IMMA and IPUT Real Estate Dublin launch Living Canvas at IMMA Spring/Summer Programme

Epic new work by Irish artist Clare Langan headlines Living Canvas at IMMA Programme.

IMMA, the Irish Museum of Modern Art and IPUT Real Estate, Ireland’s leading property investment company and visionary supporter of the arts, are excited to launch the Spring/Summer programme of Living Canvas at IMMA, Europe’s largest digital art screen on the grounds of IMMA. The programme launches from today (Friday 11 April, 2025) with the premiere of Irish artist Clare Langan’s epic new film work Alchemy, 2023.

In the aftermath of a pandemic and a time of numerous climate crises, Clare Langan’s Alchemy symbolises an alchemical change that is necessary for the human species and the planet to survive. This sensory-rich film of provoking visuals and original music takes the viewer through a journey of narrative transformation and revolution. The visuals are shot by Oscar-nominated cinematographer Robbie Ryan and artist Clare Langan, with an original score by Gyða Valtýsdóttir and soundscape by Daniel Goddard. Alchemy will be shown until 23 April and will form part of the museum’s celebration of Earth Day on 22 April.

In May, to coincide with a major display from IMMA’s Permanent Collection called Art as Agency, Living Canvas at IMMA will screen highlights from the IMMA Collection moving image works featuring artist Maïa Nunes, followed by Duncan Campbell, and Deirdre O’Mahony, amongst others.

To celebrate Pride 2025, Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor’s film work laying fire (2022), an experimental memory work on intimacy will be screened in June. This will be followed across the summer months with screenings by artists Ammar Bouras, Pádraic Barrett, Marion Bergin, Sarah Browne, Linda Brownlee, Atoosa Pour Hosseini, Ahree Lee, Susan Thomson, and Sweat Variant (Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born). The summer programme will also include one-off film screenings on selected Thursday evenings from 6pm to 8pm from 19 June to 28 August.

In September to coincide with EARTH RISING, IMMA’s festival dedicated to sparking climate conversations, Living Canvas at IMMA will screen a thought provoking film programme including works by artists Telu Von Flap, Martina O’ Brien, Tina Claffey, Simone Kessler, Aoife Desmond, Linda Schirmer, Stijn Ank, Tanya de Paor, Denis Buckley, Una Walker, Anna Korbut, Zoë Uí Fhaolain, and Paul Hallahan.

Local, national, and international creative partnerships are central to the Living Canvas at IMMA programme. These range from Dublin International Film Festival and art and technology’s Beta Festival, to collaborations further afield including the Jarman Award, London, and BIENALSUR, the International Contemporary Art Biennial of South America.

IPUT Real Estate, Ireland’s leading property investment company and visionary supporter of the arts, has successfully presented Living Canvas, at two of its buildings in Dublin’s city centre since 2021. The Living Canvas large-scale outdoor public art screen, now located on IMMA’s front lawn for two years allowing visitors and the wider community to enjoy a vibrant programme of artworks by Irish and international artists in IMMA’s beautiful surroundings.

Niall Gaffney, Chief Executive, of IPUT Real Estate, commenting on the launch said “As a long-term investor in Dublin, IPUT Real Estate is committed to creating a space for culture in and around our buildings. We want to ensure Dublin remains an attractive and vibrant place to work and live. In this regard, we provide artists with spaces to create work, and to platform that work to the city. We are very proud of our Living Canvas initiative that to date has displayed the work of 120 artists and 100 individual art and literary works. We are excited to see Living Canvas at IMMA, and we are proud to support the work of the museum.”

Mary Cremin, Head of Programming at IMMA said “Living Canvas has enlivened the IMMA’s grounds, providing a welcoming space for visitors to delve into a captivating film programme in their own time. The partnership with IPUT Real Estate has opened new opportunities for the museum to collaborate with and support festivals across Ireland and bring international screenings to new audiences at IMMA.”

 11 April 2025

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Screens daily from Monday to Sunday from 9.30am to 6.30pm.

About IPUT Real Estate Dublin
IPUT Real Estate is Ireland’s leading property investment company and visionary supporter of the arts Owner of 70 buildings in many of Dublin’s city centre neighbourhoods, IPUT is committed to positively shaping the public realm and to supporting arts and culture within the city. Across its portfolio, IPUT supports and showcase Irish artists and creators – commissioning sculptures, paintings and installations that stimulate and sustain the occupiers of its buildings and those who live, work, and socialise in the neighbourhoods in which those buildings are located.

About Living Canvas
IPUT Real Estate launched Living Canvas in 2021 as a spectacular presentation of public art using giant outdoor screens at two of its sites in Dublin’s city centre: Wilton Park off Baggot Street, and at the Tropical Fruit Warehouse on Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin 2. The custom designed screens debuted the works of leading Irish and international artists produced in partnership with leading cultural institutions the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA) and the Museum of Literature Ireland (MOLI). Over the course of two years, Living Canvas featured the work of more than 120 artists and presented close to 100 individual art and literary works.

About IMMA
Founded in 1991, IMMA is Ireland’s National Cultural Institution for Modern and Contemporary Art located in the Royal Hospital Kilmainham. Its vibrant, bold, and diverse programme comprises exhibitions, commissions, and event-based projects by leading Irish and international artists, as well as a rich engagement and learning programme which together provides audiences of all ages the opportunity to connect with contemporary art and unlock their creativity. IMMA is also the home of the National Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art of nearly 4,000 artworks by Irish and international artists. IMMA makes this national resource available through exhibitions at IMMA and other venues nationally and internationally, engagement and learning programmes and digital resources.