Take a tour of Edinburgh's best art shows

Tacita Dean's Presentation Sisters (2005), part of the Enlightenments exhibition at the Dean Gallery Photograph: Courtesy of the artist, Frith Street Gallery London

Marking the 150th year anniversary since the publication of The Origin of the Species is Joseph Kosuth's An Interpretation of this Title: Nietzsche, Darwin and the Paradox of Content. The installation can be seen at the Talbot Rice Gallery, part of the city-wide Enlightenments series Photograph: Murdo Macleod

Greg Creek's Edinburgh Drawing: Chatter Shapes, at the Dean Gallery Photograph: Murdo Macleod

A still from Joshua Mosley's film Dread (2006), following two clay figures – representing French philosophers Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Blaise Pascal – on a nature walk. Part of the Enlightenments, at the Dean Gallery Photograph: Courtesy of the artist, Donald Miller Gallery, Chicago

Artist Lee Mingwei, at the Dean Gallery, with his work Letter Writing, also part of the Enlightenments series. His project invites viewers to think about absent friends and loved ones – by writing to them Photograph: Murdo Macleod

A 1968 work by the late American artist Eva Hesse. Part of her Studioworks exhibition at the Fruitmarket Gallery Photograph: Murdo Macleod

No Title (1969) by Eva Hesse, at the Fruitmarket Gallery Photograph: Murdo Macleod

A still from Jane and Louise Wilson's film – made using footage from Stanley Kubrick's archive – Unfolding the Aryan Papers (2009) at the Talbot Rice Gallery Photograph: Dave Morgan/BFI London

Another still from Jane and Louise Wilson's film, Unfolding the Aryan Papers (2009), at the Talbot Rice Gallery Photograph: Dave Morgan/BFI London

The artist Bob and Roberta Smith, exhibiting at the Grey Gallery in his show The Artist is Deeply Dangerous Photograph: Grey Gallery/PR

Aemrican photographer Francesca Woodman's Eel Series, Roma, May 1977-August 1978. Part of the Artist Rooms at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Photograph: A Reeve/The estate of Francesca Woodman

Francesca Woodman's Italy, May 1977-August 1978, Artist Rooms at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Photograph: A Reeve/The estate of Francesca Woodman

Damien Hirst's Away from the Flock (1994), part of Artist Rooms at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Photograph: A Reeve

Damien Hirst's Trinity - Pharmacology, Physiology, Pathology (2000), Artist Rooms at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Photograph: A Reeve

Belgian author – and photographer – Paul Nougé, Subversion des Images at the Institut Français d'Ecosse Photograph: PR

Paul Nougé, Subversion des Images at the Institut Français d'Ecosse Photograph: PR

Sir Henry Raeburn's Portrait of Mr George Abercromby of Tullibody, Clackmannanshire (c.1790-1800), in Scottish Paintings: Old Master to Contemporary at Bourne Fine Art Gallery Photograph: Bourne Fine Art Gallery

Anne Redpath's Greys (c.1949), shown in Scottish Paintings: Old Master to Contemporary at Bourne Fine Art Gallery Photograph: Bourne Fine Art Gallery

Vija Celmins, Drypoint - Ocean Surface (1983), part of Artist Rooms at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Photograph: A Reeve

Vija Celmins, Untitled (Web 4) 2002, Artist Rooms at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Photograph: A Reeve