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]
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]
Sat 24 Nov 2018 - Sun 13 Jan 2019
Head and Hand
Aileen Keith
Mon-Fri: 8.30am – 5pm Sat: 10am – 5pm Sun: 11am – 4pm
RSA Summerhall Exhibition Prize 2017 Drawing has always been an important part of Aileen’s practice, but is now the fundamental focus her work. Her interest in the process of remembering and forgetting, combined... [more]
Sat 10 Nov 2018 - Fri 21 Dec 2018
Invisible Spaces
11:00-18:00 (Tuesday-Sunday)
Join us on Friday 9th November, between 6-9pm, for the launch of exhibitions Visible Girls Revisited and Invisible Spaces, presented by Historic Environment Scotland as part of their Year of Young People. Please RSVP... [more]
Sat 10 Nov 2018 - Fri 21 Dec 2018
Visible Girls: Revisited
Anita Corbin
11:00-18:00 (Tuesday-Sunday)
Join us on Friday 9th November, between 6-9pm, for the launch of exhibitions Visible Girls Revisited and Invisible Spaces, presented by Historic Environment Scotland as part of their Year of Young People. Please RSVP... [more]
Sat 03 Nov 2018 - Sun 27 Jan 2019
369 Remembered - The Women
Various artists
11:00-18:00 (Wednesday-Sunday)
Curated by Andrew Brown The 369 Gallery was founded by Andrew Brown in 1978. At the time, it was the only gallery exclusively dedicated to the promotion of young Scottish artists. Pat Douthwaite, Lil Neilson,... [more]
Wed 10 Oct 2018 - Sun 28 Oct 2018
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
11:00-18:00 (Library Gallery exhibition closes at 17:00, 16:00 on Sun)
Please join us for the exhibition launch on Tuesday 9th October from 6:30pm until 20:30pm. Out of Sight, Out of Mind opens on World Mental Health Day, 10 October, with almost 400 artworks exploring mental health... [more]
Sat 06 Oct 2018 - Sun 23 Dec 2018
STREET HERMIT
Graeme Todd
11:00-18:00 (Wednesday-Sunday)
Curated by Andrew Mummery Graeme Todd’s exhibition ‘Street Hermit’, is the first significant survey of the artist’s work to be presented in Scotland since his solo show at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh... [more]
Thu 02 Aug 2018 - Sun 23 Sep 2018
KURT SCHWITTERS HAS LEFT THE BUILDING : STORY AND DISPERSAL, LEGACY AND (RE)POSSESSION
Kurt Schwitters
11:00-18:00
On the 70th anniversary of Kurt Schwitters death The Times announced that Schwitters’ last (place of) work, the MERZ Barn in Elterwater, Cumbria might be bought by a Chinese collector and shipped abroad. Fifty years... [more]
Thu 02 Aug 2018 - Sun 23 Sep 2018
Life During Wartime
John Keane
11:00-18:00
Join us on the 22nd September for an artist tour and talk - more information can be found here. LIFE DURING WARTIME is a survey of paintings exploring themes of military, social and political conflict around the... [more]