Sunday 19th October, Market Gallery, 2 – 6pm Join us for an afternoon of participative readings, performance and poetry in the workers’ theatre tradition. Together we will read and perform new translations of plays by the German revolutionary Berta Lask, anti-colonial agitprop pieces like Hands Off China! (1927) and Meerut (1933), and the work of…

We are excited to introduce our Glasgow International 2026 artists with whom we are working to develop new work across the next 10 months; Hannan Jones & The Camelia Committee.  Expanding the program beyond the GI festival period we will host two screening events drawing on the themes and previous works of our commissioned artists…

Sunday 24th August – 7.30pm nine verses is a new live sound performance work by ruby allen {nella} {bury} created as part of Market Gallery’s Live Art Commission.  An encounter between voice and pianoharp, the work is a durational performance across 63 minutes {9 x 7} experienced lying down.  Drawing on forms of lament the…

Introducing our new Live Art Commission, which supports the production of a new live art or performance work from an emerging artist based in Glasgow. Focusing on experimental forms the commission culminates in a public performance, taking place in August.  ruby allen {nella}{bury} is an artist and vocalist working with the yelps, textures and rhythms…

For the second showing of our Window Series exhibition format, we have invited Glasgow-based artist Aly Gear to present her work Theft During the Lairdic Era 1707-1886 in the window of our space at 13 Ross Street throughout the month of August. Open from Thursday 1st August 2024, 11am to 5pm every week from Tuesday…

~ no literary experience required ~ Poster by Eden Bø Dower WaterWings are a reading series and poetry press based in Glasgow. They host nomadic multidisciplinary events centring prose and the spoken word to create intimate spaces for some of the city’s most exciting writers and most curious ears. Participants included Romy Danielewicz, Maya Uppal, Ian…

A meditative sound healing led by Gillian Katungi on Saturday 18 May 2024 from 2–5pm at Market Gallery. Photo: David Chukwujekwu Provocations and prompts will guide you through a map of Gillian’s most recent research interests applied to a different context, culminating in a new entanglement of her work. Rooted in emergent strategy, participants are…

Image description: A digital collage of Elina upside down laughing wearing an 80’s style blue and red cycling bib shorts. Sat 26 August 12.30pm Come down to our space at 13 Ross St – for an outdoor* participatory performance with Elina Bry. “We will survive together“ is a performance working towards body empowerment and the…

Please join us on leap day night for an evening of performances by Aman Sandhu and Soya Arakawa as part of Aman’s exhibition SO GLAD. Details below, in no particular order. 29th February 2020 7 – 9pm (1) Aman tells a story about Gerhard Richter’s daughter.  (2) Soya performs the Crystals. “I was in Taiwan…

Clarinda Tse and Caitlyn Main will be sharing their Studio Projects outcomes on Friday 20th September from 6 – 9pm. Clarinda will present a performance, and Caitlyn will screen a short film. 18:50 Pre sunset (with Clarinda Tse) 19:24 Sunset (supper) 20:10 Post Sunset (with Caitlyn Main) Notes on Clarinda’s performance: a jelled up precarity…

Market Gallery warmly invites you to a new performance by Astrid Newman. By relinquishing our attachment to the fantasy of ‘the good life’, and by gaining an understanding of the various impasses that we face, is it possible to move forward from where we stand? Alto, Soprano, Mumbler of Truths is a riff on fantasy,…

Market Gallery invites you to an exhibition and performances programmed as part of a curatorial exchange with Brussels-based collective Komplot. In collaboration with Komplot curator Sonia Dermience, we will be presenting the work of two artists: Cléo Totti and Seyran Kirmizitoprak. Opening 42 days before the UK officially leaves the European Union, Komplot’s intervention at…

BODY BUILDING brings together four artists working in the medium of performance: Amy Pickles, Shona Macnaughton, Laura Gonzalez and Hannah Rose Whittle. Following a micro residency at Market Gallery over three days in November that included tours of the local area and Necropolis, the artists have been asked to produce new work for the gallery…

Market Gallery is pleased to invite you to a dog walk/discussion event, which will conclude Jarsdell Solutions Ltd’s current project, ‘Solution for Market Gallery’. Francis McKee will lead a walk around Dennistoun, using the locality as a stimulus for the introduction of several morsels from his varied research interests. McKee’s contribution will then frame a…

Voice sampling and living sculptures, a night of listening to the Minch. The evening will mark the closing of Suzanne Déry and Susannah Stark’s exhibition – the last over Market Gallery’s three spaces. Don’t miss this chance to see and listen to this duo’s exploration of the peat bog or swamp as a sonic space…

Presented by loom loom loom for Market Galleryat Scott Rogers‘ Creative Lab Residency, CCA.Thursday 20 October, 7-8pm. During the Studio Projects 2016 Residency at Market Gallery, Amelia Bywater has developed loom loom loom, a speculative publishing project scoping out the indistinct spaces of writing, speaking and performing and their translation within the actual spaces of…

Opening event and performance: Saturday 28 June, 8pm (performance at 8.30pm) Time After Time is a new exhibition and series of events at Market Gallery as part of Generation, a nationwide programme showcasing art in Scotland from the past 25 years. The project will consider the approach of Generation itself, and questions the historicising of…

Art Lending Library Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 20th April – 7th May 2012 A project by Market Gallery and Walker & Bromwich Located in the Mitchell library. Art Lending Library was an ambitious new commission by Zoe Walker and Neil Bromwich which took the form of an experimental library and public procession. Conceived…