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Olivia Webb – Voices Project
28 July – 29 August
Mon – Sun, 10am – 6pm
Olivia Webb’s sound oriented art practice focuses on the human voice, particularly through a-cappella song, as a way of exploring and illuminating traditions, histories and experiences that are embodied in space and place.
Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Facing the World: Self-portraits Rembrandt to Ai Weiwei
16 July – 16 October
Mon – Sun, 10am – 6pm
Thu, 10am – 7pm
Outside August:
Mon – Sun, 10am – 5pm
Thu, 10am – 7pm
This exhibition presents an exciting selection of portraits, in various media, spanning six centuries, from Rembrandt to Ai Weiwei’s Instagram posts.
Museum of Edinburgh
Sally Hackett – The Fountain of Youth
28 July – 28 August
Mon – Sat, 10am – 5pm
Sun (August only), 12 noon – 5pm
Sally Hackett graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in 2012 and specialises in sculpture, often combining ceramic form and drawing to create lively narratives, full of humour.
Rhubaba
Still life with flying objects
30 July – 28 August
Fri – Sun, 12noon – 5pm
Or by appointment
Rhubaba presents Still life with flying objects, a group exhibition that brings together new and existing work by artists including Tim Dodds, Susie Green, Emma Hart and Susan Mowatt.
Various venues
Walking Institute / Deveron Arts – All Roads Lead to Venice / Ugly Walk (2016)
Friday 12 August, 9 - 11am
Exploring slow travel and bringing together artists who undertake long distance journeys.
Collective
Jennifer Bailey: Will I Make a Good Father, Mother, Sister?
09 July – 04 September
Mon – Sun, 10am – 6pm
Outside August: Tue – Sun, 10am – 5pm
Jennifer Bailey’s practice explores and questions the permeability of art production to patriarchal structures, desire, capital and paid work.
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Modern Two
Richard Wright: The Stairwell Project, 2010
28 July – 28 August
Mon – Sun, 10am – 6pm (7pm during August)
Commissioned by the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.
Fountain Close
Steve Pettengell – And to you (2016)
30 & 31 July
10am – 4pm
Playing every 30 minutes, on the hour
And to you is a sound installation responding to the cultural context of the area, acoustic properties of the site and key concerns of the artist’s practice.
Edinburgh Art Festival Kiosk
Platform: 2016 – The Brownlee Brothers
28 July – 28 August
Mon – Sun, 10am – 6pm
Calum and Fraser Brownlee are a Dundee based duo who graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in 2013 and have since been awarded the John Kinross Scholarship and the SSW Residency Award.
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Modern Two
ARTIST ROOMS Joseph Beuys A Language of Drawing
30 July – 30 October
Mon – Sun, 10am – 6pm
Outside August: Mon – Sun, 10am – 5pm
The German artist, Joseph Beuys (1921—1986), is perhaps best known for his ‘actions’, installations and sculpture, but primarily he was interested in ideas: ideas about how the world, both natural and social, functioned and how the latter could be improved. He expressed these ideas most readily in his drawings.
Edinburgh Art Festival Kiosk
Platform 2016: Jack Saunders
28 July – 28 August 2016
Mon – Sun, 10am – 6pm
Jack Saunders graduated from Glasgow School of Art with a BA in Environmental Art in 2012 and currently lives and works in Glasgow.
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Modern One
Surreal Encounters: Collecting the Marvellous
4 June – 11 September
Mon – Sun, 10am – 6pm
Outside August: Mon – Sun, 10am – 5pm
This exhibition will bring together some of the finest surrealist works of art from four legendary private collections, those of Roland Penrose, Edward James, Gabrielle Keiller and Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch.
Jupiter Artland
Caroline Mesquita
30 July – 25 September
Mon – Sun, 10am – 5pm
Outside August: Thu – Sun, 10am – 5pm
Jupiter Artland is pleased to exhibit the first outdoor commission by French artist Caroline Mesquita, the artist’s first solo institutional exhibition in the UK.
Burns Monument
Jonathan Owen
28 July – 28 August
Mon – Sun, 10am – 6pm
Jonathan Owen takes pre-existing photographs and sculptures and painstakingly removes and reworks elements, transforming images and objects which were once fixed and resolved into mysterious uncertain forms.
