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24th May 2026
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Featured Listing
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Exhibitions & Events - Connaught
 | Date: 27/05/2026
Location: Roscommon, Roscommon Arts Centre Join us in our Gallery for an Artist Talk with exhibiting artist Andy Parsons and Bairbre-Ann Harkin. Bairbre-Ann is Curator of IMMA Horizons at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, with responsibility for IMMA’s Health Partnerships. She previously led IMMA’s Art & Ageing initiatives, championing inclusive and dementia-aware engagement and fostering key partnerships with IMMA collaborators such as Age&Opportunity, Global Brain Health Institute, Mercers Inst. for Successful Ageing (St James Hospital) among others. For more information and to book, click here. | Read more →
 | Date: 28/05/2026 - 05/07/2026
Location: Westport, Custom House Studios + Gallery A trembling hold, a solo exhibition by visual artist Neva Elliott, opens at Custom House Studios + Gallery on Thursday, 28 May at 6 pm. The exhibition explores themes of death, grief, and absence, examining how experiences of loss are carried and negotiated over time. Elliott’s practice responds to the transient and often unstable nature of existence — the finiteness of life, and the unpredictability of the world. Neva Elliott is an artist and writer based in Dublin and holds an MA from Central Saint Martins. Image: Neva Elliott, From your body II, 2023, Archival print. | Read more →
 | Date: 28/05/2026 - 05/07/2026
Location: Westport, Custom House Studios + Gallery The official launch of the Mayo College of Further Education Level 6 end of year exhibition will be officially launched in our upstairs Gallery. The students will present an enriching exhibition of various media created for their final end of year exhibition. The exhibition will feature the work of Klym Bohatyrov, Ella Conway, Laura Coughlin, Luca Doran, Liudmila Haidukova, Áine McFadden, Lily McGinley, Thomas Murphy, Sinead Murray, Francesca Scott, Orla Sloyan, Jurate Tighe, Louise Wilde and Amelia Wrobel. It will be officially launched on Thursday, 28 May at 6pm. Image: Klym Bohatyrov, Tractor, 70x50cm, Oil on Canvas. | Read more →
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 | Date: 29/05/2026 - 01/06/2026
Location: Oughterard, Oughterard Courthouse Oughterard Courthouse is delighted to host an upcoming exhibition entitled “Tropic Signal in Grey light”. Haitian - American Hansel Vieuxpatinaeh and Brazilian Arthur Rosa will launch their joint exhibition on Friday 29th May at 7pm , the exhibition will run from Saturday 30th to May to bank holiday Monday 1st June. | Read more →
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Exhibitions & Events - Leinster
 | Date: 27/05/2026
Location: Dublin 8, Pallas Projects/Studio Informal gathering on ecology, art and what's in between. The evening unfolds through relaxed, open, communal, non-hierarchical discussion, where participants can share ideas, reflections, opinions and experiences. Check the link for the warm-up topic. Entanglement and Mint Tea offers space and time, and some mint tea if you bring a cup. For more information and to book, click here. | Read more →
 | Date: 28/05/2026 - 30/05/2026
Location: Dublin, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios Éireann and I is a community archive and memory work platform dedicated to chronicling stories of Black life in Ireland. Initiated and led by Beulah Ezeugo and Joselle Ntumba, the project creates spaces for migrants to engage with archives and explore practices of memory work through participatory workshops, publications, and installations. This special commission for Bealtaine explores older migrants’ relationships with Dublin city with newly produced images made during a sound walking workshop, together with images from participants’ personal archives. This photo series brings together images from participants’ personal archives with newly | Read more →
 | Date: 28/05/2026 - 26/06/2026
Location: 59 South William Street, SO Fine Art Editions SO Fine Art Editions are pleased to present Cut Flowers by Oisín Byrne, an Irish artist, writer and filmmaker based in London. This new series of screenprints continues his exploration of scale, bold colour, floral form, gesture and the passing of time, and will also open at Connolly, London, on 1 May 2026. This event is part of the new citywide initiative ‘Dublin by Dusk’ and is kindly supported by the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport. | Read more →
 | Date: 28/05/2026 - 27/06/2026
Location: Dublin, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin Cecilia Danell The Upside Down World Opening Reception Thursday 28 May at 5:30pm 28 May - 27 June 2026 Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin "Last year, during a forest walk in her homeland of Sweden, Danell encountered a lake from her childhood. It was uncharacteristically still. Mesmerised by its reflection and an uncanny sense of doubling, it became the seed and the title painting of the show. These large-scale works ask us to look anew at what’s familiar, at what we think we know about everything we encounter." Extract from an accompanying text written by Sinéad Gleeson Open Tuesday to Saturday 11am -5pm | Read more →
