IMMA welcomes applications for Dwell Here: One Month Residencies for nationwide and internationally based practices to reside for one year at the Museum. This opportunity invites applications across disciplines of the visual arts, design, architecture, curation, and related humanities fields. Successful applicants will be supported to undertake independent site-responsive research in addition to their participation in a week long seasonal Research Assembly.

IMMA’s Dwell Here programme is structured around seasonal Research Assemblies delivered together through week-long forums with an expanded community of mentors, peers, and fellow residents gathering onsite for communal engagement and interdisciplinary dialogue. One month residents are invited to undertake independent, site-responsive research for three of their four week residency. The fourth week (whether at the beginning, middle, or end of their contracted residency) must overlap with a selected Research Assembly week. The Research Assemblies are scheduled for the following dates in 2026:

Spring: Wednesday 18 – Tuesday 24 February 2026

Summer: Wednesday 10 – Tuesday 16 June 2026

Autumn: Wednesday 23 – Tuesday 29 September 2026

A one month residency includes a requirement to engage with the expanded community gathered for their selected assembly week. The Dwell Here Research Themes (see further down) will inform intensive planning with residents. Engagements may surface as a workshop, a temporary exhibition, a reading group, a walking tour, an open studio, a talk, a site visit, a performance, or other studio related activities with the onsite community and invited guests. In addition to these contributions Research Themes will be informed by:

• Methods of presenting self-directed research and studio practice
• Discussions and studio visits with mentors, peers, and fellow Dwell Here residents
• Interaction with IMMA programming, staff, collections, archives, and site
• Off-site visits (local and further afield)
• Engagement with Ireland’s arts communities and infrastructures
• Informal knowledge exchange synonymous with the residency experience such as co-hospitality, co-working and a co-living environment

A one month residency offers participants deeper insights into the context of visual arts practices in Ireland, strengthening international connections and communities with the potential to prompt ideas for research to emerge as proposals for return residencies/programming following the one month sited experience at IMMA.

IMMA welcomes Expressions of Interest from artists and thinkers who are:

• Based worldwide
• Committed to research excellence within their chosen discipline