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Discover what’s on in Leinster for visual arts with our comprehensive events roundup: explore cutting-edge gallery exhibitions in Dublin’s vibrant art districts, hands-on sculpture workshops in Kildare, and avant-garde pop-up installations in Meath. From exclusive artist talks and curator-led tours in Wicklow’s historic venues to youth-focused street-art festivals in Louth and immersive light-art experiences across Kilkenny, our Leinster visual arts guide brings you the region’s hottest creative happenings. Stay informed with weekly updates on gallery openings, limited-run masterclasses, and community art trails—perfect for art enthusiasts, collectors, and culture seekers alike. Unlock the best of Leinster’s visual arts scene today and elevate your cultural calendar with unmissable events across Ireland’s east coast.

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Tango | Sergio Susperregui at Ranelagh Arts Centre

Tango | Sergio Susperregui at Ranelagh Arts Centre

06/03/2026 - 26/03/2026
10:30 am - 5:00 pm
Ranelagh Arts Centre
6 Ranelagh, Dublin 6, D06 X7W9

Born in Buenos Aires, Susperregui studied Fine Art at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Manuel Belgrano in Buenos Aires.

His surrealist work is a personal diary and a love letter to Buenos Aires translated into colour and image through a variety of techniques using materials at hand including newspapers, notebooks and magazines.

Guided by instinct and emotion, and improvising his strokes in the same way a jazz musician improvises musical notes, Susperregui tells life’s stories infused with the spirit of Tango and eroticism. His work seeks to provoke the viewer and exists on a fine line between the permissible and the forbidden.

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Flash Art | Group Exhibition at Wynn's Hotel

Flash Art | Group Exhibition at Wynn's Hotel

06/03/2026
6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Wynn's Hotel Lower Abbey Street
35-39 Lower Abbey Street , Dublin 1, Dublin , D01 C9F8, Dublin

You won’t see the same exhibition as the person beside you.

Flash Art Exhibition – Wynn’s Hotel, Dublin

Flash Art is a one-evening exhibition bringing together five contemporary artists in the historic setting of Wynn’s Hotel, Dublin. Curated by Enrique Lazzaro, the exhibition places distinct practices in close proximity, allowing viewers to move directly between different visual languages within the same room.

Rather than following a single theme, the exhibition centers on encounter – how works shift in meaning depending on the viewer and the act of seeing them in person. The shared space encourages reflection, comparison and conversation

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AS IF | Live Performance by David Donohoe & David Lacey at the International Centre for the Image

AS IF | Live Performance by David Donohoe & David Lacey at the International Centre for the Image

07/03/2026
2:30 pm - 3:15 pm
International Centre for the Image
Coopers Cross, Mayor Street Upper, North Wall, Dublin, D01 E5Y8

David Donohoe and David Lacey have a longstanding practice of performance, improvisation, composition, and recording. Utilising resonant metals, wood, objects, and electronics, their music foregrounds space & texture, gesture & silence, flow & discontinuity. They have released two albums as a duo, Noctules (Fort Evil Fruit, 2021) and Obsequio (Verz, 2022), and are currently mixing a new album as a trio with Phil Maguire.

This performance sees Donohoe and Lacey in free improvisation within the gallery space, responding to and expanding upon the sonic and visual language of the current exhibition AS IF.

Free event – booking required

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Past, Passing or To Come | Group Exhibition at The Bank at The Digital Hub

Past, Passing or To Come | Group Exhibition at The Bank at The Digital Hub

26/02/2026 - 05/03/2026
12:00 pm - 6:00 pm
The Bank at The Digital Hub
85 James Street, The Liberties, Dublin 8, D08 C2PR

Opening – 26 February at 6.00pm.

Past, Passing or To Come brings Cypriot artists into creative dialogue with artists living and working in Ireland drawing inspiration from Sailing to Byzantium by W. B. Yeats.

Participating artists are Christina Shiakola, Eliza Pieri, Mandalena Miltiadi, Manuel McCarthy Valderrama, and Vassilis Vassiliades.

The exhibition is made possible with the support of the Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus in Ireland and with the funding of the Deputy Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Cyprus, as part of the official programme of cultural actions marking the Cypriot EU Presidency.

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Flash Art | Group Exhibition at Wynn's Hotel

Flash Art | Group Exhibition at Wynn's Hotel

06/03/2026
6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Wynn's Hotel Lower Abbey Street
35-39 Lower Abbey Street , Dublin 1, Dublin , D01 C9F8, Dublin

You won’t see the same exhibition as the person beside you.

Flash Art Exhibition – Wynn’s Hotel, Dublin

Flash Art is a one-evening exhibition bringing together five contemporary artists in the historic setting of Wynn’s Hotel, Dublin. Curated by Enrique Lazzaro, the exhibition places distinct practices in close proximity, allowing viewers to move directly between different visual languages within the same room.

