OPENING / OCCURRING TODAY

• Ruth O'Donnell, Eva Gyrtt, Surface and Depth, Original Print Gallery, 4 Temple Bar, Dublin, opening 6-8pm , runs 12 March to 28 March

CLOSING TODAY

• Bartosz Kolata, The Kinder Garden, The Mad Art gallery, 56 Lower Gardiner Street, Dublin 1, Dublin , runs 25 February to 11 March
• New work by Mark Ferguson, Fintan Ryan and Francis Quinn, Three Men and a Little Exhibition, The Master Thief's Secret Lair, 11 South William Street, Dublin 2, runs 5 March to 11 March

OPENING / OCCURRING THIS WEEK

• 7pm, EV+A Opening Night, LSDA Gallery.Limerick School of Art and Design,LIT Clare Street campus Limerick,Ireland, Limerick, runs 12 March 2010 to da 2051
• A. Leo, A. Wu, B. Garnicnig, E. Bajo, E. Thomson, G. Bailey, L. Quinlan, M. in't Veld, S. Keogh, S. Lee, R. Koolen, V. Claffey, W. Neidich & L. Welch, DONE TO A DEAD END & THE DEAD OR ALIVE SALE, One Thousand and One Nights, Zwaanshals 243a, Rotterdam, Netherlands, opening 7-10pm 13 March , runs 13 March to 13 March
• Curated by Stephen Brandes and Vera Ryan over 120 artists feature in this exhibition, each of whom have worked within the Backwater Studio since 1990., BACKWATER TWENTY-10, Crawford Art Gallery, Emmet Place , Cork , runs 13 March to 10 April

CLOSING THIS WEEK

• Michael Cullen, Brian McAvera, Launch: Etching World / Cullen World publication by Michael Cullen & Brian McAvera, exhibition of drawings by Cullen, Taylor Galleries, 16 Kildare Street, Dublin 2, runs 25 February to 12 March
• 2010 BAVA graduates, Lorraine Bacchus, Monica Boyle, Becky Keyser, Veronika O'Driscoll, Peggy Townend, Catherine Ryan, Alison Trim. , Degree Show – BA in Visual Art, Sherkin Island, Co. Cork, West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Co Cork, runs 6 February to 13 March
• David Beattie, Steve Bishop, Laura Buckley, Patrick Coyle, Anne Eastman, Joe Gilmore, Jasiek Mischke, Adam Thomas & Jennifer West., There is no solution because there is no problem, Art Sheffield 2010 Fringe Programme, 18 The Moor, Sheffield, runs 5 March to 13 March
• Andrea Spencer Scott Benefield Sean Campbell, 3 x 3, Signal Arts Centre, 1A Albert Avenue, Bray, Co Wicklow, runs 2 March to 14 March

OPENING / OCCURRING NEXT WEEK

• Brian Gallagher, Found Line, Signal Arts Centre, 1A Albert Avenue, Bray, Co Wicklow, runs 16 March to 28 March
• Ellsworth Kelly, Drawings 1954-62, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Parnell Square, Dublin, runs 17 March to 20 June
• Colm Desmond, An open-ended enquiry - in/elegant formalism, Basement Project Space , Cork City , runs 19 March to 29 March
• Daniel Canogar, 'Scanner', Oonagh Young Gallery, DUBLIN, runs 19 March to 30 April

