Opening Hours: Tue-Sat: 11am-12midnight, Sun-Mon: Closed

A dark skinned man stands in the centre of a leafy path. He is holding a black and white framed portrait of a woman.

Exhibitions

Tuan Andrew Nguyen

All That We Are Is What We Hold In Our Outstretched Hands

Sat 11 February — Sat 25 March 2023

Find out more →

CCA: Centre for Contemporary Arts is a unique contemporary arts organisation in Glasgow. We host a year-round programme of exhibitions, events, films, music, literature, workshops, festivals and performances.

A gallery space with a colourful projection on one wall. There is a grand piano within the space.

Exhibitions

Explore CCA's past exhibitions from our core programme and Intermedia gallery.

Exhibition archive →
Photographed from above, an audience watch a band playing on a stage in the CCA atrium

Open Source Programming

CCA’s open-source programming strand is a citizen-led process, and means that we share our building and resources with a range of artists, individuals and organisations.

→
A photograph of a dry valley taken in Bethlehem

Confluence

Confluence is a 1-year residency and research programme taking place between Marrakech and Glasgow

→

What's On

All upcoming events →

Film

Glasgow Short Film Festival

Glasgow Short Film Festival

Wed 22 March — Sun 26 March 2023

A black femme person wearing a stylish all white outfit, reminiscent of a cropped suit, walking through a forest.

Festival

BUZZCUT Festival

(A Kind Of) Requiem // Lulu Obermayer

Fri 31 March 2023

4:00pm - 12:00am

Festival

BUZZCUT Festival

7th Solicitor // HUSS

Fri 31 March 2023

7:00pm - 10:00pm

HUSS wearing a black body covering crouched on a table on a cord phone. There is a single lamp lighting the scene.

Festival

BUZZCUT Festival

BUZZCUT Festival 2023

Fri 31 March 2023

4:00pm - 12:00am

Festival

BUZZCUT Festival

Everyone Spits Chicken Bones // April Lin 林森

Fri 31 March 2023

7:30pm - 8:15pm

April Lin a non binary East Asian person with green dyed hair, wearing streetwear and are crouched on a grassy field

Festival

BUZZCUT Festival

Conversations In Clay // Rosie Priest

Fri 31 March 2023

4:00pm - 9:00pm

A close up of someone creating a figurine of a cat out of clay.

Festival

BUZZCUT Festival

Benched // Tink Flaherty

Fri 31 March 2023

5:00pm - 4:00pm

A composite photo of people standing around Tink laying on a bench in a public space.
A vivid photograph of a brightly lit exterior of the three storey CCA building against a deep blue night sky

Plan your visit

CCA is located in the heart of Glasgow city centre, on Sauchiehall Street, next to the Dental Hospital.

Visit Us →
An outdoor public garden, with a large robot at the back and daffodils at the front of the image.

Glasgow Seed Library

Glasgow Seed Library is a collection of seeds and a community of growers. The library stocks organic and open-pollinated vegetable, herb and flower seeds for everyone to borrow, grow and save. By learning to save and share seed locally, we can nurture unique varieties and adapt our plants to a changing Scottish climate.

Find out more →
A stack of magazines lie on a gallery floor with a deep red light from overhead.

CCA Annex

CCA's online project space serves as a digital extension to the physical galleries in our Sauchiehall Street building.

Find out more →

Saramago Café Bar

Saramago Café Bar serves fresh, tasty food, delicious drinks and home-baked bread and cakes.

Menus and booking info →
A photograph of Aye-Aye Books, featuring bookshelves and a large display table in the middle of the space.

Aye-Aye Books

Aye-Aye Books has all you need to keep up to date with current developments in art, and much more. Books from independent publishers around the world sit alongside an unrivalled selection of publications by and about today’s Scottish artists, limited edition artists’ books, cultural and critical theory, fiction and poetry, magazines and journals, radical books, sound art, music, and world cinema DVDs.

Find out more →
An image of the Welcome Home shop with grey shelves covered in cards, jewellery and other items.

Welcome Home

Welcome Home is situated in the CCA foyer and provides a showcase and creative retail space for craft, design and illustration. Focused on making design and craft accessible to all, it provides an evolving space for new designers and members of the public to create, learn and educate with a programme of workshops and events as well as the retail platform. Welcome Home is a place to shop for inspiration as well as great products that are handmade, well designed, useful, beautiful or all of the above.

Find out more →

Accessibility Guide

Welcome to our Accessibility Guide. We aim to make the building as accessible as possible but if you feel that you might need some additional help, please get in touch or ask a member of staff on arrival.

Find out more →

CCA Venue Map

CCA's building has many resources and functions. Explore each floor of the CCA in our venue map.

Find out more →

Opportunities for Artists

All the latest open calls and opportunities at CCA.

Find out more →