3rd Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Visual Art, April 11th - 27th

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Home is where the art is for festival

February 12, 2008 -- Scottish Turner Prize winner Douglas Gordon is turning his Glasgow house into an art gallery as one of 30 venues for the city's contemporary art festival.

Adel Abdessemed, an Algerian artist, will stage his first solo UK exhibition in a ground-floor room in Woodland's Terrace.

The programme for the third Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Visual Art (Gi) was unveiled yesterday. It ranges from the city's own prize-winning artists to visitors from Poland, North America and China.

The biennial festival opens on 11 April across the city, with some exhibitions running to the summer. It is themed on "public and private".

It reaches across the spectrum of the city's vibrant art scene, said Francis McKee, the curator of Gi.

The show in Gordon's house will mix the domestic with a gallery atmosphere. "Basically he has offered the bottom floor of his house as an exhibition space," Mr McKee said.

The festival is showcasing new work from Glasgow artists including the Turner Prize winner Simon Starling and Turner nominee Jim Lambie.

Lambie's work, Forever Changes, in Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art, will see the whole ground-floor gallery covered with black and white tape in one of his trademark works.

A surprise appearance is the Lanark author and artist Alasdair Gray, 73, alongside much younger contemporary artists. The Sorcha Dallas Gallery is showing, for the first time, Gray's art work for a 1970s BBC television film that was never completed.

Other exhibitions include three young Chinese artists in the Mackintosh Gallery at the Glasgow School of Art, and work by Wilhelm Sasnal, a rising Polish artist.

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Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Visual Art