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BEA McMAHON

Bea McMahon, production still from Pilot, Treignac Projet 2024. Image courtesy of the artist and Deniz Buga. Bea McMahon, production still from Pilot, Treignac Projet 2024. Image courtesy of the artist and Deniz Buga. Bea McMahon, production still from Pilot, Treignac Projet 2024. Image courtesy of the artist and Deniz Buga. Bea McMahon, production still from Pilot, Treignac Projet 2024. Image courtesy of the artist and Deniz Buga. Bea McMahon, production still from Pilot, Treignac Projet 2024. Image courtesy of the artist and Deniz Buga.
Kunstverein Aughrim’s collaboration with Bea McMahon across 2025 will focus on Crickets, a potential six-part TV series made over annual instalments. The project is part of an ongoing collaboration between Bea McMahon, Zhana Ivanova, Leonid Tsvetkov, Deniz Buga, Artémise Ploegaerts, Nathan O’Donnell, and Díc Walsh. 

The first episode, Pilot, was devised and shot at Treignac Projet, France, in 2024, in collaboration with Deniz Buga, Zhana Ivanova, Nathan O’Donnell, Artémise Ploegaerts and Leonid Tsvetkov, supported by the Mondriaan Fonds. Episode Two was written and produced on location in Ireland in collaboration with the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin and The Courthouse Arts Centre, Tinahely, supported by the Mondriaan Fonds, Dublin City Council, Kunstverein Aughrim and The Arts Council.

Rooted in the genre of cringe tragedy, Crickets marries politics and the erotic, in search of the transformative potential of a storyline with general appeal. A preview screening of Crickets as a work-in-progress will take place at the Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, on 10 December 2025. 

Bea McMahon uses many different media including sculpture, performance, song, dance, moving image and installation, often working in collaboration with others. Trained in mathematics and mathematical physics, she navigates through conceptions of reality and their corresponding appearances in the outside world. Recent collaborations include Pilot a TV series shot in various locations including Treignac Projet and Kunstverein Aughrim (ongoing); Another Shot at Love, a romantic comedy commissioned for the 40th EVA biennale in Limerick, 2023; live performance with lip-synching pop group Dina from Egypt in I’ll be your Mirror, Hugh Lane Gallery, 2023 and pop-video-smash-hits magazine launch at Framerframed, Amsterdam 2024. Recent exhibitions include God, a two-person exhibition with Conor McFeely, The Complex, Dublin; solo exhibitions Animal Farm, Paper Biennale, Museum Rijkswijk, The Hague, 2024; Sequins, with Maaike Schoorel at Shimmer, Rotterdam, 2023; Floppy Forest at Treignac Projet, 2021; and group shows Ad Ampio Respira, Artopia Gallery, Milan 2022; Under Bat Hill at W139, Amsterdam 2021.

Kunstverein Aughrim’s collaboration with Bea McMahon is supported by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and by Wicklow County Arts Office through the annual Strategic Project Award Scheme.