Kerlin Gallery is a contemporary commercial art gallery in Dublin, Ireland.
Gailearaí Uí Choirealláin | |
 Complete Bin Development 2013, by Liam Gillick, at the gallery | |
  Location within Central Dublin | |
| Established | 1988 |
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| Location | Anne's Lane, South Anne Street, Dublin, Ireland |
| Coordinates | 53°20′26″N 6°15′34″W / 53.340689°N 6.259553°W |
| Type | Contemporary art gallery |
| Director | David Fitzgerald, Darragh Hogan, John Kennedy |
| Owner | Co-ownership by David Fitzgerald, Darragh Hogan, John Kennedy, and Paddy McKillen[1][2] |
| Public transit access | Stephen's Green Luas stop (Green Line) College Green bus stops |
| Website | kerlin |
History
Originally opened in 1988,[3] the gallery's current space was designed in 1994 by architect John Pawson.[4] It is located in central Dublin and has 3,600 square feet of gallery space spread over two floors.[4] In 2015, the Artnet website included the gallery in a list of "Europe’s Top 55 Galleries".[5] David Fitzgerald, Darragh Hogan, and John Kennedy are the gallery's directors.[6]
In 2018, the gallery donated a number of works to the Irish Museum of Modern Art.[2][7]
Selected exhibitions
Kerlin Gallery programs eight exhibitions annually, predominantly solo exhibitions by gallery artists with occasional curated group exhibitions and solo exhibitions by invited artists.[citation needed] Curated group exhibitions include Newfound Landscape (1998), with Uta Barth, Oliver Boberg, Walter Niedermayer, and Esko Manniko; Kin, with John Currin, Cheryl Donegan, Ellen Gallagher, and Sean Landers, and Architecture Schmarchitecture (2003) with Isa Genzken, Liam Gillick, Roger Hiorns, Jim Lambie, Sarah Moris, and Thomas Scheibitz.[8]
In 2019, the gallery organised Shadowplay with Willie Doherty, Aleana Egan, Liam Gillick, Siobhán Hapaska, and Callum Innes.[9] The title is derived from the song of the same name on Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures album.[6] In 2021, it presented a solo exhibition by the influential conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner.[10]
Publications
The gallery has previously published exhibition catalogues and artist monographs.[citation needed] In 2023, it published monographs on the Welsh artist Merlin James and the Northern Irish painter William McKeown.[citation needed]