Take a look at our Create Space opening times.
We're delighted to present We Contain Multitudes, a major new group show featuring work by Andrew Gannon, Nnena Kalu, Daisy Lafarge and Jo Longhurst.…
Join fashion and textile designer and printmaker Beca Lipscombe for a conversation with Dan Brown, DCA's Head of Exhibitions.
Sun 17 January 2027
Thu 12 November, Thu 19 November, Thu 26 November & Thu 3 December 2026
Mon 8, Mon 15, Mon 22 & Mon 29 March 2027
Tue 22 & Tue 29 September 2026
Sun 18 October 2026
Wed 21 October, Wed 28 October, Wed 4 November & Wed 11 November 2026
Tue 27 October & Tue 3 November 2026
Sat 31 October 2026
Tue 10, Tue 17 & Tue 24 November 2026
Tue 12 & Tue 19 January 2027
Sat 20 February 2027
Sat 13 & Sun 14 March 2027
Thu 10 & Thu 17 December 2026
Sat 14 November 2026
Thu 11, Thu 18 & Thu 25 March 2027
Wed 10, Wed 17, Wed 24 & Wed 31 March 2027
Family Art Labs offer relaxed time and space to get making as a family. Try out creative with activities and explore techniques presented by local artists,…
DCA is a new home for Breast Buddies Dundee.
We're delighted to present The Charm Offensive, a major new exhibition by Scottish artist France-Lise McGurn and her most significant presentation in…
Francis Dosoo will fill DCA’s gallery 1 with a new installation work which uses the 1978 film The Wiz, a reimagining of The Wizard of Oz, as a point of…
Join us for a slow-looking tour of the current exhibition with DCA’s Head of Exhibitions, Dan Brown. This guided tour will encourage a thoughtful and…
Castration Movie is a labyrinthine post-modern epic about gender from filmmaker Louise Weard. After two monolithic instalments (each of the first two…
Fri 2, Sat 3 & Sun 4 October 2026
Sat 5 December 2026
Sat 16 January 2027
Wed 13 January, Wed 20 January, Wed 27 January, Wed 3 February & Wed 10 February 2027
Sat 6 February 2027
Spend an evening in DCA galleries exploring France-Lise McGurn’s exhibition in a special drawing and collage session.
Tue 13 & Tue 20 October 2026
Sat 10 October 2026
Sat 21 November 2026
Wed 18 November, Wed 25 November & Wed 2 December 2026
Sat 28 & Sun 29 November 2026
Sat 14 & Sun 15 November 2026
Tue 2 & Tue 9 February 2027
Sun 21 February 2027
Sat 6 & Sun 7 March 2027
Messy Play sessions for September 2026
This two-part workshop takes you through practical animation activities and ideas for your class.
Celebrate the RSA200: Celebrating Together with a special programme of moving image films
This Pulitzer Prize-winning opera by Kevin Puts takes the audience directly to the battlefields of the Western Front with a star-studded cast, featuring…
Diane Keaton stars in this provocative and disturbing film from 1977
Emily Lloyd gives a breakthrough performance as Lynda, a tearaway 16 -year-old who lives on the south coast of England.
A reimagining of Jean Epstein’s groundbreaking 1929 silent drama with a new, original score performed live.Presented by Cinetopia Salon, Finis Terrae…
We are delighted to welcome Scottish musicians Andrew Wasylyk and Tommy Perman back to DCA for a very special launch event for their new album.
The international hit musical comes to the big screen! Winner of eight Tony Awards in 2019 including Best Musical and the 2020 Grammy Award for Best…
Sparkling, dizzying, and deliciously potent, Fallen Angels, Noël Coward’s champagne-fresh comedy of bad manners, shocked and delighted audiences at its…
Giant, the critically acclaimed play starring John Lithgow (The Crown) as Roald Dahl, comes to the big screen. Winner of 3 Olivier Awards including…
Part of Dundead Halloween 2026, a selection films celebrating horror, cult and weird cinema at the spookiest time of year.
Part of Dundead Halloween 2026, a selection of films celebrating horror, cult and weird cinema at the spookiest time of year.