Rather than following a single theme, the exhibition centers on encounter – how works shift in meaning depending on the viewer and the act of seeing them in person. The shared space encourages reflection, comparison and conversation

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Sticks, Stones & Bones | Breda Marron at Highlanes Gallery

Sticks, Stones & Bones | Breda Marron at Highlanes Gallery

17/01/2026 - 07/03/2026
10:30 am - 5:00 pm
Highlanes Gallery
St Laurence St, Drogheda, Drogheda, Co. Louth

In her practice, Breda is interested in exploring ideas around the interconnection between humans and nature. She is fascinated by how the patterns and imprints of time and movement, of people, wildlife and natural elements are held on the surface and in the deeper layers of the earth.

The new work in Sticks, Stones & Bones has been developed through walking, gathering elements, and responding through drawing and mark making working with watercolour, together with a sculptural installation in three parts.

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Deep Waiting | Phillip Allen at Kerlin Gallery

Deep Waiting | Phillip Allen at Kerlin Gallery

31/01/2026 - 07/03/2026
10:00 am - 5:30 pm
Kerlin Gallery
Anne’s Lane, Dublin, Dublin

Described by art critic John Yau as “one of the great painters of his generation”, Phillip Allen  has refused to settle into any one mode or style, choosing instead to continually push the possibilities of the picture plane resulting in paintings that are sculptural, optical and joyously excessive. Dense accretions of acrylic and oil paint form thick, encrusted borders that frame finely worked interior fields. Within these interiors, rhythmic geometries, spiralling motifs and kaleidoscopic colour sequences unfold with a sense of buoyant improvisation. 

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Deliberate/Deliberate | Alastair Keady and Helen O’Sullivan at Graphic Studio Gallery

Deliberate/Deliberate | Alastair Keady and Helen O’Sullivan at Graphic Studio Gallery

02/03/2026 - 07/03/2026
Graphic Studio Gallery
Cope Street , Temple Bar, Dublin 2 , D02 X021

Exhibition continues from 31/01/2026 to 07/03/2026.

Deliberate/Deliberate brings together the work of Alastair Keady and Helen O’Sullivan, Through constraint, repetition, and attentiveness to process, the work considers how meaning can emerge slowly; through structure and deviation, articulation and restraint.  Approaching making as a reflective process and a cultivated sensibility.

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Studio, House, Museum | Eamon O’Kane at Hillsboro Fine Art

Studio, House, Museum | Eamon O’Kane at Hillsboro Fine Art

09/02/2026 - 07/03/2026
Hillsboro Fine Art
49 Parnell Square West, Dublin, Dublin, D01 A971

Exhibition continues from 05/02/2026 to 07/03/2026.

In Studio House Museum, O’Kane extends his long-standing exploration of creative spaces as living archives, sites that hold not only traces of artistic labour but also memory, influence, and mythology. His paintings reconstruct and reimagine these environments through a distinctive synthesis of Modernist aesthetics, architectural clarity, and painterly intuition. Each work functions as a speculative interior or exterior, a space where art history, personal experience, and imagination intersect.

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Events | Disrupt Disability Arts Festival at Project Arts Centre

Events | Disrupt Disability Arts Festival at Project Arts Centre

05/03/2026 - 07/03/2026
3:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Project Arts Centre
39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, Dublin

Disrupt Disability Arts Festival taking place from 5 – 7 March 2026, is a disability-led and disability-focused arts festival championing the creativity, voices, and perspectives of disabled artists. Now entering its third year, the festival brings together theatre, dance, literature-based performance and visual arts, all delivered through relaxed engagement formats in Dublin and online that ensure accessibility for audiences across Ireland and beyond.

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AS IF | Live Performance by David Donohoe & David Lacey at the International Centre for the Image

AS IF | Live Performance by David Donohoe & David Lacey at the International Centre for the Image

07/03/2026
2:30 pm - 3:15 pm
International Centre for the Image
Coopers Cross, Mayor Street Upper, North Wall, Dublin, D01 E5Y8

David Donohoe and David Lacey have a longstanding practice of performance, improvisation, composition, and recording. Utilising resonant metals, wood, objects, and electronics, their music foregrounds space & texture, gesture & silence, flow & discontinuity. They have released two albums as a duo, Noctules (Fort Evil Fruit, 2021) and Obsequio (Verz, 2022), and are currently mixing a new album as a trio with Phil Maguire.

This performance sees Donohoe and Lacey in free improvisation within the gallery space, responding to and expanding upon the sonic and visual language of the current exhibition AS IF.

Free event – booking required

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TRACING ECHOES | Mark Francis at Solstice Arts Centre

TRACING ECHOES | Mark Francis at Solstice Arts Centre

17/01/2026 - 14/03/2026
12:00 am
Solstice Arts Centre
Railway street, Navan, Meath

Opening reception Saturday 17 January 2.30-4.30pm.

Mark Francis creates powerful paintings charged with movement, sound and rhythm, by combining intense sequences of colour that compete within tightly gridded structures.
For this exhibition Mark Francis presents new paintings, charcoal drawings, and Solstice Commission, “Listening Field”, the first moving image work by the artist.
This new work will feature as part of Francis’ representation of the Republic of San Marino at the 61st Venice Biennale.

