Sat 21 May 2016 - Tue 28 Jun 2016
Deeper Underground: multi-artform collaboration
A discussion event about the art of collaboration.
14:30
As an accompaniment to Underground - an exhibition of artists' video work currently showing in Summerhall's Basement Galleries - Magnetic North is hosting a discussion event about the art of... [more]
Sun 15 May 2016 - Sun 05 Jun 2016
Underground
A group exhibition devised by Su Grierson featuring video artists, performers and composers
11:00– 17:00
The multi-artform exhibition Underground includes performance to camera, responses to specific locations both rural and urban, sound, and text, and are presented variously as installation,... [more]
Fri 08 Apr 2016 - Fri 06 May 2016
Fri 01 Apr 2016 - Sat 30 Apr 2016
Stranger Visions
Heather Dewey-Hagborg
11:00 - 18:00
In ‘Stranger Visions’ artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg creates portrait sculptures from analyses of genetic material collected in public places. Working with the traces strangers unwittingly leave... [more]
Fri 01 Apr 2016 - Sat 30 Apr 2016
Atopic Art
Josie Valley & Trevor Gordon
11:00 - 18:00
‘Atopic Art: Expressions of Eczema’ is a partnership project between ASCUS Art & Science, dermatologist Dr. Sara Brown and charity Eczema Outreach Scotland. For this exhibition Trevor Gordon... [more]
Fri 01 Apr 2016 - Sat 30 Apr 2016
Menagerie of Microbes
Heather Barnett, Anna Dumitriu, ecoLogicStudio, Patrick Hickey, Simon Park, Sarah Roberts and the ASCUS Lab
11:00 - 18:00
As we go about our daily business we are surrounded by vast colonies of microorganisms, thriving communities existing largely out of sight. They may be small, yet in terms of impact and numbers, they... [more]
Fri 01 Apr 2016 - Sat 30 Apr 2016
There Will Be Light
Ade Adesina
9:00 - 17:00 (10:00 – 17:00 on weekends)
Ade Adesina’s work is a visual commentary focusing on ecology and our ever-changing world. He combines imagery from his African roots and from Western culture, using traditional printmaking... [more]
Fri 01 Apr 2016 - Sat 30 Apr 2016
CO2_Live
Daniel Budinov, Patrick Hickey, James Howie, Jim Jack, Ryan Lewis, Adam Linson and Iain Robinson
CO2_Live is a new collaborative work by Daniel Budinov, Patrick Hickey, James Howie, Jim Jack, Ryan Lewis, Adam Linson and Iain Robinson. It incorporates a Carbon Dioxide sensor, situated next to the... [more]
Fri 01 Apr 2016 - Sat 30 Apr 2016
The Human's Planet Earth
Dennis & Debbie Club, Fiona Anderson, Lewis Den Hertog and Kieran Curran (aka MC TRUE FACTS)
11:00 - 18:00
A young woman’s sudden discovery of her magical ability to travel into deep space sends her on a journey of trans-cosmological exploration, where she herself is discovered by a creature roaming the... [more]
Fri 11 Mar 2016 - Sun 13 Mar 2016
When Your Ship Comes In
John Sumpter
11:00 - 16:00
'When You Ship Comes In' traces John Sumpter's art career between the ages of 60 and 70. We see John's early forays into painting; chart his triumphant re-emergence as a conceptual photographer; and... [more]
Tue 08 Mar 2016 - Tue 12 Apr 2016
Whitney McVeigh in conversation with Alice Thompson
Whitney McVeigh & Alice Thompson
19:00 - 20:00
To mark International Women's Day Whitney McVeigh will be in conversation with Alice Thompson to discuss her exhibition Language of Memory and Alice’s new novel The Book Collector. The artist... [more]
Sat 05 Mar 2016 - Wed 09 Mar 2016
'In Parting Glass' Culminating Performance
Riccardo Buscarini & Richard Taylor
15:30-18:30
Choreographer Riccardo Buscarini and artist Richard Taylor will perform a fluid suite of spoken word and physical responses marking the end of their exhibition In Parting Glass in Summerhall's... [more]
Sat 05 Mar 2016 - Sat 12 Mar 2016
Paradigm Electronic Arts
