IMMA

MENUCLOSE

Opening Hours

Full opening hours

Location

Royal Hospital Kilmainham
Dublin 8, D08 FW31, Ireland
Phone +353 1 6129900

View Map

Find us by

Collection on LoanNational Loans

IMMA lends extensively from the Collection, nationally and internationally, to support the exhibition programmes of other public institutions and is also open to lending work to non-art spaces.

National Loans

IMMA lends extensively from the Collection, nationally and internationally, to support the exhibition programmes of other public institutions and is also open to lending work to non-art spaces. We regularly loan individual works, or groups of works, for specific exhibitions.   

Loans from the IMMA Collection provide access to works held in the public trust and serve the educational and scholarly mission of the museum; increase knowledge and understanding of the collection and support other museums. Loans make the collection accessible to wider audiences, promoting new dialogues and lines of research and allowing the display of works that have been in long-term storage.

National Collection on Loan 2025

Below is a list of locations and exhibitions where IMMA Collection artworks are currently on loan throughout Ireland.

Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood
VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art
27 Sept 2025 – 4 Jan 2026

IMMA Collection works on Loan:

About the exhibition
Following a successful tour of the UK, Acts of Creation comes to VISUAL augmented by the inclusion of works from Irish artists and collections. Spanning all of VISUAL’s galleries, Acts of Creation presents work in painting, drawing, sculpture, film, photography and sound that speaks to the experience of motherhood in all its complexity.

The exhibition plunges into the joys and heartaches, mess, myths and mishaps of motherhood through over 100 artworks, from the Women’s Movement of the 1960s and 70s to the present day.While the Madonna and Child is one of the great subjects of European art, we rarely see art about real motherhood, in all its complexity. Acts of Creation addresses this blind spot in art history, asserting the artist mother as an important cultural figure.

Find out more about the exhibition here.

Artistic Islands
The Coach House, Dublin Castle
29 Sept 2025 - 22 Mar 2026

IMMA Collection works on Loan:

- Maria Simonds-Gooding, Water Source I, 2010
- Maria Simonds-Gooding, Water Source III, 2010

About the exhibition
In Dublin Castle’s Coach House Gallery, parallel stories of artistic genius and diversity are expressed through the work of Maria Simonds-Gooding and Frank Walter of Antigua, each of whom have deep connection to their island landscapes.

Irish artist, Maria Simonds-Gooding, has a particular connection and affinity to the OPW-managed Blasket Islands. In this exhibition, she captures timeless histories of the heritage of Ireland as found in its ancient landscape. For more than sixty years, Maria has engaged with and responded to the Irish landscape in a variety of artistic media, including ink, paint, plaster and aluminum.

Discover more about the exhibition here.

Sidelong Glances: An Oblique Look at the Sea
Wexford County Council
1 Oct - 21 Nov 2025

IMMA Collection works on Loan:

About the Exhibition
The Arts Department of Wexford County Council, in partnership with Wexford Arts Centre, is pleased to present a group exhibition titled Sidelong Glances: An Oblique Look at the Sea. The exhibition features work from IMMA’s National Collection and invited Irish and international artists, including Orla Barry, Herman Braun-Vega, Gary Coyle, Ann Hamilton, Ailbhe Ní Bhriain, Kathy Prendergast, and Marisa Rappard.

The exhibition takes its inspiration from a poem written by Marianne Moore in 1921 titled The Grave. It extends Moore’s examination of the sea as a powerful, indifferent force, a place of both beauty and death, and interprets it as a critique of human ambition and its impact on the natural world, which can be linked to colonial attitudes towards expansion.

Discover more about this exhibition here.

Yes, But Do You Care?
National Tour
Oct 2025 -Feb 2026

We are delighted to share that the compelling work, ‘Yes, But Do You Care? held in IMMA’s National Collection, is on tour across Ireland, showing in arts, community and health-care venues, until Feb 2026.

This stunning audio-visual work created by visual artist Marie Brett working with choreographer/performer Philip Connaughton and members of the Dementia Carers Campaign Network, explores the politics of family care, personal autonomy and Ireland’s new capacity legislation.

On Friday 17 Oct at 2.30pm, Esker Arts, Tullamore will host a free screening and conversation featuring Sean Walsh, Artistic Director of Esker Arts; Sundara O’Higgins: IMMA Horizons Curator; alongside artist Marie Brett. Book your place here, https://eskerartstickets .

On Monday 27 Oct, GOMA, Waterford Gallery of Contemporary Art, will also host a conversation between Sundara O’Higgins: IMMA Horizons Curator, and artist Marie Brett with a special dance response by Kelly Keesing.

Below is a full list of hosting venues until February 2026. All screenings, many with conversation events, are free to attend.