The GAM GI Guide: Thursday
Part one of your alternative guide to Glasgow's international art festival!
Alright everyone, gird your loins… IT’S ONE WEEK UNTIL GI!
I’m sure you’ve already had a peruse of the programme, and maybe you’ve seen our Alt- GI guide on Instagram – here is Thursday 4th June!
But just for you, our dear Substack subscribers, we are making a FULL COMBINED GI AND ALT-GI GUIDE!! This Thursday guide is going out to all of you as a little GI gift, but make sure to subscribe if you want to get the big bumper weekend edition!
So get your diaries ready, it’s going to be a busy week…
GAM xoxo
Kate Cooper, Screen Bodies, 2026.
Guide key:
🌎 = Official GI Programme
💫 = Alt–GI Programme
Thursday, 4th June
🌎 1–3pm | Plantation, Rehana Zaman | Kelvin Hall | Continues until 21 June, open daily, 10am–5pm
🌎 1–3pm | Screen Bodies, Kate Cooper | Kelvin Hall | Continues until 21 June, open daily, 10am–5pm
🌎 1–4pm | Faint Light of the World with Contradictions | Glasgow Room, The Mitchell Library | Continues until 20 June, open Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, 10am–4:30pm, and Tuesday and Thursday, 10am–7:30pm
🌎 3–4pm | Liquid Land, Jasmine Togo-Brisby | GoMA | Continues until 6 September, open Monday–Thursday and Saturday, 10am–5pm, and Friday and Sunday, 11am–5pm
🌎 3–5pm | some day this will all be crumbling ruins, David Wojnarowicz | The Modern Institute (Carlton Place) | Continues until 21 June, open 5-21 June: Monday-Friday, 11am-6pm, Saturday and Sunday, 12-5pm; 23 June-28 August: Friday, 11am-6pm, or by appointment.
🌎 4–6pm | Quiet Folds Dispersing You, Sooun Kim | Patricia Fleming (Carlton Place) Continues until 21 June, open 5th–7th June: Friday–Sunday, 10am–5pm, 8th–13th June: Monday–Saturday, 12–5pm, and 17th–21st June: Wednesday–Sunday, 12–5pm
🌎 4:30–6:30pm | Tropical Hardware, Tanoa Sasraku | The Briggait | Continues until 21 June, open Friday–Sunday, 10am–5pm
🌎 4:30–6:30pm | Flat, Renèe Helèna Browne | The Briggait | Continues until 21 June, open Friday–Sunday, 10am–5pm
Alice Brooke, Untitled, 2026 Silver gelatin print
🌎 5–7pm | Wound Duty, Alice Brooke | Mitchell Library | Continues until 19 July, open Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, 10am–4:30pm, and Tuesday and Thursday, 10am–7:30pm
💫 5–8pm | Portrait of a City, Dean Sameshima | 5b | Continues until 25 July, open Wednesday–Saturday by appointment
🌎 5–8pm | James Gladwell | Project Ability | Continues until 18 July, open 5-21 June: Monday-Sunday, 11am-6pm, and 22 June-18th July: Wednesday-Saturday, 11am-5pm
🌎 5–8pm | Painting, our mutual friend, Andrew Cranston and Lorna Robertson | Glasgow Print Studio | Continues until 1 August, open Monday–Saturday, 10am–5:30pm
🌎 5–8pm | Beneath the Ivory is Molten Brown, Aqsa Arif | Street Level Photoworks | Continues until 21 June, open daily, 10am–5:30pm
🌎 5–8pm | The delight of walking alone, Anya Paintsil | Burns Street Studios | Continues until 21 June, open 5th-7th June: Friday-Sunday, 11am-6pm, and 8th-21st June: Monday-Friday, 12-5pm, Saturday and Sunday, 11am-6pm
🌎 5–8pm | This Home, This Voice, Maryhill Integration Network, Helen McCrorie and Annabel Wright | Mackintosh Queen’s Cross | Continues until 21 June, open Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 10am–4pm, (Sunday 7th June only) 12pm–6pm, (Saturday 13th, Friday 19th, Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st June only) 11am–6pm
Photo: Torsten Lauschmann, 2026. Courtesy of Cathy Wilkes and The Modern Institute/ Toby Webster Ltd., Glasgow
🌎 5:30–7:30pm | Hitting the Lift, Victoria Morton | The Modern Institute | Continues until 5 September, open 5th-21st June: Monday-Friday, 10am-6pm, Saturday and Sunday, 12-5pm, and 23rd June-5th September: Tuesday-Friday, 11am-6pm, Saturday, 12-5pm
🌎 6–8pm | Cathy Wilkes | The Modern Institute (Aird’s Lane) | Continues until 19 August, open 5th-21st June: Monday-Friday, 10am-6pm, Saturday and Sunday, 12-5pm, and 23rd June-19th August: Tuesday-Friday, 11am-6pm, Saturday, 12-5pm
💫 6–8pm | Featured Artist: Nkem Okwechime | Glasgow Print Studio | Continues until 27 June, open Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 10am–9pm, Friday and Saturday, 10am–5:30pm
🌎 12–8pm | A moment of darkness at noon, Joanna Piotrowska | The Common Guild | Continues until 18 July, open Thursday-Saturday, 12-5pm, and by appointment, and (5th June-18th June only) Monday-Sunday, 12pm-5pm
🌎 6–8pm | A Sensation Never Yet Known, Luke Fowler | GLOSS | Continues until 18 June, open daily, 12–5pm
💫 6pm–late | I haven’t been honest with you, Emily Harling | New Glasgow Society | Continues until 5 June, open 12–5pm
🌎 8pm–12:30am | GI opening party, Salam Kitty, TAAHLIAH, Nadine Noor | The Old Fruitmarket | Book your ticket in advance here.
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