 | Date: 28/05/2026
Location: Dublin, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios Join Bealtaine Festival at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios for a conversation between visual artists Laura Fitzgerald, Geraldine O’Neill, filmmaker Pat Murphy; chaired by the writer and visual artist Sara Baume, as they discuss a lifetime of making art and navigating life as an artist across countries, cities and country-sides. | Read more →
 | Date: 28/05/2026
Location: Dublin, Tøn Gallery TØN is delighted to announce the opening of ALWAYS AND EVERYWHERE, a solo exhibition of new works by Brooklyn-based artist Jared C. Deery. Opens May 28 runs until June 14. The title Always and Everywhere speaks to an omnipresent state of consciousness—a psychological framework where memory, nature, and formal abstraction intersect. By building up textured, luminous layers and fluid forms, Deery's work channels the experimental spirit of French symbolist poetry, demanding what Arthur Rimbaud called a systematic "derangement of the senses" to access alternative means of perception and hidden truths beneath the surface. | Read more →
 | Date: 28/05/2026
Location: Dublin , IMMA - Irish Museum of Modern Art For the first Dublin by Dusk event IMMA is excited to present the screening of the multi award winning documentary North Circular: A Musical Trip Through Inner-City Dublin directed by Luke McManus. The screening will be preceded by a live overture performed by acclaimed cellist Kevin Murphy (Slow Moving Clouds, Rattling Ark) featuring themes from his soundtrack for the film. North Circular will be screened on Living Canvas at IMMA, Europe’s largest digital outdoor art screen presented at IMMA by IPUT Real Estate. Admission free, booking required. For more information and to book, click here. | Read more →
 | Date: 29/05/2026
Location: Dublin 8, Pallas Projects/Studio Curated by Katherine Waugh 29th May, 6 - 8.30pm Screening followed by a discussion with the artists and the curator. Pallas Projects presents a screening programme bringing together works by seminal UK artists David Burrows and Maggie Roberts. Curated by Katherine Waugh, the programme explores practices operating within the field of “fictioning” - where speculative narrative, philosophy and moving image intersect to reframe questions of intelligence, subjectivity and non-human agency. Developed in response to Mark Cullen’s Prototypes for Cyborgs – A Space Opera (Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, 2025), the programme includes selection | Read more →
 | Date: 30/05/2026
Location: Dublin, Irish Film Institute As part of Bealtaine Festival 2026, we are delighted to collaborate once again with the IFI and aemi to present two films from Kilkenny-based artist filmmaker Juana Robles’ ongoing Bodyverses series, begun in 2024 and featuring performance artists Frances Mezzetti and Alastair MacLennan. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the director, Juana Robles, as well as Frances Mezzetti and Alastair MacLennan, chaired by aemi Co-Director Daniel Fitzpatrick. | Read more →
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| | Date: 25/05/2026 - 07/06/2026
Location: Bray, Signal Arts Bray Working in both paint and drawing, this exhibition is influenced both by the imagery and specific colour palette of the language of advertising by the cosmetic industry and the ‘pinkification’ of product marketing to this generation. Painted images mirror the scale of screens through which these messages are disseminated. Larger works on paper in the exhibition arise from research into specific haircare routines, the composition influenced by defined modes of detail erasure and research into early nineteenth century portrait and silhouette collage methods. Opening: 28th May 6-8pm | Read more →
 | Date: 27/05/2026 - 01/06/2026
Location: Carlow, Carlow College Opening reception Wednesday 27th May. 6pm. Exhibition Thurs 28th - Sun 31st May, 11am - 6pm. Monday 1st June 11am - 5pm. An exhibition of Carlow based visual artists presented as part of the 2026 Carlow Arts Festival at Saint Patrick's College. The theme of the exhibition is HOPE. Presented by artist Rennie Buenting and curated by Tony Strickland. This project is supported by Carlow Arts Festival, Carlow Arts Office and by Creative Ireland Carlow. | Read more →
 | Date: 28/05/2026 - 30/08/2026
