Ike Quirk Exhibition "you did everything you could for me so far"

IKE QUIRK SOLO EXHIBITION

​​​"you did everything you could for me so far"

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EXHIBITION: APRIL 24 - MAY 9, 2026 (24.04 -09.05.26)

VERNISSAGE: FRIDAY APRIL 24th 6PM - 9PM (24.04.26 18:00-21:00)

​Meet the artist and hear an introduction by curator and art historian Timea Junghaus.

HOURS: Tue-Fri 1PM-6PM + Sat 11am-3pm / Dien-Frei 13:00-18:00 + Sam 11:00-15:00

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Ike Quirk is a contemporary artist based in IRELAND, whose work focuses on emotional expressionism through color.

​​​"In this new body of work, Ike Quirk turns inward, moving through time, vulnerability, and the subtle shifts that shape us as life unfolds. The paintings begin with a sentence spoken by his daughter Lucy: “You did everything you could for me so far” - tender, but also quietly unsettling, marking a threshold where roles begin to change and certainty gives way to fragility. What follows is a reflection on transition: what we lose, what we try to hold onto, and how we continue to search for meaning within a finite life. Rather than resolving these questions, Ike Quirk stays with them, allowing love, loss, and release to exist side by side. Working for the first time extensively on paper, he embraces its fragility as both medium and metaphor. Watercolor, charcoal, acrylic, and even tea move across the surface in layered, intuitive ways, while fragments of text drawn from lived moments anchor the work without fixing its meaning. These paintings do not ask to be explained, but to be felt, holding, quietly and persistently, the weight of a single sentence."​

Text by Timea Junghaus, curator, art historian

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