Talk: Christina Kennedy, IMMA Head of Collections

Magnetic Fields and Openings Out: the National Collection of Modern & Contemporary Art at IMMA

Join Christina Kennedy, Head of Collections at IMMA, for a talk offering insight into the development of the IMMA National Collection and its relationship to the works within usual and generous ways.

usual and generous ways is an exhibition of works from the National Collection of the Irish Museum of Modern Art curated by poet Padraig Regan, Galway Arts Centre’s inaugural Writer in Residence. It brings together works by artists from Ireland and elsewhere, across a range of media, in which stone is not simply a material shaped by the artist’s hand, but becomes subject matter, an object of inquiry, and an agent to think with and through.

Christina Kennedy, Senior Curator, Head of Collections, IMMA
Christina Kennedy has been the Senior Curator, Head of Collections, at IMMA since 2008. Prior to that she was Head of Exhibitions at Dublin City Gallery the Hugh Lane (DCGHL). She has curated and co-curated many exhibitions, edited publications and contributed texts to numerous catalogues, notably: Beyond the White Cube: A Retrospective of Brian O’Doherty/Patrick Ireland, DCGHL, 2006; The Studio, co-curated with Jens Hoffmann, DCGHL, 2007; Tacita Dean, DCGHL, 2007; The Burial of Patrick Ireland, IMMA, 2008; The Moderns: The Arts in Ireland from 1900s – 1970s, IMMA, 2010-2011, Postwar American Art: the Novak/O’Doherty Collection, IMMA 2010; Hello Sam by Brian O’Doherty, National Gallery of Ireland as part of Dublin Contemporary, 2011; Changing States: Contemporary Irish Art & Francis Bacon’s Studio, Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, co-curator, 2013, Art as Argument: Brian O’Doherty and the Novak O’Doherty Collection, Kunstmuseum Bayreuth, 2013. Patrick Scott: Image, Space, Light, IMMA 2014; Lucian Freud Project at IMMA 2016-2021, Lead Curator; Editor of The Narrow Gate of the Here-and-Now: IMMA: 30 years of the global contemporary.

This talk takes place as part of our late night programme “Gallery Lates” supported by Galway City Council and the Department of Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sports as part of the Galway City Night-Time Economy Action Plan.

Image: Map courtesy of GSNI