This Week in Scottish Art: Events Every Day

We begin on Wednesday, as Dusseldorf-based artist Mischa Kuball appears at Stills gallery in Edinburgh. Over three decades, Kuball has come to be known for his use of “light as a medium” as means to explore architectural spaces, and reflecting critically on their social and political contexts. Tomorrow (Wed 9 Sep) from 6-9pm, Kuball will speak about his work across his career. Prebooking appreciated.

At Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art this Thursday at 6pm, Sarah Forrest presents works “about the daily composition and decomposition of the human body in relation to daily lived experience”. This includes groundbreaking video work from the 80s with Jayne Parker and Tina Keane, as well as recent work from Moyra Davey - who screened her film Les Goddesses at Glasgow International 2012, connecting her difficult adolescence with the story of Mary Wollstonecraft’s daughters. All welcome, from 6-7.30pm.

On Friday this week from 6-8pm, Edinburgh Printmakers previews its new exhibition Abstraction from Architecture. This artist-curated show assembled four contemporary artists whose work is related by a common interest in architecture, and work between printmaking, drawing, sculpture and installation. Then on Saturday afternoon, three of the artists will discuss their pieces in the exhibition from 2-3pm. Free but ticketed event.

Still in Edinburgh this Friday, and again from 6-8pm, there’s the opening for Scott Rogers’ Endling exhibition at Collective. As part of the recent graduate scheme Satellites, Rogers has developed sculpture and text as culmination of research into the neurological disorder kuru, or laughing sickness, which spread through Papua New Guinea following the consumption of brain matter. The exhibition continues until 1 November.

Over in Glasgow this Friday at CCA, there’s a set of screenings entitled Transit #1: The Economy Experience. These bring together artists’ work on the subject of the experience and service economy, late capitalism and “its obsession with surface.” And it’ll be screened, from the back of a van, from 7:30-9:30pm.

In Aberdeen this Friday from 6pm in Newave Gallery, Aberdeen Painting graduate and Shetland-based artist Vivian Ross-Smith presents new show Erosions. Through manipulation of wood, metal, crystal and concrete, Ross-Smith juxtaposes decaying materials and clean lines as means of setting up a model of the human/land relationship. The exhibition continues until 6 October.

Still on Friday night, it’s Hearts and Minds, an exhibition in Hannah Maclure Centre in Dundee. Artists and scientists exhibit works that come from cardiovascular research taking place at Abertay University. Elsewhere in Dundee, Clare Brennan of Abertay University chats about the upcoming show in Dundee Arts Cafe in McManus Gallery tonight (Tuesday 8 Sep), and on Saturday 12 Sep from 12pm, two exhibiting artists will discuss their work in the Hannah Maclure Centre.

Across this weekend in Tramway, there’s a rich festival of Artist Moving Image, with a focus from LUX on the work of Stuart Marshall, talented artist, teacher and “gay man with unstinting political commitment to supporting lesbian and gay lives through his work”. Within the festival, Transmission gallery also present Film Open, a free part of the festival that includes works from Transmission associates as well as from like institutions across Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester and Sheffield.

Throughout the weekend in Edinburgh, LeithLate15 hosts free open studios across three art spaces in Leith, including events at Albion Road spaces, Process Studios at the top of Easter Road and St Margaret’s House on London Road. On Saturday night from 8 ‘til late, the open studios afterparty will take place in the Safari Lounge. Spanning a diverse range of art and design practices, the full programme of events can be accessed here.

This week marks the end of 12 months of study for the MLitt students at GSA. They’ll be exhibiting their final presentations in the McLellan Gallery from this Saturday, with students coming from Painting, Drawing, Sculpture and Photography pathways. Attracting students from a range of backgrounds, there’s the promise of some new takes on the exhibition and artwork from the Glasgow-based community.

Also within the McLellan Gallery, running concurrently with the MLitt graduation show is William’s Palm. Graduating Curatorial Practice student Grace Johnstone assembles work from painters Lindsey Maclean and Ewan Murray, and “expanded assemblage” sculptor and multimedia artist Jamie Kane. Based first on a friendship then a conversation surrounding two paintings that were gifted, traded and shared, allowing for a reflection on networks of exchange that parallel and interchange between “people and things in the world”.

This Sunday, there's a Surprise Birthday (or at very least an exhibition by that name) for visiting artists in Edinburgh this Sunday. Eight graduates from this and last year’s cohorts of BA and BFA at London’s Slade School of Fine Art are exhibiting their “all medias” work for seven days only. The opening is from 9pm this Sunday; the show is at Bargain Spot Art Space on Earl Grey Street.

And taking us until next Monday, it’s the opening from 6:30-9pm of the Visual Artists’ Unit Members Show at Generator Projects in Dundee, with works from the young artists’ organisation’s 32 members and management team. It’s an “all welcome” night with drinks and a chance to meet the exhibiting artists and members of VAU.