Part of Dundead Halloween 2026.
Following its enthusiastic reception at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, we’re thrilled to bring this charming new Scottish feature to our screens.…
From the producers of Talk To Me and The Babadook, Leviticus is the striking feature debut from writer-director Adrian Chiarella, telling the story of…
Indy's first adventure is back on our screens in 4K to celebrate its 45th anniversary!Relive Harrison Ford's first turn in the fedora as Indiana Jones…
1944. In the 72 hours leading up to D-Day, all the pieces are in place except for one key element – the British weather. Britain’s chief meteorological…
Maria (Saoirse Ronan), a primary school teacher doing her best to inspire a class of 10-year-olds, is stifled by one unruly and chaotic student. With…
A raw tribute celebrating the late Scottish-Kenyan singer and songwriter Beldina Odenyo. Revealing the talent, struggles and defiance that shaped Bel’s…
A leading member of the French New Wave, who came to be regarded as the 'French Hitchcock', for many years Claude Chabrol's classic thrillers have been…
Featuring a post-film Q&A broadcast live via satellite. A night you will remember for the rest of your life.PULP: What Do You Do For An Encore?…
To celebrate the 35th anniversary of the ultimate sci-fi blockbuster that redefined action forever... Terminator 2: Judgment Day is returns to the big…
This screening will include a Q&A with the filmmakers of some of the shorts. Each short will have on with on-screen subtitles and the Q&A will…
To celebrate Tate Britain’s blockbuster Monet and Time exhibition, Exhibition on Screen is delighted to bring the iconic story of Claude Monet to cinema…
Pierre-Auguste Renoir is one of the world’s favourite artists; a founding member of the Impressionist movement and a constantly evolving artist, he is…
Sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood must leave their Sussex estate following the sudden loss of their wealthy father and are forced to move in with a…
Join us for a special Dundead screening of Hope which will be introduced by Dundead programmer Michael Coull. This epic South Korean sci-fi thriller…
This epic South Korean sci-fi thriller wowed critics at Cannes, and we're thrilled to bring you a chance to see it on the big screen.In the remote South…
Don't miss this feelgood French coming-of-age comedy, starring Louis Garrel and Camille Cottin.It's 1985. Vincent, almost 13, lives in the suburbs of…
Jonathan Glazer's mould-breaking, stylish thriller starring Ray Winstone and Ben Kingsley returns to our screens for its 25th anniversary, restored in…
DCA welcomes director Ashley Francis-Roy for a Q&A discussion after the film.Penelope & Jane: A Polar Love Story revisits Captain Scott’s legendary…
Phelim McDermott’s colorful and inventive staging of Mozart's opera, inspired by Coney Island in the 1950s, sets the uproarious story at a boardwalk amusement…
Baritone Quinn Kelsey is the Scottish king haunted by the ghosts of his murderous ascent to the throne, opposite soprano Lise Davidsen as the power-mad…
Twenty Years of the Met in Cinemas is a celebration of the Met’s two decades of onstage glory as experienced in movie theaters, featuring highlights from…
Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger charts Liam and Noel Gallagher’s triumphant reunion tour, Oasis Live ‘25, one of the most anticipated rock ‘n’ roll comebacks…
In an era of great change and great beauty emerged the character of James McNeill Whistler. Considered by some to be one of the great innovators of 19th…
Ed Saxberger (Willem Dafoe), a forgotten New York poet, works in the post office. After an eager and flattering young admirer appears on his doorstep,…
In 1977, PK, a 23-year-old Delhi street artist from a poor, ‘untouchable’ family, picked up a handful of paintbrushes and a second-hand bicycle and set off…
The surprise hit of the year makes it way to our screens for a few special screenings! Coyote vs. Acme has been the number 1 film on Letterboxd for a…
Puccini’s exhilarating drama of the Wild West returns in a new staging by Richard Jones, marking the company’s first new production of La Fanciulla del…
Superstar soprano Nadine Sierra takes on another alluring French heroine, the irresistible title character of Massenet’s passionate drama.