Location: Carlow, VISUAL Carlow Everyone is welcome in Our Place. Experience an immersive sound and light exhibition that playfully explores themes of human rights, happiness and belonging. Our Place is a socially engaged art project that champions the human rights of people living with intellectual disabilities. This project places the ideas, talents and lived experience of people with an intellectual disability at the centre of artmaking and exhibition design. Led by AlanJames Burns and Sinead McCann, and co-designers Patrick Fitzgerald and Tony Davis, in collaboration with people supported by Delta Centre, Our Place have developed a new installation for VISUAL Carlow | Read more →
 | Date: 29/05/2026 - 05/06/2026
Location: Kilkenny, Tea Houses The Tea Houses is delighted to present 'At The Waterline' by artist and ecologist Tasneem Khan, a multi-disciplinary exhibition exploring the artist’s lived experience of islandness, using it as a lens for thinking about change, adaptation and our relationship to place. The exhibition emerges from an ongoing body of artistic research exploring how islands can be understood not only as geographical locations or terrain, but as spaces through which to consider ecological systems and human experience in a time of environmental instability. Opening Friday May 29th at 5pm, we hope to see you there! | Read more →
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Exhibitions & Events - Munster
| | Date: 28/05/2026 - 08/06/2026
Location: Cork city, MTU Gallery at Grand Parade Cork Talking Threads is a contemporary textile exhibition by mature students of the MTU CCAD Art Textile programme, bringing together works that explore personal, political, and social themes through stitch, material practice, and constructed form. The exhibition reflects the dedication, creative ambition, and diverse perspectives of the exhibiting artists. | Read more →
 | Date: 29/05/2026 - 30/04/2027
Location: Cork, Cork Public Museum University College Cork Museum Studies Students and Cork Public Museum are proud to present ‘Life, Death, Legacy: Ireland's Connected Bronze Age’. This exciting, student-curated exhibit explores the dynamic world of the Irish Bronze Age and shows how people from the past were not so different from us now. ‘Life, Death, Legacy’ offer visitors a thought-provoking experience using ancient artefacts from the Munster region. Themes such as feasting, death, luxury and metalworking are shown using burial urns, jewelry, and weapons, making it an unmissable exhibition. The exhibition opens on May 29th and is free for all visitors. | Read more →
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| | Date: 26/05/2026 - 01/06/2026
Location: Lismore, Lot100 Flowers & Sound is an exhibition which brings together, for the first time, Katherine Boucher Beug’s large-scale works, revealing the fascinating weave between abstraction and representation. Her deep study of colour and drawing underpins this fluid movement between genres. Smaller works on paper, including written pieces, offer insight into her process. | Read more →
 | Date: 28/05/2026
Location: Waterford City, GOMA Gallery of Modern Art Waterford Drop in to GOMA Waterford for a fascinating audio-descriptive tour of 'where oxlips and the nodding violet grows', a solo exhibition by Joseph Heffernan, led by the show's curator Aideen Quirke. Taking place as part of the 2026 Bealtaine Festival, the tour offers rich verbal descriptions of the works, making art accessible to visitors who are blind or have low vision, while exploring the artistic and thematic significance of Heffernan's symbol-rich practice. All welcome | Free admission | No booking necessary | Read more →
 | Date: 30/05/2026
Location: Clonmel, STAC Chapel This the first edition of 'STAC Talks' is part of the public programme around STAC's 'STAC at 30' exhibition, looking at the question 'What is an Arts Centre anyway?' and 'Making art in a regional context’. The title is a provocation of sorts and a loose umbrella under which to discuss the variety of ways artistic practice is supported, produced, and disseminated in rural/de-centred locations. 11am - ‘What is an Arts Centre anyway?’ 2pm - 'Making art in a regional context - an artist's perspective’ Both talks are free, but booking is essential (available via our website). One ticket includes admission to both talks. For more information and to book, click here. | Read more →
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Exhibitions & Events - Northern Ireland
 | Date: 29/05/2026 - 06/06/2026
Location: Belfast, La Roche House Gallery 545 presents a new group exhibition at La Roche House, Belfast, bringing together original artworks by accomplished artists based in Northern Ireland within this striking modernist venue. The exhibition features a wide and exciting art selection, including atmospheric landscapes, nature-inspired paintings, vibrant abstracts and intriguing works on paper, alongside unique sculptures and exquisite textile and glass pieces. Together, the works reflect the richness and diversity of artistic talent in the region. | Read more →
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Exhibitions & Events - Rest of Ulster
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Exhibitions & Events - Other
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