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06.05.2025–07.05.2025

Public Programmes

The Change Lab 2025

The Change Lab is a model designed to embed concepts of Global Citizenship Education (GCE) into the heart of learning within the NCAD Professional Masters of Education programme.

07.05.2025–09.05.2025

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OPACITIES: Seminar, workshop and screening: Decolonial, Materialist and Ecological media practices - organised by The Frugal Media Research Group.

06.05.2025–07.05.2025

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URBAN PARASITE: An exhibition of Chongquig Work Institute artists curated by Yifeng Wei at NCAD Gallery.

Programmed as part of the NCAD Gallery Student Open Call 2025, the Gallery is delighted to present URBAN PARASITE: An exhibition of Chongquig Work Institute artists Dong Xun, Bao Dachen, and Wu Jianping curated by Yifeng Wei, NCAD School of Visual Culture PhD candidate and curator.

20.03.2025–02.04.2025

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Conference : Boys in the Making | On Masculinity and Method at NCAD Gallery.

A critical engagement with the methodology and emerging themes of the Boys in the Making programme.

14.02.2025–14.02.2025

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Boys in the Making | Fiona Whelan and Rialto Youth Project at NCAD Gallery.

Boys in the Making | Fiona Whelan and Rialto Youth Project ~ Exhibition, Programme & Conference at NCAD Gallery.

16.01.2025–14.02.2025

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Communities of Practice

Communities of Practice is a public event bringing together recent graduates from the NCAD MA Art & Social Action course with current students and wider communities of practice across art and social action..

10.12.2024–10.12.2024

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Creative Boardroom: Collaborate4Climate Exhibition

This exhibition shares the journey of an inter-generational, all island group, toward understanding climate challenge through positive actions.

22.11.2024–06.12.2024

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Foraging Media

Foraging Media is a symposium, screening and workshop bringing together artists and researchers to discuss ecology, materialism and media.

04.11.2024–04.11.2024

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Text Textile

Symposium: TEXT/TEXTILE explores the material culture of the Liberties, histories of weaving and tenting in this place and how language and textile arts meet.

25.10.2024–25.10.2024

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Empathising with the Enemy | Collective Liberation for All

 ~ SPECIAL EVENT ~ In Conversation event with guest speaker Sulaiman Khatib, Palestinian peace activist & co-founder of Combatants For Peace in dialogue with community activist Amel Yacef (The Rowan Trust)

17.10.2024–17.10.2024

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Empathising with the Enemy | Louis Scully

NCAD Gallery presents Empathising with the Enemy | Louis Scully, a lens-based project developed through forging a network of individuals & organisations located in Palestine and Israel.

17.09.2024–18.11.2024

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NCAD Gallery Incubation Residency 2024 | Louis Scully

NCAD Gallery Incubation Residency 2024 awardee is artist filmmaker Louis Scully who will be resident in the Gallery space from June to September 2024.

24.06.2024–02.09.2024

NCAD Graduate Public Events Programme 2024

FORTHCOMING > NCAD Graduate Public Events Programme 2024

07.06.2024–15.06.2024

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Rewild Dublin?

Rewild Dublin? A one-day conference exploring the role of urban rewilding in mitigating climate change impact and biodiversity loss, and improving resilience in our city.

15.05.2024–15.05.2024

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BORDER/RIVER/ MOVER/BREATHER | Nicole Antebi

As part of the Staff Open Call 2024, the NCAD Gallery presents BORDER/RIVER/MOVER/BREATHER, a short-run programme of events with invited artist Nicole Antebi (US) comprising artist talks, installation works and a workshop, organised by Chloe Brenan (NCAD) and Éireann Lorsung (UCD).

09.05.2024–09.05.2024

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Aithníonn Ciaróg, Ciaróg Eile | Mollie Mia Murphy

Launched as part of the Open Call 2024, the NCAD Gallery is delighted to present the installation Aithníonn Ciaróg, Ciaróg Eile by Mollie Mia Murphy.

28.03.2024–12.04.2024

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Horizontalius | Graham Holbrook

Launched 13 March 2024 as part of the Open Call 2024, the NCAD Gallery is delighted to present Horizontalius ~ an installation by Graham Holbrook-the paired student art practice of Arlo Graham and Nicole Holbrook.

14.03.2024–28.03.2024

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Mná Na hÉireann | Michelle Browne

The NCAD Gallery presents Mná Na hÉireanna sound installation by artist Michelle Browne programmed in advance of the upcoming Irish constitutional referendums, the Family Amendment and the Care Amendment for public vote on Friday 8 March 2024.

27.02.2024–12.03.2024

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Mná Na hÉireann | In Conversation Event

As part of the Staff Open Call 2024, NCAD Gallery presents the In Conversation Event: Artist Michelle Browne introduces Ivana Bacik TD, Labour Party leader, and chair of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Gender Equality

27.02.2024–27.02.2024

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Sights Of Polykites | NCAD Fine Art Print Department

An Exhibition of Expanded Printmaking by NCAD Print Department Year 2 Students, 2024.

25.01.2024–09.02.2024

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Counter Infrastructures : Art and Activism

A symposium on building and maintaining alternative infrastructures that support activist art action.

04.12.2023–05.12.2023

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Bone of What Absent Thing | Elaine Hoey

NCAD Gallery presents a solo exhibition of artist Elaine Hoey programmed on the occasion of the BETA Festival of Art and Technolgy.