GALLERY:
Tuesday to Saturday, 11.00am – 4.00pm

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Walkways of the M50 | John O’Reilly at the RHA Gallery

Walkways of the M50 | John O’Reilly at the RHA Gallery

13/02/2026 - 15/03/2026
11:00 am - 5:00 pm
RHA Gallery
Royal Hibernian Academy, 15 Ely Place, Dublin 2

In this compelling body of new work, Walkways of the M50, O’Reilly turns his attention to the routes incorporated into the M50’s design to enable pedestrian access over or under its constant torrent of roaring traffic. O’Reilly’s paintings present the quiet and stillness of pedestrian spaces within noisy environments built to accommodate vehicles. The M50 is a city fringe. Overlooked edge-lands where urban and rural meet. Homogeneous yet local, landscapes of tension and banality, with a wide abundance of textural variety.

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Ways of Seeing: A Collection of Works | Adrienne Smith at Droichead Arts Centre

Ways of Seeing: A Collection of Works | Adrienne Smith at Droichead Arts Centre

03/03/2026 - 15/03/2026
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Droichead Arts Centre
Stockwell Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth

Adrienne Smith is an abstract artist based in Meath whose work inspired by the architectural landscape and those who inhabit it. On one hand Adrienne’s art can be seen as geometrically inspired, while on the other hand it is blurred. At once a personal dialogue and a silent expression on space, time and the human condition – a belief that art has the power to influence social change.

In March, a series of work using painted birch ply woodcuts will be exhibited at The Kiosk Project Art Space. This ongoing series frequently presents the same image from different angles or perspectives without seeking to represent a single object but multiple

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IMMA Collection: Art as Agency | Group Exhibition at IMMA

IMMA Collection: Art as Agency | Group Exhibition at IMMA

08/02/2025 - 06/02/2028
IMMA
Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin, Dublin

IMMA Collection: Art as Agency is a major three-year display celebrating IMMA’s Permanent Collection as a source of agency and knowledge. Featuring over 100 artists, from the 1960s to the present, it highlights key works, including many recent acquisitions. This ambitious exhibition invites engagement and research over time, allowing for a rich durational experience of Ireland’s Modern and Contemporary Art Collection.

Through thematic, chronological, geographical, and media-based approaches, the exhibition examines how artworks connect across time and contexts, fostering new interpretations and relevance. Works from the 1960s to the 1980s evoke the foundational story of the Irish art world. While acknowledging the context of the modernist, predominantly male dominance of that era, the exhibition also spotlights the material innovation and socially engaged practices of others who persisted despite the relatively conservative status quo.

The exhibition also presents more recent practice that explores urgent global themes such as gender, hybridity, cultural histories, de-colonialism, diaspora, migration, food injustice, climate, and ecological change. Memory, imagination, and storytelling play pivotal roles in these works, offering generative ways to process fragmentation, dislocation, and survival in unfamiliar spaces. New and existing works in the IMMA grounds will extend these themes.

The exhibition includes a specially created ‘white cube’ gallery space inspired by Brian O’Doherty’s renowned series of essays Inside the White Cube – The Ideology of the Gallery Space (1976), that critiques the auratic, market-driven effects of the white cube gallery format. Likewise the choice of works curated for this space pushes back by highlighting works by Post-War American women, pioneering conceptualist artworks by Marcel Duchamp and Brian O’Doherty as well as a contemporary feminist response by Andrea Geyer.

By interweaving historical and contemporary narratives, Art as Agency invites audiences to reflect on the evolving meanings and possibilities of art in shaping our understanding of and action in the world.

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Reverse Migration, a Poetic Journey | Cecilia Vicuña at IMMA

Reverse Migration, a Poetic Journey | Cecilia Vicuña at IMMA

07/11/2025 - 05/07/2026
10:00 am - 5:30 pm
IMMA
Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin, Dublin

This is the first solo exhibition by renowned artist, poet and activist Cecilia Vicuña in Ireland. For this exhibition Vicuña’s delves into themes of ancestry, ecological urgency, and the interconnectedness of humanity inspired by the discovery of her ancient ties to Ireland.

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from the earth | Margo McNulty at Esker Arts

from the earth | Margo McNulty at Esker Arts

10/01/2026 - 28/03/2026
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Esker Arts
Esker Arts Centre, Tullamore, Co Offaly, R35 NY50

from the earth presents new and recent works by Margo McNulty, an artist whose practice explores the relationship between memory, place, and materiality. Through painting, printmaking and photography, McNulty reflects on how personal and collective histories become embedded within objects and landscapes. Her work often draws upon Irish traditions and investigates hidden narratives that shape cultural identity.

Born on Achill Island, Co. Mayo, McNulty studied Fine Art at GMIT and completed her MFA at NCAD, Dublin. She currently lives and works in Co. Roscommon.

