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Woman wearing a head scarf and blue shirt chopping lettuce.
Woman wearing a head scarf and blue shirt chopping lettuce.
Wed-Sun

Franki Raffles: Photography, Activism, Campaign Works

11 May 2024 – 16 Mar 2025

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Green landscape with rolling green hills in the background and green bushes and trees in the foreground.
Wed-Sun

Joanne Coates Middle of Somewhere

11 May – 17 Nov 2024

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Wed-Sun

Leap Then Look Play Interact Explore

12 Oct 2024 – 1 Jun 2025

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Baltic across the Tyne, the water is still and there is a clear reflection of the building

Welcome to Baltic

Step inside Baltic on Gateshead quayside with four floors of art, viewing box, cafe, shop, library, sensory room and rooftop restaurant. 

We're open Wednesday to Saturday with exhibitions, events, guided tours and activities to experience. We've welcomed 9.5 million visitors to date and we look forward to seeing you. 

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Exhibition
Wed-Sun

Leap Then Look Play Interact Explore

12 Oct 2024 – 1 Jun 2025
Featuring large, tactile sculptural objects and colourful assemblages, everything in this exhibition is interactive.
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Exhibition
Wed-Sun

Franki Raffles: Photography, Activism, Campaign Works

Woman wearing a head scarf and blue shirt chopping lettuce.
11 May 2024 – 16 Mar 2025
Feminist, activist and social documentary photographer Franki Raffles documented the lives of women across the world 1984-94.
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Exhibition
Wed-Sun

Joanne Coates Middle of Somewhere

Green landscape with rolling green hills in the background and green bushes and trees in the foreground.
11 May – 17 Nov 2024
Recipient of The Vasseur Baltic Artist Award, Joanne Coates tells stories of rurality, hidden histories and inequalities relating to low income.
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Exhibition
Wed-Sun

Hannah Perry Manual Labour

Large industrial structure with lights and scaffolding and a large screen showing a pregnant woman.
22 Jun 2024 – 16 Mar 2025
Hannah Perry presents a major body of new work for our Level 4 gallery that considers labour, motherhood and class.
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Exhibition

Heartwood (Sycamore Gap)

Print from the sycamore tree
23 Oct 2024 – 26 Jan 2025
An exhibition of five bespoke prints created from a disc of the trunk of the felled Sycamore Gap tree, created by printmaker Shona Branigan.
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Baltic Shop
Pop-Up Shop

Happy Mart (Artist Pop-Up Shop)

12 Oct 2024 – 2 Mar 2025
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Zoomed in shot of person walking bear foot on hot calls and nighttime.
Event

Maggie's x Baltic: Walk on Fire

14 Nov 2024 | 18:00
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Front Room

Enjoy a warm welcome, a hot drink and kind conversation.
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Two people stood together in a shop looking at colourful homeware.
In store & online

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Shop carefully selected designs from emerging makers alongside established brands - gifts for you and your loved ones.

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Make & Take Home

Baltic Shop Creates | Risograph Prints & Printing

Person flicking through prints
7 Nov, 30 Nov, 1 Dec 2024 | 13:00 & 18:00
Foundation Press are your go to guides when it comes to creating your own colourful risograph prints to take home.
Creative Workshop
Make & Take Home

Baltic Shop Creates | A Festive Banner

Thread and material on a table, around which people cut up bits of fabric into letters
16 Nov 2024 | 10:30-16:30
An evening session where you will get to make your own banner with textile artist, Bianco Perry.
Creative Workshop
Make & Take Home

Baltic Shop Creates | Rubber Stamp Relief Printing

17 Nov 2024 | 13:00
Kath Bell leads a fun and informative session learning how to transfer your own design onto a rubber stamp and carving out the stamp with relief cutting…
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Make & Take Home

Baltic Shop Creates | Monster Head Plant Pot

Monster clay pot with cactus
30 Nov 2024 | 10:00 & 14:00
Learn a variety of hand-building techniques that will form the basis for your pot.
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Sweet Waffles Socks

These wonderful waffley socks look so like an actual waffle with cream on top, be careful not to gift to someone who is hungry or confusion will reign.
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Hornsea Teapot Heirloom Teal

Combine teal and a tea pot to create an iconic mid century pattern for a lovely vintage kitchen.
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Lemon Milk Riso Print

Lemony Milk for your walls!
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