Shows at Fruitmarket

The Masquerade

A mischievous masquerade lives in Jj’s stomach, uncovering dreams and destinies too affirming to be contained. DJ ALADJI pulses live from the heart, sending out Afrobeat, revolutionary poetry and future beats. Everything uncovered demands to be seen. Beaded coral curtains form the body's guts, while a large eye give a glimpse of the outside world. Club ritual merges with mythic storytelling to explore how indigenous spirituality can be practised in the modern day. You could find a home in this archive of dance, costume, and self-acceptance, all technologies to connect with hidden histories in our lineages. MadeInScotlandShowcase.com

Fruitmarket • 18 Aug 2026 - 21 Aug 2026

Eva Rothschild: The Void Presses The Wall

Eva Rothschild is one of the most significant sculptors of her generation. Her visual vocabulary incorporates enduring forms of classical architecture with a clarity of intent reminiscent of 20th-century minimalist sculpture, but with a singular approach to colour, materials and site. Hers are sculptures born of the city and redolent of the urban landscape. Some of her works – cast or constructed in bronze, plaster and steel – are supported on plinths; they ‘behave’ like sculptures ‘should’. Others stretch, twist, balance, or form whole environments that the viewer must navigate.

Fruitmarket • 3 Aug 2026 - 31 Aug 2026

Rat Tails (WIP)

Jeremy McClain (Pose on BBC/FX) stars in Rat Tails, a new one-man show directed by Matt McBrier. Set in an NHS maternity ward waiting room, Jasper – a neurotic, gay, American model agent – anxiously awaits the arrival of his baby. As he muses on his childhood and everything that got him to this moment, we follow this Southern-bred, Prozac-popping, biracial millennial who’s married into a wealthy, British aristocratic family as he explores themes of intergenerational trauma, mental health, gay culture, and class in this poignant and funny exploration of impending fatherhood.

Fruitmarket • 1 Aug 2024 - 18 Aug 2024

Ibrahim Mahama: Songs About Roses

The first-ever solo exhibition in Scotland of the work of Ibrahim Mahama: a Ghanaian artist acclaimed for his evocative large-scale, site-specific installations that address the cultural and social effects of postcolonialism and global migration. For Fruitmarket, Mahama is making a brand-new body of work inspired by the gallery's unique physical location, supported on columns above Waverley railway station. This proximity to – and dependence on – the railway is the starting point for large-scale drawings, sculpture and installations referencing his own interest in and using material from the now defunct colonial-era railway of Ghana.

Fruitmarket • 1 Aug 2024 - 26 Aug 2024