River House

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Until April 2022, River House was home to the Revenue offices in Limerick. It is located beside the Abbey River on Charlotte’s Quay.
Legend has it that the Abbey River separated King George and his wife Queen Charlotte, giving the parallel quays the names George’s Quay and Charlotte’s Quay.
This site was one of twenty-six listed venues for the 22nd edition of EVA in 1998, curated by Paul M. O‘Reilly (b. 1934, USA/Ireland) and titled Circus ZZ. This was the first and only edition to be adjudicated by an EVA employee. That year he worked as the director and curator of Limerick City Gallery of Art and administrator of EVA. It was the most expansive in EVA’s history in terms of number of venues and artists up to this point. This edition of EVA also introduced a number of changes to the format of the exhibition, including a change of date from winter to summer.
In 1998, Jonathan Horowitz (b. 1966, USA) exhibited a five-part video series titled Interracial Buddies at various different venues.