2025 promises intriguing art exhibitions in Ireland, exploring themes of collective action and the hidden meanings behind appearances.
Collective action and activism are themes in the year ahead, as artists also explore what gets lost and found in translation. Art exhibitions in 2024 showed a breadth of ambition among Ireland ’s curators, perhaps inspired by the sense of catastrophe lurking out in the misted distance. Shows about the meaning of time and the horrors of war, meditations on breathing and on the nature of nature itself gave viewers plenty to ponder.
Now that our existential threats are somewhat more tangible, things seem to have paradoxically settled down a bit artwise. A theme of collective activity and social purpose hovers at the edges of things, which makes 2025 intriguing. While one of the wonders of regular art-viewing is to be found in the discovery of unexpected gems, these exhibitions look to be excellent bets.The RDS Visual Arts Awards exhibition showcases an exciting constellation of rising stars and has a record that proves the selectors to be right (most of the time), but the RHA Annual is a much more sweeping cacophony of who’s making and painting what, from just-emerged graduates to venerable academicians. With almost everything for sale, and prices generally going from under €100 to sky’s the limit, it’s a great moment for starting or adding to your collection. Also at the RHA in 2025 is last year’s postponed BogSkin, a group show exploring what lies beneath Ireland’s soggy peat. Definitely worth a dip, it runs from January 31st to April 20th., this exhibition features the work of a line-up of artists that is both intriguing and stellar. Nina Canell, Elizabeth Peyton, Aleana Egan, Genieve Figgis, William McKeown, Adrian O’Carroll, Samir Mahmood, Eva Rothschild, Marcel Vidal and more explore ideas of how nothing is quite as it seems, and what appears to be opposite is more likely to be unexpectedly connected
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