Discover what’s on internationally with Irish artists in our curated global visual-arts guide: from Sean Scully’s landmark retrospective at New York’s Guggenheim Museum and Dorothy Cross’s immersive installation at Paris’s Palais de Tokyo to emergent painter Caoimhín O’Healaí’s solo show at London’s Saatchi Gallery. Catch Alice Maher’s multidisciplinary work in the Venice Biennale collateral events, Michael Craig-Martin–inspired pop-up sculptures at Art Basel Miami, and Sinead O’Donnell’s boundary-pushing performance art at the Berlin Art Week. Our roundup also highlights group exhibitions at Frieze London, digital-art showcases featuring Niamh O’Malley at the Centre Pompidou’s online platform, and photography fairs in Tokyo featuring the lens of Irish photojournalists. Stay up to date with international art-fair previews, biennale tours, and exclusive studio-visit open days—perfect for collectors, curators, and art lovers seeking Ireland’s creative talents on the world stage. Elevate your global art calendar with insider access to the latest exhibitions, talks, and collaborative projects by Irish artists abroad.
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Château La Coste, an emblematic location for contemporary art in Provence, is delighted to present Stranger, an exhibition of sculptures by Northern-Irish artist Colin Davidson, running from the 7th of March to the 22nd of June 2026 at Pavillon Renzo Piano, in the south of France.
Internationally recognised for his strikingly emotional portraits, Colin Davidson proposes a major evolution in his art practice with Stranger. This exhibition marks the first large presentation of his tridimensional artworks, while staying anchored in his engagement with paint as a tactile medium, sensible and expressive.
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Exhibition continues from 17/01/2026 to 22/03/2026.
Nathalie Du Pasquier and Pierre Charpin became friends in the mid-1990s. Objects, a shared appreciation for drawing, forms, colors, and surfaces became their common ground. ‘Andiamo’ is a dialogue between their two worlds. It bypasses conventions and expectations: no chronology, hierarchy, classification, or arrangement. It places their respective works under a new lens, playing on formal and semantic relationships.
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Exhibition continues from 05/01/2026 to 31/07/2026.
To mark the 100th anniversary year of the publication of James Joyce’s masterpiece “ULYSSES”, the Irish Cultural Centre is delighted to Present this Spectacular Visual Art Exhibition.
‘Painting Ulysses’ comprises 18 magnificent paintings, depicting each of the 18 Episodes in James Joyce’s novel. As each of Joyce’s episodes in ULYSSES was written in a different literary style, Hickey has designed each painting in a different visual style.
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Exhibition continues from 06/02/2026 to 29/03/2026.
This exhibition presents Interval IV, a monumental Jacquard tapestry woven from silk, wool, cotton, and Lurex. It combines photography and collage to create a richly layered scene that is both precise and dreamlike. A Victorian era portrait is disrupted by images of underground geological formations and fragments of contemporary ruins.
These juxtapositions situate the scars of human ambition within the deep time of geology, a register that unsettles all notions of stability and endurance. Shown alongside the tapestry is a quieter abstract piece from Ní Bhriain’s Picture series (2022–2025) which imagines a future archive in which photographic images endure only as material traces.
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Exhibition continues from 10/02/2026 to 20/06/2026.
Portraits—The Failure of the State presents Brian Maguire’s portraits from three bodies of work that investigate the catastrophic impact of systemic violence without justice in Montana, United States; Bentiu, South Sudan; and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Maguire is an artist who looks outward, beyond the studio, engaging with the world and working in close dialogue with the families and communities of those erased, displaced, and forgotten by the failure of state institutions to serve and protect.
Missoula Art Museum commissioned the portraits of Missing and Murdered Indigenous People of Montana for an exhibition titled Outrage and supported the project over five years.
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Exhibition continues from 05/02/2026 to 17/04/2026.
FAULT LINES is an exhibition of original art by Damien McGinley which focuses on the issue of male suicide.
It features 13 original oil paintings of icons who took their own lives. From Van Gogh and Hemingway to Kurt Cobain and Keith Flint, the collection runs the spectrum of masculinity from macho to maestro.
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