PCAI is glad to announce the opening of the exhibition Technologies of Peace: Art and Transition in Contemporary Europe (1989–2026) with the participation of PCAI collection artists Latent Community, Manolis D. Lemos and Petros Moris at Ireland’s National Cultural Institution for Modern and Contemporary Art (IMMA).
The exhibition aims to explore the concept of peace, the tools of peace and how they are deployed through an artistic lens.
Focusing on the period from the 1990s to the present day, this project explores Ireland’s complex political history through artistic practice, drawing parallels with European counterparts that have followed similar trajectories from post-conflict societies towards democratic states characterised by peace and stability.
Within peace and conflict research, the study of peace has received far less scholarly attention than the study of war and violence. Moreover, among the studies that pay particular attention to peace, a negative peace conception, which equates peace with the absence of direct violence between formerly warring parties, has generally dominated. Consequently, peace itself is under conceptualised.
Participating artists: Marina Abramović, Ileana Arnaoutou, Nika Autor, Aleksandar Battista Ilić in collaboration with Ivana Keser and Tomislav Gotovac, Ursla Burke, Alán Carrasco, Jasmina Cibic, Lana Čmajčanin, Fábio Colaço, Phil Collins, Willie Doherty, Rita Duffy, Amanda Dunsmore, Petros Efstathiadis, Andrea Geyer, Igor Grubić, Đejmi Hadrović, Petrit Halilaj, Anthony Haughey, Frances Hegarty, Saskia Holmkvist, Sanja Iveković, Sandra Johnston, Dragana Jurišić, Šejla Kamerić, Barbara Knežević, Siniša Labrović, Nicolas Lambouris, Latent Community, Manolis D. Lemos, Glenn Loughran, Alastair MacLennan, Goshka Macuga, Petra Matić, Emily McFarland, Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, Petros Moris, Locky Morris, Alban Muja, Mairéad McClean, William McKeown, Vlad Nancă, Eleni Odysseos, Claudia Pagès Rabal, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Karol Radziszewski, María Ruido, Edita Schubert, Paul Seawright, Driton Selmani, Indrė Šerpytytė, Slavs and Tatars, Mladen Stilinović, Bojan Stojčić, Anne Tallentrie, Kostis Velonis, Vangelis Vlahos, Cathy Wilkes, Mona Vatamanu and Florin Tudor.
Dates: 12 Sept 2026 – 9 May 2027
Read more here.
Activity aligned with Goals 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8,10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17
