Highlights | VISUAL ART
SCOTTISH ART SCHOOL DEGREE SHOWS Various venues, Scotland This is the season for art school degree shows at Glasgow School of Art, Edinburgh College of Art, Duncan of Jordanstone School of Art & Design and other schools around the country. Check our listings
for shows in your area where you can spot the art stars of tomorrow. ARCHITECTURE FRINGE Various venues, Scotland, Sat 9–Sun 24 Jun, architecturefringe.com An open platform for the arts in which people can explore architecture and what it means to them.
Projects may take the form of exhibitions, performances, discussions, screenings, installations, writing, lectures, walks, music or temporary structures. EDINBURGH ART FESTIVAL Various venues, Edinburgh, Thu 26 Jul–Sun 26 Aug, edinburghartfestival.
com Scotland’s largest annual celebration of visual art offers work by the best contemporary Scottish artists as well as exhibitions of the most important international artists and movements of the 20th century and other historical periods. EVE FOWLER Dundee Contemporary
Arts, Sat 9 Jun–Sun 29 Aug, dca.org.uk The first major European exhibition of American artist Eve Fowler’s work. Fowler is one of the most significant artists of her generation, using art and language to disrupt and unsettle the dominant power structures that control much of the world around us.
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ROSS BIRRELL: THE TRANSIT OF HERMES CCA, until Sun 3 Jun, cca-glasgow. com Work inspired by a ten-thousand mile journey from Buenos Aires to New York (1925–1928) by Swiss-Argentine Aimé Félix Tschiffely on two Argentine criollo horses, Mancha and Gato. JAMES PFAFF: ALEX AND ME Street Level Photoworks, until Sun 1 Jul, streetlevelphotoworks.org Images from the artist’s life, specifically a book documenting a personal relationship from 1998.
KATINKA BOCK: RADIO PIOMBINO The Common Guild, until Sun 8 Jul, thecommonguild.org.uk Work from Paris-based German artist, tapping into the history of the gallery as a domestic building and of Glasgow as a port, using lead and ceramics.
MARK LECKEY Tramway, until Sun 15 Jul, tramway. org Work inspired by the small statue of the biblical figure of Job at the Wellcome Collection, here blown up to seven times its size and equipped with a 7.1 audio surround system.
ULRIKE OTTINGER Hunterian Museum & Art Gallery, until Mon 29 Jul, gla.ac.uk/ hunterian Images by German filmmaker and photographer whose work has hardly been seen in the UK.
CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH: MAKING THE GLASGOW STYLE Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, until Tue 14 Aug, glasgowlife. org.uk A major new exhibition exploring the lifetime of Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1928). It presents his work in the context of Glasgow,
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VICTORIA CROWE: BEYOND LIKENESS Scottish National Portrait Gallery, until Sun 18 Nov, nationalgalleries. org A selection of the artist’s best portraits, including images of her friend and neighbour the composer Ronald Stevenson, the medical scientist Dame Janet Vaughan; the poet Kathleen Raine, the actor Graham Crowden, the psychiatrist R.D. Laing, and Professor Sir Peter Higgs.
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his key predecessors, influences and contemporaries, particularly those working in the Glasgow Style. CELLULAR WORLD Gallery of Modern Art, until Sun 7 Oct, glasgowlife.org.uk A group exhibition based on work that examines the key thematic concerns of this year’s Glasgow International Director’s Programme.
AMBI Reid Building, Sat 23 Jun– Thu 16 Aug, gsa.ac.uk Work consisting of new commissions from Rabiya Choudhry, Fiona Jardine and Hanneline Visnes, drawing on material from the Textiles and Fashion holdings of the GSA; the title ‘ambi’ is Punjabi for the pattern known in Scotland as ‘Paisley’. EDINBURGH
PROJECTS 18: THOMAS WHITTLE, KEVIN MCCOLLOM, FRESH FOCUS, FLANNERY O’KAFKA Stills, until Sun 1 Jul, stills.org A platform for new photographic talent from Scotland, featuring solo shows and a group show by Fresh Focus, an Edinburgh-based photography community.
ROBERT CALLENDER: PLASTIC BEACH City Art Centre, until Sun 8 Jul, edinburghmuseums.org.uk A selection of the artists’ work, addressing environmental themes..
JOANA VASCONCELOS: GATEWAY Jupiter Artland, until Sun 30 Sep, jupiterartland.org A selection of works from the Portuguese artist who made her name at the 2005 Venice Biennale with A Noiva, a giant chandelier made entirely from 25,000 tampons. ZHANG YANZI: A QUEST FOR HEALING Surgeons’ Hall Museums, until Sun 4 Nov, museum.rcsed.ac.uk Exhibition featuring the works of Chinese artist Zhang Yanzi, based on the themes of medicine, wellness and healing from both a Chinese and universal point of view. The exhibition is included in the price of museum entry.
CANALETTO & THE ART OF VENICE The Queen’s Gallery, until Sun 4 Nov, royalcollection.org.uk Back in 1762, the young King George III acquired a bunch of paintings, drawings and prints by Canaletto, and they are now part of the Royal Collection. See some here, along with works by Canaletto’s great contemporaries.
RIP IT UP National Museum Of Scotland, Fri 22 Jun–Sun 25 Nov, nms.ac.uk National Museums Scotland and BBC Scotland are coming together to tell the story of Scottish pop music in a major collaborative project that explores the musical culture of a nation over more than half a century.
REMBRANDT: BRITAIN’S DISCOVERY OF THE MASTER Scottish National Gallery, Sat 7 Jul– Sun 14 Oct, nationalgalleries.org An exclusive Edinburgh-only exhibition that shows how interest in Rembrandt’s work has evolved in Britain over the past 400 years. Including many of his most famous works, and those of British artists inspired by him.
EMIL NOLDE: COLOUR IS LIFE Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Two, Sat 14 Jul–Sun 21 Oct, nationalgalleries.org A look back at the work of one of the great visionary 20th century painters, and a master of expressionism, drawing on the collection of the Emil Nolde Foundation in the artist’s former home in North Germany. OUT OF TOWN
LOOK AGAIN FESTIVAL Various venues, Aberdeen, 14–17 Jun, lookagainfestival. co.uk A celebration of art and design in Aberdeen, which in 2018, takes inspiration from Scotland’s Year of Young People, asking the commissioned artists and designers to respond to the theme of ‘Serious Play’. 1 Jun–31 Aug 2018 THE LIST 117