Demarco Archive Exhibtion
The Demarco Archive at Summerhall will be made manifest over the period of Advent and Christmastide by an exhibition which will focus on the following personalities and institutions living and dead.
View ArticleLet The Sun Catch You Crying
The bright colours of the prints in Summerhall's Project Room are deceptive. Once one looks closely at the works on display, one is horrified to realise the images are those of Nazi atrocities in the...
View ArticlePOP in the cafe
A small colourful exhibition of original pop art exhibition posters in the Winter Café. See prints advertising Robert Rauschenberg and James Rosenquist's first ever shows plus early Andy Warhol and...
View ArticleOne Day / Concerto for mouth and four others
Philippe Broutin is a French poet, composer and sculptor. He is also 64 years of age and in good health. That said, he believes that his uncompromising artistic life (originally as a Lettriste standing...
View ArticleSmall Social Sculptures – An exhibition of Joseph Beuys’ Announcement cards.
Joseph Beuys was an artist who often created postcards as artworks and for most of his gallery exhibitions other "announcement" cards were sent out. This small exhibition displays over one third of ALL...
View ArticleGreat Works of Art and More Great Works of Art
Famous personalities in the world of art and literature and philosophy are treated as the subject matter for a series of fictitious book covers or posters. In a colourful display of editions (many of...
View Article12 Factorial
Ingrid's interest in science, mathematics and philosophy has led to a series of paintings that break free from the usual fixed boundaries of a painting. Each of her exhibited paintings can be...
View ArticleAndy Warhol and Joseph Beuys – The ‘Lost’ Photographs
In 2011 a number of colour transparencies of a party held by Andy Warhol in honour of his friend, Joseph Beuys, appeared on eBay. Astonished, we immediately contacted the seller and travelled to Italy...
View ArticleOnce it’s in you it never goes away
Summerhall's own resident artist Stephen Thorpe, the recent winner of the Saatchi "Places and Spaces" prize, exhibits new work in the Library Gallery including a series of new neon works - a departure...
View ArticleTransformation & Revelation: Gormley to Gaga – Designing for Performance.
This winter throughout Summerhall, thirty-three large specially designed vitrines showcase the fascinating work of British stage and theatre designers on famous productions.
View ArticlePhenotype Genotype (PhG)
The first of Summerhall’s permanent galleries will open its doors for the first time at the Festival. Set in an original laboratory setting, Phenotype Genotype (PhG) will show over 400 small, medium...
View Article6% Down’s Syndrome: my photographs their words
6% Down Syndrome: My Photographs Their words is a documentary photography project completed over two years by Graham Miller, in partnership with Down's Syndrome Scotland...
View ArticleGavin Evans – The Audition
Thirty-five actors, some of the most famous from stage and screen, audition to camera for the role of a lover. The casting directors are two (imagined) sixteen year old girls.
View ArticleClap your hands three times
"I invent opportunities to disrupt and undermine the tensions that maintain and uphold the structures, both actual and symbolic, of society and its hierarchies. It is an attempt to breach the “valid...
View ArticleJack Smith’s The Beautiful Book
Jack Smith (1932 - 1989) was a very influential American filmmaker, actor and photographer who amongst others influenced Andy Warhol and John Waters. Smith's aesthetic was that which now is often...
View ArticleBlack Sound White Sound
A Russian Suprematist-inspired installation of soundscape and light in another of Summerhall's basement galleries is a sound reference to Malevich’s concept of 'The Black Square'...
View ArticleNam June’s First Tape – Roland Baladi (after Nam June Paik)
Roland Baladi's 2002 video investigation into Nam June Paik's mythical first artistic video tape piece (sometimes referred to as "The Pope Tape"). In 1965 Paik picked up an early portable video...
View ArticleArt’s first ever video works: Vostell and Paik
Vostell has the claim (along with Nam June Paik) to be the first ever person to make an artist's video. Sun in your head was made in 1963 in Koln and is made up of single frame sequences of TV or film...
View ArticleFlickering Lights: Three video works by British artists
Three video works by British artists: Rachel Maclean, David Bellingham and Maris...
View ArticleAs it presents itself – Somewhere vague
Gander's claymation video work brings together characters based on Spike Milligan, curator Matthew Higgs, Mrs Frances Gander (the artist's mother) and the Lumiere Brothers, Auguste and Louis...
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