Various venues
Commissions Programme
Stories for an Uncertain World
25 July – 25 August
The Commissions Programme brings together five artists with new projects which reflect the uncertain times we find ourselves in.
Parliament Hall
Nathan Coley: The Future is Inside Us, It’s not Somewhere Else
25 July – 25 August
Daily, 10am – 5pm
Nathan Coley has combined short texts with 19th century hand-printed scenic wallpaper to create a series of new works.
West College Street
Alfredo Jaar: I Can't Go On, I'll Go On
25 July – 25 August
24hr
Alfredo Jaar presents a new work titled I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On, consisting of a publicly sited neon sign.
Edinburgh College of Art
Corin Sworn: Habits of Assembly
25 July – 25 August
Daily, 10am–5pm
Corin Sworn brings together sculptural elements, video and choreography, to read technologies in parallel with the body and explore their impact and influence on one another.
Institut français d’Ecosse
Sriwhana Spong: castle-crystal
25 July – 25 August
Daily, 10am—5pm
Sriwhana Spong presents a new work which centres on the writings of the 16th century mystic, St Teresa of Avila.
The Fire Station at Edinburgh College of Art
Platform: 2019
25 July – 25 August
Daily, 10am – 5pm
Platform: 2019 brings together new work by ealy career artists Anna Danielewicz, Joanne Dawson, Harry Maberly and Suds McKenna.
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Modern One
Rosalind Nashashibi
25 July – 25 August
Daily, 10am – 6pm
Rosalind Nashashibi presents a new work inspired by a science fiction story by Ursula K. Le Guin.
National Galleries of Scotland
Bridget Riley
15 June – 22 September
Fri – Weds, 10am – 6pm; Thurs 10am – 7pm
Experience more than 60 years of dazzling and compelling abstract paintings from Bridget Riley, exploring the fundamental nature of perception.
City Art Centre
Victoria Crowe: 50 Years of Painting
18 May – 13 October
Daily, 10am – 5pm
50 Years of Painting will feature over 150 paintings by Victoria Crowe, stemming from youthful student works to the assured, timeless landscapes and portraits of recent years.
Collective
Helen McCrorie: If play is neither inside nor outside, where is it?
13 July – 6 October
Tues – Sun, 10am-5pm
Helen McCrorie’s 'If play is neither inside nor outside, where is it?' features a new film centred on an outdoor playgroup that meets in the grounds of a former military camp in Scotland.
Collective
James Richards: Migratory Motor Complex
26 July – 13 October
Tues - Sun, 10am – 5pm
James Richards 'Migratory Motor Complex' is a six-channel electro-acoustic installation that explores the capacity of sound to render artificial spaces and locate sonic and melodic events within them.
Dovecot Studios
Grayson Perry: Julie Cope’s Grand Tour
25 July – 2 November
Daily, 10am – 5.30pm
(After August, Mon – Sat, 10am – 5.30pm)
The last stop of the tour, this exhibition features tapestries designed by Grayson Perry which open up an exploration into the art and skill of tapestry.
Edinburgh Printmakers
Hanna Tuulikki: Deer Dancer
26 July – 5 October
Tues – Sun, 10am – 5pm
Deer Dancer is an ambitious cross-artform project by Hanna Tuulikki, investigating deer mimesis within traditional dance across the world, commissioned by Edinburgh Printmakers.
Ingleby
David Batchelor: My Own Private Bauhaus
24 July – 28 September
Mon – Sat, 11am – 5pm
(Closed Mondays and Tuesdays after August)
My Own Private Bauhaus marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus. David Batchelor pays tribute to the movement through a personal appreciation of the triangle, circle and square.
Open Eye Gallery
John Busby: Silent Landscape
29 July – 2 September
Mon – Fri 10am – 6pm, Sat 10am – 4pm
The Open Eye Gallery presents a large-scale exhibition centring on the distinctive and largely unseen landscape paintings by celebrated artist John Busby.
