Past exhibitions
Eye to Eye
22 July - 28 August 2010
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 individual projects created by the programme's participants in response to the gallery's historic print archive, combining new text and image works with archive objects.
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DaDaFest 09
17 November - 5 December 09
The Rolling Exhibition - Kevin Connolly
Kevin 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 has captured what he calls the “universal stare”; the imperfect moment of that glance is intriguingly and imaginatively recorded in this collection.
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Abandon Normal Devices
23 September - 4 October 09
SUNDAY by Duane Hopkins
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 Hopkins.
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Shoot Liverpool
25 August - 5 September 09
This two-week exhibition features photographs taken by participants in an interactive photographic story-telling event that took place on Saturday 15th August at the Bluecoat.
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Until it Hurts
13 March - 23 May 09
Until it Hurts is a group exhibition that explores questions of personal identity. It points to the fluidity and instability of our notions of self. It reflects on how we relate to others, who we identify with and who we do not, what pulls us together and what pushes us apart.
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David Goldblatt: Intersections Intersected
12 December 08 - 28 February 09
Open Eye Gallery is proud to present the first UK showing of a striking new exhibition project by celebrated South African photographer David Goldblatt - his first solo UK exhibition since 2003.
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Liverpool Biennial International 08: MADE UP
20 September - 30 November 08
Nancy Davenport
Established in 1998, Liverpool Biennial is the UK's largest festival of contemporary visual art. MADE UP explores of the power of the artistic imagination and takes place in venues and locations across the city.
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New Ends, Old Beginnings
12 July 08 - 3 September 08
New Ends, Old Beginnings explores the cities of the Arab region through their local and everyday culture, a perspective rarely encountered in the mainstream media.
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Pieter Hugo: Portraits
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.
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Anne Collier
11 April 08 - 24 May 08
Open Eye Gallery is proud to present the first solo exhibition in a UK public gallery of work by New York based artist Anne Collier.
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Out of Body
25 January 08 - 2 April 08
Out of Body is an exhibition of photographs 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 continuous cycles of human life with the still photographic instant.
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John Stezaker
2 November 2007 - 19 January 2008
Open Eye Gallery is proud to present the most substantial UK exhibition of John Stezaker's work in many years.
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Bound
10 August - 20 October 2007
Bound is a group exhibition of contemporary art that explores slavery from historical manifestations to modern-day bondage. The exhibition will show works by international artists representing personal perspectives on the physical and psychological impacts of slavery.
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Clinic
14 June - 1 August 2007
Rémi Faucheux
Open Eye Gallery is proud to present the UK premiere of Clinic, an exhibition that explores the aesthetics of the medical universe through contemporary photography.
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The Water's Edge
14 April - 2 June 2006
Michelle Sank
To mark the 800th anniversary of the founding of the city of Liverpool, Open Eye Gallery presents The Water's Edge, an exhibition that explores a remarkable but neglected part of the city's history.
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