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Established | 1988 |
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Location | Anne's Lane, South Anne Street, Dublin, Ireland |
Coordinates | 53°20′26″N6°15′34″W / 53.340689°N 6.259553°W |
Type | Contemporary art gallery |
Director | David Fitzgerald, Darragh Hogan, John Kennedy |
Owner | Co-ownership by David Fitzgerald, Darragh Hogan, John Kennedy, and Paddy McKillen [1] [2] |
Public transit access | Stephen's Green Luas stop (Green Line) College Green bus stops |
Website | kerlin |
Kerlin Gallery is a commercial contemporary art gallery in Dublin, Ireland. Originally opened in 1988, it is located on Anne's Lane (off South Anne Street) in Dublin city centre.
Originally opened in 1988, [3] the gallery's current space was designed in 1994 by architect John Pawson. [4] It is located in central Dublin and has 3,600 square feet of gallery space spread over two floors. [4] In 2015, the Artnet website included the gallery in a list of "Europe’s Top 55 Galleries". [5] David Fitzgerald, Darragh Hogan, and John Kennedy are the gallery's directors. [6]
In 2018, the gallery donated a number of works to the Irish Museum of Modern Art. [2] [7]
Kerlin Gallery programs eight exhibitions annually, predominantly solo exhibitions by gallery artists with occasional curated group exhibitions and solo exhibitions by invited artists. [8] In some cases, the gallery has presented multiple solo exhibitions by the same artist. These have included Sean Scully (seven times since 1994), [9] Dorothy Cross (nine times since 1990), [10] Mark Francis (ten times since 1995), [11] Willie Doherty (ten times since 1995), [12] and Elizabeth Magill (eight times since 1989). [13] The gallery also takes on new artists, and presented its first solo exhibitions by Ailbhe Ní Bhriain in 2023, [14] Nathalie Du Pasquier and Zhou Li in 2022, [15] [16] and Gerard Byrne in 2018. [17]
Curated group exhibitions have included "HERE COMES LOVE" (2023), [8] "Face to Face" (2018) (curated by Hendrik Driesson, founding director of De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art), [18] "Architecture Schmarchitecture" (2003) (with Isa Genzken, Liam Gillick, Roger Hiorns, Jim Lambie, Sarah Morris and Thomas Scheibitz), [19] and "Newfound Landscape" (1998) (with Uta Barth, Oliver Boberg, Walter Niedermayer, and Esko Manniko).[ citation needed ] In 2019, the gallery organised Shadowplay with Willie Doherty, Aleana Egan, Liam Gillick, Siobhán Hapaska, and Callum Innes. [20] The title is derived from the song of the same name on Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures album. [6]
In 2021, it presented a solo exhibition by the conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner. [21] Other invited artists, exhibited at the gallery, have included Andy Warhol, Hiroshi Sugimoto, [22] Richard Hamilton, Francesco Clemente, Martin Kippenberger, Albert Oehlen and A.R. Penck. [23]
The gallery is involved in publishing artist publications, including monographs on the Welsh artist Merlin James [24] and the Northern Irish painter William McKeown in 2023, [25] the Irish artist Isabel Nolan in 2020, [26] and the Irish painter Brian Maguire in 2018. [27]
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