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The trackmaker was a sluggish mover | Bryony Dunne at Irish Architectural Archive Dublin

The trackmaker was a sluggish mover | Bryony Dunne at Irish Architectural Archive Dublin

15/01/2026 - 27/03/2026
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Irish Architectural Archive, Dublin
45 Merrion Square, Dublin, Limerick, V94 FY24

The trackmaker was a sluggish mover by Bryony Dunne.

Irish Architectural Archive, 45 Merrion Square, Dublin.
Opening Thursday 15 January 2026, 6–8pm.

16 January–27 March 2026, Tuesday to Friday, 10am–5pm.

The Irish Architectural Archive and Askeaton Contemporary Arts are pleased to announce The trackmaker was a sluggish mover, a solo exhibition by Bryony Dunne.

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TRACING ECHOES | Mark Francis at Solstice Arts Centre

TRACING ECHOES | Mark Francis at Solstice Arts Centre

17/01/2026 - 14/03/2026
12:00 am
Solstice Arts Centre
Railway street, Navan, Meath

Opening reception Saturday 17 January 2.30-4.30pm.

Mark Francis creates powerful paintings charged with movement, sound and rhythm, by combining intense sequences of colour that compete within tightly gridded structures.
For this exhibition Mark Francis presents new paintings, charcoal drawings, and Solstice Commission, “Listening Field”, the first moving image work by the artist.
This new work will feature as part of Francis’ representation of the Republic of San Marino at the 61st Venice Biennale.

GALLERY:
Tuesday to Saturday, 11.00am – 4.00pm

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Sticks, Stones & Bones | Breda Marron at Highlanes Gallery

Sticks, Stones & Bones | Breda Marron at Highlanes Gallery

17/01/2026 - 07/03/2026
10:30 am - 5:00 pm
Highlanes Gallery
St Laurence St, Drogheda, Drogheda, Co. Louth

In her practice, Breda is interested in exploring ideas around the interconnection between humans and nature. She is fascinated by how the patterns and imprints of time and movement, of people, wildlife and natural elements are held on the surface and in the deeper layers of the earth.

The new work in Sticks, Stones & Bones has been developed through walking, gathering elements, and responding through drawing and mark making working with watercolour, together with a sculptural installation in three parts.

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Events | Artist-Initiated Projects 2026 at Pallas Projects/Studio

Events | Artist-Initiated Projects 2026 at Pallas Projects/Studio

21/01/2026 - 12/12/2026
12:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Pallas Projects/Studio
115–117 The Coombe, Dublin 8, Dublin

Pallas Projects/Studios are delighted to announce the participating artists in our Arts Council funded programme of Artist-Initiated Projects 2026. The series will be part of a programme celebrating 30 years of Pallas Projects/Studios. Between January–December 2026 we will present 8 x 3-week exhibitions of new work by:

Paddy Critchley, Fiona Marron, Finn Nichol, Emma Brennan and Thomas Wells, Ciara Rodgers, Struàn Bell, Christopher Mahon, neonatus.exe

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Daria's Night Flowers | Maryam Tafakory at Project Arts Centre

Daria's Night Flowers | Maryam Tafakory at Project Arts Centre

29/01/2026 - 18/04/2026
11:00 am - 6:00 pm
Project Arts Centre
39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, Dublin

Maryam Tafakory is a UK-based, Iranian artist filmmaker who makes textual and filmic collages. Her work interweaves poetry, archival, and found material to explore depictions of erasure, secrecy, and censorship. In her essayistic videos, images and scenes drawn from a vast archive of films are reworked to examine intimacy, desire, and prohibition. She works with film and performance and is the 2024 winner of the Film London Jarman Award.

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Deep Waiting | Phillip Allen at Kerlin Gallery

Deep Waiting | Phillip Allen at Kerlin Gallery

31/01/2026 - 07/03/2026
10:00 am - 5:30 pm
Kerlin Gallery
Anne’s Lane, Dublin, Dublin

Described by art critic John Yau as “one of the great painters of his generation”, Phillip Allen  has refused to settle into any one mode or style, choosing instead to continually push the possibilities of the picture plane resulting in paintings that are sculptural, optical and joyously excessive. Dense accretions of acrylic and oil paint form thick, encrusted borders that frame finely worked interior fields. Within these interiors, rhythmic geometries, spiralling motifs and kaleidoscopic colour sequences unfold with a sense of buoyant improvisation. 

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DRILL | Naomi Sex at VISUAL Carlow

DRILL | Naomi Sex at VISUAL Carlow

31/01/2026 - 10/05/2026
11:00 am - 5:30 pm
VISUAL Carlow
Old Dublin Road, Carlow, Carlow

VISUAL is pleased to present DRILL, newly commissioned exhibition of moving image and sound installation by Naomi Sex. Working with both professional and non-actors, Sex has written and directed a series of scripted performances. These vignettes consider language, social interaction, absurdity and the limits of understanding. DRILL comprises a series of monitors, speakers and projectors, which present each piece as distinct but interrelated episodes, linked to each other in an installation that places the viewer in the centre of the work.

