way of changing a military fortress into a haven for migratory birds.

Recreate your flying objects and set them free on a flight path to freedom.

Suitable for

  • 5-6
  • 11-13
  • 0-4
  • 7-10

When

11am-3pm

Where

Nottingham Contemporary, Weekday Cross, Nottingham, NG1 2GB

Admission

Free

Website

http://nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/flight-paths

‘Los Angeles Plays Itself’ Thom Andersen, 169 min, 2003. Film still courtesy of Lux

Los Angeles Plays Itself

14 March 2012

Los Angeles is inseparable from the movies in most people’s minds. Andersen’s film Los Angeles Plays Itself, never officially released but much talked about, is an examination of the architecture and urban geography in LA made entirely from Hollywood movie clips.

When

7-10pm

Where

Nottingham Contemporary

Admission

Book online for free at http://nclaplaysitself.eventbrite.com

Website

http://nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/los-angeles-plays-itself-2003

Weekend Family Room

Scratch Art

17 March — 18 February 2012

Explore artworks by DAAR to see how countries are carved up and divided, leaving some sad and strange buildings behind.

Mark your own territory by scratching out paths in your own imaginary land using a new technique we’re inventing especially for you.

Suitable for

  • 5-6
  • 11-13
  • 0-4
  • 7-10

Where

Nottingham Contemporary, Weekday Cross, Nottingham, NG1 2GB

Website

http://nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/scratch-art

Nottingham Contemporary

Drawing through a Frame

31 March — 1 April 2012

We will be piling a mountain of interesting objects and materials in the middle of the studio.

Now take a frame, a pencil and large piece of paper and draw only what you can see through your frame. Your abstract artwork will soon emerge before your eyes.

Suitable for

  • 5-6
  • 11-13
  • 0-4
  • 7-10

Where

Nottingham Contemporary, Weekday Cross, Nottingham, NG1 2GB

Admission

FREE

Website

http://nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/drawing-through-frame

Grouper, 2011

Grouper / Violet Replacement

31 March 2012

Grouper’s rare and acclaimed performances are always in tune with the architecture and acoustics of a space. Violet Replacement, the new performing project of musician Liz Harris from Portland, Oregon, is based on a recent commission for New York’s Issue Project Room. Her melodic and haunting music includes field recordings and Wurlitzer loops - all mixed live from an array of dictaphones and tape recorders and overlaid with her “haunting, gorgeous voice”. Other press comments include: “..has always outfoxed her peers in terms of pure atmosphere…sound beamed in from another realm…one of the most delicate, affecting albums of the year..”

Suitable for all ages. Bring cushions and rugs, relax in The Space and enjoy Grouper’s unique sound and visuals.

Suitable for

  • Family friendly

When

7:30-10pm

Where

Nottingham Contemporary

Admission

£7. Book online at http://nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/grouper

Website

http://nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/grouper

Family Room

Random Art Trail

3 — 6 April 2012

This Easter, we’re creating a big map across the gallery floor and need you to mark it up. Draw the lines you have taken through the galleries, illustrate it with interesting artworks you have seen along the way and write about your journey.

But beware of the lines you draw, you may end up with some very strange results.

Suitable for

  • 5-6
  • 11-13
  • 0-4
  • 7-10

Where

Nottingham Contemporary, Weekday Cross, Nottingham, NG1 2GB

Admission

FREE

Website

http://nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/random-art-trail

Family activities

Transformations

7 — 8 April 2012

Be inspired by the ways DAAR imagine change places of conflict into places of beauty and freedom. Use a host of materials and objects to make your own poetic transformation.

Suitable for

  • 5-6
  • 11-13
  • 0-4
  • 7-10

When

11am-3pm

Where

Nottingham Contemporary, Weekday Cross, Nottingham, NG1 2GB

Admission

FREE

Website

http://nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/transformations

Zebras

Rules Game

9 April 2012

Associate Artist Jo is laying down the law! She’ll be handing you strict set of rules to follow. Follow the rules and play the game to have lots (and lots) of artistic fun.

Our wonderfully cuddly Zebra will also be around, so do pop in to say hello!

Suitable for

  • 5-6
  • 11-13
  • 0-4
  • 7-10

When

11am-3pm

Where

Nottingham Contemporary, Weekday Cross, Nottingham, NG1 2GB

Admission

FREE

Website

http://nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/rules-game

Family

Abstract Jigsaw

10 — 13 April 2012

Help us make a BIG jigsaw on the gallery floor, but not before you’ve:
1. Been on an art hunt
2. Found your favourite artwork
3. Drawn a section of it from memory
4. Added it to the jigsaw

Phew!
(but we’re sure you can do it).

Suitable for

  • 0-4
  • 7-10
  • 11-13
  • 5-6

Where

Nottingham Contemporary, Weekday Cross, Nottingham, NG1 2GB

Admission

FREE

Website

http://nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/abstract-jigsaw

Thomas Demand (c) Albrecht Fuchs, Cologne

Thomas Demand in conversation with Joseph Grima

12 April 2012

A rare chance to hear Thomas Demand speak about his work, in conversation with Milan-based architect, researcher and editor in chief of Domus magazine, Joseph Grima.

They will be discussing the research that Demand has undertaken at the Getty institute and the resulting body of work exhibited for the first time at Nottingham Contemporary, as well as architectural issues in his work in general.

When

7-9pm

Where

Nottingham Contemporary

Admission

Book online for free at http://ncthomasdemand.eventbrite.com

Website

http://nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/thomas-demand-conversation

Up

Up!

12 April 2012

Make an artwork inspired by the film Up! followed by a screening of the Pixar classic

Suitable for

  • Any age

When

11am-3pm

Where

Nottingham Contemporary, Weekday Cross, Nottingham, NG1 2GB

Admission

FREE

Website

http://nottinghamcontemporary.org

Girl Drawing

Throw a Line

14 — 15 April 2012

It’s time to say goodbye to the exhibition, but let’s all thrown a line in the giant space to make a final map with random lines, cut up buildings and new worlds.

See if you can spot the Zebra as he’s out and about having fun in the galleries and the space.

Suitable for

  • 5-6
  • 11-13
  • 0-4
  • 7-10

When

11am-3pm

Where

Nottingham Contemporary, Weekday Cross, Nottingham, NG1 2GB

Admission

FREE

Website

http://nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/throw-line

Nottingham Contemporary
Weekday Cross
Nottingham
Nottingham
Nottinghamshire
NG1 2GB
England

Website

www.nottinghamcontemporary.org

E-mail

info@nottinghamcontemporary.org

Telephone

0115 948 9750

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
Resources listed here may include websites, bookable tours and workshops, books, loan boxes and more. You may need to scroll down or click on headers to see them all.
Face to face resources

Young People's Programme

http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/education2/future/

Starting in January 2009 Nottingham Contemporary will be running a course for young people aged between 13 and 23 to help them act as arts instigators. They will be trained to design, co-ordinate and deliver a programme of activity for other young people. It will also give them an opportunity to take part in the Arts Council’s arts award scheme.

How to obtain

For more information contact info@nottinghamcontemporary.org

Nottingham Contemporary
Weekday Cross
Nottingham
Nottingham
Nottinghamshire
NG1 2GB
England

Website

www.nottinghamcontemporary.org

E-mail

info@nottinghamcontemporary.org

Telephone

0115 948 9750

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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