“ Luke van Gelderen works across video, sculpture, and digital media, creating immersive installations that examine the performance and mediation of contemporary identities through technology. Converging celebrity culture, alienation, masculinity and violence, his work is grounded in his own experience of recurring intrusive thoughts and images amplified by the internet. Recent solo exhibitions include: ‘Romeo Save Me’ Pallas Projects/Studios, 2024; 'unrecognisable (spillway)', Ormond Art Studios (2020); 'My Activity', Rua Red (2019); 'Chatroulette', K4 Galleri, Oslo (2019). Recent group exhibitions include: ‘BRAVO’, Humber St Space, Hull, UK (2024); ‘*-*’ Catalyst Arts, Belfast UK (2024); ‘Uncanny Valley’ Palazzo Bronzo, Genoa, Italy (2024); ‘REAL’, B63, Witten, Germany (2024); 'this is perfect, perfect, perfect, Transmediale, Berlin (2024); 'Manslows Hammer–Periodical Review 13', Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin (2023); 'LOCKJAW', Ranelagh Arts Centre, Dublin (2023); 'FAKE BODY", Platform Arts, Belfast (2023) and 'Rendering New Realities', The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2021). Recent screenings include: D-AZ, Kunsthaus Zürich (2024); Kasseler Dokfest, Kassel (2024) and Toxi Space, Zurich (2024). Luke is a co-founder of CRUX, an off-site curatorial collective. He lives and works in Dublin and is a current studio member in Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. His work is kindly supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.”