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What Kind of City, A Manual for Social Change
The Whitworth | Until 26 March 2022

What Kind of City, A Manual for Social Change is a city-wide project that embeds learning, research and strategies from the art of Suzanne Lacy, towards creating a vision for a more equitable city.

A Woman’s Work
The Refuge | Until 30 June 2022

A Woman’s Work is a celebration of 20th-century female documentary photography launching at The Refuge this International Woman’s Day.

Fairy Tales
Z-arts | Until 15 April 2023

Fairy Tales is Z-arts latest exhibition, an interactive world of play and storytelling for children up to 8-years old and their grown-ups.

Archives at Play
Castlefield Gallery | Until 24 April 2022

Archives at Play is a new exhibition at Castlefield Gallery exploring our relationship with the past, and how this informs the way we make the future.

British Art Show 9
HOME, Castlefield Gallery & the Whitworth | Until 3 September 2022

British Art Show 9 explores three overarching themes – healing, care and reparative history; tactics for togetherness; and imagining new futures. Each of the four exhibitions will also adapt to local contexts. In Manchester the exhibition will engage with the evolving nature of work and the ongoing struggle to shape a new social contract.

Exhibition Tour: Mantle
Castlefield Gallery | 29 January 2022

A chance to hear directly from artist Jocelyn McGregor about her practice and the new works in the exhibition

Jocelyn McGregor: Mantle
Castlefield Gallery | Until 20 February 2022

The first major solo exhibition of work by Jocelyn McGregor, Mantle at Castlefield Gallery involves sculpture, installation and animation.

Quartet – Art
The Holden Gallery | Until 9 February 2022

Quartet – Art will showcase the work of graduates from both undergraduate and postgraduate students from the Department of Art and Performance.

Quartet – Design
The Holden Gallery | Until 8 May 2022

This final exhibition Quartet – Design will open from April 25 to May 8 at The Holden Gallery and showcase work by graduates from the Department of Design.

Quartet – Architecture
The Holden Gallery | Until 10 April 2022

Graduates from Manchester School of Architecture showcase their work in Quartet – Architecture at the Holden Gallery

Quartet – Media
The Holden Gallery | Until 16 March 2022

This second exhibition Quartet – Media will open from March 3 to 16 at the Holden Gallery presents the work of graduates from media courses.

Parham Ghalamdar: A Fine Kettle of Fish
HOME | Until 13 March 2022

Parham Ghalamdar: A Fine Kettle of Fish is a brand new series of site-specific paintings that interrogates the relationship between chaos and order, presence and absence, life and death.

Manchester Open Exhibition 2024
HOME | Until 28 April 2024

LAST CHANCE. HOME’s Manchester Open closes this weekend. Greater Manchester’s largest open art exhibition will showcase the work of nearly 500 artists.

The Door Opened: 1980s China – Photographs by Adrian Bradshaw
Manchester Central Library | Until 26 April 2022

Adrian Bradshaw’s exhibition explores China in the 1980s. From opulent fashion extravaganzas to sentimental family excursions, capturing the fleeting beauty and simplicity of everyday life.

UK AIDS Memorial Quilts
Kimpton Clocktower Hotel | Until 16 January 2022

Kimpton Clocktower Hotel host an exclusive exhibition displaying digital prints of the UK AIDS Memorial Quilts in memory of lives lost.