25th Birthday programme announcement!

Please join us in celebrating Market’s 25th year through 1-6 September 💫 with a packed week of events marking the occasion. The events will take place in Many Studios at 3 Ross St / 13 Ross St G1 5AR with our closing party on Saturday 6th kindly hosted by 16 Collective at 173 Trongate. All events…

Two blue plastic card holders sitting side by side against a white wall on a wooden surface with two cards reading 'to consent not to be a single being' & 'the future and past must be superstitious'

SAVE THE DATE – 25 years of Market – 1st to 6th September

Market Gallery is turning 25!! To honour this milestone we will be hosting a week of events in celebration of Market’s history and future, orbiting around two key prompts: to consent not to be a single being / the future and past must be superstitious Reflecting on the changing nature of artist-organising and artist-run initiatives,…

‘nine verses’ – Live performance with Ruby Allen

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…

Ruby Allen – Live Art Commission

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…

Rush Johnstone – Reader Residency – June 2025

We are excited to announce the artist taking part on the Studio Residency across the month of June 2025. Rush Johnstone is an artist and creative coder using digital tools, critical spatial analysis, and data storytelling to document how state-built infrastructures and systems echo in our present moment of geospatial paranoia and border violence. Rush…

here is where we meet

“Archives are not inert historical collections. They always stand in an active, dialogic, relation to the questions which the present puts to the past; and the present always puts its questions differently from one generation to another.” Constituting an Archive, Stuart Hall It’s a Saturday at Market Gallery and the energy from the Barras swarms the…

From A Distance / text response to the Reader Residency by Harvey Dimond

‘Hydrocolonialism riffs off the term postcolonialism and, like that concept, has a wide potential remit that could include colonization by way of water (various forms of maritime imperialism), colonization of water (occu- pation of land with water resources, the declaration of territorial waters, the militarization and geopoliticization of oceans), a colony on (or in) water…

Library Digest: Kirsteen Stevenson

A review of Imperial Intimacies by Hazel V. Carby. Scanned Image: Hazel V. Carby, Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands, Verso Books, London, pp. 324-325, 160-161. Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands, begins with ‘the girl’ – the girl who is constantly asked ‘the question!’. ‘The question’ was always lying in wait –…

Library Digest: Beulah Ezeugo

Keep it in Mind: A review of In These Circumstances: On collaboration, performativity, self-organisation and transdisciplinarity in research-based practices by a.pass Scanned Images 1 & 2: Philippine Hoegen, Lilia Mestre, Various Authors (2022) In These Circumstances: On collaboration, performativity, self-organisation and transdisciplinarity in research-based practices, Onomatopee 181, Netherlands, pp. 210-211, 160-161. I started reading ‘In These…

Open Letter in Solidarity with the People of Palestine

Image: Yousef Anastas We, the committee members of Market Gallery, write to express our solidarity with the people of Palestine, and their struggle for life, freedom and dignity. We are calling for an immediate ceasefire. We condemn Western support of the ongoing occupation and systemic violation of human rights which normalises dangerous rhetoric and propagates…