Technologies of Peace: Give Imma’s sprawling exhibition the time and attention it deserves
The Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) is hosting an exhibition titled 'Technologies of Peace: Art and Transition in Contemporary Europe (1989-2026)'. The collection explores the complexities of peace processes and democracy through various artistic mediums.
Why it matters
It provides a cultural perspective on how art documents and interprets historical transitions and the fragility of peace in Europe.
How do you picture peace? War is easy, on so many levels. Conflict has given rise to some of art’s great masterpieces. Francisco Goya’s The Third of May 1808 (painted in 1814) and Pablo Picasso’s Guernica , from 1937, haunt the mind. And what of peace? Doves and rainbows just don’t seem capable of the same sucker punch, even if Picasso’s Dove, a visual essay on peace from 1949, has been reproduced at peace congresses around the world.
Despite the weight of war, the emphasis at the Irish Museum of Modern Art is on paths to peace, but don’t expect to be washed with waves of optimism, or of answers, when you get there.
Kicking off in 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell, its exhibition Technologies of Peace: Art and Transition in Contemporary Europe (1989-2026) explores art from countries in Europe in which peace processes have paralleled our own.
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