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Surveillé·e·s
Past: September 14 → December 16, 2018
Since the beginning of the 20th century, surveillance and spying capacities have accelerated in line with technological advances.
Film, painting, photography...
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Rencontres autour de Surveillé·e·s
Past: September 14 → 15, 2018
En marge de l’exposition collective Surveillé·e·s, une série de rencontres et conversations entre artistes et intellectuels nous offrira un éclairage complémentaire sur les questions de surveillance et d’espionnage.
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Corban Walker — Come What May
Past: May 31 → July 6, 2018
Over the last quarter century, Corban Walker has built up an international reputation for his site-specific works that explore perceptions of scale and architectural constructs. This exhibition playfully highlights the vitality of form as well as the ways in which we are obliged to negotiate our physical surroundings.
Installation, sculpture
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Songs of Peace — Francis Ledwidge
Past: January 26 → May 13, 2018
The Irish poet, naturalist, activist, nationalist and soldier, Francis Ledwidge, died in Ypres in 1917 shortly before his thirtieth birthday. A century later, curator Sabina MacMahon has selected work by seven visual artists in response to the life and work of Ireland’s soldier poet.
Drawing, painting
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Songs of Peace — Soirée littéraire et musicale Where Angels Listen
Past: Thursday, March 1, 2018 at 6 PM
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My Own Unknown — Dragana Jurišić
Past: November 10, 2017 → January 7, 2018
In 1954, a farm girl disappeared from a village in rural Yugoslavia. Rumour has it that she fled to Paris where she led a double life as a spy until her death in the 1980s. A ravishing woman, she was Dragana Jurisic’s aunt. Recovered from her few personal belongings, was a colour photograph in which she is seen striking an unsettling pose…
Photography
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PhotoSaintGermain 2017
Past: November 3 → 19, 2017
Pour sa 6e édition, PhotoSaintGermain propose durant quinze jours un parcours dense, dans une sélection de musées, de centres culturels, de galeries et de librairies de la rive gauche.
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Multiple venues
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Crystalline — Une exposition de Siobhán McDonald
Past: January 27 → March 12, 2017
My works seek to merge the poetic and the scientific. In my projects, I like to consider disciplines like physics from an artistic point of view, and to think about the larger context in which the Earth exists.
Artist Siobhan McDonald is fascinated by time and the changeable nature of landmass. Scientists believe t…
Ceramic, drawing, installation...
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Women
Past: November 11, 2016 → January 8, 2017
Born in Belfast and based in London since the 1990s, she is now internationally renowned for what she describes as “explorations of everyday experiences and observations of inner-city life from a female perspective”.
Photography
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New Irish Works — PhotoIreland
Past: November 11 → 13, 2016
PhotoIreland presents New Irish Works, a project that highlights the works of 20 emerging photographers in and from Ireland. Running alongside Paris Photo 2016, the presentation includes a solo exhibition of Daragh Soden’s latest work ‘Young Dubliners’ and is installed in the neighbouring gallery Espace Lhomond.
Photography
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Young Dubliners
Past: November 11 → 13, 2016
London-based Dubliner Daragh Soden is a documentary artist who combines photography with prose, poetry, video and installation. Here, he captures the microcosmic world of young Dubliners on the verge of adulthood to explore universal themes of youth, identity and contemplation of the future.
Photography
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The Hopeless End of a Great Dream
Past: September 16 → October 30, 2016
Using Trinity College Dublin as a backdrop, the film takes a number of forgotten episodes in Irish history as its starting point. Clarke grounds these episodes in the political present, so that they function as commentaries on the causes, effects, and ongoing ramifications of the current political climate in Ireland.
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The Souvenir Shop
Past: September 16 → October 1, 2016
One of the key leader of the Easter Rising, Tom Clarke had a tobacconist shop — a place of exchange and chatter, as well as a hub of ideas and purpose. His whole family and livelihood was involved in what the balance of Dublin city was — an outpost of Edwardian Britain’s Empire alongside a revolutionary movement that was part of a changing Europe.
Installation
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On Doubt — Denis Buckley
Past: May 13 → June 8, 2016
Denis Buckley explores “doubt in the life of an idealogue” through his monumental painting “Unfinished & Abandoned” and his film “On Doubt”. The artist’s work also questions the tangible influence that art can have on day-to-day affairs.
Film, painting
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Would you die for Ireland? — and Peep
Past: May 13 → June 8, 2016
John Byrne has explored notions of patriotism and nationalism for over a decade. In 2003, as part of the Robert Emmet commemorations of that year, he filmed Would you die for Ireland?. A humorous piece, it involves the artist conducting a series of impromptu interviews with pedestrians, which include the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and members of the Orange Order.
