Exhibitions

Current

Eamon O'Kane
Håstens project Zurich 13 Dec 2022 - 30 Jun 2023 Read more

80th Anniversary Collection Exhibition
Butler Gallery and Museum 11 Feb - 2 Apr 2023 Butler Gallery has always sought to be a platform for presenting the best of Irish art today along with demonstrating a strong commitment to presenting work by artists of international repute. Our expanding collection has sought to reflect the constantly changing nature of visual art practice and the range of... Read more

Froebel Studio: A History of Play
The Model Museum, Sligo, Ireland 17 Feb - 8 Apr 2023 Read more

Forthcoming

ART PARIS 2023
Galerie Andres Thalmann 30 Mar - 2 Apr 2023 Art Paris is celebrating its 25th anniversary with an edition that will bring together some 134 galleries from 25 different countries at the Grand Palais Éphémère from 30 March to 2 April 2023. Art Paris - which was founded in 1999 - is organised by France Conventions, a French family-run... Read more

Ocean Stories
KODE Museum, Bergen, Norway 14 Apr - 7 May 2023 Greenland and Fiji are very distant parts of the world, but the people who live there are connected through their proximity to nature, their rich narrative culture, the dependence on natural resources, and the pressure from increasing tourism. At the same time, both places are strongly affected by climate change:... Read more

Life, Death and Rebirth
Høyersten Contemporary, Bergen, Norway 28 Apr - 1 Jul 2023 Høyersten Contemporary Inger Bang Lunds vei 16, Bergen After April 28th: Tuesday to Friday 11-17 / Saturday 11-15 / Or by appointment hello@hoyerstencontemporary.com Read more

Fluid Spaces: Eamon O'Kane
Høyersten Contemporary, Bergen, Norway 10 Aug - 16 Sep 2023 Høyersten Contemporary Inger Bang Lunds vei 16, Bergen After April 28th: Tuesday to Friday 11-17 / Saturday 11-15 / Or by appointment hello@hoyerstencontemporary.com https://www.hoyerstencontemporary.com/ Read more

Forest (Printmaking 1996-2023)
Norske Grafikere Galleri, Oslo, Norway 17 Aug - 23 Sep 2023 I utstillingen Forest utforsker Eamon O’Kane tematikker knyttet til psykoanalyse, kreativitet og vårt forhold til naturen. Han presenterer mer presist en serie silketrykk titulert Baum Test, en referanse til metoden ved samme navn utviklet av den sveitsiske psykologen Charles Koch i 1952. Baum Test, eller tretesten, går ut på at... Read more

Anarchive
Source Arts Centre, Thurles, ireland 9 Sep - 14 Oct 2023 Anarchival Eamon O'Kane's Wood Archive can be described as a kind of an archive. The tree archive shows relationships rather than hierarchies. O'Kane has placed thousands of wooden elements in a structure. It looks like order, but it is not the order of the archive with categories and subcategories. The... Read more

The Studio Museum
Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen 23 Feb - 22 Mar 2024 Read more

One Day and Ideal Collection
Ballina Arts Centre, Co. Mayo, Ireland 5 Sep - 31 Oct 2024 Read more

Past

JOY Forum
Kristiansand Kunsthall, Norway 14 Jan - 5 Mar 2023 Joy Forum is an independent exhibition space organized by students, artists and staff affiliated with the Faculty of Art, Music and Design (KMD) in Bergen. The screening room, which opened in March 2018, is located as a separate unit in the reception area of KMD. The room is made from... Read more

Tracing Rhythm
ROM 61, Bergen 29 Nov - 7 Dec 2022 Rhythm in Mysteries – Mysteries of Rhythms In the beginning, was rhythm…. We find rhythms everywhere: in the body, in dance, in the day-and-night cycle, in music, in patterns, in seasons, in annual rings in trees and clams, and many, many more places. – But can pictures have rhythms? –... Read more

WOODOOW: Illusion of Form
Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts Poznan, Poland 20 - 27 Oct 2022 Artists: Luz María Sánchez Frans Jacobi & Gitte Sætre Lewis & Taggart Eamon O’Kane Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen opening: 20.10, at. 18.00 Curators'Lab Gallery, ul. Nowowiejskiego 12 Rotunda & Du Buffet Gallery the exhibition can be viewed until October 27, 2022 https://uap.edu.pl/2022/10/ilusion-of-form-woodoow/ Read more

