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Join Christina Kennedy, Senior Curator, Head of Collections at IMMA, for an engaging lecture on IMMA Collection: Art as Agency, an ambitious new exhibition from IMMA’s Permanent Collection featuring over 100 artists from the 1960s to the present. As we explore art’s evolving role in shaping our understanding of action in the world, discover the evolving connections between past and present, and how key artworks from the collection continues to challenge norms and tackles global themes like gender, de-colonialism, climate change and hybridity.
From the 1960s to the 1980s, we will gain insight into selected works that narrate the foundational story of the Irish art scene, highlighting the material innovation and socially engaged practices that confront the hierarchies of the modernist era. The talk also looks to recent practices where memory and storytelling become vital. A focal point of the lecture highlights key moments, such as the specially created ‘white cube’ gallery space, inspired by Brian O’Doherty’s critique of the gallery, to works by Post-War American women, Marcel Duchamp, Andrea Geyer and major installations by Daphne Wright and Alice Maher. This lecture invites audiences to reflect on contemporary art’s evolving role in shaping our understanding of action in the world, while making connections across time, geographies and artists’ media.
This exhibition welcomes engagement and research over time, allowing for a rich durational experience of Ireland’s Modern and Contemporary Art Collection.
This talk coincides with the launch of two new exhibitions at IMMA, IMMA Collections: Art as Agency, a major three-year display from IMMA’s Permanent Collection and and the Gee’s Bend Quiltmakers.