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IMMA - Irish Museum of Modern Art IMMA is Ireland's leading national institution for the collection and presentation of modern and contemporary art.
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IMMA is Ireland's leading national institution for the collection and presentation of modern and contemporary art and is the home of the National Collection. In addition to the collection IMMA presents a dynamic and changing programme of exhibitions from Irish and International Artists, and complimentary education and family programmes throughout the year. During your visit don’t forget to check out the IMMA shop and the Café, both located in the original basement of the RHK.

A national strike is planned for Wednesday 14 October and as a result IMMA will be closed to all visitors that day. We a...
12/10/2026

A national strike is planned for Wednesday 14 October and as a result IMMA will be closed to all visitors that day. We apologise for any disruption to your plans, and we look forward to welcoming you back from Thursday 15 October.


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10/10/2026

Competition time! 🚌
Have you spotted our Art in Motion: Routes and Roots bus roaming the streets of Dublin? Fancy winning lunch for you and a friend at the award-winning IMMA Café ?

Here’s how to enter,

📍Tell us where you have spotted our Art in Motion bus

🍽️ Tag a friend you’d share this delicious voucher with

💛 Like this post and make sure you’re following

📸 For a bonus entry share a picture of the bus out in the wild in the comments below!

About Art in Motion: Routes and Roots:
Presented in partnership with the National Transport Authority’s (NTA) (TFI) brand, Art in Motion: Routes and Roots transforms a Dublin bus into a vibrant moving canvas. Created by artist Alberta Whittle (.mongrel ), the project was developed in collaboration with poet Dagogo Hart ( ) and community writers’ group The Poetry Vigilantes, part of Dublin 8’s Fatima Groups United ( ).

Keep your eyes peeled, the bus is travelling across several routes on the TFI network in Dublin!

T&Cs: The prize consists of a voucher for Fruition Café at IMMA. The competition closes at 12 noon on Tuesday, 13 October 2026. The winner will be contacted via Instagram DM.

This October, we invite everyone to join us for a programme of activities marking Black History Month at IMMA. Black His...
09/10/2026

This October, we invite everyone to join us for a programme of activities marking Black History Month at IMMA. Black History Month is a time where we explore and celebrate the history, lives and culture of the African Diaspora in Ireland and beyond. Swipe to see our full programme.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐀𝐋𝐏𝐀𝐋 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞: 𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐍𝐨𝐢𝐫𝐞
𝑆𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 8–15 𝑂𝑐𝑡 / 𝐷𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑢𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 15 𝑂𝑐𝑡, 6-8𝑝𝑚 / 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒, 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑟𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑑
IMMA Horizons and The GALPAL Collective presents Imagine Noire, a reflection of black artistry through a curation of experimental and moving artwork from Black Irish and international filmmakers. Join us on Thursday 15 October for a special panel discussion to mark the screening of Imagine Noire.

Discover more at imma.ie

📸 Still from Hiba Elgizouli “Bidaya” Music Video

𝐄𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟒: 𝐒𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 & 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧
𝐹𝑟𝑖 16 𝑂𝑐𝑡, 2-5𝑝𝑚 / 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒, 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑟𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑑
Join Dr. Ebun Joseph for a screening and panel discussion of the documentary Echoes of 2004, examining the long-term impact of Ireland’s 2004 Citizenship Referendum, particularly the risk of statelessness and prolonged legal uncertainty among some Irish-born young people. The documentary showcases the lived experiences of young adults born and raised in Ireland who remain without citizenship or secure legal status, and the psychological and structural consequences that follow.  

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📸 Still from Echoes of 2004

𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐃𝐢𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐚: 𝐃𝐲𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 & 𝐓𝐮𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞-𝐬𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩
𝑆𝑎𝑡 24 & 𝑆𝑢𝑛 25 𝑂𝑐𝑡 / 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑟𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑑
Take part in a two-day workshop exploring the dyeing techniques, histories, and cultural significance of wax print and headwraps across the African diaspora. Across the two days, participants will have the opportunity to dye their own headwrap and be guided through various headwrap styles.

