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Sat 25 Nov 2017 – Sun 07 Jan 2018 09:00–17:00 (Mon-Fri), 10:00–17:00 (Sat), 11:00–16:00 (Sun) (during the café opening hours) _ Venue: The Library Gallery 2016 winner of the RSA Open Exhibition award Summerhall Prize. An exhibition of new and recent work by Edinburgh based …

Dates: 6th October to the 30th November Venue: Sciennes Gallery Curated by Jon Blackwood Captured State brings together six artists from the Republic of Macedonia to exhibit in Scotland for the first time. Whilst contemporary art from Macedonia has not …

Venue: War Memorial Library Curated by Gabriella Daris ‘I decided to use the last ten years at the end of the 20th century to look at my Self. The great Tibetan poet sage Milarepa had said that self was an …

Dates: 3rd of August to the 24th September Venue: Long Corridor Elsa in Philadelphia fills in the gaps in the critical period between Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven’s disappearance from New York and re-emergence in Philadelphia in the spring of 1917. Beginning …

Dates: 2nd of August to the 30th of September Venue: Meadows Galleries and Corner Gallery This retrospective comprises drawings, performance artifacts and video documentation, encapsulating different series of artworks made from the 1970s onwards, up to MacLennan’s current practice. Some …

Dates: 2nd August to the 24th of September Venue: Demarco European Art Foundation – 1st Floor Corridor This Time in History, What Escapes is an installation about Afghanistan, where the humanitarian and political crisis continues and ISIL / Islamic State …

Dates: 2nd of August to the 24th of September Venue:Sciennes Gallery supported by British Council Sri Lanka Curated by: Colombo Art Biennale Artistic Director Annoushka Hempel The Sri Lankan VA programme presented at the 2017 Festival is a journey of …

28 July – 30 September 2017 Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh Sex Symbols in Sandwich Signs takes its title from a damming review of David Storey’s novel ‘Radcliffe’, which was critical of all the qualities Sutcliffe admires, namely its bleak, alienating …

28 July – 30 September 2017 Talbot Rice, Edinburgh For his TRG3 commission Jacob Kerray has been invited to explore and respond to the University of Edinburgh’s vast Art Collection to create a new work, or series of works, for …

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 …

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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

‘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 …