Beulah Ezeugo to curate TULCA Festival of Visual Arts 2025

TULCA is pleased to announce Beulah Ezeugo as the curator of the 23rd edition of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts in 2025. Meet the curator here..

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Beulah Ezeugo is a curator and writer who works between Ireland and the UK. Her practice engages with postcolonial geographies and memory, and expands outward through critical writing, exhibition-making, and public programming. Beulah programmes the lecture series, Race, Rights, and Sovereignty at Glasgow School of Art, and is a cofounder (with Joselle Ntumba) of Éireann and I – a community archive and memory project.

Recent residencies and awards include Platform Commissions, 41st EVA International (2025), SIRIUS Critic-in-Residence (2024), and 11:11 x Iniva Residency, Stuart Hall Library, London (2024). She was a Research Associate at CCA Derry~Londonderry (2022-24) and recipient of Glasgow International’s Black Curators Collective Bursary (2021). Her writing has appeared in The Irish Times, as well as in publications by Douglas Hyde Gallery, Durty Books, and Bloomers Magazine.

"I’m delighted to be invited to curate TULCA this year. Over the past few years, the festival has consistently offered compelling interventions within the Irish arts landscape. The opportunity to contribute to this lineage will undoubtedly be formative. It feels especially meaningful both at this point in my practice and in this current moment. The systems that we know and operate within are being rapidly reconfigured, and artists and cultural workers have a vital role to play in staying with the trouble. As this becomes increasingly difficult, with growing barriers and heightened censorship around cultural production, it feels pertinent to create space for those courageously engaging with urgent issues."

TULCA 2025: Strange lands still bear common ground will run from 7th to 23rd November 2025 across multiple venues in Galway city and county. TULCA is now accepting submissions for its Open Call. To learn more about how to apply, visit the Open Call section of their website at the link here. Please note the submission deadline of May 2nd at 5pm. 

The 23rd edition of the TULCA Festival of Visual Arts invites proposals from artists whose work orbits around themes of collectivity, binarism, solidarity, affinity, and exchange or whose work engages with these dynamics:
Within the landscape; if a border is a real or imagined line that separates one entity from another, or an island is an independent land-mass distinguished from the sea, when do such boundaries blur, shift, collapse, or merge?
Within our cultural imaginations, where historical or mythological affinities with others shape our configurations of ourselves.
Within and beyond our own borders, where Ireland, as an island nation divided into two, relates to its internal others.

TULCA welcome individual artists, cultural workers, filmmakers, and writers. They especially would like to hear from collaborative duos or groups who work across borders or nations and whose work resonates with these ideas, however they may manifest.

For more information on TULCA 2025, please visit their website www.tulca.ie.