𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙪𝙨
📌 Exhibition Opening: Saturday 18 April, 16:00–20:00
𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘶𝘴 is a project that comprises an exhibition at de Appel and a series of screenings, performances, and discussions focussing on the lingering and ever-mutating traumas of colonialism that cut across the present. Departing from Ireland – widely regarded as the first historical subject of the British colonial project – the exhibition and events bring together artists who address Ireland or Irish experience alongside ongoing and historical struggles in places such as Palestine and Bangladesh. The works trace how the everyday, insidious operations of colonial rule and violence endure long after formal state independence and international agreements, embedded in bodies and memories, in intimate affections, in social dynamics and dysfunctions.
The project is a collaboration between EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art and de Appel. It features a new commission by Dina Mimi and presentations by artists and projects commissioned by EVA International between 2021 and 2025, including 𝘞𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘵 – 𝘋𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘍𝘪𝘭𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘝𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘱, a project by Sara Greavu and Ciara Phillips; Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh; Family Connection; Naeem Mohaiemen; Eoghan Ryan; Clíodhna Timoney; Eimear Walshe.
Event partnerships include Filmtheater Kriterion, Eye Filmmuseum and the international workshop 𝘓𝘐𝘉𝘌𝘙𝘈𝘛𝘐𝘖𝘕𝘚: 𝘘𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘈𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘺, hosted by the University of Amsterdam. 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘶𝘴 is curated by Ailbhe W. Drohan, Matt Packer, Eszter Szakács.
More information to be announced soon!
Image: Strip-searching re-enactment, Derry Film and Video Workshop (Trisha Ziff), 1984
A film screening of the Derry Film and Video Workshop 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘱 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 will take place 17 May, 2026, 19:00 at Filmtheater Kriterion, followed by an in conversation with Anne Crilly and Sara Greavu.
𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘱 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 documents the intensive use of strip-searching of women political prisoners in the north of Ireland in the early 1980s. Including interviews with ex-prisoners, legal experts, activists, psychologists and the family members of prisoners inside at the time, the film was used as a campaigning tool and toured widely in Ireland and beyond. The issue of strip-searching exposed a fracture within the nascent women’s movement in Ireland, between those who wanted to address this form of state violence against women, and those who feared the political alignment with Irish republicanism that support of the campaign might suggest. Directed by Anne Crilly, it was the first film made by the newly founded collective.
Derry Film and Video Workshop (1984–1990) was a women-led film collective in Derry, in the north of Ireland. In the late 2010s, collecting, preserving, and re-centring the remarkable history and archive of the Derry Film and Video workshop (DFVW) was taken up by curators-artists Sara Greavu and Ciara Phillips, resulting in the exhibition project 𝘞𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘵 – 𝘋𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘍𝘪𝘭𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘝𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘱.
An iteration of this project is currently on view at the exhibition 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘶𝘴 at de Appel, developed in collaboration with EVA, which features a chapter foregrounding the campaign against the strip-searching of women political prisoners in the north of Ireland, including rushes made for the DFVW’ film 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘱 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨.
This event is kindly supported by Culture Ireland.
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We will be in Venice next week for the preview of the 61st Venice Biennale, please join us for a gathering to mark the 10 year anniversary of Still (the) Barbarians - the 2016 edition of EVA International curated by Koyo Kouoh. The event is being co-hosted by EVA International (IE) and John Hansard Gallery (UK).
Please RSVP to [email protected]
Thursday, 7 May, 2026: 15:00-17:00
Ristoteca Oniga, 30123 Venezia VE, Italy
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Thanks for coming to last weekend's opening of 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙪𝙨!
The exhibition is open this week from Wednesday–Sunday, 14:00–20:00.
𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘶𝘴 is a project that comprises an exhibition at de Appel and a parallel series of screenings and performances, focusing on the inherited traumas of colonial violence and control that continue to shape social, mental and physical bodies across generations.
