Reading Room

With a comprehensive library of contemporary art books, magazines, DVDs of artist films and interviews, and a range of resources relating to our current programme, Arnolfini's Reading Room is a place to find out more about some of the ideas behind our exhibitions and events. We also house a complete collection of Arnolfini's programmes, going back to the founding of the organisation.

 You are welcome to use the space for browsing, quiet personal study, or simply as a place to relax and reflect after a tour of the building. Free wifi is available, as is a PC for web browsing.

FFI contact Phil Owen, Reading Room Assistant on readingroom@arnolfini.org.uk or tel 0117 9172317

Opening Times
Thurs - Sun, 11.00am - 6.00pm.

Reading Room Display
During the Old Media season, there will be a changing display in the Reading Room of work that has a relationship to the programme, and items from the Arnolfini archive which is in the process of being catalogued. In September this will include work by Harold Cohen, author of the AARON program, an ongoing research effort in autonomous machine (art making) intelligence which he began in 1973.

Upcoming Reading Room Events
Events programmed in the Reading Room are very often discussion-oriented, to make the most of the intimate, convivial nature of the space.

Forthcoming events include Tertulia - about creative work that takes an interdisciplinary approach to language.

For a list of our current exhibition resources

To search a catalogue-in-development of the Reading Room library