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Ulster University Art Gallery Exhibitions September - December 2025
Announcing our 2025/2026 programme at Ulster University Art Gallery with our Autumn season of exhibitions.
We are thrilled to present the first in what we hope to be a series of video commissions for VIDEO CAVE. Its first transmission is created by the infamous The Constructivist (aka Brian McAughey) and opens our gallery programme for the year. We follow it with our continuing partnership with Outburst Queer Arts Festival presenting a new exhibition by Sarah-Joy Ford. And we close before Christmas with our annual exhihbition Art Unwrapped, in partnership with Ulster Museum and Belfast City Council, involving our 2nd Year BA Fine Art students in a process of interpretation, presentation and invigilation of a classic artwork from the Museum's collection.
15th September - 16th October 2025
VIDEO CAVE Transmission .01: The Institute by The Constructivist (aka Brian McCaughey)
Blending video and text, The Institute transforms the gallery into an active diagram of institutional life amidst its bureaucratic systems. This new installation doesn't intend to critique institutions, it merely models them within the frame of institutional bureaucracy. As such, directed by your perspective, it may even be regarded a celebration.
29th October - 23rd November
A new exhibition by Sarah-Joy Ford in collaboration with Roma Havers and poet, Jane Campbell. Presented in partnership with Outburst Queer Arts Festival.
Dykeland presents a body of work created by the artist Sarah-Joy Ford that explores dyke, lesbian and queer relationships to land, placemaking, rurality and ecological activism. Through quilting, fragments of historical texts and archival material are drawn into intimate relationships with memory, gossip and pure lesbian feminist fantasy.
27th November - 23 December
ART UNWRAPPED
Art Unwrapped annually brings a well-loved painting from the Ulster Museum collection to the widest possible viewership, staging the exhibition within easy reach of the city centre in order to ‘unwrap’ it for new audiences. This unwrapping is placed in the very capable hands of our Year 2 Fine Art painting students, who will be on-hand to share their own personal interpretations of the stories behind the painting, in their role as gallery guides.
