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Doig Klasse: Düsseldorf - Edinburgh
1 August – 1 September 2013
Studio interior at Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf. Photo: Stanton Taylor
The artist Peter Doig, whose recent paintings are on show at the Scottish National Gallery, has maintained a professorship at Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf since 2004, part of a tradition at the academy of classes being taught by artists that has previously included Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Paul Klee, Markus Lupertz and Georg Herold.
Despite embodying a wide variety of practices, Doig’s students will show together for the first time in Edinburgh, around a shared interest in narrative. While the students’ work stands at a distance from the traditional forebears of German art, the exhibition develops the artistic exchange between the city of Edinburgh and the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf initiated by Richard Demarco in 1970.
Mon–Sun, 11am–6pm
Free admission