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A cartoon mole looks at himself in a mirror with glee

Discovery Family Film Club: Nature’s Resources

This event is presented in partnership with the Fashion in Film Festival and V&A Dundee, as part of the Garden Futures: Designing with Nature exhibition…
A couple in a bed perched on top of a roof at night

Take One Action Film Festival: Power Station

Join Take One Action for a screening of this inspiring documentary, followed by a galvanising post-screening conversation with local energy co-operatives…
An anime still shows a woman and two small children look at a field of flowers together

Wolf Children (4K) (English Dub)

This screening is dubbed in English - we're also showing Wolf Children in Japanese with English subtitles.For more stunning animation from director Mamoru…
An anime still shows a woman and two small children look at a field of flowers together

Wolf Children (4K) (Subtitled)

This screening is in Japanese with English subtitles - we're also showing Wolf Children dubbed in English.For more stunning animation from director Mamoru…
An animation still shows a young boy flying through a busy street in New York

Discovery Family Film Club: Phantom Boy

Léo, an 11-year-old boy with a serious illness has a secret. He can transform into a phantom boy, able to leave his body and fly and pass through walls…
An animation still shows a young boy flying through a busy street in New York

Relaxed: Phantom Boy

Léo, an 11-year-old boy with a serious illness has a secret. He can transform into a phantom boy, able to leave his body and fly and pass through walls…
A man wearing a suit and a woman in a red dress hold hands and smile on a city street.

The Life of Chuck

Winner of the Audience Award at Toronto International Film Festival. The life-affirming, genre-bending adaptation of Stephen King’s novella explores…
A man sitting on a park bench shakes hands with another man standing on the road.

Bring a Baby: The Life of Chuck

Winner of the Audience Award at Toronto International Film Festival. The life-affirming, genre-bending adaptation of Stephen King’s novella explores…
An older man sits at a wooden desk with many books behind him.

Ciné Sunday: The Life of Chuck

Winner of the Audience Award at Toronto International Film Festival. The life-affirming, genre-bending adaptation of Stephen King’s novella explores…
A man wearing a suit and glasses stands outside of a theatre with bright lights.

Senior Citizen Kane: The Life of Chuck

Winner of the Audience Award at Toronto International Film Festival. The life-affirming, genre-bending adaptation of Stephen King’s novella explores…
A woman dressed in a flapper outfit smokes a pipe, next to a man in a suit and white bowtie.

The Pleasure Garden (100th Anniversary) + Live Score

Join us in celebrating the centenary of Alfred Hitchcock’s first feature film, which will be introduced by Matthew Jarron, Curator of the University of…
A Constable painting shows a river scene with a house on a riverbank and a group of people.

Exhibition on Screen: Turner & Constable

The incredible story of Britain’s greatest landscape artists and their fierce rivalry, made in close collaboration with Tate Britain to celebrate the…
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…
A woman with a bob smokes a cigarette and looks up

Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story

In 1960, a young Irish woman named Edna O’Brien wrote a sexually frank debut novel, The Country Girls. She became a literary sensation,…
An animation still shows a group of different animals wearing suits walking through a tunnel

The Bad Guys 2

In the new action-packed chapter from DreamWorks Animation’s acclaimed comedy smash about a crackerjack crew of animal outlaws, our now-reformed Bad Guys…
A clay animation boy shares a single bed with a small monkey.

Bring a Baby: Savages (English Dub)

Claude Barras’ follow-up to his Oscar-nominated My Life as a Courgette is another vivid, gorgeously realised stop-motion animation. At the edge of…
A claymation still shows two children and a monkey sitting on rocks together holding leaves over their heads.

Savages (English Dub)

These screenings are dubbed in English - we're also showing Savages in French with English subtitles.Claude Barras’ follow-up to his Oscar-nominated My…
A claymation still shows two children and a monkey sitting on a tree in a jungle together.