Oneiric Nature
Foreningen Trykkeriet, Bergen, Norway 1 - 23 Oct 2022 In his new exhibition Irish artist Eamon O'Kane presents new prints which explore memory, psychology and the natural world. The screen prints in the exhibition take their inspiration from the Baum Test, which is also known as the 'Tree Test' and is a projective test developed by Swiss psychologist Charles... Read more

Art Salon, Zurich
Galerie Andres Thalmann 28 Sep - 2 Oct 2022 exhibited artists: Sue Arrowsmith Michel Comte Michael Craig-Martin Ian Davenport Barbara Ellmerer Nigel Hall Paul Hosking Eamon O'Kane Ralf Peters Joan Hernández Pijuan Rosana Ricalde Donald Sultan Claude Viallat https://www.artsalonzurich.com/gallerien-2022/galerie-andres-thalman-zrich-schweiz https://artfacts.net/institution/art-salon-zuerich/47970 Read more

Pattern | Nature
EDWARD CELLA ART & ARCHITECTURE, LA, USA 12 Sep 2022 - 28 Feb 2023 For centuries artists have found inspiration in nature, and in doing so focused our attention on the remarkable and powerful visual characteristics of the terrestrial, aquatic, and atmospheric environments that both surround and nurture us. As humankind’s understanding of the rhythms, effects, and structures of these complex physical, chemical, and... Read more

ART PARIS 2022
Galerie Andres Thalmann 6 - 10 Apr 2022 The 24th edition not only boasts a high-level selection, but it is also characterised by its actions in favour of the environment. Its two themes Natural Histories: A Focus on the French Scene and Art & Environment are orchestrated by guest independent curators, Alfred Pacquement and Alice Audouin respectively. In... Read more

STUDIO (studio)
JOY Forum, KMD, Bergen 10 - 25 Feb 2022 The STUDIO(studio) is a project organized by KORO as a collaboration between students and staff from Faculty of Art Music and Design and School of Architecture (BAS). It is led by architect Espen Folgerø, Professor Eamon O’Kane and research fellow Sveinung Unneland. The STUDIO(studio) project aims to involve the city and the public in discussing studio practice and what workspaces for art, music and design might look like. Throughout history, studios have been used for individual work, for teaching and for meetings with colleagues and audience. How can a workspace provide both concentration and inspiration? What can an interdisciplinary studio for art, music, and design look like? Read more

Eamon O’Kane; A History of Play
The Model, Sligo, Ireland 1 Feb - 30 Aug 2022 Read more

Woodblock Laboratory
Solstice Arts Centre, Ireland 29 Jan - 26 Mar 2022 The wood block laboratory is a newly commissioned artwork by Irish Artist Eamon O’Kane. It follows on from his Fröbel Studio: Institute for Creativity, Maria Montessori Glass Classroom and Wood Archive artworks which in different ways explore humankind’s potential for creativity and relationship to the natural world. The work will... Read more

Trees
Meta Headquarters, Dublin 22 Dec 2021 - 31 Dec 2022 Read more

Structures
Meta headquarters, Dublin 22 Dec 2021 - 31 Dec 2022 Read more

Eliasson, Unneland, O'Kane
ALDEA - CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY, Bergen, Norway 9 Dec 2021 - 15 Jan 2022 Aldea gallery is located on the street level of C.Sundsgate 55 and run in close collaboration with our sister organization Platform Stockholm . The gallery will double up as a project space for the workshop and a place for lectures, workshops and art events. We strive to challenge traditional methodologies... Read more

XMAS 2021
Group exhibition, Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark 3 Dec 2021 - 22 Jan 2022 Read more

Group exhibition
M100, Odense, Denmark 3 Dec 2021 - 15 Jan 2022 M100 is an artist-run exhibition space in Odense, Denmark which shows various exhibitions of contemporary artists from Denmark and abroad. The purpose of M100 is to develop a forum for contemporary art in Odense where people interested in art can encounter new, experimental contemporary art. All exhibitions are accompanied by... Read more

