Visual Art
Exhibitions are free | Open: 4 August – 30 September 2016, 11:00 – 18:00
Joseph Beuys x 1000
Curated by Richard Demarco & Robert McDowell
Joseph Beuys, one of the great artistic geniuses of the 20th century died in 1986, thirty years ago. To this day he is exhibited more than any living artist and there continue to be hundreds of exhibitions dedicated to featuring Beuys across the world.
Monolog
Laure Prouvost
Laure Prouvost presents a series of video works focusing on the relationship between the physical body and the spatial limits of the screen. These individual works spill and react against one another to form surreal narratives that play with truth …
Adam, Eve, others and a UFO
Haroon Mirza
Haroon Mirza has won international acclaim for installations that test the interplay and friction between sound and light waves and electric current.
Context is Half the Work. A Partial History of the APG
Artists include Ian Breakwell, Roger Coward, Garth Evans, David Hall, John Latham, George Levantis and Barbara Steveni and others.
Curated by Naomi Hennig and Ulrike Jordan in dialogue with Barbara Steveni. Artists include Ian Breakwell, Roger Coward, Garth Evans, David Hall, John Latham, George Levantis and Barbara Steveni and others.
Diagramming The Listener
Mark Fell
Mark Fell’s Installation draws from interests in geometry, time, technology and the self, and how these shape and sustain one another
Hyper Bowl
Tamsyn Challenger
OMG, this ingenious brand new best-ever installation by dynamic, polymath, “artist agitator” Tamsyn Challenger is housed in the spectacular, cavernous, intuitive basement space at our world famous venue Summerhall. A concept such as ‘Hyper Bowl’ comes around once in a lifetime and …
Mother Tongue
Pester and Rossi
Grounded in sculptural performance, the duo Pester and Rossi create installations and live works that question interaction and social behaviour, challenging perceptions of the everyday. The artists incorporate outlandish DIY costumes and props, working with an anarchistic and feminist approach, …
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