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Hamad Butt: Apprehensions at IMMA
Exhibition
Hamad Butt. Apprehensions
6 Dec 2024 – 5 May 2025
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Address
- Royal Hospital Kilmainham
- Military Rd
- Dublin
Dublin - Ireland
Travel Information
- Buses to Heuston Station (8 minutes walk via Military Rd): 145, 79 and 79a from Aston Quay. Buses to James St (8 minutes walk via steps to Bow Lane onto Irwin St and Military Rd): 13, 40, 123 from O’Connell St and Dame St.
- Red line to Heuston Station, 8 minute walk to Museum entrance on Military Road. For further information about Luas please click here
- 8 minute walk from Heuston Station; from Connolly and Tara Street Stations by 90 bus to Heuston Station
IMMA presents the first retrospective exhibition of the work of ground-breaking artist Hamad Butt (1962-1994). Born in Pakistan, and raised in London, he was British South Asian, Muslim, and queer.
About
A contemporary of the Young British Artists, critics described him as epitomizing the new ‘hazardism’ in art.
Hamad Butt: Apprehensions is the first retrospective exhibition of the work of pioneering artist Hamad Butt (1962-1994) organised by IMMA and Whitechapel Gallery, London. Hamad Butt’s work is poignant and severe, emotive yet austere. Born in Lahore, Pakistan, and raised in London, he was British South Asian, Muslim, and queer. Before his AIDS-related death in 1994, aged 32, Butt completed and showed four key sculptural installations and left behind writings, drawings, paintings, and plans for new installations. This is the first time his work will be shown outside of the UK.
Butt was a pioneer of intermedia interventions in art and science, conceptual sculpture, installation, and queer diasporic art. He was a contemporary of the Young British Artists (and their peer at Goldsmiths) and critics described him as epitomizing the new ‘hazardism’ in art. He exhibited widely in his lifetime, and he was arguably the first British artist to respond in a non-militant, conceptual mode to HIV/AIDS. His iconic sculptural works have never been shown together, his paintings and drawings never exhibited until now.
