Edinburgh Art Festival returns for 2021
Edinburgh Art Festival returns to the city's art spaces this summer with exciting new work (Isaac Julien, Emeka Ogboh, Sean Lynch), retrospectives (Ian Hamilton Finlay, Christine Borland, Karla Black) and the annual Platform showcase
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by Jamie Dunn
| 03 Jun 2021
One of the joys of an Edinburgh summer (a typical one anyway) is escaping the hubbub of the Fringe to venture into the city’s many great galleries to soak up the wild and wonderful work at the annual Edinburgh Art Festival.
After the 2020 edition stalled thanks to COVID-19, this year's Edinburgh Art Festival will take place from 29 July to 29 August in a variety of visual art spaces across the city, with an additional online programme of events and digital presentations also planned. The 17th Edinburgh Art Festival will feature over 35 exhibitions and new commissions – some directly address the seismic changes brought about by this past year of pandemic, while other exhibitions were in the works long before anyone had heard of COVID-19.