Application deadline: July 22, 2025
IMMA, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, is excited to announce an open call for a second year of Dwell Here residencies for nationwide and internationally based practices. This opportunity welcomes applications across disciplines of the visual arts, design, architecture, curation, and related humanities fields. Successful applicants are supported to undertake independent site-responsive research in addition to contributing to Dwell Here assemblies. All programming, whether for one month or one year, is encouraged to respond to the research themes set out as part of the brief. Dwell Here offers three frameworks to choose from and supports numerous residencies located onsite at IMMA throughout 2026.
One Year Residency—studio and accommodation / One Year Studio Residency—studio (no accommodation) / One Month Residency—shared studio access and accommodation.
Research Assemblies
All Dwell Here programming is structured around seasonal Research Assemblies delivered together as week-long forums with an expanded community of mentors, peers, and fellow residents gathering onsite for communal engagement and interdisciplinary dialogue. Each assembly requires engagement and a willingness to share process-based research with the expanded community participating in each week of programming, the dates of these are:
–Spring: Wednesday February 18–Tuesday February 24, 2026
–Summer: Wednesday June 10–Tuesday June 16, 2026
–Autumn: Wednesday September 23–Tuesday September 29, 2026
Research Themes
Dwell Here offers participants a simple proposition: to commit to this time and place while thinking deeply about its urgencies. Together we are curious to learn what can be activated or challenged through the process of dwelling. IMMA encourages reflection across the following themes to consider geographical, historical, political, and cultural concepts of Ireland as a starting point to expand and connect international contexts through similarities and differences:
Technologies of Peace: We invite participants to consider commemorative landscapes and memories of peace (as a dream, movement, or value) while generating perspectives on sustainable coexistence.
The Irish Paradigm: We welcome artistic research that can create intimacy and connections, while celebrating the perceived agility and freedoms of operating on the periphery. As a small island on the edge of Europe, Ireland often has a challenging relationship with “the centre”.
The Museum as a Site of Vibration: We wish to consider how the museum and site can create new vibrations and rhythms within the built legacy of empire. How can museums make visible cultural shifts, including erased, censored or marginalised histories, as well as sustainability, planetary care, sharing and hospitality.
Assembly engagements may surface as a workshop, a temporary exhibition, a reading group, a walking tour, an open studio, a talk, a site visit, a performance, or other studio related activities with the onsite community and invited guests. In addition to these contributions research assemblies will be informed by:
–Methods of presenting self-directed research and studio practice
–Discussions and studio visits with mentors, peers, and fellow Dwell Here residents
–Interaction with IMMA programming, staff, collections, archives, and site
–Off-site visits (local and further afield)
–Engagement with Ireland’s arts communities and infrastructures
–Informal knowledge exchange synonymous with the residency experience such as co-hospitality, co-working and co-living.
For further information on each residency opportunity and to apply online visit the IMMA website.
