Temple Bar Gallery + Studios announces the 2025 Artistic Programme

In 2025, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (TBG+S) presents five exhibitions including new commissions by Irish and international artists, alongside the fifteenth edition of Dublin Art Book Fair. In partnership with Culture Ireland and Southwark Park Galleries, London, a summer group exhibition presents the work of three Irish artists, one of whom will be selected for their first international solo exhibition.

Katarzyna Perlak
Better a bare foot than none
7 March–4 May 2025
Katarzyna Perlak’s ‘tender crafts’ series explores how heritage and traditional handwork practices can be re-imagined from contemporary feminist, queer and migrant perspectives. Focusing on vernacular stories, proverbs, and collective memories, her approach reflects experiences of shared precarity, and what it means to belong. The exhibition is guest curated by Marysia Więckiewicz-Carroll.
Further info here.

Jorge Satorre
16 May–6 July 2025
Jorge Satorre unearths and reinforces overlooked values and practices in disciplines of craft, storytelling and skilled labour. At times his work draws from situations and places with a colonial past where these modes of connection, interpretation and inheritance have survived, or have been morphed by, periods of oppression. He engages with contemporary forms of production, including mechanisation and the infrastructure that support it.
Further info here.

Ella Bertilsson, Kathy Tynan, Emily Waszak
Faigh Amach
1 August–21 September 2025
A group exhibition in Summer 2025 brings together three artists living in Ireland, selected through an open call process: Ella Bertilsson, Kathy Tynan, Emily Waszak. One of the three artists will be invited to present their first international solo exhibition at Southwark Park Galleries in Spring 2026. Faigh Amach (discover) is a new initiative by Temple Bar Gallery + Studios and Culture Ireland, in partnership with Southwark Park Galleries, London.
Further info here.

Frank Sweeney
Go Ye Afar
3 October–23 November 2025
Frank Sweeney brings attention to the ways broadcast media has been instrumentalised to impose or restrict certain viewpoints, often in relation to state ideologies such as religion and cultural identity. Celebrating the slippages in authenticity inherent in analogue recording and transmission, he reveals the potential for a broader range of narrative truths and histories. His new film, Go Ye Afar, records the journeys of an Irish-Nigerian taxi driver as his miraculous car moves through the streets of Dublin and Calabar.
Further info here.

Dublin Art Book Fair
4–14 December 2025
TBG+S presents the fifteenth edition of Dublin Art Book Fair, guest curated by author, lecturer and sheep farmer Selina Guinness. Sponsored by Henry J Lyons.
Further info here.

Dragana Jurišić
The Last Balkan Cowboy
January 2026
The Last Balkan Cowboy is the outcome of Dragana Jurišić’s research project following the footsteps of Hari Džekson, cult Yugoslavian film director of Wild West genre archetypes. Through her photographs, Jurišić mythologises Džekson’s legacy in the aftermath of the Balkan war, and the conflicts across borders and race that led to the fragmentation of a nation. She is drawn to the symbolism of a wandering outsider roaming the landscape for opportunity, romance, and adventure, shadowed by the reality of migrant life.
Further info here.

Learning + Public Engagement
Exhibitions are explored through bespoke programmes created in collaboration with exhibiting artists. Making Connections is designed for those who are new to, or curious about, contemporary art. Artist to Artist creates and facilitates peer-learning opportunities for new, emerging and established artists, building connections within the artistic community. Events include Spring School, 1–9 April, led by Studio and Programme Artist Frank Sweeney; Summer School, 17–20 July; and Culture Night, 19 September 2025.

Studios
2025 Studio Awards: Ella Bertilsson, John Conway, Lauren Conway, Ella de Burca, Vanessa Donoso Lopez, Marie Farrington, Austin Hearne, Nina McGowan, Manar Mervat Al Shouha, Blaine O’Donnell (Paul Robinson Studio Award, sponsored by Arthur Cox LLP), Mandy O’Neill, and Venus Patel.
Further info.

Residencies
Artists selected for TBG+S International Residency Opportunities include: Lisa Freeman, Cité internationale des arts, Paris; Clíodhna Timoney (IE) and Yuiji Zhou (CN/FI), TBG+S/HIAP International Residency Exchange; and ISCP, NY to be announced. Further information for upcoming residency opportunities can be found here.

TBG+S Writing Commission 2025: Gustav Parker Hibbett
Gustav Parker Hibbett is a Black poet, essayist and MFA dropout. They were a 2024 Djanikian Scholars Finalist and a 2023 Obsidian Foundation Fellow. Their debut poetry collection, High Jump as Icarus Story (Banshee Press), was shortlisted for the 2024 T.S. Eliot Prize.

Clíodhna Shaffrey, Director, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios:

"Palatable touchstones between the five exhibitions bring curatorial flow. The diversity of forms within these artists' work—sculpture, drawing, film, photography—they each draw on a confluence of sources and ideas that gives their work intrigue and vitality. The artists seek out heritage and lineage, and a grapple with roots. There is an engagement with forms of storytelling and the vernacular, beneath which reside the ghosts of former war zones, the legacy of colonialism, displacement, and a desire for belonging. Across these innovative practices, there is a sense of movement and an assurance of beauty, wit and surprise."

TBG+S is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland and Dublin City Council.