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📸 Turbante-se Workshop - Photo Allen Kiely

𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲: 𝐙𝐢𝐧𝐞-𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩
𝐹𝑟𝑖 30 𝑂𝑐𝑡 / 6-8𝑝𝑚 / 𝑓

Join us this October for a vibrant selection of events, swipe through to see this month’s highlights!From 22 October, vi...
07/10/2026

Join us this October for a vibrant selection of events, swipe through to see this month’s highlights!

From 22 October, visit our new exhibition ‘Eltiqa: How to Work together?’, presenting the work of an artist collective from Gaza City. Bringing together more than 60 artworks, the exhibition tells the story of a community that has managed to overcome years of oppression.

We are delighted to celebrate Black History Month with a packed programme of events including screenings and a discussion with the GALPAL Collective, a two-day workshop exploring the significance of headwraps across the African diaspora, and much more.

Join us for the launch of a new Field Day collection, curated by Dr Peter Doran, which responds to the 2024 Seamus Deane Field Day Lecture by Amitav Ghosh. The event features a panel discussion with contributors and hosts, including Stephen Rea, Dr Peter Doran, Nuala King-Gallagher, Professor PJ Mathews, Sinéad Mercier, Annie Fletcher, Aurélie Beatley and more. Followed by a reception with guest musicians Neil Martin, Nóirín Ní Riain and Cait Ni Riain.

Celebrate spooky season with a Halloween edition of our Family Explorer Art Workshops, where we will be asking you to help our resident ghost to find his lost possession, costumes are welcome!

This month, Living Canvas at IMMA will be featuring the films ‘Echoes (2025)’ by Petros Moris and ‘Newsreel 670 - Red Forests (2022)’ by Nika Autor month as part of our current exhibition Technologies of Peace.

💫Discover our full programme of October events at imma.ie

Today we’re taking a closer look at the work ‘Barbara Novak’, 1993 by George Segal, currently on display as part of our ...
25/09/2026

Today we’re taking a closer look at the work ‘Barbara Novak’, 1993 by George Segal, currently on display as part of our exhibition IMMA Collection: Art as Agency.

George Segal made a cast of Barbara Novak’s head, following her pose for a full-length piece, ‘Street Crossing’, 1992, which is now in the Segal Room in the Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey.

This work uses the process which launched his career as a sculptor in 1961: the unprecedented technique of wrapping the sitter in plaster bandages and then wetting them so that they set to form casts. Removed in sections when dry, they were then re-assembled, the form was adjusted and the surface treated. The pure white colour of most of Segal‘s works, as the artist himself claimed, did away with details which could distract the onlooker‘s attention.

Segal has always sought in his work to evoke a feeling of revelation and of psychological truth. Here, the plaster head is strikingly disposed against a background comprising a section of an old door and its adjacent frame, a fragment of a real-life architectural setting and small-scale relation of the large architectural environments he created for his life-size tableaux. Segal salvaged household hardware and fittings and discarded bedroom furniture which he cut up and incorporated into his sculptures.

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IMMA Collection: Art As Agency is kindly supported by

📷 Installation View, George Segal, ‘Barbara Novak’, 1993, Wood, plaster, Collection Irish Museum of Modern Art, The Novak/O'Doherty Collection at IMMA Donation, The American Ireland Fund, 2011. Photography by Ros Kavanagh.

Yesterday was the first day of our third Dwell Here assembly week of 2026. At IMMA we are delighted to be joined by thre...
24/09/2026

Yesterday was the first day of our third Dwell Here assembly week of 2026. At IMMA we are delighted to be joined by three new one-month residents Stanislava Ovchinnikova, Zena Zada Cumpston, and Tom Flanagan. They join IMMA’s one year residents Glenn Loughran, Paul O’Brien, Atoosa Pour Hosseini, Samir Mahmood, Xiao Zhiyu, and Addoley Dzegede. Our assembly weeks make space for IMMA residents to connect through discussion, workshops, site visits, and more.

Dwell Here offers participants a simple proposition: to commit to this time and place while thinking deeply about its urgencies. Together we are curious to learn what can be activated or challenged through the process of dwelling.

