Sat 04 Apr 2020 - Sun 28 Jun 2020
(POSTPONED) We Began as Part of the Body
Beverley Hood
Mon-Sun (until 19 Apr) / Wed-Sun (until 28 Jun)
Presented by Summerhall and ASCUS Art and Science Immerse yourself in a series of artworks that reflect complex human and ethical questions about our relationship between the body, science and technology.... [more]
Thu 06 Feb 2020 - Sun 08 Mar 2020
The Place I Call Home
Eman Ali, Abi Green & Sebastian Betancur-Montoya, Ben Soedira, Josh Adam Jones, Moath Alofi, Mohammed Al-Kouh, Richard Allenby-Pratt, Hassan Meer, Hussain Almosawi & Mariam Alarab, Gillian Robertson, Ammar Al Attar, Sara Al Obaidly, Mashael Al Hejazi and Zahed Sultan.
11:00-18:00 (Wednesday-Sunday)
When away, people sometimes use the expression ‘home from home’ to describe a place where one is as happy, relaxed, or comfortable as in one's own home. ‘Home’ is a word with a strong emotional resonance,... [more]
Sat 01 Feb 2020 - Sun 01 Mar 2020
Drawing Fault Lines
Katherina Radeva
Launch event 5 February 2020 RSVP here Drawing Fault Lines is a selection of drawings that form a fundamental element of the making and devising process of Fault Lines, a new performance work by Two Destination... [more]
Fri 24 Jan 2020 - Sun 15 Mar 2020
Mount Strange and the Temple of Fame
Victoria Clare Bernie, Maria Gimeno, Mina Heydari-Waite, Alix Villanueva
11:00-18:00 (Wednesday-Sunday)
Curated by Wendy Law Preview of the exhibition: Thursday 23 January 2020 Maria Gimeno's performance Queridas Viejas: Sunday 8 March 2020 - RSVP here In this curated exhibition, four major female artists... [more]
Sun 01 Dec 2019 - Fri 31 Jan 2020
Auld Reekie's Roses. Paintings of Scots Poems
Sheila Mullen
Wednesday-Sunday - opening times vary please check with the gallery
Curated by Andrew Brown The exhibition celebrates the centenary of the birth of poet Hamish Henderson (1919 - 2002). Sheila Mullen is a Scottish painter who lives and works in Scotland. She was... [more]
Fri 29 Nov 2019 - Sun 08 Mar 2020
Some of Summerhall: A Survey in Drawings
Will Knight
11:00-18:00 (Wednesday-Sunday)
Artist Talk: 14 December 2019, 14:00. RSVP at this link Launch night: 28 November 2019, 18:00-20:30. RSVP at this link. Glasgow-based artist Will Knight (b.1988) studied at the Glasgow School of Art, where he... [more]
Sat 16 Nov 2019 - Sun 22 Dec 2019
Fri 11 Oct 2019 - Sun 03 Nov 2019
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
11:00 - 18:00 (Wed - Sun)
Out of Sight Out of Mind, a diverse and ambitious multimedia exhibition created by hundreds of artists with experience of mental health issues, returns to Summerhall in Edinburgh in October. Launch event –... [more]
Fri 13 Sep 2019 - Sun 22 Sep 2019
The Planets – The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis
Rose Strang (curated by Prof Richard Demarco and Fernanda Zei)
13:00 - 18:00
The Demarco Archive Exhibitions presents an exhibition of seven paintings by Rose Strang in the ground floor of the Demarco Wing at Summerhall. The Private View will be on Thursday 12th September at 6pm on... [more]
Thu 25 Jul 2019 - Sun 27 Oct 2019
NEW SODOM WILL BE A SHINING CITY ON A HILL
Andrew Sim
11:00 - 18:00 (Wed-Sun)
Andrew Sim (b.1987) has witnessed the transition from a society still bearing the scars of the AIDS epidemic and a media backlash against LGBTQ+ people, through a period of ‘integrationism’ (which saw marriage... [more]
Thu 25 Jul 2019 - Sun 27 Oct 2019
Exit - 100 Days of Khaos!
