What’s On around Ireland

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.

Exhibition continues from 15/11/25 until 27/09/26.

Jack Butler Yeats (1871–1957) is one of Ireland’s most celebrated twentieth-century artists. The Niland Collection, housed at The Model, holds an extensive body of his work spanning the full arc of his career – from early pen-and-ink illustrations and lively watercolours, to the expressive oil paintings that define his mature style.

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

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.

Exhibition continues from 30/01/2026 to 08/11/2026.

To celebrate our 75th anniversary, the Lyric presents this new exhibition that showcases our rich history. A history which includes an art gallery (The New Gallery, 1963–1969), a literary magazine Threshold (1957–1990), a dance centre, a drama school, Belfast’s first music academy, and of course, a theatre.

Click here to view the full programme

“Of the Earth” – A Three-Person Exhibition at Glass Attic Gallery, Jerpoint Glasss Studios, Kilkenny Of the Earth, a three-person exhibition featuring the paintings of Debra Bowden, Ross Stewart, and Krisztina Rozanich, opening on Friday, April 17th at 6pm at the Glass Attic Gallery, Glenmore, Stonyford, Co. Kilkenny (R95 WN67). The exhibition will be opened by Sue Nunn and runs Monday to Saturday, 10am–5pm.
Of the Earth brings together three distinct yet deeply interconnected artistic practices, each grounded in a shared engagement with landscape, material, and the passage of time.

Discover the inaugural photography work “Gone Dark” by Irish artist Ciara Lyden available at https://gone-dark.com/. The online interactive exhibit offers you the opportunity to enjoy the photography and reflect on the experience of the Iberian Peninsula Black Out of 28th April 2025. Thirteen fine art photographs taken during the electricity blackout, presented as an immersive online exhibition that reconstructs the experience of examining the city in a new “light”.

Navigate through the images and when the light fades, use your mouse to find your focus in the dark.

Exhibition continues from 01/05/26 until 18/07/26.

The Polish-born, Warsaw-based artist Liliana Zeic works with craft techniques, video, photography, objects, and text, creating intermedia and performative projects based on artistic research.

Eating the Sun is part of a research-led curatorial project, developed in collaboration with Dr Aleksandra Gajowy (UCD), designed to introduce Central and Eastern European (CEE) lesbian artistic practices to an Irish audience. The current heightened interest in the region – spurred by events such as the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing attacks on queer and trans lives, as well as women’s reproductive rights – has also highlighted the persistent lack of understanding of the CEE region, particularly in the global North.

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council is delighted to present Lifework, an exhibition of artworks by seven artists who work at the Kilkenny Collective for Arts Talent (KCAT) Studio. The exhibition opens at the Municipal Gallery, dlr Lexicon in Dún Laoghaire on Saturday 9 May and runs until Wednesday 26 August 2026. Admission is free.
The artists featured are Thomas Barron, Declan Byrne, Lorna Corrigan, Sinéad Fahey, Fergus Fitzgerald, Andrew Pike, Jason Turner. Lifework presents examples of each artist’s earliest artwork beside examples of recent artwork.

Join us every weekend celebrating creativity at MART Grainstore Studios, Cabinteely Park.
Discover a vibrant selection of original paintings, prints, and cards from small treasures to statement pieces all created by our talented studio members.

‘How the Light Gets In’ is the summer exhibition showcasing the work of artists based in the The MART Grainstore Cabinteely studios from May to August.

Exhibition selected by the Art Riddler and curated by Louise Neiland. Artwork by members of ArtNetdlr.

Exhibition continues from 14/05/2026.

This exhibition explores poetic and symbolic connections between the human and non-human world. Working primarily through print-based practices, photography, and expanded media, both artists reflect themes of eco-consciousness, ritual, and psychological transformation within an environmentally precarious world. Nature is a metaphorical and philosophical anchor in both artists’ practice. The exhibition aims to consider how ancient knowledge, embodied awareness, and material practice can act as a form of resistance, healing, and renewal.

