Culture Night 2025

Visit us on Culture Night and discover Irish contemporary art in Dublin City Centre. For the occasion, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (TBG+S) has commissioned a public artwork, will host drop-in workshops, give behind-the-scenes tours of the artists' studios and keep the Gallery doors open late into the evening.

TBG+S, in partnership with Dublin City Council, has commissioned a public art work Flags: Guardians of the City by visual artist Samir Mahmood. An annual commission installed along Wellington Quay for a week-long period, the public artwork takes the form of five colourful and detail-rich flags which are inspired by Indo-Persian miniature painting and enact narrative storytelling.

Visitors will get the chance to create their own flags inspired by Guardians of the City in a drop-in workshop led by Samir Mahmood. In this workshop, the artist encourages participants to position their flags as portals for imagination and storytelling, focussing on how we connect with the rich fusion of cultures and communities across the city or to create a spiritual or mindful moment.

From the Studios is a rare opportunity to get behind the scenes and meet TBG+S Studio Artists. Visit the studios, learn about a variety of dynamic creative practices and get an insight into the day-to-day experience of an artist's working life. Tours are free but booking is essential. These events are popular so book now to avoid disappointment.

In the Gallery, there will be a late opening of the current group exhibition Faigh Amach with work by artists Ella Bertilsson, Kathy Tynan and Emily Waszak. The exhibition is new initiative by TBG+S in partnership with Culture Ireland and Southwark Park Galleries, London, to support an artist in presenting their first solo exhibition outside Ireland. Ella Bertilsson's installation and film work uses the visual language of magical realism and absurdism to conjure darkly humorous and dreamlike sensory environments. Kathy Tynan’s paintings of familiar cityscapes and domestic scenes illuminate moments of affection, intimacy and curiosity. Emily Waszak’s woven textile and assemblage works are informed by rituals of her Japanese cultural heritage, experiences of grief and the landscape of her home in Donegal.