Film, installation
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Tom Molloy — Wait
Past: March 18 → April 30, 2016
Tom Molloy’s work examines power. He explores the ways in which it has been perverted and asks global questions about morality. For the last five years Tom Molloy has lived in France and, for his exhibition at CCI, has created a number of new works examining various aspects of his adopted country from the position of an outsider.
Urban art, collage
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Colin Davidson — Silent Testimony
Past: January 29 → March 6, 2016
This exhibition of portrait paintings by Colin Davidson (born 1968), reveals the stories of eighteen people who are connected by their individual experiences of loss through the Troubles in Northern Ireland — a turbulent 30-year period from the late 1960s onwards. “Silent Testimony” is a powerful response, full of resonance for Paris.
Painting
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Tom Wood — Paysages intimes
Past: November 13, 2015 → January 10, 2016
Born in Ireland in 1951, Tom Wood is internationally renowned for his photographs of people. These were taken for the most part in Merseyside, where he lived from 1978 until 2003, when he moved to North Wales to concentrate full time on what he has referred to as “the matter of landscape”.
Photography
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Et si on s’était trompé ? — Exposition collective
Past: September 26 → November 5, 2015
The impacts on the environment of today’s society and globalised economy are explored by all fourteen artists whose work is exhibited in Et si on s’était trompé ? What if we got it wrong ?
Drawing, installation, painting...
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Breakfast talk
Past: Saturday, September 26, 2015 at 2 PM
In the presence of the artists and La Ruche qui dit Oui ! who distribute weekly baskets of local produce.
Meeting
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Joe Hogan — Atelier portes ouvertes
Past: Friday, September 25, 2015 6:30 PM → 8 PM
Joe Hogan has been making baskets from local willow at Loch na Fooey in Galway since 1978. As well as making traditional baskets of the highest quality, such as the creel, Hogan is an accomplished artist and collaborated with Joanne Hynes for a headdress sported at London Fashion Week 2011.
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Side by Side — Irish Design 2015
Past: June 12 → July 10, 2015
A selection of Ireland’s best designers exhibited in conjunction with the Design & Crafts Council of Ireland to celebrate Irish Design 2015.
Design
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David Crone — On Home Ground
Past: April 25 → June 5, 2015
David Crone is a thoughtful, judicious painter with a beautiful touch and a finely tuned colour sense that is closely based on natural observation. His command of a palette of muted greens, greys, blues and russets is exceptional.
Painting
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Que sais-je ? — Mark Clare
Past: March 13 → April 16, 2015
Versatility and perceptiveness characterise Mark Clare’s artistic practice. An inquisitive nomad, he embraces a variety of media including video, animation, performance and sculpture in response to the setting in which he finds himself. For this exhibition, he will exhibit new work as well as installing two pieces in the courtyard of the CCI.
Urban art, sculpture, video
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Dan Shipsides — The Meta-perception Club
Past: February 20 → March 4, 2015
Perception is a key starting point for visual artist Dan Shipsides whose work deals with the dynamics of landscape. It embraces a conception of landscape as the living experience of the world around us, here and now, as much as a framed perspective in the art historical or cultural sense.
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The Meta-perception Club — Casques méta-perceptuels
Past: January 6 → February 20, 2015
Artists Cleary Connolly have spent several years developing an extraordinary series of interactive helmets that explore the mysteries of visual perception. Five helmets are on show offering us the chance to experience the hyper-stereo vision of the hammerhead shark, the wide peripheral vision of the horse or the backward/forward vision of the chameleon!
Design, drawing, installation...
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Grace Weir — The Meta-perception Club
Past: February 6 → 18, 2015
Grace Weir’s films explore the limitations of our visual abilities Working primarily in the moving image, both of Grace Weir’s films on exhibition — “Dust defying gravity” (2004) and “A deep field for the time deaf ”(2007) — explore the limitations of our visual abilities and the instruments we use to enhance them.
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Jenny Brady — The Meta-perception Club
Past: January 23 → February 4, 2015
Jenny Brady explores ideas around translation, perception and language. She will present two works “Technology Autonomous (2011)” which documents the construction of a holographic image together with “Wow and Flutter (2013)”, a film that investigates our depiction and understanding of animal cognition.
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Making News — Paul Seawright
Past: November 14 → December 20, 2014
Paul Seawright is internationally renowned for his photographic work in areas of conflict. Exhibited for the first time here at the CCI, these photographs are put in context by a selection from previous projects in Afghanistan and Northern Ireland.
