Collective was established in 1984 to support new and emergent artists exhibit their work in Edinburgh and has been fundamental to the cultural vitality of Scotland. Now Collective commissions new work by artists who are at a pivotal stage in their development.
Collective invite a wide audience to engage with new contemporary art through our ambitious programme of exhibitions, commissions, participatory and off-site projects. This includes our Satellites Programme, Observers Walks, All Sided Games and events.
Our programme presents contemporary art in all its diversity. We create a space for dialogue with current developments and debates contextualising them to make them relevant to our site, artists and audiences.
Over the next two years, Collective will be making the City Observatory complex its new home, opening the whole site to the public for the first time, placing contemporary art in the heart of Edinburgh.
