Exhibition / Semiconductor - Where Shapes Come From
Fri 10 Feb – Sun 26 Mar
Where Shapes Come From is a film installation by Semiconductor which considers how science translates nature on an atomic scale.
Art Archive
See below highlights of our art & digital culture programme from each year, going back to the opening of the building in 2009.
Archive 2017
Exhibition / No Copyright Infringement Intended
Fri 7 Apr – Sun 21 May
No Copyright Infringement Intended is a group exhibition exploring the relationship between copyright and culture in the digital age
Festival / Spark Festival - The Digital Playground
Sat 27 – Mon 29 May, 11am – 4pm
Play, learn and create with amazing new technologies at this year’s Digital Playground, part of the Spark Festival
Archive 2016
Screening / Visible Bits Audible Bytes
Wed 17 Feb, 6.30pm
The seventh annual Visible Bits, Audible Bytes brings stunning, genre-breaking works of audiovisual art to Phoenix. This screening is now sold out.
Performance / Canary Songs
Sat 23 April, 4pm & 7pm | Sun 24 April, 4pm
Canary Songs is a new sound and choral performance by the artist Teresa Dillon, inspired by the women who worked in UK munitions factories during WW1
Exhibition / Kitty Clark - Mr Nobody
Sat 24 Sep – Sun 20 Nov
Phoenix is proud to present Mr. Nobody, a solo show of new work by Kitty Clark commissioned especially for our Cube Gallery.
Archive 2015
Exhibition / Julian Oliver - The Crystal Line
Fri 6 Mar – Mon 30 Mar
Created by internationally-renowned artist Julian Oliver, The Crystal Line reconstructs a World War One crystal radio as a way to hear about the future of warfare.
Exhibition / The Fading Afterglow of Creation
10 Apr – 8 May
The Fading Afterglow of Creation brings together the work of Leicester-based artists Dave Briggs and Jack Squires, and explores the ways fact and fiction combine to shape how we see ourselves in an increasingly technology-driven world.
Festival / Spark 2015
Tue 26 – Fri 29 May 11am – 5pm
Immerse yourself in amazing interactive experiences at Phoenix for The Spark Festival 2015.
2014
Exhibition / Spark Children's Arts Festival
27 May – 1 Jun
Our Spark Festival programme for 2014 was packed with amazing interactive digital experiences
Performance / MSHR
22 Feb
Phoenix and Two Queens present an installation and performance by Oregon-based artist duo MSHR.
Exhibition / Site Exploration
10 – 28 Feb
Site Exploration is an exhibition looking at the way artists use technology to explore our relationship with the environment and the natural physical world
2013
Exhibition / Layla Curtis - Antipodes
18 Oct – 21 Dec 2013
Live webcams feeding images from opposite ends of the globe are the subject of this stunning new exhibition - part of Layla Curtis’s ongoing interactive online artwork Antipodes.
Exhibition / The Onesie Cycle VIP
9 Aug – 7 Sep 2013
Phoenix is working with Two Queens gallery to present a solo show by Benedict Drew, one of the UK’s most exciting new contemporary artists.
Exhibition / Dave Griffiths - Extinction Event
12 Apr – 24 May 2013
After studying the distant cosmos with scientists at the University of Leicester, artist Dave Griffiths has been inspired to create Extinction Event, a new artwork commissioned specially for this exhibition at Phoenix.
2012
Exhibition / Sebastian Buerkner - Chimera of M and recent works
17 Dec 2012 – 31 Jan 2013
Phoenix presents an exhibition of new and recent work by Sebastian Buerkner, one of the most exciting and innovative artists working with animation today.
Exhibition / Intuition and Ingenuity
Mon 8 Oct – Fri 9 Nov 2012
Intuition and Ingenuity explores the enduring influence of Alan Turing – the father of modern computing - on art and contemporary culture.
Exhibition / An Expanding Atlas of Subjectivity
4 Apr – 2 May 2012
More than 800 drawings created using an iPhone as a sketchbook will be displayed in a new exhibition by internationally acclaimed artist Simon Faithfull
2011
Exhibition / Anna Lucas - Kaff Mariam and Uña de Gato
7 Nov – 16 Dec 2011
Kaff Mariam and Uña de Gato explore the complex themes surrounding these two medicinal plants, first encountered by Lucas in her local markets in Brixton, south London
Exhibition / The Cutting Room Presents
6 – 23 October 2011
The Cutting Room present David Blandy's "Barefoot Lone Pilgrim, Issue 1+2 : Origins" and Hetain Patel’s new film ‘Kanku Raga' an exciting mix of reality and fantasy in the cube gallery
Installation / Geoff Broadway - Lifecycle
8 – 30 Sep 2011
LifeCycle is a multi-screen audio-visual installation that explores ideas of change and transformation
2009/10
Exhibition / Annie Cattrell - Conditions
4 Jun – 26 Jul 2010
Annie Cattrell’s work captures moments in time, clouds on a particular day, a breath inside a human lung.
Installation / Tom Betts - AvSeq
8 Apr – 24 May 2010
AvSeq by Tom Betts is an interactive installation that takes the form of an abstract computer game
Installation / Brett Battey - cMatrix12
Nov 20 – Dec 18 2009
In ‘cMatrix12’ Bret Battey shows us a glimpse of a fleeting world that is going through a process of constant transformation