Visual Artists Ireland

Artists on the Walls | Bishop Street Artists Group Exhibition at Echo Echo Dance Theatre

25/04/2025 – 15/08/2025 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – We are delighted to support Bishop Street Artists with this exhibition which will continue until August 15th. Nine artists working within the beautiful Derry Walls will share their work. Amanda Walker – Patsy Brennan – Catherine Ellis – Brian Farrell – Peter Davidson – Karl Porter – Kevin Horgan – Anneliese Gregg – Tearlach Rose. […]

Staying with the Trouble | Group Exhibition at IMMA

02/05/2025 – 21/09/2025 @ – An ambitious new group exhibition, Staying with the Trouble, inspired by author and philosopher Donna Haraway’s seminal work of the same name, opens at IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art) on Friday 2 May 2025. The exhibition features over 40 Irish and Ireland-based artists whose diverse practices explore urgent themes of our time. Pushing against […]

Lucian Freud’s Etchings: A Creative Collaboration | At Titanic Belfast

02/05/2025 – 30/09/2025 @ – Titanic Belfast has announced that in collaboration with the V&A it is set to host a free exhibition of the work of one of the foremost British artists of the 20th-century, Lucian Freud, from 2 May – 30 September 2025. Belfast will be the first port of call of the Lucian Freud’s Etchings: A Creative […]

Events | Entangled Life at Pallas Projects / Studios

14/05/2025 – 24/01/2026 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Entangled Life Curated by Cristina Nicotra May–December 2025 Entangled Life, supported by Community Foundation Ireland, is a programme exploring the deep connections between climate, society, and the ecosystems where art and community intertwine. This initiative unravels heterogeneous climate and social topics, by understanding ecology as a complex web of relationships—between humans, the more-than-human world, and […]

Dreamtime Ireland and Artworks 2025 | Sean Lynch at VISUAL and Carlow County Museum

05/06/2025 – 31/08/2025 @ 11:00 am – 5:30 pm – VISUAL is pleased to present Dreamtime Ireland, an exhibition and research project by artist Sean Lynch at VISUAL and Carlow County Museum, and Artworks 2025, in conjunction with Carlow Arts Festival. Drawn from historical and contemporary artworks and artefacts, over thirty presentations are spread throughout Carlow’s gallery and museum spaces, each exploring art’s potential to […]

Interactive Space | An Odd Job at VISUAL Carlow

05/06/2025 – 31/08/2025 @ 11:00 am – 5:30 pm – Welcome to the artist job centre! What job could you imagine in your wildest dreams? What if you got paid to put whoppee cushions on all the seats in the train, or make recordings of all the birds in your neighbourhood. Artists invent their own jobs. Artists might spend everyday drawing or dancing; making sculptures […]

Navigating Space | Maria Atanacković at Draíocht

11/06/2025 – 20/09/2025 @ 10:00 am – 6:00 pm – To be Opened by Niamh Flanagan, Artist, Master Printer and Program Coordinator at Graphic Studio Dublin On Wednesday 11th June 2025 at 7pm Navigating Space is a solo exhibition by Maria Atanacković. Bringing together works on paper, wood, and linen, the exhibition explores the construction of space through assemblage and printmaking. Atanacković’s practice is grounded […]

Summer Exhibitions | Mohammed Sami & Bas Jan Ader at The Douglas Hyde

13/06/2025 – 14/09/2025 @ – Visit The Douglas Hyde’s Summer exhibitions:⁠Mohammed Sami ‘To Whom It May Concern’⁠Gallery 1⁠⁠The Artist’s Eye: Bas Jan Ader⁠Gallery 2⁠⁠13 June – 14 September 2025 ⁠ Mohammed Sami has gained recognition for his charged paintings exploring memory, conflict and loss through the familiar made strange. His first solo exhibition in Ireland brings together a group of […]

Sewing Fields | Sam Gilliam at IMMA

13/06/2025 – 25/01/2026 @ – IMMA presents a solo exhibition by Sam Gilliam (1933 – 2022), one of the great innovators in post-war American painting, co-organised with the Sam Gilliam Foundation. Emerging in the mid-1960s, his canonical ‘Drape’ paintings merged painting, sculpture, and performance in conversation with architecture in entirely new ways. Suspending unstretched lengths of painted canvas from the […]

Inscriptions VI | Ailbhe Ní Bhriain at Lismore Castle Arts St Carthage Hall

14/06/2025 – 10/08/2025 @ – Ailbhe Ní Bhriain’s work is rooted in an exploration of imperial legacy, human displacement and the Anthropocene. These intertwined subjects are approached through an associative use of narrative and a deeply crafted visual language that verges on the surreal. For Lismore, Ní Bhriain presents Inscriptions VI, an exhibition bringing together new works in tapestry, print […]