Stills: Centre for Photography
Cindy Sherman: Early Works, 1975-80
28 June -– 6 October
Daily, 11am – 6pm
Stills is excited to present an exhibition showcasing seminal early works by Cindy Sherman, one of the most influential artists of the last 40 years.
Talbot Rice Gallery
Samson Young: Real Music
24 July – 5 October
Mon – Fri 10am – 5pm , Sat/Sun 12noon– 5pm
(after August Tues – Fri, 10-5, Sat 12noon – 5pm)
Talbot Rice Gallery is proud to present Hong Kong artist and composer, Samson Young’s (b. 1979) first ever solo exhibition in Scotland, Real Music, during Edinburgh Art Festival 2019.
Jupiter Artland
Trisha Brown: Time, Space, Gravity
27 July—29 September
Daily, 10am—5pm
Jupiter Artland’s summer exhibition is dedicated to the work of choreographer and artist Trisha Brown, whose enduring legacy continues to be a source of joy and fascination for the generation of artists who follow in her footsteps.
The Fine Art Society
Intimate: a portrait
25 July – 31 August
Mon – Fri 10am – 6pm; Sat, 11am – 4pm
A group exhibition of portraiture, depicting sitters with whom the artists are close. Paintings and photographs which capture the essence of sitters in ways that the artists know intimately.
The Fine Art Society
Nicole Farhi: Writing Heads
25 July – 31 August
Mon – Fri 10am – 6pm
Sat, 11am – 4pm
A series of 25 busts of 20th century novelists and playwrights sculpted and painted by Nicole Farhi MRSS, from Françoise Sagan to Muriel Spark and Samuel Beckett.
The Fruitmarket Gallery | Around Edinburgh
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller: Night Walk for Edinburgh
25 July – 25 August
Tues – Sun, 8 – 10pm
Canadian artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller return to Edinburgh to make one of the mesmerising Video Walks for which they are acclaimed throughout the world
The Queen’s Gallery
Russia: Royalty & the Romanovs
21 June – 3 November
9.30am – 6.00pm (last admission 5.00pm)
This exhibition explores the 300-year relationship between British and Russian royal dynasties through decorative arts, paintings, jewellery, costume, books, letters and photographs, many of which are on public display for the first time.
The Scottish Gallery
Derrick Guild: Ever After
24 July – 24 August
Mon – Fri 10am – 6pm; Sat 10am – 4pm
Derrick Guild has created Ever After for The Scottish Gallery. This is a site specific exhibition which is an ongoing dialogue with Guild’s fascination with art history.
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Modern Two
Cut and Paste: 400 Years of Collage
29 June – 27 October
Daily, 10am–5pm (July), 10am–6pm (August)
Cut and Paste: 400 Years of Collage is the first survey exhibition of collage ever to take place in Britain. Collage is often described as a twentieth-century invention, but this show spans a period of more than 400 years and includes more than 250 works.
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Modern One
NOW Anya Gallaccio, Charles Avery, Aurélien Froment, Roger Hiorns, Peles Empire, Zineb Sedira
1 June – 22 September
Daily, 10am–5pm (July), 10am–6pm (August)
NOW is the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art’s dynamic three-year series of contemporary art exhibitions. The fifth instalment in the series will be centred on a major survey of work by Anya Gallaccio.
Scottish National Portrait Gallery
The Long Look: The Making of a Portrait
25 May – 27 October
Daily, 10am–5pm (July), 10am–6pm (August)
A collaboration between the painter Audrey Grant and the photographer and printmaker Norman McBeath, The Long Look explores the art of portraiture beyond the conventional artist and sitter relationship.
Arusha Gallery
All That the Rain Promises and More...
25 July – 14 September
Mon – Sat, 10am – 5pm; Sun, 1 – 5pm
This exhibition brings together the work of 17 artists who share a preoccupation with the symbiotic connection we each have with our environment.
Jupiter Artland
Joana Vasconcelos: Gateway
27 July – 29 September
Daily, 10am – 5pm
Following on from Jupiter Artland’s 2018 gallery presentation, Joana Vasconcelos presents Gateway, an intricately designed pool set within a landscaped formal garden and accompanied by a delicate glass dome space.