Savages (Subtitled)

These screenings of Savages are in French with English subtitles - we're also showing the film dubbed in English.Claude Barras’ follow-up to his Oscar-nominated…
Two people enjoy playing a game together at Drop in and Play

Drop in and Play x DARE Academy

Drop in and Play is back for August 2025!Try out a range of new games and meet the creatives behind them at this free, drop-in event in partnership with…
Still from vintage film Toll of the Sea shows three young Chinese women in a garden

Toll of the Sea with live accompaniment by Stephen Horne

This event is presented in partnership with the Fashion in Film Festival and V&A Dundee, as part of the Garden Futures: Designing with Nature exhibition…
Teen girl with blonde hair and a beanie hat sits on a log in the forest

Media Studies Day

This year we will once again offer a day of behind-the-scenes access in the film industry and are planning a day of film-related activity for students…
Dundead programmer introduces a Dundead screening to an audience in DCA Cinema 1

Dundead

Dundee's dedicated horror film festival
Flourish Calendar pages including May with butterfly and jar design, June with landscape deisgn and July with fire works and ice lollies

Flourish group embrace 2024 by creating their own calendar

As part of our long-term partnership with Dundee International Women’s Centre (DIWC), their Flourish parenting group created their very own Riso printed…
A DCA tutor showing three children images on two spinning zoetropes

Discovery Film Festival

Sat 25 October – Sun 2 November 2025
School pupils attend Discovery Film Festival

Celebrating 20 years of Discovery Film Festival

We take a look back at the last two decades.
Person creating a backdrop for an animation using collaged paper

Animation and printmaking at ST/ART

See the animations and prints created during our ST/ART Spring School 2025.

Sharing stories through animation with ST/ART

We're delighted to share a selection of stories with you, created by participants of our spring ST/ART programme.
Close up of peosons face with a man in the background holding two cocktails

Discover more at Dundead 2025

We've made some additions to the line-up
Dunning Primary pupils test out new animation technologies.

Dunning Primary test drive new Animating Science resources

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…
Our Infant Changing Space, decorated with paintings of flowers and green walls.

A new look for our infant feeding and changing space

Our infant feeding area was designed in collaboration with Dundee International Women’s Centre.
school group raising their hands in DCA cinema seats

Discovery Film Festival 2024 Schools Programme Out Now!

Get excited for the 21st edition of Discovery Film Festival from Sat 19 October to Sun 3 November! We're thrilled to announce that this year's Schools…

Cannes Film Festival 2025

David Nixon, DCA's Head of Cinema, shares this year's must-see films
A cute cartoon monster and a fish friend from Discovery Short Films collection

Discovery Film Festival Short Films

Book handpicked short films to show in your venue
Animation still – two boys looking around a garden – one of the boys is glowing from within, his skin lit up warmly

Discovery Film Festival 2024

Sat 19 October – Sun 3 November
School pupils holding their hands up in DCA Cinema

Schools Programme

Bring your class to Discovery Film Festival
Audience on stage at Dundead 2025

Haunted by Dundead

A look back our our 2025 Dundead horror film festival.
An architectural model of a building made out of wood.

Grey Gardens

Festival of Architecture
Two children painting in Create Space

Resources

Free resources to download and print
Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024 Dundee Contemporary Arts Shortlisted. See all five venues with a National Art Pass #MuseumOfTheYear

We’ve been shortlisted for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024 🎉

We’re thrilled to let you know that DCA has been shortlisted for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024, the world’s largest museum prize. The news has just…
A billboard image with a black background. Ib a red wiggle shape at the centre, in mostly yellow text reads: Are there more naked women than women artists in UK museums?. In smaller great text underneath in a stencil font reads: Visit your favourite museum, count 'em up & let the Guerrilla Girls know!. The rest of the image consists of framed art historical paintings as though in a salon hang, highly packed close together in different sizes and formats. They all show naked women. To the left is the kneeling marble sculpture of a woman, with the figures head collaged as a gorilla mask.

