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Cornerhouse was a cinema and contemporary visual arts centre next to Oxford Road Station on Wilmslow Road, Manchester, England, from 1985 to 2015. It had three floors of art galleries, three cinemas, a bookshop, bar and café. Cornerhouse was operated by Greater Manchester Arts Centre Ltd, a registered charity.
Cornerhouse's first director was Dewi Lewis, who had previously been director of Bury Metro Arts. The building opened on 3 October 1985. The first film screened (on 18 October) was Nicolas Roeg's Insignificance. Dave Moutrey was director and CEO from 1998 until 2024.
Since its inception, Cornerhouse has hosted the UK premiere of Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs and was the first UK public gallery to commission work from Damien Hirst.
In 2012, it was announced that Cornerhouse would merge with the Library Theatre to form HOME. In 2015, both organisations moved to new premises at the HOME centre.
From March 2017 to August 2017, the vacant Cornerhouse Cinema building was squatted by the Loose Space Collective before being evicted.
Cornerhouse produced or co-produced all of its exhibitions as well as a programme for each show. A regular feature of its visual arts programme was international group exhibitions which explored socio-political concerns. In 2011, Cornerhouse launched Artist Film, a project for the production and distribution of longer films, starting with Gillian Wearing's Self Made. Cornerhouse was a partner in the plus Tate programme.
On average, 30 titles were screened across the three screens every month. The cinemas were open seven days a week, with daily matinée and evening performances (no matinées on Monday), making a total of almost 3,500 screenings annually.
Cornerhouse's film programme was international in scope and offered new and innovative film and video alongside more familiar work. This resulted in the screening of new films and re-releases; second runs of overlooked or underrated titles; classic and archive material; shorts, animation and documentary; avant garde film and television; and foreign language films. Alongside a variety of touring film programmes, Cornerhouse also ran two festivals every year ¡Viva! SpanishThe ¡Viva! Spanish website is here . and Latin American Film Festival and exposures.The exposures website is here.
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