Edinburgh Festival Guide

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Game Changer

Bringing together works by Rachel Adams, Jacob Dahlgren, Nilbar Güres and Haroon Mirza, this exhibition considers materials, space, physicality and body image within the context of the sporting arena. The show is situated in Meadowbank Sports Centre, the main athletics venue for the 1970 and 1986 Commonwealth Games in…

Meadowbank Sports Centre, Edinburgh

Thu 1 Aug

Free / 0131 661 5351

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 10:00 – 18:00

Fri 2 Aug

Free / 0131 661 5351

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 10:00 – 18:00

Sat 3 Aug

Free / 0131 661 5351

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 10:00 – 18:00
…and 29 more dates

Ilana Halperin: The Library

New work by New York-born artist Halperin, who is interested in the relationship between geological time and human experience. She's the first contemporary artist to receive an Artist's Fellowship at the NMS, and this exhibition features found objects, minerals, artworks created by natural processes and a 1.3-ton…

National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh

Fri 24 May

Free / 0300 123 6789

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 10:00 – 17:00

Sat 25 May

Free / 0300 123 6789

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 10:00 – 17:00

Sun 26 May

Free / 0300 123 6789

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 10:00 – 17:00
…and 126 more dates

Jalan Jati (Teak Road)

An exhibition tracing the imagined history of a teak bed found in a Singapore junk shop back to the tree from which it was made, incorporating photographs, prints, collages and an award-winning short film.

Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh

Sun 19 May

John Hope Gateway Centre

Free / 0131 248 2909

  • 10:00 – 18:00

Mon 20 May

John Hope Gateway Centre

Free / 0131 248 2909

  • 10:00 – 18:00

Tue 21 May

John Hope Gateway Centre

Free / 0131 248 2909

  • 10:00 – 18:00
…and 47 more dates

Preview: Staple Matter

The opening of the exhibition Staple Matter, in which Kjersti Sletteland and Despina Nissiriou explore the secrets of this building, creating site-specific work that enters a playful dialogue with Patriothall's structure and history.

Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh

Sun 4 Aug

Free / 0131 226 7126

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 14:00 – 17:00

Gabriel Orozco

Major exhibition of work by the Mexican artist, taking his painting The Eye of Go as a starting point, and featuring a series of large works on acetate which have never before been exhibited. Orozco is concerned not so much with what art should be but why it exists at all, and his practice never stands still – he'll cite…

Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh

Thu 1 Aug

Free / 0131 225 2383

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 11:00 – 18:00

Fri 2 Aug

Free / 0131 225 2383

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 11:00 – 18:00

Sat 3 Aug

Free / 0131 225 2383

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 11:00 – 18:00
…and 78 more dates

Jupiter Artland

The celebrated outdoor sculpture park opens its doors for the fourth summer season with works on show by Anya Gallacio, Andy Goldsworthy, Henry Castle, Antony Gormley, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Charles Jencks, Anish Kapoor, Cornelia Parker and others.

Jupiter Artland, Wilkieston

Sat 25 May

£8.50 (ages 6–16 £4.50; Family £23.50–£31.50; Seniors £6; Students £4.50; under 6s & disabled badge holders free) / 01506 889900

  • 10:00 – 17:00

Sun 26 May

£8.50 (ages 6–16 £4.50; Family £23.50–£31.50; Seniors £6; Students £4.50; under 6s & disabled badge holders free) / 01506 889900

  • 10:00 – 17:00

Thu 30 May

£8.50 (ages 6–16 £4.50; Family £23.50–£31.50; Seniors £6; Students £4.50; under 6s & disabled badge holders free) / 01506 889900

  • 10:00 – 17:00
…and 63 more dates

Mary, Queen of Scots

Was there ever a monarch as unlucky as Mary, Queen of Scots? Her father dies when she's six days old, turning his infant daughter into a political football. Then there are the increasingly inappropriate marriages to increasingly obnoxious husbands; the rebellions, the betrayals, more stabbings than any 24-year-old should…

National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh

Fri 28 Jun

£9 (£7.50; under 16s £6; under 12s free) / 0300 123 6789

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 10:00 – 17:00

Sat 29 Jun

£9 (£7.50; under 16s £6; under 12s free) / 0300 123 6789

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 10:00 – 17:00

Sun 30 Jun

£9 (£7.50; under 16s £6; under 12s free) / 0300 123 6789

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 10:00 – 17:00
…and 140 more dates

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

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

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

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