Seasons
Galleri DGV, Svendborg, Denmark 27 Nov 2021 - 23 Jan 2022 O’Kane points to the seasons as one of these states of equilibri-um and he has created paintings, sculptures, drawings and animations which explore a world increasingly out of sync. Global warming is causing changes in climate patterns and atmospheric circulation, which are both disrupting the natural seasonal calendar that we... Read more

Winter Edition
Group exhibition Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zurich 27 Nov 2021 - 5 Mar 2022 Artists of the Gallery – Christmas Edition Sue Arrowsmith, Jessica Craig-Martin, Michael Craig-Martin, Ian Davenport, Nigel Hall, Paul Hosking, Eamon O’Kane, Ralf Peters, Joan Hernández Pijuan, Rosana Ricalde, Donald Sultan, Claude Viallat Opening 26th November 2021, 6 – 8 pm Exhibition 27th November 2021 – 5th March 2022 Read more

Mise en scène- Cecilia Danell, Eamon O’Kane
Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France 17 Sep - 31 Oct 2021 Centre Culturel Irlandais is delighted to present Mise en scène, a joint exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculptural works by Swedish artist Cecilia Danell, who is based in Ireland, and Denmark-based Irish artist Eamon O’Kane. Both explore encounters with landscape. Their approaches upend romantic notions of nature as untended wilderness... Read more

Art Paris
Group exhibition with Galerie Andres Thalmann 9 - 12 Sep 2021 https://www.artparis.com/en/artist/29667 Read more

Dig it up and put it in a bag
University Museum, Bergen, NorwayUniversity Museum, Bergen, Norway 27 Aug - 1 Nov 2021 A cross disciplinary artistic research project, (October 2019), that departs from, and investigates several encounters and alignments between Contemporary Art and Archaeology. The goal is to create autonomous and collaborative artistic, poetic and scientific expressions and responses to prehistoric Art and its contemporary images. It seeks to stimulate a deeper understanding of contemporary and prehistoric artistic expression and the contemporary and prehistoric human condition. The participating artists and archaeologists will create autonomous projects, but also interact with each other in workshops, seminars and collaborative artistic projects.

The secondary goal of Matter, Gesture and Soul is to establish an international cross disciplinary research network at the University of Bergen and strengthen the expertise in cross disciplinary artistic and scientific work with art as the driving force. The project is supported by DIKU, UiB and Global Challenges (UiB).
A cross disciplinary artistic research project, (October 2019), that departs from, and investigates several encounters and alignments between Contemporary Art and Archaeology. The goal is to create autonomous and collaborative artistic, poetic and scientific expressions and responses to prehistoric Art and its contemporary images. It seeks to stimulate a deeper understanding of contemporary and prehistoric artistic expression and the contemporary and prehistoric human condition. The participating artists and archaeologists will create autonomous projects, but also interact with each other in workshops, seminars and collaborative artistic projects.

The secondary goal of Matter, Gesture and Soul is to establish an international cross disciplinary research network at the University of Bergen and strengthen the expertise in cross disciplinary artistic and scientific work with art as the driving force. The project is supported by DIKU, UiB and Global Challenges (UiB). Read more

Juxtapose Art Fair - with M100
Godsbanen, Aarhus, Denmark 20 - 22 Aug 2021 When you want to see art, where do you go? Museums? Galleries? Kunsthals? What if we told you there is another option - exhibition spaces run by artists. This is where you can find some of today's most exciting and cutting edge art - experimental artworks by up-and-coming artists. We... Read more

SUMMERTIME'21
Galleri Christoffer Egelund 25 Jun - 28 Aug 2021 Common denominators for the participating artists are talent of high scale, diversity, global artsy feeling and a desire to experiment with materials and formats in new ways. The curated selection of paintings, relief, sculptures, drawings, photos and textile art leaves us astonished and ready to enjoy the season. SUMMERTIME’21 is... Read more