Art Night: Guerrilla Girls

The Male Graze
a white gallery space with colourful tuftings on the wall and bright mural in the centre

Claudia Martínez Garay

Every seed is awakened
DCA Galleries during Trisha Baga's exhibition. An apparently chaotic landscape, bathed in blue light, using objects found in charity shops and household goods.

Trisha Baga

Holiday

Delivery and Returns

Online Shop Delivery and ReturnsAll our Online Shop deliveries are sent by either tracked courier or Royal Mail. When the shipment is ready we will contact…
A wide shot of DCA Galleries during Somewhere Everywhere Nowhere. Canvases are hanging on the wall.

Somewhere Everywhere Nowhere

Collections sans Frontières III

Image shows visitors watching a film in the gallery projected over large screens to the left and centre of the photograph. The film shows a landscape with a green glowing swamp and trees.

Kelly Richardson

The Weather Makers
Hand coming out of the ground holding a can of Dundead IPA by Holy Goat

Introducing Dundead IPA with Holy Goat

We've partnered with local brewery Holy Goat for a limited-edition beer.
DCA Team infront of Art Fun Museum of the Year Background

Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024

We share more about our experience as a finalist for the largest museum prize in the world
Museums+Heritage Awards Shortlisted 2025 logo

We've been nominated for Shop of the Year

Five reasons why DCA Shop has been shortlisted at the Museums + Heritage Awards 2025
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
Michelle Williams Gamaker: Our Mountains Are Painted On Glass at the South London Gallery, 2023. Installation photography by Jo Underhill.

Michelle Williams Gamaker

Our Mountains are Painted on Glass
For Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen's exhibition at DCA, seats face a projection. On the projection, a video plays of a child. The child says in subtitles 'Me, I fear nothing'.

Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen

From the Edge
From IC-98' exhibition. A projection shows a monochrome, hand-drawn image of a ruined building with Greek columns. The building is surrounded by trees.

IC-98

Drawn into Tomorrow
A claymation still shows two children and a monkey sitting on rocks together holding leaves over their heads.

New in cinema from Fri 8 August

Late Shift, Savages, Weapons...there's something for everyone this week

Images from David Shrigley's exhibition in DCA Galleries. A small statue of a man, and a headless cat. On the walls, there are canvases with graffiti slogans written on them.

David Shrigley

David Shrigley
Collage of stills from Elio and images of children in the cinema and doing creative activities

Summer Holidays at DCA

Join us for family films, free creative activities, and more during the school holidays.
A hanging artwork on the right hand side of the image has watercolour figures and writing. To the left of the image can be seen another hanging work strung across the gallery. On a small wooden plinth to the left hand side of the image is a textile work.

Emma Talbot

Ghost Calls
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,…

Exhibitions programme 2024-25

Explore our 2024-25 programme.

Vote for our Community Greenspace

Dundee Climate Fund 3.0 is here and we'd love for you to vote for our project
A gallery full of dark blue light, with a film projected on a wall showing a figure lying on its back with a cloud of insects above it.

Gallery

Contemporary art exhibitions in our two beautiful gallery spaces
Two customers browse in DCA Shop.

Shop

Open Mon-Sun, 10:00-17:30
Postcard size illustrations on a white wall show the storyboard from Theresa Duncan's video game 'Chop Suey'. The drawings are colourful and drawn with a computer.

Theresa Duncan

CD-ROMS
Eddo Stern's exhibition in DCA Galleries. Two large projectors show a painted image of clouds and mountains. An illuminated sculpture of a deck of cards is in front of the projector.

Eddo Stern

Small Wars
From Martin Boyce's exhibition in DCA Galleries. A triangular, black light feature hangs in the centre of the room. One of the walls is red.

