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Featuring over 40 exhibitions each year, Edinburgh Art Festival is the platform for the visual arts at the heart of Edinburgh’s August festivals.
Edinburgh Art Festival returns in August 2025.
About Edinburgh Art Festival
Founded in 2004, Edinburgh Art Festival brings together the capital’s leading galleries, museums, production facilities and artist-run spaces in a city-wide celebration of the very best in visual art.
The UK’s largest annual festival of visual art, it is a leading international platform for supporting the development, production and presentation of ambitious new work by artists working in Scotland, the UK and internationally.
Each year the Festival features leading international and UK artists alongside the best emerging talent with a special programme of newly commissioned artworks that responds to public and historic sites in the city.
The vast majority of Edinburgh Art Festival is free with a packed programme featuring exhibitions, performances, screenings, artist talks and guided tours.
Learning and engagement
Alongside the main festival programme, they also run a yearly series of learning and engagement activities which aim to inspire people to get creative, remove barriers and broaden access to visual art and the festival programme.
Tailored tours, workshops and projects with community organisations and local schools explore fundamental local issues from an artistic point of view.
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Explore our festivals
Edinburgh has a jam-packed festival schedule all year around. Whether you are mad about science or relish the thought of getting lost in a good book, there’s a festival for you.
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