Visual Arts June 16 – August 20 2017 The LAB Gallery, Dublin The LAB Gallery is pleased to present, Shrine For Girls, Dublin, the first solo exhibition in Ireland of New York artist Patricia Croinin. One of the critically acclaimed highlights of … Caroline Pi : Shrine for girls
Visual Arts 1 June to 1 July Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin Kevin Kavanagh presents ‘Crooked Orbit’, an exhibition of recent paintings by Diana Copperwhite. ‘In this latest exhibition, Crooked Orbit, these are large and at least initially discordant works. It seems as … Diana Copperwhite : Crooked Orbit
Visual Arts 20th May – 1st July 2017 Kerlin Gallery, Dublin Kerlin Gallery is pleased to present Faith After Saenredam and Other Paintings, an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Paul Winstanley. The exhibition will open with a reception … Paul Winstanley : Faith After Saenredam and Other Paintings
Visual Arts Thursday 6 April – Sunday 14 May 2017 Gallery of Photography, Dublin Noel Bowler’s expansive project ‘Union’ looks at the spaces of organised labour. ‘Union’ explores the meeting rooms and back offices at the coalface of the ideological war between … Noel Bowler : Union
Visual Arts A group exhibition at RUA RED exploring how art can impact education, featuring work from John Beattie, Sarah Browne, Ella de Búrca, Priscila Fernandes, Mark O’Kelly, Maria McKinney, and Sarah Pierce. Curated by Jennie Guy This exhibition addresses a crisis. … Jennie Guy : It’s Very New School
Visual Arts Audiences can experience the works of acclaimed Belgian artist Eugeen Van Mieghem for the first time in Ireland next year, through an exhibition depicting the vibrant life of the Port of Antwerp at Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane. Eugeen … Michael Dempsey : Port life
Visual Arts In an automated world, is it nearly time to put humans out to pasture? Does the future resemble a leisure-time utopia or a robot-tended human-zoo? Will the notion of work become a thing of the past if machines really can … Aleksandra Amaladass and Ryan Coyne : Humans need not apply
Visual Arts IMMA has announced its programme for 2017. The full details of it can be seen on imma.ie. The announcement was followed a talk given by Brazilian artist Jac Leirner, of her exhibition “Institutional Ghost” which runs from 14th February to … Sarah Glennie : IMMA programme 2017
Visual Arts The highly anticipated exhibition Beyond Caravaggio opens in the National Gallery of Ireland on Saturday 11 February 2017. It brings together over 40 major works, including four master paintings by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), complemented by other significant masterpieces … Adrian Le Harivel : Beyond Caravaggio
Visual Arts Beatland is an exhibition of paintings by Dublin based artist Chanelle Walshe. The paintings depict human organs, the heart and lungs, in various energetic states. The forms are isolated, unearthed from a nourishing ground, and offered up to the viewer … Chanelle Walshe : Beatland
Visual Arts 11 February – 25 March 2017 Kerlin Gallery, Dublin Kerlin Gallery is delighted to present Deepdrippings, an exhibition of new paintings by Phillip Allen. The exhibition will open with a reception in the company of the artist on the evening … Rosa Abbott : Deepdrippings
Visual Arts Mother River is a breathtaking photographic odyssey by the British-Chinese photographer, Yan Wang Preston. It takes the viewer on a journey along the entire length of the Yangtze, China’s ‘Mother River’. From the remote high Tibetan Plateau, through the Three … Yan Wang Preston : Mother River
Visual Arts January 20, 2017 – March 26, 2017 Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin Drawing on over a decade of image-making and research on themes of protest and urban space, Irish artist Joy Gerrard archives and painstakingly remakes media-borne crowd images from around … Joy Gerrard : shot crowd
Visual Arts TOMOKO SAWADA (b. 1977 Kobe, Japan) uses photography to explore the relationship between one’s inner life and outer image. Sawada’s works borrow compositional devices from familiar photographic formats such as the school portrait, weddings, and fashion photography, restaging them in … Matthew Nevin : School Days
Visual Arts The Prix Pictet Prize aims to harness the power of photography – all genres of photography – to draw global attention to issues of sustainability, especially those concerning the environment. Centered round the theme Disorder The Prix Pictet Finalists’ Exhibition … Trish Lambe : Disorder