Martin Boyce

No Reflections
A black and white image of sheets of paper lying on the floor. In front, in red text, it say 'The Associates'

The Associates

Steven Cairns, Raydale Dower, Katy Dove, Luke Fowler, Fiona Jardine, Kevin Hutcheson, Graham Little, Lucy McKenzie, Duncan Marquiss, The Lonely Piper…
DCA Gallerie during Pale Carnage. There are eclectic statues and painting - a silhouette of a head on a plinth, a little drummer boy model, and black graffiti on the walls.

Pale Carnage

Nobuyoshi Araki, Athanasios Argianas, Ulla von Brandenburg, Tom Burr, Gillian Carnegie, Steven Claydon, Cerith Wyn Evans, Lothar Hempel, Mark Leckey,…
DCA Galleries during Ahlam Shibli's exhibition. The gallery is brightly lit, and medium-sized black-and-white photographs are on the walls. There is a bench in the middle of the room.

Ahlam Shibli

Ahlam Shibli
A selection of images from Ill Communication at DCA. A large, square structure is made out of wood and black plastic. An installation is made out of white balloons. A large, run-on, nonsensical sentence is typed on the gallery walls.

Ill Communication

Jeremy Deller, Chris Evans, Liam Gillick, Jenny Holzer, Laura Horelli, Alan Kane, On Kawara, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Aleksandra Mir, Philippe Parreno
DCA Galleries during Christine Borland's exhibition - the galleries are dark, with large screens with blue projections of jellyfish on them.

Christine Borland

What makes for the fullness and perfection of life, for beauty and happiness, is good...
In DCA Galleries, there are two metallic, rocket shaped objects sitting in the middle of the room.

Olafur Eliasson

Your position surrounded and your surroundings positioned
An audience of people clap

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Three image from Plunder at DCA. The first is a television screen showing an explosion. The second is a mural made out of LP records, with crying eyes in the middle. The third is an abstract painting with the word 'Bacon' written on it.

Plunder

Various artists
Cinema 1. The chairs are blue and there is a cinema screen at the front.

Discovery Young Programmers 2025

Age 15–19 and interested in film? Apply to join our exciting summer programme!
Dundead screenprints featuring an eye in blue

Designing Dundead 2025

Q&A with Dundead 2025 illustrator Katriona Gillon

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…
A large mural in beige, white, black and red as part of Hideyuki Katsumata's exhibition. The mural is of a man, who is massive and is wearing a strange costume made up of eyes and faces.

Hideyuki Katsumata

USO de HONTOU
colourful seats in DCA cinema

Films we're looking forward to in 2025

We asked the DCA Cinema team about the most intriguing films to watch out for this year…
A woman looks at a child with a bald head through a window.

Get ready for summer scares

Band-new horror and vintage terror coming to our screen this August.
colourful seats in DCA cinema

Cinema

Bringing you new releases, vintage favourites and indie gems from around the world
Heather Phillipson's exhibition - a large pink circular structure sits in DCA Galleries. It is sitting on a floor covered in green paint, and there are green paint splotches on the walls. Behind the structure, is a large printed photograph of a blue sky with a green field. There is a cut-out photograph of a green tree with red flowers in front of the pink structure, and two large cut-out photographs of worms.

Heather Phillipson

sub-fusc love-feast
From George Barber's exhibition at DCA. A screen displays a psychedelic, pink, orange and blue pattern with a kite-like red shape on it.

Discovery Exhibition: The Long Commute / Arcade

George Barber and Jaygo Bloom
DCA Galleries during Peacocks Among The Ruins exhibition. Black shadows of birds are painted on the walls. Painted strips of wallpaper lean against the walls. There are lampshades with intricate patterns on the inside.

Peacocks Among The Ruins

Co-curated by Timorous Beasties
A wide shot of DCA Gallery with Katy Dove's exhibition. The gallery is dimly lit, with two, large bright projections showing abstract, round patterns in multiple colours.

Katy Dove

A memorial exhibition