What’s On
Join Olivier Jamin on a BSL Tour of Jason and the Adventure of 254 a major solo exhibition by Jason Wilsher-Mills. Showcasing Jason's largest and most personal commission to date, this exhibition is a joyful and subversive exploration of the body, drawing on the artist’s experience of becoming disabled as a child. Reimagining the gallery space […]
This exhibition is in partnership with Wellcome Collection. Wellcome Collection and Attenborough Arts Centre are pleased to present 'Jason and the Adventure of 254', a major solo exhibition by Jason Wilsher-Mills. Showcasing his largest and most personal commission to date, this free exhibition is a joyful and subversive exploration of the body, drawing on the […]
Join us to launch our upcoming exhibition 'Jason and the Adventure of 254'. Wellcome Collection and Attenborough Arts Centre are pleased to present ‘Jason and the Adventure of 254’, a major solo exhibition by Jason Wilsher-Mills. Showcasing his largest and most personal commission to date, this free exhibition is a joyful and subversive exploration of […]
Join Deaf artist Rubbena Aurangzeb-Tariq on a BSL Tour of 'Material Worlds: Contemporary Artists and Textiles'. An ambitious group exhibition exploring how artists are using textiles in surprising and radical ways. Illuminating the diverse roles textiles play in contemporary artistic practice, the exhibition brings together artists who take the intimate and domestic quality of textiles […]
This exhibition is in partnership with Hayward Touring. Attenborough Arts Centre presents 'Material Worlds: Contemporary Artists and Textiles', an ambitious group exhibition exploring how artists are using textiles in surprising and radical ways. Illuminating the diverse roles textiles play in contemporary artistic practice, the exhibition brings together artists who take the intimate and domestic quality […]
Join us to launch our upcoming exhibitions 'A Decade of Exhibitions' and 'Material Worlds: Contemporary Artists and Textiles'. In 2016, Attenborough Arts Centre opened its new purpose-built galleries, creating a new home for contemporary art in Leicester. Since then, we have welcomed thousands of visitors and hosted a diverse programme of exhibitions by local, national […]
Join Deaf artist Rubbena Aurangzeb-Tariq on a BSL Tour of 'We Grown Ups Can Also Be Afraid'– an exhibition that takes its name from the Swedish nursery rhyme that features in the show. Drawn from the David and Indrė Roberts Collection, one of the UK’s foremost private art collections, the exhibition encompasses sculpture, works on […]
The times in which we live are characterised by precarity and instability on multiple fronts, with major issues confronting society including climate crisis, global conflict, genocide, mass migration, and the violence of Western imperialism. ‘We Grown-Ups Can Also Be Afraid’ explores how work by some of the most significant artists of our era can help […]
