This exhibition doesn’t treat you as a human. If you need go to toilet, you are not allowed come back. The door man Heiko said it is their policy to control the visitor numbers. The management treat visitors like machines not human, such inhuman place, shame on you, HOTA!

The building is very cool, intriguing and impressive from the outside. The top floor views are great. However, it all ends here. Only level 2 and 3 were open and is a very quick walk through of a few average exhibits. The children’s exhibit was one average sized room with activities. We were finished in fifteen minutes! What a waste of our time and taxpayers money.

As a large regional gallery, it has a nice building, easy carparking and great views from this new HOTA Gallery. I'd expect some amateur work to reflect local community in the free to visit public spaces but it seems there were 5 floors of it. It appears to me that curators are more concerned with inclusion than sourcing excellence in skills, craftsmanship, design and intelligence. I enjoyed the exercise (lifts were too busy) and the river views but was flat out finding anything worth more than a few seconds of attention.

Besides being a totally cashless venue (which sucks too but totally different issue) - they can sell tickets to an outdoor event and then suddenly change their mind and move the event into one of their overcrowded theatres inside! We bought tickets to a picnic style event at their outdoor stage - think picnic blankets, under the stars, picnic hampers. Then a couple of weeks before the event they decide it is now an indoor event with no allocated seating. Totally different experience. They will not refund our tickets and said we can give them to someone else if we don't wish to go - citing the fine print on their terms and conditions. Really poor customer service.