A Collective Action: Edinburgh Art Festival 2025

Lewis Walker, 'Bornsick'. Image YISKID
Lewis Walker will perform 'Bornsick' on 23rd Aug at FirstStage Studios in Leith. Image YISKID

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Edinburgh Art Festival

From: 7 Aug 2025

To: 24 Aug 2025

Edinburgh
Edinburgh & the Lothians

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The 21st edition of the Edinburgh Art Festival once again features exciting work by contemporary artists from worldwide in venues and spaces across the city. With 82 exhibitions and 45 partner galleries and venues taking part in all areas of the city and out into neighbouring West Lothian, this is the Festival’s biggest programme to date.

Ingleby Gallery: Aubrey Levinthal, 'Studio desk'_2025_oil on panel. Image Andy Keate
Ingleby Gallery presents Mirror Matter – the first major UK show of work by Aubrey Levinthal. ‘Studio desk’, oil on panel. Image Andy Keate

As usual all the city’s major galleries and events spaces, large and small, are set to stage major works, with the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Collective, The Scottish Gallery, Fruitmarket, City Art Centre, Ingleby, Talbot Rice and The King’s Gallery contributing, alongside Jupiter Artland, Stills Centre for Photography, Dovecot Studios, and myriad other galleries and spaces.

Collective: Mercedes Azpilicueta, 'Potatoes, Riots and Other Imaginaries', 2021. Image Daniel Nicolas
Collective is hosting Fire on the Mountain, Light on the Hill – the first solo presentation in Scotland by visual and performance artist Mercedes Azpilicueta. ‘Potatoes, Riots and Other Imaginaries’, 2021. Image Daniel Nicolas

The Festival partners organisations across Scotland, the UK and internationally, making this a truly multi-national gathering of art and culture. This year there will be an EAF Pavilion – a shared hub at Outer Spaces in Leith – which will host many of new commissions and projects, resident artists, discussions and exhibited artwork.

The Scottish Gallery will present a powerful collection of new paintings by Victoria Crowe, showcasing her six-decade career.

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