A new exhibition at the Library of Birmingham explores the role of art in supporting health and care systems, through a graphic identity inspired by the 1970s Game of Life TV show.

Based on Ikon Gallery’s collaborative research with visual artists, academic and charity partners, What are the odds? reflects a range of lived experiences from diversity in infant feeding to ageing and dying well.

Running throughout May, Seventh Circle celebrates the intersection between Birmingham’s industrial grit and unexpected green spaces. Beauty and the Beast brings together more than 40 independent artists, each of whom explores in their own unique way how these two sides of the city come together and work in harmony.

As part of Beauty and the Beast, one exhibiting artist will be selected for the Featured Artist Award, a dedicated spotlight within Seventh Circle Gallery designed to support and elevate emerging talent.

Artist Christopher Samuel explores themes of stigma, belonging and agency in a new exhibition about stories missing from history at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery.

Through nine newly recorded interviews for the city of Birmingham’s collection, Watch Us Lead highlights the experiences of disabled people of colour in Birmingham, particularly Black individuals, combining these stories with stained glass and drawings by Christopher that reflect significant moments in the lives of the individuals featured.

The Bothy is a permanent outdoor installation set in the Minerva Apothecary Garden on the Grand Union Canalside, and is part of Whittle’s long-term artist project with Grand Union titled Congregation: Creating Dangerously.

Created by British-Barbadian artist Alberta Whittle, along with Birmingham-based women’s organisations and MJM Bespoke, the structure is modelled on a traditional Scottish both, which provides temporary, free shelter for anyone to use, and is intended as a place for people to rest and take in views of the sky and surrounding land.

Responding to a government report suggesting that loneliness and isolation were increasing in rural areas of the UK, acclaimed photographer Clare Hewitt presents new work that celebrates trees and their remarkable ability to nurture and communicate.

Hewitt documented the forest and its seasonal changes by setting up a studio within a circle of twelve oak trees, exploring nature and the forest through a range of sustainable photography techniques.

Founded in 1880, The Lapworth Museum of Geology is one of the oldest geological museums in the UK.

Housed in the Edwardian Grade II listed Aston Webb Building at the University of Birmingham, the institution houses collections dedicated to everything from dinosaurs and volcanoes to diamonds and fossils, offering a fascinating insight into how life began and changed through time.

Extended on more than one occasion due to overwhelming demand, Ozzy Osbourne: Working Class Hero showcases the solo achievements and global awards of the rock icon, as well as the album art of the original Black Sabbath lineup.

The free-to-enter exhibition showcases Ozzy’s most prestigious international honours – including Grammy Awards, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame accolades, MTV awards, Hollywood Walk of Fame and Birmingham Walk of Stars honours and a selection of his platinum and gold discs which recognise millions of record sales around the world.

Whether you’re a calligraphy fanatic or more of a fairweather fan, the Pen Museum is a somewhat unlikely but fun afternoon out for all ages.

During the Victorian era, making steel pen nibs was a major industry, with 129 companies employing 8,000 workers across Birmingham. Throughout the museum, you’ll find a wide variety of objects that tell the story of the city’s pen trade, with a range of interactive activities along the way, including writing with quills and ink, using graphology to analyse your handwriting and even the opportunity to make your own nib.

Daiga Grantina represented Latvia at the 2019 Venice Biennale and now lives and works in Paris. Lilacs marks her first solo exhibition in a UK art gallery.

Grantina’s sculptures explore how materials meet and react to each other, prompting us to look again at their size, form and meaning. These interactions echo the ways that living systems and environments evolve – shifting, growing and unfolding across multiple dimensions.

A stunning, large-scale illuminated sculpture of the sun by acclaimed British artist Luke Jerram will go on display at The Exchange in Birmingham this spring.

The University of Birmingham announced that it had permanently acquired Helios, and that it would be displayed for free from March to November 2026.

Using high-resolution (72dpi) photographic solar imagery, the sculpture reveals the astonishing details of the Sun’s surface, from swirling sunspots to dramatic solar flares, all illuminated from within to cast a golden glow across the Banking Hall.

Ikon presents Break the Mould, the final exhibition in a trilogy exploring craft, art school pedagogies and contemporary art practice. This show focuses on ceramics, positioning clay as a site of experimentation.

Break the Mould transforms the gallery into a laboratory for residencies, collaborative making and public engagement. Throughout the exhibition, visitors will see artists at work and take part in activities that bring the process of making to life.

Break the Mould brings together leading ceramicists and contemporary artists who challenge traditional boundaries of craft.

A new joint exhibition at Seventh Circle brings together two Birmingham-based painters for an otherworldly exploration of emotion, experience and memory.

Inner Worlds: Emma Woolley and Tara Harris, is free to enter and will run from Sat 6 Jun – Sun 5 Jul.

Harris will show a series of dreamy landscapes, which she often paints late into the night. Working intuitively, she allows imagery to surface and represents “presences instead of places – inner terrains that suggest states of being, felt experiences, and emotional atmospheres.”

Painting is also deeply therapeutic for Woolley, who will be showing a series of new contemporary portraits conjured directly from her imagination. Her figures are intimate, closely-cropped, and psychologically charged, often stripped of environmental context to focus attention on expression, gesture, and inner lives.