The National Gallery
Merrion Square West and Clare Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
This tentpole summer exhibition in the National Gallery will explore Fontana’s extraordinary life through her paintings and drawings, offering insight into the cultural climate that enabled the artist to flourish as a female artist of the period.
Promising ‘Big Dyke Energy’, its inaugural outing has Claire Beck on the decks and we’d be remiss not to credit Sarah Moloney for the wonderful artwork for the night.
Rave architecture collective Temporary Pleasure specialize in generating temporary spatial experiences and getting their mitts on space at Dublin Port offers a unique backdrop to show that we can have nice things too.
There’s a lot of nostalgia rolling through town in June; Soft Cell, Pet Shop Boys, Gladys Knight, Peter Gabriel, Blur and Kraftwerk are all cropping up at some point. But Pulp is our pick of the lot.
Within the building you will find 41 works owned by either the OPW or Department of Finance which are themed around people within the deceptively large number of rooms.
It’s 40 years since the first Pride parade was staged in the city and this year the rainbow will even cover both sides of O’Connell Street for the first time ever.
Seeking to “present and provoke international perspectives, explorations and manifestations of glass as creative expression,” the glass biennale should be on everyone’s exhibition list for the summer.
Kevin Kavanagh Gallery
Chancery Lane, Dublin 8, Ireland
Through a selection of clothing, objects and text, Joanne Hynes explores fictional, autobiographic and creative meaning in gesture, process, and materiality.