Exhibition programme 2024

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
January 12–March 10, 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 diaspora. Further info here.

Lisa Freeman: Approx 1 Second of a Sweet Kiss
March 22–May 19, 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
July 4–October 27, 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 a 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 from water and air is monitored to directly influence the visual and audio elements of the exhibition to uniquely modify each viewing. 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
November 21–December 1, 2024
TBG+S presents the fourteenth edition of Dublin Art Book Fair, guest curated by artist and writer Adrian Duncan. Further info here.

Fergus Feehily
December 13, 2024–February 23, 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.

Studios
Artists awarded studios at TBG+S in 2024: Ella Bertilsson, Rachel Fallon, Marie Farrington, Léann Herlihy, Atsushi Kaga, Barbara Knežević, Jialin Long, Áine O’Hara, Frank Sweeney, Luke van Gelderen.

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