Slattery’s Bar

50 Lord Edward St, LimerickGoogle Maps

In 1992 Lars Nittve (b. 1953, Sweden), the international adjudicator of that year’s edition of EVA, found himself craving a pint of Guinness, which brought him to Slattery’s bar.
This encounter led to a ‘stroke of genius – to include a room like this, one of the most obvious meeting places in Limerick’ as a venue for EVA.
Following this, Slattery’s bar was a venue for 13 editions of EVA, up until 2006.
This extended partnership was thanks to ‘Queenie’ Margaret Slattery (b. 1922, Ireland; d. 2002), who owned Slattery’s bar and was a long-term supporter of EVA.
The site was one of 12 listed venues for the 20th edition of EVA in 1996, curated by Guy Tortosa (b. 1961, France).
For that edition, Thomas Hirschhorn (b. 1957, Switzerland) presented Artists’ Scarves (1996) which filled the wall space of the bar with colourful scarves, embellished with artists’ names.
This site was one of 12 listed venues for the 28th edition of EVA in 2004, curated by Zdenka Badovinac (b. 1958, Slovenia) and titled Imagine Limerick.
That year, Michael Kliën (b. 1973, Austria) presented Slattery’s Lamps – sediments of a mind (2004), which gathered information from inside Slattery’s and transmitted it through a street lamp outside the bar.