Installation

Friedrich

Doggerfisher Gallery, Edinburgh, until Sat 3 Feb 2

20 Dec 2006

PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY, VIDEO AND INSTALLATION Friedrich - Marcus Amm, Helene Appel, Eva Berendes, Ellen Gronemeyer, Alex Heim, Karin Ruggaber and Nicole Wermers The seven artists in this upcoming exhibition ‘Friedrich’ are united geographically…

Christine Borland: Preserves

Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, until Sun 28 Jan 2

6 Dec 2006

INSTALLATION In Kos, Greece, there is a tree that stands in front of the Castle of Knights. Apparently planted by eminent physician Hippocrates, the town’s locals optimistically put it at about 2400 years old, and its frailty has generated a reliance…

Planting the Tele

Mary Mary, Glasgow, from Sat 25 Nov-Sat 13 January

27 Nov 2006

INATALLATION, FILM AND WORKS ON PAPER Glasgow has seen very little of Hayley Tompkins of late, but she has returned in a curatorial capacity in Planting the Tele at Mary Mary Gallery, bringing together new work by seven artists: Anne-Marie Copestake…

Northern City (Between Light and Dark) - Group Show

Northern City (Between Light and Dark) - Group Sho

27 Nov 2006

INSTALLATION, SCULPTURE, PHOTOGRAPHY AND FILM With increasing contemporary interest in Edinburgh’s role as the centre of the Scottish Enlightenment, this new exhibition hopes to examine how the capital played a major role in the birth of…

Christine Borland

The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Sat 2 Dec-Sun

23 Nov 2006

SCULPTURE INSTALLATION A mid-career retrospective of Christine Borland’s work has been awaited on home turf for sometime - mainland Europe having seen retrospectives in the late 90s. So, a review, in the capital, arrives with great anticipation…

Douglas Gordon

The dark arts

22 Nov 2006

Just days before Halloween, the exterior lights of the Royal Scottish Academy were switched from white to red, casting a warning beacon to the city that something dramatic and uneasy was afoot. Five huge black posters were unfurled over the façade…

Graham Fagen

Doggerfisher Gallery, Edinburgh, until Sat 9 Dec 2

11 Nov 2006

PRINTMAKING, PHOTOGRAPHY, INSTALLATION Graham Fagen has painted the walls in the main gallery black, immediately setting an ethereal, theatrical tone to this dimly lit exhibition, entitled ‘Closer’. Three silkscreen prints, simplistic white linear…

Andrew Reid

11 Nov 2006

INSTALLATION The Changing Room, Stirling, until Sun 7 Jan 2007 The window of The Changing Room is transformed into the vitrine of a manufactured socio-cultural artefact. Andrew Reid’s installation - an almost entirely grey model - is a mixture…

Giles Bailey - Sound Examples for 'Average Performance' Experiments

Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, until Sat 18 Nov

11 Nov 2006

INSTALLATION AND PERFORMANCE What are we other than a bag of warped memories with some genitals attached? The decentered subject that was heralded almost 40 years ago is a theoretical construction that has just not caught on. The postmodern subject…

GSA Annual Staff Show - Christine Borland, Thomas Joshua Cooper and Peter McCaughy

GSA Annual Staff Show - Christine Borland, Thomas

12 Oct 2006

PHOTOGRAPHY, VIDEO AND INSTALLATION This slick little show continues the annual ‘outing’ of the talents of GSA staff members. The exhibition is pared down this year, which means that there is space to consider the objects, enough room to look for…

Andrew Sunley Smith - Migratory Projects

Andrew Sunley Smith - Migratory Projects

10 Oct 2006

INSTALLATION, PHOTOGRAPHY AND FILM Migratory Projects, by Australian artist Andrew Sunley Smith, loosely explores migration and survival, via records of journeys through Australia. Along with documentary photographs, items from the journeys are…

Robin Arsenault - Dinnae

UBU (off site), Glasgow, until Fri 20 Oct

10 Oct 2006

INSTALLATION As you enter the gloomy Dennistoun flat, the big band music of ‘Tap Your Troubles Away’ from Mack and Mabel rings out. A small circle showing dancing legs and feet is projected on a screen, as though we are peeping through a hole, but…

Dalziel + Scullion - The Earth Turned to Bring Us Closer

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, Sat 7

28 Sep 2006

INSTALLATION The first major exhibition in the refurbished Kelvingrove will be an artistic collaboration of international standing: visuals from Dalziel + Scullion and music by Craig Armstrong. For ‘The Earth Turned to Bring Us Closer’, Dalziel…