2023 virtual PDB Art exhibition
You can explore the virtual exhibition below, or by visiting the online gallery at Artsteps.
Virtual 2023 PDB Art Exhibition Opening
Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe) hosted an online art exhibition to celebrate artwork created through the PDB Art project in 2023. This virtual event, on Tuesday 19th September 2023 at 5:00pm BST, marked the official opening of the 2023 virtual exhibition. It included an overview of the artworks created in this years' project, plus a talk from Dr. Brady Johnston, whose Blender add-on 'Molecular Nodes' has led to a revolution in development of compelling molecular visualisations and animations. We also announced awards for the best artworks in the project in 2023, voted for by the public. View the exhibition opening below or on our PDBe YouTube channel.
Artworks
We are still working on developing a comprehensive gallery of artworks and associated descriptions created as part of the PDB Art project.
A subset of the artworks, used in our 2020 PDBe calendar can be viewed through an online gallery at Flickr:
PDBe calendar 2020 - Flickr gallery
For more recent artworks, the virtual exhibitions allow you explore the artworks created as part of the project:
2020 Virtual PDB Art exhibition
2021 Virtual PDB Art exhibition
2022 Virtual PDB Art exhibition
2023 Virtual PDB Art exhibition
Exhibitions
Throughout the lifetime of the PDB Art project, PDBe have hosted a number of public art exhibitions to celebrate the artworks created in the PDB Art project. These have ranged from public exhibitions in central Cambridge, UK, to campus-based exhibitions to celebrate the artworks with the scientists whose work inspired them. Some more details about the exhibitions are included below.
Virtual Exhibitions
2022 virtual PDB Art exhibition
You can explore the virtual exhibition by visiting the online gallery at Artsteps.
Virtual 2022 PDB Art Exhibition Opening
We hosted a virtual opening of the 2022 PDB Art Exhibition on Monday 26th September 2022 at 5pm (BST). The event included a virtual tour of the exhibition, an introduction from EMBL Director General Edith Heard, and a talk from Irina Bezsonova, a structural biology group leader at UConn Health. We also announced awards for the best artworks in the project in 2022, voted for by teachers. View the exhibition opening below or on our PDBe YouTube channel.
2021 virtual PDB Art exhibition
You can explore the virtual exhibition by visiting the online gallery at Artsteps.
Virtual 2021 PDB Art Exhibition Opening
We hosted a virtual opening of the 2021 PDB Art Exhibition on Friday 1st October 2021 at 5pm (BST). The event included a virtual tour of the exhibition, talks from Prof. Jane Shelby Richardson (Duke University) and Wellcome Collection curator Shamita Sharmacharja, plus some words from students, teachers and scientists involved in this year's project.
We have made the recording of the event available on our YouTube channel and it is available to watch below.
2020 virtual PDB Art exhibition
You can explore the virtual exhibition by visiting the online gallery at Artsteps.
2020 virtual PDB Art exhibition opening event
We hosted a virtual opening of the 2020 PDB Art Exhibition on Friday 4th November at 5pm (GMT). The event included a virtual tour of the exhibition, talks from Dr. Lori Passmore (MRC-LMB) and artist Melissa Pierce Murray, plus some words from the students involved in this year's project.
We have made the recording of the event available on our YouTube channel and it is available to watch below.
Exhibitions in Cambridge, UK
PDBe have hosted three exhibitions in central Cambridge, intially at the Cambridge Central Library, and subsequently at the Michaelhouse Gallery. Both of these locations are freely available to the public and have allowed us to reach an general audience, beyond the scientific community. You can find more information about each of these exhibitions at the following links, along with images of the exhibitions.
2018 exhibition
Read more about the 2018 art exhibition at:
Celebrating Art Inspired by the PDB - A PDBe news item celebrating the 2018 art exhibition
Art meets structural biology - An EMBL-EBI news item celebrating the 2018 art exhibition
2019 exhibition
Read more about the 2018 art exhibition at:
A celebration of the PDB Art project - A PDBe news item celebrating the 2019 art exhibition
Exploring the beauty of proteins - An EMBL-EBI news item celebrating the 2019 art exhibition
Exhibition at MRC-LMB
In 2019 PDBe also hosted the PDB Art exhibition at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge. On display in the LMB atrium were a range of styles of artworks, including paintings, prints, sculptures, and ceramics, inspired by molecular biology. During the exhibition at the LMB, students were invited from schools involved in the PDB Art project to explore the exhibition, meet LMB scientists, and taken on lab tours so they could see where the science behind the art is carried out.
Read more about the exhibition at the MRC LMB:
Student art inspired by structural biology lights up the LMB’s atrium