Image L-R: Addoley, Xiao, Glenn, Zena, Tom, Paul, Stanislava, Atoosa, Samir.
Image L-R:  Zena, Tom, Stanislava. 
Photos by Lucy Jorgensen

Join us this Thursday evening for our September Dublin by Dusk event, Art In Motion: Routes and Roots Community Celebrat...
23/09/2026

Join us this Thursday evening for our September Dublin by Dusk event, Art In Motion: Routes and Roots Community Celebration.

The evening will feature original poetry readings by The Poetry Vigilantes, of Dublin 8’s Fatima Groups United, and the award-winning poet, playwright, and performer Dagogo Hart as compère.

This community gathering is presented by IMMA in celebration of the collaborative project, Art in Motion: Routes and Roots, a mobile artwork on a Dublin bus that brings creativity to the streets of Dublin. The artwork was created by Alberta Whittle and developed in collaboration with poet Dagogo Hart and community writers group The Poetry Vigilantes.

As part of the evening celebration, a selection of videos capturing the Art in Motion project, from the poetry workshops to the final artwork, will be screened on the museum’s large outdoor screen, Living Canvas at IMMA. We welcome you to take a moment to watch the videos during the celebrations.

Art in Motion was launched in June 2026 and is brought to you by IMMA in partnership with the National Transport Authority (NTA) under its Transport for Ireland (TFI) brand.

This event is presented as part of Dublin by Dusk, a city-wide initiative that invites you to experience Dublin city late on the last Thursday of every month.

Discover more at imma.ie/whats-on/dublin-by-dusk

📸 by Marc O Sullivan

A new durational performance, ISRAELI STATE CRIMES IN PALESTINE SINCE 14 MAY 1948, by , streams live at IMMA from 22 to ...
22/09/2026

A new durational performance, ISRAELI STATE CRIMES IN PALESTINE SINCE 14 MAY 1948, by , streams live at IMMA from 22 to 27 September 2026 in the Lecture Room during museum opening hours.

Produced and curated by in partnership with a research institution based in Palestine, who have requested to remain anonymous.

In this work Arabic speaking performers read aloud, continuously, the names of Palestinians killed in historic Palestine by the Israeli state, its forces and settlers since the establishment of the State of Israel on 14 May 1948.

The performance runs 24 hours a day until the list is complete. Where the name has not been recorded, the reader will speak the Arabic word مجهول (Majhul), meaning “Unknown” followed by the place of death.

The performance has been produced on the occasion of DEATH & MONEY, Santiago Sierra’s upcoming exhibition curated by A/POLITICAL at .Rotterdam from 20 September to 20 December 2026.

Investigative Research and Methodology Advisor:
Co-Curator:
Artistic Assistant: .antunia
Research and Data Analyst: Mohamed Elmaazi
Transliteration: and .sal.d (creator of Maknuune, the open Palestinian Arabic lexicon)

IMMA’s autumn programme that has a specific focus on Palestine, from 22 October the exhibition Eltiqa: How to Work Together? presents the work of an artist collective from Gaza City; and from 19 November a major exhibition with Sharjah Art Foundation, A Sea for Borrowed Time, brings together works by Palestinian artists, or works about Palestine, from the Foundation’s internationally significant collection.

To watch the live stream of this performance, visit statecrimes.org

IMMA Horizons x CoisCéim Broadreach workshop MOVING SIGNATURES returns for a new series, uniting Slow Looking art tours ...
22/09/2026

IMMA Horizons x CoisCéim Broadreach workshop MOVING SIGNATURES returns for a new series, uniting Slow Looking art tours and movement workshops in an interdisciplinary collaboration responding to works in IMMA’s new exhibition, “Technologies of Peace”.

Taking place over two months, participants will explore empathy and perception, using the body as a means of thinking through how we understand and respond to the world around us while considering the ideas and questions raised by the exhibition.

Each of the five workshops takes a different theme as its starting point, beginning with a Slow Looking art tour of selected works in the gallery led by IMMA Horizons Curator Sundara O’Higgins, followed by an integrated movement workshop with choreographer and filmmaker Jonathan Mitchell.

This workshop series will take place from Saturday 3 October until Saturday 14 November. Booking is free and open to adults of all ages. No previous experience of art or movement is needed. For more details visit https://imma.ie/whats-on/moving-signatures/

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