Galway is set to enjoy a feast of contemporary art – not to mention a host of seminars, workshops and an Education Programme with artist talks and gallery tours – from the weekend, as the twentieth edition of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts gets underway this Friday.

TULCA, which runs in venues across Galway City until November 20,  will feature a programme of multi-venue exhibitions and events that collectively focus on looking at and responding to contemporary visual art.

Exhibition galleries will be held at the TULCA Gallery, Galway Arts Centre, 126 Artist-Run Gallery and Columban Hall. The Artist Talks Series will take place at Pálás Cinema in partnership with ATU.

Every year TULCA commissions an Irish curator to develop a concept for the festival. Through a process of open call and invitation the curator selects national and international artists to respond to the theme. And this year’s festival is curated by Clare Gormley, Director of Programmes & Curator at the Belfast Photo Festival and Co-Founder and Director of the Northern Irish Art Network.

The 2022 festival theme is The World Was All Before Them, addressing the notion of futurity and asking – in this moment of global change, upheaval and uncertainty – what the political potentials might be in imagining new futures and envisioning new ways of being in this world.

The festival title comes from the final lines of John Milton’s epic poem, Paradise Lost, which recounts Adam and Eve’s journey out of Eden and into a new, unknown world.

For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.

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