Photography
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Hospice et charité — Les Lazaristes au Collège des Irlandais, 1858-1945
Past: September 12 → November 9, 2014
This exhibition of documents from the Historical Archives recalls the essential role of charity in College, most particularly during the period that it was administered by Lazarists, a congregation inspired by St Vincent de Paul.
Lithography / engraving
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Corpus
Past: September 12 → October 29, 2014
Amanda Coogan is one of Ireland’s most renowned performance artists. Her expertise lies in her ability to condense an idea to its very essence and communicate it through her body. For this exhibition, the Centre Culturel Irlandais has chosen key works from her œuvre.
Performance, photography, video
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Wilde Art — Exposition collective internationale
Past: May 16 → June 26, 2014
“Wilde Art” is both wild and refined, hedonistic and conceptual, engaged and enjoyable.
Installation
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Micheal Farrell — Une rétrospective
Past: March 14 → April 27, 2014
Micheal Farrell’s acerbic wit and subversive views on Irish history, identity and culture form the backbone of this selection of paintings and works on paper on exhibition at the Centre Culturel Irlandais.
Painting
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The market — Un projet de Mark Curran
Past: January 31 → March 2, 2014
Mark Curran’s challenging new project “The market” sets out to make visible — literally and metaphorically — the sphere where our futures are speculated upon. His multi-media installation includes photographs, films, transcripts of interviews and a soundscape that investigate the functioning of the global stock and commodity markets.
Film, installation, photography...
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Donald Teskey — Entre terre et mer
Past: October 30 → December 8, 2013
Donald Teskey’s paintings of the Irish landscape are dramatic, elemental pictures that distil the power of nature and the rugged beauty of the Irish landscape into a singular frame. Teskey’s images reflect his response to the formal elements of composition but it is the manner in which he captures light that elevates his work above mere representation.
Painting
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Livres contre livres — Religion, imprimerie et controverses pendant la Réforme protestante
Past: October 30 → December 8, 2013
The Irish culture center preserve, through its library, a rare heritage. In the exhibition are shown books linked with each case of the Protestant Reformation, and some are really influent in the european history.
Installation
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Vivienne Dick — Excluded by the Nature of Things
Past: September 13 → October 10, 2013
Icône du cinéma underground new-yorkais des années 70, l’Irlandaise Vivienne Dick fait aujourd’hui l’objet d’une exposition rétrospective présentée au CCI et inaugurée par la célèbre photographe américaine Nan Goldin, elle-même brillante figure du mouvement « No Wave ».
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Traces de Peter Rice
Past: May 16 → June 30, 2013
This exhibition presents the work of one of the great engineers of the 20th century whose name is largely unknown to the general public. A specialist in steel structures, Dundalk-born Peter Rice (1935-1992) was a driving force within the design teams for landmark architectural projects.
Architecture
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Zelouf + Bell — 21st Century Classics
Past: March 22 → April 26, 2013
zelouf+BELL and their team of master craftsmen have been producing award-winning commissioned furniture in their workshop in Ireland since 1992. Together with his American design partner, Susan Zelouf, Michael Bell creates pieces inspired by elements from Ireland’s landscape and mythology, with references to 20th century design history.
Design
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Clearly & Connolly — Look Both Ways
Past: March 22 → April 26, 2013
The latest work of Cleary & Connolly is inspired by J-H. Lartigue’s famous photograph that captures the passage of time through distortion. Working with Clarity Centre for Web Technologies, their ground-breaking video art installation produces the same temporal deformation as in the Lartigue photograph, but in real time, following the movements of the viewer.
Installation
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Deirdre McLoughlin — Sculpter le vide
Past: January 18 → February 22, 2013
Born in Dublin, ceramic sculptor Deirdre McLoughlin lives and works in Amsterdam. Her work has its origins in a fascinating dialogue with classical ceramic forms and functions. The perfection of her forms and surfaces lends a far greater physical presence to her pieces than their size would suggest.
Sculpture
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Patrick O’Reilly
Past: September 13 → December 14, 2012
An eruptive, inventive and anarchic talent, Patrick O’Reilly is always searching for new visual languages. Three of his large works will inhabit the Centre Culturel Irlandais throughout the whole period of the 10 year celebrations: As gigantic pink doll’s House, with its unexpected interior, will interact with the architecture of the courtyard.
Sculpture
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Richard Mosse: Infra
Past: November 9 → December 14, 2012
For centuries, the Congo has compelled and defied the Western imagination. In his exhibition Infra, Richard Mosse brings to this subject the use of a discontinued military surveillance technology, a type of film especially sensitive to infrared light called Kodak Aerochrome.
