To mark the much-anticipated reopening of galleries, museums and art centres, we have compiled a Summer Gallery Guide to inform audiences about forthcoming exhibitions happening in July and August across Ireland and Northern Ireland.
These exhibition details have been collated based on organisational websites and correspondence. All information was correct at the time of writing; however, dates may be subject to change. Visitors are advised to contact individual galleries before attending.
Dublin
- ‘Tangled’, group exhibition (continues until 18 July)
- Gary Coyle, ‘On Returning’ (24 July – 26 September)
- Gallery 1: Yuri Patterson, ‘The Engine’ (continues until 31 July)
- Gallery 2: Steve Bishop, ‘The Artist’s Eye’ (continues until 31 July)
- ‘Vicereines of Ireland: Portraits of Forgotten Women’ (continues until 5 September)
Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane
- Maud Cotter, ‘a consequence of – a dappled world’ (continues until 8 August)
- ‘Joseph Beuys: From the Secret Block to ROSC’ (14 July – 31 October)
- ‘Cecil King: Present in Time Future’ (continues until 28 November)
- PASS FREELY: Hugh Lane Gallery Asbestos Project (street art installation, O’Connell Street) (continues until December)
Gallery of Photography Ireland
- Martin Parr, ‘Parr’s Ireland: 40 Years of Photography’ (continues until 5 September)
- Dublin: Didier Lourenço, ‘New Works’ (continues until 10 July)
- Belfast: ‘Art & Soul: International Art & Sculpture Fair’, Culloden Estate & Spa in Hollywood, Belfast (continues until 18 July)
- ‘Refuge’ (continues until 1 September)
- Cecilia Bullo, ‘Bleach Those Tongues: Dystopian Assemblages’ (8 July – 7 August)
- John Noel Smith, ‘Passage’ (12 August – 11 September)
IMMA | Irish Museum of Modern Art
- Main Galleries, West Wing: ‘Ghosts from the Recent Past’ (continues until 26 September)
- Courtyard Galleries: ‘Northern Light: The David Kronn Photography Collection’ (continues until 10 October)
- Project Spaces: ‘Visual Voices & Bok Gwai’ (continues until 18 July)
- Freud Centre: ‘IMMA Collection: Freud Project’ (continues until 8 August)
- Online: ‘IMMA Collection: Freud Project, The Artist’s Mother’ (continues until 8 August)
- IMMA Main Galleries: ‘The Narrow Gate of the Here-and-Now’ (30 July 2021 – 2022)
- Elizabeth Magill ‘Red Stars and Variations’ (continues until 10 July 2021)
- Kathy Prendergast ‘Road Trip’ (continues until 10 July 2021)
- Marcel Vidal, ‘Stuck on Dawn’ (17 July – 28 August)
- Sonia Shiel, ‘The Dangers of Happy’ (continues until 10 July)
- Stephen Loughman (opens 15 July)
- Alan Phelan, ‘Joly Screen Photographs – Fleurs Tarabscoté’ (9 – 30 July)
- Helen Blake, Recent works (9 – 30 July)
- Simon Watson, ‘Portrait of a house (12 Henrietta Street)’ (12 – 27 August)
- Ciara Roche, ‘of late…’ (continues until 3 July)
- ‘New Perspectives. Acquisitions 2011-2020’ (continues until 2 August)
- Shaw and the Gallery: A Priceless Education (continues until 19 September)
- ‘Glamour and Governance’ (continues until 3 October)
- ‘George Wallace: Reflections on Life’ (continues until 29 August)
- ‘Guest’, curated by Marysia Więckiewicz-Carroll (continues until 19 September)
- Donald Teskey, ‘Mapping the Peripheral’ (continues until 1 July 2021)
- Kelly Ratchford and artist Jaki Coffey, ‘Less Jam, More Havoc’, two-person exhibition (15 July – 15 August)
- Niamh Hannaford and Tara Carroll, ‘Strike your offended senses: A modest exhibition of artistic frivolity’ (continues until 10 July)
- Florencia Caiazza, ‘Mismatch’ (16 – 31 July)
- ‘Pallas Workers’ (6 – 7 August)
- Suzanne O’Haire, ‘manic panic’ (13 – 28 August)
Multiple venues (1 – 31 July)
‘All Our Relations / Ár gCaidreamh Uilig’ (15 July – 21 August)
- Denis Kelly, ‘Look, then Look Again’ (continues until 11 July)
- Robert Ballagh, ‘Home’ (continues until 1 August)
- Damien Flood, ‘Tilt’ (continues until 1 August)
- Barbara Knežević, ‘Pleasure Scapes’ (19 July – 29 August)
- Ashford Gallery: Miriam O’Connor, ‘Tomorrow is Sunday’ (19 July – 29 August)
- Amanda Coogan ‘They Come Then, The Birds’ (continues until 18 September)
