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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 venues used for the 37th edition of EVA in 2016, curated by Koyo Kouoh (b. 1967, Cameroon), and titled Still (the) Barbarians. 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.