Kerlin Gallery
Kerlin Gallery is a commercial contemporary art gallery in Dublin, Ireland. Originally opened in 1988, it is located on Anne's Lane 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 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, Dorothy Cross, Mark Francis, Willie Doherty, and Elizabeth Magill. 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", "Face to Face", "Architecture Schmarchitecture", and "Newfound Landscape" . 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.