Summerhall TV

Whitney McVeigh in conversation with Alice Thompson to discuss her exhibition Language of Memory and Alice’s new novel The Book Collector. The artist and writer address issues of motherhood and the parallel processes of writing and making. March 8th, 2016 …

Lust in the Apple’s curator Paul Robertson in conversation with David Rushton. Rushton was a founder editor of Coventry-based Analytical Art and was subsequently a key member of Art & Language from 1972 to 1975, working on the various Indexes …

Dennis & Debbie Club, Fiona Anderson, Lewis Den Hertog and Kieran Curran (aka MC TRUE FACTS) explore the utopian and dystopian possibilities of life on planet earth and beyond in the ground floor galleries with group exhibition The Human’s Planet …

Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh Fri 4 Dec – Sat 9 Jan An exhibition of artwork from An Illustrated Treasury of Scottish Mythical Creatures. Scottish fine artist Kate Leiper – and Summerhall Resident – exhibits the stunning artwork created for this new book, …

Reviewer in residence, Thibaut Clamart explores the work of Genesis and Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge, as they bring their first British exhibition to Summerhall since 2003. Often uncomfortable and occasionally shocking, the work delves into the idea of the nuclear …

Who did the Urinal? Not Duchamp! say Glyn Thompson and Julian Spalding in their Summerhall Festival exhibition titled ‘A Lady’s Not A Gent’s’. Thompson and Spalding claim the submission of the urinal (aka ‘Fountain’) to the Independents exhibition of 1917 …

Till 9 March 2016 11:00-18:0 Venue: Laboratory Gallery, Summerhall Choreographer Riccardo Buscarini and visual artist Richard Taylor work together for the first time, transforming the glass cabinets in Summerhall’s Laboratory Gallery into living archives to explore memory, intimacy and exposure. …

Artist Andrea Geile unveils her permanent artwork, The Chlorophylls, for the newly-restored FANK in Lettermore Forest on Mull. Produced by the Summerhall TV team with additional contributions from Alasdair Satchel, Sarah Darling and Angus Stewart.

WHO RUN THE WORLD The candy pink beat that permeates a number of Liz Waterston’s text based video works hypnotically pulse out fluoro lights reminiscent of the flickering neon that underpins midnight strolls through dark places: karaoke evenings where we …

Polish Contemporary Art Organisation present their first annual group exhibition ‘WAVES’, showcasing artists from Poland and of Polish descent at different stages in their practice, working in various mediums – photography, written word, painting, installation, collage and film. Waves is …

The Koestler Scotland Exhibition, Selected by artist Ruth Ewan 7 – 29 November, 2015, 11:00 –18:00 183 More Sleeps is an exhibition of artwork from prisons, secure hospitals, secure children’s homes, immigration detention centres and community justice services in Scotland. …

Ekphrasis is commonly recognized as the mechanism for producing a prosaic description of a work of art. The artists, Malcolm Cruickshank and Paul Diamond, interpret this as an interchangeable concept, making art from a vividly described written text. Cruickshank and …

Jessica Lloyd-Jones who exhibited at Summerhall during the Science Festival last year now has a new exhibition on at the Leitrim Sculpture Centre. But you don’t have to go all the way to Ireland to see it, just tune in to our video. …

Interview Room 11 Gallery and Summerhall have joined together to present an intervention by durational mark-maker Olmo Blanco. His drawings add to what is already there – walls, floors and common objects. Blanco does not mask but honors what has …

Sarah Dawson introduced this year’s Africa in Motion season of films showing in Edinburgh and Glasgow. The opening night birthday party is on the 23rd October at Summerhall and the season continues till the end of October with a screening …

The Peshmerga are Iraqi Kurdistan’s military forces. Unit 70, based in Sulaimaniyah, has a detachment of female Peshmerga who train to be combat ready and in theory may face ISIS on the frontline. The unit also performs an important political …

Introduced by Dorian Branea, the Director of the Romanian Cultural Institute in London and forming part of Romanian Cultural Days in Edinburgh Festival 2015. Featuring some of the most internationally recognizable Romanian artists, directors, writers and musicians in tandem with …

Inspired by visits to les Rencontres d’Arles and charged with furthering photography’s role within contemporary artistic practice, The Photographer’s Collective was established in 2011 to promote and nurture the talent of photographers working in Edinburgh and further afield. The Collective’s …

A unique and powerful multi-media exhibition featuring work by artists, both professional and amateur, with experience of mental health issues. Works include projection, sculpture, painting and photography. Part of the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival, this exhibition aims …

“I want to understand the concept of dionysian in a more up-to-date way, more scientifically, more psychologically. what is the dionysian phenomenon, this instinctual upsurge, this growing importance of intoxicating orgiastic sensual feelings, this onslaught of the unconscious, of unconscious …

Long fascinated by Albrecht Durer’s ‘Young Hare’ (1502), a painting unquestionably viewed as an icon of naturalistic painting, Derrick Guild decided to make a series of paintings in the same composition but observed from different angles. He required a subject, …

One Million Years of Laughter is a new series of performances and paintings finding humour in the contradictions that exist within commonplace actions and experiences. Using what is known about the early ‘Homo’ as the basis for this body of …

Dr Marc Glöde introduces a new perspective of Polish theatre director Tadeusz Kantor’s work, celebrating what would’ve been his 100th birthday. Brought to Summerhall by the Polish Cultural Institute in London and Polnisches Institut Berlin, the exhibition focuses on the …

The Thermos Museum is a comedic but also edifying experience; suitcases unfold to reveal numerous astonishing displays. However, the public are not free to reign: visitors are escorted around the museum by the mysterious and disenchanted Tour Guide. Digression seems …

Unlimited’s first exhibition at Summerhall is a series of ambitious mixed media installations by the UK’s leading disabled artists. The exhibition deals with historical and contemporary issues, offering insight into the lives of others whilst also exploring topics which affect …

David Bailey’s ‘Stardust’ at the Scottish National Gallery is the first major showing of Bailey’s work in Edinburgh since the Dean Gallery’s ‘Birth of the Cool’ in 2001. The current exhibition illustrates the extraordinary range of subjects that Bailey has …

The exhibition LUX SHIFTER features local, Edinburgh based artists such as Evan Thomas, Keith Guy, Scarlett Platel and Susanne Ramsenthaller. ACTINIC is also showing work from further afield, presenting an array of international artists, including USA-based Christian Arrecis and Clint …

Brittonie Fletcher presents LUX SHIFTER, a new exhibition as part of the ACTINIC alternative photography festival. The ACTINIC Festival is a new series of exhibitions and events featuring Scottish and international artists at the intersection of analogue photographic media and …

Alex Hetherington of Modern Edinburgh Film School presents MOTHS, a project featuring the work of Zoë Fothergill, Anne McGuire, Lucy Skaer, Katrina Vallé, Amy Pickles, Mairi Lafferty, Anna Lucas, Allison Gibbs, Jenny Brady and Bobby Niven. Each artist contributes to …

As part of Summerhall’s summer exhibition programme ‘Outside-In’, artist David Faithfull presents his findings from his time spent on Inch Kenneth, a small island off the west coast of the Isle of Mull. Faithfull explored the history of the infamous …