{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-article-js","path":"/dundees-cooper-gallery-threatened-with-closure/","result":{"data":{"wordpressPost":{"id":123553,"slug":"dundees-cooper-gallery-threatened-with-closure","title":"Dundee’s Cooper Gallery threatened with closure","excerpt":"Threat comes amidst a crisis in Scottish art","content":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://backend.artreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/11-Infiinty-Minus-Infinity-Photo-courtesy-Cooper-Gallery-1230x923.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of people watching a film in a darkened room. On screen a woman is framed by a red horizontal 8-shape\" class=\"wp-image-123554\" srcset=\"https://backend.artreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/11-Infiinty-Minus-Infinity-Photo-courtesy-Cooper-Gallery-1230x923.jpg 1230w, https://backend.artreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/11-Infiinty-Minus-Infinity-Photo-courtesy-Cooper-Gallery-600x450.jpg 600w, https://backend.artreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/11-Infiinty-Minus-Infinity-Photo-courtesy-Cooper-Gallery-300x225.jpg 300w, https://backend.artreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/11-Infiinty-Minus-Infinity-Photo-courtesy-Cooper-Gallery-768x576.jpg 768w, https://backend.artreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/11-Infiinty-Minus-Infinity-Photo-courtesy-Cooper-Gallery.jpg 1389w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1230px) 100vw, 1230px\" /><figcaption>The Otolith Group, INFINITY minus Infinity, 2019 ( screening view, Cooper Gallery, University of Dundee, 2023). Courtesy Cooper Gallery</figcaption></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cooper Gallery is threatened with closure as part of a wider range of cost cutting by Dundee University. The proposal, first reported by <em><a href=\"https://thejutejournal.com/2026/06/18/cooper-gallery-closure-proposed-as-djcad-staffing-and-resource-strains-persist/\">The Jute Journal</a></em>, the university student newspaper, could see the arts space shut by 2027, alongside the axing of seven academic posts and one academic‑related post at the university’s Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art &amp; Design.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The gallery was opened in 1953 and has hosted exhibitions by Heather Phillipson (2023), The Otolith Group (2023), Rosalind Nashashibi and Lucy Skaer (2022), Phil Collins&nbsp;(2019) and Paul Noble (2011&nbsp;2018), all of whom have been nominated for the Turner Prize, together with five edition of its twelve-hour symposia series. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>It currently has a staff of two. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>The proposal comes amid <a href=\"https://artreview.com/whats-gone-wrong-in-the-glasgow-art-scene-rachel-ashenden/\">the erosion of Scotland’s once booming arts scene</a>, that has seen within a growing pattern of cultural erosion across Scotland, including <a href=\"https://artreview.com/glasgow-centre-for-contemporary-arts-to-permanently-close/\">the closure</a> of CCA Glasgow in 2026 and the threat of a 300 per cent rent increase to Trongate 103 building, also in Glasgow, a longstanding not-for-profit arts hub. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>A <a href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc_wuQFFNuegYjBy-NJCelsdZsKojn7Gugnc2y-__ablyFQ6w/viewform\">petition</a> signed by almost 500, including artists Hayley Tompkins, Neil Clements and Georgina Starr, notes ‘For artists, the gallery provides essential resources, visibility, professional development opportunities, and connections to national and international networks. For Dundee residents and visitors, it offers free access to ambitious international exhibitions, public events, talks, screenings, and learning programmes that enrich the cultural life of the city.’</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The University of Dundee has also announced plans to cease offering philosophy as a degree from 2027.</p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read next </strong><a href=\"https://artreview.com/whats-gone-wrong-in-the-glasgow-art-scene-rachel-ashenden/\">What’s Gone Wrong in the Glasgow Art Scene?</a></p>\n","path":"/dundees-cooper-gallery-threatened-with-closure/","format":"standard","date":"23 June 2026","rawDate":"2026-06-23T15:38:19.000Z","branch":{"name":"artreview.com"},"author":{"name":"ArtReview","path":"/author/artreviewartreview-com/"},"category":{"name":"News","path":"/category/news/"},"featured_media":{"source_url":"https://backend.artreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/11-Infiinty-Minus-Infinity-Photo-courtesy-Cooper-Gallery.jpg","caption":"The Otolith Group, INFINITY minus Infinity, 2019 ( screening view, Cooper Gallery, University of Dundee, 2023). 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