Wild Childhood – Ideal and reality from 1900 up to the Present
LENTOS Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria 11 May - 5 Sep 2021 Artists Uli Aigner, Aigner/Kosakowski, Özlem Altin, Beni Altmüller, Iris Andraschek, Siegfried Anzinger, Christy Astuy, Iris Christine Aue, Stephan Balkenhol, Tina Barney, Werner Berg, Sibylle Bergemann, Thomas Billhardt, Julie Blackmon, Hans Böhler, Christian Boltanski, Eugenie Breithut-Munk, Klemens Brosch, Vanja Bucan, Wilhelm Busch, Maria Bussmann, Sevda Chkoutova, Clément Cogitore, Philipp Connard, Lovis... Read more

New Arrivals
Group exhibition, Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zürich, Switzerland 16 Mar - 30 Apr 2021 Discover the unique dialogue between Paul Hosking, Eamon O'Kane and Claude Viallat in our exhibition NEW ARRIVALS. Galerie Andres Thalmann Talstrasse 66, CH - 8001 Zürich Read more

Posthuman
JOY Forum, ROM 61, Arts and Humanities Library, UiB, Bergen 4 - 31 Mar 2021 Posthuman will showcase artworks by 16 international artists who responded to an open call from the Electronic Literature Organization and SLSAeu, and is part of both EL0 2021 Festival: Platform (Post?) Pandemic and the 2021 SLSAeu conference: Literary and Aesthetic Posthumanism. The exhibited works will be shown in JOY Forum,... Read more

Ideal Homes - Selected Paintings 2004-2020
Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zürich 11 Sep - 14 Nov 2020 Irish artist Eamon O'Kane's exhibition at Galaerie Andres Thalman features paintings of the homes designed and built by various generations of renowned architects and designers, including Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius, Frank Gehry and Mies van der Rohe. Read more

Fröbel Studio: Institutt for kreativitet & The Montessori Glass Classroom
Norwegian Sculptors Society, Oslo 24 Jan - 1 Mar 2020 Med sin vekt på abstrakt dekonstruksjon og oppbygging av elementære former skapte denne originale pedagogikken på midten av attenhundretallet en utdannings- og designrevolusjon som sterkt påvirket retningen videre for kunst og arkitektur, så vel som fysikk, musikk, psykologi og det moderne menneskebildet i seg selv. Fröbels byggeklosser og bevegelsesspill var... Read more

Froebel Studio: Institute for Creativity
Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland 31 Aug - 21 Sep 2019 Froebel Studio: Institute for Creativity is an interactive installation, making direct visual and conceptual reference to educational play objects devised by educator and inventor of kindergarten, Friedrich Fröebel (1782-1852). Fröebel was one of the pioneers of pedagogy, who placed play at the center of his teachings as a typical childhood... Read more

Bauhaus Reloaded
Josef Filipp Galerie, Leipzig, Germany 29 Jun - 27 Jul 2019 He is not satisfied with the mere representation, but often recontructs the buildings. He develops his own worlds and presents them in his work. He looks behind the facades of houses, studios and museums. What promises do they make? What expectations are aroused by the exterior design, how does »nature«... Read more

Fröbel Studio: Institut for Kreativitet
Fyns Kunstmuseum, Fyns Kunstakademi 15 Mar - 19 Apr 2019 Fröebel was one of the pioneers of pedagogy, who placed play at the center of his teachings as a typical childhood activity that is of great educational value. His “play-gifts” and teaching material continue to be acknowledged to this day, including the basic pedagogic forms he developed of the sphere,... Read more

An Ideal Collection
Galleri Christoffer Egelund 1 - 30 Mar 2019 As former Senior Curator of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Catherine Marshall states, OʼKane plays on the notions of the ideal; the ideal studio, the ideal art collection, the ideal museum in his work. The concept, for OʼKane as for Plato, the philosopher most deeply associated with it, clearly... Read more

The Home, The Studio, The Museum
Galleri DGV, Svendborg, Denmark 6 - 30 Sep 2018 Read more

Wood Archive
M100, Odense, Denmark 9 Feb - 4 Mar 2018 Positive and negative forms are presented so that it can be difficult to know what remains of the process and what are the results of the process. The exhibition focuses on the chemical element Carbon, or Carbon. Carbon is the chemical base for all life on earth, and is presented... Read more