Ade is an Aberdeen based artist whose artwork reflects a deep interest in ecology mixing motifs and symbols which reflect his Nigerian culture, love of landscape and science fiction.
Ade is best known for linocuts, often large scale and with a dreamlike quality which combine striking visual beauty with sharp political and environmental commentary.
Ade will be talking about his work & showing examples of some plates & working materials on the 15th May at 2pm.

PhotoIreland presents the exhibition of the 5th edition of New Irish Works in 2026, a triennial programme of activities launched in 2013 to support Irish photographers, bringing new works by 10 selected artists to local and international audiences.

Featured artists:
Austin Hearne, Billy Kenrick, Ciara Richardson, Debbie Castro, Dorje De Burgh, Emily O’Connell, Garry Loughlin, Kate Nolan, Mandy O’Neill, and Miriam O’ Connor.

Launch: Thu 14 May at 6pm
Artist Tour: Sat 16 May at 12pm

All events are free; booking is required.

Find out more at image.museum

Taiwanese-American artist Ben Sloat’s exhibition, A New World is Possible, I Can Hear Her Breathing bridges the animist cultures of Taiwan and Ireland through use of materials which transform from raw to cultural states. Employing the respective craft traditions of these countries, Sloat proposes a new kind of syncretism of the handmade: one that blends histories, provides for coalition, and points to new possibilities for the future. Sloat will be working with two local Irish craftspeople, Brid Kivneen for traditional straw and Angela Nolan for willow, in the production of his installation in Gort.

Echoes Across an Island brings together emerging artists from SETU Waterford and Belfast School of Art at Ulster University in a shared process of listening, making, and reflection. Working across distance, the students entered into dialogue, exploring how place shapes the ways we see, remember, and belong. Their collaborations trace the often unseen threads that connect communities across Ireland. Threads of story, memory, and live

Butler Gallery is pleased to present ‘Meantime’, a mixed media exhibition combining photography and film by David Stephenson with a selection of poetry by Mark Granier.

The central theme of ‘Meantime’ is transience—the spirit of passing and life’s marginality.

Interspersed throughout the exhibition are prints of Mark Granier’s poems. These do not interpret or comment on the film or photographs, but compliment them tonally, encounters that are in the same orbit.

Learn more at butlergallery.ie

Crawford Art Gallery and Highlanes Gallery proudly present To Land: Living Roots Awaken, in collaboration with the Artist-Teacher-Researcher Curatorial Group. Drawing from the rich collection of Crawford’s contemporary works, the exhibition explores how identity is shaped by our relationship with land, history, and memory. We are an island formed by rupture and renewal, rooted in ancient cultures yet continually re-forming in the wake of colonisation. The exhibition conveys the persistence of history in the present, while themes of displacement and the urge to put down roots resonate quietly in the selected artworks.

Everyone is welcome in Our Place. Experience an immersive sound and light exhibition that playfully explores themes of human rights, happiness and belonging.

Our Place is a socially engaged art project that champions the human rights of people living with intellectual disabilities. This project places the ideas, talents and lived experience of people with an intellectual disability at the centre of artmaking and exhibition design.

Led by AlanJames Burns and Sinead McCann, and co-designers Patrick Fitzgerald and Tony Davis, in collaboration with people supported by Delta Centre, Our Place have developed a new installation for VISUAL Carlow

University College Cork Museum Studies Students and Cork Public Museum are proud to present ‘Life, Death, Legacy: Ireland’s Connected Bronze Age’. This exciting, student-curated exhibit explores the dynamic world of the Irish Bronze Age and shows how people from the past were not so different from us now.
‘Life, Death, Legacy’ offer visitors a thought-provoking experience using ancient artefacts from the Munster region. Themes such as feasting, death, luxury and metalworking are shown using burial urns, jewelry, and weapons, making it an unmissable exhibition. The exhibition opens on May 29th and is free for all visitors.

Exhibition continues from 30/05/26.

Paul’s work consists of large-scale charcoal and soft pastel drawings that focus on the local rural landscape. He approaches these subjects as individual presences, creating oversized images that generate an almost 3D effect. the drawings are highly physical and expressive.
Farm animals, along with the ever-eroding trees and ditches- familiar yet often overlooked, intimate yet utilitarian- occupy a complex position within Irish culture. Charcoal is central to the process. It’s immediacy and fragility mirror the subjects’ vulnerability.