Scottish National Portrait Gallery
ARTIST ROOMS: Self Evidence - Woodman, Arbus and Mapplethorpe
6 April – 20 October
Daily, 10am – 6pm
With a particular focus on self-portraiture and representation, this exhibition celebrates the work of three of the twentieth century’s most influential photographers.
National Museum of Scotland
Wild and Majestic: Romantic Visions of Scotland
26 June – 10 November
Daily, 10am – 5pm
From the romantic movement of the 18th and early 19th centuries to Queen Victoria’s highland idyll at Balmoral, discover how Romantic interpretations of the cultural traditions of the Scottish Highlands and islands became enduring symbols of wider Scottish identity.
The Scottish Gallery
Stephen Bird: Kiln Gods
24 July – 24 August
Mon – Fri, 10am – 6pm; Sat, 10am – 4pm
The Scottish Gallery presents Kiln Gods, an exhibition by Stephen Bird inspired by the small sculptures made by potters to act as talismans of good luck during the firing process.
Edinburgh College of Art
Teaching Painting: Fully Awake
25 July – 25 August
Daily, 11am – 5pm
Fully Awake is a cycle of exhibitions curated by Ian Hartshorne (Manchester School of Art) and Sean Kaye (British Higher School of Art and Design, Moscow) for the organisation Teaching Painting.
Edinburgh College of Art
Yulia Kovanova: Grey to Blue: Ecological Entanglements
25 July – 25 August
Daily, 11am – 5pm
Grey to Blue focuses on the exploration of colour and its spatio-temporal dynamics, to reconsider its perceptual boundaries in search of new possibilities.
Edinburgh College of Art
Summer at ECA: ECA Festival Exhibition
10 – 18 August
Daily, 11am – 5pm (14 & 15 August, 11am – 8pm)
Edinburgh College of Art welcomes visitors to a showcase of work by Postgraduate students. This show combines new work from postgraduate study in Contemporary Art, Illustration, Interdisciplinary Creative Practices, Materials Practice and Art, Space & Nature.
Edinburgh College of Art
Yokollection: Double Disaster (Closing Down)
27 July – 18 August
Daily, 11am – 5pm
Double Disaster (Closing Down) presents a video pilgrimage to the site of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s 1969 car crash in Durness, alongside key works by Yokollection.
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
Adam Benmakhlouf
25 July – 25 August
Wed – Sun, 11am – 5pm
Adam Benmakhlouf has been commissioned to make a sound work for Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop’s beacon tower, drawing on his knowledge and experience of the workshop, surrounding environment as well as their experimental Schools Programme.
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
Caroline Achaintre: Encounter L.
25 July – 25 August
Wed – Sun, 11am – 5pm
A solo presentation of new and recent work by artist Caroline Achaintre in Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop’s Courtyard.
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
Lucy Wayman
25 July – 31 May 2020
Publicly sited, on public cycle path – 24hr access
A new public sculpture by Lucy Wayman situated on the Hawthornvale cycle path near Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop.
Open Eye Gallery
John Busby Remembered
29 July – 2 September
Mon – Fri, 10am – 6pm; Sat, 10am – 4pm
To coincide with Silent Landscape, the Open Eye Gallery presents an exhibition of invited artists who worked alongside, and who were acquainted with, Busby during his prolific career.
Edinburgh Printmakers
A Machine for Making Authenticity
26 July – 12 October
Tues – Sun, 10am – 5pm
A Machine for Making Authenticity plays on the transformation of Edinburgh Printmaker’s new building at Castle Mills from a site of mass industrial manufacture to one of handmade artistic production.
The Scottish Gallery
Modern Masters IX
24 July – 24 August
Mon – Fri, 10am – 6pm; Sat, 10am – 4pm
Modern Masters IX is a selection of individual works of art representing the modern spirit in Scottish painting and visual art.