Intimate Expansive
Rochester Art Center, Minnesota 18 Jan - 27 May 2018 O’Kane’s work contemplates architecture, nature and the relationship between the utopian ideals of clean Modernist architectural style and the bucolic natural environment in which many modernist gems reside. The manner in which O’Kane’s artwork functions is to employ the same principles that guide architecture: innovative uses of space, connectivity and... Read more

Exploring Architecture
Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, Ireland 8 Jul - 23 Sep 2017 Read more

Exploring Architecture
Cavanacor Gallery, Lifford, Co. Donegal, Ireland 8 Jul - 23 Sep 2017 EAMON O'KANE'S EXHIBITION 'Exploring Architecture An exhibition of painting and photography by Eamon O'Kane In conjuction with Eamon OKane's mid-career retrospective at Letterkenny Regional Cultural Centre, Cavanacor Gallery will present a new series of small paintings and large scale, panoramic photographs. With the Earagail Arts Festival just days away, Donegal... Read more

Does all the beauty of the world cease when you die?
Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland 6 May - 11 Jun 2017 O´Kane installed a new series of large scale works on paper inspired by the term 'Baum Test' or 'Tree Test', which is a psychological projective test developed by Swiss psychologist Charles Koch in 1952. Patients are asked to draw a broad-leaved tree on a standard 8.5' x 11' blank sheet... Read more

I en ideell verden
Galleri LNM - Landsforeningen Norske Malere 5 Apr - 7 May 2017 Hans installasjoner inspirert av Friedrich Fröbel fungerer som en hommage til oppfinneren av barnehagen og de modernistiske kunstnerne, arkitektene og designerne som har latt seg påvirke av hans lære. I O’Kanes malerier er modernismen den gjennomgående tråden som brukes for å undersøke det tveeggede ved menneskelige bragder – hvordan en... Read more

Tree Test
Kunstgarasjen, Bergen 23 Mar - 6 Apr 2017 Kunstgarasjen is very proud to welcome you to an exhibition with Eamon O`Kane, professor of painting at Bergen Academy of the Arts. Kunstgarasjen and Kunsthøgskolen now become neighbors in Møllendalsveien, and thus form two of the main attractions in the new Kulturaksen by Store Lungegårdsvann. Eamon O´Kane's multidisciplinary practice has... Read more

Black Mirror
Josef Filipp Galerie, Leipzig, Germany 5 Nov - 10 Dec 2016 Among the first of Eamon O'Kane's projects beginning in the late 1990s were his photographic series of cityscapes [Negative Mirror, 1996-2001] and street signs [SIGN, 2001-2005], which already contain important aspects of his work. The title Negative Mirror refers to the positive image of the ever-present person who is not,... Read more

Baum Test
Gregory Lind Gallery, San Fransisco 8 Sep - 29 Oct 2016 The artist presents a new series of small and medium scale paintings and drawings on panel and paper in which he investigates a 1958 Berkeley psychological study. Ten of America’s most famous architects agreed to participate in a weekend of psychological testing aimed at understanding, once and for all, the... Read more

Partial View
Galleri Christoffer Egelund 14 Apr - 14 May 2016 In the text Cameron writes: One highly successful manifestation of this project is the ‘Ideal Homes’ series, in which iconic houses and housing styles from Bauhaus through Brutalism are transposed into idyllic settings, surrounded by lush sylvan landscapes that are only partially visible, but nonetheless designed to instill a kind... Read more

Norwegian Sculpture Biennal
Oslo, Norway 9 Oct 2015 - 31 Jan 2016 Architecture is also what Eamon O’Kane explores in his work The Wood Archive (2015), created for the biennial. The building blocks in the particular structure we can walk through, study up close and partially move around make visible how we produce organic shapes and processes – not only scientific but... Read more

The Liminal Space
Group exhibition Galerie Baton, Seoul, Korea 2 Jul - 1 Aug 2015 Etymologically, the word 'liminality' is derived from the latin word 'limen' meaning 'threshold'; an uncertain and uncanny place that exists between territories, which are defined by thought. It is particularly apt to describe the potentialities inherent in the process of creating and experiencing paintings. Paintings are always in the process of becoming. Even ... Read more