Inner Lives: Studies in Form, Emotion and Presence is an exhibition of recent figurative ceramic sculptures by Martin Marley. The work explores the expressive potential of the human form, focusing on vulnerability, gesture and quiet emotional presence. Through processes of reduction and simplification, Marley moves beyond physical representation to reveal character and introspection. These contemplative figures invite a personal response, reflecting shared human experience through form, material and touch.

Alison Barry is an artist working from her home in Limerick. Her current use of soft pastel, charcoal and oils allow a sense of freedom to my expression as an artist. Being self-taught she is constantly learning and developing her style which has been described as contemporary in its feel, emotive, moody and atmospheric.
‘Capturing the antics and character of Irish wildlife, ‘A storytelling’ is a new collection of mixed media work to include rooks, hares and foxes..
This exhibition can be viewed in full at www.tseac.ie or in our Easter Snow Gallery open daily.

BIND is a programme of three exhibitions of individual artist books as part of Cork Printmakers artist book library across 2026.
The programme will activate the existing library and celebrate the new and innovative approaches to artists books as a both social and intimate durational art object. 

The first in the series will present the work of Eimearjean Mc Cormack. Limited-edition books and experimental publications have become an integral extension of Eimearjean’s printmaking practice. For her the book format functions simultaneously as an archive of process and as a platform for new ideas to emerge.

Exhibition continues from 04/06/26 until 11/07/26.

Kerlin Gallery is delighted to announce The Weight of Nothingness, an exhibition of new sculpture and photography by Siobhán Hapaska that explores absence as a material and as a psychological condition.

In The man with a stone in his stomach inverts sunflowers. a lone figure stands on a makeshift plinth. Their core is hollowed out and filled with a stone, the identity is obscured or they are without one. The darkened skeletal framework is a precarious one, simultaneously devotional and exhausted, its offering of inverted blue sunflowers are denied their upright sunny, optimistic disposition.

There is a heavy stone, a weight of nothingness at its core.

Exhibition continues fro 04/07/2026.

Oil painting exhibition reflecting Hayes’ six months living and working as a Great Blasket Island caretaker. Bringing his longstanding exploration of self and surroundings to this unique setting, he captures the world he encountered, its modern cast of characters, and its contemporary way of life. The paintings examine the dynamic relationship between past and present, exploring the inherent nature of ‘islandness’ and the distinctly liminal sense of place. His re-presentations of the island are painted with honesty and sincerity. Suspending some of the persistent preconceptions about islands, he challenges and re-contextualises them, creating a more nuanced picture.

Siamsa Tíre invites you to the opening reception on Saturday 4 July at 5:30pm – free entry, all welcome. 

James Hayes is a visual artist from county Kerry. He primarily operates as an oil-painter, but is also an accomplished muralist, illustrator and a qualified architect. His artistic practice is centred around a personal and phenomenological exploration of the complex relationship that exists between self and surroundings. His work has been characterised as a unique blended form of contemporary engagement with both the genre of ‘landscape’ painting and an intimate narrative painting tradition; eschewing hierarchy and category in favour of equal focus on both landscapes and figures. He is a self-styled painter of the space between people_and_place.

In ‘The Skiapod of Ballymaccus’ Stephen Brandes re-imagines the scarcely credible event of the skiapods, in a body of newly made work that includes drawings, painting and a collection of hand-built figurines, set into a construction of timber and found materials.

‘The Skiapod of Ballymaccus’ opens on Friday, 5th of June and runs until Friday, 24th of July at LHQ Gallery. An opening reception will take place on Friday 5th of June from 5.30pm. Stephen will be in conversation with Curator of Collections & Special Projects Crawford Art Gallery, Michael Waldron at the LHQ Gallery on Saturday, 20th of June at 12noon. LHQ Gallery is open Mon – Fri.

Draíocht is delighted to announce Colourings by Lucy Hill, curated by Helen O’Donoghue, a Draíocht Children’s Commission, part of a series of initiatives to mark Draíocht’s 25th birthday.

Colourings centres on the artist’s own abstract colourings, which she has reimagined through collaboration with fashion designer Orla Langan and sound designer Adam Kennedy.