Prince of Wales Dock, Dazzle Ship
Ciara Phillips – Every Woman
2 June – 31 January 2017
Mon – Sun
Ciara Phillips’ Every Woman, co-commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival and 14-18 NOW, is the fourth in a series of ‘Dazzle’ ship designs developed by contemporary artists to commemorate the First World War.
Edinburgh College of Art
MAP: Endnotes (2016)
13 August, 2pm – 5pm
Endnotes is part of the MAP Footnoting the Archive project curated by guest editors Suzanne van der Lingen and Claire Walsh.
Old Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church
Alison Watt: Still, 2004
28 July – 28 August
Mon – Sun, 8am – 6pm
Commissioned by Ingleby.
Scottish National Gallery
Inspiring Impressionism: Daubigny | Monet | Van Gogh
25 June – 2 October
Mon – Sun, 10am – 6pm
Thu, 10am – 7pm
Outside August:
Mon – Sun, 10am – 5pm
Thu, 10am – 7pm
This major exhibition is an ambitious display of masterpieces from the Impressionist era. Featuring over 100 pictures, from collections around the world, Inspiring Impressionism focuses on three key artists.
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
Raphael Rubinstein: The Miraculous
4 June – 31 August
Mon – Sat, 11am – 5pm
Episodes from the history of art will be retold and relocated.
The Queen’s Gallery
Painting Paradise: The Art of the Garden
5 August – 19 February 2017
Mon – Sun, 9.30am – 6pm
Last admission 5pm
Whether a sacred sanctuary, a place for scientific study, a haven for the solitary thinker or a space for pure enjoyment and delight, gardens are where man and nature meet.
Edinburgh Printmakers
History Machines by Donovan & Siegel
29 July – 22 October
Tue – Sat, 10am – 6pm
A UK premiere exhibition of new commissions and existing artwork by Toronto artists Matt Donovan and Hallie Siegel, that explores the enduring legacy of print that continues to shape how we communicate – even as we launch ourselves into a digital future.
Scotsman Steps
Martin Creed: Work No.1059, 2011
All year round
Mon – Sun, 5am – 10pm
Commissioned by Fruitmarket Gallery.
The Glasite Meeting House
Helen McCrorie – The Clock in Commune (2016)
11 – 14 August
Thu & Fri, 10am – 5pm
Sat & Sun, 11am – 6pm
The Clock in Commune is a multi-screen video installation developed by artist Helen McCrorie for The Glasite House; an A-listed former worship house of the Glasite religious sect.
City Art Centre
Oliver Braid – The Old Mechanics (2016)
28 July – 27 August
Mon – Sun, 10am – 5pm
The New Mechanics is a theory of art as utility introduced and popularised by Alistair Hudson, director of Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art.
Dovecot Gallery
The Scottish Endarkenment, Art and Unreason: 1945 to the Present
13 May – 29 August
Mon – Sun, 10am – 6pm
Outside August:
Mon – Sat, 10.30am – 5.30pm
The Scottish Endarkenment engages with a varied range of demanding topics from ever-escalating communal and international conflicts, social inequalities and consumer materialism to threatened gender identities, filial tension and sexual prejudices.
Stills
Jo Spence
29 July – 16 October
Mon – Sun, 11am – 6pm
The work of Jo Spence continues to influence and inform debates on photography.
Ingleby
Jonathan Owen
28 July – 28 August
Tue – Sat, 11am – 5pm
Jonathan Owen’s work involves the systematic transformation of readymade objects and images. He is interested in making by reducing and removing, and in the controlled collapse of existing objects as a method of production and reactivation.
The Fruitmarket Gallery
Damián Ortega
9 July – 23 October
5 – 29 August, Mon – Sun,10 – 7pm
Outside August: Mon – Sat, 11am – 6pm, Sun 11am – 5pm
Born in 1967 in Mexico City, Damián Ortega is one of the most prominent artists of the new Mexican generation. His work prioritises action over object, seeking to call attention to the dynamism of the world around us, and the hidden poetry in the everyday.
National Museum of Scotland
Celts
10 March – 25 September
Mon – Sun, 10am – 5pm
The idea of a shared Celtic heritage across ancient Europe retains a powerful hold over the popular imagination. But many common ideas about the people known as ‘Celts’ are in fact more recent reimaginings, revived and reinvented over the centuries.
