June 15 - September 05 2023
Katherine Sankey’s material hand-making art practice embodies the construction of semi-organic apparatuses that wrest with the absurdity, humour and horror of our relationship with and perception of our planetary host, Gaia. Her practice draws from a fascination with the dichotomy between the desperately precarious frailty of humans and our compulsive desire to ‘take over’ and persist.
March 30 - May 27 2023
We find ourselves today at a crucial moment in time, in which the impact of human activity on the natural world can no longer be ignored. It is of paramount importance for moving forward and building new worlds, to acknowledge responsibility and change our perspectives; but can we imagine new and alternative ways of existing in harmony with those around us?
February 01 - March 18 2023
This decade long collaboration in performance art, A World of Appearances, addresses cultural and social perceptions around gender, age and visibility through documentary images and video.
January 11 - January 21 2023
During a period that feels ripe with cultural tensions, environmental changes and ecological crises, the works in this exhibition convey our instinct as humans to connect to our environment. 'A Perambulation' is an invitation to reflect on our place within the multiple environments that surround us, the boundaries that contain us, where we are from, where we are going and the earth that sustains us all.
November 18 - December 17 2022
The LAB Gallery is pleased to present The Swinging Pendulum, a new body of paintings together with an experimental participatory drawing project, by visual artist Joanna Kidney. The works in this exhibition bring the immediate language of mark-making and line into the complex language of painting.
September 09 - November 05 2022
In this exhibition, the artist considers ideas of embodied identity and social and council housing, including the impact of moving tenants from the core of the city to the suburbs. These themes are explored through a combination of sculpture,installation, textile work and sound.
July 14 - August 27 2022
Journeying through the layers of mythology, local wisdom, animism, blue humanities and ecophilosophy, this body of work by Rosie O’Reilly searches for new and hybrid ways to exist in 'the mesh' - a place of acknowledged ecocide and climate chaos.
July 14 - August 27 2022
Past, Present, Future is an ongoing installation project. Each iteration of this work unfolds the narrative of five clay creatures, and their journey to achieve immortality. Their goal is to fuse their bodies to the planet through fossilization, and to combine themselves with flora in the hopes of successful reproduction. This way, they will exist in the past, the present and the future, escaping their fear of oblivion.
May 12 - July 02 2022
Through a range of approaches, positions and media, including sculpture, moving image, installation and scent, em-bracing explores the virtual selves' relationship to physical selves by questioning how constantly evolving technologies can (trans) form identity and perception.
March 03 - July 02 2022
The LAB Gallery is pleased to present, Deck, a new exhibition by Claire Halpin. Stemming from the artist’s habit picking up playing cards she has found over many years, Deck is a snapshot in time and place of a collection largely amassed on the streets of Dublin 1.
March 03 - April 23 2022
The LAB Gallery, in partnership with Fire Station Artists’ Studios and Sculpture Dublin, presents At The Still End Of The World, an exhibition by Experiment! Sculpture Award winner Rory Tangney. Inspired by certain themes around climate change and the extremities of capitalism, this exhibition makes visible the results of recent work in the studio supported through the Experiment! Sculpture Award.
March 03 - April 23 2022
The Lab Gallery is pleased to present Wild Accumulations, a solo show by Dublin-born artist Karen Ebbs. In this exhibition, large colourful biomorphic forms can be seen to engulf, embrace and envelop each other - threatening to swallow each other whole - while newly “spat-out” structures are immersed in the act of becoming. Using familiar materials such as organza fabric and aluminium wire, these become the skin and bones of the suspended sculptures on display, which contain embryonic forms.
February 01 - February 12 2022
The LAB Gallery presents New Beginnings as a part of Brigit 2022: Dublin City Celebrating Women, a celebration of the achievements of Irish women, past and present, initiated by Lord Mayor of Dublin Alison Gilliland.
October 18 - December 21 2021
Water is essential to life but are we paying attention to the changing conditions which now threaten it? Marie Hanlon’s exhibition at The Lab comprises six installation works each addressing an aspect of water stress: flooding, drought, desalination, industrial contamination, seasonal shortages and the unappealing realities of water treatment.
May 24 - June 07 2021
The What Does He Need? project in partnership with The LAB gallery presents two interconnected public art works: a 30 minute audio piece and a public poster project, both exploring the ways in which men and boys are shaped by, and in turn influence the world around them.
