Featured Exhibitions & Events
Exhibitions:
Out of the Dark Room: The David Kronn Collection
Opening: Wednesday 20th July
Running till the 9th of October
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin 8.
This exhibition is drawn from a collection of more than 450 photographs brought together by the Irish born American collector David Kronn. The collection ranges in content from 19th century Daguerreotypes to the 20th century photography of Edward Weston and August Sander and works from award-winning contemporary photographers, such as the husband and wife team of Nicolai Howalt and Trine Sondergaard, and the Japanese photographer Asako Narahashi. It is particularly strong in its representation of Harry Callahan, Kenneth Josephson, Irving Penn and Brett Weston […]
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RHA Annual Exhibition 2011
Dates: 25th of May to 30th of July
Royal Hibernian Academy, 15 Ely Place, Dublin 2.
The RHA Annual Exhibition is Ireland’s longest running and largest open submission exhibition. This year, on its 181st edition, a record 585 artworks will be exhibited, featuring both established and emerging Irish and international artmakers. This year the exhibition will comprise of a broad range of photographic works by RHA members Amelia Stein, Gary Coyle, Eilis O’Connell and Abigail O’Brien. Invited photographers and artists working in lens-based media in this year’s exhibition are Michael Boran, Anthony Haughey, Tom Jenner, Dragana Jurisic, Mary Kelly, Ciara Killalea, Jeanette Lowe, Fionn McCann, Mary McIntyre, John Minahan, Theresa Nanigan, Christine Redmond, Victor Sloan and many more […]
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The Long View. Contemporary Irish Photography
Opening: 1st July
Running till 28th August
Gallery of Photography, Temple Bar, Dublin 2.
The Long View is a group show of work by a selection of Ireland’s leading contemporary photographic artists, including David Farrell, Anthony Haughey, Richard Mosse, Jackie Nickerson, Paul Seawright, and Donovan Wylie.
For the first time, it brings together work by artists who have established considerable international reputations and whose photographs are represented in major collections worldwide. This exhibition explores a particular strand of international practice, showcasing what can be called ‘slow’ or ‘considered’ photography […]
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Versions and Diversions Curated by Karen Downey
Opening: 14 July
Running till the 20th August
Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, 5-9 Temple Bar, Dublin 2.
Versions and Diversions brings together a selection of works by contemporary artists who have all developed an experimental approach to working with found photographs, intervening in the image at surface and compositional levels through a range of processes, from cutting and placing to stitching and tearing. The exhibition explores how these contemporary works might be seen as a series of ‘versions’ and ‘diversions’. Version, in the sense of adaptation; of a composition that has been recast in a new form, and diversion as redirection or an instance of turning something aside from its course.The results are delicately constructed statements, highly subjective and ambiguous, which seduce us into a world turned upside-down […]
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Mexican Worlds: 25 Contemporary Photographers.
Opening: 7pm Thursday 30th June
Running till the 31st July
Connaught House, 1 Burlington Road, Dublin 4.
Mexico has a deep-rooted tradition of photography as a means of expression. The innovating impulse given in the second half of the 20th century by photographers such as Manuel and Lola Álvarez Bravo, Agustín Jiménez, Gabriel Figueroa, Nacho López, and Mariana Yampolsky put Mexican photography on the international map, where it is still very strongly present today.
The exhibition presents a number of the most significant works of recent decades. Roughly half of these belong to the collections of the Centro de la Imagen, which was established in 1994 […]
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Photographs 1908-1940, by Luis Ramón Marín
Opening: 6pm Thursday 7th July
Running till the 24th September
Instituto Cervantes Dublin, Exhibition Room, Lincoln House, Lincoln Place, Dublin 2.
Luis Ramón Marín, known to the press simply as Marín, was one of the first photographers to get out into the streets to record daily life and the news with his camera, supplying magazines and illustrated dailies which were enjoying a heyday during the first decades of the last century. Moreover, Marín is a pioneer of aerial photography in Spain, an aspect of his work begun in 1913, hardly a decade after the development of aviation itself. Marín was essentially a press photographer (he published more than 1,000 photos per year). He was, amongst his other jobs, press correspondent to the Royal Family […]
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Events:
Lecture and Preview – David Kronn on Collecting Photography
5pm Tuesday 19th July
Lecture Room
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin 8.