Talbot Rice Gallery
Jess Johnson: Eclectrc Panoptic
29 July – 8 October
Mon – Fri, 10am – 5pm
Sat & Sun 12noon – 5pm
Step-free access from West College Street.
Eclectrc Panoptic teases back layers of cognition, reflecting New Zealand born artist Jess Johnson’s interest in science fiction, alternative universes and the slippery nature of perception and reality.
Jacob’s Ladder, Calton Road Bridge
Graham Fagen – A Drama In Time
28 July – 28 August
Mon – Sun
Graham Fagen is one of the most influential artists working in Scotland today. His work mixes media and crosses continents.
Jupiter Artland
Hayley Tompkins
30 July – 25 September
Mon – Sun, 10am – 5pm
Outside August: Thu – Sun, 10am – 5pm
Using familiar and commonplace objects, Tompkins’ works explore the language of paint and the experience of the ready-made.
Gayfield Creative Spaces
Bartholomew’s Waltz (2016)
10 – 14 August
Daily, 10am – 6pm
Through a week-long exhibition and one-off feast day event, BART WALTZ will create a cross disciplinary forum for spontaneous creation inspired by reinterpreted fragments of history.
Collective
Simon and Tom Bloor: Viewing Structure for the City Observatory
Throughout August
Collective are working with artists Simon and Tom Bloor to create a sculptural viewing tower to look into the City Observatory site while it is in its initial stages of development during August 2016.
Summerhall
Walking Institute / Deveron Arts – All Roads Lead to Venice (2016)
Friday 12 August
11am - 1pm, 2 - 4pm, 4 - 6pm
Exploring slow travel and bringing together artists who undertaken long distance journeys.
Open Eye Gallery
Barbara Rae: Return Journey
1 August – 31 August
10am – 6pm. Sat, 10am – 4pm
Internationally acclaimed artist and printmaker, Barbara Rae CBE RA RE, presents an extraordinary collection, part-retrospective, part contemporary; a record of time passing, an intimate study of human habitation by ancient and modern societies that live off and work on the land.
Talbot Rice Gallery
Alice Neel: The Subject and Me
29 July – 8 October
Mon – Fri, 10am – 5pm
Sat & Sun, 12noon – 5pm
Step-free access from West College Street.
The Subject and Me tells the story of the turbulent events that shaped Alice Neel’s life through a retrospective of drawings and selection of late paintings.
St Patrick’s Church
Roderick Buchanan – Understanding versus Sympathy
28 July – 28 August
Mon – Sun, 10am – 6pm
Working principally in photography and video, Roderick Buchanan is interested in how human identity is shaped and expressed.
Various venues
More Lasting than Bronze
In Scotland’s Year of Innovation, Architecture and Design, our 2016 commissions programme explores one of the most important points of intersection for art and architecture in our city: the monument.
Edinburgh College of Art
Edinburgh College of Art Masters Degree Show 2016
12 – 21 August
Mon – Sun, 11am – 5pm
Edinburgh College of Art’s (ECA) campus comes alive with a wide range of work by staff, students and guests.
Edinburgh College of Art
Beverley Hood: Eidolon
13-21 August and 24-27 August
11am to 5pm with two late night openings on Wednesday 17 August and Thursday 18 August when the exhibition is open til 8pm.
Beverley Hood’s new project Eidolon, explores the relationship between the body and technology, and the effect it has on our perception of what it means to be human and alive.
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
Siân Robinson Davies: Conversations
16 July – 31 August
Mon – Sat, 11am – 5pm
Giving voice to the things around us, artist and comedian Siân Robinson Davies will present Conversations, a new audio work.
Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2015
18 June – 2 October
Mon – Sun, 10am – 6pm
Thu, 10am – 7pm
Outside August:
Mon – Sun, 10am – 5pm
Thu, 10am – 7pm
The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2015 is the leading competition celebrating the very best in contemporary portrait photography from around the world.
The Steel Shed
Supporting Act at DOK Artist Space (2016)
28 July – 4 August
Private view: 27 July, 6pm – 9pm
Daily, 10am – 8pm
ANGL Collective with Baha Görkem Yalim and Petter Yxell use the dramatic backdrop of the port of Leith to create a stage for unexpected things to happen.