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Interloper | Anne Hardy at VISUAL Carlow

Interloper | Anne Hardy at VISUAL Carlow

31/01/2026 - 10/05/2026
11:00 am - 5:30 pm
VISUAL Carlow
Old Dublin Road, Carlow, Carlow

VISUAL is pleased to present Interloper, the first project by Anne Hardy in Ireland. For this exhibition of existing and newly commissioned works, Hardy has responded to the distinct architecture of VISUAL; the concrete and glass of the Link Gallery and its connection to the ornamental pond seen through the large windows, and the blank canvas of the Studio Gallery’s white cube design and its heavily patinated floor. Interloper marks a continued evolution in Hardy’s practice.

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Now now | Andy Fitz at VISUAL Carlow

Now now | Andy Fitz at VISUAL Carlow

31/01/2026 - 10/05/2026
11:00 am - 5:30 pm
VISUAL Carlow
Old Dublin Road, Carlow, Carlow

“Now now” by Andy Fitz uses language to record a passing moment in time. An out-of-date present is rearranged in minute detail as though the process might reveal something. Time remains static – the food never grows mouldy. Unremarkable domestic objects are balanced across the gallery in precarious abstraction from their usual surroundings. “Now now” is also a phrase whose function and meaning is dependent on tone; it can be understood as a warning, or a consolation. The sculptures build on these unresolved tensions; the personal in the political, the present in light of the past.

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Selected Works from the James and Elizabeth McCreary Collection | Group Exhibition at DCU St Patrick’s Campus

Selected Works from the James and Elizabeth McCreary Collection | Group Exhibition at DCU St Patrick’s Campus

02/02/2026 - 20/04/2026
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
DCU St Patrick’s Campus
Block D, Drumcondra Road Upper, Dublin, Dublin, D09 YT18

DCU Art Collection is honoured to receive a significant donation of fine art prints from artist and master printer James McCreary, one of Ireland’s most respected figures in printmaking, and his wife Elizabeth McCreary.

To celebrate this generous donation DCU are hosting an exhibition of of selected works from the James and Elizabeth McCreary Collection on DCU St. Patrick’s Campus. Featuring works by Jane O’Malley, A.R. Penck, Niall Naessens, James McCreary, Tony O’Malley, Maria Simonds-Gooding, Michael Cullen and others, the exhibition offers a rich insight into contemporary printmaking and the spirit of personal collecting.

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Gerard Byrne | Exhibition at Gerard Byrne Gallery

Gerard Byrne | Exhibition at Gerard Byrne Gallery

06/02/2026 - 22/03/2026
10:00 am - 7:00 pm
Gerard Byrne Gallery
13 Trinity St, Dublin 2, Dublin , D02 XY53

Dublin’s own Gerard Byrne, renowned for his revival of the Impressionist and plein-air traditions in Ireland, has spent nearly four decades painting professionally. Elevating the ordinary into something extraordinary, his practice spans industrial structures and working ports, flowers in Spring light, bold figures, city streets, coastlines, and distant places—all observed with the same care. This exhibition brings together the full range of his work and marks the opening of Gerard Byrne Gallery’s new Trinity Street home following a standout year in New York.
Mon-Wed: 10-6
Thu-Sat: 10-7
Sun: 11-7

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Studio, House, Museum | Eamon O’Kane at Hillsboro Fine Art

Studio, House, Museum | Eamon O’Kane at Hillsboro Fine Art

09/02/2026 - 07/03/2026
Hillsboro Fine Art
49 Parnell Square West, Dublin, Dublin, D01 A971

Exhibition continues from 05/02/2026 to 07/03/2026.

In Studio House Museum, O’Kane extends his long-standing exploration of creative spaces as living archives, sites that hold not only traces of artistic labour but also memory, influence, and mythology. His paintings reconstruct and reimagine these environments through a distinctive synthesis of Modernist aesthetics, architectural clarity, and painterly intuition. Each work functions as a speculative interior or exterior, a space where art history, personal experience, and imagination intersect.

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Affective Forms | Group Exhibition at Luan Gallery

Affective Forms | Group Exhibition at Luan Gallery

10/02/2026 - 12/04/2026
11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Luan Gallery
Elliott Road, Athlone, Co. Westmeath N37 TH22, Athlone, Westmeath , N37 TH22

A multidisciplinary group exhibition featuring new and existing work by Tara Carroll, Sian Costello, Phelim Hoey, Áine O’ Hara, Day Magee, and Rajinder Singh. Curated by Aoife Banks. Affective Forms is a multidisciplinary group exhibition that explores evolving representations of the human body in contemporary Irish art through painting, photography, sculpture, and film. In Affective Forms, the works foreground sensation, relation, and response, positioning the body as a site where personal experience and broader social forces converge.

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Hennessy Craig & Homan Potterton Awards | Group Exhibition at the RHA Gallery

Hennessy Craig & Homan Potterton Awards | Group Exhibition at the RHA Gallery

12/02/2026 - 29/03/2026
11:00 am - 5:00 pm
RHA Gallery
Royal Hibernian Academy, 15 Ely Place, Dublin 2

The winners of both awards will be announced at the opening of the exhibition on Thursday, 12 February 2026.

