Helena Almeida
Born in Portugal, 1936. Almeida’s work concerns the relationship between painting, photography and performance. At IMMA, she will exhibit a recent work, consisting of twenty photographs, in which the development of a gesture within a photographic series is explored.

Anna-Eva Bergman (see Part I)

Philippe Chavent
Born in France, Chavent is the chef and owner of the Lyon restaurant, La Tour Rose. Known for his inventive combinations of diverse products and preparations, he will create a special project for the opening of Part II of The Event Horizon, which examines the narrative properties of dining.

Atom Egoyan (see Part I)

Seamus Farrell
Born in 1965 (to Irish parents). Lives and works in Paris. Farrell has consistently created works in which he examines the influence of architecture and history on our lives, asking the viewer to approach actively the representation of a particular site of activity. His project for IMMA concerns the way in which an event (in this case, one staged in Paris this past summer) may be documented in many different ways and still remain elusive.

Ann-Veronica Janssens
Born in 1956 in Folkstone (to Belgian parents). Lives and works in Brussels. Janssens’ work explores the relationship that various artistic media (sculpture, photography, film, sound and light installations) can have with determining our experience of space. She will create a site-specific environment for the second half of The Event Horizon.

Michelangelo Pistoletto
Born in Biela, Italy in 1933. Lives and works in Turin. One of the foremost contributors to the movement known as Arte Povera, Pistoletto will work with Philippe Chavent to create a work which examines the theatrical possibilities of the ritual of dining.

Sam Taylor-Wood (see Part I)

Jean-Pierre Temmerman
Born in Zaire, in 1957 to Belgian parents. Lives and works in Antwerp. Temmerman’s work is frequently concerned with cinema, dreams and travel. He works with light projections, found objects, jigsaw puzzles, photographs, etc. His photoworks include a series of images related to the beginnings of photography and the cinema. Four of these photographs will be shown at IMMA.

Mitja Tusek
Born in Slovenia in 1961, Tusek has lived and worked in Switzerland and Belgium. His paintings, which are usually accumulations of beeswax mixed with pigment, are investigations into the relationship between figuration and abstraction, often times through the subject of a landscape.

Anna-Eva Bergman
Born in Stockholm (of Norwegian parents) in 1909. Died in 1987. Bergman spent most of her creative life in France, with her husband, Hans Hartung. Her paintings, often based on landscapes, were investigations into the nature of abstraction: how a fragment can be transformed, with the aid of the viewer, into a complete image. Examples from two of her series; Tombeaux (Tombs) and Horizons will be shown at IMMA.

Marie-Jose Burki
Born in Switzerland, 1961. Lives and works in Brussels. Burki’s most recent video installations have been concerned with the ways in which anthropomorphic interpretation may be used to construct narratives. Her installation, Translations, is also an Orwellian comment on the nature of constructing identities.

Atom Egoyan
Born in Cairo (to Armenian parents) in 1960. Lives and works in Toronto, Canada. Egoyan is known for his films which examine the influence that media has on our day-to-day lives: Family Viewing (1990), The Adjuster (1992), Exotica (1994). For The Event Horizon, he has created a video installation based on a sequence from Calendar (1992), a film based on the combined themes of cultural identity, landscape and narrative.

Immersion (Colin Newman / Malka Spigel)
Newman was born in England, Spigel in Israel. They now live and work in London. Newman has recorded with the band, Wire, Spigel with Minimal Compact. Together, they formed their own record label, Swim, in 1994. For IMMA, they will create a sound installation, using original and found material, which examines the ways in which music may work against narrative.

Sigalit Landau
Born in 1967 in Jerusalem. Landau’s work deals with the relationship between public and private space, between personal and cultural identity. She will exhibit works in the gallery spaces as well as in a shipping container that is positioned outside the museum reception area. The latter space functions as a site for showing artwork, while retaining its utilitarian characteristics. For the artist, it may be seen as a living space as well.

Nusret Pasic
Born in 1951 in Sarajevo, Pasic’s work Sarajevo Library: History of the World, combines painting and sculpture with found objects, such as burnt books, in order to create a sobering comment on how we treat and debase knowledge and history.

Tim Robinson
Born in England in 1935, Robinson studied mathematics in Cambridge. He later worked as a visual artist, under the name of Timothy Drever, first in Vienna and later in London. In 1972, he went to live on the Aran Islands and began writing and making maps. He now lives in Roundstone, Connemara, where he and his wife run the Folding Landscapes studio, which publishes his maps and related writings on the west of Ireland. His work View from the Horizon, examines the narrative possibilities of landscape through a combination of sculpture and text.

Sam Taylor-Wood
Born in London in 1967, Sam Taylor-Wood has participated in many exhibitions in Europe and the United States, including a solo show currently on view at the Chisenhale Gallery in London and the group exhibition, Manifesta I (Rotterdam, Summer 1996). She will be showing two works Five Revolutionary Seconds # 2 (1996) and Knackered (1996). The former, through the use of a large panoramic photograph and a sound installation, presents a fractured narrative. The latter, a film of a woman mouthing the words from the aria sung by a castrato, presents an equally disjointed activity.

An exhibition of new large-scale photoworks by London-born artist Hannah Collins opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Saturday 20 July. Hannah Collins: A Worldwide Case of Homesickness, Collins’s first one-person show in Ireland, comprises 12 large black and white photoworks made in response to a number of visits to Eastern Europe. Six of the works have been produced especially for the IMMA show. The exhibition will also include small-scale colour images and the texts of diary entries made by the artist while in Poland and Byelorussia.

Hannah Collins has been interested in Eastern Europe for some time and, when images from Eastern Europe began to appear in the press after the fall of the Berlin Wall, she decided she would travel there to make work. “I made four trips to different places which have quite different sets of references, both historic and contemporary. I deal with different subject matter in the work, but the inter-relationships are very strong between them.” The work continues Collins’s long-standing interest in the space occupied by those who exist on the margins or borders of society. “ I am interested in the in-between countries of Eastern Europe, whose status is dubious. The situation is complex, I can’t actually get a grasp on it. I enter it and allow it to have its own world. My work is about finding the site and allowing it to be.”

Space and scale are important considerations in Collins’s work – the space created by the piece, the space it occupies physically and how it relates to the space in which it hangs. The human figure is deliberately absent in much of her work. “The human figure would fix the overall scale of the image and would fix your relationship with the image. I want one to be able to move into the image.”

Born in London in 1956, Hannah Collins studied at the Slade School of Art in London, followed by a Fulbright Scholarship to the USA. Her work has been shown in many one-person and group exhibitions worldwide and is included in notable public and private collections including the Weltkunst Collection of Contemporary British Art, on loan to IMMA for a period of ten years. She was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1993. She lives and works in Barcelona.

Hannah Collins: A Worldwide Case of Homesickness continues at IMMA until 6 October and leads into The Event Horizon, IMMA’s season of exhibitions, films and projects exploring European identity opening on 12 September. A publication including photographs taken by the artist and texts from the diary entries in the exhibition is being published to coincide with the exhibition. Price £3.00.