Friday 27 May - Sunday 21 August 2011

11:00am - 5:00pm: FREE

Venues: CCA 1 / CCA 2 / CCA 3 / CCA 4 (cinema) / CCA 5 / Intermedia Gallery also at the Gallery of Modern Art and Tramway.

Every Tuesday across all three venues: Centre for Contemporary Arts, 1pm, 350 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3JD
Tramway, 3pm
Gallery of Modern Art, 6pm, Royal Exchange Square, Glasgow, Lanarkshire G13AH
Tramway,25 Albert Drive, Glasgow, Lanarkshire G41 2PE

"... the best British Art Show I've seen... " Adrian Searle, The Guardian

The British Art Show is widely recognised as the most ambitious and influential exhibition of contemporary British art in the UK. Now in its seventh incarnation, this will be the first time it has come to Glasgow since 1990.

British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet takes as its motif the idea of the comet as a harbinger of change, a measure of time and a marker of historical recurrence.

"We are interested in the recurrent nature of the comet as a symbol of how each version of the present collides with the past and the future, and the work of the artists... in many different ways, contest assumptions of how 'the now' might be understood." Lisa Le Feuvre and Tom Morton, Curators

The exhibition encompasses paintings, sculpture, installations, video, film and performance by 39 artists and artists' groups. Many have made works especially for the exhibition and eight artists have been invited to present their work in a programme of one-off performances and screenings.

CCA will present works by Becky Beasley, Alasdair Gray, Christian Marclay, Simon Martin, Nathaniel Mellors, The Otolith Group, Mick Peter, Edgar Schmitz, Wolfgang Tillmans, Phoebe Unwin, Anja Kirschner & David Panos and a performance by Tris Vonna-Michell. Highlights include the UK premiere of The Otolith Group's Hydra Decapita and a 24 hour screening of Marclay's The Clock.

For details of tours, performances, screenings and events across the exhibition please visit www.britishartshow.co.uk

EXHIBITION TOURS Free tours will run throughout the exhibition. No booking is necessary but places are limited and issued on a first come first served basis.