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Limerick City Gallery of Art

Formerly known as Carnegie Free Library and Museum

Address

Carnegie Building, Pery Square, LimerickGoogle MapsArrow
  • This Romanesque-inspired building, designed by George Patrick Sheridan, was opened as the Carnegie Free Library and Museum in the early 20th century.
  • In 1936, the Limerick City Collection of Art was formed. It continued to expand over the decades; by 1985, the Limerick City Gallery of Art occupied the entire building.
  • From EVA’s first year in 1977, Limerick City Gallery of Art has served as a venue for nearly every edition of the event – excluding only 1998 and 2010.
  • This site was one of twelve listed venues for the 24th edition of EVA in 2000, curated by Rosa Martínez (b. 1955, Spain) and titled friends + neighbours. During the inauguration of the event, Santiago Sierra (b. 1966, Spain) staged his performance Remunerated Person to Stay in the Trunk of a Car in front of the main venue. A vehicle was parked in the gallery doorway and the artist offered someone £30 to be placed into a boot of the car.
  • The artist said of this performance: ‘This work poses an extreme situation which quashes the mythologies of the benefits of work, here construed in minimal fashion as merely hiring a body. The work entails a worker assigning his or her body to the interests of the other contractual party.’
  • This site was one of five listed venues for the 37th edition of EVA in 2016, curated by Koyo Kouoh (b. 1967, Cameroon). Tiffany Chung (b. 1969, Vietnam) excavated a section of a tiled floor in Thu Thiem, a district in Ho Chi Minh City, for her work titled An archaeology project for future remembrance (2013). Chung presented the floor tile in the gallery as a future relic, through it evoking the daily rhythm and complex layers of history of this lively landscape.

Artwork presented at this venue

Marwa Arsanios, Who is Afraid of Ideology? Part 4: Reverse Shot, 2022.

Ana Bravo-Pérez, If we remain silent, 2023.

Yazan Khalili, All The Languages of Our Tongues, 2025.

Anikó Loránt, Untitled, A selection of works , 2008-2018.