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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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Talk | CHOKE- A Meditation on Grief and the Alchemy of the Abject at the Stiftung Bartels Fondation

Talk | CHOKE- A Meditation on Grief and the Alchemy of the Abject at the Stiftung Bartels Fondation

17/06/2026 - 18/06/2026
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Stiftung Bartels Fondation
Zum Kleinen Markgräflerhof, Augustinergasse 17, Basel, CH4051

This intimate, artist-initiated presentation of deeply personal new work coincides with Basel’s international art week, marking the culmination of a 3-month residency at Stiftung Bartels Fondation.

Choke dismantles the intellectual narratives we construct to distance ourselves from natural cycles, offering a poignant reminder that humans are animals, in all their frailty and beauty.

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Portraits—The Failure of the State | Brian Maguire at Irish Arts Center, New York

Portraits—The Failure of the State | Brian Maguire at Irish Arts Center, New York

16/02/2026 - 20/06/2026
12:00 am
Irish Arts Center
726 11th Ave, New York, NY 10019

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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CHOKE | Claire Morgan at Stiftung Bartels Fondation

CHOKE | Claire Morgan at Stiftung Bartels Fondation

14/06/2026 - 21/06/2026
3:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Stiftung Bartels Fondation
Zum Kleinen Markgräflerhof, Augustinergasse 17, Basel, CH4051

CHOKE : A meditation on grief and the alchemy of the abject.

Preview: 13th June 2026. 6-8pm

Artist talk and late opening: 17th and 18th June. 7-9pm

Open daily: 14-21 June. Open 3-6pm and by appointment.

This intimate, artist-initiated presentation of deeply personal new work coincides with Basel’s international art week, marking the culmination of a 3-month residency at Stiftung Bartels Fondation.

Choke dismantles the intellectual narratives we construct to distance ourselves from natural cycles, offering a poignant reminder that humans are animals, in all their frailty and beauty.

 

For more information, click here.

 

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Stranger | Colin Davidson at Château La Coste, Provence, France

Stranger | Colin Davidson at Château La Coste, Provence, France

07/03/2026 - 22/06/2026
12:00 am
Château La Coste
2750 Route de la Cride, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, 13610

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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As Above, So Below | Sarah Savage at Iruña Park

As Above, So Below | Sarah Savage at Iruña Park

01/06/2026 - 30/06/2026
Iruña Park
C. de Arcadio María Larraona, 1, Pamplona , Navarra , 31008

As Above, So Below explores painting as both material and metaphor. Built through layers, staining, transparency, and accumulation, the pigment spreads, settles, erodes, and condenses into abstract forms that suggest shifting relationships between atmosphere, landscape, and the body.

Drawing on organic, cellular, and meteorological structures, the paintings examine processes of transformation and exchange. Mineral-like surfaces and suspended gestures evoke systems that feel simultaneously microscopic and cosmic, bodily and environmental.

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Painting Ulysses | Aidan Hickey at the Irish Cultural Centre, London

Painting Ulysses | Aidan Hickey at the Irish Cultural Centre, London

26/01/2026 - 31/07/2026
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith
5 Black’s Road, London, W6 9DT

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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Portraits—The Failure of the State | Brian Maguire at Irish Arts Center, New York

Portraits—The Failure of the State | Brian Maguire at Irish Arts Center, New York

16/02/2026 - 20/06/2026
12:00 am
Irish Arts Center
726 11th Ave, New York, NY 10019

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.

Read more →
Stranger | Colin Davidson at Château La Coste, Provence, France

Stranger | Colin Davidson at Château La Coste, Provence, France

07/03/2026 - 22/06/2026
12:00 am
Château La Coste
2750 Route de la Cride, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, 13610

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.

Read more →
As Above, So Below | Sarah Savage at Iruña Park

As Above, So Below | Sarah Savage at Iruña Park

01/06/2026 - 30/06/2026
Iruña Park
C. de Arcadio María Larraona, 1, Pamplona , Navarra , 31008

As Above, So Below explores painting as both material and metaphor. Built through layers, staining, transparency, and accumulation, the pigment spreads, settles, erodes, and condenses into abstract forms that suggest shifting relationships between atmosphere, landscape, and the body.

Drawing on organic, cellular, and meteorological structures, the paintings examine processes of transformation and exchange. Mineral-like surfaces and suspended gestures evoke systems that feel simultaneously microscopic and cosmic, bodily and environmental.

Read more →
CHOKE | Claire Morgan at Stiftung Bartels Fondation

CHOKE | Claire Morgan at Stiftung Bartels Fondation

14/06/2026 - 21/06/2026
3:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Stiftung Bartels Fondation
Zum Kleinen Markgräflerhof, Augustinergasse 17, Basel, CH4051

CHOKE : A meditation on grief and the alchemy of the abject.

Preview: 13th June 2026. 6-8pm

Artist talk and late opening: 17th and 18th June. 7-9pm

Open daily: 14-21 June. Open 3-6pm and by appointment.

This intimate, artist-initiated presentation of deeply personal new work coincides with Basel’s international art week, marking the culmination of a 3-month residency at Stiftung Bartels Fondation.

Choke dismantles the intellectual narratives we construct to distance ourselves from natural cycles, offering a poignant reminder that humans are animals, in all their frailty and beauty.

 

For more information, click here.

 

Read more →
Talk | CHOKE- A Meditation on Grief and the Alchemy of the Abject at the Stiftung Bartels Fondation

Talk | CHOKE- A Meditation on Grief and the Alchemy of the Abject at the Stiftung Bartels Fondation

17/06/2026 - 18/06/2026
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Stiftung Bartels Fondation
Zum Kleinen Markgräflerhof, Augustinergasse 17, Basel, CH4051

This intimate, artist-initiated presentation of deeply personal new work coincides with Basel’s international art week, marking the culmination of a 3-month residency at Stiftung Bartels Fondation.

Choke dismantles the intellectual narratives we construct to distance ourselves from natural cycles, offering a poignant reminder that humans are animals, in all their frailty and beauty.

Read more →