This exhibition presents a rare opportunity to experience – and for discerning collectors, to acquire – the finest work from Ireland’s most exciting new generation of painters.

2026 Shortlisted Artists: Maya Brezing · Mantas Poderys · Matthew Strickland · Liam Murray · Salvatore of Lucan · Owen de Forge · Manar Mervat Al Shouha · Eileen Leonard Sealy · Conor O’Connell · Daniel Coleman

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Filial Love | Sasha Sykes at the RHA Gallery

Filial Love | Sasha Sykes at the RHA Gallery

13/02/2026 - 29/03/2026
11:00 am - 5:00 pm
RHA Gallery
Royal Hibernian Academy, 15 Ely Place, Dublin 2

Filial Love is an intimate exhibition that brings together sculpture, video and wall-mounted works to explore nature through the lens of familial bonds. The exhibition is anchored by a freestanding central installation: a full-length, human-scaled, floral resin cloak, positioned in dialogue with a granite boulder. These elements form a meditation on protection, labour and enduring care – personal, generational and ecological.

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Inhale Exhale – Ecologies That Refuse to Behave | Fiona McDonald at the RHA Gallery

Inhale Exhale – Ecologies That Refuse to Behave | Fiona McDonald at the RHA Gallery

13/02/2026 - 29/03/2026
11:00 am - 5:00 pm
RHA Gallery
Royal Hibernian Academy, 15 Ely Place, Dublin 2

Inhale Exhale – Ecologies That Refuse to Behave is an ambitious solo exhibition by artist Fiona McDonald, unfolding as a quiet insurgency staged through peatlands, sensors, and slow code. Across the project, McDonald hijacks the tools of climate science – flux towers, CO₂ sensors, automated chambers – and reroutes them into something they were never designed for: ecological intimacy. Developed through years embedded with the National Parks and Wildlife Service NPWS, these instruments are treated not as neutral data-harvesting devices but as collaborators, shaped by shared data, trust, and sustained attention.

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Key Learnings from Cross-Market Synergetic Alignment | Group Exhibition at the RHA Gallery

Key Learnings from Cross-Market Synergetic Alignment | Group Exhibition at the RHA Gallery

13/02/2026 - 19/04/2026
11:00 am - 5:00 pm
RHA Gallery
Royal Hibernian Academy, 15 Ely Place, Dublin 2

Key Learnings… presents nine artists whose practice incorporates commodity culture, taking in branding, mass-market imagery, retail style, the domestic, advertising and packaging.

Noel Hensey   /   Caroline McCarthy   /   Emily Mc Gardle / Aideen Barry   /   Asha Murray   /   Liliane Puthod   /   Amy McNamara   /   David Timmons   /   Richard Collier.

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Walkways of the M50 | John O’Reilly at the RHA Gallery

Walkways of the M50 | John O’Reilly at the RHA Gallery

13/02/2026 - 15/03/2026
11:00 am - 5:00 pm
RHA Gallery
Royal Hibernian Academy, 15 Ely Place, Dublin 2

In this compelling body of new work, Walkways of the M50, O’Reilly turns his attention to the routes incorporated into the M50’s design to enable pedestrian access over or under its constant torrent of roaring traffic. O’Reilly’s paintings present the quiet and stillness of pedestrian spaces within noisy environments built to accommodate vehicles. The M50 is a city fringe. Overlooked edge-lands where urban and rural meet. Homogeneous yet local, landscapes of tension and banality, with a wide abundance of textural variety.

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Gvozdene Kapije | Barbara Knežević at Wexford Arts Centre

Gvozdene Kapije | Barbara Knežević at Wexford Arts Centre

14/02/2026 - 20/03/2026
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Wexford Arts Centre
Cornmarket , Wexford, Wexford, Y35 X5HF, Leinster

Wexford Arts Centre is pleased to present Gvozdene Kapije (The Iron Gates), an exhibition of new sculpture and film work by Barbara Knežević. The exhibition will run in the lower and upper galleries from Saturday, 14th February, to Friday, 20th March, 2026.

Gvozdene Kapije / The Iron Gates brings together film and sculpture to explore the histories, stories, and materiality of a region in eastern Serbia known as Gvozdene Kapije — a deep gorge at Đerdap on the Danube River, forming the border between Serbia and Romania.

The exhibition was funded by the Arts Council with the support of Solstice Arts Centre and the National Sculpture Factory.

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Hennessy Craig & Homan Potterton Awards 2026 | Group Exhibition at the RHA Gallery

Hennessy Craig & Homan Potterton Awards 2026 | Group Exhibition at the RHA Gallery

23/02/2026 - 29/03/2026
RHA Gallery
Royal Hibernian Academy, 15 Ely Place, Dublin 2

Exhibition continues from 13/02/2026 to 29/03/2026.

The Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts is delighted to announce that artists Eileen Leonard Sealy and Daniel Coleman have been awarded the Hennessy Craig Award 2026 and artists Manar Mervat Al Shouha and Conor O’Connell have been awarded the Homan Potterton Award, 2026. Both awards, the largest awards for painters in Ireland, were announced at a ceremony held at the RHA Gallery, on Thursday 12 February.

The Hennessy Craig/Potterton jury selected five artists, from both the 2024 and 2025 Annual Exhibitions, who were invited to submit two new works, currently showing at the RHA until 29 March.

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The things that matter most are the things that can’t be seen | Group Exhibition at An Táin Arts Centre

The things that matter most are the things that can’t be seen | Group Exhibition at An Táin Arts Centre

25/02/2026 - 04/04/2026
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
An Táin Arts Centre
Crowe St, Townparks, Dundalk, Co. Louth, Dundalk, Louth

Bridge Street Studios will celebrate its 30th anniversary with an exhibition, ‘The things that matter most are the things that can’t be seen,’ hosted at the Basement Gallery, An Táin Arts Centre, Dundalk. The exhibition opens on Wednesday February 25th at 7pm and runs to April 4th. It features work by eight artists and craftspeople including Orlaith Cullinane, Rachel Tinniswood, Mary Cowan, Suzanne Carroll, Caóilfíonn Murphy O’Hanlon, Orla Barry, Sarah McKenna, and Fiona Quigley. The exhibition serves as a testament to the importance of shared creative environments and how that can creatively sustain the individual’s artistic development.

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A Fragile Line | Oisín Tozer at The LAB Gallery

A Fragile Line | Oisín Tozer at The LAB Gallery

26/02/2026 - 11/04/2026
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
The LAB Gallery
Foley Street, Dublin 1, Dublin

A Fragile Line is an exhibition comprised of a number of interrelated pictorial, sculptural and installation elements. The work is visually spare and delicate, acting as a set of poetic observations on how we understand and relate to the more than human world.

Thursday 26 February – Saturday 11 April 2026.
Curated by Margarita Cappock.

Opening Night: Thursday 26 February.

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Past, Passing or To Come | Group Exhibition at The Bank at The Digital Hub

Past, Passing or To Come | Group Exhibition at The Bank at The Digital Hub

26/02/2026 - 05/03/2026
12:00 pm - 6:00 pm
The Bank at The Digital Hub
85 James Street, The Liberties, Dublin 8, D08 C2PR

Opening – 26 February at 6.00pm.

Past, Passing or To Come brings Cypriot artists into creative dialogue with artists living and working in Ireland drawing inspiration from Sailing to Byzantium by W. B. Yeats.

Participating artists are Christina Shiakola, Eliza Pieri, Mandalena Miltiadi, Manuel McCarthy Valderrama, and Vassilis Vassiliades.

The exhibition is made possible with the support of the Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus in Ireland and with the funding of the Deputy Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Cyprus, as part of the official programme of cultural actions marking the Cypriot EU Presidency.

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Follow your Dream | Bennie Reilly at dlr Lexicon

Follow your Dream | Bennie Reilly at dlr Lexicon

01/03/2026 - 29/04/2026
12:00 am
Municipal Gallery dlr Lexicon
Haigh Terrace, Moran Park, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, A96 H283

This exhibition of paintings and mixed-media sculptures by Bennie Reilly draws on her interest in museum collections, natural history, and her own interactions with the natural world. Her paintings stem from an ever growing archive of personal photographs, while her sculptural works combine bric-a-brac and natural artefacts collected over many years. Together, these artworks celebrate the oddities and allure of nature and its positive impact on our well-being.
The title derives from graffiti Reilly saw in a derelict hut overlooking a scenic salt lake in Formentera: “Follow your dream.” I

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Hidden in plain sight | Marie-Louise Martin at Courthouse Arts Centre

Hidden in plain sight | Marie-Louise Martin at Courthouse Arts Centre

01/03/2026 - 28/03/2026
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Courthouse Arts Centre
Main Street, Tinahely, Tinahely, Co. Wicklow

An exhibition celebrating the beauty in the ordinary. “Line has always been foremost in my work practice, and for many years I worked solely in etching. After almost 40 years, I decided to move away from the toxic materials and acids I had been using, to employing greener methods. With the move to dry point, I have returned to my first love; drawing. I also like the challenge with working on acetate sheets as there is little or no way of correcting a mark made. This decision to change was made during the pandemic.

Opening: Sunday 1 March 2026 3pm to 5pm.
Closing Saturday 28 March 2026 4pm.

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Deliberate/Deliberate | Alastair Keady and Helen O’Sullivan at Graphic Studio Gallery

Deliberate/Deliberate | Alastair Keady and Helen O’Sullivan at Graphic Studio Gallery

02/03/2026 - 07/03/2026
Graphic Studio Gallery
Cope Street , Temple Bar, Dublin 2 , D02 X021

Exhibition continues from 31/01/2026 to 07/03/2026.

