Summerhall August Festival 2013

Famous for his architectural interventions into museum spaces, Schneider has created for Summerhall’s imposing and ominous lower basement rooms, a strong, deeply intense and, perhaps controversial, statement about racism and slavery. Visitors to Süßer Duft enter the space alone and …

Banner’s presentation at Summerhall premiers new film works and recent publications with a focus on performance. Three video works will be shown for the first time: Mirror, Jane’s and Chinook, the latter capturing a Chinook helicopter performing an absurd yet …

Michael Nyman’s first ever exhibition in Scotland will consist of a major installation in Summerhall’s Upper Church Gallery (off Hope Street Terrace) showing simultaneously the video film-maker, photographer and composer’s ten (10!) remakes of the famous vintage film “Man with …

Taken from the collection of the curator Piet de Jong this survey of one hundred of the multiples released by the conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner will be exhibited for the first time at Summerhall before touring elsewhere. Lawrence Weiner is …

An emerging and popular artist from Miami, Ryan the Wheelbarrow is a talented painter, “fashion vandal” and custom designer of collectable vinyl art toys for the sophisticated and stylish youth market. Unusually for an urban interventionist he works with typography …

Combining music and mechanical choreography to spectacular effect,  Ecstatic Arc is seductive in its raw beauty. The theatrical installation is based on a dystopian future of masks and sculptures, created using found objects, recording devices and a caged Tesla coil. …

Green creates delicate artworks half-way between sculpture and paintings. Using a strange assortment of unusual found objects, a series of experiments lead this quiet contemplative man to form works that see parts of memorial poppies inserted into books with sawn …

Six contemporary Chinese artists (Liu Guofo, Guan Jing Jing, Yang Liming, Liang Qian, He Gong and Wu Jian) will be exhibiting works in an arts project conceived by Chinese poet Yang Lian and Dr Janet McKenzie (Editor: Studio International). The …

As part of Summerhall’s ‘Pop-Up-Art’ installations in the main courtyard, Tokyo-based artist Miller will be exhibiting hundreds of his detailed ink and gouache drawings in a large purpose built hut (a strategy for exhibiting the artist has used before). Taking …

McCaffer is a conceptual artist and also a trained barber. As part of Summerhall’s ‘Pop-Up-Art’ installations in the main courtyard, McCaffer will offer haircuts for the price of £10 in a specially created wooden barbershop which will be adorned with …

Documenting a young woman’s attempt to understand her itinerant and adventurous grandmother through role play, Tegler’s photography is exhibited as installation rather than a traditional hanging. Different sizes of images, some merely ink-jet outputs of reproductions from photographs, others glossy …

An exhibition of previously unseen cover art and LP covers and ephemera from the esoteric, spiritual jazz great Sun Ra and the Arkestra plus photographs by Baron Wolman and others of the band and their eccentric front-man in concert and …

Blue was the last film made by the acclaimed film-maker. Written at a time when Jarman knew he was likely to die from AIDS-related causes, the screen is entirely taken up with a deep blue colour with a poetic mostly-auto-biographical …

Scottish writer and filmmaker Timothy Neat has collaborated with Berger since 1978. As a ‘trailer’ to Neat’s Retrospective Exhibition, ‘STANDS SCOTLAND WHERE SHE DID?’ (Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, 28 September – 9 November 2013), Summerhall is proud to exhibit photographs, …

A world premiere of cinematic movements by Gavin Evans, composed and performed live by virtuoso violinist Richard Moore and sonic artist Tom Hull. Uncompromising photographer and film-maker Evans has created a body of work that shines a torch on the …

Marius Alexander has photographed every one of Edinburgh’s many Festivals for 30 years. His work has been published in numerous books, magazines and newspapers all over the World, and widely exhibited. Here a selection of his striking images will be shown …

Summerhall’s curator will be offering a fully curated exhibition at bar and coffee tables during the Festival. Entirely based on small avant-garde artworks kept in his jacket pockets, interested visitors will be shown the works and invited to discuss them …

Hugh Buchanan, Scotland’s most celebrated watercolourist, turns to the dusty documents from the Esterhazy archive for the subject matter of his Summerhall exhibition, the first display of his work in Edinburgh for over 20 years.

Demarco European Art Foundation exhibition at Summerhall will replay its exhibition at our Italo-Scottish Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale in June only, entitled ‘Italo-Scotland in Europe, Europe in Italo-Scotland’ following on from the exhibition “Scotland in Europe” at  Scotland House, …

Painting, drawing, print making, and models following from a journey in three parts beginning with Palestine 2007 to 2013.

Works exploring how a visual artist may respond to political-economy questions?

Summerhall’s permanent exhibition of avant garde works set in an original laboratory setting, Phenotype Genotype (PhG) will show over 400 small, medium and large works by a wide range of diverse artists amidst items rescued from Summerhall’s scientific past. The …

Polish artist Robert Kuśmirowski created a major installation in Summerhall’s former stables for last year’s Edinburgh Festival. This year is another chance to see that permanently sited work – an animal experiment has gone wrong and an unwitting  sacrifice has …