IMMA | Irish Museum of Modern Art
 The Irish Museum of Modern Art is Ireland's leading national institution for the collection and presentation of modern and contemporary art. The Museum presents a wide variety of art in a dynamic programme of exhibitions, which regularly includes bodies of work from its own Collection and its award-winning Education and Community Department.
It also creates more widespread access to art and artists through its Studio and National programmes.
Closure of Main Building
November 2011 to December 2012
The Museum wishes to advise visitors that, owing to essential and extensive refurbishing works, the main building at IMMA will be closed from 1 November 2011 until 31 December 2012.
The works, which will be carried out by the OPW, will involve a major upgrade of the Museum's lighting,
security and fire safety systems. Work will be confined to the main Museum building and will include the installation of a niew wiring and lighting system,
a greatly enhanced security capability and a more advanced fire detection system. A new hoist for artworks and and additional fire escape will also be put in place.
The works will significantly enhance the experience for visitors, with greatly improved lighting and flooring,
and will restore access to the first floor galleries for wheelchair users and other lift-dependent visitors.
In addition, these improvements to the buildings safety systems will enable part of the North Range to be used
for exhibitions on a regular basis. The project will also reduce energy costs
and enable the Museum to operate in a more environmentally efficient manner.
The works are due to be completed in approximately one year, and the Irish Museum of Modern Art is scheduled to reopen to visitors
in January 2013.
Exhibitions will continue in the New Galleries and the Artists' Residency Programme will also continue on site during the closure.
The café, bookshop and grounds will also remain open to visitors.
IMMA will also present exhibitions and projects in an off-site location in Dublin,
while the highly-successful National Programme will continue in venues around Ireland, North and South.
Exhibitions
Introduction
The Museum's temporary exhibition programme regularly juxtaposes the work of leading, well-established figures with that of younger-generation artists to create a debate about the nature and function of art. In the current year this includes exhibitions by such prominent artists as Elizabeth Peyton, Alexander Calder, James Coleman, Hughie O’Donoghue, Terry Winters, Alan Phelan, Lynda Benglis and Philippe Parreno, from the United States, Ireland and France. Works being shown range from painting and sculpture to installation, photography, video and performance.
Current Exhibitions
Twenty
27 May- 31 October 2011, First Floor, West Wing
 As part of the celebrations marking the Irish Museum of Modern Art’s 20th anniversary, Twenty, an exhibition featuring twenty artists, opens to the public on the 28 May 2011. The exhibition presents a younger generation of Irish and international artists whose work is seen increasingly on the international stage. Commonalties and dialogues appear between the artworks in Twenty, but the exhibition seeks to allow sufficient space that each artists’ work may be viewed as an individual practice. The show includes installations, photography, painting and sculpture, and featured are artworks from IMMA’s Collection by Orla Barry, Stephen Brandes, Nina Canell, Fergus Feehily, Patrick M FitzGerald, John Gerrard, David Godbold, Katie Holten, Paddy Jolley, Nevan Lahart, Niamh McCann, Willie McKeown, Perry Ogden, Liam O'Callaghan, Niamh O'Malley, Alan Phelan, Garrett Phelan, Eva Rothschild and Corban Walker. The exhibition also features a borrowed piece by Irish artist Sean Lynch.
Barry Cooke
15 June - 18 September 2011
Organised to mark Barrie Cooke’s 80th birthday, this exhibition includes some 70 paintings and sculptural works from the early 1960s to the present. It draws from the Museum’s own significant holding of his works, including Slow Dance Forest Floor , 1976, Megaceros Hibernicus , 1983 and Electric Elk, 1996, as well as loans from various private and institutional collections.
Forthcoming Exhibitions
Out of the Dark Room: The David Kronn Collection
This exhibition is drawn form a collection of more than 450 photographs brought together by the American collector David Kronn. The collection ranges in content from 19th century Daguerreotypes to the modern photography of Edward Weston and August Sander and works from award-winning contemporary photographers, such as Trine Sondergaard and Simon Norfolk. It is particularly strong in its representation of Irving Penn, Kenneth Josephson and Harry Callahan.
