Experience life through the lens of two photographers whose images capture the people, places and realities of life in the North East, decades apart. Close to Home features work from documentary photographer Tish Murtha and Newcastle–based artist Kuba Ryniewicz. Open Wed-Sun | 10:00-18:00

Now open 🌟Chitra Ganesh: Journey to the Great Below Reorienting traditional forms of storytelling around queer and femme protagonists, the vibrant scenes of this exhibition interweave three-dimensional speculative mapping with archaeological materials and artefacts. Open Wed-Sun, Free Entry

Foundation Press: Starting Lines is a vibrant, interactive exhibition that encourages creativity no matter your skill. The act of creative making is open to all. 🎨✏️ Starting Lines is open Wed-Sun | 10:00-18:00 (Free entry) Find out more at baltic.art/startinglines

Immerse yourself in Journey to the Great Below on its opening day as artist @chitraganeshbkny and Senior Curator Emma Dean. Sat 4 Jul | 16:00-17:00 🎟️ Book tickets at our link in our bio 🤝 Major Exhibition Supporters @bagrifoundation / @bukhmanfoundation Exhibition Supporter @henrymoorefdn_grants

All aboard 🚄 In this reel a Baltic Crew member takes an everyday Metro journey travelling from the North-East coastline to Gateshead and arrives for work at Baltic and a day of exhibitions & tours. @tyneandwearmetro.bsky.social #TravelToWork #MetroTrain #Baltic

Indie films screening at Baltic Cinema 🎥 -heart-on-sleeve melodrama Fear Eats the Soul - ★★★★★ The Guardian -arresting new film, Monikondee - screening for the first time since its premiere -John Lilly & the Earth Coincidence Control Office – fascinating docu on the neurophysiologist/‘psychonaut’

As We Fade by artist @saodatismailova ends this Sunday 7 June. "Scene after scene of breathtaking beauty, elemental ambience and disorienting anxiety." - The Guardian ★★★★★ Open Wed – Sun 10:00 – 18:00 📍 Level 3 Northumbria University Gallery #AsWeFade #CentralAsianArt #FiveStars

Inspired by the force of luxury consumer culture on women, Milly Thompson's Desert Siren shows a selection of sculptures draped in fabric to represent the impossible bodies. Representing the unattainable beauty standards pushed onto women by designer adverts. Open Wed-Sun | 10:00-18:00

This July artist Sarah Li will open the Queer Pleasure Archive at Baltic Library with an opening performance from DGA Collective. 📚Archive Experience : 1 July – Sun 2 Aug 🎉‘Chaos’ Party: Sat 4 July 14:00-16:00 Learn more at baltic.art/queerpleasurearchive #QueerArt #QueerHistory #BalticGateshead

The BA (Hons) Fine Art Graduate Exhibition preview at Baltic marks the culmination of three years of outstanding creative practice from @northumbriauni.bsky.social University's graduating cohort. Now open to the public until 31 May 2026 Wed–Sun | 10:00–18:00

Assistant Curator at Baltic, Rose, discusses Milly Thompson: My Body Temperature is Feeling Good, open Wed-Sun 10:00-18:00, free entry. Lyrics by Milly Thompson, Music and production by Cliff Charles Courtesy of The Estate of Milly Thompson and Amanda Wilkinson, London

Adam Phillips and Deborah Bower of @Foundation Press speak about their current exhibition Starting Lines and how being creative can positively affect our lives. Starting Lines is open Wed-Sun | 10:00-18:00 #BalticGateshead #ContemporaryArt #CommunityArt #FoundationPress

Northumbria University Fine Art graduating cohort are in the final stages of bringing their degree show to life — the culmination of three years of rigorous creative practice. Exhibition opens 22 – 31 May 2026 📍 Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art www.baltic.art/grad

Foundation Press's new exhibition Starting Lines explores creativity and storytelling as an expression that's open to all 🖨️Visit a studio space, contribute to the show, and join risograph printing workshops throughout the run of the show. Open Wed–Sun 10:00–18:00

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

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)

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

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.

Baltic extends its condolences to the family and friends of British photographer Martin Parr.

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.

✨ 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