Winter 2024

On this week (check for opening times) *Roaming venue (not on map)

The Art Map lists only some of the exhibitions and events on offer. For full programme details visit individual websites.

Artisan Alchemy Gallery

84 Caroline Street Jewellery Quarter B3 1UP

Tues–Sat 10am–5pm
Tel. 0121-233-1186
artisan-alchemy.co.uk

Artisan Alchemy Gallery
  • See website for details of our evening events programme

Balsall Heath Second Saturday

Event Hub The Old Print Works 498-506 Moseley Road/Balsall Heath B12 9AH

The second Saturday of every month
www.secondsaturday.org.uk/

Balsall Heath Second Saturday
  • 13 January, 10 February & 9 March

    Balsall Heath Second Saturday is a monthly mini-festival celebrating making, creativity, community, local culture and the arts. From 10am onwards.

Centrala

Unit 4, Minerva Works, 158 Fazeley Street, Digbeth, B5 5RT

Open Wed–Sat 12–6pm and open late for events.
centrala-space.org.uk

Centrala
  • Circular Catalysts: Sustainability, Design, Craft

    17 January – 28 February 2024

    A programme aimed at generating new collaborations between Romanian and UK designers, artists and craftspeople.

  • Vlatka Horvat

    1 March 2024

    Vlatka Horvat 01-15/03 Research art residency part of the Hybrid Landscapes programme

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Digbeth First Friday

Various Locations

Opening times vary
digbethfirstfriday.com

  • 2 February, 1 March & 5 April from 6pm

Eastside Projects

86 Heath Mill Lane, B9 4AR

Open Weds–Sat 12–5pm
Tel. 0121-771-1778
eastsideprojects.org

Eastside Projects
  • Cylinder, Figure, Gem, Spectrum, Stone

    2 February, 6–8pm and 3 February, 12–5pm

    Screening of films by artists including Assia Ghendir, Bill Daggs, Clémentine Bedos, Damon Packard, David Blandy, Holly Hunter, John Smith, RCalcos, Ryan Christopher and Verity Coward. With performative responses by Composition and Experimental Performance students at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire for Digbeth First Friday.

  • Kitty Finer’s Artists Behind Bars

    1 March, 6–8pm

    £10/£8 entry

    One night only collaboration with Fierce.

    Follow us @eprjcts on Instagram or see our website for further details and full events programme.

     

Gas Hall, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

Chamberlain Square, B3 3DH

Wed-Sun 10am-5pm
Tel. 0121-348-8000
www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/birmingham-museum-and-art-gallery

Gas Hall, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
    • See website for programme details

Grand Union

19 Minerva Works, 158 Fazeley Street, Digbeth, B5 5RS

Wed–Sat, 12–5pm.
Tel. 0121-643-9079
grand-union.org.uk

Grand Union
  • The Bothy: Congregation

    Ongoing

    Outdoor Installation by Alberta Whittle

  • The Floating Garden

    Ongoing

    Canal based Gardening site

  • Screening of Citizen Jane: Battle for the City’, (2016, Dir. Matt Tyrnauer)

    1 March 2024, 6pm

    Screening of ‘Citizen Jane: Battle for the City’, (2016, Dir. Matt Tyrnauer)

  • Screening of ‘In the House of Names’ By Sulaïman Majal + Q&A

    14 March 2024, 6pm

    Screening of ‘In the House of Names’ By Sulaïman Majal + Q&A,

Ikon Gallery

1 Oozells Square, Brindleyplace, B1 2HS

Tues–Sun, 11am– 5pm
Tel. 0121-248-0708
ikon-gallery.org

Ikon Gallery
  • Epiphany (Temporaire)

    9 February – 21 April 2024

    Solo exhibition by Exodus Crooks. The exhibition includes sculpture, film, text and sculptural installation.

  • Start the Press!

    9 February – 21 April 2024

    The centrepiece of Start the Press! is an antique, flatbed printing press from Wolverhampton School of Art. A cohort of West Midlands printmakers will operate the press.