February 22 - April 30 2021
January 14 - January 24 2021
ARC (IADT) & The LAB Gallery are delighted to announce cohost, a temporary online exhibition space curated by Astrid Newman, hosting the works of the 12 artists and researchers of the 2021 IADT ARC Masters Programme.
December 02 - January 31 2021
August 10 - December 23 2020
This wonderful exhibition, entitled Exquisite Portraits on display at the Lab Gallery, is the fruit of a project instigated by illustrator, Margaret Anne Suggs, and author, Juliette Saumande, during the period of lockdown.
August 10 - November 16 2020
The LAB Gallery is pleased to present The Invisible Sorceress, an exhibition of drawings and paintings by Gemma Browne made over the past two years. The experience of the artist as mother, and the invisibility that comes with this changing role informs some of the impetus of the work alongside more universal feminist themes.
June 02 - July 31 2020
May 01 - August 27 2021
The LAB Gallery presents 7thSENSE, an immersive, multihued installation by artist Aoife Dunne. This designer of experiences is best known for her inimitable aesthetic and site-specific colourfully chaotic work.
February 06 - March 15 2020
The LAB Gallery is pleased to present Among the dregs of daily toil, an exhibition of new work by Alan Magee. Encompassing a diverse range of processes, from Virtual Reality, Robotics, Video and Ceramics, this exhibition explores ideas of technology, materiality and the agency of the labouring body.
February 06 - March 15 2020
The LAB is pleased to present Under Your Skin, by Evgenia Martirosyan. Building on her recent exhibition at the Triskel Arts Centre in Cork, Martiosyan explores the transformative potential of repeated actions and the evocative power inherent in discarded materials. Using hundreds of old bicycle tyres and inner tubes, Martirosyan carefully cuts, weaves and knots the reclaimed rubber into large scale modular forms, gradually building up intensity. Her engagement with the source materials is purposely physical, tactile and obsessive in its nature.
January 16 - January 19 2020
Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology and The LAB Gallery are delighted to present Unassembled. The exhibition is curated by Julia Moustacchi and features work by ten artists currently completing the IADT Masters in Art and Research Collaboration (ARC): Brenda Brady, Anishta Chooramun, Heather Cody, Penelope Collins, Collette Farnon, Lisa Freeman, Marie-Louise Halpenny, Marie Phelan, Dylan Ryan & Audrey Walshe
November 14 - January 09 2020
The LAB is pleased to present Luminous Twitch by Kathy Tynan. Dublin City Council Visual Arts Bursary Award Winner 2019. This group of paintings in the Cube Gallery, has been selected by the artist to consider some of her more off-kilter, quieter work in the context of associative memory.
November 14 - January 09 2020
The LAB Gallery is pleased to present Spoiled Spores, an exhibition by recent Goldsmiths graduate Avril Corroon. Dublin City Council Visual Arts Bursary Award Winner 2019. This exhibition builds on Corroon’s award winning MA degree show earlier this year which presented a series of over 30 artisan cheeses made by the artist.
September 12 - November 04 2019
This new body of work by Ciara Roche began as an investigation of places of recreation and leisure around coastlines in Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Mostly works on paper, a little larger than postcard in size, these paintings capture public spaces for holiday-makers, surf shacks, beaches, cafes, but devoid of people themselves.
September 12 - November 04 2019
INTERSECTION a visual art work by ANU with lead artist Owen Boss. A friend of Owen Boss, Paul Goes, his wife Shuba Jaya and their daughter Kaela were travelling home from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpar on the 17th July 2014.