Huset i skoven
Galleri DGV, Svendborg, Denmark 1 Feb - 16 May 2015 Det er forbindelsen mellem den isolerede skønhed og en forestående fare som ligger i hjertet af Eamon O'Kanes værk. De arkitektoniske former står i modsætning til vegetationen, der repræsenterer det mystiske og ikke-kulturelle og derfor som fantasiens sted. Et gennemgående tema i den irske kunstner Eamon O'Kanes (f. 1974) praksis... Read more

A History of Play
A national touring exhibition in Ireland 4 Oct 2014 - 17 Nov 2018 Roscommon Arts Centre, Oct. 4 - Nov. 14, 2014 Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge, Sept. 5 - Oct. 3, 2015 Galway Arts Centre, Oct. 11 - 31, 2015 The Model, Sligo, Nov. 14, 2015 - Jan. 10, 2016 Draiocht, 07 Apr 2017 - 15 May 2017 Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Oct.... Read more

Where there are people there are things
Centre for Contemporary Art, Derry, N. Ireland 14 Jun - 19 Jul 2014 The exhibition consists of an installation of photographs of the interior of the nursery, displayed on light-boxes made from recycled light components that were once used in the greenhouses to help plant growth. The photographs, taken over a period of several months, depict details of the place in a state... Read more

Fröbel Studio: The Institute for Creativity
RARE Gallery, New York 17 Oct - 14 Nov 2013 O'Kane transforms nearly the entire exhibition space into an interactive installation that demonstrates how the pedagogical ideas of one man, Friedrich Fröbel, profoundly affected the course of modern art, architecture, and design. The show runs from October 17 until November 14, with an opening night reception on Thursday, October 17.... Read more

The Glass House
Sheldon Museum Of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA 12 Jul - 20 Sep 2013 Glass House Model with video, 2013
Painted wood, DVD, monitor, plinth
This installation is a scale model of architect Philip
Johnson’s Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut. Inside
a video on continuous loop merges and layers reflections in
Sheldon’s Great Hall with a painting animation of the Glass
House surrounded by nature. The environment slowly
evolves in color and light throughout the seasons. More of
Eamon O’Kane’s videos can be viewed in the 2 nd floor Focus
Gallery, just off the elevator. Read more

Baumaterialien
Josef Filipp Galerie, Leipzig 4 May - 1 Jun 2013 Josef Filipp Galerie, Leipzig Spinnereistraße 7, Halle 20, Eingang D D- 04179 Leipzig Germany Read more

Neues Bauen
Gregory Lind Gallery, San Fransisco 3 Jan - 23 Feb 2013 O'Kane's 11 oil-on-canvas and acrylic-on-board paintings espouse the concept of the history of art and architecture as a construct whose multiple layers of artifice are capable of affecting perception and belief in subtle ways. Works such as “Dessau Autumn Study (Walter Gropius)” and “Farnsworth House in Snow (Mies Van Der... Read more

In all things
126 Gallery, Galway, Ireland 13 Jun - 7 Jul 2012 Carbon is the 15th most abundant element in the Earth's crust, and the fourth most abundant element in the universe by mass after hydrogen, helium, and oxygen. It is present in all known life forms, and in the human body carbon is the second most abundant element by mass (about... Read more

Luleå Art Biennal
22 Jun - 14 Sep 2011 The Luleå Biennial stretches across the vast region of Norrbotten. Budding into the arctic circle at Sweden's border to Finland, the region - with its heavy industries, mining landscapes, high-tech research centers, unique nature and the historical homeland of the Sami people, Sapmi - plays host to one of the... Read more

School Days: The Look of Learning
Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork, Cork, Republic of Ireland 1 Dec 2010 - 20 Mar 2011 Within the context of Lewis Glucksman Gallery, a university-affiliated space, attention to the sites of learning is openly self-reflective. Eamon O’Kane’s Froebel’s Studio (2010) is a functioning play space with freestanding partition screens, colourful stools and a table, on which sit several early learning games summoning the spirit of both... Read more

Teilansicht
Filipp Rosbach Galerie, Leipzig 11 Sep - 23 Oct 2010 Partial View Although nature and its range of possible representations provide his ostensible subjects, Eamon O’Kane’s artistic practice is deeply rooted in the artist’s enduring love-hate relationship with the institutional structures that contemporary art requires for its very survival. Museums, art galleries, libraries, cultural centers, public agencies, corporate headquarters, charitable... Read more