The project is a collaboration between EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art and de Appel. It features a new commission by Dina Mimi and presentations by artists and projects commissioned by EVA International between 2021 and 2025, including Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh; Family Connection; 𝘞𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘵 – 𝘋𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘍𝘪𝘭𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘝𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘱, a project by Sara Greavu and Ciara Phillips with former workshop member Anne Crilly; Naeem Mohaiemen; Eoghan Ryan; Clíodhna Timoney and Eimear Walshe.
More info: deappel.nl!
Photos: Sophia Jiaqi Xu
We're celebrating the 10th anniversary of Still (the) Barbarians, the 2016 edition of EVA International - Ireland's Biennial of Contemporary Art - curated by Koyo Kouoh, in partnership with John Hansard Gallery.
Thursday, 7 May, 2026: 15:00-17:00
Ristoteca Oniga, 30123 Venezia VE, Italy
RSVP to [email protected]@cultureireland@johnhansardgallery@artscouncilireland
We’re pleased to announce artist writer Roy Claire Potter will extend their work with EVA as Artist Researcher, jointly supported by EVA International and the Institute of Art and Technology at Liverpool John Moores University.
Following co-selection, with curator Iarlaith Ní Fheorais, of 41st EVA Platform Commissions, Roy will undertake a programme of artist research examining the legacy of the commissions. The project combines quantitative analysis and interviews involving the EVA team and Platform artists, and its outcome will be a long-form work of artist writing, scheduled for 2027. The research considers how the 2025 commissions contribute to practice, culture, and the sector, using artist-research approaches centred on situated, embodied perception and compositional method.
Image: Roy Claire Potter, Hotel, 2026. Digital photograph. Image courtesy of the artist.
We are now welcoming Platform Commission proposals for the 2027 EVA International programme. Selected proposals will receive funding and support for the development and presentation of new work as part of the upcoming 2027 biennial programme (August - October 2027), taking place across multiple venues in Limerick City.
The 2027 Platform Commissions coincides with EVA’s 50th anniversary edition, which will critically reflect on key artistic moments and broader political changes that have taken place in Ireland over the past five decades.
The selection panel for the 2027 Platform Commissions will consist of acclaimed artists Bridget O’Gorman, Phillip McCrilly, and Eimear Walshe, alongside members of the EVA team. All three artists were awarded Platform Commissions in previous editions, 2020 - 2025.
Visit the link in bio to access the application and thematic guidelines, and the application form.
** Deadline for submissions, 17:00 GMT, Monday 13 April, 2026.
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Image: "Untitled" (America), 1994. Light strings installed across O’Connell Street at O’Connell Mall, Limerick, as part of EV+A 96, 1996. Cur. Guy Tortosa. Photographer: Pierre Leguillon. Image courtesy of Limerick City Gallery of Art.
We extend our congratulations to all the artists selected to participate in Koyo Kouoh’s In Minor Keys for 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, especially those that previously participated in our previous editions:
- Pio Abad, Philip Aguirre y Otegui, Kader Attia, Éric Baudelaire, Godfried Donkor, Theo Eshetu, Carsten Höller, Alfredo Jaar, Michael Joo, Alice Maher, Otobong Nkanga, Uriel Orlow, Alan Phelan, Johannes Phokela, and Kemang Wa Lehulere (as part of Still (the) Barbarians, curated by Koyo Kouoh, 2016)
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- Rachel Fallon & Alice Maher (as part of The Gleaners Society, curated by Sebastian Cichocki, 2023)
An extra congratulatory boost to artists Rachel Fallon, Alice Maher, and Alan Phelan for doing Ireland proud.
Photo and image credits:
Rachel Fallon and Alice Maher, The Map, 2021, 40th EVA International, 2023. Photo by Jed Niezgoda, courtesy of the artists.
Alice Maher, Cassandra's Necklace, 2016, Still (the) Barbarians, 2016. Image still courtesy of the artist.
