Kerlin Gallery is a contemporary commercial art gallery in

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, Ireland.

History

Originally opened in 1988, the gallery's current space was designed in 1994 by architect

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. It is located in central Dublin and has 3,600 square feet of gallery space spread over two floors. In 2015, the

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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

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Selected exhibitions

Curated group exhibitions include ''Newfound Landscape'' (1998), with

Uta Barth Uta Barth (born 1958) is a contemporary German-American photographer whose work addresses themes such as perception, optical illusion and non-place. Her early work emerged in the late 1980s and 1990s, "inverting the notion of background and foreg ...

Oliver Boberg Oliver Boberg (born 1965) is a German artist, working with photography and video, whose work has been exhibited internationally. Mainly reflecting on the process of creating and recalling memories, Boberg's works are in the collections of institut ...

, Walter Niedermayer, and Esko Manniko; ''Kin'', with John Currin,

Cheryl Donegan Cheryl Donegan (born 1962) is an American conceptual artist.

, Ellen Gallagher, and

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, and ''Architecture Schmarchitecture'' (2003) with

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Liam Gillick Liam Gillick (born 1964, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire) is a British artist who lives and works in New York City.

Roger Hiorns Roger Hiorns (born 1975) is a British Contemporary artist based in London. His primary media is sculpture and installation, using a wide variety of materials, including metals, wood and plastics. He also works in the media of video and photograp ...

Jim Lambie James Lambie (born 1964 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a contemporary visual artist, and was shortlisted for the 2005 Turner Prize with an installation called ''Mental Oyster''. Jim Lambie graduated from the Glasgow School of Art (1990-1994) with an H ...

, Sarah Moris, and Thomas Scheibitz. In 2019, the gallery organised ''Shadowplay'' with

Willie Doherty Willie Doherty (born 1959) is an artist from Northern Ireland, who has mainly worked in photography and video. He has twice been a Turner Prize nominee. Life and work Doherty was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, and from 1978 to 1981 studied a ...

Aleana Egan Aleana Egan (born 1979) is an Irish sculptor. Career Egan was born in Dublin in 1979. Having attended Senior College, Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown she went on to graduate with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art and Painting from Glasgow School of Art in 2003 ...

, Liam Gillick,

Siobhán Hapaska Siobhán Hapaska (born 1963) is an Irish sculptor. Early life and education Hapaska was born in Belfast and studied art at Middlesex Polytechnic from 1985 to 1988 before completing a master's degree at Goldsmiths College in 1992. In 1993 she w ...

, and

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. The title is derived from the song of the same name on Joy Division's '' Unknown Pleasures'' album.

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* {{Authority control Art museums and galleries in the Republic of Ireland Arts in Dublin (city) Contemporary art galleries in Ireland Tourist attractions in Dublin (city) Art galleries established in 1988 1988 establishments in Ireland