Harbourside, Bristol 🇬🇧
An international centre for contemporary art in a former Brooke Bond tea-packing warehouse by Bristol's docks, staging ambitious solo shows by emerging and established artists alongside more than 70 artist studios, a print studio and a café.
Explore 1 exhibition on now and 2 coming soon at Spike Island.
Until Jan 31, 2027
First European survey of the artist's sculpture, shacks and earthworks
"But the good stuff here – the shacks and Frustulas – is exceptional. It’s not just morose memorialising of brutal history: it’s a joyful celebration of ingenuity and survival in a world of inequality. As rickety as they look, these shacks tell a story that’s built to endure."
Coming SoonStarting Feb 20, 2027
Deadpan video and sculpture staging mortality as opera and theatre
Coming SoonStarting Jun 19, 2027
Ekow Eshun gathers 30+ UK artists on empathy in polarised times
Harbourside, Bristol·View on artmap
EndedEnded Sep 6
Two new films on feminised labour, told through magical realism
EndedEnded Sep 6
New sculptures on domestic longing, scaled to Spike Island's vast galleries
EndedEnded May 10
New sculptural commissions turning everyday containers into uncanny forms
EndedEnded May 10
A film and sound system tracing the drum's echo across the African diaspora
EndedEnded Jan 11
A tent-like textile installation inspired by Cairo's Khayamiya appliqué
EndedEnded Jan 11
A restful, anti-monumental environment born from grief and burnout