- Alex de Roeck and Ann Ensor, ‘Lost Green’ (7 – 20 August)
- Michele Horrigan, Catriona Leahy, Laurie Robins, Libita Sibungu, ‘Agitation Co-op’ (continues until 10 July)
- Lucy McKenzie, ‘Tour Donas’, curated by Pádraic E. Moore (22 July – 18 September)
- Aoife Dunne, ‘7th SENSE’ (continues until 27 August)
- Ann Maria Healy, ‘Hypnagogia’ (continues until 3 September)
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Leinster
- ‘Chrysalis’, North Louth Artists (continues until 10 July)
- ‘Sweeney’s Descent’, group exhibition (15 July – 28 August 2021)
Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda
- John Moloney, ‘Sculptureworks’ (10 July – 28 August)
- Joy Gerrard, ‘Precarious Freedom: Crowds, Flags, Barriers’ (continues until 31 July)
- Joan Davis, ‘Garden as Gallery, Gallery as Garden’ (10 – 25 July 2021)
- Isabel Nolan, ‘A delicate bond which is also a gap’ (3 July – 28 August)
Connacht
- ‘I Am What I Am’, curated by Sinead Keogh (continues until 31 July)
- Multiple venues (3 – 11 July)
- ‘Far In – Far Out: A Visual Arts Trail’ (3 – 27 July)
- Jennifer Trouton, ‘One of Many’ (5 June – 17 July)
Galway International Arts Festival
- Multiple venues (28 August – 18 September)
- John Gerrard, ‘Mirror Pavilion, Leaf Work’, Derrigimlagh Bog, Connemara (28 August – 18 September)
- Heidi Wickham, ‘Inside the Circle – Exploring Cold Spaces’, part of Cairde Festival 2021 (continues until 31 July)
- ‘Meditations in Time of Civil War’ (continues until 29 August)
- ‘Human Signature: A lens-based exhibition’, part of Cairde Festival 2021 (3 – 24 July)
Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton
- ‘Landscape, Ecology & Environment Research (LEER) Residency Exhibition 2020/21’ (continues until 16 July)
- Colm Mac Athlaoich, ‘Percept’ (11 May – 11 July)
- ‘QUEER AS YOU ARE’, Summer group exhibition (20 July – 19 September)
Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny
- ‘Turas / Journey’, group exhibition (continues until 17 September)
- Anna Spearman ‘New Works’ (continues until 30 July)
- Mick O’Hara ‘The Proposition of Objects’ (7 August – 10 September)
- ‘Second Summer’ (continues until 28 August)
- ‘Jack Butler Yeats: Salt Water Ballads’ (continues until 30 March 2022)
- ‘Jack Butler Yeats: Highlights from The Niland Collection’ (continues until 30 March 2022)
- Alison Pilkington ‘I Build my own Island’ (10 July – 26 September)
Cork
- ‘The Human Animal’ (continues until 12 November)
- Open-air sculpture exhibition, curated by Richard Scott Sculpture (continues until 31 August)
- Zurich Portrait Prize (continues until 11 July)
- Dara McGrath ‘For Those That Tell No Tales’ (continues until 29 August)
- Doug Fishbone, ‘Please Gamble Responsibly’ (continues until 29 August)
- Laura Fitzgerald, ‘I have made a place’ (continues until 19 September)
- ‘Menagerie: Animals by Artists’, group exhibition (continues until 6 March 2022)
- ‘Royal Cork Yacht Club, Queenstown/Cobh, 1854-1966’ (27 August 2020 – 18 September)
‘Home: Being and Belonging in Contemporary Ireland’ (continues until 31 October)
- Katherine Boucher Bueg, ‘Still – Life’ (continues until 10 July)
- ‘Lúnasa’, group show curated by Stephen O’ Connell in conjunction with Design and Craft Council of Ireland (5 – 28 Aug)
- Amanda Rice, ‘Material and Immaterial Worlds (continues until 12 September)
Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre
- ‘Standstill’ an exhibition of photography (continues until 10 July)
- Kate McElroy Studio Exhibition (continues until 10 July)
- Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre Members and Friends Exhibition (continues until 15 July)
- Stephen Brandes ‘La Place des Grands Abysses’ (24 July – 4 September)
Munster
- Butler Gallery Collection Exhibition (ongoing)
- The O’Malley Collection Exhibition (ongoing)
- Richard Mosse, Incoming and Grid (Moria) (continues until 29 August)
Courthouse Gallery & Studios, Ennistymon
- ‘Abstract View’, group exhibition (continues until 17 July)
- Phase II of the 39th EVA International, multiple venues (2 July – 22 August)
