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04 Oct 2017

IMMA presents The Edge of the Landscape; a major exhibition of the work of William Crozier IMMA is delighted to present William Crozier, The Edge of the Landscape. This is the first major presentation of Crozier’s work in Ireland since the retrospective held at Crawford Art Gallery, Cork and the RHA, Dublin in 1991. Best-known in Ireland for the lyrical landscapes made close to his home in West Cork from the mid-1980s, this exhibition of 30 works presents William Crozier’s early work, inspired by the Existentialist movement and the anxieties of the post-war period.

26 Jul 2017

New Projects from Amanda Coogan, Emma Haugh, Christodoulos Makris, Nathan O’Donnell and Suzanne Walsh announced for IMMA/NIVAL ROSC 50 IMMA and NIVAL have announced details of the artists and collaborators who have been selected to create new projects in response to ROSC 50; a collaborative research project from both organisations to mark the 50th anniversary of the first Rosc exhibition in 1967. Through a programme of talks, events, research commissions and exhibitions ROSC 50 revisits the Irish art historical account of these landmark visual art exhibitions in Ireland; exploring their legacy and meaning in the present day.

05 Jul 2017

IMMA Collection: Freud Project - Three Freud Project Residencies awarded to Laura Fitzgerald, Richard John Jones and Bridget O’Gorman / Sue Rainsford at IMMA IMMA is delighted to announce today (5 July 2017) three new Freud Project Residencies which have been awarded as the result of a recent Open Call. We look forward to working with artists Laura Fitzgerald and Richard John Jones and a collaborative project with artist Bridget O’Gorman and writer and researcher Sue Rainsford. Each project has its own unique perspective on Lucian Freud and his work and we are excited by the potential in each selected proposal.

20 Jun 2017

IMMA Director Sarah Glennie to leave IMMA at the end of the year IMMA are today announcing that Director Sarah Glennie will leave the organisation at the end of the year to take up a new position as Director of NCAD in January 2018. Glennie has been Director of IMMA since 2012 and during her tenure has grown IMMA’s audiences to the most significant levels in the museum’s history, making IMMA the 2nd most visited free attraction in Ireland in 2016. She has ensured the financial viability of the Museum through one of the most difficult funding periods for the institution and has led a critically acclaimed programme with a particular focus on supporting artists’ practice and introducing new audiences to contemporary art through a dynamic and discursive programme that extends beyond the gallery space.

13 Jun 2017

2017 Hennessy Art Fund for IMMA Collection Artists Announced Hennessy Ireland and IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art) today announce the four artists whose works have been selected to be purchased by The Hennessy Art Fund for IMMA Collection 2017. Ciarán Murphy, Maireád McClean, Mark Garry and Yuri Pattison will see their works added to the IMMA National Collection of Contemporary and Modern Art and join the company of esteemed artists such as Louis le Brocquy, Patrick Scott and Katie Holten. The works will be revealed to the public at IMMA on Thursday July 13 2017.

31 May 2017

Ground-breaking artists, Irish film-maker Vivienne Dick and American photographer Nan Goldin, present major solo exhibitions alongside one another for the first time IMMA is delighted to present two major solo exhibitions 93% STARDUST by Vivienne Dick and Weekend Plans by Nan Goldin. Key figures within ‘No Wave’, a short-lived avant-garde scene in the late 70’s in New York led by a collective of musicians, filmmakers and artists, Dick and Goldin met during this time and became life-long friends whose work richly influenced each-other.

23 May 2017

IMMA announces a Sunset Birth of performance, ritual and mysticism for the IMMA Summer Party 2017, sponsored by O’Hara’s Craft Beer. IMMA are delighted to announce details of ‘Sunset Birth’, the 2017 IMMA Summer Party taking place on Saturday 15 July. Sponsored by O’Hara’s Craft Beer it is curated by the artist Linder and the musician Maxwell Sterling. Responding to the current IMMA exhibition As Above, So Below: Portals, Visions, Spirits & Mystics, the curators have invited musicians and performers whose practice reflects and responds to themes of spirituality and mysticism via music, performance and ritual.

22 May 2017

ROSC 50 – 1967 / 2017 | Fifty years following the start of the Rosc Exhibitions 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the first Rosc exhibition in Ireland. These pivotal, and often controversial, exhibitions were the first major series of large scale international art exhibitions in Ireland, at a time when Ireland did not have a National Museum of Contemporary Art. Rosc took place approximately every four years between 1967 and 1988, with IMMA being founded in 1991.

16 May 2017

IMMA 1000 fund raises €120,000 in year one & Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs awards match funding to acquisitions fund to create an overall fund of €170,000 IMMA 1000 fund raises €120,000 in year one, announces four new artist residencies and three new purchases, all by female artists, to the National Collection. Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Heather Humphreys awards match funding to acquisitions fund to create an overall IMMA 1000 fund of €170,000

27 Mar 2017

As Above, So Below: Portals, Visions, Spirits & Mystics Featuring an exciting selection of modern masterworks and landmark contemporary art works by Hilma af Klint, Wassily Kandinsky, Steve McQueen, Bruce Nauman, Sigmar Polke, Cameron - many being shown for the first time in Ireland - and new commissions created specifically for this exhibition by Linder, Matt Copson, Stephan Doitschinoff, Alan Butler and others.

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