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Kerlin Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Dublin, Ireland.

Artists:
Phillip Allen
Gerard Byrne
Dorothy Cross
Willie Doherty
Aleana Egan
Mark Francis
Maureen Gallace
Mark Garry
Liam Gillick
David Godbold
Richard Gorman
Guggi
Siobhán Hapaska
Callum Innes
Jaki Irvine
Merlin James
Sam Keogh
Samuel Laurence Cunnane
Elizabeth Magill
Brian Maguire
Eoin Mc Hugh
Stephen McKenna
William McKeown
Isabel Nolan
Jan Pleitner
Kathy Prendergast
Sean Scully
Paul Seawright
Liliane Tomasko
Paul Winstanley

28/08/2026

🪾Willie Doherty 🪾

'Unknown' investigates the interconnectedness of place, time, and memory. This work presents a starkly atmospheric image of elemental landscapes formed by the long, slow processes of geological time, which exist alongside disregarded urban spaces shaped by the consequences of human intervention, conflict, and neglect. Over time, the histories of these places transform, becoming the fictions of memory.

'Summer in Dublin' continues until 29 August.

🖼️ Willie Doherty, Unknown, 2024, Pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315gsm, edition of 3, 108.5 x 135.5 x 4 cm / 42.7 x 53.3 x 1.6 in

27/08/2026

⭐️Jaki Irvine⭐️

SPLINE_SKETCH_WIND 2026 is a new audiovisual work by Irvine. The piece begins as an introduction to Wild Is the Wind by Dimitri Tiomkin, in the version written for Nina Simone, which Irvine then manipulates and reworks. Originally composed for voice and piano, the work is performed using three hands in place of the absent voice. Irvine subsequently layers the two tracks, creating the echoes and repetitions that emerge throughout the piece.
Each node functions as a receptor for a musical note, responding to the frequency of the sound as the piece unfolds. The movement of these frequencies pulls and reshapes the spline, creating a visual response to the music.

Come and see it in the gallery! 'Summer in Dublin' continues until 29 August.

🖼️ SPLINE_SKETCH_WIND 2026, Digital Video with sound, 3:14 minute looped, edition of 3

26/08/2026

🎉Aleana Egan, dove passages 🕊️ opening Thursday 3 September, 6-8pm

Kerlin Gallery is pleased to present dove passages, an exhibition of painting and sculpture by Aleana Egan.

The sculptures and paintings in dove passages are initiated by a sense of touch and movement alongside a sense of sight. For Aleana Egan, painting is imagined as an activity of passage and continuum; an internal language that permeates the artists‘ practice in indirect and associative ways. In this exhibition the compositional power of dreaming is given focus. It’s ephemeral nature, the having and then losing of an area of a painting, is akin to the elusive qualities of dreaming: slippages and grasping are integral to both.

The materials in the exhibition share a porosity and intimation to what they were before: papier-mâché mixed with pigment holds its pulpy quality and absorbs colour within; the inflow and resistance of different types of paint and fabrics give hints and signals about the temporal nature of materials and the various registers that they can hold.

dove passages will continue until 3 October 2026.

🖼️ Aleana Egan, quarter-tone, 2026, mixed media on canvas, white oak and linen mount, 80 x 68 x 7 cm

25/08/2026

💥 Liliane Tomasko Upcoming Show Announcement💥

We are happy to share that 'Bridge', a solo exhibition by will open 30 August - 1 November at the Ludwig Museum in Koblenz, Germany.

Come and see Liliane's work in Dublin! 'Summer in Dublin' continues until 29 August.

🖼️ Liliane Tomasko, Shapeshifter (chilled to the bone), 2024

24/08/2026

Ailbhe Ní Bhriain🌟

Originating in digital collage, Ní Bhriain expertly digitally stitches together archive images from a variety of different sources, blending fragments of history and geography. In Familiar Sun (II), an uneasy and dreamlike image woven with a luxurious blend of silk, wool and lurex. Ní Bhriain invites viewers to consider collective memory not as a fixed record but as something defined by gaps, ruptures, and silence. Past and present collapse into one another, revealing the instability of memory and the politics embedded in acts of representation. . Ní Bhriain’s work is rooted in an exploration of imperial legacy, human displacement and the Anthropocene. These intertwined subjects are approached through an associative use of narrative and a painstakingly crafted visual language that verges on the surreal

'Summer in Dublin' continues until 29 August.

🖼️ Familiar Sun (III), 2026, Jacquard tapestry, wool, cotton, silk, lurex, edition of 5 + 2AP, 199 x 128 cm

22/08/2026

Don’t Miss It!