Paradigm
11:00 - 18:00
Featured for Visit Scotland’s Year of Innovation, Architecture and Design, Paradigm is a disruptive exhibition of Electronic Arts centring around technology and interactivity.For one week... [more]
Thu 03 Mar 2016 - Tue 22 Mar 2016
Mon 22 Feb 2016 - Wed 24 Feb 2016
PhotoSoc Annual Exhibition and Events: Every Picture Tells a Story
University of Edinburgh
9:00 - 17:00
This year's PhotoSoc exhibition and events Every Picture Tells a Story focus on the themes of Culture, Community, Connections and Interactions and is part of Gather Festival - an annual festival... [more]
Sat 13 Feb 2016 - Thu 03 Mar 2016
As document
Autodespair, Clare Bennett, Steven Gribbin, Kat Gollock, Keith Guy, Todd Johnson, Tamara Kametani, Nick Paton & Kadie Salmon
11:00 - 18:00
As document is a group show of artists based in the UK exploring photography and the processes and techniques involved. The works drift between analogue and digital documents, often eschewing the... [more]
Sat 12 Dec 2015 - Mon 09 Mar 2015
In Parting Glass
Riccardo Buscarini and Richard Taylor
11:00 - 18:00
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... [more]
Sat 12 Dec 2015 - Wed 09 Mar 2016
Language of Memory
Whitney McVeigh
11:00 - 18:00
Language of Memory, a solo exhibition by Whitney McVeigh, centres on her short film ‘Birth' Origins at the end of Life, recording six women’s experience of birth and existence, in the setting... [more]
Sat 28 Nov 2015 - Wed 06 Jan 2016
Fri 20 Nov 2015 - Wed 15 Jan 2020
The Thermos Museum
The Thermos Museum was part of Summerhall's Festival August 2015 visual arts programme. It is a comedic but also edifying experience; suitcases unfold to reveal numerous astonishing displays.... [more]
Sat 07 Nov 2015 - Fri 27 Nov 2015
Sat 07 Nov 2015 - Sun 29 Nov 2015
183 More Sleeps
The Koestler Scotland Exhibition, Selected by artist Ruth Ewan
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. Selected by artist... [more]
Fri 06 Nov 2015 - Thu 12 Nov 2015
Sat 10 Oct 2015 - Thu 31 Dec 2015
The Demarco European Art Foundation's Romanian Artists
Demarco European Art Foundation and Romanian Cultural Institute, London
11:00 - 18:00
The legendary curator Richard Demarco, who launched the Western careers of legions of extraordinary Eastern European artists, opens the vaults of his inestimable collection housed at Summerhall for a... [more]
Sat 03 Oct 2015 - Thu 15 Oct 2015
Out of Sight/Out of Mind
Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival
11:00 - 18:00
Set in the unique spaces of Summerhall’s Old Animal Hospital, this provocative exhibition explores perceptions of reality, labelling, discrimination, confinement and medication in a range of site... [more]
Thu 03 Sep 2015 - Fri 02 Oct 2015
Soil, the Earth's Tender Skin
CIFAL Scotland
11:00 - 18:00
This month long exhibition presented by CIFAL Scotland celebrates and preserves the health and diversity of Scotland's soils. The exhibition marks the UN International Year of Soils and provides a... [more]
Tue 01 Sep 2015 - Sat 31 Oct 2015
A Mile in their Shoes
Beyond Borders
11:00-18:00
This installation by the artist Siemon Scamell-Katz was produced by The Knitting Circle and Beyond Borders Scotland in response to the capture and persecution of Yazidi girls and women by... [more]
Wed 05 Aug 2015 - Mon 05 Oct 2015
Wed 05 Aug 2015 - Mon 31 Aug 2015
The Thermos Museum
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... [more]
Wed 05 Aug 2015 - Mon 05 Oct 2020
Demarco Foundation 2015 Programme
Demarco European Art Foundation
11:00 - 18:00
This year the Foundation presents an overview of Richard Demarco’s archive, focusing on his work with artists, theatre makers and the cultural dialogues he initiated. Exhibitions include:Paul... [more]