- ‘Sinterella: an exploration of storytelling through material-based visual art’ (8 July – 22 August)
Maighread Tobin, ‘Common Thread’ (8 July – 5 September 2021)
Thomas Brezing & Vera Klute, ‘The loneliness of Being German’ (8 July – 12 September)
Lismore Castle Arts, Waterford
- ‘Light and Language’ (continues until 10 October)
- Alicia Reyes McNamara, curated by Berlin Opticians (10 July – 22 August)
- St Carthage Hall: Kaye Donachie (28 August – 31 October)
- A Space for Lismore 2020/21: Dervla Baker ‘The Lismore Photo Project’
South Tipperary Arts Centre, Clonmel
- Rachel Rothwell, ‘Green Streets’ (3 – 11 July)
- Sean Taylor, ‘Clonmel Community Manifesto’ (3 – 11 July)
- Claire Murphy, ‘Here Is Where I Am’ (3 July – 28 August)
VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow
- ‘Sky Fold’, a project by architects Emmett Scanlon, Jeffrey Bolhuis and Laurence Lord (AP+E) (continues until 30 September)
- Deirdre O’Mahony and VISUAL, ‘Sustainment Experiments: The Plot’ (continues until 30 September 2023)
- Kari Robertson, ‘Wet Signal Voice Garden’ (continues until 12 September)
- ‘CAre B0t’, written and designed by Caroline Sinders, programmed by Alex Fefegha of Comuzi (continues until 31 December)
- ‘Ochre’, a two-person exhibition by Ciara Roche and Emma Roche (continues until 7 August)
- ‘The Age of Reason/Unreason (Part 3)’, group exhibition by Na Cailleacha, curated by Catherine Marshall (16 August – 6 October)
Northern Ireland
- ‘Fragments of Memory – An exhibition by Millie Moore’ (continues until 31 July)
- Neil Shawcross RHA RUA (July and August)
- Gallery 1: Marcel Rickli, ‘Aeon’ (continues until 17 July)
- Gallery 2: ‘A Lightness of Touch’, MFA Photography Graduates (continues until 17 July)
- Gallery 3: Yan Wang Preston (continues until 17 July)
- ‘And, if we observe the present’, Belfast Photo Festival (continues until 10 July)
- Publication launch, SAM’S EDEN, 1 July
- ‘Concealed in half-light’ (5 August – 2 September)
- ‘Irish Modernisms’ (continues until 18 September)
- Project Space: ‘ART NIGHT’, films by Alberta Whittle (6 – 17 July)
- August Craft Month 2021
- Jack Pakenham ‘A Broken Sky Re-visited’ (5 – 28 August)
- ‘Evidence of Making’ (5 – 28 August)
- ‘Gallery Artists’ (5 – 28 August)
FE McWilliam Gallery, Banbridge
- ‘Sculptors at Work: Photographs by Anne-Katrin Purkiss’ (continues until Autumn 2021)
- Paddy McCann, ‘Friary – New Paintings’ (continues until 31 July)
- Suzanne Lacy ‘ACROSS AND IN-BETWEEN’ (continues until 14 August)
- Offsite: ‘Not Alone’, touring exhibition (continues until 1 August)
- Sunken Gallery: Jaap Pieters: The eye of Amsterdam (continues until 8 August)
- Tall Gallery: Maya Balcioglu (continues until 8 August)
- Upper Gallery: Ambera Wellman: UnTurning (continues until 8 August)
Market Place Theatre and Arts Centre, Armagh
- Sebastian K Akehurst ‘Outskirts of the Toybox’ (continues until 17 July)
- ‘Sorry, Neither’ (continues until 11 July)
- Zanele Muholi ‘SOMNYAMA NGONYAMA’ (continues until 8 August)
- ‘VAMOS NIPPON!’, fourth annual sports exhibition (20 July – 5 September)
- Supporting programme: ‘Today Is Yesterday’s Tomorrow’, via the Naughton Gallery’s social media channels.
- NI Centenary: Local Leadership, National Impact’ (continues until 1 August)
- ‘NI100: Our Borough, Our People’ (continues until 30 August 2021)
- Online: ‘The Life and Work of Sophia Rosamond Praeger’ (continues until 31 July)
- Online: ‘Neill’s Teddies Explore North Down Museum for Chinese New Year’ (continues until 31 July)
- Online: ‘Then and Now Postcards – Ards and North Down’ (continues until 31 August)
- Online: ‘The Cabinet of Curiosities’ (continues until 31 August)
- Birgit Schoenaker (3 – 30 July)
- ‘CultureLab’ (continues until 5 September)
- Willie Doherty, ‘WHERE’ (continues until 12 September)
- ‘La Belle Epoque – Fashions of the 1870s-1910s’ (continues until 6 November)
- ‘Elements’ (continues until 4 December 2022)
- David Vintiner & Gem Fletcher, ‘I Want to Believe’ (continues until 8 July)
- Elizabeth Price, ‘CHOREOGRAPH’ (continues until 21 August)
