Dublin Gallery Weekend | Temporary Address in conversation with Maeve Connolly

During the discussion, Temporary Address, a nomadic gallery founded by Luke van Gelderen, Lana May Fleming, and Frances Hennigan, will discuss its evolution from the artist collective CRUX, established in 2020 while the founders were studying and graduating during the pandemic, into an independent nomadic gallery.

The discussion will trace the gallery's progression from producing off-site exhibitions in the Dublin Mountains to collaborating with international institutions and presenting at art fairs. It will examine how collaboration, mobility, and self-organisation have shaped Temporary Address’s ethos outside a permanent location, and how operating across diverse contexts and countries has enabled the founders to generate opportunities and address the increasing scarcity of affordable, stable spaces for artists.

This discussion will also reflect on selected works and projects presented by Temporary Address, as well as the technological structures and broader frameworks that inform their approach, including using the internet as an alternative platform for exhibition-making.

Temporary Address is a nomadic gallery based between Dublin and Cologne, supporting early-career artists through exhibitions and collaborative projects across Ireland and Europe. Founded in 2020 under the name CRUX, the gallery previously operated as an artist-run collective established by Luke van Gelderen, Frances Hennigan, and Lana May Fleming. Recent projects include: SWAB Independent Art Fair, Barcelona (2026), Real, B63, Witten, in collaboration with Kulturforum Witten (2024), Periodical Review 11 at Pallas Projects/Studios (2021), crux.project at Rathmichael Ringfort, Dublin (2020).

Maeve Connolly (she/her) is a writer and researcher based in Dublin, where she teaches at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology. Her research explores changing cultures, economies and infrastructures of art and media practice. She is the author of TV Museum: Contemporary Art and the Age of Television (Intellect, 2014) and The Place of Artists’ Cinema: Space, Site and Screen (Intellect, 2009). Recent publications include contributions to the anthologies Early Video Art in Europe – A Plural History (Les Presses du Reel, 2026), Women in Irish Film: Stories and Storytellers (Cork: Cork University Press, 2020), Expanding Cinema: Theorizing Film Through Contemporary Art (Amsterdam University Press, 2020) and Artists’ Moving Image in Britain since 1989 (Paul Mellon Centre and Yale University Press, 2019).

Dublin Gallery Weekend runs from 5 – 8 November 2026, and is hosted by Contemporary Art Gallery Association (CAGA). In its fourth year, Dublin Gallery Weekend brings together Ireland’s most exciting artists, galleries, cultural institutions and creative spaces in a citywide takeover.