Colourings celebrates scribbling as a practice of becoming, where colours, shapes, textures and lines merge with sound, touch and movement, emphasising how the experience of colouring can nurture empathy, curiosity and collective imagination.

Belfast’s Trailblazing Visionary Returns: A New Chapter of  A House of Play Explores Alice Berger Hammerschlag’s Groundbreaking New Gallery
The Lyric Theatre is delighted to present  The Return: Alice Berger Hammerschlag and the New Gallery, a new exhibition within its major anniversary show, A House of Play. This latest chapter revisits the bold legacy of the Lyric’s New Gallery (1963-1969) and its singular Curator and Director, Alice Berger Hammerschlag (1917-1969), bringing renewed focus to a remarkable and often overlooked moment in Belfast’s cultural history.

Exhibition continues until Friday, 10th July 2026.

A solo exhibition by Paul Galligan, designed by Mark St. John Ellis.

Paul’s work consists of large-scale charcoal and soft pastel drawings that focus on the local Irish rural landscape.

He approaches these subjects as individual presences, creating oversized images that generate an almost three-dimensional effect. The drawings are highly physical and expressive. He walks the surrounding roads and farms, photographing in monochrome, from which the artworks are developed.

Farm animals, along with the ever-eroding trees and ditches – familiar yet often overlooked, intimate yet utilitarian – occupy a complex position within Irish culture. By isolating and enlarging these subjects, the artist seeks to grant them a sense of directness and authority, encouraging viewers to acknowledge their presence. Charcoal is central to the process. Its immediacy and fragility mirror the subjects’ vulnerability.

Rather than presenting an idealised rural image, the work acknowledges the quiet realities of coexistence between humans, animals, and land. In a time of environmental uncertainty and shifting relationships with agriculture, these drawings invite a pause – a moment to look closely at lives that are deeply interwoven with our own.

Open 10am to 4pm Tuesday to Friday.
12pm to 4pm Saturday or by appointment.

SOFTctrl is a new solo exhibition by emerging artist Billie Adele at Studio 12, Backwater Artists Group, Cork.

Running 11 June – 17 July 2026, developed through the Backwater Artists Group Ciarán Langford Memorial Bursary, awarded to Adele in 2025.

The exhibition is a series of oil paintings exploring the tension between constructed feminine experience and something more unstable and uncontrollable beneath it.

Exhibition launch Friday 12th June 5-8pm.

‘Earthlight’, a solo exhibition by Hemant Rao. Developed during the artist’s 2026 residency at LSC, the exhibition features new works made with dry pastel and earth pigments sourced from Ireland and India.

Responding to the geology, atmosphere, and light of northwest Ireland, Rao’s luminous abstractions present layered explorations of elemental forces, navigating the thresholds between space, form, energy, and perception.Born in a remote village in Madhya Pradesh, India, Hemant early visual experiences were shaped by forests, and an abundance of light, agricultural terrains, heritage sites such as the Bhimbetka rock shelters and Sanchi Stupa.

Hellbound presents work by Limerick-based visual artist Breda Lynch – this new body of work has been unseen in public until now. Irreverent and unsettling, the exhibition cuts to the heart of how images shape and distort our understanding of identity, sexuality, and belonging. Through appropriation, collage, and dark humour, Lynch collapses past and present, insisting that the problems of history haunt our allegedly liberal today.

Official opening Sat 13 July 6-8pm | All welcome

Hellbound runs at GOMA Waterford 13 June – 11 July 2026 | Gallery hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 5pm

The exhibition will open on Saturday, 13th June, from 2pm to 4pm

Wexford Arts Centre and Wexford County Council Arts Department, in partnership with South East Technological University, are pleased to present idir, a solo exhibition by Blaine O’Donnell, recipient of the 2024 EMERGENCE Visual Art Award. .

For idir, O’Donnell has drawn upon geological sites in County Wexford and the architecture of the Wexford Arts Centre building. He has developed a new body of sculptural work incorporating moving image elements to explore questions of temporality, repetition, and translation.

