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Person holding up photographic negatives

Black and White Photography: Darkroom for Beginners

Sat 21 & Sun 22 March 2026
Black and white photograph of a rocky shore

Photography Forum

Last Saturday of every month (excluding December / runs on Sat 24 in January 2026)
Two men and two women in festive red costumes, singing in a snowy scene

White Christmas

We’re also screening a sing-a-long version with lyrics on screen on Sun 21 December.Singers Bob Wallace (Bing Crosby) and Phil Davis (Danny Kaye) join…
4 people do the conga and sing. They are all wearing red clothes with white fluffy trims. It is snowing in the background.

White Christmas (Sing-A-Long)

Join us for this special sing-a-long version of the Christmas classic with lyrics on screen. We're also showing a regular screening without lyrics on…
Black and white chemigram with a heart shape

Kitchen Darkroom Photography

Sun 8 March 2026
Person smiling a they take a picture with a digital camer

Introduction to Digital Photography

Sat 21 & Sun 22 February 2026
Selection of wood blocks engraved with different designs

Wood Engraving

Thu 5, Thu 12, Thu 19 & Thu 26 February 2026
A black-and-white film still shows a man wearing a suit and a hat and a woman with a short haircut walking down a Paris street in the 1960s.

Nouvelle Vague

Richard Linklater (Boyhood) writes a love letter to French cinema in Nouvelle Vague, a delightful black-and-white tribute to the development of Jean-Luc…
An elderly man and two women sit in a traditional Japanese house

Teki Cometh

Screening as part of the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2026. This title of this year's programme is Knowing Me, Knowing You: The True Self in…
A man looks at a woman who is tipping her head back and looking at the sun

Lauren Gault Artist’s Choice Shorts Programme

Join us for a selection of short films selected by artist Lauren Gault. Gault's exhibition, bone stone voice alone, is on display in DCA Galleries until…
Three people looking at examples of prints created in DCA Print Studio

Introduction to Printmaking

Sat 10 January 2026
A multicoloured painting hung on a white wall. colours bleed into each other in the painting

We Contain Multitudes

A group show featuring work by Andrew Gannon, Daisy Lafarge, Jo Longhurst and Nnena Kalu. Across textiles, photography, sculpture and drawing, the exhibition…
Person doing mezzotint printing in DCA Print Studio

Mezzotint

Sat 31 January 2026
A group of people choose paints in DCA Print Studio.

Print Studio

State-of-the-art facilities for printmaking, photography and digital design
An image from Santiago Sierra's exhibition Black Flag shows black and white photography in black frames on white walls.

Santiago Sierra

Black Flag
Paper with coloured in objects that can be found in the kitchen

Activity Sheets Inspired by Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood

Create portraits, fill your kitchen table and share a powerful message.

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Last updated Thu 21 September 2023We at Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) are committed to maintaining your privacy and looking after the personal information…
From the Ellipsis exhibition. A row of 14 televisions each display blurry black-and-white images.

Ellipsis

Chantal Akerman, Lili Dujourie and Francesca Woodman

An installation view of the exhibition, showing the film on a screen in front of the red seating area. The gallery walls are mottled green.

Saoirse Amira Anis

symphony for a fraying body

Two blue humanoid aliens wearing jewellery stand next to each other.

New films from Fri 19 December

See what's on including Avatar: Fire and Ash, Christmas films, I Swear and more.
A work from Ernesto Neto - white netting is stretched out across a gallery. It is semi-transparent and people can be seen walking through it.

Ernesto Neto

Ernesto Neto
Three large freestanding photographs of rock formations displayed in the gallery.

Zineb Sedira

Can't You See the Sea Changing?
Zineb Sedira working on a silk screen in DCA Print Studio

Experimenting with Print: Zineb Sedira in DCA Print Studio

Exhibiting artist Zineb Sedira returns to DCA

An architectural model of a building made out of wood.

Grey Gardens

Festival of Architecture
Selected images from Behind Closed Doors at DCA Galleries. One image shows tables with pictures on them. There is also a large framed abstract painting with pink and black in it. In another image, lights hang from the ceiling, along with flat-screen televisions with black-and-white pictures of buildings on them. In another image, there is a framed picture of foliage and buildings. Through a door, a dark image of an industrial building can be seen.

Behind Closed Doors

Monica Bonvicini, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Candida Höfer, Hiraki Sawa, Sean Snyder, Vangelis Vlahos, Amelie von Wulffen, Jane & Louise Wilson.
A colourful stall covered in t-shirts with slogans written on them.

Here + Now

Scottish Art 1990 - 2001
DCA Galleries during the Trauma exhibition. People walk around the galleries, looking at sculptures and canvases on the walls.

Trauma

Martin Boyce, Willie Doherty, Kendell Geers, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Johan Grimonprez, Guillermo Kuitca, Maria Lindberg, Tracey Moffatt, Lucia Nogueira,…
DCA Galleries during Beyond / Photographs - there are white, geometric cubes and shapes on the gallery floors. There is a large brown mural on the white walls.

Beyond / Photographs

Lolly Batty, Luke Fowler, Robert Orchardson, Toby Paterson, Clare Stephenson and Clare Woods / Sophy Rickett
a pink gallery space with paintings prints and photos on the rear wall. In the foreground a small girls uniform and a silk banner

Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood 

Curated by Hettie Judah with Hayward Gallery Touring
A multicoloured painting hung on a white wall. colours bleed into each other in the painting

We Contain Multitudes

We take a closer look at one of our upcoming exhibitions and the exciting project behind it.
People looking at shelves of ink in DCA Print Studio

Get Creative in DCA Print Studio: October 2025 - March 2026

Book now for our autumn/winter Print Studio classes.

This image shows a dark gallery with a video projection. In the film we can see a young person stood behind a bar, with two empty chairs pulled up on the other side.

Chikako Yamashiro

Chinbin Western
A close-up shot of 3 t-shirts which hang on a rack in DCA Galleries as part of 'Spring / Summer 2015' exhibition. They are neon and have pictures of Maripol on them.

Maripol, Clare Stephenson and Zoe Williams

Spring / Summer 2015
A film photograph image with a black background shows interlinked hands and arms, holding each other, as if knotted together. The image is slightly blurred.

Matthew Arthur Williams

Soon Come

A photograph of a two channel video installation, with two screens leaned on the floor against a dark orange wall. On the screens can be seen a close up of some rough red rocks. To the left of the image, a black 1980s style radio sits on a white shelf at waist level.

Tako Taal

At the shore, everything touches
Installation image showing a vibrantly painted wall, in orange and fiery tones, at the end of gallery two. To the left an artwork consisting of sewn patchwork denim pieces hang in a grid is suspended from the ceiling. To the back right we can see two vitrines with apexes.

Seized by the Left Hand

Curated by Eoin Dara and Kim McAleese