Der Glasraum
Gregory Lind Gallery, San Fransisco 9 Sep - 16 Oct 2010 In this exhibition, O'Kane explores the relationship between Philip Johnson's Glass House and Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House through a series of oil paintings on canvas and works on paper. Using the two buildings and their histories as a starting point, the artist plays with time, space, color and... Read more

E-1027 + Le Cabanon
18 Feb - 30 Apr 2010 Eamon O’Kane

February 18 – April 30, 2010

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EVA International Biennal 2009 : Reading the city
14 Mar - 24 May 2009 The Eames Studio Limerick uses, as a starting point, the fact that Charles Eames’ grandfather, Henry Eames, left Co Limerick for America in the mid-1700s. The installation involves constructing a scale model of a hybrid of the Eames studio and house using a wooden structure covered in paper. The structure... Read more

Panorama- I like shopping centres and shopping centres like me
Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France 3 Mar - 19 Apr 2009 How We Live Most of us live our lives caught in a moment between past and future, dreams and reality; working between creativity and banality, struggle, stress and success; and in a place that sits somewhere between the urban and the rural. Increasingly in Ireland many of us also live... Read more

Plans For The Past and The Future
Plan 9, Bristol, UK 9 Jan - 14 Feb 2009 Read more

The Architect's House
RARE Gallery, New York 15 Nov - 20 Dec 2008 In his first New York solo exhibition, entitled The Architect's House, Eamon O'Kane presents new large-scale oil paintings that explore his fascination with architecture and landscape. Created during his residency at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris from April to June 2008, these works recombine elements of Modernist masterpieces and... Read more

Panorama: I like shopping centres and shopping centres like me
The Economist Plaza, London 25 Jul - 5 Sep 2008 The exhibition is part of a major touring exhibition of the artist’s work which will visit British and international venues in 2008 and 2009. The work comprises a 30-metre long black and white painting, situated in a panoramic structure. The painting reflects trees from nearby Green Park with architectural elements... Read more

The Place of Three Bridges
Rugby Art Gallery & Museum, UK 8 Jul - 31 Aug 2008 Read more

EVA International Biennal 2007: A SENSE OF PLACE
Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland 30 Mar - 24 Jun 2007 OPEN e v + a 2007 - a sense of place was curated by Klaus Ottmann, an independent curator and scholar based in New York. OPEN e v+ a 2007 presented 32 artists, of which 18 were Irish; the remaining 14 artists from the UK, Europe, Canada and the United... Read more

Panorama: I like shopping centres and shopping centres like me
Draíocht Arts centre, Dublin 15 Oct - 4 Dec 2006 How We Live Most of us live our lives caught in a moment between past and future, dreams and reality; working between creativity and banality, struggle, stress and success; and in a place that sits somewhere between the urban and the rural. Increasingly in Ireland many of us also live... Read more

The Museum Collection
GS, Frankfurt, Germany 9 Sep - 8 Oct 2005 Back in the mainstream, both history and art museums are often viewed as sculptural works in themselves. The work of contemporary architects such as Frank Gehry and Daniel Libeskind moves unapologetically closer to art, as perceptible in either the aesthetic play of the former and the symbolic priorities of the... Read more

EVA International Biennal 2005
Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland 12 Mar - 22 May 2005 In 2005 OPEN ev+a was curated by Dan Cameron, Senior Curator of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. Cameron selected 68 artists from hundreds of submissions to OPEN ev+a. Writing about the selection process he said, “one of the challenges I set for myself at the beginning of... Read more

The Mobile Museum
Millenium Court Arts Centre, Portadown, N. Ireland 2 Dec 2004 - 22 Jan 2005 Eamon O’Kane – Mobile Museum Art as Spatial Resistance Architecture, known to the Ancient Greeks and many others since as the mother of all arts, is one of the principal means by which societies assert control over the natural world. The means by which nations are literally built, architectural forms... Read more

The Ideal Studio House
Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen, Denmark 5 Nov - 12 Dec 2004 The Ideal Studio House is the first solo show at Galerie Mikael Andersen by the Irish artist Eamon O'Kanes (b. 1974). The works in the show, new large scale oil paintings of landscapes and interiors, have been created during his recent residency at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.... Read more

