Siobhan Hapaska

Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast

24 September 2010 - 06 November 2010

The Ormeau Baths Gallery (OBG) will hold a major exhibition of the Belfast born artist Siobhan Hapaska, opening on the 24th September 2010. The exhibition will be the first in her native city and will include a combination of new and recent works.
   

Hapaska is renowned for her inventive and challenging mixed media sculptures and installations. Her art practice is multilayered and feelings of uncertainty, restlessness and change have marked her work and certain binary conditions such as nature and artifice; presence and absence; life and death have preoccupied the artist in the past. 

She has said of her practice ‘Uncertainty in my work is very important to me. I’m really not interested in definitive explanations of things – I find certainty so claustrophobic’.

Siobhan Hapaska’s work depth charges a number of cultural and socio-political issues. The Belfast exhibition will open up for assessment the extent to which biography/identity have been underpinning its development.

This exhibition forms part of the visual arts programme of the Belfast Festival at Queens, which runs from the 15th-30th October 2010. 

The Dog that Lost its Nose

Willie Doherty & William McKeown

Kilkenny Arts Festival 2010

06 August 2010 - 15 August 2010

Rothe House

Parliament Street
Kilkenny

10am - 7pm

 

Willie Doherty is showing at this year's Kilkenny Arts Festival at Rothe House, Kilkenny.

Since 1985, Willie Doherty has produced a substantial body of photography and video in and about his native city of Derry. His work is deeply engaged with location and expands out of its immediate context to explore themes of individual and collective subjectivity, memory and responsibility.

http://www.kilkennyarts.ie/events/details/willie-doherty/  

11 Patrick Street 

Kilkenny

10am - 7pm

William McKeown is also exhibiting a body of work at 11 Patrick Street, Kilkenny, for the Kilkenny Arts Festival.

"The paintings that I will be showing at Kilkenny have developed out of the theme of immersion that has preoccupied me for many years. The subject matter of the paintings is that in each human being there is a deep biological affinity with a state of non-separation. This surfaces constantly throughout our lives in many different situations, from sitting in the bath to diving into a swimming pool to drinking a glass of water to standing on the beach being mesmerised by the beauty of the ocean. This empathy with fluidity dissolves the learned boundaries that exist between what is external to us and what is internal and is a fundamental element in the potential healing of our relationship with the natural world."

http://www.kilkennyarts.ie/events/details/william-mckeown/  

Willie Doherty, 'Buried'

William McKeown, 'The Lane'

Sean Scully

Works from the 1980s

26 May 2010 - 08 August 2010

Leeds Art Gallery
The Headrow
Leeds
LS1 3AA

In the early 1980s, Scully re-introduced colour, space and texture through the application of multiple layers of paint and thereby added an expressive element to his work. He introduced relief elements in his paintings, broadening the expressive range of his work with a more emphatic, physical quality: 'I liked the idea of looking at a painting that you could not look at just from the front but had to move around.' At the same time stripes widen and become more pulsating, colour intensifies and black is often used to evoke feelings from solemn to sinister.

By the mid 1980s Scully had gained international recognition and many major museums began to acquire his paintings. This exhibition focuses on Scully's work from the 1980s, together with works on paper from the artist's own collection. This period has not been reflected in recent gallery exhibitions but holds a very special place in the development of his art.

 

Organised by Leeds Art Gallery, accompanied by a special exhibition publication 

www.leeds.gov.uk/artgallery/Leeds_Art_Gallery/Exhibitions.aspx

River

Siobhan Hapaska

Islands Never Found

28 June 2010 - 28 November 2010

Hellenic Ministry of Culture And Tourism
State Museum of Contemporary Art
Kolokotroni  21
Stavroupoli 56430
Thessaloniki
Greece


"Islands Never Found" (Isole Mai Trovate / Îles Introuvables), which features work by Siobhan Hapaska, amongst many others, focuses on the artist's journey — the actual, but mostly the inner journey and its itinerary, stopovers, objectives, living conditions, achievements and failures.

It is organised by the State Museum of Contemporary Art (Τhessaloniki, Greece), the Musée d'Art Moderne de Saint-Étienne Métropole and the Comune di Genova/ Palazzo Ducale.

The exhibition currently presented in Thessaloniki was on show from March till June 2010 at the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa and will finally be presented from December 2010 – April 2011 at the Musée d' Art Moderne in St. Étienne.