Talk by Seán Kissane on The David Kronn Collection
2pm Saturday 23rd July
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin 8.
Spaces are limited, so we recommend early booking.
What is Photography?
12noon Saturday 23rd July
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin 8.
By Fiona Loughnane, Art Historian and Lecturer.
What is_? is an information programme comprising talks, information booklets and web resources. The purpose of this programme is to introduce key concepts and themes in contemporary art to the general public. Series 1 comprises seven topics supported by a talk, booklet, and resource material available to download from IMMA’s website www.imma.ie. An additional series focusing on the ‘Materials & Methodologies’ of modern and contemporary art is being developed to complement Series 1 and to provide supplementary information to IMMA’s exhibitions programme. What is Photography? is the first in this series of ‘Materials and Methodologies’.
The What is_? series is produced and programmed by Lisa Moran, Curator: Education and Community Programmes and Sophie Byrne, Assistant Curator: Talks and Lectures Programme.
The booklet is in production and it will be available on the date of the talk, in hardcopy at IMMA, and on download from the website.
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Talk by Sheena Malone on Photography
1.15pm Wednesday 6th July
The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin 2.
Sheena Malone will give a talk on recent exhibitions at the Douglas Hyde Gallery, focussing on the photography of Miroslav Tichy, Eugene Von Bruenchenhein and S.I. Witkiewicz.
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Photography in Contemporary Painting
1.15pm Wednesday 27th July
The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin 2.
Michael Hill will present an introduction to how many contemporary painters use photographs – found or collected, personal snapshots, historical documentary pictures, record sleeves – as source material for their work.
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Lunchtime Tour with Amelia Stein RHA
1.10pm Thursday 7th July
Royal Hibernian Academy, 15 Ely Place, Dublin 2.
Free lunchtime tour of the RHA Annual Exhibition 2011 with photographer, Amelia Stein RHA.
Every Thursday lunchtime, artist Members of the RHA offer free guided tours of the Annual Exhibition. This will represent a wonderful opportunity to come and see the exhibition, looking at a selection of the works in the show, as chosen by each Member. Unlike average gallery tours, this allows a personal insight into the exhibition from the artists’ perspective. Amelia Stein RHA tour will take place on Thursday 7th July at 1.10pm. Booking is not required but we do expect the tours to be popular so would advise interested persons to arrive on time.
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Art Form Evening – Tour
6pm to 7pm 14th July
Royal Hibernian Academy, 15 Ely Place, Dublin 2.
Art form evening – tour of the RHA Annual Exhibition 2011 with photographer, Amelia Stein RHA, with specific discussion on the lens-based and photographic work in the exhibition.
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Documentary: Heroes without Arms. Photographers of the Spanish Civil War
Dates: 7pm 14th, 21st and 28th July
Instituto Cervantes Dublin, Exhibition Room, Lincoln House, Lincoln Place, Dublin 2.
The documentary depicts the early days of photojournalism in Spain through the lives of four friends – Alfonso, Luis Marín, Pepe Campúa and José María Díaz Casariego, who worked together at the legendary magazine Mundo Gráfico and witnessed the great changes that the Spanish Civil War brought about in their lives and careers. An extraordinary and thorough exercise in research that unveils some brilliant war photographs for the first time. “Héroes sin Armas. Fotógrafos en la Guerra Civil” (Heroes without Arms. Photographers of the Spanish Civil War) is produced by Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales (SECC) in association with La Fábrica and is directed by Ana Pérez de la Fuente and Marta Arribas, authors of “El tren de la memoria” and “Cómicos”. Screening continues along with the exhibition.
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Guided Tour by the Festival Director
Date: 6pm on 19th and 26th of July
Instituto Cervantes Dublin, Exhibition Room, Lincoln House, Lincoln Place, Dublin 2.
A guided tour of the Luis Ramón Marín exhibition by Ángel Luis González, Director of PhotoIreland Festival, sharing anecdotes and interesting insights on Marín’s work.
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