An current body of work is about Watching a sunset. It is based on people coming together to experience things collectively. The work depicts a group that has convened for the purpose of joy. The work is based on a scene he witnessed where a group of people sat by a riverbank quietly watching a sunset. There were a huge number of people, as though a concert was about to begin, but it was just people coming together to enjoy the beauty of nature.

Liz Johnson’s art practice is project-based. Her recent work explores themes of transience and impermanence, and presence and memory. 

In this series of landscape paintings, she approaches presence and memory from the periphery, as a space of fragility and quiet tension. Where boundaries soften and shift, and form is suggested rather than fixed. She revisits familiar landscapes to reflect on the subtle unease of being tethered to places that are continually in flux – echoing Seamus Heaney’s ‘Postscript’, where the landscape leaves one being “neither here nor there”.  

This sense of being suspended in a moment that can’t be held reflects the Buddhist concept of impermanence, and of how all things arise and pass away. In these moments, the landscape becomes both presence and disappearance. Within these settings, memory exists as something both hidden and tangible — traces of what has been, are held quietly within.  

A Sense of Place invites a moment of stillness and contemplation, to consider how places continue to shape us even as they change or disappear. Rather than resisting transformation, this work reflects on what it means to live alongside it; to accept change and the passing of time as fundamental parts of human experience. 

‘’Longing for Home’’, presents a collection of artworks that explore Slovak folk identity and memory through narrative retelling and reclaim. Drawing from personal female experiences while reflecting on the historical traditional years of Slovakia and the women that have lived it. Living away from my motherland leaves me with a persistent sense of longing. I frequently struggle with where I fit and feel torn between two different countries, attempting to reconnect with my heritage. Every piece of work reflects longing for a place familiar yet distant and its history.

This exhibition transforms the gallery into an immersive environment of paintings and embroidered texts which narrate the horrific story of Bridget Cleary, a young woman from rural Ireland who was brutally murdered in 1895 after being accused of witchcraft. The work is presented in a mapping fashion, connected by a trail of red ribbon that weaves though the space, with dates and locations inviting us to trace the events that led to Bridget’s death. The work attempts to reclaim Bridget’s silenced voice, turning domestic craft into acts of storytelling and resistance.

Sulphur is an exhibition of new work by visual artist Orla Whelan. Building on her longstanding interest in geology and colour, in 2025 Orla undertook research in collaboration with The Fold art and geology group, focusing on specimens of elemental sulphur from UCC’s rock collection. Initially drawn to the intense colour, Orla’s research interests deepened to include the invisible crystalline structure embedded within the rocks various outward formations, as well as its historical roles in alchemy, industry and astronomy.

Opening reception Thur 18 June 5.30-7.30pm.

Artist talk, as part of The Fold Symposium, Sat 04 July, 3pm

The CHGS Summer Open Exhibition is a key annual showcase for emerging and established artists from Ireland and beyond. Presenting a diverse range of practices in a professionally curated group show, the exhibition is selected each year by an independent guest judge, this year Sarah Fuller Wallis.

The Summer Open 2026 brings together over 80 artists and more than 100 artworks from across Ireland in a vibrant celebration of contemporary Irish art. Visitors can expect an inspiring mix of paintings, sculptures, and mixed-media works that reflect the richness and diversity of creative voices across the country.

‘Urban Landscapes’ is a body of work created without boundaries or fixed rules, embracing creative freedom and open interpretation. Fluid, expressive, and imaginative, it explores colour, texture, and design as a means of navigating and escaping the realities and challenges of the contemporary world. The exhibition reflects Fiona O’Brien’s experience as a long-time Ballymun resident, documenting and responding to the constant construction, transformation, and evolution of the environment around her. Influenced by urban living, music, nature, weather, culture, diversity, architecture, developing spaces, and punk aesthetics.

OPENING: 19th June 7-9pm

Exhibition continues from 19/06/26.

This exhibition is part of a self-initiated creative and educational programme by Lise McGreevy.

Currently NI and Ireland still have vast gender inequality across all aspects of society. At a time when the adult population in NI is a majority 52% female and 50.5% in Ireland. Inequality still reigns across all sectors of our community. This programme aims to support and promote female equality and diversity across race, religion, sexual orientations. Known for their emotion dexterity, by stripping away their differences, Lise has instead focused on the complex emotions that are felt by ALL females. With the aim of uniting us across NI.

