OPEN/INVITED e v+ a 2010 – Matters 

13 March – 23 May 2010

Limerick Citywide venues

Curator: Elizabeth Hatz (Sweden)

 

The Committee of e v+ a, the exhibition of visual+ art, Ireland’s pre-eminent annual exhibition of contemporary art, announces that the 34th e v+ a exhibition, OPEN/INVITED

e v+ a  2010, will run from 13th March until 23rd May 2010. The opening of the exhibition will take place on the evening of 12th March at the LSAD Gallery, Limerick School of Art & Design, Clare Street. This year’s exhibition will feature the work of over 42 OPEN artists and 16 INVITED artists installed in more than 11 venues throughout Limerick City.

 Venues include: LSAD Gallery, Limerick School of Art & Design School, Clare Street / O’Malley’s Thomas Street Centre / Former LIT LSAD Building, George’s Quay / City Hall / Hunt Museum / St. Mary’s Cathedral / Limerick City Library / Old Windmill Court, Lower Gerald Griffin Street / Bourn Vincent Gallery, UL / Limerick Institute of Technology, Moylish / Social Welfare Office, Dominick Street.

 OPEN e v+ a 2010 – Artists

 Kaspar Aus (Estonia), Matthew Beattie (IRL), Javier Burón & Eleanor Moloney (Spain & IRL), Loretto Cooney (IRL), Aoife Desmond (IRL), Simon English (IRL), Tom Fitzgerald (IRL), Leo Fitzmaurice (UK), Christina Gangos-Klien (Greece/IRL), Stephen Hall (IRL/UK), Johanna Hällsten (Sweden/UK), Fionnuala Hanahoe (IRL), Karen Hendy (IRL), Sandy Kennedy (IRL), Kirsty Kilbane (IRL), Caoimhe Kilfeather (IRL), Valérie Kolakis (Greece), Christopher Leach (IRL), David Lilburn (IRL), Sarah Lincoln (IRL), Liu Wei (China), Jacob Maendel (USA), Francis Matthews (IRL), Maria McKinney (IRL), Ben Mullen (IRL), Oonagh O’Brien (IRL), Robin Parmar (IRL), Patricia Reed (Canada/Germany), Fiona Reilly (IRL), Christopher Roland Mahon (IRL),                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Tia Schmidt (Germany), Lytle Shaw & Jimbo Blachly (USA), Myles Shelly (IRL), Sunghoon Son (South Korea/UK), Spiritstore (IRL), Christine Tauber (Austria/Switzerland), David Theobald (UK), Allard van Hoorn (Netherlands), Tara Whelan (IRL), Xia Peng (China)

 INVITED e v+ a 2010 – Artists

 Peter Carroll & John Gerrard (IRL), Tom de Paor & Peter Maybury (IRL), Shin Egashira (Japan/UK), Eva Hild (Sweden), Rebecca Ivatts (UK), Hans Josephsohn (Switzerland), Michael Kane (IRL), Peter Märkli (Switzerland), Staffan Nihlén (Sweden), John Pickering (UK), Stephen Rothschild (IRL), Sai Hua Kuan (Singapore/UK), Janna Syvänoja (Finland), Wang Ruobing (China/Singapore/UK)

 The 2010 Curator, Elizabeth Hatz (Sweden) is an architect and holds an AA Diploma/ SAR/MSA, and is Professor of Architecture at KTH, the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. She also teaches at SAUL School of Architecture, University of Limerick since the start of that school in 2006. As an architect who was raised with art, Hatz believes that the two are from the beginning inter-twined and mutually fertilizing. She divides her time between Sweden and Ireland, between Stockholm and Limerick and holds a great interest in, respect for and love of Limerick City. As she says, “Limerick has grown on me – I have become attached to it, because I cannot make it out. It is not charming – it is irresistible. It’s a city of contradictions and conflicts…., It is rough and gentle in the weirdest mix. In many ways, Limerick is like a miniature image of current [global] conditions, displaying in a single glimpse the passionate absurdities and restraining certitudes. Limerick is longing to be seen.”

 

 For further details on this year’s artists, curator and exhibition visit www.eva.ie

 Or contact e v+ a administration – Tel: +353(0)61318240 / Mobile: +353(0)879477042 /

Email: info@eva.ie

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