IMMA today announced highlights of its 2020 programme which includes solo exhibitions by Bharti Kher, Christodoulos Panayioutou, Paula Rego and Eva Rothschild; a major international group exhibition Xenogenesis by The Otolith Group and an exhibition from the IMMA Collection Ghosts From the Recent Past. The IMMA Collection: Freud Project will be accompanied by a response by Chantel Joffee to Lucian Freud’s portraits.
The first major exhibition Ghosts From the Recent Past explores how urgencies of the recent past continue to inhabit the present. Framed by key political events over the recent past it focuses on artworks from the IMMA Collection, including a major donation from the Kerlin Gallery, from the 1980s to the present. This exhibition can be seen as part of a series of major Collection displays which will open at IMMA over the next three years, combining the IMMA Collection and other international collections all established in the 1990s at the beginning of the contemporary Global moment and will bring Irish practice in dialogue with other innovative artistic centres and collections throughout the world.
This summer a major retrospective of the work of renowned Portuguese artist Paula Rego, Obedience and Defiance, spans Rego’s entire career from the 1960s, comprising more than 80 works, including paintings never seen before and works on paper from the artist’s family and close friends.
Opening in the Autumn The Otolith Group: Xenogenesis presents a cross section of artworks from 2011 to 2018 by The Otolith Group; the artist’s collective with Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun. Xenogenesis weaves together many strands of imaginative speculation on deep pasts and possible futures.
Chantal Joffe has been invited to engage with Lucian Freud’s portraits of his mother, Lucie Brasch in Lucie and Daryll: Chantal Joffe looking at Lucian Freud. The investigation will centre around two of Freud’s most outstanding portraits of his mother which form part of the IMMA Collection: Freud Project (2016-2021).
Other solo exhibitions include Bharti Kher whose art gives form to quotidian life and its daily rituals in a way that reassesses and transforms their meaning to yield an air of magical realism.
Christodoulos Panayioutou’s exhibition will engage with the history of IMMA’s building and site. His research-based practice focusses on the identification and uncovering of hidden narratives in the visual records of history and time.
IMMA is also delighted to present The Shrinking Universe by Eva Rothschild which was first shown as the national representation of Ireland at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019.
The final exhibition of the year from the David Kronn Collection entitled Borders will reflect on the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic. The exhibition includes work by the Magnum Agency, Evelyn Hofer, Paul Caponigro, Roger Mayne, Rosalind Solomon, Paul Seawright and Donovan Wylie.
IMMA and EVA International (Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art) are excited to announce a new commissioning partnership for 2020. This partnership will see two of Ireland’s most significant contemporary arts organisations work together on a major artistic production.
Exhibition Highlights 2020
IMMA Collection: Freud Project
The Artist’s Studio
February–August, 2020
Bharti Kher
March-May, 2020
Ghosts From the Recent Past
April 24–September 13, 2020
Christodoulos Panayioutou
April 24–September 13, 2020
Eva Rothschild, The Shrinking Universe
June 12–October 11, 2020
Paula Rego, Obedience and Defiance
June 12–November 1, 2020
IMMA Collection: Freud Project
Lucie and Daryll: Chantal Joffe looking at Lucian Freud
September 11, 2020–February 2021
The Otolith Group: Xenogenesis
October 9, 2020–January 17, 2021
David Kronn Collection, Borders
October 21, 2020–February 2021
