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A photo of Zineb Sedira's exhibition shows rock formations that have been changed by the sea.

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a white gallery space with colourful tuftings on the wall and bright mural in the centre

Claudia Martínez Garay

Every seed is awakened

A black, hanging tapestry in DCA Galleries created by Sukaina Kubba. It has floral patterns on it created with a 3D pen.

Sukaina Kubba

Turn Me Into a Flower

Michelle Williams Gamaker: Our Mountains Are Painted On Glass at the South London Gallery, 2023. Installation photography by Jo Underhill.

Michelle Williams Gamaker

Our Mountains are Painted on Glass

Installation documentation showing a hanging hammock form to the left hand side of the image, a colourful sculpture composed of painted found materials and circle motifs, braided together in strands. In the background to the left of the bright gallery, on a white wall, is a rectangular artwork mainly white, purple, orange and blue.

Rachel Eulena Williams

An installation view of the exhibition, showing the film on a screen in front of the red seating area. The gallery walls are mottled green.

Saoirse Amira Anis

symphony for a fraying body

Three large freestanding photographs of rock formations displayed in the gallery.

Zineb Sedira

Can't You See the Sea Changing?

A film photograph image with a black background shows interlinked hands and arms, holding each other, as if knotted together. The image is slightly blurred.

Matthew Arthur Williams

Installation view of gallery 1. On the left can be seen a diptych. To the centre is a gridded window which lets light fall to the centre of the floor where there is a wooden seating bench. To the right a painting hangs on the white wall showing a young child in a swimming pool, the water is vivid blue.

Manuel Solano

The Top of Each Ripple

Installation documentation of gallery two, showing a two channel film projected across two big screens positioned at an angle to each other. The gallery is dark.

Douglas Gordon

A photograph of a two channel video installation, with two screens leaned on the floor against a dark orange wall. On the screens can be seen a close up of some rough red rocks. To the left of the image, a black 1980s style radio sits on a white shelf at waist level.

Tako Taal

At the shore, everything touches

Photograph of gallery two, showing a large installation, in the centre of the space. On a big red carpet, a freestanding inflatable insect-like form towers over a geodesic dome containing video and ceramic elements.

Rae-Yen Song

This image shows a dark gallery with a video projection. In the film we can see a young person stood behind a bar, with two empty chairs pulled up on the other side.

Chikako Yamashiro

Chinbin Western

Photograph shows an installation in a brightly lit gallery with white walls and grey floor. There are large black pleated curtains hanging in the space, nearly to the ceiling. These are hung in broad sweeping diagonals across the large floorspace. On the wall to the right is a photograph framed.

Mary McIntyre

Places We Think We Know

A billboard image with a black background. Ib a red wiggle shape at the centre, in mostly yellow text reads: Are there more naked women than women artists in UK museums?. In smaller great text underneath in a stencil font reads: Visit your favourite museum, count 'em up & let the Guerrilla Girls know!. The rest of the image consists of framed art historical paintings as though in a salon hang, highly packed close together in different sizes and formats. They all show naked women. To the left is the kneeling marble sculpture of a woman, with the figures head collaged as a gorilla mask.

Art Night: Guerrilla Girls

A hanging artwork on the right hand side of the image has watercolour figures and writing. To the left of the image can be seen another hanging work strung across the gallery. On a small wooden plinth to the left hand side of the image is a textile work.

Emma Talbot

Artist Stuart Whipp's work shows a projection with two images - one of two stamps and a drawing of a rock.

Stuart Whipps

If Wishes Were Thrushes, Beggars Would Eat Birds

Installation image showing a vibrantly painted wall, in orange and fiery tones, at the end of gallery two. To the left an artwork consisting of sewn patchwork denim pieces hang in a grid is suspended from the ceiling. To the back right we can see two vitrines with apexes.

Seized by the Left Hand

Curated by Eoin Dara and Kim McAleese

An installation image of gallery two showing a green structure like a building with a corrugated roof and a pink trim, as though it is sinking into the floor.

Alberta Whittle

How Flexible Can We Make the Mouth

A wide shot photograph of gallery two, showing the gallery with red walls and cabaret-style seating with small tables in the floorspace. A few people sit and face a screen with a projected film.