Edinburgh College of Art
Martin Parker: Sonikebana
25 July – 17 August
Daily, 11am – 5pm
Sonikebana is a long-form sound composition that is transformed and performed by listeners as it happens.
Basic Mountain
Bernie Reid
I am gang
17–24 August
Daily, 12noon–6pm
I am gang by Bernie Reid presents a series of new paintings, sculptures and prints informed by the artist’s interest in subcultures.
The Parish Church of St Cuthbert
Restoring the Space
25 July – 25 August
Tue — Sat, 10.30am—3.30pm (Please note exceptions may occur)
The Paris Church of St Cuthbert presents an immersive artwork by renowned Scottish artist Adrian Wiszniewski.
Various venues
Travelling Gallery
Alec Finlay: Day of Access
14 – 17 August
Encouraging estates to open their gates and allow admission to their tracks for people who can no longer climb the hills, Day of Access is for everyone who experiences constraints on access while enhancing the experience of anyone who enjoys wild land.
Various venues
Quality Sleep, Harmony Life!
Vol.1
25 July – 25 August
Somewhat raucous, happily irreverent, opinionated and hopefully interesting, Quality Sleep, Harmony Life! is a publication featuring work, contributions and drudgery of a plethora of individuals.
Various venues
Damien Cifelli
Tarogramma Archive
25 July—16 August
25 July—7 August
Italian Cultural Institute
Mon—Thu, 10am—5pm, Fri, 10am—12noon
10—16 August
The Dundas Street Gallery
Daily, 10am—7pm
Damien Cifelli presents Tarogramma Archive – a collection of artefacts and images that reveal the history of this hidden land.
The Settlement Projects
place+platform
UNKENNY
9—17 August
Daily, 10am—5.30pm
place+platform present UNKENNY – an unsettling site-specific exhibition showcasing strangely familiar art oddities within the unique surrounds of a junk shop.
Stills: Centre for Photography
Deveron Projects and Many Studios
Movement of Freedom
Fri 26 July
1—3.30pm (with lunch)
Deveron Projects and Many Studios are hosting an afternoon of discussions on current UK visa regulations and the impact on the creative and cultural sector in Scotland today.
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust
Amanda Baron
An Observation
26 July—8 August
Mon—Sat, 11am—4pm
This exhibition stems from archival work undertaken by artist Amanda Baron for the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust.
Custom House Leith
PYRUS
Sixth
10—16 August
24hr
Sixth is a site specific, large scale botanical installation designed to create a conversation between the historic architecture of Custom House Leith and the ongoing loss of vital natural habitat in urban areas.
St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral
Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson
Vanishing Point: Where Species Meet
25 July—25 August
Daily, 7.30am—6.30pm
This three-screen film installation follows a ritualistic sharing of food – a ‘breaking of bread’ between species, at a bespoke table. The triptych is suspended centrally over and in front of the High Altar in the architecturally spectacular St. Mary’s Cathedral.
Johnston Terrace Wildlife Garden
Bobby Niven: Palm House
25 July—25 August
Thu—Sun, 12noon—5pm
Visit the garden from Thursdays to Sundays throughout the festival to see Palm House, created by artist Bobby Niven for our 2017 Commissions Programme in response to the unique space of Scottish Wildlife Trust’s smallest nature reserve.
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Modern Two
Richard Wright: The Stairwell Project, 2010
All year round
Daily, 10am – 5pm
Commissioned by the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.
Jacob’s Ladder, Calton Road Bridge
Graham Fagen: A Drama In Time, 2016
All year round
Graham Fagen is one of the most influential artists working in Scotland today. His work mixes media and crosses continents.
Alison Watt: Still, 2004
All year round
Daily, 9am – 6pm
(Please note this space is sometimes closed off to the public, you can phone ahead to check on (+44) 0131 556 3332)
Commissioned by Ingleby.
Scotsman Steps
Martin Creed: Work No.1059, 2011
All year round
Daily, 5am – 10pm
Commissioned by Fruitmarket Gallery.