2024 marks Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket’s 50th birthday, which it will celebrate with a programme of Scottish, British and international art – for free – as it has been doing since 1974.

In an upcoming exhibition, Scottish sculptor Martin Boyce reworks and references the textures and forms of the built environment, his sculptures often forming poetic landscapes which merge interior and exterior spaces. Alongside his large scale, site-specific installations,?his output also encompasses the reimagining of more modest utilitarian objects. Vents, screens, telephone booths, fireplaces and lanterns are incorporated into a wider body of work imbued with the language of urbanism and punctuated with moments of unexpected tenderness and beauty. Based in Glasgow, Boyce was one of the first artists to show in the Fruitmarket’s Visions for the Future strand of programming for Scottish artists in 1999.? He represented Scotland at the 2002 Venice Biennale and won the prestigious Turner Prize in 2011.

In the summer, Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama will present a major body of new work in his first showing in Scotland. Autumn offers a rare chance to see work by the ground-breaking American sculptor and installation artist Barry Le Va, part of a generation which included Eva Hesse, Richard Serra, Bruce Nauman and Robert Morris. Holly Davie and Jill Smith close out the year, Davie with an installation which celebrates unexhibited women artists, resulting from months of research in Fruitmarket’s archive and Smith with a birthday party for Fruitmarket, the culmination of a year of ritual journeys around the zodiac.