Open Eye Archive

Friday 15 April - Sunday 5 June 2016. The second exhibition in the Open series presents six new and early career artists predominantly from the North whose work came to us through submissions and expressions of interest. Open provides a platform for displaying new work and a forum for discussion thanks to a rich programme of public events unfolding throughout the duration of the exhibition.

Friday 15 January - Sunday 3 April 2016. Through photographic projects by Edgar Martins and Jordan Baseman, this exhibition presents two series of work that invite us to reflect on how we deal with death, as a society and individually.

Wednesday 16 - Sunday 20 December 2015. A festive celebration of creation, replication and deviation! A market of independent book publishers bringing the years finest photobooks, limited editions and artists prints.

Friday 11 - Sunday 13 December 2015. For one weekend Open Eye invites you to visit a pop-up exhibition created by secondary school students of all ages with the assistance of the gallery staff.

Friday 18 September – Sunday 29 November 2015. Zanele Muholi is a South African photographer and visual activist whose work explores gender, race and sexuality, particularly in relation to South African society and political landscape.

23 June 2015 6pm FREE, booking required Quail talks about his series Desk Job and his observations on globalisation, accompanied by Dr Firat Cengiz, senior lecturer in...

4 June 2015 6pm FREE, Booking required A talk on Macrae's series G20 Double Takes, discussing his experience of photographing in the G20 riots - and how...

29 June 2015 6pm FREE, booking required Have you got one favourite photograph - by anyone - you'd like to talk about for one minute? At "One...

28 May 2015 6pm FREE, Booking required How does one classify an archive? Will the passage of time make photographs more useful as historical documents and less...

16 May - 23 August 2015. Open Eye Gallery’s curatorial team have selected six artists whose work is thematically grouped around ideas of social portraiture.

19 March 2015 6pm for a 6.30pm start Free - booking required John Roberts is professor of art and aesthetics at the University of Wolverhampton and the...

22 January - 26 April 2015 Open 10.30am - 5.30pm Tuesday to Sunday Free Curated by Tsuguo Tada and Marc Feustel In 1945, post-war Japan made a new start from the ashes of...

14 December 2014 2.30pm Free, booking is not required. The tour is led by the curatorial team and lasts approximately 40 minutes. Open Eye Gallery is proud...

2 December 2014 6-7pm Free, booking required As part of "Philosophy in the Gallery" series in collaboration with the University of Liverpool and the British Society...

7 November - 11 January 2014 Tue - Sun 10.30am-5.30pm Free Private View 6 November 5.30-7.30pm Open Eye Gallery present the first UK exhibition dedicated to the artist...

7 November 2014 2.30pm Free, booking required Devrim Bayar, curator of Robert Heinecken: Lessons In Posing Subjects, will lead a tour through the galleries and offer insight to...

19 June 2014 Free Booking Info: www.openeye.org.uk Event Info: Colin’s talk will look at the importance of Picture Post as the real ‘starting point’ of British photo-journalism and...

6 July 2014 £10/£8 concession Booking Info: openeyegallery.enstore.com Join us for this very special brunch with artist Ira Lombardía. Enjoy a coffee and something to eat whilst listening...

5 July - 19 October 2014 Open Tuesday - Sunday 10.30 - 17.30 Free Not All Documents Are Records represents Open Eye Gallery’s contribution to the Liverpool Biennial...

16 June 2014 17.00 - 18.30 Talk and discussion with Howard Davies looking at more than twenty years documenting the lives of refugees and asylum seekers...

17 May – 22 June 2014 10.30 - 17.30 Tuesday to Sunday. Private View: 16 May 2014 www.openeye.org.uk Ebb and Flow is an audio, visual survey of the history and changes that...

8 April 2014 18.30 FREE Booking : http://redeye.org.uk/civicrm/event/register?id=136&reset=1 To coincide with Open Eye Gallery’s current exhibition Breaking the Code of Silence, Redeye brings you a talk by Michael MacKenzie...

16 April 2014 18.30 Price: £3 (£2 concession) Booking: http://openeyegallery.enstore.com/item/film-screening-battaglia Open Eye Gallery is proud to present an exclusive screening of BATTAGLIA, followed by a Q&A with director Daniela...

22 February - 4 May Tuesday - Sunday, 10.30 - 17.30 Private View 21 February, 18.00 - 20.00 Open Eye Gallery presents, for the first time in the...

7 December 2013 - 9 February 2014 Private Preview: 18.00 - 21.00, Friday 6 December Open 10.30 - 17.30 Tuesday to Sunday during exhibitions. Closed on Mondays...

21 November 17.30 - 19.00 Free Professor Sue Malvern will give a talk examining the problematic role of war photographers and artists as witnesses to conflicts and the...

14 November 2013 17.30 - 19.00 FREE Professor Robert Burgoyne will give a talk exploring the challenges of representing war in images. With the film Restrepo and images from the Open...

21 October 2013 14.30 - 16.30 £3 Dr. Kate McLoughlin will lead an interactive workshop dedicated to understanding how words might represent war.  Having been introduced to the challenges...

12 October & 9 November 13.30 Free The tours are led by the curatorial team and last approximately 40 minutes Two years after his death, Open Eye Gallery pays tribute...

6 September - 25 November 2013 Private View: 18.00 - 21.00, Thursday 5 September Open Tuesday - Sunday 10.30 - 17.30 Closed on Mondays (except bank holidays) Two...

14 July 14.30 - meet at the gallery Open Eye Gallery will host a FREE tour of the exhibitions  - the tours are led by the curatorial...

17 May - 25 August 2013 Upper Gallery Free Entry Eva Stenram (b.1 976) is a Swedish-born photographer, who lives and works in London. The artist brings...

17 May - 25 August 2013 Main Gallery Free Entry LOOK/13 Liverpool International Photography Festival Charles Fréger (b. 1975) is a French photographer based in Rouen.  The artist...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Lars Laumann18 September - 28 November 2010 Lars Laumann makes video essays about people and their complex interior worlds. He points up their strangeness,...