Kerlin Gallery

53°20′26″N 6°15′34″W / 53.340689°N 6.259553°W / 53.340689; -6.259553TypeContemporary art galleryDirectorDavid Fitzgerald, Darragh Hogan, John KennedyOwnerCo-ownership by David Fitzgerald, Darragh Hogan, John Kennedy, and Paddy McKillen^[1][2]Public transit accessStephen's Green Luas stop (Green Line)
College Green bus stopsWebsitekerlin.ie

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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