Baltic Open Submission & Keiken Preview Party

Friday 18 September 2026 | 18:00-23:30
Booking essential. Free / donations warmly welcomed

We warmly invite you to a Summer Preview Party to celebrate the opening of: Baltic Open Submission 2026, Youth Open Call 2026 supported by Fenwick and Keiken: Seeds, Stones, and Future Bones.

Preview Party Timings

18:00 Galleries open Ground Floor & Level 2
18:00 Baltic Riverside opens with DJs, pizza & drinks
18:15 Director’s Welcome in Baltic Riverside
21:00 Galleries close
23:30 Last orders in Baltic Riverside

There is no charge to attend this event, and we encourage donation tickets. If you're unable to attend the event, we are unable to refund your donation. Booking is essential.

Level 2 Gallery

Baltic is proud to present Keiken’s first UK solo exhibition. Keiken (経験), meaning ‘experience’ in Japanese, is an artist collective led by Hana Omori that takes a collaborative approach to creating immersive worlds through embodied storytelling, empathetic technologies, and deep world-building. Moving fluidly between games, films, installations, and performance, they craft deeply interconnected experiences that invite audiences to feel, connect, and transform.

The exhibition presents Morphogenic Angels: Chapter 1, a science-fiction, single-player, action-adventure game, alongside sculptural and newly commissioned sound work, set within a site-specific installation environment. Visitors are invited to explore speculative futures where consciousness, transformation, and the boundaries of human experience are reimagined and expanded.

Ground Floor Gallery

Baltic Open Submission, now in its third iteration, will showcase painting, sculpture, photography, video, and more by individuals and collectives based in the North East of England. The exhibition features over 100 works by emerging and established artists.

Artworks were selected from over 1100 submissions by a panel including internationally-renowned artists Laura Lancaster and Rachel Lancaster, Tees Valley Artist of the Year 2025 Will Hughes, and Baltic Assistant Curators Rose McMurray and Rosie Coleman Collier.

As part of the exhibition, Baltic launched an opportunity for 11–17-year-olds, the Youth Open Call 2026 supported by Fenwick, themed around Local — exploring local places, stories, and viewpoints. Selections for the Youth Open Call have been made by Baltic's Young Producers and artist Terox.

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