Patrick Staff

The Prince of Homburg

Image shows a hanging yellow artwork to the right, which is strung from the ceiling and consists of flat concentric rings. To the left we can see many small works of art ranging in bright colours which are hung in a grid on the white wall. To the corner of the gallery, in the centre of the image, is a small dark window allowing a view to the adjacent gallery.

David Austen

Margaret Salmon's exhibition Hole shows a large, smashed hole in the gallery wall. The foyer of DCA can be seen through the hole.

Margaret Salmon

A still from 'Pieces of You Are Here'. A white gallery space is filled with pottery, stones and empty black frames.

Lorna Macintyre

Pieces of You Are Here

A television suspended on scaffolding shows a van pulling a mobile home. From Mike Kelley's Mobile Homestead.

Mike Kelley

Mobile Homestead

An image from Santiago Sierra's exhibition Black Flag shows black and white photography in black frames on white walls.

Santiago Sierra

From Eve Fowler's exhibition. A pink canvas with text that says 'By that time. Drenched. By that that time.'

Eve Fowler

what a slight. what a sound. what a universal shudder.

An image from 'Shonky: The Aesthetics of Awkwardness' shows a giant sculpture of cheesy nachos in the middle of the gallery floor. Next to it, a large colourful ball is suspended from the ceiling.

Shonky: The Aesthetics of Awkwardness

Guest curated by John Walter

A floor based work is shown in gallery one. The walls are white and the gallery floor is painted grey. On top of this, a sculptural floor is lain in blocks, raising the floor over most of the gallery. This work is brightly coloured, with pastel blue green, yellow orange and pink, in abstract shapes.

Andrew Lacon

Photograph shows an installation in gallery 2, with natural light. Stright ahead on the back wall is patterned wall coverings with orange blocks in a grid on a greaty background. Sheets of metal painted white hang from the ceiling overhead. On the floor ahead of us at the back are cast bricks. To the left is a black long strip of rubber leading to the auxiliary space.

Kate V Robertson

This Mess is Kept Afloat

Image shows visitors watching a film in the gallery projected over large screens to the left and centre of the photograph. The film shows a landscape with a green glowing swamp and trees.

Kelly Richardson

The Weather Makers

Installation view of Gallery 1 with bright natural light and white walls. We can see three paintings at a distance. The paint strokes are bold and broad.

Clare Woods

Victim of Geography

The photograph shows a 5 large drawings akin to Rorschach prints, on two white walls.

MARK WALLINGER

MARK WALLINGER MARK

On the white gallery wall in DCA, a giant mural shows a horned creature wearing a Dennis the Menace jumper, surrounded by other DC Thomson characters holding numbered signs, and a strange green monster. Writing on the wall says 'Do the DCA Thomson'

DCA Thomson

Artists respond to the DC Thompson comic archives: Rabiya Choudhry, Rob Churm, Craig Coulthard, Malcy Duff, Hideyuki Katsumata and Sofia Sita.

A wide shot of DCA Gallery with Katy Dove's exhibition. The gallery is dimly lit, with two, large bright projections showing abstract, round patterns in multiple colours.

Katy Dove

A memorial exhibition

Eddo Stern's exhibition in DCA Galleries. Two large projectors show a painted image of clouds and mountains. An illuminated sculpture of a deck of cards is in front of the projector.

Eddo Stern

Postcard size illustrations on a white wall show the storyboard from Theresa Duncan's video game 'Chop Suey'. The drawings are colourful and drawn with a computer.

Theresa Duncan

From Duncan Marquiss's exhibition. A teal and black diagonal pattern.

Duncan Marquiss

An architectural model of a building made out of wood.

Grey Gardens

Festival of Architecture

From IC-98' exhibition. A projection shows a monochrome, hand-drawn image of a ruined building with Greek columns. The building is surrounded by trees.

IC-98

Drawn into Tomorrow

A large mural in beige, white, black and red as part of Hideyuki Katsumata's exhibition. The mural is of a man, who is massive and is wearing a strange costume made up of eyes and faces.

Hideyuki Katsumata

DCA Gallerie during Roman Signer's exhibition. A red kayak can be seen in the middle of the room, along with a red tent.