Literature Marsh’s Library was founded in the early eighteenth century by Archbishop Narcissus Marsh (1638-1713).Designed by Sir William Robinson (d.1712) the Surveyor General of Ireland, it is one of the very few 18th century buildings left in Dublin that is still … Jason McElligott : Marsh’s Library
Visual Arts In her practice, Vanessa Donoso Lòpez explores the forces of contemporary migration. As part of our ongoing Art & Ecology programme, a partnership between Dublin City Council Arts Office and our colleagues in Parks and Biodiversity, we invited Vanessa to … Vanessa Donoso Lòpez : To Swallow a Ball
Visual Arts A4 Sounds is a interdisciplinary arts organisation based in Dublin but with members dotted across the globe. You will find us in Ireland, U.K, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, Australia and The Philippines. The mission of the A4 Sounds arts organisation … Andrew Edgar, Kate McElroy and Eimhin McNamara : A4 Sounds
Visual Arts The Metronome Bursts of Automatic Fire Seep Through the Dawn Mist Like Muffled Drums and We Know It for What It Is During the Cold War the FAL rifle was the most distributed weapon in non communist countries, and therefore … Michael Dempsey : Sven Augustijnen
Visual Arts Pallas Projects/Studios provides a dynamic and nurturing working environment, based in a converted school building located at the bottom of Francis Street, Dublin 8, just minutes walk from the National College of Art & Design, Christchurch and the city centre. … Gavin Murphy & Mark Cullen: Pallas Projects/Studios
Visual Arts The Body Politic highlights the strength and diversity of contemporary photography in Austria. The work reflects the concerns of five established and emerging photographic talents: Karin Fisslthaler uses ‘found’ images to explore rituals and social conventions manifested in film and … Herman Seidl and Gabriele Wagner : The Body Politic
Visual Arts The artists Tom Watt, Tanad Williams and Andreas Kindler von Knobloch have created an artwork drawing on their mutual interest in architecture – built interruptions in the landscape and industry. Their structure – which they describe as ‘not a stage, … Project Arts Centre : Brute Clues
Visual Arts There Is neither Pine nor Apple in Pineapple is a play on words. This game reflects the way we have to juggle with expression when living in a foreign land rescuing unusual or invented terms. This show translates this circumstance … Vanessa Donoso López : There Is neither Pine nor Apple in Pineapple – Instituto Cervantes
Visual Arts The object has engaged with art’s historical and contemporary encounter with destruction, as well as more philosophical explorations of iconoclasm. When we witness destruction in the field of culture, such as the recent destruction of Palmyra in Syria, some societal … Hilary Murray : Object Wars – ArtBox
Visual Arts In the Flesh, The Lab, Foley Street, Dublin 1 28th January to 12th March 2016 The LAB Gallery is pleased to present In the Flesh by Bridget O’Gorman. This is the first series of three exhibitions where contemporary artists have … Bridget O’Gorman : In The Flesh, The Lab
Visual Arts The Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, presents ‘Water for the Tribe’, an exhibition of new painting by Jan Pleitner. Pleitner’s paintings are striking and expressive: an intense exploration of colour and energy. Characterised by fast lines and deep pigments that bleed into … Rosa Abbott : Jan Pleitner, Water for the Tribe
Visual Arts Irish premiere exhibition of Ted Russell’s intimate, previously unseen, photographs of Bob Dylan in New York City. The photographs chronicle days in the life of the then unknown folk artist – backstage and onstage at the folk clubs, hanging out … Chris Murray and Carlotta Hester : Bob Dylan NYC 1961-64 + The Pure Drop
Visual Arts Project Arts Centre Till 19 March 2016 11am – 8pm FREE ADMISSION Artist Núria Güell has created an international fiscal disobedience consultancy against the Troika that will be the subject of her solo exhibition here at Project Arts Centre in … Tessa Giblin and Núria Güell : Troika Fiscal Disobedience Consultancy
Music “Kaleidoscope Night is a unique salon music experience that happens on the first Wednesday of every month at the Bello Bar, 1 Portobello Harbour, Dublin. Now in its seventh year, the series has been described by The Irish Times as … Karen Dervan and Lioba Petrie : Kaleidoscope Night
Theatre Creditors at The New Theatre, Dublin by August Strindberg in a version by David Greig C Company Jan 25th – Feb 6th Opens 26 Jan, Previews 25 Jan (Matinees Jan 30 & Feb 3) @ 7.30pm ( + @ 2.30pm … Aoife Spillane-Hinks and The Cast : Creditors