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Two people wearing long black coats and carrying tree cuttings on their backs through the snow.

Two people wearing long black coats and carrying tree cuttings on their backs through the snow.

Wed-Sun

Franki Raffles: Photography, Activism, Campaign Works

11 May 2024 – 16 Mar 2025

Large industrial structure with lights and scaffolding and a large screen showing a pregnant woman.

Wed-Sun

Hannah Perry Manual Labour

22 Jun 2024 – 16 Mar 2025

Wed-Sun

Leap Then Look Play Interact Explore

12 Oct 2024 – 1 Jun 2025

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 Sunday 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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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.

Franki Raffles: Photography, Activism, Campaign Works

Two people wearing long black coats and carrying tree cuttings on their backs through the snow.

11 May 2024 – 16 Mar 2025

Feminist, activist and social documentary photographer Franki Raffles documented the lives of women across the world 1984-94.

Joanne Coates Middle of Somewhere

Woman wearing a black jumper an jeans stood in front of a block of flats.

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.

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.

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.

Exhibition Preview

Baltic Preview: We all came here from somewhere

Fri 22 Nov | 18:00

Winter Warmer Saturday

30 Nov 2024 | 10:00-18:00

Happy Mart (Artist Pop-Up Shop)

12 Oct 2024 – 2 Mar 2025

Front Room

Enjoy a warm welcome, a hot drink and kind conversation.

Two people stood together in a shop looking at colourful homeware.

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Baltic Shop

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

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.

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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Holly Berry Earrings

Have a holly jolly Christmas with bright and colourful accessories celebrating the holly bush.

Dorothy Bauble

Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high (on a Christmas Tree). There's a bauble that I heard of. Once in a lullaby.

Lemon Milk Riso Print

Lemony Milk for your walls!