A survey exhibition of key works by Irish artist Anne Tallentire, created over the last ten years, opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Wednesday 17 February 2010. This, and other things, 1999-2010 brings together two of Tallentire’s earlier works as well as four of her most recent pieces, created in response to the environment at IMMA. Nowhere else, The Readers, Document ...

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The Lives of Spaces exhibition will open on Thursday 11 February in the Ormeau Baths Gallery in Belfast. The Lives of Spaces began as an installation at the 11th Architecture Biennale in Venice in 2008 and has been touring ever since. The exhibition contains 9 film based projects, each exploring the central role of space in society, from domestic to public and social to personal. Also e ...

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In 2008, to commemorate 50 years of the Irish Georgian Society, the Limerick Chapter of the Irish Georgian Society and Limerick City Gallery of Art commissioned four artists to take photographs of Georgian Limerick. The exhibition will open in the the Irish Architectural Archive on Merrion Square, Dublin on Tuesday 9 February and will run until Friday 12 March. The idea of the exhibition wa ...

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PLACE, the Architecture and Built Environment Centre for Northern Ireland has launched its new exhibition, produced in association with the University of Ulster. Notebooks and Narratives: The Secret Laboratory reveals the hidden world of the architect's sketchbook. This selection of work by local, national and international architects from Ireland North and South shows the quality of ideas, ob ...

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The Royal Institute of British Architects  (RIBA) will present 'The Lives of Space: Inside Irish Architecture' during the month of April in their gallery in Portland Place, London. This will be the final opportunity to see Ireland's fascinating entry to the 11th Architecture Biennale in Venice in 2008. The exhibition involves new collaborations and experiments, which open up new ways of envis ...

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SAUL third-year architecture students will publicly exhibit recent design projects. The concept of ‘Health AS Infrastructure' was investigated through the designs for a social club. Three places in Limerick were chosen as hypothetical sites, interstitial in the sense that they did not clearly belong to one specific part of town. These sites were in Garryglass, Moyross and along the Park Cana ...

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The Atrium in the Galway County Council offices on Prospect Hill is the 2010 January venue of the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland (RIAI), annual Architecture Awards 2009 exhibition. The exhibition contains highlights of the winners and highly commended entries from the 2009 awards. There were over 227 entries this year spread over 17 different categories, including housing, cons ...

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Press Release 9 December 2009 Culture Ireland, in partnership with the Arts Council, is pleased to announce the appointment of the curators who will represent Ireland at the Architecture Biennale in Venice. The curators will work closely with the Irish Architecture Foundation, Commissioners for the 2010 Architecture Biennale, which will open in August 2010. Irelan ...

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“Eat Your City”, an exhibition by fourth year architecture students at University College Dublin, opens this week at Exchange Dublin in Temple Bar. The exhibition is organised by students taking part in a Research Seminar entitled “Building Dwelling Eating”. Under the tutorage of lecturer Samantha Martin-McAuliffe, the students have put together various pieces of work that hav ...

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Breaking Ground, the per cent for art programme for Ballymun Regeneration Limited was launched in February 2001. To date Breaking Ground has launched some of the most significant, diverse and challenging public art projects in Ireland such as the large-scale temporary project Hotel Ballymun by Seamus Nolan and is widely recognised as the flagship for contemporary public art projects. The tw ...

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