Studio in the woods
Lead White Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 25 Sep - 24 Oct 2003 Eamon O’ Kane Living on automatic driveby Mike Fitzpatrick Imagining Eamon O’ Kane in his studio, the walls around him groan with the weight of paintings stacked against them. A computer purrs in the corner, he quietly and efficiently moves around the space tending to a variety of projects... Read more

EVA International Biennal 2003: On the border of each other
Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland 8 Mar - 1 Jun 2003 At first glance these bold and simple figurines appear to be best understood as echoes of childhood. Like childhood toys, the ‘ani-mates’ ‘fix’ and hold in place projections of the psyche, but also retain a mutability which allows them to be continuously ‘re-invented’ and ‘re-imagined’. At least, that is, until... Read more

EVA International Biennal 2002 : Heroes and Holies
Limerick City Gallery of Art 16 Mar - 9 Jun 2002 Heroes and Holies was curated by Thai curator Apinan Poshyananda who in his introductory essay wrote, “Irish heroes and martyrs play integral roles in the dissemination of national pride. Their heroic or saintly deeds are emphasised, while their weakness and faults are overlooked or forgotten” [taken from Apinan Poshyananda’s introduction... Read more

Selected Works
Kunsthalle Neuffer am Park 1 Mar - 18 May 2002 https://www.worldcat.org/title/bildermacher-eamon-okane-ani-mates-tm-neuffer-pirmasens-germany-1-march-18-may-2002/oclc/916210554 Read more

After Kafka's Amerika
Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick, Ireland 1 - 30 Oct 2001 Eamon O'Kane's richly productive project AKA: After Kafka's Amerika has generated a profusion of art works in a range of media that includes painting, photography and video. Famously, Franz Kafka relied on secondary source material when writing his novel, Amerika, as he never actually visited the USA. In keeping with... Read more

After Kafka's Amerika
Hallward Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 26 Apr - 11 May 2001 Eamon O'Kane's richly productive project AKA: After Kafka's Amerika has generated a profusion of art works in a range of media that includes painting, photography and video. Famously, Franz Kafka relied on secondary source material when writing his novel, Amerika, as he never actually visited the USA. In keeping with... Read more

EVA International Biennal 2001 : Expanded
Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland 16 Mar - 13 May 2001 New York based Curator, Salah M Hassan together with his friend Muhammad Iftikhar Dadi – an American-based Pakistani artist who assisted him in adjudicating EV+A 2001 – selected 88 artists to exhibit as part of EV+A Expanded. Of the 500 works submitted to Open EV+A, Hassan noted that the majority... Read more

Tourist Interface
Orchard Gallery, Derry, N. Ireland 27 May - 24 Jun 2000 Tourist Interface is certainly a lot to look at. The images are heaped up like ham and eggs, pancakes and syrup, free refills of corffee. O'Kane, having presented himself with America, presents us with series of photographic visuals culled from an enormous source of images taken there. His itinerary is... Read more

An American Cross Section
Butler Gallery, Ireland 20 May - 25 Jun 2000 'An American Cross Section Travel has long been an inspiration for art and from the solitary walker of the Romantic canvas to the beat generation poet, being on the road has been as much a route of the imagination as a record of reality. It is a privileged perspective, the... Read more

Postcard Cities
KoRaw Gallery, London, UK 1 Jun - 31 Aug 1999 In this exhibition Irish artist Eamon O'Kane presented works from nis Negative Mirror series which are large scale photographs, (C-Prints) exploring different European cities. O'Kane was inspired by the book Invisible Cities by the Italian author Italo Calvino. Koraw Gallery 36 Southwark Bridge Road, Bankside GB - London SE1 -... Read more

EVA International Biennal 1999 – REDUCED
Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland 22 Mar - 22 Jul 1999 In 1999 the remodelled and expanded Limerick City Gallery of Art re-opened and EV+A 1999 was the first exhibition to take place there. Art historian, curator and dealer, Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn was the curator. Of the 325 artists who submitted for inclusion in Open EV+A 99, 60 were chosen. 'One... Read more

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