What's On

What’s on International / Online

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.

International / Online

Use menu on the right to filter content

Jump To

Opening

Closing

On-going

Categories

Opening
No Events
Closing
Exhibition | Niamh O'Malley at the Brigitte Mulholland Gallery, Paris

Exhibition | Niamh O'Malley at the Brigitte Mulholland Gallery, Paris

09/09/2025 - 11/10/2025
12:00 am
Brigitte Mulholland
81 rue de Turenne , Paris, 75003

Exhibition continues from the 4th of September to the 11th of October 2025

Brigitte Mulholland is thrilled to present Niamh O’Malley’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. O’Malley, (b. 1975, Mayo, Ireland) currently lives and works in Dublin and has had numerous solo exhibitions internationally, including the Irish Pavilion at the 59th Venice Art Biennale in 2022. Her sculptures make tangible the act of trying: trying to grasp a certain slant of light, to contemplate the enormity of a landscape, to hold moments still. This exhibition features sculptures made of steel, wood, and glass, as well as a film. In the gallery’s Salon, the artist presents a separate series of works made of graphite and watercolour on panel, which serve as a complement to (and sometimes studies for) her sculptures and their forms.

O’Malley’s glass sculptures are composed of shards of glass that are cut, wrapped in copper foil, and soldered together into configurations that protrude gently from the wall, both casting and holding light. Glass, with its implicit translucence and fragility, also embodies a state of solidity: a material with its own depth and colour, it can be looked at, as well as looked through. While there is a lack of surface absorption in the glass, the panels stand in contrast: dark, opaque surfaces that retain marks and memory. Each of them is embedded with the artist’s hand: scribbling, sanding, and moulding the edges with her fingers.

A number of Shelf works are included, which gather many of the sculptural materials O’Malley employs: wood, glass, and metal. The shelf becomes the ground and support of her compositions, facilitating the careful – yet simultaneously barely tethered – arrangement of components, eliciting both a strength and a delicate tension. Other sculptures in the exhibition include Leafs, where long, slender steel rods protrude from hammered steel shapes, part foliage, part strange, elegant weights. In Eye, two thin sheets of raw steel are folded into overhangs – each with cutouts that resemble soft fingers or lashes, and each sheltering a sun of amber glass. The stark solidity of the grey steel contrasts, yet complements, the fragile glow of the glass. The film offers viewers another kind of touch – its material enquiry bringing us back into a kinetic reality where the hand and the eye scan and search and seek form and solidity.

While her practice may seem visually diverse, O’Malley uses a small repertoire of materials whose nature and limitations have, over time, become a formative part of her artistic process. She is interested in what attracts our attention and why; in how we move our bodies towards particular views or situations; in how we look at, frame, and touch the chaos of the world. As Lizzie Lloyd noted in her text for the Venice Biennale: “O’Malley’s objects are replete with edges that outline, overlap, and neighbour other edges. Their meeting points accentuate buffed, pitted, powdered and polished surfaces over which our eye catches and slips…Hers is a material inquiry but with social and political implications built on necessary contingencies in which one part depends on another.”

With many thanks to Culture Ireland for its support of this exhibition.

Read more →
The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize | Group Exhibition at Trinity Buoy Wharf, London

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize | Group Exhibition at Trinity Buoy Wharf, London

08/10/2025 - 19/10/2025
Trinity Buoy Wharf
64 Orchard Pl, London, E14 0JW

Irish artist Christine Mackey’s drawing ‘Bark skin’ was selected for this years Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025. Her work was selected from over 2,000 entries, the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 exhibition includes 103 drawings by 95 artists. £27,000 of awards will be announced on the evening of Wednesday 8 October. The free exhibition will open daily from Thursday 9 October to Sunday 19 October 2025 at Trinity Buoy Wharf, London E14 0JY before touring into 2026. This is the UK’s most prestigious annual open drawing exhibition.

Read more →
On-going
Textile Memories | Varvara Keidan Shavrova at Documentation Centre, Berlin

Textile Memories | Varvara Keidan Shavrova at Documentation Centre, Berlin

02/02/2025 - 16/11/2025

This gallery exhibition centers on the textile installation by artist Varvara Keidan Shavrova, born in Soviet Russia and now living in England and Ireland. The installation features eight screen-printed felt blankets, each depicting images from her family photo album. This social and performative artwork invites interaction: visitors are encouraged to touch the blankets or drape them over their shoulders.

Juxtaposed with the artwork are historical objects from the Documentation Centre’s collection, including a tablecloth from East Prussia, a bedspread from Bohemia, and a small table cover from Brandenburg.

Textiles such as blankets, tablecloths, handkerchiefs, traditional costumes, coats, cloaks, scarves, and throws are poignant witnesses to hardship and suffering. They serve as relics of loss and deprivation, embodying the deeply human desire to connect with warmth, familiarity, and family. These objects offer a sense of solace against the painful experiences of displacement, loneliness, and uprootedness.

Varvara Keidan Shavrova’s work speaks to these shared experiences of millions of refugees, displaced persons, and emigrants, resonating with their enduring stories.

Exhibition Dates: February 2- November 16, 2025

Read more →
To the Edge of Your World | Anita Groener at Academy Art Museum, Maryland, USA

To the Edge of Your World | Anita Groener at Academy Art Museum, Maryland, USA

16/08/2025 - 26/10/2025
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Academy Art Museum
106 South Street Easton, Maryland , MD 21601

In To the Edge of Your World, Dutch-born, Ireland-based artist Anita Groener uses humble materials—twigs, cardboard, cut paper—to explore themes of loss, displacement, and resilience. Her intricately constructed sculptures and drawings reflect on the shared human impact of migration, conflict, and remembrance, shaped in part by her travels through the American South and global regions affected by upheaval. The exhibition also features the premiere of Shelter, a new animated video created in collaboration with filmmaker Matt Kresling and the Talbot Interfaith Shelter. Drawing from personal narratives, Shelter highlights stories of perseverance and community, echoing the exhibition’s meditation on belonging, memory, and the human capacity to endure.