Roman Signer

A close-up shot of 3 t-shirts which hang on a rack in DCA Galleries as part of 'Spring / Summer 2015' exhibition. They are neon and have pictures of Maripol on them.

Maripol, Clare Stephenson and Zoe Williams

Spring / Summer 2015

From Florian & Michael Quistrebert's exhibition. Two large screens show abstract digital patterns in blue and pink.

Florian & Michael Quistrebert

Visions of Void

From Jim Campbell's exhibition. A close shot of tens of light bulbs suspended from the ceiling in a dark room.

Jim Campbell

Indirect Imaging

Heather Phillipson's exhibition - a large pink circular structure sits in DCA Galleries. It is sitting on a floor covered in green paint, and there are green paint splotches on the walls. Behind the structure, is a large printed photograph of a blue sky with a green field. There is a cut-out photograph of a green tree with red flowers in front of the pink structure, and two large cut-out photographs of worms.

Heather Phillipson

sub-fusc love-feast

From Continue Without Losing Consciousness, a collage shows an industrial bridge crossing an expanse of blue water.

Continue Without Losing Consciousness

Rob Churm, Raydale Dower and Tony Swain

A gallery view from Navid Nuur's exhibition. A large bin is toppled over on its side. In the background, there is a large metallic sheet.

Navid Nuur

From Thomas & Craighead's exhibition. A screen shows a pixelated but colourful pattern in pink, orange, yellow and green.

Thomson & Craighead

Maps DNA and Spam

From Hiraki Sawa's exhibition. A blue, dome-like structure which has been separated by wire into segments, hangs from the ceiling. In the background, a screen shows a picture of an orange camera.

Hiraki Sawa

A large mural from There Will Be New Rules Next Week exhibition at DCA shows a collection of recognisable iconography, including a cross, a peace symbol, Che Guevara, a smiley face, and the I Heart NY sign.

There Will Be New Rules Next Week

Sister Corita Kent, Peter Davies, Ruth Ewan, Emily Floyd, Scott Myles and Ciara Phillips

Three white mannequins from Johanna Basford's exhibition. One mannequin of a human is standing, another is sitting. There is also a white mannequin of a dog. All of the figures are decorated with intricate patterns of black ink.

Johanna Basford

Two large canvases from Jutta Koether's exhibition. The canvases are painted with acrylic paints in a loose and sketchy style.

Jutta Koether

Seasons and Sacraments

DCA Galleries during Trisha Baga's exhibition. An apparently chaotic landscape, bathed in blue light, using objects found in charity shops and household goods.

Trisha Baga

DashnDem

Imagine Being a World Leader

For Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen's exhibition at DCA, seats face a projection. On the projection, a video plays of a child. The child says in subtitles 'Me, I fear nothing'.

Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen

From Infinite Jest, a water feature in the middle of DCA Galleries. It is composed of a pool made out of Evian boxes, with a water sprinkler in the middle.

Infinite Jest

Cinthia Marcelle, Rob Pruitt and William Mackrell

Two large, incomplete brick walls from Scott Myles' exhibition at DCA.. The second wall frames the other, and a black canvas hangs on it that says 'BOY' in bright orange writing.

Scott Myles

This Production

From Jane & Louise Wilson's exhibition. 10 black and white photographs of people's faces. Parts of their faces are blocked off by white and black spots and face paint.

Jane & Louise Wilson

Jane & Louise Wilson

From Torsten Lauschmann's exhibition. A drawn image of a house, sitting on a dark hill. The house is dark, but bright green lights on the inside of the house shine through the window and cast light on the hills.

Torsten Lauschmann

Startle Reaction

From Ruth Ewan's exhibition. A teal-green object shaped like a witches' hat sits on the floor. Behind, there are the words 'Nae Sums'

Ruth Ewan

From Cara Tolmie's exhibition in DCA. A red and orange room, with a white door and tiled, geometric floors. Subtitles on the screen say 'He drops her on top of June, rudely awaking her from her private pondering of the floor'.

Cara Tolmie

Read Thou Art and Read Thou Shalt Remain

A wheel which can be spun at Nina Rhode's exhibition. The wheel is plastic and has different warm pink, red and orange colours on it in segments.

