Temple Bar Gallery + Studios announces the 2024 Artistic Programme

Five solo exhibitions are programmed throughout the year, including TBG+S Studio Artists, and Irish artists living abroad who have gained considerable international reputation. Two ambitious off-site solo exhibitions will take place in summer 2024, with the support of Dublin Port Company. Threads of connection across these distinct exhibitions hint at journeys, movement, displacement, and longing.

Anne Ryan
Tugann an Torann
12 January – 10 March, 2024
Anne Ryan responds to the ebb and flow of city nightlife with paintings and cut-out cardboard constructions that break free from the gallery walls. Expressing layers of her own identity, Ryan depicts singers, dancers and crowds from musical subcultures that merge in a throng of bodies, and wild west horseback riders and stagecoaches that complicate the story of Irish diasporas. Further info here.

Lisa Freeman
Approx 1 Second of a Sweet Kiss
22 March – 19 May, 2024
Lisa Freeman’s new film follows a young woman as she makes her way through an unfamiliar city. The film includes sequences of intricately choreographed movement and disorientating spoken exchanges, which activate a surreal psychological experience. Approx 1 Second of a Sweet Kiss was originally commissioned by aemi and Sirius Art Centre. It premiered at Cork International Film Festival, 2023. Further info here.

TBG+S at Dublin Port
Longest Way Round, Shortest Way Home
4 July – 27 October, 2024
TBG+S is partnering with Dublin Port Company on two simultaneous off-site solo exhibitions by Yuri Pattison and Liliane Puthod, which celebrate the link between the cityscape and the port industrial heritage zone. Offering points of connection between geographic, economic and technical networks, the exhibitions use the transitory symbolism of rivers and seas to describe the flow of time and memory. Further info here.

Yuri Pattison
dream sequence
Dublin Port, Pump House No. 2. Yuri Pattison’s dream sequence is a cinematic generative video that follows the flow of an imagined river from mountain stream to seaport metropolis as its narrative. The river takes a central role as a carrier of measurable data, while ‘real world’ data monitored from local water and air directly influences the visual and audio elements of the exhibition, making each viewing unique and ephemeral. dream sequence is co-commissioned by Urbane Künst Ruhr (UKR) and TBG+S. It was first exhibited as part of the UKR’s Ruhr Ding: Schlaf, 2023, and supported by the Arts Council of Ireland Project Award. Further info here.

Liliane Puthod
Beep Beep
Dublin Port, Graving Docks. Beep Beep consolidates Liliane Puthod’s research on handmade and mechanised production, commodity fetishism and the archeology of consumerism. Puthod reanimates her father’s 1962 Renault 4, and documents its journey to Ireland in summer 2024. The customised car will be shown alongside an embellished shipping container that takes the form of an opened tomb, complete with hand and machine-made “grave goods” inspired by her father’s shed, the mechanics garage, the factory plant, and the artist’s studio. Further info here.

Dublin Art Book Fair
21 November – 1 December, 2024
TBG+S presents the fourteenth edition of Dublin Art Book Fair (DABF) guest curated by Irish artist and writer Adrian Duncan. DABF is a centre for contemporary artist books, and Ireland's longest-running art book fair, featuring limited edition books made by contemporary artists and designers. DABF is proudly sponsored by Henry J Lyons and further supported by Dublin UNESCO City of Literature. Further info here.

Fergus Feehily
13 December, 2024 – 23 February, 2025
Fergus Feehily’s exhibition of new paintings evokes ideas of illumination through associations with places as far-reaching as the Irish megalithic site of Newgrange during solstice and the neon streets of Shinjuku, Japan. His work draws together a constellation of broad cultural connections from the edges and margins that develop through the exhibition and outwards into the city. Further info here.

TBG+S Writing Commission: Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe
Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe is a poet, pacifist and fabulist. Auguries of a Minor God, her first collection, was published by Faber in 2021. A finalist for the Dylan Thomas Prize, John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize, Michael Murphy Memorial Prize and the Butler Literary Award, it was chosen as a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, National Poetry Day Recommendation, Shakespeare & Co. Year of Reading Selection. In 2023, she was appointed the Rooney Writer Fellow at Trinity College Dublin. Further info here.

Learning + Public Engagement
Learning + Public Engagement purposefully shape different ways for audiences to engage with exhibitions, meet artists and learn something new about contemporary art. Making Connections is programmed to include Summer School which takes over the gallery and dedicates time to artistic activity, conversation, and audience participation; Flags, a public artwork commissioned for Wellington Quay for Culture Night; Drawing Sessions, an opportunity to engage with mindful drawing practices in an inspiring environment; and Art Walk, guided tours in Temple Bar. Further L+P E activities include From Practice to Exhibition, an ongoing series of intimate gallery and studio sessions comprises artist-led talks, workshops and studio visits; Young Art Writers; and Spring School in addition to an ongoing programme of talks, screenings, performances, short films, and workshops. Further info here.

Studios
TBG+S’s thirty high-quality and affordable studios provide professional artists at all stages of their practice with a vital place to work in Dublin. Artists awarded studios for 2024 are Ella Bertilsson, Rachel Fallon, Marie Farrington, Léann Herlihy, Atsushi Kaga, Barbara Knezevic, Jialin Long, Áine O’Hara (Paul Robinson Studio Award Recipient), Frank Sweeney, and Luke van Gelderen. Further information for upcoming studio opportunities can be found here.

Residencies​​​​​​​
Artists selected for TBG+S International Residency Opportunities include: Atoosa Pour Hosseini, Cité internationale des arts, Paris; Léann Herlihy (IE) and Hanna Ijäs (FI), TBG+S/HIAP International Residency Exchange; Tamsin Snow and Mairead O’hEocha, Villa Concordia, Bamberg, Germany; and ISCP, NY to be announced. Further information for upcoming residency opportunities can be found here.

Admission to the exhibitions and events is free, for everybody. TBG+S warmly welcomes all visitors to its Programme throughout 2024.

Temple Bar Gallery + Studios is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland and Dublin City Council.