This Week in Scottish Art: 10-16 May

Tue 10 May: GSA's interim MFA show

After a small fire last week in GSA postponed the planned opening, the annual MFA Interim Show kicks off tonight. As always, it promises to be a diverse, multimedia roundup of the students' work at the midpoint of the two-year programme. The preview is tonight from 6-8pm in the Reid Gallery, just across from the Mackintosh building on Renfrew Street.

Thu 12 May: Ambient Audiences at Fruitmarket

The Fruitmarket Gallery's Ambient Audiences series continues, with Swedish electronic group SQ, aka Sound Quartet, who will "bring their imaginary soundscapes and electrified visual and sonic experimentalism". They will collaborate with local band KUBOV, a violin and electronics duo, within the context of Glasgow-based artist Sara Barker's paintings and sculptures within the gallery. Tickets are still available and there's a promise of "sweet treats and drinks" from Milk Cafe during the event, which takes place from 6.30-8pm.

Fri 13 May: Shows at DCA, Dovecot, Embassy & Voidoid

From 6.30pm, DCA continues its Spring programme with Duncan Marquiss' Copying Errors. Starting with a discussion between Marquiss and the curator Graham Domke, the show will then preview later on Friday evening. Later, there's an open invitation to "Get Your Ass To Mars, an evening of off-world music, space echoes, 8mm, 16mm, 35mm and video projections with Spacer DJs Andy Wake (Duncan's bandmate in The Phantom Band and Omnivore Demon) and Egor."

From Friday in Dovecot Gallery, there is the new exhibition Scottish Endarkenment. Not just a clever bit of wordplay, the curators are looking to recontextualise art in Scotland since World War II. There's the idea that after this point, artists began to deal with the more sinister imagery and themes that until that point had only been broached in literature. Read our interview with co-curator Bill Hare, discussing the chosen artists from famous Scottish painter John Bellany to contemporary research artist Georgia Horgan.

In Embassy, they're previewing a new group show from artists Eva Fàbregas, Kirsty Hendry and Andrew Sim. Each of the artists work between writing, (variously kinetic) sculpture, animation and drawing. Get a first look this Friday from 7-10pm, and then until 29 May.

Culte Cargo takes place in Voidoid Archive from Friday to Monday, "a 3-day project and exhibiton of works" by Glasgow arists Conor Kelly and Kari Stewart. They will their own respective work as well as collaborations. Thematically, they consider "adherence to pursuiring failures of protocol" and "the whittling of meaning". This Friday, they preview the project from 7-9pm.

Sat 14 May: Jupiter Artland reopens

At the risk of jinxing it, summer seems to have arrived this week. Whether or not it's still here by Saturday, make sure to head along to Jupiter Artland, the large sculpture park outside Edinburgh. Every year, it shuts through the winter, and reopens with a new spring programme and additions to its permanent collection. One of the cofounders Nicky Wilson walked us through the new programme, which includes a room full of birds and electric guitars, as well as late artist Helen Chadwick's Piss Flowers, which cast flower shapes left in the snow by peeing. 

In Dundee, this Saturday from 5pm in the Meadow Mill WASPS Artists Studios, Louise Ritchie previews Unpainting. For this show, there's a strippping back of all "irrelevant imagery", and while working with paint the emphasis shifts to "physicality, scale and energy" as well as "the intuitive process" to make for a cross between painting and scultpure The show continues through various days until 25 May.