The exhibition places centre-stage the artist's personality, which is rich but contradictory, in part deleterious and unreservedly self-destructive and creative, tormented and self-sufficient. 

The "islands" in question are those particular creative areas, unique and individual, within which all artists objectify and communicate their own unmistakable approach, their own language and system of symbols, and their own vision of the world. 

Participating artists: Marina Abramović, Alice Aycock, Marina Bolla, Louise Bourgeois, Yves Bresson, Tony Cragg, Danica Dakić, Latifa Echakhch, Jan Fabre, Hans Peter Feldmann, Gloria Friedmann, Carlos Garaicoa, Gilbert & George, Siobhán Hapaska, Rebecca Horn, Ilya Kabakov, Anselm Kiefer, Kimsooja, Jannis Kounellis, Maria Loizidou, Richard Long, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Maurizio Nannucci, Luigi Ontani, Dennis Oppenheim, Orlan, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Lucas Samaras, Barthélémy Toguo, Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Costas Tsoclis, Mamoru Tsukada, Günther Uecker, Lois Weinberger, Dimitris Xonoglou.

 

www.greekstatemuseum.com/kmst/exhibitions/article/411.html

Island

Phil Collins

6th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art

11 June 2010 - 08 August 2010

KW Institute for Contemporary Art Auguststrasse 69
D-10117
Berlin
Germany

Phil Collins, whose new commission for the 6th Berlin Biennale 2010, Marxism Today (Prologue), delivers his reliable mix of political nous, human insight and humour. This talking-heads documentary features three women who taught Marxism in the GDR, whose frank and funny recollections veer from an impassioned belief in communism to finding meaning in the world of dating agencies.

The 6th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art 2010 is curated by Kathrin Rhomberg and will be held in various venues across Berlin until 8 August 2010.

www.berlinbiennial.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=158&Itemid=217

marxism today (prologue)

Sean Shanahan

Only Colour

11 June 2010 - 11 May 2011

Villa Mondolfo,
Como, 
Italy 

One of the most radical painters of his generation,'Only Colour' is Sean Shanahan's most recent exhibition.  

At the 17th century lakeside villa in the heart of Como, 'Only Colour' brings together for the first time selected paintings from the past ten years, with new projects on paper and four wallpaintings. This exhibition allows for seeing Shanahan's work in it's many different facets. A work of apparent reduction, the exhibition reveals the variety, complexities and subtlety of these, so called, limited means.

Seven galleries ranging from white cube to ornate stuccoed grandeur, the work is a spellbinding articulation of and in space. 'Only Colour' is the sixth in a series of prestigious annual exhibitions curated by the Di Santis family.

Sean Shanahan, 'Only Colour', Villa Mondolfo, Como, Italy until May 2011.

Paul

Isabel Nolan

King Rat

09 July 2010 - 04 September 2010

Project Arts Centre
39 East Essex Street
Temple Bar
Dublin 2
Ireland
  

Isabel Nolan is among various international artists showing in the forthcoming group exhibition, King Rat at the Project Arts Centre, Dublin.  

A dark and menacing exhibition, originally inspired by all things Gothic, King Rat presents a series of artworks by some of visual arts most original international voices.  The gallery will transform in to a space filled with a sense of unease and discomfort, the stuff that nightmares are made of. A carpet made of thousands of black pieces of paper will create a striking landscape from which sculptures rise, paintings hover above, tapestries loom and text speak.

GALLERY OPENING HOURS: MON - SAT, 11AM - 8PM (closed for public holiday on Monday 2nd August.

www.projectartscentre.ie/programme/whats-on/1069-king-rat

A small place among visible things

Only the tough-minded find themselves at home

Phil Collins

soy mi madre - Public Screening

14 June 2010 -

Belfast Film Festival
Studio Cinema
23 Donegall Street
Belfast

8pm - 9.30pm

Phil Collins will present a screening of his recent work soy mi madre, followed by an ‘in conversation’ with Dr Daniel Jewesbury about the work, and the route that his practice has taken since the early days of his career in Belfast in the 1990’s.

Shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2006, Phil’s work deals with the nuances of social relations. He works in video and photography, often using elements of popular culture and forms of low-budget television and reportage-style documentary. Recent projects have included a disco-dance marathon in Ramallah; The World Won’t Listen, featuring young people in Turkey, Colombia, and Indonesia performing karaoke versions of Smiths songs; and a press conference with former reality–TV participants. 

