Our 2027/28 Exhibitions Programme
We're delighted to announce our new exhibitions to open in 2027, that will bring the best of international and national contemporary art to Dundee, championing artists at every stage of their careers.The programme will create an international and intergenerational conversation through four major solo exhibitions. Spanning weaving, installation, sculpture and textiles, as well as works created on site in DCA Print Studio, these exhibitions form a rich programme exploring themes of cultural history, migration, memory and identity.
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We’re delighted to be bringing these four artists to Dundee at significant moments in their careers. Together, the exhibitions open up an international and intergenerational conversation that moves between the personal and the collective, the local and the global, and the familiar and the unexpected. Above all, this is a programme that celebrates the richness and diversity of contemporary artistic practice and the artists who continue to expand our understanding of what art can be.Dan Brown, Head of Exhibitions at DCA
Kialy Tihngang
Sat 24 April – Sun 25 July 2027
A major new solo show from Cameroonian-British multidisciplinary artist Kialy Tihngang will explore the unstable territories between history, memory and representation. Working across moving image, sculpture, performance, textile, photomontage and writing, Tihngang examines the ways colonial narratives have shaped representations of West African cultures, while considering how these histories are fragmented, romanticised and reimagined within the diaspora.
Reimagining depictions of otherness and marginalisation using the visual language of Western mass media, Tihngang constructs an exaggerated world where satire, performance and absurdity become tools for interrogating Blackness, queerness and Britishness with humour as a strategy for survival, resistance and imagining new forms of belonging.
Trackie McLeod
Sat 24 April – Sun 25 July 2027
Alongside this, we'll be showing a major new solo show of Glasgow based artist Trackie McLeod. whose work explores the memories, humour and the visual language of his Scottish roots. Drawing on his working-class upbringing in Whiteinch during the late 1990s and early 2000s, McLeod reflects on the people, places and social codes that shape identity and belonging.
Across sculpture, textiles, print, sound and found objects, McLeod brings together contemporary folk traditions and popular cultural references, alongside explorations of masculinity, queerness, class and politics. Witty, nostalgic and unmistakably Scottish, McLeod’s work transforms everyday experiences into artworks that connect the personal with the universal.
I’m thrilled to announce such an exciting and diverse programme of exhibitions for next year, from a uniquely Scottish voice in Trackie McLeod to Kialy Tihngang’s explorations of colonial narratives and Gabriel Chaile’s use of Argentinean cultural traditions. From newly-commissioned works to a stunning retrospective of Elizabeth Radcliffe’s work, alongside artist residencies in our Print Studio, it promises to be a vibrant year in our beautiful galleries.Beth Bate, Director of DCA
Elizabeth Radcliffe
Sat 14 August – Sun 14 November 2027
In Summer 2027, we're excited to present a major retrospective of Scottish artist Elizabeth Radcliffe, celebrating more than four decades of her career. Practising in the classical tradition of hand weaving on a loom, Radcliffe has developed a singular body of works that serve as acts of dedication. Her weavings memorialise moments from her life, transforming familiar people, garments and everyday experiences through the remarkable investment of time and labour.
Influenced by the way garments fall and gather around the body, her tapestries explore clothing as both portraiture and material language, from early works depicting waxed motorcycle jackets to recent studies of tennis wear. Infused with a pop sensibility, Radcliffe’s synthesis of traditional craft methods and innovative techniques produces shaped and sculptural tapestries that challenge the conventional boundaries of the medium.
Gabriel Chaile
Sat 4 December 2027 – Sun 12 March 2028
For winter 2027 into 2028, we'll be showing a major solo exhibition by Argentinian artist Gabriel Chaile, whose practice explores memory, migration, identity and the transmission of histories through materials, objects and form. Chaile draws on the cultural traditions of north-west Argentina, creating anthropomorphic sculptures and installations from adobe, clay and organic materials.
Chaile’s practice brings ancestral knowledge into dialogue with contemporary experience, tracing what he describes as a “genealogy of form”: the movement of shapes and symbols across generations and geographies. His work invites us to look at objects not simply as things, but as vessels for memory and connection. His sculptures become monuments, meeting places and storytellers, offering a poetic way of considering how identities are formed, transformed and remembered across generations and geographies.
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