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
Kenny Hunter: Reproductive!
30 July – 24 September
Mon – Sat, 11am – 5pm
Reproductive! is an exhibition of new and reconfigured existing work from Scottish artist Kenny Hunter that explores the implications of emerging digital technology for sculptural processes.
Jupiter Artland
Christian Boltanski: Théâtre d’ombres, Les Archives du Coeur and Animitas
30 July – 25 September
Mon – Sun, 10am – 5pm
Outside August: Thu – Sun, 10am – 5pm
Christian Boltanski will present two installations in The Steadings Gallery and The Goldsworthy Room alongside a new permanent, outdoor installation. Shadow Theatres (Théâtre d’ombres) is a series developed by the artist across different moments since 1984.
The Number Shop
Goulash
29 July – 28 August
Mon – Thu & Sun, 12noon – 5pm
Sat, 12noon – 8pm
Fri, from 7pm (29 Jul, 5, 12, 19, 26 Aug)
The Number Shop presents Goulash, a hot and heavy summer stew.
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
The Telfer Gallery – Kimberley O’Neill: Conatus TV (2016)
27 August 2 - 5pm
A talk and screening programme for Edinburgh Art Festival of works selected by Kimberley O’Neill
Inverleith House
I still believe in miracles
23 July – 23 October
Tue – Sun, 10am – 5.30pm
I still believe in miracles celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the world renowned and influential exhibitions programme at Inverleith House, which has included some of the most memorable exhibitions ever staged in the UK.
Old Royal High School
Bani Abidi – Memorial to Lost Words
28 July – 28 August
Mon – Sun, 10am – 6pm
Bani Abidi is interested in the language of power, often using humour to unpick the strategies adopted by politicians to construct and convey their authority.
Edinburgh Art Festival Kiosk
Platform 2016: Paloma Proudfoot & Aniela Piasecka
28 July – 28 August
Mon – Sun, 10am – 6pm
Based in Edinburgh since 2011, Paloma Proudfoot and Aniela Piasecka began to develop their collaborative practice in 2014, and are joint Artistic Directors of the all female performance company, Stasis.
City Art Centre
Alt-w | Alt-w: Blush Response
28 July – 28 August
Mon – Sat, 10am – 5pm
Sun, 12noon – 5pm
NEO BRUTES by Dennis & Debbie Club is a 360° VR installation at the City Art Centre that re-imagines remnants of Scottish Brutalist architecture as the headquarters for an utopian movement.
Scottish Poetry Library
Scottish Poetry Library – CONCRETE (2016)
28 July – 24 September
Tue, Wed & Fri, 10am – 5pm
Thu, 10am – 7pm
Sat, 10am – 4pm
As an international movement, Concrete Poetry began in the early 1950s. Avoiding the descriptive agenda and discursive flow of conventional verse, it was defined by one of its founders, Eugen Gomringer, as ‘a constellation’ or ‘a play-area of fixed dimensions’.
Out of the Blue
Walking Institute/Deveron Arts – Walking Women (2016)
Thursday 11 August, 11am – 7pm
A programme of events that places women at the centre of discussions and debates about walking and art.
Edinburgh Art Festival Kiosk
Platform: 2016
28 July – 28 August
Mon – Sun, 10am – 6pm
2016 is the second year of this festival initiative dedicated to providing greater opportunities for artists at the beginning of their careers.
Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Ruth Barker – Place of Pillars (2016)
Place of Pillars (2016) is a new spoken word artwork by Ruth Barker commissioned by ATLAS Arts. Composed as a live performance that will also be released as a downloadable podcast, it is a poetic monologue.
Edinburgh Art Festival Kiosk
Platform 2016: Dorian Jose Braun
28 July – 28 August
Mon – Sun, 10am – 6pm
Dorian Jose Braun graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in 2013. He was awarded the John Kinross Scholarship, and a Graduate Residency at Hospitalfield.
City Art Centre
William Gillies & John Maxwell
30 July – 23 October
Mon – Sat, 10am – 5pm
Sun, 12noon – 5pm
William Gillies and John Maxwell were among the most significant Scottish artists of the 20th century.
The Regent Bridge, Calton Road
Callum Innes: The Regent Bridge, 2012
All year round
Commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival and Ingleby.