The eighth edition of Glasgow International, Scotland's largest festival for contemporary art, opens this month.
Taking place over three weeks every two years, the festival will bring work to seventy venues and spaces across the city. Tramway is once again a must-visit site on the GI map, with three significant exhibitions as part of the Director's Programme:
Together with GI, Tramway has co-commissioned and co-curated a
solo exhibition by Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Leckey. Leckey has taken inspiration from a small statuette of Job from the Wellcome Collection, reconfiguring it to human proportions to create a relatable, abject figure who occupies Tramway’s vast main gallery.
The continent of Europe is moving towards Africa at the rate of approximately 2cm per year – eventually it will slide underneath entirely. Paris-based Canadian artist Kapwani Kiwanga takes this fact as a starting point for a new multi-faceted installation,
Soft Measures.
For
Dark Continent: SEMIRAMIS, Tai Shani creates a large-scale immersive installation that also functions as a site for performance, presented in Tramway 1. The work is an experimental adaptation of Christine de Pizan’s 1405 proto-feminist text The Book of the City of Ladies.
Glasgow International opens on Friday 20 April and most exhibitions run until 7 May.
Not wanting a good thing to end though, at Tramway Soft Measures runs until Sunday 17 June and Mark Leckey’s exhibition runs until Sunday 1 July. Our programme will be accompanied by a variety of events from our Take Part team.