See below for highlights of our art & digital culture programme from each year, going back to the opening of the building in 2009.
Thu 7 Mar – Sun 14 Apr
Farewell to Thee is an installation by internationally acclaimed artist Bill Balaskas, inspired by a nuclear missile alert that was mistakenly issued in the State of Hawaii on 13 January 2018.
Fri 25 Jan, 8pm
Bodyscapes is a collection of new films by Japanese artists whose use of the body is central to their work
Tue 19 – Thu 21 Feb | 11am – 4.30pm daily
Don a virtual reality headset, jump on a swing and get ready to be transported into an exhilarating virtual adventure in the VR Playground by Thrill Laboratory.
Thu 18 Jan – Sun 11 Mar
Changing Places is an exhibition of artists' video curated by Film and Video Umbrella linking the industrial transformations occurring across South Asia with sites of historic significance in Britain.
Wed 25 Apr, 6.30pm
Electro-Pythagoras is artist filmmaker Luke Fowler’s profile of the pioneering electronic music composer Martin Bartlett.
Mon 30 Apr – Sun 13 May
Art-AI is a two week festival taking place at Phoenix and Highcross exploring the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in arts through a programme of creative work including installations, performances and discussions.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Tue 26 – Fri 29 May 11am – 5pm
Immerse yourself in amazing interactive experiences at Phoenix for The Spark Festival 2015.
27 May – 1 Jun
Our Spark Festival programme for 2014 was packed with amazing interactive digital experiences
22 Feb
Phoenix and Two Queens present an installation and performance by Oregon-based artist duo MSHR.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
Artist Dave Everitt presents ‘CubeLife’ in the cube gallery.
4 Jun – 26 Jul 2010
Annie Cattrell’s work captures moments in time, clouds on a particular day, a breath inside a human lung.
8 Apr – 24 May 2010
AvSeq by Tom Betts is an interactive installation that takes the form of an abstract computer game
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