Scottish Art Events & Exhibitions: June 2023
Art Night takes place in Scotland for the first time this month, alongside an array of festivals and exhibitions across the country
The first Art Night to take place outside London will unfold across Dundee on 24 June. Highlights include a film installation by Tai Shani at The Little Theatre, an art video game by Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley at the Arthurstone Library and performances by Saoirse Amira Anis at various venues across the city. Following a recent screening in Belfast in April, Maria Fusco and Margaret Salmon will present a reiteration of their opera-film The History of the Present, which will screen from 7pm in the Dundee Rep Theatre.
Two new exhibitions open at Collective in Edinburgh this month. Rabindranath X Bhose explores queerness, transcendence and death through the symbolism of bog lands from 10 June. Meanwhile, Tarek Lakhrissi’s newly commissioned sculptural installation I wear my wounds on my tongue (II) (opening 23 Jun) explores the power and danger of language for racialised and queer people.
At nearby Fruitmarket (from 24 Jun), Portuguese, Berlin-based artist Leonor Antunes will inhabit all of the gallery’s spaces, presenting sculptures that engage with modernist art, design and architecture.
Spit It Out Festival, which brings together workshops, talks, exhibitions and screenings, will take place online and in person during June. Catch the festival across various venues in Glasgow between 15-18 June, online from 19-21 June, and in Edinburgh from 22-25 June.
From 10 June at Mount Stuart on the Isle of Bute, Monster Chetwynd will present a new project which focuses on moths, a recurring motif in her performances and installations. For this commission, she will re-purpose materials from her 2011 work Folding House to create a Moth Hub, based on research undertaken into species of moths on the island.