CONTINUING

• ine Foster, Josephine Foster will perform a recital of songs from her recent album 'Graphic as a Star', based on the poems of Emily , The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, runs 20 to date unspecified
• Leiberman, Linda Leiberman/Ocean, Lucy Bell Fine Art Photography, St Leonards on Seas, runs 20 to date unspecified
• Ciaran Murphy, Ciaran Murphy, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, runs 29 January to 16 March
• Kevin Bubriski, Nepalese Shamanism; Ritual Objects from Nepal with photographs by Kevin Bubriski, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, runs 29 January to 16 March
• Sonya Whitefield, Journey of the Hysterectic Woman, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, runs 25 February to 18 March
• Mark Curran, The Breathing Factory, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, runs 14 January to 19 March
• Gavin Hogg, Gavin Hogg 'Voices from the soul cage collective', Limerick Printmakers Studio and Gallery, No.4 Robert St., Limerick, runs 25 February to 19 March
• Eithne Jordan, Night in a City, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, runs 11 February to 20 March
• Claire Kerr, New Paintings, Purdy Hicks Gallery, 65 Hopton St., Bankside, London, runs 26 February to 20 March
• Eve Parnell, Grasshopper, Mill Theatre Gallery, Dublin, runs 20 February to 25 March
• Morris/Trasov Archive, Sam Keogh, Takeshi Murata, Ulf Rolloff & Ciaran Walsh, Aion Experiments, Project Arts Centre, 39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin, runs 12 February to 27 March
• Haroon Mirza, Anthemoessa, mother's tankstation, Dublin, runs 25 February to 27 March
• OMER FAST::IAIN FORSYTH & JANE POLLARD::STEPHEN SUTCLIFFE::ORAIB TOUKAN::ANDY WARHOL, TALKING HEADS, IMOCA, Lad Lane (Off Baggot St), Dublin 2, runs 19 February to 28 March
• Straw, Hay & Rushes Exhibition , National Museum Ireland – Country Life, Turlough Park, Castlebar, Co. Mayo, runs 12 June 2009 to 31 March 2010
• Ciara O'Malley & Sven Anderson in collaboration with groups from North Inner City Dublin., Streets: Past, Present, Future, Fire Station Artists' Studios at Connolly Luas Stop, Dublin, runs 29 April 2009 to 1 April 2010 . More info here.
• Katie Holten, The Golden Bough, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin, runs 28 January to 2 April
• Barry Flanagan, Anish Kapoor, Alison Wilding, Shirazeh Houshiary, Avis Newman, Lucia Nogueira, Julian Opie, Jacqueline Poncelet, Rachel Whiteread, Ric, Between Metaphor and Object: Arts of the 90s from the IMMA Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin 7, runs 14 May 2009 to 4 April 2010
• Eamon O' Kane, E-1027 + Le Cabanon, See Line Gallery @Pacific Design Center 8687 Melrose Ave. Suite B274, West Hollywood, CA 90069 USA, runs 18 February to 8 April
• Gail Ritchie, Joanna Karolini, Acitore Z Artezione, Exchange Mechanism, curated by Raimi Gbadamosi, Belfast Exposed Photography, Belfast, runs 12 February to 9 April
• Louise Manifold, Unnatural Esoteric, Galway Arts Centre, 47 Dominick St., Galway City, runs 6 March to 14 April
• Francis Alÿs, Le temps du Sommeil, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin 8, runs 26 February to 23 May
• Arthur Maderson,Alan Kingwell,Brian Smyth,Robert Ryan,Bill Griffin,Lorna Millar,Vincent Crotty,Annie Robinson,Declan O'Connor, Buckley Fine Art, Buckley Fine Art , Convent Road,, Clonakilty, runs 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2011
• Garrett Phelan, www.atwhatpointwillcommonsenseprevail.com, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, runs 1 June 2008 to 1 June 2012

OPENING / OCCURRING IN NEXT FOUR WEEKS

• Talk: Regina Bogat Jensen will hold a conversation with Declan Long about the life and work of Alfred Jensen., Alfred Jensen Talk, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin on 25 March at 5pm
• Talk: Wolf Kahlen will give a talk about his exhibition, Wolf Kahlen Talk, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin on 26 March at 1:15pm
• Video documentaries by Wolf Kahlen, Tibet's Tibet and Mongolia's Mongolia, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, runs 26 March to 19 May
• Aoife Hand, Absence, Heart, Fonder, Signal Arts Centre, 1A Albert Avenue, Bray, Co Wicklow, runs 30 March to 11 April
• de Kooning, Guston, Johns, Katz, Mondrian, Newman, Pollock, Rauschenberg, Reinhardt, Rothko, Twombly and others, Vertical Thoughts: Morton Feldman and the Visual Arts, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin 8, runs 31 March to 27 June
• Jack Pakenham , Here it Is, Strule Arts Centre Omagh, runs 1 April to 20 April
• Jack Pakenham, Jack Pakenham (R.U.A.) presents Here it Is, Strule Arts Centre Omagh, runs 1 April to 20 April