Event #3 - A Conversation with Dr. David Kronn & Séan Kissane
hosted by the National Library of Ireland National Photographic Archive
24th October, 2024
This event took place just before the opening of the David Kronn Collection Donation exhibition, which celebrated the fourth donation to the IMMA Collection from Irish-born, US-based photography collector Dr. David Kronn. The donation included a diverse selection of works, ranging from 19th Century to the present day, by modernist and contemporary photographers.
Dr. Kronn has built an extraordinary photography collection over the past twenty-five years, which is a promised gift to the Irish Museum of Modern Art to be enjoyed by the Irish public into the future. The overall donation substantially increass IMMA’s photographic holdings and provide an historical, contextual and expanding framework essential for the understanding and appreciation of modern and contemporary photography.
Seán Kissane is Curator of Exhibitions at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin, who describes his practice as ‘curating the edges’. He is the curator of the David Kronn collection at IMMA.
The event included contributions from Dr. Dr Sinéad McCoole, Head of Exhibitions, Learning and Programming at the National Library of Ireland and was moderated by Yvette Monahan and Conor Horgan of Island Photographers. It covered a broad range of topics to do with collecting photography, institutional collections and much more besides.
Island Photographers are very grateful to the NLI/ National Photographic Archive for all their help and support for this event.
Martine Franck, Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, 1972, gelatin silver print. 25.5 x 24 cm, © Martine Franck/Magnum Photos. Part of the David Kronn collection.
Event #2 - Curatorial Practices and Potentialities
A manual of practices and operations around
creating and curating projects
Natasha Christia talk
Temple Bar Gallery + Studios
19th September
6.30-8pm
In her lecture, Natasha shared the 'toolbox' of operations she uses for her practice and research. She provided insight into past projects and outlined how she blends various voices and narrative devices to create interdisciplinary art projects within an exhibition space. Natasha illustrated how she formalises, activates, and amplifies an art project within a space. She proposed a series of operations centered on contradictory concepts, allowing novel visibilities and enabling alternative horizons and understandings of the world.
Natasha Christia is a curator, writer, and educator based in Barcelona. Her curatorial research focuses on the photographic document's complicity and potential role in the revision of dominant historical narratives and ideological myths. She has curated various exhibitions, among them, AMORE: An Unfinished Trilogy by Valentina Abenavoli (Void/Athens Photo Festival, 2017), Dragana Jurisic: My Own Unknown (Centre Culturel Irlandais, Photo Sant Germain, 2017), Reversiones (Centro de la Imagen, Mexico DF, 2017), Lukas Birk: Travelogue Sammlung (Galerie Lustenau, Austria 2018) and You Are What You Eat (Krakow Photomonth 2019), ACTS I-VII by Oculi, (PHOTO 2022 Ιnternational Festival of Photography-Benalla Gallery, Australia), Kate Nolan: Lacuna (Centre Culturel Irlandais, Photo Sant Germain, 2023). Since 2021, she has been developing thematic areas based on photobooks: Closed Circle-Lived Relation (Panoramic Festival, Barcelona, 2021); War at a Distance (SCAN Festival 2022); and This Story Will Never Get Finished (SCAN Festival 2023). Natasha Christia regularly contributes essays on photography criticism for international publications and artists. In 2019, she edited with Lukas Birk (FraglichPublishing) "Gulistan" (winner of the PHotoEspanã BestPhotobookAward 2019, International Category). She has been a jury member of the Unseen Dummy Award, Kassel Dummy Award 2021, and Concurso Fotocanal 2020.
Kate Nolan, LACUNA, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, 2023.
Dragana Jurišić, My Own Unknown, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, 2017.
Event #1 - The Photobook as a Work of Art
The Photobook as a Work of Art
SO Fine Art Editions
10th August 2024
Presentations and a panel discussion on “The Photobook as a Work of Art”, hosted by Island Photographers in collaboration with SO Fine Art Editions and with contributions from Philip Arneill, Sarah Navan, Brían Sparks, Conor Horgan and Roísin White.
