Fri 26 Jul 2024 - Fri 20 Sep 2024
Paintings of Modernia
Sam Kissajukian
Tues - Sun (11am - 5pm)
A bold exhibition with a comedic bent that explores the ineffable mental states of a comedian turned artist living with Bipolar. In 2021 Australian comedian Sam Kissajukian created 300 Paintings... [more]
Fri 26 Jul 2024 - Fri 20 Sep 2024
Fri 26 Jul 2024
This Living Hand
Calum Colvin
Tues - Sun (11am - 5pm)
In this time of the emergence of AI and digitally-created photographic imagery into the mainstream, Calum Colvin's collection reflects on mortality, creativity, and the essential role of the hand in... [more]
Fri 26 Jul 2024 - Fri 20 Sep 2024
Fri 26 Jul 2024 - Fri 20 Sep 2024
The Medium of Madness
Robert McDowell
Tues - Sun (11am - 5pm)
Albeit mostly beyond words, art is oxymoronic, a paradox to any who assume it is a medium of discourse like spoken language. Artists ask first 'what would it feel like to make that just like that,... [more]
Fri 26 Jul 2024 - Fri 20 Sep 2024
Restoration
Jo Coates
Tues - Sun (11am - 5pm)
Bringing a damaged or dirty painting back to life is a real privilege. There are many different processes involved depending on the condition of the artwork, from relining to retouching, from using... [more]
Sat 15 Jun 2024 - Sun 30 Jun 2024
Almanac 2024
Julie Louise Bacon
Wed - Sun (11am - 5pm)
Almanac 2024 ce, presents new works by Julie Louise Bacon. The artist was born in South Shields and relocated to Edinburgh from Australia in 2022 to take up a role as lecturer at Edinburgh College... [more]
Fri 14 Jun 2024 - Fri 21 Jun 2024
From One Grows Another
Jamie King
Wed - Sun (11am - 5pm)
Jamie King is an Edinburgh based artist working in both painting and sculpture. He holds a studio at Summerhall and regularly makes work at the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop. Previous works, entitled... [more]
Sat 08 Jun 2024 - Sun 09 Jun 2024
Printed Dreams 2
Lary Borkin
Wed - Sun (11am - 5pm)
Lary Borkin moved to Edinburgh from his hometown of Los Angeles in 2012. With a background in design, Lary became interested in 3D printing in the early 2000's and began realising his vision in 2019... [more]
Fri 07 Jun 2024 - Fri 28 Jun 2024
Sat 30 Mar 2024 - Sun 26 May 2024
A Topography of Micro Planets
Imogen Hero
Wed - Sun (11am - 5pm)
Photographic artist Imogen Hero uses her expertise in analogue photographic techniques combined with scientific processes to examine the interconnectedness of life in the Universe. The work in this... [more]
Sat 30 Mar 2024 - Sun 26 May 2024
Geometry, Art & Mind
Wed - Sun (11am - 5pm)
Since ancient times, humans have been fascinated by shapes and structures, but looks can be deceiving! Mind-bending mirrors make marvelous optical illusions, mapmakers fight to make flat maps from a... [more]
Sat 30 Mar 2024 - Sun 26 May 2024
Postindustrial Ecologies
Dawn Felicia Knox
Wed - Sun (11am - 5pm)
Interlinking, multimedia installations by Dawn Felicia Knox exploring the way plants and fungi work together to undo the toxic residue of industrialisation. Moving through deep time into the... [more]
Sat 30 Mar 2024 - Sun 26 May 2024
Mythic Instruments
Emma Hislop
Wed - Sun (11am - 5pm)
This exhibition of sculptural works by Edinburgh-based artist Emma Hislop presents artefacts from a future past, transported from a time where humanity bridged the gap between science, art and... [more]
Sat 30 Mar 2024 - Sun 26 May 2024
Morality Calculus
Yuning Chen
Wed - Sun (11am - 5pm)
Morality Calculus is a bioart installation by artist Yuning Chen that recounts the endeavour of creating bread fermented with yeast-human cell hybrids in a synthetic biology lab in... [more]
Sat 30 Mar 2024 - Sun 26 May 2024
We Pretended It Wasn’t Green
James Stephen Wright
Wed - Sun (11am - 5pm)
We Pretended It Wasn't Green is a generative animation by James Stephen Wright using satellite data.Showcasing a frog and enchanting mushrooms intricately woven into a constantly changing... [more]
Sat 09 Mar 2024 - Sun 02 Jun 2024
Metamorphosis
Watercolour Drawings by John Mooney
Wed - Sun (11am - 5pm)
“My purpose is to tell of bodies which have been transformed into shapes of a different kind“ - OvidMooney works in watercolour. Like no other, his sophisticated use of... [more]
Permanent Exhibition
Tarogramma
Damien Cifelli
Damien Cifelli is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the fictitious land of Tarogramma, a hidden world that explorers have long searched for in vain.His work is focused on fictional... [more]
Permanent Exhibition
You Are Magic
Pilar Garcia de Leaniz
Pilar Garcia de Leaniz is a freelance award-winning illustrator and graphic designer and teaching fellow at Edinburgh College of Art.Leaniz' works stem from a belief in the link between... [more]
Permanent Exhibition
The Bone Library
Jenni Fagan
Jenni Fagan was the Gavin Wallace Fellowship writer in residence at Summerhall from February 2019 to February 2020. During the Fellowship, she worked on a new book of poetry, The Bone Library, and a... [more]
Permanent Exhibition
Protest Mask Project
Jane Frere
The CAT - standing for Creative, Aesthetic Transgression - came first as a social media experiment for the selfie generation. Frere's cat masks have travelled from China and Iran, across Europe to... [more]
Permanent Exhibition
Meena Bazaar 2017
Urdu Park: Axial Margins
Meena Bazaar is a collaborative work by nine artists (Bina, Parveen, Rabina, Reshma, Ritu, Sabina, Sabrun, Shehzadi, Sunita) – homeless women living with their children in a government-run night... [more]
Permanent Exhibition
Permanent Exhibitions
The Odyssey
John Kindness
John Kindness presents a series of works based on Homer's epic.Inspired by James Joyce's version of the Odyssey, Ulysses, Kindness draws on the detailed nature of the writing to inform the... [more]
Permanent Exhibition
Paintings by Nihad Al Turk
Nihad Al Turk
Many of Nihad Al Turk's deeply psychological compositions, informed by readings in literature and philosophy, can be read as allegorical self-portraits.Central to his work are the thematic... [more]
Permanent Exhibition
Wall Drawing No. 1
Roger Elliot
Wall Drawing No.1 explores the perception of the expressive potential of rational structures. It is not to be stood in front of, but rather moved around, from right to left and then back again. By... [more]
Permanent Exhibition
Courtyard Commission 2023: High Hopes
Nathan Price
2023’s courtyard commission has been awarded to recent graduate Nathan Price, a mixed media installation artist based in Scotland. Price’s work captures an intense feeling of fun, excitement and... [more]
Permanent Exhibition
Feminine Futures
Curated by Adrien Sina
Avant-garde expressive & abstract dance‘Feminine Futures’ exhibitions explore dance history in the feminine during the first half of the 20th century, unfolding new research perspectives... [more]
Permanent Exhibition
The Demarco European Art Foundation
For over half a century Richard Demarco has been closely involved with the Edinburgh International Festival. As an artist, gallery director, conference organiser and teacher, he has been a potent... [more]