Exhibitions in Edinburgh

February 2027

February at a glance: 0 exhibitions opening, 1 closing, and 8 more on view across the city.

Kiri Dalena, archival photograph of young women with erased protest placards

Kenneth Dingwall, Melding (detail), 2026, yellow abstract work

Bayeux on the Balcony at Dovecot Studios

Ade Adesina, Borders, 2025: two-panel print of a cloudy sky over woodland with birds, a deer and a wheelbarrow

Press image for Roman Scotland: Life on the Edge of Empire

Closing in February

The Rupture: No condition is permanent13 Feb
Talbot Rice Gallery · Free
International group show on living through the breakdown of systems, as artists confront generative AI, neo-colonialism, war and climate change, insisting no condition is permanent.

Also on through February

Kenneth Dingwall: Beingto 7 Mar
City Art Centre
Retrospective of Edinburgh abstract artist Kenneth Dingwall's 60-year career: around 70 drawings, paintings, prints and constructions, some never shown before.
Bayeux on the Balconyto 9 Apr
Dovecot Studios · Free
A full-size print of the Bayeux Tapestry unrolled across Dovecot's Balcony Gallery, the first time its full scale is shown in Scotland, with insight from the British Museum.
Ade Adesina: Bardto 11 Apr
City Art Centre
Major solo show of Aberdeen-based printmaker Ade Adesina: monumental woodcuts, etchings and linocuts on climate change and colonial histories, plus a new Edinburgh commission.
Scottish Portrait Awards 2026to 11 Apr
National Galleries Scotland: Portrait
The Scottish Portrait Awards come to the Portrait for the first time: fine art, photography and Scotland Now! phone portraits by artists born, living or studying in Scotland.
Roman Scotland: Life on the Edge of Empireto 18 Apr
National Museum of Scotland
Rome's most northerly frontier brought to life, centred on finds from the Inveresk fort, including two altars from the world's most northerly Mithraeum shown for the first time.
Scotland's First Warriorsto 16 May
National Museum of Scotland · Free
Over 200 objects trace conflict in prehistoric Scotland from the Neolithic to Rome, including six Bronze Age shields and the richest Iron Age warrior burial yet found.
Gifted: New Acquisitions at the City Art Centreto 6 Jun
City Art Centre · Free
Recent gifts and bequests to the city's Scottish art collection: paintings, prints, sculpture and photographs by Barns-Graham, Bellany, Crowe, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Jessie M. King and more.
The Art of Commemorationto 14 Jan
National War Museum · Free
The making of the Scottish National War Memorial, 1917-1927, through architectural drawings, artworks and archives, including cast iron angels by Alice Meredith Williams.

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