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Speaker
Nuria Carballeira
Assistant Curator
Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA)
Nuria Carballeira has been working in the Collections Department at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) since 2010. She currently works as an Assistant Curator and previously held the role of Acting Registrar.
Her work focuses on supporting acquisition processes, loans, and documentation, as well as a range of activities related to the care and access to the IMMA Collection and Archives. She is particularly interested in the challenges presented by the care and preservation of contemporary media, and in working collaboratively to support public engagement with the collection.
The IMMA Collection comprises nearly 5,000 works, dating primarily from the 1940s to the present. It includes a wide range of media, from traditional forms such as painting and sculpture to time-based media, installation, and ephemera.
Nuria Carballeira will be speaking at the Museums & Public Program Summit 2026 :
Ecological and Participatory Approaches in Museum Practice
This session highlights IMMA Horizons’ innovative programming, including a sculptural potato planting in the museum’s collection – planted with traditional tools in collaboration with a local horticulture college. Ephemeral and ever-changing, it engaged staff, students and the public, challenging ideas of what an artwork is and who “owns” it. Workshops in wild food, seed sovereignty, plant dyeing and cyanotype connected participants to land, heritage and embodied knowledge. In parallel, MOVING SIGNATURES intergenerational engagement project responded to artworks through physical-phrases and slow looking, culminating in a site responsive performance foregrounding knowledge held in the body and its interaction with space.