May 24 - August 18 2019
“You live through that little piece of time that is yours, but that piece of time is not only your life, it is the summing-up of all the other lives that are simultaneous with yours… what you are is an expression of History...” *
March 22 - May 12 2019
The LAB Gallery is pleased to present the Last Great Album of the Decade in association with Musictown. The exhibition is co-curated by Pádraic E Moore and Sheena Barrett and features new work by Anne Maree Barry, Declan Clarke, Alan Phelan and Cliodhna Timoney. The title is both suitably brash, claiming greatness, and mournful, in suggesting that it can’t be surpassed. This exhibition seeks to celebrate the musical relic and souvenirs of the subculture, taking in gigs in the 90s, a selection of zines from Brand New Retro, the Dublin rave scene in the early 2000s, the demise of rural nightclubs and journeys from early photographic experiments through to the potential backdrop for a new music video. Stepping into the Music Library at the Central Library in the Ilac Centre visitors can skip through genres via the biographies of musicians, sheet music, vinyl and cds and we’ve also planted copies of Eoin Devereux’s hidden track, along with Audrey Walshe’s botanical response to the show. In partnership with Musictown, we are also running two very special events, a screen-writing workshop for teenagers with Anne Maree Barry in the Music Library and an historial music tour of the city with Donal Fallon. Bookings through Eventbrite. In addition to Dublin City Council this exhibition has been supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, Inspirational Arts and Oonagh Young Gallery. We would also like to thank Rebecca O’Dwyer, Mark Clare, Liam O’Callaghan, Leagues O' Toole and Amy Nix (MusicTown) and the Gallery of Photography.
January 24 - March 10 2019
Drawn to transitory aspects of site, Marielle MacLeman’s work explores the interconnection between place and our drive to create, collect, and understand, encompassing themes including land use, identity, and social mobility. Frequently transforming found or waste materials to evoke notions of the souvenir, she interrogates the limits of materials and their dialogue with narrative. Borrowing its title from museum lexicon, ‘In course of rearrangement’ is a playful exploration of our industrial and natural heritage, taking the changing fates of Ireland’s wool and silk weaving trades as a starting point.
November 15 - January 12 2019
The LAB Gallery is pleased to present Kinetics in Blue, new work by Atoosa Pour Hosseini, supported by the Arts Council of Ireland. This exhibition of new work includes film, sculpture and installation and explores ideas of displacement and migration through the properties of the colour blue and the journey of a fictional character exploring the landscape.
November 15 - January 12 2019
Paul Hallahan’s artwork is primarily based in painting and sculpture taking formalistic ideas from the past and assigning them into today’s world, to ask what art can do. His interests are varied but commonly look at how we as humans engage and interact with nature beyond ourselves, both individually and societally.
September 07 - November 04 2018
Sean O’Rourke’s latest paintings, layered on the rusted metal boards used to board up the windows of derelict flats, consider a city in flux. His work is heavily influenced by the City’s flats and streetscape seen through an autobiographical lens, growing up as a young man. He is interested in the how we are influenced by our exterior surroundings, and how the built environment contributes to the individuals we become. His reflections on how young men might mask their authentic selves in particular environments are considered through ideas of the internal and external explorations into the architecture of the city. Curated by Sheena Barrett
September 07 - November 04 2018
The exhibition’s origins date from 1938, when the artist’s aunts, then young children growing up on the foothills of Knockfierna in Limerick, were mistaken one day for fairy folk. Soon, buses of sightseers arrived in the local town, all on the hunt for supernatural phenomena in ditches, behind trees and up on the slopes of the nearby hill. The story persisted and crowds continued to arrive.
June 18 - August 19 2018
Dublin City Council’s The LAB Gallery is pleased to present the group exhibition I Slept Like A Stone, bringing together significant past and current Irish collaborative and socially engaged commissions alongside a selection of recent works from across Europe through the Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme (CAPP) led by Create.
March 15 - June 03 2018
The LAB is pleased to present, Illusions of Love Dyed by Sunset, a solo exhibition of new work by Bassam Al Sabah, including sculpture, painting and video.
March 15 - June 03 2018
The LAB is pleased to present an exhibition of new work, Forward Slash, by Wexford based artist, Emma Roche. This series of paintings stem from ideas about the artist’s everyday working life, in-house rules, bosses, authoritative figures, colleagues, dream jobs and nightmare positions as well as imagined occupations and fabricated titles.
January 18 - March 04 2018
Keepers of the Port is a single screen documentary film which developed out of earlier site-specific multi-screen installations. Stevedoring Stories (2012) was commissioned for Tall Ships Dublin and Rhythms of a Port.was exhibited during PhotoIreland 2014 in an old cargo warehouse on Sir John Rogerson’s Quay.
January 18 - March 04 2018
For this exhibition of new work, Nickie Hayden brings together paintings, sculptures and written word. Reflecting on personal experiences of pain, abuse, bereavement and a lifelong struggle with literacy, Hayden recognises the role painting has played in expressing her emotions in the past.
