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Exhibition Research Lab is delighted to announce that its Autumn 2025 – Summer 2026 season is supported by an Enhancing Research Culture Grant from Liverpool John Moores University. 

The ERC Grant was awarded for a proposal entitled ‘Decolonial Research Culture: Connecting our local environment and the Global South through culturally diverse knowledge and creative practices’ led by Dr Christine Eyene, along with Professor Joasia Krysa, Dr James Schofield, Dr Hana Leaper, and Andrew Ibi. The programme will connect bodies of research and creative practices across LJMU, Liverpool and beyond, bringing together contemporary art, music, film, design and fashion.

The upcoming season features exhibitions, film screenings, performances, talks, conferences, and artists residencies embedded within Liverpool’s history, local communities, and contemporary art scene.     

Programme highlights include a conversation between Pr Dr Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and Dr Christine Eyene moderated by Gabriela Saenger Silva (23 September); a talk by ERL exhibiting artist Joy Gregory; a research residency by poet, rapper, and multidisciplinary artist Kuamen; projects featuring British African-Caribbean visual artist Elsa James, South African photographer George Hallett, filmmaker Imruh Bakari, and more to be announced. 

About Exhibition Research Lab 

Exhibition Research Lab (ERL) is a public venue and a research centre dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of exhibitions and curatorial knowledge, founded in 2012 as part of Liverpool School of Art and Design, Liverpool John Moores University. 

ERL proposes curatorial practice as a form of critical inquiry and knowledge production. It extends the traditional remit of an art gallery as a site for display or pedagogical resource, to an expanded concept of a ‘lab’ where experimental thinking and making takes place, and where curatorial knowledge is enacted, produced, and made public. 

Positioned across academic research and cultural ecology, ERL is underpinned by partnerships and joint posts with cultural institutions in the city including Tate Liverpool and Liverpool Biennial. ERL offers a year-round public programme of activities including exhibitions, talks, seminars, workshops, residencies and fellowships, publications, education programmes and doctoral research. 

The ERL Gallery is co-directed by Dr Christine Eyene and Dr James Schofield.  

For more information visit www.exhibition-research-lab.co.uk or contact info@exhibition-research-lab.co.uk.