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Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts

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 …

Alexander Mackenzie : Invisible

Visual Arts

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 …

Ross Fraser Mclean : Ceiba – Casa de Todos los Muertos

Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts

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. …

Devin Karambelas : Context is Half the Work. A Partial History of the APG

Visual Arts

Intermedia Gallery, CCA, Sauchiehall Street 9th – 19th June Tue-Sat: 11:00–18:00, Sun: 12:00–18:00 All ages Free Drop-in Do you know what causes a seizure? For two hundred years doctors have been trying to explain epilepsy. This art exhibition looks at …

Rachel Hewitt : Beyond Epilepsy

Visual Arts

As part of our look at Art in Ireland, here’s a recent clip from SOMA in Waterford.  ‘HARD GIRLS’ is a celebration exhibition of surfaces and the superficial, the damaged and the disastrous. Fuelled by the aesthetics of ‘women-only gyms’, make-up …

Jennifer Mehigan : Hard Girls

Visual Arts

Paintings by the great trumpeter and bandleader, alongside work by another great musician, John Lennon. Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh. On until Saturday 30th April.

Andrew Clarke : Miles Davis

Literature Summerhall Sessions Visual Arts

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 …

Whitney McVeigh and Alice Thompson : In Conversation, International Women’s Day

Summerhall Residents Visual Arts

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 …

David Rushton & Paul Robertson : Analytical Art, Art & Language and Thereafter

Festivals Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts

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 …

Dennis Reinmuller : The Human’s Planet Earth

Books Summerhall Residents Visual Arts

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, …

Kate Leiper : SEA MONSTERS, SELKIES AND OTHER MYTHICAL CREATURES

Visual Arts

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 …

Thibaut Clamart : Genesis & Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge

Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts

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 …

Glyn Thompson : A Lady’s Not A Gent’s

Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts

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. …

Riccardo Buscarini and Richard Taylor : In Parting Glass

Visual Arts

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.

Andrea Geile : Chlorophylls

Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts

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 …

Alan Holligan : Liz Waterston, Edinburgh College Residency Artist 2015

Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts

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 …

Polish Contemporary Art Organisation : Waves

Community Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts

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. …

Sarah Grainger-Jones: 183 More Sleeps

Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts

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 …

Malcolm Cruickshank and Paul Diamond : Ekphrasis

European Local TV Visual Arts

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. …

Jessica Lloyd-Jones : At the Edge of Light and Darkness

Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts

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 …

Olmo Blanco : Instalodecoracion

Festivals Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts

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 …

Sarah Dawson : Africa in Motion, A Snake Gives Birth to a Snake

Summerhall Exhibitions Summerhall Residents Visual Arts

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 …

Beyond Borders : WOMEN AT WAR

Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts

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 …

Dorian Branea : Romanian Cultural Days in Edinburgh 2015

Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts

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 …

Albie Clark : The Photographer’s Collective 13 – 25 October, 2015

Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts

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 …

Scottish Mental Health Festival: Out of Sight/Out of Mind

Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts

“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 …

Hermann Nitsch : Das Orgien Mysterien Theater

Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts

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, …

Derrick Guild : After A.D

Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts

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 …

David Sherry : One Million Years Of Laughter

Visual Arts

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 …

Tadeusz Kantor : Inbetween Structures

Visual Arts

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 …

The Thermos Museum

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