IMMA Collection: A Decade by IMMA Ireland

IMMA Collection: A Decade provides a snapshot of how the National Collection of modern and contemporary art has developed over the past 10 years. IMMA’s remit is to collect the art of now for the future, to reflect key developments in visual culture and to keep them in the public domain for future generations. Great works of art entering IMMA’s Collection shape future conversations about art, Ireland and the world we live in and expand the reputation of contemporary Irish artists globally.

A large number of donated works feature in this exhibition and reflect IMMA’s almost exclusive reliance on private philanthropy in recent years. As a result of significant funding cuts IMMA has not had the resources to have a viable acquisitions budget since 2011. As a result that the practices of younger and mid-career artists from the past 5 years are glaringly absent from the IMMA Collection story. It is particularly through purchases that IMMA can best fulfil its mission to chart the nation’s artistic memory. It is therefore vital that IMMA resume purchasing such critically important Irish and international works as a matter of urgency.

IMMA Collection: A Decade includes many of the wide range of media represented within the IMMA Collection: painting, sculpture, drawings and prints, photography, film, video, installation and performance giving you a sense of the huge variety of artistic practice in contemporary art. Works selected for this exhibition explore memory, identity and place, and questions of globalism, the environment and connectivity - from the local to the universal.

This exhbition presents a selection of significant acquisitions that are the result of generous donations including works such as Cape Siren (2008) by Philip Taaffe and Remains (2013) by Willie Doherty. The exhibition also presents additional significant gifts from the Novak/O’Doherty Collection, David Kronn Collection, the Graphic Studio and a diplomatic gift of works from the Federal Government of Mexico. Other featured artists include Pierre Huyghe, Niamh O’Malley, Eva Rothschild, Dorothy Cross, Tim Robinson, Peter Hutchinson, Howard Hodgkin, Maria Simonds Gooding, Amanda Coogan and others.

Contains tracks

• Ormston House + IMMA | Artist Talk by Mark Dion by IMMA Ireland
• What is...Performance Art? by IMMA Ireland
• Audio Archives Revisited | Willie Doherty & Declan Long, 2013 by IMMA Ireland
• Audio Archives Revisited | Corban Walker | Venice Biennale 2011 Launch by IMMA Ireland
• Audio Archives Revisited | Howard Hodgkin + Enrique Juncosa | In Conversation by IMMA Ireland