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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.




History


Originally opened in 1988, the gallery's current space was designed in 1994 by architect John Pawson. It is located in central Dublin and has 3,600 square feet of gallery space spread over two floors. In 2015, the Artnet website included the gallery in a list of "Europe’s Top 55 Galleries". David Fitzgerald, Darragh Hogan, and John Kennedy are the gallery's directors.
In 2018, the gallery donated a number of works to the Irish Museum of Modern Art.




Selected exhibitions


Kerlin Gallery programs eight exhibitions annually, predominantly solo exhibitions by gallery artists with occasional curated group exhibitions and solo exhibitions by invited artists. In some cases, the gallery has presented multiple solo exhibitions by the same artist. These have included Sean Scully (seven times since 1994), Dorothy Cross (nine times since 1990), Mark Francis (ten times since 1995), Willie Doherty (ten times since 1995), and Elizabeth Magill (eight times since 1989). The gallery also takes on new artists, and presented its first solo exhibitions by Ailbhe Ní Bhriain in 2023, Nathalie Du Pasquier and Zhou Li in 2022, and Gerard Byrne in 2018.
Curated group exhibitions have included "HERE COMES LOVE" (2023), "Face to Face" (2018) (curated by Hendrik Driesson, founding director of De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art), "Architecture Schmarchitecture" (2003) (with Isa Genzken, Liam Gillick, Roger Hiorns, Jim Lambie, Sarah Morris and Thomas Scheibitz), and "Newfound Landscape" (1998) (with Uta Barth, Oliver Boberg, Walter Niedermayer, and Esko Manniko). In 2019, the gallery organised Shadowplay with Willie Doherty, Aleana Egan, Liam Gillick, Siobhán Hapaska, and Callum Innes. The title is derived from the song of the same name on Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures album.
In 2021, it presented a solo exhibition by the conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner. Other invited artists, exhibited at the gallery, have included Andy Warhol, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Richard Hamilton, Francesco Clemente, Martin Kippenberger, Albert Oehlen and A.R. Penck.




Publications


The gallery is involved in publishing artist publications, including monographs on the Welsh artist Merlin James and the Northern Irish painter William McKeown in 2023, the Irish artist Isabel Nolan in 2020, and the Irish painter Brian Maguire in 2018.




References






External links


Official website

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Louise Dresser
• Kerlin Gallery
• Kerlin
• Art galleries, centres and collections in Ireland
• Dorothy Cross
• Sean Scully
• Barrie Cooke
• Museums of modern art
• Phil Collins (artist)
• Willie Doherty
• Elizabeth Magill