Gerard Byrne
Artist Gerard Byrne works primarily in film and photography, which he presents as ambitious large-scale installations, to question how images are constructed, transmitted and mediated. Influenced by literature and theatre, Byrne's work consistently references a range of sources, from popular magazines of the recent past to iconic modernist playwrights like Brecht, Beckett, and Sartre.
Collection
Introduction
 The Collection of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, which comprises some 4,500 works, has been developed since 1990 through purchase, donations and long-term loans, as well as by the commissioning of new works. The guiding principle behind this process is that the Collection is firmly rooted in the present. The Museum’s acquisitions policy is to concentrate on the work of living artists, but it accepts donations and loans of more historical art objects with a particular emphasis on work from the 1940s onwards.
The Museum’s Collection is made up of the Permanent Collection and a number of loan collections which the Weltkunst Foundation Collection of British Art from the 1980s and '90s. The Madden Arnholz Collection of some 2,000 old master prints also forms a part of the IMMA Collection.
The Permanet Collection
 The permanent Collection of the Irish Museum of Modern Art comprises some 1,650 works. The collection reflects some of the most exciting trends in Irish and international art with lens-based work by Marina Abramovic, James Coleman, Willie Doherty, Gilbert and George, Candida Höfer, Pierre Huyghe, Philippe Parreno, Issac Julien, and Paul Seawright, installations by Gerard Byrne, Liam Gillick, Ann Hamilton, and llya and Emilia Kabakov. Also, sculpture by Stephan Balkenhol, Dorothy Cross, Iran do Espírito Santo, Juan M?noz, Kathy Prendergast, Rebecca Horn and Corban Walker; and paintings by Barrie Cooke, Howard Hodgkin, Tony O’Malley, Philip Taaffe, Juan Uslé, and Jack B. Yeats. Major donations include a wide variety of modern and contemporary art, including paintings by Basil Blackshaw, Cecil King and Sean Scully, sculptural works by Louise Bourgeois, Barry Flanagan and James McKenna and a film installation by Neil Jordan. Heritage Gifts include 50 works from the PJ Carroll & Co. Ltd. Art Collection, and 46 works from the Bank of Ireland Collection.
The Madden Arnholz Collection
 In 1988 approximately 1,200 Old Master prints were donated to the Royal Hospital Kilmainham (now IMMA) by Clare Madden. The collection includes works by Dürer, Rembrandt, Hogarth, Goya and many other innovative European printmakers from the Renaissance onwards. Following the death of Clare Madden in October 1998 the collection was augmented by the addition of a large collection of books containing prints by the English printmaker Thomas Bewick and his family bringing the total range of printed images to 2,000. Related items in this bequest include unusual versions of the prints on silk and one of Bewick’s printing blocks.
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Admission & Opening Hours
 Admission
Admission is FREE
Opening Hours
Museum Opening Hours
Tuesday - Saturday: 10.00am - 5.30pm
except Wednesday: 10.30am - 5.30pm
Closed on Mondays,
Good Friday, 24 - 26 December
Open Sunday and Bank Holidays: 12noon - 5.30pm
Please note: On Sunday 10 July, due to the National Day of Commemoration, the Museum will not open until 2.30pm.
Last Admission 5.15pm
Location
Museum Entrance on Military Road
By Luas: Red line to Heuston Station, 5 minute walk to Museum entrance on Military Road. For further information about Luas please click here
By Bus: Buses to Heuston Station (5 minutes walk via Military Rd): 26 from Wellington Quay; 51, 79 from Aston Quay; 90 Dart Feeder Bus from Connolly and Tara Street Stations to Heuston Station.
Buses to James St (5 minutes walk via steps to Bow Lane onto Irwin St and Military Rd): 123 from O’Connell St/Dame St; 51B, 78A from Aston Quay.
By Car: 10 minute drive from city centre. Parking Only 1 Euro for up to three hours.
On foot: Approximately 30 to 40 minutes from city centre.
By train: 5 minute walk from Heuston Station; from Connolly and Tara Street Stations by 90 bus to Heuston Station
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