Hugh Lane Gallery

Hugh Lane Gallery Hugh Lane Gallery is the oldest Gallery of Modern & Contemporary Art in Ireland. Hugh Lane Gallery Trust is a Registered Charity: RCN20040185
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Admission to the gallery is FREE.

03/06/2026

Many of our crates and T-frames are built in house by our art technician team. Packing works like this involves a collaborative effort between our conservation, art technician and curation team.

For more information and footage of the process and other conservation projects, please visit our website at hughlane.ie/conservation/

22/04/2026

Conservation staff at Hugh Lane Gallery carefully rotate the inner piece of Maud Cotter's 'Matter of Fact'. The sculpture's core is made of delicate, honeycombed card adhered together with no protective structure. Overtime, it could lose its circular form due to gravity and compression. This is avoided through periodical rotation.

To see more conservation work that is being done at Hugh Lane Gallery, please visit our website hughlane.ie/conservation/

15/04/2026

Packing Scully

This video shows a preview of the deinstallation of Sean Scully's (b. 1945) 'The Fifty' (2021), which was on display in 2025 at Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin, Ireland.

For more information and footage of the process and other conservation projects, please visit our website at hughlane.ie/conservation/

02/04/2026

Our annual TY course for teens is a curated education programme that enables transition year students to gain an insight into the operations of the gallery and includes visits to other cultural locations around the city. The students also got to experience a fantastic visit to artist Anca Danila's own studio space as seen in this short film.

Come along to Art in the Making: A Transition Year Gallery Experience, a display of artwork curated by the students now on view at the Sean O'Casey Community Centre until 25 April 2026.

To discover more about this year's TY programme see our fab Zine, link in bio.

Hugh Lane Gallery TY Programme 2026A curated education programme that allows transition year students to gain an insight...
24/03/2026

Hugh Lane Gallery TY Programme 2026

A curated education programme that allows transition year students to gain an insight into the operations of the gallery.

Following an Open Call, students from all over Dublin City and beyond participated in our annual Transition Year programme which this year took place entirely offsite. Running from Tuesday 3 February - Friday 13 February 2026, 10am-2.30pm and Wednesdays 25 February, and 4 and 11 March 2026, 2-4pm, the course took place in the HLG art room at the Seán O'Casey Community Centre and cultural locations around the city. The students also curated their own display of artwork made during the course.

To read more about all the fantastic activities that took place, see our TY Zine - Link in bio.

Hugh Lane Gallery TY Programme 2026
24/03/2026

Hugh Lane Gallery TY Programme 2026

IFI and Hugh Lane Gallery present Fierté Nationale: De Jéricho vers Gaza, a film by Sven Augustijnen on Wed 25 March at ...
25/02/2026

IFI and Hugh Lane Gallery present Fierté Nationale: De Jéricho vers Gaza, a film by Sven Augustijnen on Wed 25 March at 6:20pm. The work follows Hassan Al Balawi, a Palestinian diplomat in Brussels, as he returns home for the fifteenth anniversary of Yasser Arafat’s death, the historic leader of the PLO.

Augustijnen returns to Ireland a decade after his Hugh Lane Gallery exhibition; his political, historical and social themes constantly challenge the genre of the documentary.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Augustijnen, moderated by Alice Butler, co-director of aemi.

Tickets on sale now. Visit Ifi.ie

📸 Still images from Fierté Nationale: De Jéricho vers Gaza, by Sven Augustijnen

We are delighted to welcome art curator Vivian Crockett (New Museum) for an in-conversation with Dr. Francis Halsall, Le...
18/02/2026

We are delighted to welcome art curator Vivian Crockett (New Museum) for an in-conversation with Dr. Francis Halsall, Lecturer and (Co) Director of Masters Programs: Art in the Contemporary World, NCAD, and Vaari Claffey, independent curator.

Presented as part of the IRELAND INVITES initiative, in collaboration with NCAD, this 30-minute conversation will explore the role of production in Vivian Crockett’s research and practice, the history of the New Museum, and her curatorial approach to the Sixth New Museum Triennial, co-curated with Isabella Rjeille, Curator at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP).

The event will be recorded for a new podcast series launching from NCAD and TBGS and will be available to listen to here:
https://producingstrategies.transistor.fm/

Organised in tandem with HLG’s offsite Explore & Learn citywide programme.

📸 Vivian Crockett, photo taken by Sunny Leerasanthanah

HLG’s Conservation Team have carried out technical imaging on ‘Portrait of Hartley Withers’ (1906) by Sarah Cecilia Harr...
09/02/2026

HLG’s Conservation Team have carried out technical imaging on ‘Portrait of Hartley Withers’ (1906) by Sarah Cecilia Harrison from our Collection.

This fascinating process involved observing how the surface of the painting responds when exposed to different wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum. Allowing the team to gain a deeper understanding of the materials, as well as how the painting was made and its history since.

Visit hughlane.ie and go to 'Art & Artists' followed by 'Conservation' to learn more about this project.

📸 1: Original Painting

📸 2: Infrared image captured using Apollo IR camera

📸 3: Ultraviolet fluorescence image captured with UV lighting and a camera with a UV filter

📸 4: Multispectral Imaging

Come experience our vibrant and dynamic projection display as part of Brigit: Dublin City Celebrating Women created by a...
09/02/2026

Come experience our vibrant and dynamic projection display as part of Brigit: Dublin City Celebrating Women created by award-winning creative duo Jill & Gill and Irish visual artist Bebhinn Eilish.

These contemporary artworks honour Brigit as a symbol of light, creativity, renewal and female power, illuminating the façade of our building in the heart of the city.

Tonight (Monday 9 Feb) is the last evening to view this design before we revert back to our Reimagine & Regenerate projection design created by NCAD's Moving Image Design students.

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Tuesday 9:45am - 6pm
Wednesday 9:45am - 6pm
Thursday 9:45am - 6pm
Friday 9:45am - 6pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm

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