Tag: Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art

Saodat Ismailova: As We Fade

Three seductive, spellbinding films demonstrate the Uzbek artist and film-maker’s confidence in letting images tell the story, in her first solo exhibition at a UK institution
Michael Rakowitz: The Waiting Gardens of the North

Rakowitz has recreated the Hanging Gardens of Babylon in the form of a sculptural relief and a living garden of plants and herbs, collaborating with local people with experience of displacement
Hinterlands

An excellent curatorial approach draws you in to this wonderfully immersive exhibition celebrating the landscape of the north-east of England
Judy Chicago

Escaping from the shadows of The Dinner Party, a career-ranging survey of the pioneering feminist translates private thoughts into public display
John Akomfrah: Ballasts of Memory

Akomfrah’s skill as a film-maker and visual storyteller shines through in this compelling show
Barby Asante – interview: ‘There was real pleasure running through the declarations – we’re trying to influence’

With Declaration of Independence at the Baltic, Asante makes space for womxn of colour to relate narratives and reflect on the nature of independence