Alan Phelan, Leopoldville, 2016, Still (the) Barbarians, 2016. Photo by Miriam O’Connor, courtesy of the artist.
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EVA information notice:
As 2025 wraps up, we'd like to extend our thanks to everyone who helped make the 41st EVA International an unforgettable edition.
The EVA Office is now closed for the winter holidays and will reopen in January. We'll also be taking a little break from posting on social media.
ROMANTIC IRELAND, 2024 by Eimear Walshe was presented at Studio Saol as part of the 41st EVA International Guest Programme.
The installation comprised a multi-channel video in an immersive sculpture. Filmed at Common Knowledge, Co Clare in the first week of October 2023, and set on the site of an unfinished earth build, the video stages soapy, dramatic encounters between character archetypes from the 19th–21st centuries. The figures occupy an abstracted ruin, a site under simultaneous construction and demolition. The installation was soundtracked by an opera describing the scene of an eviction, composed by Amanda Feery with a libretto by Walshe.
ROMANTIC IRELAND, 2024 was presented as part of ROMANTIC IRELAND: A National tour in Fragments. The National Tour is supported by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon as part of its commitment to promote the visual arts to Irish audiences. Ireland at Venice is an initiative of Culture Ireland in partnership with the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon. ROMANTIC IRELAND was originally curated by Sara Greavu and Project Arts Centre for the Pavilion of Ireland in the Venice Biennale 2024.
41st EVA International 29 August - 26 October 2025.
Eimear Walshe, ROMANTIC IRELAND, 2024, 41st EVA International, 2025. Photo 1 by Jed Niezgoda. Photo 2 by EVA International. Photos courtesy of the artist and EVA International.
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Untitled, A selection of works (2008-2018), by Anikó Loránt was presented at the Limerick City Gallery of Art as part of the 41st EVA International Guest Programme It Takes a Village, curated by Eszter Szakács in collaboration with the EVA team.
Anikó Loránt’s drawing practice was based on repetition, reuse, and the merging of various styles and mediums. Her poetic drawings and paintings were usually everyday observations with the aim of interpreting the world, often with attributes of transcendentalism. Loránt’s work was fundamentally shaped — both thematically and practically — by the experience of motherhood, and she worked on multiple projects at once focusing on issues of extended care and sustainability, subsistence skills, the history of farming, foraging, slow living and the inseparable bonds between the human and non-human realms. While Loránt’s works have mostly been presented in the framework of the ‘ex-artists’ collective she established with her partner, artist Tamás Kaszás, the presentation as part of ‘It Takes a Village’ was developed through a conversation with Tamás Kaszás, Krisztián Kristóf and curator Lívia Páldi, who have worked together to establish Loránt as a significant individual artist in her own right.
41st EVA International 29 August - 26 October 2025.
Anikó Loránt, Send-Off, 2008–2010, and Three Rabbits (Triptych), 2009, 41st EVA International 2025. Photo courtesy of the artist and EVA International.
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Who is Afraid of Ideology? Part 4: Reverse Shot, 2022, by Marwa Arsanios was presented at the Limerick City Gallery of Art as part of the 41st EVA International Guest Programme It Takes a Village, curated by Eszter Szakács in collaboration with the EVA team.
It was the fourth part of the artist’s ongoing collaborative film series Who is Afraid of Ideology? (since 2017) about mostly women-led communities fighting economic exploitation and colonial violence. The film work staged a geological, historical, legal, and agricultural discussion as well as an experiment carried out by Arsanios and her collaborators to shift the status of a private land in the north of Lebanon to a common or a social waqf. The film followed the process of advancing the right of land usership over ownership, reflecting on the way land, as a living object, can inherently resist the definitions of ‘property’. Arsanios also presented ten banners in Arabic and English that were grounded in a protocol of usership of the land, based on research Arsanios conducted on the history of collective land tenure (the practice of ‘Musha’).
41st EVA International 29 August - 26 October 2025.
Photo courtesy of the artist and EVA International.
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