Visit IMMA in the academic year 2023/24
For information on visiting IMMA with a second-level class and booking a guided tour, click here.
Until 21 April 2024, the focus of second-level visits is the popular must-see exhibition, Self-Determination: A Global Perspective. The exhibition features a dynamic selection of painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and film. With artworks from seven nations, including Ireland, that illustrate a transitional time one hundred years ago, when Ireland began life as a Free State, in conjunction with Ukraine, Turkey, Estonia, Egypt, Poland, Latvia, and Finland. The exhibition is a culmination of three years extensive research and IMMA is happy to present two historical and geo-political free resources linked below.
Click here for a PDF download of Self-Determination: A Global Perspective information and resources.
Click here and scroll down to use the online timeline Explore the Changing Map of Europe 1913–1939. This may be helpful to both students of art and of history at second-level.
Also, as part of the exhibition, Self Determination: A Global Perspective, IMMA has commissioned new artworks: Rest by Turkish artist İz Öztat, whose installation explores themes of resistance, resilience and mourning; and An Dún by a Belfast based collective of artists known as Array. Until 15 September 2024 in the Courtyard Galleries.
IMMA organises two Transition Year experiences during the academic year. Over the course of 4 days (Tue-Fri) TY students explore the museum, both the galleries and behind the scenes, discovering who works at IMMA, and what they contribute to IMMA’s activities. The TY Experience for the next academic year is currently being prepared.
To stay up-to-date, subscribe by clicking here for our Mailing List and select Second level Art Teachers. For information on programmes, exhibitions and resources, email Mark Maguire.
This resource is presented in three parts and provides information for second level students and teachers visiting an exhibition at IMMA. Between 2016 and 2021 this resource will focus on the IMMA Collection: Freud Project.
Explore the online archive of second level resources, of exhibitions by artists Chloe Dewe Mathews, Patrick Scott, Eileen Gray, Alice Maher, Rivane Neuenschwander, Dorothy Cross, and Hélio Oiticica.
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1 | An overview introduction to types of curator, exhibitions, museums |
2 | Developing the idea for an exhibition, theme, research |
3 | Preparation for exhibition, budget, securing loans, transport, condition reports |
4 | Installation, maintenance, lighting, safety, humidity, labels, texts, mediation |
5 | Audience engagement, tours, documentation, archiving, legacy |
IMMA have produced the What is …? information programme, which explores key themes and issues in relation to modern and contemporary art, through a series of talks, information booklets and web-based resources. As part of this programme, a Glossary was created containing a select number of terms relating to the subjects of Modern and Contemporary Art. This glossary is not comprehensive or exhaustive and is intended to be informative rather than definitive. This glossary will be developed, amended and expanded over time.
You can listen back to a selection of previous Talks by visiting our Soundcloud channel. IMMA has a dynamic talks programme with regular contributions from artists, historians and curators, all discussing underlying themes from the Exhibitions and Collection programmes at IMMA. Selected recordings are part of the IMMA Audio Archive in operation from 1991 to present.