Open Studio: Luke van Gelderen

Luke van Gelderen's new body of work resonates at the intersection between alienation, celebrity, pornography, and violence. As technology increasingly mediates and commodifies all aspects of our lives, van Gelderen aims to highlight concerns around self-perception, expressions of masculinity, and the boundaries of his own memory.

The open studio will take place in Studio 16 at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. Please enter through the Gallery.

The open studio is free to attend by appointment. Please reserve a time.

Luke van Gelderen is a visual artist working across video, installation, image making, new media and performance. His practice examines the authorship of the ‘self’ within networked technologies, and how these environments drive compulsive self-obsession and consumption. Utilising appropriated imagery, he examines the intersection between memory, loss, violence, pornography and technology. He merges these concerns to comment on contemporary culture, and the development of increasingly simulated ways of living.

Selected exhibitions and awards include unrecognisable spillway, Ormond Art Studios (2020); My Activity, Rua Red (2019); Chatroullete, K4 Galleri, Oslo (2019); you breathe differently down here, Draíocht Gallery (2022); Rendering New Realities - Access and Alterity, The Douglas Hyde Gallery (2021); Project Studio, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (2023); Arts Council of Ireland Visual Arts Bursary (2022); Studio Residency, SÍM, Reykjavík (2022); Studio Residency, BEK, Bergen (2022); DLRCOCO Emerging Artist Bursary (2022); Arts Council of Ireland Agility Award (2021); Ormond Art Studios Graduate Award (2020).

Luke van Gelderen is the recipient of the Temple Bar Gallery + Studios Recent Graduate Residency 2022, a professional development opportunity aimed at recent graduate artists offers a large free studio for one year, an artist bursary, and a variety of institutional supports.

This work was kindly supported by the Arts Council of Ireland and DLRCOCO.