Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) is closing permanently due to financial difficulties, Creative Scotland has confirmed.
Earlier today, ArtReview received a statement from an email address claiming to represent CCA staff. According to the statement, the board of the CCA closed the building this morning, announced its intention to ‘commence a formal winding up process’ and ‘informed staff they are no longer employed on a days notice via an online call.’
Creative Scotland released a statement this afternoon confirming that the CCA board had decided to cease the institution’s operations and that the organisation has been placed in administration. Though the two organisations entered a three-year funding agreement worth £3.4 million in 2025, Creative Scotland confirmed they will not be making further payments to the CCA as the institution ‘is unable to demonstrate its ongoing viability and therefore cannot deliver the activity set out in its multi-year funding agreement’.
The news follows the temporary closure of the CCA last June in response to a takeover of the space by the activist group Art Workers for Palestine Scotland who called for the venue to take a stronger stance against Israel.
ArtReview has reached out to the CCA and Creative Scotland for comment.
