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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.

Commissions Programme: Alfredo Jaar

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

The Scottish Gallery: Kiln Gods

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

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.

ECA - Sonikebana

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.

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.

Richard Wright: The Stairwell Project, 2010

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.

Graham Fagen: A Drama In Time, 2016

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

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.

Martin Creed: Work No.1059, 2011

Scotsman Steps

Martin Creed: Work No.1059, 2011

All year round

Daily, 5am – 10pm

Commissioned by Fruitmarket Gallery.

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