Nina Rhode

Three photographs of Manfred Pernice's exhibition. Image 1 - From Manfred Pernice's exhibition. A large, circular structure with two floors and a spiral staircase is segmented into different 'rooms' containing boxes and furniture. Image 2 - From Manfred Pernice's exhibition. A palette covered in blue carpet. On top of this, is a collection of furniture - cardboard boxes, a television, and photograph on the wall. Image 3 - A raised platform in Manfred Pernice's exhibition is decorated with mundane objects, including a white chair, a stool, a box with flowers on it, and framed pictures on the wall.

Manfred Pernice

From Jonathan Horowitz's exhibition. A large pink shape, with two straight side and one curved, hangs on the gallery wall. In the middle of the room, there are two plain wood crosses which are touching one another.

Jonathan Horowitz

Minimalist Works from the Holocaust Museum

From George Barber's exhibition at DCA. A screen displays a psychedelic, pink, orange and blue pattern with a kite-like red shape on it.

Discovery Exhibition: The Long Commute / Arcade

George Barber and Jaygo Bloom

From Sara MacKillop's exhibition. Patterned, cut-out shapes - circles and squares - of various sizes lie on DCA Gallery floor.

Similar Variance / The Floating World

Sara MacKillop and Mary Redmond

The Chicks on Speed art group do performance art. They are wearing colourful outfits and are performing on a stage that is bathed in blue and green light.

Chicks on Speed

Don't Art, Fashion, Music

From Alex Frost's exhibition. Large, coloured formation made of sand fill DCA Galleries.

Alex Frost

The Connoisseurs

From Martin Boyce's exhibition in DCA Galleries. A triangular, black light feature hangs in the centre of the room. One of the walls is red.

Martin Boyce

From Thomas Hirschhorn's exhibition. Mannequins are dressed in wedding dresses which are covered in pictures of burning buildings. There is a large, fake, chopped down tree on the ground behind them.

Thomas Hirschhorn

It's Burning Everywhere

A white greenhouse sits in DCA Galleries. The greenhouse is filled with sunflowers and other flowers.

Summer Exhibitions 2009

GANGHUT, Susanne Nørregård Nielsen, and Rob Hunter & John Louden

A black and white image of sheets of paper lying on the floor. In front, in red text, it say 'The Associates'

The Associates

Steven Cairns, Raydale Dower, Katy Dove, Luke Fowler, Fiona Jardine, Kevin Hutcheson, Graham Little, Lucy McKenzie, Duncan Marquiss, The Lonely Piper…

A view of DCA Galleries during the Timecode exhibition. The room is dark, and there is a countdown clock in the corner of the room that shows the number 9. A glowing rectangle can be seen in the distance.

Timecode

Ross Birrell, Graham Dolphin, Ceal Floyer, Douglas Gordon, Ilana Halperin, On Kawara, David Lamelas, Kelly Mark, Tatsuo Miyajima, Ugo Rondinone, Christian…

From Spencer Finch's exhibition. A large, blue sculpture made of translucent material, which reflects the light.

Spencer Finch

Gravity Always Wins

Altered States of Paint

Angela de la Cruz, Till Gerhard, Eleni Christodoulou, Jutta Koether, Neil Clements, Fiona Jardine, Anselm Reyle, Johannes Kahrs, Fabiénne Audéoud

From the Ellipsis exhibition. A row of 14 televisions each display blurry black-and-white images.

Ellipsis

Chantal Akerman, Lili Dujourie and Francesca Woodman

Sculptures from Camilla Løw's exhibition. Black cubes are stacked on top of each other, with yellow and blue coloured rectangular frames placed on top of them.

Camilla Løw

Straight Letters

Works by Matthew Buckingham - a golden, sparkling chandelier reflected in a mirror, a black plinth, and the same chandelier again, this time in a room with a woman in early 20th-century clothing on.

Matthew Buckingham

From Johanna Billing's exhibition in DCA. A large television screen shows a close-up image of a person outside, behind some green leaves. DCA Galleries is lit with very low lighting.

Johanna Billing

DCA Gallerie during Pale Carnage. There are eclectic statues and painting - a silhouette of a head on a plinth, a little drummer boy model, and black graffiti on the walls.

