Visual Artists Ireland

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 […]

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 […]

The Gecker Ones | Laura Fitzgerald at Lismore Castle Arts The Mill

14/06/2025 – 10/08/2025 @ – Laura Fitzgerald is an artist who creates woven narratives of personal and political reflection in video, drawing, and text, often referencing the artist’s own rural background and general anxieties of international artistic professionalism. Laura’s work is colourful, playful, and distinctly humorous. Often handwritten comments and narratives accompany her drawings and paintings, sometimes referencing personal experiences […]

Heirloom | Rachel Doolin at glór

14/06/2025 – 06/09/2025 @ 10:00 am – 3:00 pm – A Walk & Talk Tour with the Artist, facilitated by Gillian Lattimore of Irish Seed Savers will take place on Sat 12 Jul at 10am. All welcome. Heirloom is an installation of works created by artist Rachel Doolin. The project stems from a culmination of experiential research undertaken during an Arctic-based residency programme, later informed […]

Special Print Presentation | Paula Pohli at Lessedra Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria

16/06/2025 – 01/09/2025 @ 3:00 pm – 7:00 pm – Exhibition continues 11 June – September 2025. SOFIA Irish Printmaker, Paula Pohli, exhibits her Linocuts in Sofia, Bulgaria. Paula is delighted to announce a special presentation of her handburnished prints in the LESSEDRA GALLERY (& Contemporary Art Projects). Lessedra: Paula has a long engagement with the International Lessedra Annual Mini Print Exhibition. Organised by Georgi […]