Border Biennale 2025 Exhibition Launch

Takes place Sat 19 July at 3pm, Townhall Arts Centre, Cavan.

The second edition of the Border Biennale officially opens at Townhall Cavan, co-curated by internationally renowned artist Rita Duffy and Joe Keenan.

This powerful exhibition brings together national and international artists to explore the absurdities and realities of borders; political, cultural, and psychological.

With works addressing themes from migration and identity to climate and conflict, the Biennale continues to grow in ambition and impact.

Co-curated by internationally acclaimed artist Rita Duffy and Townhall Artist Liason Joe Keenan. This year’s exhibition features powerful and thought-provoking work by:

• Miriam de Búrca (Berlin-born, Ireland-based)
• Pascal Ungerer (Cork)
• Sally O’Dowd (Breffni-born, Belfast-based)
• Rita Duffy (Belfast-born, Ballyconnell-based)

As Duffy notes in The Anglo Celt recently, “Borders seem to be very last century thinking,” and this exhibition invites audiences to reimagine the border not as a line of division, but as a space of shared creativity and critical reflection.