Elsewhere on Ulster
Ulster University Art Gallery Exhibitions January - May 2026
After interim group shows by our current MFA students in January 2026, we are thrilled to welcome original Fluxus member, the artist Ken Friedman, to Belfast for both a performance and talk with Sean Miller, Jade Dellinger and 'The Art Guys' Jack Massing at the opening of a short run of Miller's re-performance of Philip Corner's 'Piano Activities,' now as 'Piano Aktivitys as a Discplund Destruktion' including documentary film footage of Corner talking about his legendary work.
This is followed by a special exhibition featuring paintings by Simon McWilliams alongside those of his father Joseph McWilliams. Our 2025/2026 season closes with new work by Hannah Casey-Brogan.
10th - 26th February 2026
Piano Aktivitys as a Disciplund Destruktshun (A Piano Work't) by Wes Kline, Sean Miller and Chad Serhal
PIANO AKTIVITYS AS A DISCIPLIND DESTRUKTSHUN (A PIANO WORK’T) is a documentary film created by Wes Kline, Sean Miller and Chad Serhal, exploring two inter-related compositions by Fluxus artist and composer Philip Corner. The two scores; 'Piano Activities' (1962) and 'PIano Aktivitys as a Disciplind Destrukshun (a piano work't)' (2022) were written almost 60 years apart.
10th February 2026
FLUXUS Etc.
A performance and talk by Ken Friedman, Sean Miller, Jack Massing and Jade Dellinger as part of the opening night of 'Piano Aktivitys....' exhibition.
5th March - 2nd April 2026
The Shapes of Change by Simon McWilliams and Joseph McWilliams
Ulster University presents 'The Shapes of Change', an exhibition bringing together paintings by Joseph McWilliams (1938–2015) and his son Simon McWilliams, two artists whose work captures different moments of transformation in Northern Ireland’s recent history.
20th April - 29th May
Iarmhaireacht by Hannah Casey-Brogan
In this exhibition, Casey-Brogan develops her exploration of expanded drawing, presenting new works that move beyond the confines of the traditional rectangle. Elements are now lifted, rearranged, allowed to drift, and re-form; images become constellations rather than contained scenes. What begins as the intimacy of drawing and scale of the hand has progressively opened outward.
