Inspired by a viewing of Helen Biggar’s 1938, A Challenge to Fascism – a film which guides us through that year’s May Day march through Glasgow, we wanted to take the opportunity to honour Scottish filmmakers depicting and celebrating the lives of working people through archival films, alongside contemporary filmmakers.  We’re so delighted to have…

Saturday 20th April / 6-8pm. 13 Ross St, G1 5AR. Free but ticketed. Following their Reader Residency* at Market Gallery across February and March, Glasgow based British-Barbadian writer, editor, curator and artist Harvey Dimond has programmed the screening event Reading/ Writing from a distance. The programme expands on some of the themes teased out during their…

Friday 24th February 6pm at 13 Ross street. G1 5AR, Glasgow. We are pleased to present a screening of Gestures (Glasgow, 2021), a collection of recorded moments by Rachael Kelly Ryder shared with Glasgow’s East-end Barras Market community. The film exhibits heritage stories, art, representation, and life; revisiting histories through an Irish-Scots lineage in the centenary year of…

This film was part of Thomas Abercromby’s first solo exhibition, commission by Market Gallery at French Street Studios in October 2022. Rocabarraigh, a phantom island in Scottish Gaelic myth, will appear three times, the last being at the end of the world. On the first of June 1997, Greenpeace climate activists landed on the tiny…

Market is very excited to screen Camara Taylor’s film suspiration! (2021) suspiration! has grown out from the reflection on pinning, which Camara has explored during Market’s Studio Projects Home Residency in 2020.   Suspiration, [noun]—a long deep breath or a sigh. The film is a collage of photos, texts, newsreels, body sounds and gestures collected over four years.…

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…

Reproductive Technologies is an afternoon presenting work by four artists, exploring the position of bodies within systems of production and reproduction. The day will include a screening of work by Victoria Sin; a reading of an especially commissioned text by Kirsty Hendry; new work produced by Alexander Hetherington; and a performative lecture by Melanie Jackson.…

At Market Gallery, on March 20th, the astrological event of The Equinox marks the occasion for a screening of five films by four filmmakers, each work addressing themes of cultural, spiritual and scientific relationships with the natural world. Animism (from Latin anima, “breath, spirit, life”) is the belief that objects, places and creatures all possess…

Talk & Screening curated by Javier Calderon.Saturday 10th of June, 3pm. Market Gallery is excited to be hosting Javier Calderon, Director of Chalton Gallery (London), for the next of our Night School events. Javier will be speaking about the highs and lows of setting up the gallery, and about other curatorial projects across the UK…

Market Gallery is pleased to present a new video work by Karolina Breguła, commissioned for Glasgow International 2016. Office for Monument Construction tells the story of people who come from a town which no longer exists. Having no better place to stay, they inhabit a deserted concrete complex situated in the middle of a vibrant…

Market Gallery are delighted to invite you to Picture Window’s programme of contemporary video art for Sonica 2015. Transforming the windows into screens the work of Johanna Billing and Joanna Peace is presented, which use and examine music and song in innovative and original ways. Projections from 5pm until 8pm daily, 29th October – 8th…

Opening: 20 March 2015, 7pm – 9pmExhibition: 21 March – 19 April 2015 Market Gallery presents Asli Çavuşoğlu’s Murder in Three Acts, a scripted crime drama rehearsed, performed, and filmed during Frieze Art Fair 2012 in the framework of Frieze Projects. The first stage of the work, executed by a professional crew of actors and…

Friday 15 August 2014 Event opens at 7:00pm Screening begins at 7:30pm with a Q&A to follow As part of GENERATION, Market Gallery presents May Miles Thomas’ film The Devil’s Plantation. A haunting psycho-geographic journey, The Devil’s Plantation brings together two life stories to reveal an ancient secret. Supported by the SAC Creative Scotland Award,…

Tuesday 22 July 2014 Event opens: 7.30pm, screening begins: 8.00pm As part of the series of events of Time After Time, Scott Rogers will present his video No Date for the first time as a screening. Filmed in Glasgow over a one year period, the video takes the form of an nature documentary where human…

3rd May – 7th June 2013 Using the same technology employed by Hollywood and video games American artist Jonathan Monaghan debuts a new video installation for Market Gallery entitled Robot Ninja. Drawing as much on the past and mythology, as on science fiction and contemporary culture, Monaghan envisions a monstrous robotic harbinger. It is unclear…

GFF: Market Gallery Shorts A programme of curated short films by artist filmmakers at Market Gallery. Jonathan Monaghan’s short films combine high end computer animation with surreal and fantastical scenes drawn from popular culture and Western history. Tessa Power’s short work fuses ideas about contemporary space travel and humans supposed control over nature with representation…