Upcoming Exhibitions:
Coventry Biennial 2025: Obsessions, Possessions
Friday 3 October 2025 - Sunday 25 January 2026 | FREE with Herbert Entry Admission
Coventry Biennial 2025 will facilitate a collective exploration of the roles and functions of collecting within the art, museum, heritage and knowledge production sectors, the wider community and the artists’ studio.
The programme of exhibitions, events and activities will platform the co-creation and presentation of new artworks and exciting reimaginings of collections and archives rooted in society’s shared obsessions and possessions.
Ranging from major national art collections to personal and family archives, from libraries to what can be found beneath your kitchen sink, from warehouses full of artworks to photo albums full of memories, we will explore how and why we collect, what it means to collect and will examine the impacts, legacies, politics and problematics of what is (or isn’t) included.
Stories That Made Us - Roots, Resilience, Representation
Friday 14 November 2025 - Monday 25 May 2026 | FREE with Herbert Entry Admission
Stories That Made Us will showcase the lived experiences of a South Asian family in Coventry from 1968 to 2010, drawing on Coventry Archives’ Virk Collection and curator & artist Hardish Virk’s ‘Stories That Made Us’ Collection.
Using photographs, books, magazines, posters, vinyl records, cassettes, and personal memorabilia to tell the story of migration, activism, identity and cultural contributions.
The exhibition will also feature immersive room settings, oral histories, radio broadcasts, music, video, and graphics to bring these stories to life.
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