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Two hands holding a black and white film strip

Black and White Photography: Darkroom for Beginners

Sat 20 & Sun 21 September
Black and white photograph of a rocky shore

Photography Forum

Last Saturday of every month
A black and white photo shows a group of children in 1900s dresses walking down a dirt path.

The White Ribbon

Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth. – Michael HanekeJoin us this August for Complicit:…
Chemigram with yellow circles and black details

Kitchen Darkroom Photography

Sat 6 September
Person holding a digital camera and looking at the screen on the back of it which shows an image of a flower

Introduction to Digital Photography

Sat 30 & Sun 31 August
Jeremy Allen White wearing a leather jacket as Bruce Springsteen.

Deliver Me From Nowhere

Delve into the life of one of the USA's most influential rock stars with Deliver Me From Nowhere, the highly anticipated Bruce Springsteen biopic which…
Wood engraving of a squirrel

Wood Engraving

Tue 9 September, Tue 16 September, Tue 23 September & Tue 30 September
Man on a boat faces a huge shark in the water

Jaws (50th Anniversary)

The original summer blockbuster is back on the big screen to mark its 50th anniversary. When a giant white shark fatally attacks swimmers on the…
A man watches flames from an oil well.

There Will Be Blood (35mm)

To celebrate the release of Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another on Fri 26 September, we’re screening three of his biggest and boldest films…
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…
Two men stand opposite each other, looking at one another.

NT Live: The Fifth Step

Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Dunkirk) is joined by Emmy and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, The Responder) in the critically…
Matt Smith and Austin Butler walk along a street with a mysterious bag

Caught Stealing

From Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan, The Whale) comes this crime thriller starring Austin Butler, Matt Smith, Zoë Kravitz, and Bad Bunny, with…
Two girls in white dresses stand looking forlornly at the camera in what a appears to be a home party scene

Dogtooth 4K (Re-Release)

With Yorgos Lanthimos’ next feature Bugonia coming out next month, revisit his pitch-black comedy debut feature back on the big screen. Graceful,…
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.

Privacy Policy

Last updated Thu 21 September 2023We at Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) are committed to maintaining your privacy and looking after the personal information…
Director Bong Joon Ho stands on a snowy set near a camera, directing his crew

Why we love… director Bong Joon-ho

Get excited for Mickey 17 at DCA!
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

An older man sits at a wooden desk with many books behind him.

New films from Fri 22 August

See what's on including The Life of Chuck, Eddington, Materialists 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
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.
An architectural model of a building made out of wood.

Grey Gardens

Festival of Architecture
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
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

View of inks on a shelf in DCA Print Studio

Get Creative in DCA Print Studio: July - September 2025

Upcoming courses and workshops
Three large freestanding photographs of rock formations displayed in the gallery.

Zineb Sedira

Can't You See the Sea Changing?
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
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 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
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
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