Jane Frere
11:00 - 18:00 (Wed-Sun)
From the outset the idea that we would have an ‘orderly’ Brexit was an anathema to me. My work here is a cry of despair as we collide and scramble blindly towards the ‘EXIT’ leading to where? Certainly an... [more]
Thu 25 Jul 2019 - Sun 27 Oct 2019
Joseph Beuys / Leonardo Da Vinci
Joseph Beuys
11:00 - 18:00 (Wed-Sun)
The third in Beuys in 1000 Items, a series of exhibitions curated by Robert McDowell,explores Beuys’s connection to Leonardo da Vinci. For Beuys, Leonardo da Vinci’s Codices Madrid embodied the unification of... [more]
Thu 25 Jul 2019 - Sun 27 Oct 2019
The New York Times: Carbon's Casualties
Josh haner
11:00 - 18:00 (Wed-Sun)
Since 2015, Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times photographer Josh Haner has worked across the globe documenting the pressing and wide-ranging realities of climate change. In dramatic drone footage coupled with... [more]
Thu 25 Jul 2019 - Sun 22 Dec 2019
The New World | Retrospective
Alan Smith
11:00 - 18:00 (Wed-Sun)
Alan Smith (1941-2019) worked extensively as a painter and teacher, exhibiting in Europe and America for a number of years. In 1991, shortly after his 50th birthday, the artist made a conscious decision to remove... [more]
Sat 15 Jun 2019 - Sun 07 Jul 2019
I sent you a postcard
Ryoko Tamura
Mon-Fri: 9:00 am – 5pm Sat: 10am – 5pm Sun: 11am – 4pm
Ryoko Tamura is a Japanese illustrator living in Edinburgh. She has been based in the Scottish capital since 2004. Ryoko draws the inspirations from her Japanese heritage, various cultures that she experiences through... [more]
Sat 15 Jun 2019 - Sun 07 Jul 2019
The Marks to Prove It
Michael Kay Terence
11:00-18:00 (Wednesday-Sunday)
Private View: 14th June The Marks to Prove It is the largest to date solo show of the works by artist Michael Kay Terence. His practice combines minimalist sculptural forms with video and contains an element of... [more]
Sun 02 Jun 2019 - Sun 30 Jun 2019
Cosmic Timelessness
Jenny Bruce
11:00-18:00 (Wednesday-Sunday)
The divine art of creation divides into three primary elements. Light, Dark and the Spiritual. The sphere appears to unite all and I hold this to be a sacred symbol expressing wholeness, totality and... [more]
Sat 25 May 2019 - Sun 30 Jun 2019
Broken Images. Broken Lives
Nicky Beckett
11:00-18:00 (Wednesday-Sunday)
In this exhibition, I have chosen to place the images directly on the walls. They are transitory like their subjects, there is nothing stable here. Life is fragile, chaotic, and in some cases broken. The use of... [more]
Sat 04 May 2019 - Fri 31 May 2019
Industry + Aesthetics
Historic Environment Scotland
11:00-18:00 (Wednesday-Sunday)
The photographs exhibited in ‘Industry + Aesthetics’ are drawn from Historic Environment Scotland’s National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE); images capturing the everyday, the exceptional, the... [more]
Sat 04 May 2019 - Fri 31 May 2019
Past Forward. Stories of Urban Scotland
Historic Environment Scotland
11:00-18:00 (Wednesday-Sunday)
Exhibition preview Join us on Friday 3 May, between 6-9pm, for the launch of the Past Forward exhibition, presented by Historic Environment Scotland as part of their Scotland’s Urban Past programme. Please RSVP to... [more]
Fri 19 Apr 2019 - Sun 02 Jun 2019
Living by the Tide: A Time to Keep and A Time to Cast Away
Alan Watson
Wednesday-Sunday - opening times vary please check with the gallery
Please call Summerhall reception at 0131 560 1580 or email info@summerhall.co.uk to arrange a visit. A celebration of the life and work of Alan Watson 1957-2019 Scottish artist, Alan Watson, was a visual artist of... [more]
Sat 06 Apr 2019 - Sun 19 May 2019
Tensegrity
Aurélie Fontan
11:00-18:00
Exhibition launch: Friday 5th April, 18:30-20:30. Aurélie Fontan is a sustainable fashion designer focused on biodesign and ethical manufacture processes. Her graduate collection Tensegrity demonstrates the positive... [more]
Sat 06 Apr 2019 - Sun 23 Jun 2019
Pithos (one possible story of our lively material)
Louise Mackenzie
11:00-18:00
Exhibition launch: Friday 5th April, 18:30-20:30. Pithos (one possible story of our lively material) presents existing and new works by artist Louise Mackenzie, following a three-year period of intense research within... [more]
Sat 06 Apr 2019 - Sun 23 Jun 2019
Frag'mɛnt (Terra non-firma)
Russell Beard & Stephen Kavanagh
11:00-18:00
Exhibition launch: Friday 5th April, 18:30-20:30. Emerging from the social, geo-political and environmental uncertainty of the 'Anthropocene' – Fraɡˈmɛnt (Terra non-firma) brings together two recent recipients of... [more]
Fri 05 Apr - Sat 27 Apr 2019
Highland River
Andrew Marr, curated by Richard Demarco (co-curator Fernanda Zei)
11:00 - 17:00
Andrew Marr has had an effective and distinguished career as a journalist, BBC presenter, writer and historian. He has spent his life engaged, at the highest level, with politics as interpreted through the lens of... [more]
Fri 01 Mar 2019 - Sun 17 Mar 2019
Violence Unseen
Zero Tolerance
11:00-18:00 (Wednesday-Sunday)
Over the past decades, there have been dramatic changes to public attitudes around some aspects of men’s violence against women. Yet domestic abuse, sexual violence and other forms of violence against women are still... [more]
Fri 01 Mar 2019 - Sun 17 Mar 2019
Sat 09 Feb 2019 - Sun 17 Mar 2019
369 Remembered - The Men
The 369 Gallery artists
11:00-18:00 (Wednesday-Sunday)
Preview: Friday 8th February 2019. Free tickets available here It is 40 years since Andrew Brown founded the 369 Gallery at 369 High street, Edinburgh in 1978 before moving to the Cowgate in 1984 and after the... [more]
Fri 01 Feb 2019 - Sun 17 Mar 2019
Fri 25 Jan 2019 - Fri 08 Mar 2019
The Same Tendency
Various artists
Mon-Fri: 8.30am – 5pm Sat: 10am – 5pm Sun: 11am – 4pm
The Same Tendency brings together a collection of Royal College of Art graduates to Summerhall’s Basement and Library Galleries. Following a residency held during January and February consisting of artist-led... [more]