January 18 - March 04 2018
In her Memento series, Wawra works in mixed-media painting that incorporates photography. Acting as a spectator in her own life, she is connecting autobiography to socio-political and cultural history, particularly her growing up in the German Democratic Republic.
January 18 - March 04 2018
In 2017 Dublin Port Company commissioned new site-specific public artworks as part of Port Perspectives, its arts commissioning series aimed at strengthening the bond between Dublin Port and the City and bringing Dublin Port to new audiences through the arts.
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September 14 - December 14 2017
Brian Duggan - Sofie Loscher - Lucy McKenna - Siobhan McGibbon - Maria McKinney - Emer O Boyle - Meadhbh O'Connor - Matt Parker - David Stalling
June 16 - September 03 2017
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April 06 - June 04 2017
A solo show by artist Theresa Nanigian
February 17 - March 26 2017
IAWATST is a collaborative exhibition organised by the Office of Public Works, the Department of Finance, and the LAB Gallery.
February 17 - March 26 2017
Lucy McKenna studied woven textiles at NCAD. She makes work in varied mediums including painting, drawing, film, photography and installation among others.
November 17 - February 05 2017
New commissions from visual artists Aideen Barry, Amanda Coogan, Corban Walker and Suzanne Walsh.
September 09 - November 07 2016
Preview: Friday 9th September 2016
September 09 - November 07 2016
Preview: Friday 9th September 2016
June 24 - August 10 2016
The LAB Gallery is pleased to present this exhibition of new work by Dublin based artist John Byrne, co-produced with the Centre Culturel Irelandais in Paris.
June 24 - August 10 2016
As part of the LAB’s year long investigation into the relationship between art and commemoration, who is remembered, whose responsibility it is to remember and how we remember, we are pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Chad Keveny.
May 19 - May 19 2016
Speakers include: Mary Anne Bolger, Hilary O'Kelly, Brenda Malone, Sabina Mac Mahon, John Beattie, Donal Maguire, Sheena Barrett and Lisa godson.
March 24 - June 11 2016
In collaboration with the National Gallery of Ireland and the ESB Centre for the Study of Irish Art
March 24 - June 11 2016
Sabina Mac Mahon’s work is largely research-based and concerned with credibility, plausibility and parafiction, as defined by Carrie Lambert-Beatty in relation to Rosalind Krauss’ use of the associated term ‘paraliterary’. Mac Mahon is interested in how a truthlikeness or quality of realism in something, combined with the manner in which it is presented to the viewer, can lead to its acceptance as true or real because of the likeliness of the proposition to the truth. The artefacts, texts and primary sources that she creates are simultaneously real, not real and not not-real, and her work can be interpreted as a species of ‘fictive’ art, whereby a fiction is presented as fact and subsequently attains a truth-status for some people, some of the time.
March 14 - March 24 2016
March 09 - September 30 2006
These works have been produced over a year during which both Kenny and McLoughlin worked with members of the travelling community at St. Margaret’s Halting Site, Ballymun as they each developed their own strand of work. In addition, McLoughlin has worked collaboratively with residents to produce a permanent artwork now sited at the entrance to St. Margaret’s, Ballymun.
January 21 - March 12 2016
The LAB Gallery is pleased to present In the Flesh by Bridget O'Gorman. This is the first series of three exhibitions where contemporary artists have been invited to make new work in response to the 1916 Rising in collaboration with other research partners and institutions.
December 02 - January 16 2016
The LAB Gallery in association with First Fortnight is proud to present Amazement Insulates Us All/Memento Vita an exhibition featuring Dublin artist Damien Doyle and Cork artist George Bolster.
November 20 - January 16 2016
A a significant exhibition bringing together George Bolster’s practice as a curator and an artist.
November 20 - January 16 2016
Laura Ní Fhlaibhín graduated from N.C.A.D. in 2013, with a First Class Honours Degree in Fine Art Paint.
September 03 - November 08 2015
New work from emerging artist based in Dublin.
September 03 - November 08 2015
A collection of new and recent work by Emma Donaldson.
April 30 - June 13 2015
Curated by Sheena Barrett
January 30 - April 11 2015
The LAB Gallery, in partnership with UCD Art in Science, is delighted to present Welcome Disturbances, an exhibition and programme of related events.
