Image caption: Photo by Finn Richards.
What is a Creative Producer?
Kunstverein Projects is thrilled to present a day-long event at Mermaid Arts Centre on 3 February 2026, focusing on the role and function of the Creative Producer in the visual arts in Ireland. The event is designed to support creative practitioner development opportunities specific to Wicklow-based artists and creative arts professionals in synergy with Kunstverein's ongoing eighteen-month Creative Producer Programme. The term 'Creative Producer' is largely undefined and yet rapidly evolving. This event marks a moment of reflection, inviting practitioners and professionals from within county Wicklow and beyond, to interrogate and problematise the term, in public. The programme brings together curators, producers, programmers, production managers, artists, technicians, arts administrators, directors and other practitioners working in the field of contemporary visual arts production. This event is part of Kunstverein's Creative Producer Programme, supported by the Arts Council through the Creative Production Supports scheme, and by Wicklow County Arts Office through the annual Strategic Project Award Scheme.
About Kunstverein Projects
Kunstverein Projects CLG was incorporated as a non-profit arts organisation in May 2025. Firmly rooted in County Wicklow, we support the development of artists and creative producers all over the island of Ireland, from our curatorial production office located on the ground floor of a town house in Aughrim, County Wicklow. Our vision is that Ireland’s capacity to produce contemporary visual art meets and elevates the exceptional potential of its artists.
Over the course of the next two years we will pilot an innovative 18-month training and development programme, funded by the Arts Council’s Creative Production Supports scheme. Through this practice-based curatorial training initiative we are establishing a new network of independent creative producers and building production capacity in the visual arts. We work strategically to bridge the gap that currently exists between artistic practice and public presentation.
Find out more here.