Various locations throughout Edinburgh
Founded in 2004, Edinburgh Art Festival (EAF) brings together the capital’s leading galleries and museums to present an ambitious and meaningful programme of exhibitions, events and projects.
Using the opportunity of its 20th birthday to connect with historic and contemporary ways of organising that have built infrastructures of care and pioneering activist movements, this year’s programme of events will be EAF’s biggest to date. Spanning the work of more than 200 artists, and taking place all across the city, it will ask viewers to look again at Edinburgh through the eyes of the exhibiting artists.
Across the city audiences will be able to experience a range of performances across three weekends. including:
- At Custom Lane, Leith, Mele Broomes presents a newly commissioned outdoor performance, with progressions of vocal callings accompanied by live melodies and choreographies.
- Prem Sahib will present their performance work Alleus in Castle Terrace Car Park under Edinburgh Castle. The first time Sahib has worked with live vocalists, the work is a polyphony of live and pre-recorded voices.
- A festival within a festival, JUPITER RISING x EAF at Jupiter Artland invites audiences to explore, discover and celebrate underrepresented artistic voices, championing queer and QTIPOC experimental practice.
- Más Arte Más Acción (MAMA) presents an artistic public intervention at the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh in the form of a large table around a tree to discuss the interconnections between humans and plants in times of rapid biodiversity loss.
- The City Art Centre will be showing a range of projects, including Sanctus! – a new film installation by Renèe Helèna Browne exploring devotion in relation to portraiture, faith, and belonging, as well as Karol Radziszewski’s curated exhibition of rare photographs tracing the history of Filo Magazine, one of the first underground queer magazines in Central-Eastern Europe.
- At Fruitmarket, Ibrahim Mahama is making a brand new body of work inspired by the Gallery’s unique physical location, supported on columns above Waverley railway station, while at Talbot Rice Gallery, El Anatsui’s exhibition will comprise a large selection of his iconic sculptural wall hangings, wooden reliefs and works on paper.
- Women in Revolt! is the National Galleries of Scotland’s survey of feminist art that celebrates the women who challenged and changed the face of British culture. Meanwhile The Edinburgh Seven Tapestry at Edinburgh Futures Institute commemorates the first women to matriculate at any British university.
As the Festival takes place in different venues across Edinburgh, access facilities vary. Information on accessibility at all participating venues can be found on Euan’s Guide.
For further information on EAF and to view the full programme go to Edinburgh Art Festival.
