New immersive David Bowie show to open at London’s Lightroom

A new show dedicated to the life and performances of David Bowie will open at London’s Lightroom this spring.

David Bowie: You’re Not Alone will see showcase a mixture of iconic Bowie performances and lesser seen footage from the singer’s sprawling New York Archive, all projected on the walls of the immersive space in Kings Cross.

The multimedia show is directed by 59 Productions’ Mark Grimmer (Creative Director for the V&A’s David Bowie Is exhibition) and Tom Wexler. It comes after Lightroom previously attracted acclaim for similar exhibitions on the work of artist David Hockney and The Moonwalkers, a look at the Apollo 11 mission narrated by Tom Hanks.

As well as showing iconic Bowie performances, rare footage of the singer performing ‘Heroes’ at Earls Court in 1978 is also set to feature in the show.

Mark Grimmer said: “It says something about our relationship with artistic heroes that we’re drawn to mystery, otherness, the alien… In Bowie’s case, this is our construct, not his. Throughout his career, Bowie repeatedly resisted being figured as anything but human. Rather than undermining his mystique, we designed a show to celebrate Bowie as a champion of human creativity – focusing on the message he expressed time and again: that art, in all its forms, is our best hope for understanding what it means to be alive.”

The Lightroom show will be structured into individual chapters and opens on April 22.