Please note there is a £5 entrance fee into Belfast Cathedral.

Solas Art Gallery presents solo exhibitions by two local artists, showcasing digital culture and the seascape environment.

This joint solo exhibition series brings together two distinctive, artistic voices uniting across contrasting mediums; the immersive realm of digital artistry by Damien O’Rourke and expressive language of abstract seascape painting by Tony Lock.

Experience this fascinating dialogue between screen and sea by joining us for the opening of this exhibition on Friday 19th June at 7:30pm at Solas Art Gallery in the Island Theatre, Ballinamore. The exhibition runs until Friday 17th July.

Phil Collins
Sat. 20 Jun. – Sat. 22 Aug. 2026
The Model is delighted to present a major exhibition by the internationally renowned visual artist and filmmaker Phil Collins. Over the course of a deeply engaged practice spanning three decades, Collins has realised ambitious projects that shift perspective between the individual and the collective, situating personal experience within broader historical contexts. Balancing intimacy with social critique, he consistently challenges the conventions of documentary representation, creating works that are emotionally charged, formally adventurous and attentive to the poetics of the everyday.

Running annually for more than 40 years, this exhibition showcases work by artists from across West Cork and beyond at all stages of their careers. Submission is open to the many artists who subscribe to our Membership and Friendship schemes. This gives our artist Members and Friends the opportunity to exhibit across both the James O’Driscoll Gallery on the ground floor, and upstairs in Gallery II.
Including over 100 artworks by professional, student and amateur artists, this exhibition really has something for every taste and budget.

Join us for the launch of The Green Loy at The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon on Saturday 20 June from 2—4pm.

The Green Loy is a celebration of local folk art and culture, grounded in the life and traditions of Leitrim and the north-west. A cock of hay, a loy, and a vividly reimagined dresser form part of a vision that elevates everyday objects into the realm of art.

The exhibition is curated by writer and broadcaster Vincent Woods, ceramic artist Katy West, and dancer and community artist Edwina Guckian.

Join us for the launch of The Kite Ballet at The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon on Saturday 20 June from 2—4pm.

The Kite Ballet by Thaís Muniz intertwines poetic and mythical elements with political, historical, and symbolic themes, amplifying the voices of local activists from the Itapuã area in Salvador, Brazil.

The eponymous film portrays a group of kite runners in their weekly communal ritual, highlighting the threat of private development and ecological displacement of Afro-Indigenous sacred territory, where joy and spiritual practices have thrived for centuries.

Opening Reception: Saturday 20 June, 2.30pm.

Bassam Al-Sabah, George Bolster, Alan Butler, Cecilia Danell, Willie Doherty, Rachel Doolin, Mark Garry, Hammerheads (Marie Farrington, Sibyl Montague, Liliane Puthod, Laura Ní Fhlaibhín), Elaine Hoey, Patrick Hough, Bernadette Kiely, Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Niamh McCann, Eleanor McCaughey, Lucy McKenna, Isabel Nolan, Barbara Knežević, Emily Waszak, Grace Weir.

The Future is Open marks the 20th anniversary of Solstice Arts Centre, brings together a selection of previously exhibited artists whose work explores expansive theories of space, time and the cosmos. More information on the website.

Inner Lives is an exhibition of figurative sculptures exploring the quiet, often unseen aspects of human experience. Created from fired clay and reclaimed timber, the works combine natural materials with the human form to reflect on presence, memory, identity and connection. Each figure invites a moment of pause and contemplation, encouraging viewers to look beyond outward appearance and consider the rich inner worlds that shape our lives.

This playful, embodied art-based research moves through muscle, skin and memory to explore how gender identity, self-expression and self-actualization are experienced among individuals practicing recreational pole dancing in Ireland. Here, pole dancing becomes a site of discovery, creation and expression of both the individual and collective socio-political self. The solid and the ephemeral dance together through sculpture, words, images, light, sound and colour. The exhibition is accompanied with live performance art.

This art-based research is funded by Research Ireland’s Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Programme.

Opening Launch Wednesday 24th June 7pm.