Photography
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De l’art d’être vertueux — L’enjeu du comportement en Europe sous l’Ancien Régime
Past: September 13 → December 6, 2012
How to Be Good: The Politics of Behaviour in Early Modern Europe The genres of courtesy, etiquette and spiritual guidance constituted some of the most popular categories of literature in the early modern period. How to behave one-self was a serious subject.
Painting
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William Butler Yeats, son œuvre et sa famille
Past: September 13 → October 26, 2012
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was one of the great poets of the twentieth century. He created works that are universally known and loved, and that have exerted a profound influence on world literature. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923. This exhibition addresses the life and work of Yeats and also focuses on other family members.
Poetry
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Dermot Seymour — Des Bêtes et des Hommes
Past: March 23 → April 27, 2012
Despite their hyper-realism, Dermot Seymour’s works are far from being facile partisan depictions. Indeed, he has stressed that they should not be seen as an illustration of any political symbolism, but as an artist’s bewildered response to the political and religious fundamentalism experienced (often engaged in) by ordinary people in Northern Ireland.
Painting
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Barrie Cooke
Past: February 3 → March 15, 2012
A major figure in the development of painting in Ireland, where he settled in 1954, Barrie Cooke is attuned to Figurative Expressionists such as Soutine and Kokoschka, whose School for Seeing he attended in 1955. His work has always been guided by sensory experiences: he thus admits being revolted yet irresistibly attracted to the shocking beauty of polluted water.
Painting
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Snap — CinéCCI
Past: Tuesday, March 6, 2012 at 7:30 PM
The CCI is screening this forceful film about a mother, Sandra, and her teenage son, Stephen, who kidnapped a toddler three years previously and held him captive at his grandfather’s house. Having agreed to a filmed interview, Sandra struggles to defend her family and piece together the events in which they were undeniably implicated.
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Visite de la Bibliothèque Patrimoniale
Past: Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 7 PM
The Old Library of the Irish College is one of the few surviving libraries of the many colleges, convents and monasteries which were situated in the Montagne-Sainte-Geneviève area of Paris until the late 18th century. This visit provides a further opportunity to see the treasures of the Old Library.
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Donald Teskey A Connemara Folio
Past: Thursday, February 16, 2012 at 7:30 PM
Donald Teskey will present “A Connemara Folio”, a series of publications that presents visual evidence of the artists’ encounters and exploration of the Connemara landscape, giving us new insight into this wild terrain that “famously tempts and exasperates painters”.
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Eden — CinéCCI
Past: Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 7:30 PM
Eden a reçu un accueil élogieux lors de sa première mondiale au Tribeca Film Festival de New York. Ayant pour décor une petite ville sans nom du comté d’Offaly, l’ambiance provinciale et claustrophobe d’Eden offre à son réalisateur Declan Recks un environnement parfait pour explorer un mariage en péril.
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My Brothers — CineCCI
Past: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 7:30 PM
En 1987, au cours du week-end d’Halloween, trois jeunes frères se mettent en quête de remplacer la montre bien-aimée de leur père mourant. Ils volent alors le camion du boulanger et partent pour Ballybunion, l’ancienne destination de vacances familiales, là-même où cette montre avait été gagnée dans une salle de jeux de nombreuses années auparavant.
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De l’émergence du Phénix
Past: November 25, 2011 → January 20, 2012
The phoenix has auspicious attributes as a symbol of peace and prosperity: as the celtic tiger runs out of steam, is it possible to evoke the fabulous bird in a not so distant future? In video, painting, photography, sculpture and installation, six contemporary artists question ideas of migration and displacement, of freedom and imprisonment…
Installation, new media, painting...
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Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh — Peintures
Past: September 16 → October 23, 2011
Les œuvres de la jeune artiste dublinoise Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh sont empreintes de poésie. Sous leur apparente simplicité, ses peintures faites de motifs géométriques se révèlent d’une étonnante richesse, tant au niveau des couleurs que de leur structure, oscillant subtilement entre sobriété et luxuriance.
Painting
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Simon Burch — Under a Grey Sky
Past: November 9 → December 17, 2010
Made over four years, the work explores the rain-soaked peatlands of Ireland’s central plain, the most intensively industrialised landscape in the country. Simon Burch captures the distinctive textures of this unique area, revealing hidden surprises.
Photography
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Kennedy Browne
Past: June 11 → July 9, 2010
Kennedy Browne present a body of work commissioned last year for the Irish pavilion at the Venice Biennale. They take as their starting point Dublin as “the city Google chose” for its EMEA headquarters, home to over 167 languages: what the Facebook corporation described as a “multilingual pool”.
Installation, photography, mixed media
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Sunday, 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM
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