TULCA Festival of Visual Arts

17/04/2026

This weekend in Dublin

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts at the Tsundoku Art Book Fair 2026, presented by PhotoIreland.

The fair brings together over 80 publishers from Ireland and internationally, with a programme of launches, workshops and events across the weekend.

17–19 April
International Centre for the Image, Dublin

15/04/2026

TULCA at Tsundoku Art Book Fair 2026

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts will take part in the Tsundoku Art Book Fair 2026, presented by PhotoIreland, 17–19 April at the International Centre for the Image, Dublin.

The fair brings together independent publishers, artists and organisations from Ireland and internationally, with a programme of launches, exhibitions and workshops.

TULCA will present two recent publications from the 2025 and 2024 festival editions: Strange lands still bear common ground (2025), curated by Beulah Ezeugo, and The Salvage Agency (2024), curated by Michele Horrigan.

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts will take part in Tsundoku Art Book Fair 2026, presented by PhotoIreland, taking place 17–19 April at the International Centre for the Image. Returning to Dublin this April, the fair brings together independent publishers, artists, and organisations from Ireland and i...

13/04/2026

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts is pleased to announce Sinéad Keogh as the curator of the 24th edition of the festival, entitled Veruca Salt.

10/04/2026

📣 TULCA 2026: Open Call

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts invites proposals from artists for Veruca Salt, curated by Sinéad Keogh.

Veruca Salt is a punk and women-led proposition that seeks to disrupt through transgressive agency and a strong sense of conviction. Marking 50 years since the emergence of Punk, this year’s festival draws on its spirit of resistance, DIY culture, and radical expression, asking what it means to know who you are, and to demand what you want.

We welcome artists working across disciplines, particularly those based in the West of Ireland, whose practices challenge dominant norms and operate beyond the mainstream.

Deadline for submissions: 30 April 2026, 5pm

ℹ️ Full details, including application guidelines and a curatorial statement, are available at www.tulca.ie/open-call-2026

Image: Rachel Garfield, Art S*x Work: Brixton Hill Punctum, video still, 2022

The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon Galway City Council / Galway City Arts Office Galway County Council / Galway County Arts Office

09/04/2026

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts is pleased to announce Sinéad Keogh as curator of the 24th edition of the festival.

A multimedia performance installation artist and curator, Keogh’s practice aims to engage audiences with countercultural, underground and alternative voices that are often absent from the mainstream arts scene.

“I am very honoured to be working with TULCA and to be developing a programme that platforms underrepresented communities, women’s groups, and artists working outside of conventional structures. The 2026 edition brings together these practices through a shared ethos of punk and DIY culture, with a focus on collaboration, collective action, and community engagement.” — Sinéad Keogh

📰 Read full announcement here: https://www.tulca.ie/curator-2026

🔗 The Open Call is now live: find out more and apply via tulca.ie

TULCA 2026: Veruca Salt
Curated by Sinéad Keogh
6-22 November 2026
Galway, Ireland

The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon Galway City Arts Office / Galway City Council Galway County Arts Office / Galway County Council

26/03/2026

Part Six: Publication | TULCA 2025

The final instalment of the TULCA 2025 recap series focuses on the festival publication, Strange lands still bear common ground, produced on the occasion of the 23rd edition of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts and curated by Beulah Ezeugo.

Extending the 2025 programme, the publication brings together new essays, artworks and contributions by Caroline Mac Cathmhaoil, Francis Jones, Jericho Mars, Hussein Mitha, Enya Moore & Kate O’Shea, PATHOS and Durre Shahwar.

Featured contributions include:
A Collection of Ocean Waifs — Enya Moore & Kate O’Shea
Construction — Francis Jones
An Ireland of the West — Caroline Mac Cathmhaoil
PATHOS Guiding Principles — Ailbhe McDaid, Julie Morrissy, Leah Smith
Reorientating Borders Into — Durre Shahwar
The Wretched of the City (excerpt) — Hussein Mitha
Imagine for a moment that it is spring — Jericho Mars

Edited by Beulah Ezeugo, with copyediting by Joanne Laws and design by Pure Designs, and published by TULCA Publishing.

Order publication: www.tulca.ie/news/2026/03/26

Available online and via selected stockists.

Supported by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and Galway City Council

Part Six: Publication | TULCA 2025 The final instalment of the TULCA 2025 recap series focuses on the festival publication,  Strange lands still bear common ground , produced on the occasion of the 23rd edition of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts and curated by Beulah Ezeugo. Extending

13/03/2026

Artist Insights | Peter Tresnan

In this Artist Insights interview recorded during TULCA 2025, Peter Tresnan reflects on the work presented as part of Strange lands still bear common ground, curated by Beulah Ezeugo.

Tresnan discusses the development of paintings shown at Galway Arts Centre in Galway and in the festival’s satellite exhibition at 334 Broome Street in New York, reflecting on the ideas and processes shaping his practice.

Filmed at the TULCA Gallery in Hynes Building, the conversation offers insight into the ideas and research informing the work.

Watch: 11.28

Artist Insights is an ongoing interview featuring artists participating in TULCA Festival of Visual Arts. Through short filmed conversations, the series offe...

12/03/2026

Artist Insights | Mair Hughes

In this Artist Insights interview recorded during TULCA 2025, Mair Hughes reflects on the work presented as part of Strange lands still bear common ground, curated by Beulah Ezeugo.

Hughes’ installation A Field Guide to the Offa’s D**e explores the psychogeography of the Welsh borderlands through reflections on landscape, memory and dual Welsh–English identity. Drawing on the form of Offa’s D**e as a physical marker across the landscape, the work considers borders as spaces of ambiguity and creative potential.

Filmed at the TULCA Gallery in Hynes Building, the conversation offers insight into the ideas and research informing the work.

Watch: 9:53

Artist Insights is an ongoing interview featuring artists participating in TULCA Festival of Visual Arts. Through short filmed conversations, the series offe...

11/03/2026

Artist Insights | Caoimhín Gaffney

In this Artist Insights interview recorded during TULCA 2025, Caoimhín Gaffney reflects on the works presented as part of Strange lands still bear common ground, curated by Beulah Ezeugo.

The works shown form part of All at Once Collapsing Together, a series of medium-format photographs that act as mirrors to the healing the natural environment can offer. Text fragments infused with climate anxiety interrupt these scenes, framing them as fleeting and fragile while posing questions about recovery, trauma and the traces we leave on the earth.

Filmed at the TULCA Gallery in Hynes Building, the conversation offers insight into the ideas and research informing the work.

Watch: 5:25

Artist Insights is an ongoing interview featuring artists participating in TULCA Festival of Visual Arts. Through short filmed conversations, the series offe...

10/03/2026

Artist Insights | Caroline Mac Cathmhaoil

In this Artist Insights interview recorded during TULCA 2025, Caroline Mac Cathmhaoil reflects on the development of Mirror States, a two-channel video installation presented at the TULCA Gallery as part of Strange lands still bear common ground, curated by Beulah Ezeugo.

The work places Ireland and Cuba in mirrored reflection, drawing on the historical comparisons once made between the two islands within revolutionary and political discourse. Through footage filmed in Havana and Dublin alongside archival material, the installation reflects on shifting histories of revolution, commemoration and political imagination.

Filmed at the TULCA Gallery in Hynes Building, the conversation offers insight into the ideas and research informing the work.

Watch: 11:41

Artist Insights is an ongoing interview featuring artists participating in TULCA Festival of Visual Arts. Through short filmed conversations, the series offe...