Dundee Contemporary Arts

Dundee Contemporary Arts Dundee Contemporary Arts is a world-class centre for the development and exhibition of contemporary art and culture.
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DCA is home to galleries, cinemas, a print studio, shop, activity room, café bar & restaurant, and we play host to many festivals and events throughout the year.

June is packed with fun family activity at DCA! Coming up this month:🏞️ Discovery Family Film Club - The Mountain is per...
31/05/2026

June is packed with fun family activity at DCA! Coming up this month:

🏞️ Discovery Family Film Club - The Mountain is perfect for older children and we have a Relaxed screening too.

👶 Baby Takeover - a day of activities to celebrate Scottish Breast Feeding Week and Infant Mental Health Awareness Week.

🖼️ Bring a Baby Gallery Tour - explore Adrián Balseca: In the Forest Ruins and Francis Dosoo: Portrait of Dorothy Gale with your wee one.

🎶 Play Festival - drop-in events and Soundplay sessions as part of Dundee Play Festival.

🎨 Family Art Lab - create together as a family with activities and techniques presented by local artists.

🫟 Messy Play for 0-3s - enjoy an art activity and a sensory play activity and don't worry about making a mess.

🖍️ Create Space - drop-in to this flexible, comfortable and imaginative space where you can see our Make Now, Think Later! display.

🚀 Toy Story 5 - the toys are back in town for another big screen adventure. Tickets on sale soon.

Download our Family Activity Calendar to keep track: https://tinyurl.com/4yp7u2hw

Donate What You Can (£0-£8) tickets for Family Art Lab and Messy Play will be available from 10:00 on Mon 1 June. Be quick - these go fast!

We're absolutely loving the comments cards on the helloDCA board in our Info Space - please let us know what you thought...
31/05/2026

We're absolutely loving the comments cards on the helloDCA board in our Info Space - please let us know what you thought of the exhibitions, draw your best Bibendum, Diana Ross or whatever the exhibitions inspire!

🪴Adrián Balseca: In the Forest Ruins is in Gallery 2
🎥Francis Dosoo: Portrait of Dorothy Gale is in Gallery 1
🎟 Free and drop-in
📅Tue-Sun
🕚11am-6pm

30/05/2026

"We're just asking to walk…" Check out powerful new documentary Our Land, following Right to Roam activists in England as they demand greater access to the countryside: www.dca.org.uk/events/Bo2-our-land

Our screening on Wed 3 June will also include a recorded Q&A with director Orban Wallace, Right to Roam campaigners, and landowners. 🌳

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Adrián Balseca: In the Forest Ruins is a major exhibition of newly commissioned print, sculpture and moving image works....
30/05/2026

Adrián Balseca: In the Forest Ruins is a major exhibition of newly commissioned print, sculpture and moving image works. This is the first time the Ecuadorian artist has exhibited in Scotland.

See the installation in DCA Gallery 2 until Sun 2 August

Free and drop-in
Tue-Sun, 11am - 6pm (7pm on Thu)

Photos by Ruth Clark

Create Space is open from 11:00 to 18:00 today.Drop-in to try creative activities and see Make Now, Think Later!, a disp...
30/05/2026

Create Space is open from 11:00 to 18:00 today.

Drop-in to try creative activities and see Make Now, Think Later!, a display of work produced as part of the Alexandra Reinhardt Memorial Awards (ARMA) 2025-26.

It includes this wonderful window piece: The Baked Apples vs The Toxic Pears by Tony Wade, created with children and young people in north Lincolnshire.

Find out more: https://tinyurl.com/ycx58uf6

ARMA is a programme developed by Engage, the National Association for Gallery Education. The Awards were initiated and funded by the Max Reinhardt Charitable Trust.

Heading along to the Degree Show this weekend? (and you really should, as always there is an incredible wealth of talen...
29/05/2026

Heading along to the Degree Show this weekend? (and you really should, as always there is an incredible wealth of talent on show!)

Be sure to catch this year's DCA Award winner, Kirsty Scott with her installation To the Moon. Kirsty's work impressed the DCA Exhibitions team, who called it sophisticated, beautiful, unfamiliar, and deeply meaningful.

Huge congratulations to Kirsty, and to all the students on an impressive degree show! On until Sun 31 May.

Newly commissioned by DCA, Edinburgh born artist Francis Dosoo's Portrait of Dorothy Gale is an immersive moving-image i...
29/05/2026

Newly commissioned by DCA, Edinburgh born artist Francis Dosoo's Portrait of Dorothy Gale is an immersive moving-image installation spread across multiple surfaces in Gallery 1.

Free and drop-in
11am-6pm Tue-Sun (7pm on Thu)

Photos by Ruth Clark.

Check out all these fantastic new films and more this week at DCA! We've got comfy seats, great value tickets and the be...
29/05/2026

Check out all these fantastic new films and more this week at DCA! We've got comfy seats, great value tickets and the best café bar in town. Come with friends or treat yourself to a solo cinema trip – everyone's welcome!

Find out more and book tickets now: www.dca.org.uk/news/new-films-from-fri-29-may 🎬

28/05/2026

We're welcoming Soundplay Projects back to DCA as part of Dundee Play Festival!

Our session for 0-5s is sold out but we have spots available at our session for ages 5+. Come along and have fun with sound and light. https://tinyurl.com/2yyrdmu8

🎻RSNO Mini Concert We're excited that the will be performing a special mini-concert in our galleries amongst the work i...
28/05/2026

🎻RSNO Mini Concert

We're excited that the will be performing a special mini-concert in our galleries amongst the work in Adrián Balseca: In the Forest Ruin as part of their series of pop-up concerts!

📅 Friday 29 May
🕚11am
🎟 Free and drop-in

Enjoy the Sounds of the Orchestra for around 30 minutes surrounded by Adrián Balseca's incredible work, a perfect Friday mid-morning treat.

Images: 1.) Adrián Balsera: In the Forest Ruins by Erika Stevenson ( ) 2.) Associate Principal Second Violin Marion Wilson. Photo by Sally Jubb

Address

152 Nethergate
Dundee
DD14DY

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 12am
Tuesday 10am - 12am
Wednesday 10am - 12am
Thursday 10am - 11pm
Friday 10am - 12am
Saturday 10am - 12am
Sunday 10am - 12am

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