03.11.2023–15.12.2023

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Transition To Transcendence | Nikolas Ryan

The NCAD Gallery is delighted to present a short run exhibition of artist NIcolas Ryan with their interactive, immersive installation Transition To Transcendence (2023) programmed on the occasion of the BETA Fesival 2023. This is a ticketed event - tickets will be released on Tuesday 31st October 2023 - link forthcoming.

03.11.2023–10.11.2023

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ELECTRO-FUSE Paris | Electronic Sheep

The NCAD Gallery celebrates the touring exhibition ELECTRO-FUSE Paris at the Centre Culturel Irlandais (CCI) ‘Galerie’, exhibiting a number of textile artworks by renowned textile design artists and NCAD alumnae Brenda Aherne and Helen Delany (Electronic Sheep).

16.09.2023–29.10.2023

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NCAD Graduate Public Events Programme 2023

NCAD Works

09.06.2023–16.06.2023

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NCAD DesignLabs | Health Made Better

LAUNCH of NCAD DesignLabs | Health Made Better - Tuesday 25 April, 6PM-8PM. NCAD is launching DesignLabs, a new interdisciplinary centre for creative, human-centred design research and practice.

25.04.2023–12.05.2023

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Dublin Learning City Festival 2023

Awarding the Everyday: Fatima Homework Club & NCAD student Emma Brennan

05.04.2023–06.04.2023

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Principles of Space Detection | Irina Gheorghe

NCAD Gallery new commission for performance and exhibition by Irina Gheorghe, curated by Anne Kelly.

02.03.2023–31.03.2023

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Weaving a Narrative: Community agency through spatial activation.

Harry Clarke Lecture Theatre, NCAD, Wednesday 25 January, 2023, 5PM. Talk, films and discussion about “Weaving a narrative” at IMMA, a socially engaged environmental art project by Sophie von Maltzan with NCAD Field and UCD Landscape Architecture students and the community.

25.01.2023–25.01.2023

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'Why Be An Artist?' (after Leigh Hobba and Noel Sheridan)

An exhibition and film project by Oisín Byrne and Vaari Clafffey with Kevin Atherton, Isadora Epstein, Gary Farrelly, Leigh Hobba, Séamus Nolan, Grace Weir, and Noel Sheridan.

02.12.2022–15.02.2023

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Dublin Art and Technology Association (D.A.T.A) 20th Anniversary Event @ NCAD Gallery

D.A.T.A is a Dublin based platform for artists, makers and thinkers to share knowledge about digital cultures and practices.

01.10.2022–01.10.2022

Culture Night 2022

This year the NCAD Gallery is participating in Culture Night with The Change Lab.

23.09.2022–23.09.2022

National Heritage Week 2022: Traveller Craft Demonstrations at NIVAL

Traveller Craft Demonstrations at NIVAL (National Irish Visual Arts Library, NCAD)

18.08.2022–18.08.2022

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NCAD | The Digital Hub co-hosted TURNING GROUND Talks Series 2022

Artists, community, activists, academics and practitioners discuss just socio-ecological futures with a focus on the Dublin 8 area neighbourhoods.

26.05.2022–09.06.2022

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Repeat: Go over: Try - A Long Table Conversation about rehearsal with Tom Creed

Repeat: Go over: Try - A Public Conversation on Rehearsal by Tom Creed, as part of his ongoing research for the MFA Art in the Contemporary World at NCAD.

14.05.2022–14.05.2022

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International Sculpture Day 2022 - talk event with Anne Kelly, Curator.

Public talk: 'Towards a Newer Laocoön' - curator Anne Kelly explored the NCAD collection of remnant classical sculpture casts, objects, and artefacts by reflecting on their provenance and purpose.

30.04.2022–30.04.2022

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Dublin Learning City Festival 2022 | LETTERS TO THE BOND

A project collaboration between the after school programme at Robert Emmet CDP and NCAD Studio+ student, Steph Saidha, part of Dublin Learning City Festival 2022.

06.04.2022–08.04.2022

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Q.E.D

An exhibition of works by artists Kitch Doom, Maree Egan, Louis Haugh, Vanessa Lee Jones, Lisa Karnauke, Ann-Marie Kirwan, Martyna Lebryk, Bara Palcik, Eve Parnell, Bettina Saroyan

11.03.2022–29.03.2022

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ELECTRO-FUSE ~ Electronic Sheep Exhibition & Working Archive

NCAD Gallery presents the ELECTRONIC SHEEP duo of Brenda Aherne and Helen Delany with their exhibition, Electro-Fuse, 12 November 2021—11 February 2022.

19.11.2021–11.02.2022

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National Museums - Narrating the Nations

A two-day international conference organised by the National Museum of Ireland and the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. Friday 29 October and Friday 5 November 2021.

29.10.2021–05.11.2021

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Nul Punt Wolk | bert & harmey

NCAD Gallery Research Residency 2021 ~ berte & harmey * Artists Filip Berte (BE) and Cliona Harmey (IE) research & develop the Dublin version of their Nul Punt Wolk project.

01.06.2021–02.08.2021

Aftereffects and Untold Histories, Politics and Spaces of Performance since the 1990s

15.04.2021–15.05.2021

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