TICKETS: £4/£2

soy mi madre

Paul Seawright

Teaching Photography

17 April 2010 - 30 June 2010

Museum Folkwang
Museumsplatz 1
45128 Essen
Germany

Paul Seawright is one of six teachers exhibiting in 'Teaching Photography', an exhibition and symposium on the theme of teaching photography in order to encourage discussion on photographic training in Europe, organised by the Museum Folkwang, in cooperation with, and with the support of the Wuestenrot Stiftung.

The exhibition presents the artistic work of six teachers, complemented by a projection of their students photographs and videos. The selection concentrated on art photography and thus follows a development in which applied photography is increasingly losing importance in training.

The symposium offers the possibility of getting to know and to discuss various opportunities for training and teaching methods in European institutions.

Paul Seawright (University of Ulster, Belfast) employs photography to describe everyday social realities. 

http://www.museum-folkwang.de/en/exhibitions/current-exhibtions/teaching-photography.html

Untitled (man)

Brian Maguire

Ni Una Mas (Not One More): The Juarez Murders

15 May 2010 - 16 July 2010

Leonard Pearlstein Gallery
Drexel University
33rd and Market Streets
Philadelphia, PA, 19104

Ni Una Mas is a powerful Drexel University-wide collaboration of academic, student and institutional departments intended to raise awareness about gender violence and, in particular, crimes against women in the Mexican bordertown of Juarez. The cornerstone of Ni Una Mas is an art exhibition featuring over 70 works of art by twenty international artists, including Yoko Ono, Kiki Smith, Nancy Spero, Irish activist painter Brian Maguire and local artists Arlene Love and Jen Blazina. Work of noted forensic artist and Philadelphia native Frank Bender will also be included in the exhibition.

The exhibition will run May 15th — July 16th at the site of the new Leonard Pearlstein Gallery (3401 Filbert St.)

www.drexel.edu/juarez/

Rebeca Contreras Mancha 2004

Eoin McHugh

Installation - Eoin McHugh - Lewis Glucksman Gallery

20 April 2010 - 09 May 2010

Lewis Glucksman Gallery
University College Cork

The Lewis Glucksman Gallery is currently exhibiting an installation by Eoin McHugh, a two-part project commissioned by the gallery in response to the current exhibition Thingamajig: the secret life of objects.

As part of his research for the project, Mc Hugh spent time at UCC photographing laboratories and specimens in the departments of Chemistry and Zoology, Ecology and Plant Sciences.

The first part of the project consists of a series of black and white watercolour drawings that will be integrated into the displays of the Thingamajig exhibition. The drawings respond to the exhibition themes of how objects are collected, narrated, and transformed over time as well as representing the artist's ongoing interest in the psychology of imagery.

The second part of the project will be a limited edition artist book, to be published in late 2010.

www.glucksman.org/events.html

Installation by Eoin McHugh at the Glucksman Gallery, Cork

David Godbold

Sovereign European Art Prize

09 June 2010 - 20 June 2010

Barbican Centre
London

David Godbold is amongst 30 finalists from different countries chosen for the 2009-2010 Sovereign European Art Prize.

The shortlist was selected by this year’s judges Sir Peter Blake (artist), Tim Marlow (White Cube), Philly Adams (Saatchi Gallery), Gavin Turk (artist), Robert Punkenkhofer (Art & Idea), Joseph Backstein (Moscow Biennale) and Nasser Azam (artist).

Not only did the entries show a strong return to painting, but as Robert Punkenhofer said, “more than 350 entries clearly documented the wonderful diversity and strength of Europe´s artistic scene. The prize will certainly raise the visibility of some of the most promising painters and photographers from the continent.”

The Sovereign Art Foundation is now asking the public to select this year’s prize winner, by logging onto their website and choosing their favourite artist.

This year's exhibition will be held at the Barbican Centre from the 9-20th in London in June, where the judges will decide the winner of the 25,000 euro prize.

www.sovereignartfoundation.com/art-prizes/europe/gallery/?year=2009

It gets darker with the day, II

Maureen Gallace

2010 Whitney Biennial, New York

25 February 2010 - 30 May 2010

Whitney Museum of American Art
New York
USA

Maureen Gallace is one of fifty-five artists exhibiting at this years 2010 Whitney Biennial, curated by Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari.

