DUBLIN.- In 2025, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (TBG+S) presents five exhibitions including new commissions by Irish and international artists, alongside the fifteenth edition of Dublin Art Book Fair. In partnership with Culture Ireland and Southwark Park Galleries, London, a summer group exhibition presents the work of three Irish artists, one of whom will be selected for their first international solo exhibition.
Katarzyna Perlak: Better a bare foot than none
March 7–May 4, 2025
Opening: March 6, 6pm
Katarzyna Perlak’s ‘tender crafts’ series explores how heritage and traditional handwork practices can be re-imagined from contemporary feminist, queer and migrant perspectives. Focusing on vernacular stories, proverbs, and collective memories, her approach reflects experiences of shared precarity, and what it means to belong. The exhibition is guest curated by Marysia Więckiewicz-Carroll.
Jorge Satorre
May 16–July 6, 2025
Opening: May 15, 6pm
Jorge Satorre unearths and reinforces overlooked values and practices in disciplines of craft, storytelling and skilled labour. At times his work draws from situations and places with a colonial past where these modes of connection, interpretation and inheritance have survived, or have been morphed by, periods of oppression. He engages with contemporary forms of production, including mechanisation and the infrastructure that support it.
Ella Bertilsson, Kathy Tynan, Emily Waszak: Faigh Amach
August 1–September 21, 2025
Opening: July 31, 6pm
A group exhibition in Summer 2025 brings together three artists living in Ireland, selected through an open call process: Ella Bertilsson, Kathy Tynan, Emily Waszak. One of the three artists will be invited to present their first international solo exhibition at Southwark Park Galleries in Spring 2026. Faigh Amach (discover) is a new initiative by Temple Bar Gallery + Studios and Culture Ireland, in partnership with Southwark Park Galleries, London.
Frank Sweeney: Go Ye Afar
October 3–November 23, 2025
Opening: October 2, 6pm
Frank Sweeney brings attention to the ways broadcast media has been instrumentalised to impose or restrict certain viewpoints, often in relation to state ideologies such as religion and cultural identity. Celebrating the slippages in authenticity inherent in analogue recording and transmission, he reveals the potential for a broader range of narrative truths and histories. His new film, Go Ye Afar, records the journeys of an Irish-Nigerian taxi driver as his miraculous car moves through the streets of Dublin and Calabar. Sweeney holds a Three Year Studio Membership at TBG+S.
Dublin Art Book Fair
December 4–14, 2025
TBG+S presents the fifteenth edition of Dublin Art Book Fair, guest curated by author, lecturer and sheep farmer Selena Guinness. Proudly sponsored by Henry J Lyons.
Dragana Jurišić: The Last Balkan Cowboy
January 2026
The Last Balkan Cowboy is the outcome of Dragana Jurišić’s research project following the footsteps of Hari Džekson, cult Yugoslavian film director of Wild West genre archetypes. Through her photographs, Jurišić mythologises Džekson’s legacy in the aftermath of the Balkan war, and the conflicts across borders and race that led to the fragmentation of a nation. She is drawn to the symbolism of a wandering outsider roaming the landscape for opportunity, romance, and adventure, shadowed by the reality of migrant life.
Studios
2025 Studio Awards: Ella Bertilsson, John Conway, Lauren Conway, Ella de Burca, Vanessa Donoso Lopez, Marie Farrington, Austin Hearne, Nina McGowan, Manar Mervat Al Shouha, Blaine O’Donnell (Paul Robinson Studio Award, sponsored by Arthur Cox LLP), Mandy O’Neill, and Venus Patel.
TBG+S Writing Commission 2025: Gustav Parker Hibbett
Gustav Parker Hibbett is a Black poet, essayist and MFA dropout. They were a 2024 Djanikian Scholars Finalist and a 2023 Obsidian Foundation Fellow. Their debut poetry collection, High Jump as Icarus Story (Banshee Press), was shortlisted for the 2024 T.S. Eliot Prize.
