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Dates: 2nd to the 27th of August Venue: King’s Hall, Main Space 30 participants are invited into an intriguing theatrical game exploring security, profiling, privacy and freedom of expression in the age of cybersurveillance. Mobile throughout the performance, the participants …

Dates: 7th to the 25th of August Venue: King’s Hall Backspace An interdisciplinary work from Turtle Island that takes shape around peoples and the land. Indigenous artists of Canada invite reputed artists of othered communities to collaborate in artful protest …

Dates: 3rd to the 27th of August Venue: Kings Hall, Main Space After numerous North American tours, the critically acclaimed, multi award-winning Mouthpiece makes its UK premiere. Mouthpiece follows one woman, for one day, as she tries to find her …

Dates: 2nd August to the 24th September 2017 Venue: Anatomy Lecture Theatre Foyer CAT (Creative, Aesthetic,Transgression) started life several years ago as a social media project. The CAT mask became an emblem of protest spread via social media in 2014. …

MAGINE – a small non-for-profit organisation based in London – ran art workshops in Calais in 2016, and Protestimony exhibition is the fulfilment of the commitment to use this artwork for political purposes: protest, advocacy and awareness-raising. Protestimony communicates an …

Sat 17 Jun 2017 – Sun 16 Jul 2017 11:00–18:00 Venue: Corner Gallery, Summerhall Irineu Destourelles’ Unturning is an incubator exhibition, presenting two new video works exploring the legacy of Thatcherism policies on current political discourse and personhood. The exhibition …

Sun 18 Jun 2017 – Sat 15 Jul 2017 11:00 – 18:00 Venue: All Basement Spaces, Summerhall Whether in the studio or on location, Bryn has been creating imaginatively conceived and wonderfully lit commercial and advertising photography for more than 30 years. …

Grow Wild invited young people aged 12-25 to apply for funding to produce creative works of art to raise awareness about the importance of UK native wild flowers and plants. Visit Summerhall this June to see how successful applicants interpreted …

24th June – 8th July 10am-6pm Sciennes Gallery, Summerhall Grow Wild invited young people aged 12-25 to apply for funding to produce creative works of art to raise awareness about the importance of UK native wild flowers and plants. Visit …

Sat 20 May 2017 – Fri 14 Jul 2017 Venue: Meadows Gallery, Summerhall -}}}}}} : {{{+}}} is the title of Scottish born artist Anneli Holmstrom’s first UK solo show presented as part of Summerhall’s Curated Programme. The work on show …

Fri 12 May 2017 – Sun 04 Jun 2017 Venue: Sciennes Gallery, Summerhall Brilliant Geometry is a collaboration between the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, the Department of Mathematics at Oklahoma State University, and the Warwick Mathematics …

_ Venue: War Memorial Library Two Scots and an Icelander exhibit together, inspired by the wilderness landscapes of the North. SANDI ANDERSON focuses on the light and momentary glimpses. THORUNN BARA takes the bio-colonisation of the island of Surtsey as …

Venue: War Memorial Library, Summerhall Two Scots and an Icelander exhibit together, inspired by the wilderness landscapes of the North. SANDI ANDERSON focuses on the light and momentary glimpses. THORUNN BARA takes the bio-colonisation of the island of Surtsey as …

Venue: War Memorial Library, Summerhall Two Scots and an Icelander exhibit together, inspired by the wilderness landscapes of the North. SANDI ANDERSON focuses on the light and momentary glimpses. THORUNN BARA takes the bio-colonisation of the island of Surtsey as …

Data Horizons is the result of a collaboration between the Extreme Light group at Heriot-Watt University and Lily Hibberd, Leverhulme Trust artist-in-residence at Heriot-Watt throughout 2016. Led by Prof Daniele Faccio, the Extreme Light group develops experiments in laser physics …

A collaboration between Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina and C-EENRG at Cambridge University, UK, artist Sebastian Verea’s Sounds of the Anthropocene is a multimedia experience played by Earth´s rotation in real time, that shows the new geological epoch that …

Each year, since 2012, we hand over the keys to Summerhall to the Edinburgh International Science Festival, reuniting the former Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies back to its scientific foundations. They turn our multi-arts venue into their Festival hub, …

Sat 01 Apr 2017 – Fri 12 May 2017 Meadows Gallery, Summerhall From the Dark Ocean Comes Light is a new body of sculptural work by artist Hannah Imlach, resulting from a year-long residency within The Institute of Biological Chemistry, …

Genocentric is an exhibition of new and evolving work by artist Louise Mackenzie in collaboration with Northumbria University, Newcastle University and Edinburgh University, exploring affective responses to working with life as biotechnological material. Taking as a starting point the concept …

Curated by Jon Blackwood This exhibition of new work by David Blyth, Derrick Guild and Alan Grieve has grown out of a long process of analysis and discussion of contemporary art in Scotland, and how it measures up against visual …

“For seventeen years now, my work has been mainly concerned with HIV/AIDS in an African context, and BIRD is only one of three bodies of work in that time not referencing that humanitarian problem. Africa alters one’s perception of a …

Garvald Artists present a vibrant collection of abstract artwork by John Black. John is Autistic and combines his innate understanding of colour with his intuitive active mark-making to create inherently beautiful and balanced works. John creates an exciting relationship between …

At last the butter is finished (Again) after John Heartfield – Hurrah, die Butter ist alle! Red Star film for Rock against Racism 1979 ROCK AGAINST RACISM Exhibition 11 FEBRUARY – 9 APRIL 2017, STREET LEVEL PHOTOWORKS, GLASGOW, SCOTLAND

This year’s Summerhall Christmas market featured even more stalls than ever before to give you a huge range of gifts and treats for friends, family, and of course- you! It wouldn’t be the Summerhall Christmas Market without welcoming back Summerhall …

‘Ideas of Beauty’ is an exhibition organised by Edinburgh’s Democratic Camera Club. Beauty is a difficult word for many artists. It is associated with cliché, with the ‘chocolate box’ image. The notion of what is beautiful changes with time, and …

Venue: Meadows Gallery, Summerhall Coup de Théâtre – a group exhibition of contemporary sculpture. It investigates notions of the unexpected, the sudden and the unpredictable translated through visual, immersive and sensory experiences. Featuring new work from Hans K Clausen, Clare …

This exhibition is a celebration of that which is just beyond the view of what is seen. It is that emergent presence that sometimes take the form of a still life and sometimes a landscape – an alchemy of colour …

Two years in the making, CEIBA – Casa de Todos los Muertos is the result of photographer- artist Ross Fraser McLean’s research trips into Mexican culture, specifically exploring Mexico’s relationship with death and dying. Unlike most other parts of the …

4 August – 31st October Lower Church Gallery, Summerhall A profile of the exhibition as realised at Summerhall researched and presented by Devin Karambelas. This APG exhibition was curated by Naomi Hennig and Ulrike Jordan in dialogue with Barbara Steveni. …

April 1616 – Shakespeare has returned to Stratford a rich and famous man but all’s not well. Why is he so unhappy? Why can’t he sleep? Why is his wife furious with him? Who is Will waiting for and why …