Pale Carnage

Nobuyoshi Araki, Athanasios Argianas, Ulla von Brandenburg, Tom Burr, Gillian Carnegie, Steven Claydon, Cerith Wyn Evans, Lothar Hempel, Mark Leckey,…

DCA Galleries during Peacocks Among The Ruins exhibition. Black shadows of birds are painted on the walls. Painted strips of wallpaper lean against the walls. There are lampshades with intricate patterns on the inside.

Peacocks Among The Ruins

Co-curated by Timorous Beasties

DCA Galleries during Ahlam Shibli's exhibition. The gallery is brightly lit, and medium-sized black-and-white photographs are on the walls. There is a bench in the middle of the room.

Ahlam Shibli

Images from David Shrigley's exhibition in DCA Galleries. A small statue of a man, and a headless cat. On the walls, there are canvases with graffiti slogans written on them.

David Shrigley

From Killing Time at DCA Galleries. Four people have a picnic on fake gras in the galleries in front of a large fabric sheet with a photograph of a house on it. There is a real wooden shed next to the people.

Killing Time

Graham Fagen & Graham Eatough

From Where The Wild Things Are, a gallery wall of paintings of varying sizes and styles, on the theme of nature.

Where The Wild Things Are

Dave Allen, Melanie Carvalho, Marcus Coates, Henrik Håkansson, Ilana Halperin, Duncan Marquiss, Christopher Orr, Diana Thater, The Lonely Piper

A selection of images from Allen Ruppersberg's exhibition at DCA. The floors are black-and-white check, and there are bright, multicoloured graphic posters all over the walls with different slogan and sentences on them.

Allen Ruppersberg

One of Many - Origins and Variants

From Elizabeth Ogilvie's exhibition in DCA Galleries. Large screens use video and light to create water-like effects. The rest of DCA Gallery is lit with very low lighting.

Elizabeth Ogilvie

Bodies of Water

David Claerbout Banner

David Claerbout

David Claerbout

Selected images from Matts Leiderstam's exhibition in DCA Galleries. In one photos, tables with books are laid out in DCA Galleries. In another, a telescope faces an image of a lake. In another, a magnifying glass is held up to a classical landscape painting.

Matts Leiderstam

Selected works from Our Surroundings. In one photo, a glass conservatory sits on a square of grass outside in Dundee. In another, a blue image can be seen on a projector in DCA galleries. In another, an image taken from within the glass conservatory shows tables and chairs, and a view of the Tay Bridge from outside.

Our Surroundings

Jordan Baseman, Mark Dion, Olafur Eliasson, Susan Philipsz, Bridget Smith, Matt Stokes, Apolonija Ŝuŝterŝiĉ

Selected images from Behind Closed Doors at DCA Galleries. One image shows tables with pictures on them. There is also a large framed abstract painting with pink and black in it. In another image, lights hang from the ceiling, along with flat-screen televisions with black-and-white pictures of buildings on them. In another image, there is a framed picture of foliage and buildings. Through a door, a dark image of an industrial building can be seen.

Behind Closed Doors

Monica Bonvicini, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Candida Höfer, Hiraki Sawa, Sean Snyder, Vangelis Vlahos, Amelie von Wulffen, Jane & Louise Wilson.

Selected images from Grönlund\Nisunen's exhibition in DCA Galleries. A huge, white, curved shape fills the gallery, almost to the height of the ceiling. In another image, orange geometric lines cover a wall.

Grönlund\Nisunen

Grönlund\Nisunen

A wide shot of DCA Galleries during Somewhere Everywhere Nowhere. Canvases are hanging on the wall.

Somewhere Everywhere Nowhere

Collections sans Frontières III

Images from Nahum Tevet/Ergin Çavuşoğlu's exhibition show a large structure made out of frames of plywood, which are painted different colours.

Nahum Tevet/Ergin Çavuşoğlu

Seven Walks / Entanglement

Images from Marine Hugonnier's exhibition at DCA. The central image is a large white pot of drooping yellow roses and lilies. In the other images, the flowers can be seen from a distance on a white stand, and there is a black canvas in the background.

Marine Hugonnier

Marine Hugonnier

A banner which shows different images from Richard Wright's exhibition at DCA.