It’s the final week to see our latest exhibition, closing 29 August.
Make sure to visit before it closes! 🖼️

𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐧 🌞
Dorothy Cross
Samuel Laurence Cunnane
Willie Doherty
Nathalie Du Pasquier
Justin Fitzpatrick
Mark Francis
Guggi
Callum Innes
Jaki Irvine
Zhou Li .studio
Stephen McKenna
Ailbhe Ní Bhriain
Isabel Nolan
Hazel O’Sullivan
Sean Scully
Liliane Tomasko

21/08/2026

✨ Stack by Sean Scully, Curated by Michel Gauthier
📍 Château La Coste, Aix-en-Provence

A first glimpse of 'Stack', the fully illustrated exhibition catalogue, including an essay by Michel Gauthier 👀

Château La Coste is delighted to present 'Stack', a major new exhibition by Sean Scully, curated by Michel Gauthier. Eleven years after his 2015 exhibition 'Different Places' and Chateau la Coste's inaugural exhibition, Scully returns to the Old Wine Store Gallery with an entirely new body of work.

The exhibition presents some of the artist’s newest series, including 'Stack' and 'Cactus'—an exciting new direction in Scully’s practice. A selection of recent drawings, presented as prints, offers further insight into the work of one of the most celebrated painters of our time.
Michel Gauthier, curator at the Centre Pompidou since 2010 and author of over thirty books, has curated exhibitions dedicated to artists including Sheila Hicks, Victor Vasarely, Farid Belkahia, Martin Barré, Carlos Cruz-Diez and François Morellet. In 2024, he curated Sean Scully: A Romantic Geometry of Colors at the Centre Pompidou, Paris.

🎨 Stack by Sean Scully opens Sunday 23 August at the Old Wine Store Gallery.

20/08/2026

Congratulations to Marcel Vidal on being shortlisted for the AIB Portrait Prize 2026! 🎉

See the work at the National Gallery of Ireland from 14 November 2026 - 14 March 2027. Curated by Dr Brendan Rooney.

Marcel Vidal’s paintings are marked by their controlled brushwork, layering oil on linen with delicacy and precision, creating moments of familiar yet unsettling beauty. They are refined and restrained, incarnating brightly lit fragments of photographs, digital images. Hands move and gesticulate through the exhibition; bracing in delicate clasps, blocking identities, reaching towards the viewer. Vibrant colours punctuate the exhibition, a glossy umbrella sits in front of a blue sky, a neon hat on an elusive figure, the royal blue of a cropped shoulder. Vidal’s minimal compositions are severely cropped to reveal only a sliver of their subject, using ambiguity to frustrate interpretation, all the while inviting our curiosity.

“Drawing from personal photographs, online archives, and restaged snapshots, I work across personal and impersonal narratives, blurring the lines of authorship and subject matter. Painting offers an intimate, material engagement. Through cropping and omission, I fragment context and interrogate how images construct narrative and meaning. Gesture and posture may read as intimate, performative, or controlling, depending on their placement within the frame.” - Marcel Vidal

🖼️ Marcel Vidal, Allergy, 2025, oil on linen, 90 x 70 cm / 35.4 x 27.6 in

17/08/2026

Justin Fitzpatrick💥

In this work, Justin Fitzpatrick depicts two neurons producing a drop of acetylcholine, the neurotransmitter that signals our muscles to act. Employing the motif of a lemon slice to represent both the chemical aetic acid, an ingredient in the 8 step chemical cycle that powers the cells of living beings, and to suggest the Buddhist wheel of existence. Fitzpatrick is interested in allegorising and representing figuratively this moment of chemical activation as it is the moment of thought turning into action, focusing on a kind of pendulous drop, representing the potential before a movement, a decisive drop.

'Summer in Dublin' continues until 29 August.

🖼️ Justin Fitzpatrick, Acetylcholine (2 Neurons deciding whether to move a muscle) 2026,
oil on linen, oak frame, 143 x 183 x 3cm

29/07/2026

Join us Thursday 30 July from 6-9pm for our Summer Cooldown, as part of Dublin by Dusk 🌆

👀 Late view of ‘Summer in Dublin’ with guided tours
🔊 music by .collins.ryall
🧊 cold beers & ice creams

𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐧 🌞

Dorothy Cross
Samuel Laurence Cunnane
Willie Doherty
Nathalie Du Pasquier
Justin Fitzpatrick
Mark Francis
Guggi
Callum Innes
Jaki Irvine
Zhou Li
Stephen McKenna
Ailbhe Ní Bhriain
Isabel Nolan
Hazel O’Sullivan
Sean Scully
Liliane Tomasko

Address

Anne's Lane, South Anne Street
Dublin
DUBLIN2

Opening Hours

Tuesday	10am - 5:30pm
Wednesday	10am - 5:30pm
Thursday	10am - 5:30pm
Friday	10am - 5:30pm
Saturday	11am - 4:30pm

Telephone

+35316709093

Website

http://www.kerlingallery.com/

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