Visual art, Performance art within 5 miles of Edinburgh

7 events within 5 miles

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The FAIR Project

Masters of Contemporary Art students from Edinburgh College of Art are the helm of this year's FAIR, which sees the gallery handed over to six groups, each charged with interpreting the concept of 'fair'. The result is a programme of music, comedy, film, performance, exhibition and installation that plays out over three…

Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh (1.0 miles)

Sat 25 May

Free / 0131 650 2210

  • 10:00 – 17:00

Art, Science and Performance

Leonardo is celebrated as both an inspired artist and anatomist. This special event considers how contemporary artists, performers and scientists are informed by each other’s work in their exploration of the human body. Part of the Clod Ensemble’s Performing Medicine programme in collaboration with Wellcome Trust.

The Queen's Gallery, Edinburgh (0.5 miles)

Fri 23 Aug

£15 (£12) / 0131 473 2000

GARAGE

GARAGE presents new works and collaborations by artists created during a series of micro-residencies in this unique project space which comprises three garages and a garden. The artists exhibiting include Ailie Rutherford, Ary D Cahyono, Belinda Gilbert Scott, Bob Moyler, Christine Hilditch, David MacDiarmid, Emma…

GARAGE, Edinburgh (1.6 miles)

Sat 3 Aug

Free / 07917 668044

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 12:00 – 16:00

Sun 4 Aug

Free / 07917 668044

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 12:00 – 16:00

Sat 10 Aug

Free / 07917 668044

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 12:00 – 16:00
…and 3 more dates until 18 Aug

Lovely Sky (Participatory Imagineering)

For the duration of the festival, artist Lucy Pawlak will adopt the role of Producer for a narrative feature film. The resulting work will be designed and directed in collaboration with a writing team of imagineers and advisors made up of visitors to the gallery and invited experts. Through constant brainstorming, hot…

Rhubaba Gallery & Studio, Edinburgh (1.3 miles)

Thu 1 Aug

Free

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 12:00 – 18:00

Fri 2 Aug

Free

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 12:00 – 18:00

Sat 3 Aug

Free

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 12:00 – 18:00
…and 17 more dates until 1 Sep

Peter Liversidge: doppelgänger

Peter Liversidge's exhibition for the festival unpicks the powerful and strange story of Ein Handschuh, a suite of etchings from 1881 by the Austrian Symbolist Max Klinger. Klinger's ten prints tell the story of a lost glove, dropped by a beautiful, rollerskating woman, and picked up by the artist, in whose imagination…

Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (1.0 miles)

Thu 1 Aug

Free / 0131 556 4441

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 10:00 – 18:00

Fri 2 Aug

Free / 0131 556 4441

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 10:00 – 18:00

Sat 3 Aug

Free / 0131 556 4441

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 10:00 – 18:00
…and 52 more dates until 28 Sep

PRODUCT

Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop will present new works from three different strands of its residency and curatorial programmes during the festival. A solo show by Kate Owens will present an ambitious new installation and live public performance, the basis of which is a script adapted from a children’s book first published…

Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop (2.3 miles)

Sat 3 Aug

Free / 0131 551 4490

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 11:00 – 17:00

Mon 5 Aug

Free / 0131 551 4490

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 11:00 – 17:00

Tue 6 Aug

Free / 0131 551 4490

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 11:00 – 17:00
…and 10 more dates until 17 Aug

Transmitted Live: Nam June Paik Resounds

No other artist has had greater influence on the use of technology in art than Nam June Paik; he prophesied changes that would shape the contemporary world, exemplified in his pioneering ideas, 'Participation TV', 'Random Access Information' and 'Video Commune'. 'Transmitted Live: Nam June Paik Resounds' celebrates the…

Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh (1.0 miles)

Fri 9 Aug

Free / 0131 650 2210

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 10:00 – 17:00

Sat 10 Aug

Free / 0131 650 2210

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 10:00 – 17:00

Sun 11 Aug

Free / 0131 650 2210

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 10:00 – 17:00
…and 55 more dates until 19 Oct