SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART
NOW SHOWING
What you see is where you’re at
Roy Lichtenstein, In
the Car. From ‘What you
see is where you’re at’,
Scottish National Gallery
of Modern Art © The
Estate of Roy
Lichtenstein/DACS 2009
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of its founding, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art will be re-hung in its entirety for the first time in twenty five years. The display will reveal the richness and range of the collection in a series of rooms which aim to delight and surprise.
Samuel John
Peploe, Veules-les-Roses.
From ‘What you see is
where you’re at’, Scottish
National Gallery of
Modern Art
Since its opening in 1960 in Inverleith House at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, its move to a larger building on Belford Road in 1984 and the expansion into The Dean Gallery in 1999, the collection has grown to more than 5,000 works and is now considered one of the best in Europe.
Iconic works, forgotten works and new acquisitions are shown in new and often unexpected combinations and contexts. Some of the displays are thematic, focussing on topics such as collage, still life, contemporary selfportraiture or the use of colour. One room is devoted to white. Other rooms will focus on a single artist or work, while the artist Callum Innes has curated a two-room display.
Interspersed among these thematic displays are small solo exhibitions. There is a room devoted to the American artist David Schutter, an extraordinary, large scale installation by the Scottish artist Martin Boyce (a recent acquisition) and a new work by the young German artist Kitty Kraus. The Dean is also showing Luke Fowler’s haunting film What you see is where you’re at, which gives the re-hang its title.
Throughout this anniversary year the displays will change on a rotating basis, so you will find something different every month.
All exhibitions free
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Edinburgh
Edinburgh
0131 624 6200
Daily 10a-5p
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