Midlands Arts Centre – MAC

Cannon Hill Park, B12 9QH

First Floor Gallery Tue–Sun 11am–5pm Arena and Community Galleries Mon–Sun 9am–late
Tel. 0121-446-3232
macbirmingham.co.uk/

Midlands Arts Centre – MAC
    • See website for programme details

RBSA Gallery

4 Brook Street, B3 1SA

Tues–Sat 10.30am– 5pm
Tel. 0121-236-4353
rbsa.org.uk

RBSA Gallery
  • RBSA Friends Exhibition

    11 January – 10 February 2024

    Work by artists in the RBSA Friends scheme

  • Phil Loach Retrospective

    13 – 24 February 2024

    Collection of photographs depicting Black Country scenes from the 70s/80s/90s.

  • RBSA Print Prize

    29 February – 6 April 2024

    Exhibition of print work

  • Drawing from the RBSA Collection

    29 February – 6 April 2024

    Heritage exhibition of dry media works 1822-1922.

Research and Cultural Collections

Aston Webb Building, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, B15 2TS

Mon – Fri, 9am–5pm
www.birmingham.ac.uk/rcc

Research and Cultural Collections
  • A History Through Objects

    9 May 2022 – 18 December 2024

    For 140 years researchers at the University of Birmingham have created and discovered new things that have improved people’s health, and provided new ways of understanding the world and humanity’s place in it. This exhibition showcases a range of pioneering research, revealed through objects.

Stryx, Minerva Works

13 Minerva Works, 158 Fazeley Street, Digbeth, B5 5RS

Wed-Sat, 12-4pm; Sun-Tues by Appointment
stryx.co.uk

Stryx, Minerva Works
  • Stryx- Minerva Works

    1 January 1970

    See website for programme details

  • 1 January 1970

    See website for programme details.

Stryx, Jewellery Quarter

90 Vyse St, Jewellery Quarter, B18 6JZ

Wed-Sat, 12-4pm; Sun-Tues by Appointment
stryx.co.uk

Stryx, Jewellery Quarter
  • Mothers Who Make Peer Support Group

    30th January, 27th February and 26th March 2024

  • Fireside Chats

    9th January, 13th February and 5th March 2024

    Informal art discussions

  • Stryx 3A

    20th January, 17th February and 16th March 2024

    Free art workshops for adults

  • Stryx for Kids

    6th January, 3rd February and 2nd March 2024

    Free art workshops for children, all ages welcome

  • Window Residency: DAS TÖR by Ryan Asbury

    1 January – 13 February 2024

  • Window Residency: All Seeing Eye by Kat Howes

    1 March – 25 May 2024

The Hive

43–47 Vittoria Street Jewellery Quarter B1 3PE

10.00 to 15.30 Tuesday to Friday
https://www.instagram.com/thehivejq/

The Hive
  • Habitus

    8 – 22 March 2024

    Habitus is an exhibition by Mona Casey, Yvonne Hindle, Ana Rutter, and Jennifer Wright. It addresses the processes of painting, sound, patternmaking, and printmaking, used habitually to produce their individual works. The exhibition foregrounds how art calls upon the repeated use of haptic knowledge developed through habits of making.

    The Hive, located in a Grade II listed former jewellery Manufactory in the Jewellery Quarter, offers arts and crafts workshops, events, and exhibitions, and a café and bakery.

The Old Print Works

498-506 Moseley Road, Balsall Heath, B12 9AH

19-20 September 2020, 11am–4 pm
oldprintworks.org

The Old Print Works
  • Opening Times Vary, see website/listing for details.

    The Old Print Works is a diverse and welcoming community in Balsall Heath, Birmingham, that believes in the transformative power of making and creativity.

Vivid Projects

16 Minerva Works, 158 Fazeley Street, Digbeth, B5 5RS

Opening times vary, see website for listings details.
vividprojects.org.uk

Vivid Projects
    • See website for programme details