This year marks the seventy-fifth edition of the Whitney’s signature exhibition. While Biennials are always affected by the cultural, political, and social moment, this exhibition “simply titled 2010” embodies a cross section of contemporary art production rather than a specific theme.

To underscore the idea of time as an element of the Biennial and to demonstrate the influence of the past on 2010, familiar and less well-known artists from previous exhibitions are brought together in Collecting Biennials, an accompanying installation drawn from the Museum’s collection on view on the fifth floor. Balancing different media ranging from painting and sculpture to video, photography, performance, and installation, 2010 also serves as a two-way telescope through which the Whitney’s past and future can be observed.

The artists selected for this year’s exhibition provide diverse responses to the anxiety and optimism characteristic of this moment. 

www.whitney.org/Exhibitions/2010Biennial/MaureenGallace

Early August Cape Cod

Liam Gillick

One long walk... Two short piers...

01 April 2010 - 08 August 2010

Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland,
Bonn

The Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland presents a major and comprehensive survey show of Liam Gillicks work to date.

A catalogue will be published on the occasion of the exhibition.

www.kah-bonn.de/index.htm?ausstellungen/liamgillick/index_e.htm

One long walk... Two short piers

Merlin James

Another Country, London Painters in Dialogue with Modern Italian Art

28 April 2010 - 20 June 2010

Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art
39a Canonbury Square
London N1 2AN

An exhibition dedicated to the response of ten London-based painters (Tony Bevan, Arturo di Stefano, Luke Elwes, Tim Hyman, Andrzej Jackowski, Merlin James, Glenys Johnson, Alex Lowery, Lino Mannocci and Thomas Newbolt) to the work of a selection of modern Italian artists, including Giorgio Morandi, Carlo Carrà and Mario Sironi. The paintings created by these artists for the exhibition will establish and highlight connections, both in terms of ideas and practice, with the work of Italian artists of the twentieth century.

www.estorickcollection.com/exhibitions/forthcoming_exhibition.php

Bird, Branch, House

Willie Doherty

Visions

26 March 2010 - 26 October 2010

Ulster Museum
Botanic Gardens,
Belfast
BT9 5AB

‘Visions – Spectacular Art from the Ulster Museum’ will feature major Irish artists of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries including Nathaniel Hone, Roderic O’Conor, Walter Osbourne, Sir John Lavery, Jack B Yeats, Paul Henry, Gerard Dillon, Louis Le Brocquy, Robert Ballagh and Hughie O’Donoghue. One of the museum’s newest acquisitions, Ghost Story by Turner Prize Finalist Willie Doherty, will be on display for the first time as part of an exhibition exploring contemporary Irish art.

The British and international highlights include work by JMW Turner, LS Lowry, Francis Bacon, Jean Dubuffet, Karel Appel, Bridget Riley, Gilbert & George, Graham Sutherland and Patrick Caulfield.

A new publication by the Ulster Museum’s Curators of Fine Art, Dr Eileen Black and Anne Stewart, detailing 100 of the best Irish works of art will be launched alongside the exhibition. 

www.nmni.com/um/What-s-on/Exhibitions/Coming-soon

Ghost Story

Mark Francis

Arena

20 March 2010 - 03 July 2010

Abbot Hall Art Gallery
Kendal
Cumbria
LA9 5AL

Mark Francis belongs to a generation of primarily non-objective painters. His work draws on a wide range of previously unavailable scientific images now in general circulation due to the invention of the electron microscope and advances in telescopic technology. This exhibition will showcase some of his most recent work which explores the use of the grid format and the dynamic between the man-made and the natural.

Supported by - Arts Council England, Northern Rock Foundation

www.abbothall.org.uk/current-exhibitions

Quanta

A Project by Felix Gonzalez-Torres and William McKeown

A certain distance, endless light

05 March 2010 - 04 July 2010

mima
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art
Centre Square, Middlesbrough
TS1 2AZ

The exhibition, inspired by the theme of AV Festival 10, energy, will bring together two extraordinary artists, Cuban born American artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and Irish artist William McKeown. Both artists’ work answer the theme of energy in different ways. For this two-person project McKeown is making two new installations, 'The Dayroom' and 'The Daisy Field' (http://www.visitmima.com).

William McKeown will also make a major new solo show entitled 'The Day's Eyes/The Night's Eyes' at Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast from November to January 2010/11.

www.visitmima.com/exhibitions/current.php

William McKeown