Tracing Memories is a series of six themed, documentary-style podcasts which interrogates the role of art in our lives. The series is based on interviews with participants of Studio 10, IMMA’s long-running gallery and studio programme. These stories demonstrate the power and potential art holds to connect us with our memories and emotions, with our higher selves and with each other. Listen to these podcasts here.

Discover our new online exhibition The Artist’s Mother, the latest project in a series of responses as part of the Freud Project. Inspired by Lucian Freud’s paintings of his mother, Lucie, this is the first presentation which interweaves digital and physical elements. Central to the project is the work of artist Chantal Joffe who has portrayed her mother, Daryll, in a series of paintings.

The exhibition The Artist’s Mother: Lucie and Daryll is the first time IMMA combines both a gallery display in the Freud Centre, alongside a digitally installed exhibition in a new virtual gallery space. In this series of 15 portraits, 6 in dialogue with Lucian Freud in the gallery and 13 in the virtual gallery space, with some of the portraits been shown in both spaces, Chantal Joffe provides insights into the unique bond between mother-subject and artist-child.

The exhibition is presented via Vortic and is the first time IMMA has digitally installed an exhibition, made possible thanks to collaboration with Victoria Miro who represent Chantal Joffe.

The Maternal Gaze is a series of short videos and films featuring 22 artists and creatives based in Ireland, presented as part of The Artist’s Mother  project. Tune in to our social media channels each Tuesday and Saturday afternoon as participating artists answer IMMA’s invitation to reflect on the impact of their mother figure on their career practice and development.

Explore our new virtual exhibition of Northern Light, The David Kronn Photography Collection now available on our website. Drawn from the exceptional collection of photography amassed by Dr David Kronn over the past 25 years, Northern Light presents work by photographers that examines the history of the conflict in Northern Ireland and places it alongside other events internationally.

This exhibition begins with present day sublime images of the landscape. However, these images also hold secrets as various infrastructures, particularly of surveillance, reveal themselves. These are followed by images of landscapes that were sites of atrocities and conflict; the highly aesthetic photographs at odds with their content. Also showing are images that reflect on the impact of conflict on children and civilian communities. While images from the height of the conflict in Northern Ireland offer a reminder of our recent past.

Explore the IMMA Collection Online, our National Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art with over 3500 artworks by Irish and international artists. Explore by artist name, title of artwork, date or artist medium from photography to installation to moving image, or just browse through the suggested highlighted artworks.

The What Is_? Programme is a great way to learn more about the concepts and terms used in Contemporary Art. It includes talks, booklets and resources which you can explore. In the first series we look at some key terms such as What Is_? Conceptual Art, New Media Art, Performance Art, Public Art, there are three series to explore on our website.

IMMA Talks Online is a new series of talks specifically programmed for our online audience.

Visit our Talks page and listen back to selected talks or visit our Soundcloud channel where we have over 300 audio pieces available to explore. Some recent talks for you to listen to include:

Talks Online: Media-based time, Dr Maeve Connolly

Talks Online: Object Trouble, Brian Castriora

Explore IMMA’s full audio archive in Talks Online: IMMA Audio Archive 

IMMA Collection Artists: Talks and Responses playlist. We have dug deep into our audio archives to present recordings of past talks and discussion that feature contributions by IMMA Collection artists. Hear about the ideas and processes that inform the making of their work. This extensive archive, dating as far back as 1993, includes talks by Barrie Cooke, Antony Gormley, Rebecca Horn, Isaac Julien, Alice Maher, Brian O’Doherty and Lawrence Weiner.

Look out for our LONG LISTEN posts on our social channels at the weekends for the most recent talks to listen to.

In partnership with Creative Ireland, IMMA is pleased to provide a new arts programme for older people Art and Ageing that offers a variety of engaging creative events, workshops and resources for older people. This programme delivers a range of free, inclusive arts-based activities as part of an effort to counteract the social side-effects of the pandemic. Current activities include:

Slow Looking Art Videos – Through a series of accessibly produced (captioned, audio-described) videos, participants are invited watch a guided exploration of a selected artwork from the IMMA Collection.

Talking Art with IMMA Resource Pack – These printed resource packs will highlight a selected work from the IMMA Collection, accompanied with a range of  conversational prompts that form a guided way of exploring artworks.

Armchair Azure – a free online experience designed for people living with dementia and their families and friends.

Talking Art Online – older people are invited to join us for this online arts experience. Take a close look at selected artworks from the IMMA Collection and discuss exhibitions from the comfort of your living room.

Our Explorer at Home art activities are available for children and adults to do and make at home. We share a new art activity every Wednesday afternoon on our social channels. You will find specially selected artworks, inspired by the IMMA Collection Online and our temporary Exhibition Programme, as starting points for creative activities.

We look forward to seeing your creations and invite you to share them with us online. Make sure to tag us and use the hashtag #ExploreratHome so you can see your work on our website.

All old and new activities are available to view on our Explorer at Home webpage under Explore More.

Teens at Home will share creative exercises and art activities online created by artists for young people aged 13 to 18.

New projects will be shared on our website and announced on our social channels.. Make sure to tag us so we can see your work #IMMATeensatHome

We share lots of articles in our online IMMA Magazine written by artists, curators, poets, writers, IMMA staff and many other collaborators. Some recent articles for you to read are:

The Green Journal: Spring by Sandra Murphy.

Photographs Reassembled, Sarah Allen, curator at Tate Modern
interviews Jan McCullough, IMMA Residency artist.

The Artist Mother: Lucie and Daryll by Christina Kennedy.

Paula Rego, a life between Lisbon and London by Patricia Brennan.

Paula Rego: Empathy is a Moral Force by Patricia Brennan

Watch our for our LONG READ articles posted on our social channels at the weekend with the newest magazine articles.

Watch exhibitions videos with artists and curators as they talk about the exhibitions at IMMA. Videos are available on the Exhibition pages and via our YouTube Channel.

Recent videos made available to watch online include:

Paula Rego – Obedience and Defiance

Ghosts from the Recent Past

Bharti Kher – Indian/British artist Bharti Kher on her exhibition A Consummate Joy

Life Above Everything – Head of Collections Christina Kennedy presents the work of Lucian Freud and Jack B. Yeats with David Dawson, Freud’s assistant for over 20 years. 

This Culture Night 2020 IMMA connected with our audiences with an extensive online programme which included virtual tours of the biodiversity of the IMMA site and the hidden history of the Royal Hospital Kilmainham; curator’s in conversations on our current exhibitions; family art workshops and a cookery demonstration. All this can be viewed on our Culture Night 2020 webpage. Some highlights include:

Exploring IMMA’s Hidden History – Watch here

Exploring the Green Cube – Watch here

Curators in Conversation on Ghosts from the Recent Past – Watch here

During the lockdown from March 2020 the #IMMAInsideOut Collective Project allowed us to share art, ideas and our experiences. We asked our followers on social media to share their art and lives with all of us in a collective effort to combat social isolation and boredom using the hashtag #IMMAInsideOut.

Lots of people joined us on this adventure and took photos of their lives during this time – their unusual desktop or art studio at home, what they could see from their window, who they shared the quarantine with or their kid’s creativity – sharing them on their social media channels and tagging us.

View our image gallery as a digital exhibition, a reflection of our shared experience of these exceptional times. The image gallery comprises work shared by you from March to July 2020.