Warp and Weft is a survey of works by the 2017 Turner Prize winner, Lubaina Himid. A key figure in the Black Arts Movement, Lubaina Himid first came to prominence in the 1980s when she began organising exhibitions of…

We are celebrating the work of Essex-based documentary photographer Ed Gold in a major exhibition. Entitled Ed Gold: Other Worlds, the presentation is made up a hundred photographs taken over a period spanning almost thirty years. These have been…

Selected from 2,557 entries by artists from eighty countries around the world, the BP Portrait Award 2016, organised by the National Portrait Gallery, London, represents the very best in contemporary portrait painting. From parents to poseurs, figurative nudes to famous…

Firstsite is delighted to host a major solo exhibition by the celebrated Chinese artist Zhang Enli. The centerpiece of the presentation will be a site-specific intervention that will span the entirety of the gallery’s 140-metre curving wall. This monumental…

Exhibition opening event 10 March, 6 – 8pm In collaboration with Colchester and Ipswich Museums. Firstsite is making its very own Wunderkammer; a cabinet of curiosities that will grow over the coming years to surround the Berryfield Mosaic sited…

Introspective is Gee Vaucher’s first major institutional show in the UK, and spans the artist’s career of more than forty years. It charts Vaucher’s journey from local activity to international ambition, from domestic concerns to world politics, and from healing…

YAK’S two week takeover of the gallery. Exhibitions, interactive installations, gaming café, dance battles, film screenings and workshops spin new perspectives as you encounter a shifting world of opposites, thresholds and scale. Don’t stay in the dark – join…