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14 May – 12 June 2011. Uncommon Grace: Photographs from the Open Eye Archive at Open Eye, 28-32 Wood St. Curated by Mitch Epstein Preview Friday 13 May 2011, 18-21.00 Award-winning American photographer Mitch Epstein has selected images from Open [...]
Out of BodyJan 25 to April 2 (Extended) 2008 a newly commissioned exhibition of photography and moving image works that explore, manipulate and reflect upon the human body. The exhibition looks at the relationship between biological and photographic time, contrasting [...]
‘The Rolling Exhibition’ Kevin Connolly part of DaDaFest 0917 November – 5 December 2009Kevin Connolly, a photographer who has no legs and uses a skateboard for transportation, has photographed people’s reaction to him across 15 countries and 31 cities. He [...]
Anne CollierExhibition April 11 – May 24 2008 First solo exhibition in a UK public gallery by New York based artist Anne Collier. Over the past decade Collier has created a body of work that investigates the role of photographs [...]
David Goldblatt: Intersections Intersected. 12 December 2008 – 28 February 2009UK debut of a major new exhibition project by celebrated South African photographer David Goldblatt. Since the early 1970s Goldblatt has photographed the physical and ideological landscape of his native [...]
Open Eye Events – May 2008A Short History of Open Eye GalleryTuesday 6 May, 6pm Perspectives on Anne Collier: Ian AndersonMonday 19 May, 6pm Redeye Network MeetingTuesday 20 May, 7.30pm More details… A Short History of Open Eye GalleryTuesday 6 [...]
John StezakerNov 2 – Jan 19 The most substantial UK exhibition of John Stezaker’s work in many years. Using manual cut-and-paste techniques, Stezaker breathes new life into photographs salvaged from forgotten film archives and old magazines , transforming them into [...]
Long Night of the Biennial Thursday 30 October 2008. 18-23.00As part of the city-wide late-night event Open Eye Gallery presents a pre-midnight feast in three simultaneous courses, accompanied by mulled wine…Long Night of the Biennial Thursday 30 October, 6-11pm As [...]
Nancy Davenport. Exhibition 20 September – 30 November 2008A Canadian artist living and working in New York, Nancy Davenport constructs reality-bending images that fall somewhere between photography and moving image, stillness and high-speed, fiction and document. In 2004 Davenport began [...]
New Ends, Old Beginnings (Open Eye and the Bluecoat) Exhibition 12 July 08 – 3 September 2008New Ends, Old Beginnings explores the cities of the Arab region through their local and everyday culture, a perspective rarely encountered in the mainstream [...]
Pieter Hugo: Portraits Exhibition 30 May 08 – 5 July 08 Open Eye Gallery and Autograph ABP are proud to present the first substantial UK exhibition by South African artist Pieter Hugo. This exhibition focuses on three bodies of work, [...]
Shoot Liverpool26 August – 5 September 2009Following popular events in 2007 and 2008, Shoot Liverpool has returned this summer with a new interactive photographic story-telling format. Participants roamed the streets of Liverpool on Saturday 15 August, producing hundreds of images [...]
Still Cinema 3: Performance Anxiety Wednesday 16 April, 6.30pm A rare opportunity to see a selection of video pieces by Anne Collier (whose solo exhibition is currently at the gallery). The pieces date back as far as the early 1990s, [...]
SUNDAY by Duane Hopkins, part of AND Festival23 September – 4 October 2009 As part of AND festival of new cinema and digital culture, Open Eye Gallery is proud to present an exhibition by artist, photographer and award-winning filmmaker Duane [...]
Artist talk: Nancy Davenport Saturday 20 September 2008, 16.00 Canadian artist Nancy Davenport talks about the making of her Biennial commission and her wider artistic practice, which explores the border areas between photography and the moving image. An informal gallery [...]
THE PITCH ARTISTS’ TALKS: AMY GORING, LEON SETH & ALEX WOLKOWICZ + OPEN DISCUSSIONTuesday 7th October 2008.ARTISTS’ TALKS: 18.30-19:30 – OPEN DISCUSSION: 19:30-20:30 Open Eye Projects would like to invite you to The Pitch Artists’ Talks & Open Discussion, an [...]
Until it Hurts13 March – 23 May 2009Sascha Weidner, Markus Hansen, Josh Weinstein, Yang ZhenzhongWho am I? Am I unique? Do I have an essence, an inner core that makes me myself? Am I free to choose who I am [...]
Eye to Eye22 July – 28 August 2010 (Thu-Sat, 2pm-5.30pm)Eye to Eye is the first of a series of public events to be produced by Open Eye’s Young Creative Collaborators participation programme. The exhibition presents a series of group and [...]
Lars Laumann18 September – 28 November 2010 Lars Laumann makes video essays about people and their complex interior worlds. He points up their strangeness, separateness and need to connect. He explores collisions of individuals, cultures, ways of life and systems [...]
7 December – 17 January 2013 A LECTURE UPON THE SHADOW A Lecture Upon The Shadow brings together new work by six artists from the North West and Shanghai. Using different approaches, the artists play with light, shadow and form [...]
2 March – 5 May 2013 Born in Brussels in 1976, Manchester-based Mishka Henner’s work explores and subverts the value of photography in today’s media-saturated world. His images derive from a multitude of sources – the Internet, satellite imagery and television, as [...]
Open Eye Gallery 30 March – 10 June Viewing: 29 March 18:00 Main Exhibition RICHARD MOSSE: INFRA Archive Exhibition SIMON NORFOLK: FOR MOST OF IT I HAVE NO WORDS Wall Work EMILY SPEED: NOTHING IS FINISHED, NOTHING IS PERFECT, NOTHING LASTS [...]
Open Eye Gallery: Richard Simpkin and Simone Lueck: Richard & Famous 13 Jan — 18 Mar 2012 Viewing: Thursday 12 Jan 17:30 – 20:00 Curated by Martin Parr “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” Andy Warhol, 1968 [...]
22 June – 2 September 2012 Open Eye Gallery is excited to present Still Outside (or Unexplained), a group show looking at how we imagine and interact with our surroundings. Still Outside (or Unexplained) presents four artists, from the [...]
The Door – ‘Liverpool and I‘- Open Eye Off-site exhibition4 – 18 June 2009 Liverpool and I brings together images produced by five young photographers from N:Gage, a Merseyside Youth Association project. The project was developed and led by artist [...]