This Exhibition is supported by Culture Ireland.

Read more →
Irish Gothic | Patricia Hurl at the Irish Arts Center, New York

Irish Gothic | Patricia Hurl at the Irish Arts Center, New York

05/09/2025 - 12/12/2025
12:00 am
Irish Arts Center
726 11th Ave, New York, NY 10019

OPENING RECEPTION WITH THE ARTIST, CURATOR MEET-AND-GREET, FILM SCREENINGS, AND MORE

“It’s terrible to think [about] where I get my inspiration, but all these things are fodder to me as an artist. I love trees. I love mountains. But I don’t want to go out and paint them. I don’t paint to make money. I paint what I want, and I’ve always been political.”

— Patricia Hurl

For the past 40+ years, the painter Patricia Hurl has portrayed the lives of Irish women and their experiences as housewives, child-bearers, caretakers, providers and warriors navigating a male-dominated world, evoking the broad spectrum of emotions felt by her subjects through expressionistic, layered brushstrokes and blending the figurative and abstract.

As part of Irish Gothic, a retrospective of Hurl’s extraordinary career presented by IAC in partnership with the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), we will be offering special opportunities this September for audiences to engage with the artist and her work, including an opening night reception; a talk with curator Johanne Mullan of IMMA; a members-only private tour of the exhibition; screenings of the documentary Dawn to Dusk, which follows the artist collective Na Cailleacha, of which Hurl is a founding member; and gallery hours for an Irish Gothic theatre installation. Admission is free.

Read more →
Exhibition | Niamh O'Malley at the Brigitte Mulholland Gallery, Paris

Exhibition | Niamh O'Malley at the Brigitte Mulholland Gallery, Paris

09/09/2025 - 11/10/2025
12:00 am
Brigitte Mulholland
81 rue de Turenne , Paris, 75003

Exhibition continues from the 4th of September to the 11th of October 2025

Brigitte Mulholland is thrilled to present Niamh O’Malley’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. O’Malley, (b. 1975, Mayo, Ireland) currently lives and works in Dublin and has had numerous solo exhibitions internationally, including the Irish Pavilion at the 59th Venice Art Biennale in 2022. Her sculptures make tangible the act of trying: trying to grasp a certain slant of light, to contemplate the enormity of a landscape, to hold moments still. This exhibition features sculptures made of steel, wood, and glass, as well as a film. In the gallery’s Salon, the artist presents a separate series of works made of graphite and watercolour on panel, which serve as a complement to (and sometimes studies for) her sculptures and their forms.

O’Malley’s glass sculptures are composed of shards of glass that are cut, wrapped in copper foil, and soldered together into configurations that protrude gently from the wall, both casting and holding light. Glass, with its implicit translucence and fragility, also embodies a state of solidity: a material with its own depth and colour, it can be looked at, as well as looked through. While there is a lack of surface absorption in the glass, the panels stand in contrast: dark, opaque surfaces that retain marks and memory. Each of them is embedded with the artist’s hand: scribbling, sanding, and moulding the edges with her fingers.

A number of Shelf works are included, which gather many of the sculptural materials O’Malley employs: wood, glass, and metal. The shelf becomes the ground and support of her compositions, facilitating the careful – yet simultaneously barely tethered – arrangement of components, eliciting both a strength and a delicate tension. Other sculptures in the exhibition include Leafs, where long, slender steel rods protrude from hammered steel shapes, part foliage, part strange, elegant weights. In Eye, two thin sheets of raw steel are folded into overhangs – each with cutouts that resemble soft fingers or lashes, and each sheltering a sun of amber glass. The stark solidity of the grey steel contrasts, yet complements, the fragile glow of the glass. The film offers viewers another kind of touch – its material enquiry bringing us back into a kinetic reality where the hand and the eye scan and search and seek form and solidity.

While her practice may seem visually diverse, O’Malley uses a small repertoire of materials whose nature and limitations have, over time, become a formative part of her artistic process. She is interested in what attracts our attention and why; in how we move our bodies towards particular views or situations; in how we look at, frame, and touch the chaos of the world. As Lizzie Lloyd noted in her text for the Venice Biennale: “O’Malley’s objects are replete with edges that outline, overlap, and neighbour other edges. Their meeting points accentuate buffed, pitted, powdered and polished surfaces over which our eye catches and slips…Hers is a material inquiry but with social and political implications built on necessary contingencies in which one part depends on another.”

With many thanks to Culture Ireland for its support of this exhibition.

Read more →
The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize | Group Exhibition at Trinity Buoy Wharf, London

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize | Group Exhibition at Trinity Buoy Wharf, London

08/10/2025 - 19/10/2025
Trinity Buoy Wharf
64 Orchard Pl, London, E14 0JW

Irish artist Christine Mackey’s drawing ‘Bark skin’ was selected for this years Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025. Her work was selected from over 2,000 entries, the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 exhibition includes 103 drawings by 95 artists. £27,000 of awards will be announced on the evening of Wednesday 8 October. The free exhibition will open daily from Thursday 9 October to Sunday 19 October 2025 at Trinity Buoy Wharf, London E14 0JY before touring into 2026. This is the UK’s most prestigious annual open drawing exhibition.

Read more →