We’ve had some incredible immersive exhibitions grace the expansive Warehouse of the cutting edge Aviva Studios, but none will have been more pertinent to British music and pop culture than the upcoming David Bowie: You’re Not Alone, which has just been announced to arrive this winter.
Utilising the versatility of Aviva Studios’ Warehouse space, Lightroom returns with a new 360° immersive experience. David Bowie: You’re Not Alone gives audiences insight into the creative mind and performances of one of the world’s most visionary and influential artists, featuring David Bowie as its sole voice.
Bringing together a wealth of visual material from a wide range of sources, the experience combines rare performance footage, photography, drawings, lyrics, personal notes and audio recordings. You’re Not Alone will showcase some of Bowie’s landmark performances that redefined popular culture, using a mix of iconic, rarely seen and never-before-exhibited material, selected from thousands of hours of film in the vaults of the David Bowie Archive in New York, from Space Oddity through to Diamond Dogs and Heroes to Blackstar.
Each track has been newly reconfigured to utilise Lightroom’s specialised spatial audio system by multiple Olivier and Tony award-winning sound designer Gareth Fry (Harry Potter & The Cursed Child, David Bowie Is). Produced by Lightroom and designed by 59, a Journey Studio, You’re Not Alone is written and directed by 59’s Mark Grimmer, who is also Creative Director for the V&A’s David Bowie Is exhibition, and Tom Wexler.
The 360° experience is both a multimedia spectacle and an intimate and revealing self-portrait, giving a unique insight into Bowie’s perspective on the subjects most important to him, including theatricality, spirituality, songwriting and the transformative power of creativity, focusing on the man behind the masks – the provocateur, the polymath, the shapeshifting icon in his enduring, human form.
David Bowie: You’re Not Alone is being made in close collaboration with and authorised by the David Bowie Estate.
Writer and Director 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.”
David Bowie: You’re Not Alone is at Aviva Studios from 8 December 2026 – 10 January 2027.
Aviva Studios autumn/winter 2027 schedule
Application 39
(9 – 10 October)
Press night – 9 October
An ETT, Matthew Schmolle Productions and Theatre Royal Stratford East Co-Production
Portrait of Black Britain
(From 1 October )
Press launch: 1 October
Commissioned by Factory International and Co-Produced by Factory International and Cephas Williams
View the online gallery here
Free Entry
Lightroom – David Bowie: You’re Not Alone
(8 December 2026 – 10 January 2027)
Press view: 9 December
Presented by Lightroom
It’s a Sin
(16 – 27 February 2027)
Previews: Tuesday 16 & Wednesday 17 February
Press night: Thursday 18 February
Presented by Rambert and Factory International. Co-produced with Wales Millennium Centre (Cardiff), Capital Theatres (Edinburgh), Sadler’s Wells (London), and Les Théâtres de la Ville (Luxembourg).
How to get tickets
Tickets are on sale now for Factory International members, ahead of public on sale on Thursday 18 June. Tickets are available from £10 across all shows.