January 15 - March 28 2015
The Amulet, by artist Marie Brett, is an exhibition that deals with the tragedy of infant loss.
September 11 - November 08 2014
An exhibition related to William Hamilton's inscription of the formula for Quaternion multiplication on Broom Bridge.
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April 11 - June 07 2014
Curated by Sheena Barrett
April 11 - June 07 2014
Barbara Knezevic’s work is concerned with how objects function materially, ontologically and economically in the world. The work is primarily sculptural in form, and considers the peculiar human relationship to the things around us that is typified by the art-object.
February 07 - March 22 2014
Alan Butler, Mark Durkan, Mary-Jo Gilligan, Oliver Laric, Rachel Maclean, Eilis McDonald, Brenna Murphy, James Ó hAodha, Pilvi Takala.
November 15 - January 25 2014
An exhibition that looks toward a future fantasy. Within this fantasy, the artist imagines a fate where human population has dramatically decreased, making material opulence abundant while renewing a ritualistic emphasis on the acquirement of vital resources.
July 27 - November 01 2013
NINE explores a pivotal developmental time in a child’s life. This is identified as the age when children are expanding their ideas about the world and becoming autonomous human beings, yet still need lots of security and reassurance from their family group.
January 18 - September 03 2013
The LAB is pleased to present Mick Wilson’s first solo show in over a decade.
September 07 - October 27 2012
The Lab in association with Dublin City of Science 2012 presents Cut Throat.
July 09 - October 20 2012
The artist-cum-art critic James Merrigan, has placed his two personas/professions in the gallery simultaneously.
May 18 - July 28 2012
New work from emerging artist based in Dublin.
May 18 - July 28 2012
In Maggie Madden's recent work, a diverse array of collected materials are crafted into fragile sculptural formations with geometric affinities.
March 15 - April 21 2012
‘Other Stuff’ questions how art can embed itself in the surface of reality, not to look like reality or imitate it but in effect exchange and replace reality for the truth.
March 09 - March 10 2012
Anne Quail - Elvira Santamaria Torres - Amanda Coogan - Pauline Cummins - Ann Maria Healy - Chrissie Cadman -Frances Mezzeti - Áine O’Dwyer Áine Phillips - Helena Walsh - Michelle Browne.
December 09 - January 21 2012
Solo show by Dublin based artist Orla Whelan.
December 09 - January 07 2012
Rodeo Oracle refers to the ideological debate surrounding the issue of indigenous whaling in the Pacific Northwest. The ongoing struggle of North American Indian tribes to practice their treaty-protected right to hunt whales is one that resonates with attempts by indigenous people worldwide to maintain their customary subsistence patterns and cultural self- determination.
October 19 - March 11 2011
This exhibition and the complementary events programme questions the relationship between intelligent systems for the monitoring and collecting human-generated content, (including psychographic, geographic and biometric data), what new forms of self-knowledge might emerge from bringing this information together, and what future implications might be for human cognition.
September 02 - October 08 2011
A solo exhibition of new work by Irish artist Ruth E. Lyons.
August 07 - August 20 2011
Methodically built up and intensively accumulated layers are worked and reworked, the resulting pieces reminiscent of a cell within a larger organism, part of a greater whole – alive and continuing to colonise.
May 27 - June 25 2011
Curated by Sheena Barrett
March 04 - April 09 2011
Michelle has become synonymous with public event based work, and here she looks at how to translate these works to the gallery setting. Presenting past performance work is an oft-sited challenge and Browne grapples with the inherent difficulty in documenting temporary and performative artwork.
March 03 - March 23 2011
Working the traditional business hours of 9-5, artist Ciara Scanlan will operate ‘The Product Service Company’, from her office temporarily sited at the corner gallery of the LAB.
September 14 - October 23 2010
How young people feel about power and powerlessness in their dealings with the Gardaí is at the heart of a groundbreaking art exhibition. Policing Dialogues is an honest and raw exploration of neighbourhood relations of power in South Inner City Dublin told through the very personal stories of teenagers.
September 02 - September 02 2010
Performance is the foundation of Berndtson’s practice, particularly in the form of long duration performance installations. Inspired by the history of the north east inner city, this performance draws on the experience of local Irish women and how this relates back to the artist’s own family history.
