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    IMMA WINS EUROPEAN ART MUSEUM AWARD

    Wednesday, October 1st, 2025

    Sam Gilliam – Well III c1990’s (1933-20220 from his exhibition Sewing Fields at IMMA until January 25. Courtesy Sam Gilliam Foundation

    The Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) has?won the 2025 Art Museum Award, presented by the European Museum Academy (EMA). The honour recognises IMMA as one of Europe’s leading cultural institutions, celebrated for its pioneering, inclusive, and socially engaged approach to contemporary museology. The award was presented to IMMA’s Director, Annie Fletcher, at a ceremony in Budapest where cultural leaders from across Europe gathered to celebrate excellence in museum practice.?

    The award, supported by the A.G. Leventis Foundation, highlights institutions that use art in innovative and creative ways to address pressing social issues. It champions museums as “social arenas”, spaces for civic dialogue, inclusion, and community building. The Award recognises museums that explore themes such as participation, inclusion, accessibility, gender equality, migration, racial justice, decolonisation, sustainability, climate change, and public health.?? 

    IMMA was selected from a highly competitive shortlist of outstanding institutions, including the Centre Pompidou-Metz (France), Reykjavik Art Museum (Iceland), Lithuanian National Museum of Art (Lithuania), Museum of Contemporary Art of Montenegro (Montenegro), State Ethnographic Museum (Poland), Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art (Serbia), and Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery (United Kingdom).

    Sewing Fields, now on view at IMMA, highlights Gilliam’s connection to Ireland, where a transformative residency at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in the 1990s reshaped his artistic practice. Gilliam embraced new materials, working with pre-stained fabrics that he had shipped to Ireland, cutting and layering them into sculptural compositions. A collaboration with a local dressmaker further expanded this process, reinforcing his innovative fusion of painting and textile techniques.

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    HOWARDINA PINDELL AT IRISH MUSEUM OF MODERN ART

    Thursday, July 6th, 2023
    Howardina Pindell – Autobiography: India (Shiva, Ganges), 1985, Mixed media on canvas.  ASOM Collection.

    The first solo exhibition in Ireland by Howardina Pindell, the American artist, activist, and educator working through the media of painting, drawing, print and video, has opened at IMMA (The Irish Museum of Modern Art). Titled A Renewed Language it is the largest presentation of her work in Europe to date. New paintings from Pindell’s studio and works on paper are shown with two videos that frame her long career – Free, White and 21 (1980) and Rope/Fire/Water (2020). These works tackle the pervasiveness of racial inequality, drawing on Pindell’s own experiences and also on her collation of historical data relating to segregation, discrimination and race-based violence in America.  

    From the 1980s Pindell’s practice began to deal explicitly with issues of racism and discrimination, her work took on a more overtly political tenor, which anticipated the Black Lives Matter movement by thirty years. Pindell deals with issues including colonisation and enslavement, violence against indigenous populations, police brutality, the AIDS crisis and climate change.

    Born in Philadelphia in 1943, Pindell began her career in the 1960s. Having studied painting at Boston and Yale Universities she became an Exhibition Assistant at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1967, rising to Associate Curator and Acting Director, and serving on the Byers Committee to investigate racial exclusion in museum acquisitions and exhibitions. She first exhibited her art in 1971, and was a founding member of A.I.R (Artists in Residence), the first women’s cooperative gallery in New York City. In 1979 she began teaching at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, where she is now a distinguished Professor of Art. She rose to prominence throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s, and had her first major solo exhibition at the Studio Museum, Harlem in 1986.

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