Scotland's biennial festival of contemporary visual art
Now in its ninth edition, Glasgow International is the largest festival for contemporary visual art in Scotland, with over 60 admission free exhibitions, performances and events taking place over 18 days across Glasgow.
Attention
The theme for 2020 is Attention. As much a method or approach as a theme, Attention asks us to consider how, where and in whom our attention is placed at a time of seemingly constant distraction through, for instance, social media and 24 hour news feeds. What are the opportunities for close looking both in the making and viewing of art, and how we attend to others whom we care for, as well as ourselves?
The festival is a special moment, a crescendo in the creative rhythm of the city, a concentrated instance that opens up a space for relearning and recovering the stretches of time before, during and beyond it. Attention seeks to step outside the everyday and open up a new space for looking, thinking and spending time with the work of artists and to see afresh the intent behind the work.
It is with enormous regret that we have decided to postpone Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2020. This decision, following the advice from the Scottish Government, has been driven by the significant impact COVID-19 is having around the world […]
Fri 6 March, 6 – 7.30pm TJ Clark’s pioneering work as an art historian is characterised by the meticulous attention he pays to artworks and to the social conditions within which they are made and viewed. In this special public […]
Join us for a weekend of exhibition openings, talks, performances, evening events and parties. All exhibitions will be open from Thursday 23 April, with events marking the launch of each exhibition in the programme taking place across the city over […]
Glasgow International has announced details of its ninth edition. Comprising 54 exhibitions and 82 events, performances and talks at over 50 spaces across the city and showcasing work by 160 artists; the theme of the 2020 festival is Attention: asking […]
In June this year I started to chair GIs Advisory Board. I have known GI as an audience member, as a funder and as a partner so it’s a real privilege to be able to support GI going forward as […]
Please note, this is a copy of a press release dated 20 September 2019. Details of some projects have since changed. For up to date information browse full exhibition and event listings. Further solo exhibitions in Across The City […]
2020 Highlights include: New solo commissions by UK and international artists Ana Mazzei, France-Lise McGurn, Yuko Mohri, Nep Sidhu, Duncan Campbell, Martine Syms and Jenkin van Zyl Major new film commissions by Georgina Starr and Sarah Forrest A survey […]
For Gi2018, Glasgow International made the change to bring in an external panel to select the Across the City programme. We are delighted to announce the panellists joining the Gi curatorial team for the selection of applications from the Gi2020 […]
Glasgow International 2020 Theme: Attention To pay something attention is to bestow the value of your concentration and time upon it. Attention is the decision of what to focus in on in detail and what to leave as blurry remainder. Within […]
As GI 2018’s final day draws to a close, Laura Williams reflects upon Mick Peter’s ‘The Regenerators’, considering its engagement with the city, with Dalmarnock, and with the recurring theme of regeneration. Mick Peter, ‘The Regenerators’, 2018. Photo: Keith Hunter, […]
S1:E4 is a new episode in Martine Syms’ project SHE MAD (2015-ongoing), in which the artist incorporates elements of the sitcom format and past TV series to explore ‘the sign of blackness in the public imagination’. Presented in the form […]
For his new commission, Turner Prize-winning artist Duncan Campbell presents us with a giant electromagnetic mechanical display. Akin to a message board at a railway station, airport, or stock exchange, the screen creates highly pixelated moving images, somewhere between animation, film […]
Quarantaine is an ambitious new film by Georgina Starr. Its title refers to the French word for ‘forty’, and also alludes to the period of enforced isolation known in English as ‘quarantine’ (so-called because of its original forty-day timeframe). Over […]
Carol Rhodes (1959 – 2018) was a Glasgow-based artist and teacher known for her paintings of partly fictive, human-made landscapes – combinations of the natural and the artificial, suspended between intimacy and estrangement. This first posthumous solo exhibition focuses on […]
The Outside is Inside Everything We Make is a group exhibition conceived by Glasgow-based artist Laura Aldridge. Aldridge explores collaborative ways of working to challenge the limiting systems of value that are imposed upon creativity. The title of the exhibition […]