Deliberate/Deliberate brings together the work of Alastair Keady and Helen O’Sullivan, Through constraint, repetition, and attentiveness to process, the work considers how meaning can emerge slowly; through structure and deviation, articulation and restraint.  Approaching making as a reflective process and a cultivated sensibility.

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Ways of Seeing: A Collection of Works | Adrienne Smith at Droichead Arts Centre

Ways of Seeing: A Collection of Works | Adrienne Smith at Droichead Arts Centre

03/03/2026 - 15/03/2026
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Droichead Arts Centre
Stockwell Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth

Adrienne Smith is an abstract artist based in Meath whose work inspired by the architectural landscape and those who inhabit it. On one hand Adrienne’s art can be seen as geometrically inspired, while on the other hand it is blurred. At once a personal dialogue and a silent expression on space, time and the human condition – a belief that art has the power to influence social change.

In March, a series of work using painted birch ply woodcuts will be exhibited at The Kiosk Project Art Space. This ongoing series frequently presents the same image from different angles or perspectives without seeking to represent a single object but multiple

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Spring26 | Group Exhibition at Draíocht

Spring26 | Group Exhibition at Draíocht

04/03/2026 - 02/05/2026
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Draíocht
The Blanchardstown Centre, Dublin 15, Dublin

Curated by Aisling Prior

Featuring 26 emerging artists with a Fingal connection, part of a series of initiatives for artists to mark Draíocht’s 25th Birthday.

Maria Atanacković | Maya Brezing | Lucy Carrick | Matthew Coll | Michael Shane Cox | Alex De Roeck | Aideen Farrell | Chris Forrester | Andrew Grace | Elizabeth Hogan | Uisce Jakubczyk | Sinead Kampff | Paula Leimane | Nathan Lowry | Nicole Manning | Justine McDonnell | James McLoughlin | Sorca O’Farrell | Kerrie O’Leary | Eileen O’Sullivan | Jack Pierce | Eileen Sealy | Annette Treacy | Aoife Ward | Catherine Ward | Diarmuid Woodcock.

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Here be Monsters | Francesc Ruiz Abad at TØN Gallery

Here be Monsters | Francesc Ruiz Abad at TØN Gallery

05/03/2026 - 31/03/2026
Tøn Gallery
25a Temple Lane South, Dublin

TØN is pleased to announce our new exhibition ‘Here Be Monsters’ by Catalan artist Francesc Ruiz Abad, curated by Anna Penalva. This marks the second time Francesc’s work has been exhibited in Dublin, and we’re delighted to welcome him back

‘Here Be Monsters’ is a site-specific installation exploring marine mythologies, medieval bestiaries, and collective cultural imaginaries. Through ceramics and wall drawings, the exhibition reflects on shared image-making processes to explain the ocean’s unknown geographies and its creatures. Inspired by medieval and modern cartographic marginalia, the project proposes a new spatialization form for story

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In Deep | Inga Ryan at the United Arts Club

In Deep | Inga Ryan at the United Arts Club

05/03/2026 - 29/03/2026
10:30 am - 5:30 pm
United Arts Club
3 Fitzwilliam Street Upper, Dublin 2, D02 RR50, Dublin, Dublin, D02 RR50

Inga Ryan works in series. In Deep depicts human figures under water. She uses contrasting tones, intense colours and dramatic body language to convey action, movement, strength and a sense of a story unfolding. Some paintings are still, capturing quiet moments that suggest vulnerability. Throughout the works there is an element of ambiguity, raising the question of whether the immersed figure is playing, floating freely, or caught in something more unsettling. Ryan’s use of semi-abstraction reinforces this uncertainty, allowing the viewer to decide the narrative.

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Margins | Michael Corrigan at SO Fine Art Editions

Margins | Michael Corrigan at SO Fine Art Editions

05/03/2026 - 04/04/2026
11:00 am - 5:00 pm
SO Fine Art Editions
2nd Floor Powerscourt Townhouse Centre, 59 South William Street, Dublin 2, D02 DC83

SO Fine Art Editions Announces Margins: Fine art Photography by Michael Corrigan.

Preview: 5th March 5 – 7.30 pm and continues until the 4th April.

In ‘Margins’, Michael Corrigan presents a contemplative body of photographic work that reflects upon what lies at the edge: of land, sea and sky; of moments passing; of perception itself. The title carries multiple meanings and references; geographical, temporal, philosophical and poetic, and invites viewers to slow their gaze and consider what is often peripheral or taken for granted.

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Events | Disrupt Disability Arts Festival at Project Arts Centre

Events | Disrupt Disability Arts Festival at Project Arts Centre

05/03/2026 - 07/03/2026
3:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Project Arts Centre
39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, Dublin

Disrupt Disability Arts Festival taking place from 5 – 7 March 2026, is a disability-led and disability-focused arts festival championing the creativity, voices, and perspectives of disabled artists. Now entering its third year, the festival brings together theatre, dance, literature-based performance and visual arts, all delivered through relaxed engagement formats in Dublin and online that ensure accessibility for audiences across Ireland and beyond.

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