One of today’s leading dramatic tenors, Brian Jagde, takes on the tour-de-force title role of what many consider the ultimate Italian opera. Verdi’s…
Wagner's profound philosophical meditation on compassion and reconciliation, this transcendent rendering of a medieval knight’s heroic quest for the Holy…
Saint-Saëns’s spectacular take on the biblical hero of legendary strength and the seductive Philistine whose beauty overpowers him, returns in the Met’s…
See, think, make and do at DCA
Our infant feeding area was designed in collaboration with Dundee International Women’s Centre.
Find out what's on for families during September and download our Family Activity Calendar
Design your own tufting, create a coat of arms and more
Create your own garden, be a doodle explorer and create art while you rest with our activity sheets inspired by We Contain Multitudes.
Design your own family rug
Families takeover Gallery 1 to kick start the school holidays
As our Animating Science project with University of Dundee’s School of Life Sciences comes to an end, Dunning Primary test out new teaching resources…
Explore film characters and create your own film set
Make a leaf, design some shoes, create your own mascot and more with our activity sheets, all inspired by the exhibitions In the Forest Ruins and Portrait…
Take a look at the prints, artwork and fun created at DCA during the school holidays
Draw your own Dundee shapes and try weaving with paper
We take a look at the benefits families feel from creating art together.
Create portraits, fill your kitchen table and share a powerful message.
See what the team get up to
Exhibiting artist Zineb Sedira returns to DCA
See the animations and prints created during our ST/ART Spring School 2025.
See the results of Shibori and etching workshops as part of ST/ART Autumn School 2025
A look back at our first Baby Takeover in June 2026.
State-of-the-art facilities for printmaking, photography and digital design
We welcome groups of all ages to our Galleries, Create Space, Cinema and Print Studio throughout the year.If you are interested in bringing a group to…
Your memory lives on through a gift to DCA
Business partnerships with DCA
Curated by Katherine Murphy
Andrew Gannon, Nnena Kalu, Daisy Lafarge and Jo Longhurst.
Find out more about this project with adults and young people who are blind or partially sighted, designed to improve their experience of visiting DCA.
Join a workshop, visit the galleries and enjoy a space for lunch
Your Plinth is My Lap/The Space Between Us
Contemporary art exhibitions in our two beautiful gallery spaces
A flexible, accessible combination of spaces, with a capacity of 150.
Explore our acclaimed, welcoming civic space
Your position surrounded and your surroundings positioned
Kingspark School and Soundplay Projects create interactive art for the Alexandra Reinhardt Memorial Awards 2025-26.
DCA's Media Suite is located on Floor -1 and is the ideal space for recording podcasts, interviews and other audio content.
Dundee Climate Fund 3.0 is here and we'd love for you to vote for our project
DCA is the perfect venue for your event
Pupils from Blackness Academy create stop motion animations exploring fashion and recycled materials.
Highly equipped, flexible and licensed for up to 70 delegates.
Sensory bags are now available in our galleries
Mon 8 - Sun 14 September 2025
We're taking part in RSA200: Celebrating Together
Can't You See the Sea Changing?
Places We Think We Know
Fragments
This Mess is Kept Afloat
Installations
GANGHUT, Susanne Nørregård Nielsen, and Rob Hunter & John Louden
Straight Letters
Grönlund\Nisunen
Collections sans Frontières III
Seven Walks / Entanglement
What I Did This Summer
Turn Me Into a Flower
Soft Impressions
Explore our capsule collection of silk scarves created by local artist and designer Joanna Craig and inspired by Dundee and the Tay.
DCA Print Studio x Jerwood Residency
Our funding is at risk in Dundee City Council's budget consultation
Screen printing and Riso printing are explored in our ST/ART Autumn Schools
We take a closer look at one of our upcoming exhibitions and the exciting project behind it.
A look back at our first Stop Motion Animation Week.
Funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, We Contain Multitudes is a three-year collaborative project between DCA, Collective and Lux, working towards creating…
Every penny you give makes a difference
Hair and Body
Ghost Calls
Lenticular
Every seed is awakened
Celebrate good times or remember a loved one by naming a seat in Cinema 1.