Richard Wright

From It Is Hard to Touch the Real at DCA. Images show DCA Galleries during the event. There are rows of televisions playing different short films.

It Is Hard to Touch the Real

Artists' documentary videos

Framed paintings of gardens with trees.

George Shaw

What I Did This Summer

Three image from Plunder at DCA. The first is a television screen showing an explosion. The second is a mural made out of LP records, with crying eyes in the middle. The third is an abstract painting with the word 'Bacon' written on it.

Plunder

Various artists

Three images from Claire Barclay's exhibition in DCA. In one picture, jute material is attached to wire. In another, a person stands in DCA Galleries looking at large, abstract sculpture that form the exhibition. In the third picture, terracotta pots sit on a white bench.

Claire Barclay

Thomas Demand's exhibition in DCA Galleries. Abstract photographs of buildings hang on the white gallery walls.

Thomas Demand

From Christopher Wool's exhibition at DCA Galleries. Abstract compositions are made up of black and red spray paint and paint.

Christopher Wool

Crosstown Crosstown

A selection of images from Ill Communication at DCA. A large, square structure is made out of wood and black plastic. An installation is made out of white balloons. A large, run-on, nonsensical sentence is typed on the gallery walls.

Ill Communication

Jeremy Deller, Chris Evans, Liam Gillick, Jenny Holzer, Laura Horelli, Alan Kane, On Kawara, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Aleksandra Mir, Philippe Parreno

A white gallery space is filled with televisions with blue and pink screens on them, and wooden chairs.

Eija-Liisa Ahtila

Real Characters, Invented Worlds

A white, clay, chute-like structure hangs from DCA Gallery wall.

Miroslaw Balka

A colourful curtain covered in flowers hangs in DCA Galleries, behind this is a large tree branch.

Simon Starling

DCA Galleries during Fiona Banner's exhibition - a high table is covered in melting wax candles, large words written in grey concrete sit on the floor, and a vertical banner of colourful string hangs from the wall.

Fiona Banner/Ann Lislegaard

Your Plinth is My Lap/The Space Between Us

Selected images from The Eye of the Beholder. A photograph of a person smiling, then a blurry picture of a palm tree, and then a photograph of a red flower with a harsh shadow.

The Eye of the Beholder

Polly Apfelbaum, Atilla Csörgö, Rivane Neuenschwander, Yoshihiro Suda, Vibeke Tandberg

Selected works from Will Maclean's exhibition at DCA. A glass tea is filled with various stones and small objects. On a green wall, there are black pieces of slate. On a white wall, there are white canvas with thin lines drawn on them.

Will Maclean

A colourful stall covered in t-shirts with slogans written on them.

Here + Now

Scottish Art 1990 - 2001

DCA Galleries during the Trauma exhibition. People walk around the galleries, looking at sculptures and canvases on the walls.

Trauma

Martin Boyce, Willie Doherty, Kendell Geers, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Johan Grimonprez, Guillermo Kuitca, Maria Lindberg, Tracey Moffatt, Lucia Nogueira,…

DCA Galleries during Richard Deacon's exhibition. There are large, curled, wooden sculptures on the gallery floors.

Richard Deacon

DCA Galleries during Beyond / Photographs - there are white, geometric cubes and shapes on the gallery floors. There is a large brown mural on the white walls.

Beyond / Photographs

Lolly Batty, Luke Fowler, Robert Orchardson, Toby Paterson, Clare Stephenson and Clare Woods / Sophy Rickett

From Roderick Buchanan's exhibition, a film still of a person rollerblading in Dundee behind the multi-story flats.

Roderick Buchanan

A work from Ernesto Neto - white netting is stretched out across a gallery. It is semi-transparent and people can be seen walking through it.

Ernesto Neto

DCA Galleries during Christine Borland's exhibition - the galleries are dark, with large screens with blue projections of jellyfish on them.

Christine Borland

What makes for the fullness and perfection of life, for beauty and happiness, is good...

In DCA Galleries, there are two metallic, rocket shaped objects sitting in the middle of the room.

Olafur Eliasson

Your position surrounded and your surroundings positioned

A chalk drawing - a black background, with a large white sailboat drawn on it with chalk.

Tacita Dean

'The Sea, with a Ship; afterwards an Island'