All through 2026 Kunstverein Aughrim will accompany the practices of three artists throughout a number of tasks.
Sibyl Montague lives in West Cork the place she makes each day observations of dairy cows as they transfer by means of their cycles of labour and seasonal rhythms. Montague practices from ó dheas, her studio and web site of fabric manufacturing. Right here fleshy animal hides meet zoomorphic digital animation for tasks that work to awaken the underbelly of our world, reaching in the direction of the goals and incantations of one other. In Spring 2026 Montague involves Aughrim to current ‘Son of honey-bag’, a brand new physique of labor in growth. As a part of this Montague will undertake a collection of workouts and conversations, responding to the panorama by means of the angle of divining, milk manufacturing, mythologies and acupuncture for land.
Vaari Claffey is a curator and cultural producer who by no means shies away from a scene. Her tasks are sometimes monumental in scale, harnessing information and vitality to create performative moments with transformative penalties. She works each in-sync and in rigidity with the artwork histories, social contexts, and up to date situations of manufacturing. In Summer time 2026 Claffey and a cohort of collaborators will current a serious new public artwork mission in and round Aughrim. ‘The Clearing’ will activate a collection of vacant or derelict websites, inserting itself into occasions and establishments to have a look at the dynamics of spectatorship and withdrawing. That includes an exhibition at Kunstverein Aughrim, a sculptural efficiency by means of the village, and an interruption into the Craic within the Granite Music & Arts Pageant, the mission culminates in a screening programme on the neighbouring Courthouse Arts Centre in Tinahely.
Jenny Brady makes transferring picture artworks that interrogate communication by means of the language of cinema, and the sensory and perceptual situations of sound. Her works are measured adventures in uncertainty, usually involving unreliable narrators, missed or mistranslations, questioning each how we converse and hear, and who has the correct and capability to be heard. In Autumn/Winter 2026 Brady will develop a Reference Library for Kunstverein Aughrim. This mission will take the form of a viewing room, enabling entry to earlier work, occasional screenings of related materials, and pathways into a number of the analysis, recurrning themes, influences and concepts that proceed to tell the artist’s patterns of labor.
Based by Kate Pressure in 2022, and working from a rural townhouse in County Wicklow, Eire, Kunstverein Aughrim is a curatorial manufacturing workplace that develops durational collaborations with artists to assist the manufacturing of latest inventive work, bringing audiences as near the artistic course of as attainable. In 2025 Kunstverein Aughrim accompanied the practices of Marie Farrington, Bea McMahon, and Ruth E Lyons, by means of actions akin to multi-platform tasks, manufacturing shoots, screening previews, collaborative workshops, seasonal exhibitions, and off-site occasions. The general public programme was additional formed by a month-long residency with Eslam Abd El Salam, an Ultimology Summer time Faculty with Fiona Hallinan, a publishing mission for Suppose a Stone, and the launch of a brand new gross sales initiative: Home of Kunst.
Alongside the inventive programme, in 2026 Kunstverein Aughrim will fee an strategy to institutional archival apply with Clodagh Assata Boyce, host a micro residency with Aster Reem David, preserve materials collaborations with Forerunner, and proceed to pilot the Artistic Producer Programme with individuals Aisling Murray, Fatoumata Gandega, Iarlaith Ní Fheorais, Nathan O’Donnell, Rachel Botha, Seán Ward and Sara Muthi. As a part of this programme an occasion titled What’s a Artistic Producer? is ready to happen on February third 2026 on the Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray. At the present time-long occasion is designed to interrogate the rise of the time period ‘Artistic Producer’ within the context of latest artwork manufacturing in Eire.
For extra data please go to Kunstverein Aughrim’s web site, contact the group instantly at workplace@kunstverein.ie, and/or subscribe to the mailing listing for irregular digital updates. At present displaying at Kunstverein Aughrim Till You Change into Weightless by Ruth E Lyons is on view till February twentieth 2026. Visits are welcome by appointment.
