LUKE VAN GELDEREN
(b. 1997, Dublin, Ireland) works across film, 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 Studios (2020); ‘My Activity’ Rua Red (2019); and ‘Chatroulette’ K4 Galleri, Oslo (2019). Recent group exhibitions include: ‘Staying With the Trouble’, Irish Musuem of Modern Art, Dublin (2025); ‘Planned Obsolescene’ SEAGER, London (2025); ‘All Flowers in Time Bend Towards the Sun’ Dublin Castle, OPW (2025); ‘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: DISSOLUTIONS 25’, Dublin (2025); Goldsmiths, University of London (2025); D-AZ, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland (2024); UNTHINKABLE, Hull, UK (2024); Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Germany (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.
EDUCATION
2020 1st Class Honours, BA Art, Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dublin, Ireland
2019 Erasmus+, Iceland University of the Arts, Reykajvík, Iceland
UPCOMING
2027 Solo Exhibition, The Complex, Dublin, Ireland
2026 Callie’s, Berlin (Residency)
Afterimage: Photography in the Digital Age, Photo Museum Ireland (group/tour)
FACT, Liverpool, UK (group screening)
2025 I’m (Un)real Boy, PAF – Festival of Film Animation and Contemporary Art, Olomouc, Czech Republic (group screening)
I DON'T FEEL ANYTHING, HEART, New York, USA (online)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Romeo Save Me, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin, Ireland
2020 unrecognisable (spillway), Ormond Studios, Dublin, Ireland
2019 My Activity, Rua Red, Dublin, Ireland
Chatroullete, K4 Galleri, Oslo, Norway
SELECTED GROUP/DUO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Staying with the Trouble, Irish Museum Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Planned Obsolescence, Seager Gallery, London, UK
All flowers in time bend towards the sun, The Coach House Gallery, Dublin Castle, Ireland
2024 Uncanny Valley, Palazzo Bronzo, Genova, Italy
*-*, Catalyst Arts Belfast, UK
Real, B63, presented by CRUX, Kulturforum Witten, Germany
this is perfect, perfect, perfect, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Transmediale, Berlin, Germany
2023 Periodical Review 13—Manslow’s Hammer, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin, Ireland
LOCKJAW, Ranelagh Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland
FAKE BODY, with Lana May Fleming, Platform Arts, Belfast, UK
2022 you breathe differently down here, Draíocht, Dublin, Ireland 2021
Periodical Review 11—Return to Disintegration, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin, Ireland
2020 Rendering New Realities—Access and Alterity, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
crux.project, Rathmicheal Ring Fort, off-site, Dublin, Ireland
Appraisal, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin, Ireland
Afterthought, United Art’s Club, Dublin, Ireland
2019 Nothing to Declare?, Control Tower, Dublin Airport, Ireland
How’s your da?, MLV Studio, Dublin, Ireland
Hvar endar Þetta, LHÍ Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland
MyndaMál, The House of Collections, Reykjavík, Iceland
Hljóðön, Hafnarfjördur Centre of Culture and Fine Art, Iceland
Viðir Happening, Reykajvík, off-site, Iceland
2018 Winter Open, Rua Red, Dublin, Irealnd
FORETHOUGHT, United Art’s Club, Dublin, Ireland
2017 Claremorris Open Exhibition, Claremorris, Ireland
SCREENINGS
2025 Against Stasis, DISSOLUTIONS’ 25, Dublin, Ireland
The Burden of the Image, The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Spring/Summer School, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, Ireland
Goldsmiths University of London, UK
Rough Cut, aemi, Dublin, Ireland
2024 Kasseler Dokfest, Kassel, Germany
D AZ - Digital Art Zurich, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
UNTHINKABLE, Hull, UK
Toxi Space, Zürich, Switzerland
GRANTS & AWARDS
2025 Visual Arts Project Award, Art’s Council of Ireland
Visual Arts Bursary, Art’s Council of Ireland
Professional Development Grant, Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council
2024 Visual Arts Bursary, Art’s Council of Ireland
Culture Moves Europe Individual Mobility
2nd Prize, Video, Digital Art Zurich
Project Funding for Wittens Free Scene, Kulturforum Witten, Germany
Zeitgeist Irland 24’, Culture Ireland and Embassy of Ireland in Germany Funding
Professional Development Grant, Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council
2023 Visual Arts Bursary, Art’s Council of Ireland
2022 Emerging Artist Grant, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council
Visual Arts Bursary, Art’s Council of Ireland
2021 Agility Award, Arts Council of Ireland
2020 RDS Visual Art Awards: Shortlist
Student of the Year, Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology
2018 Winter Open Winner, Rua Red
RESIDENCIES
2025 Evolve Practice Residency, Fire Station Artist Studios, Dublin
2024 Production Residency, Kulturforum Witten, Germany
Three Year Studio, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin
Micro Residency, Cow House Studios, Ireland
2023 Project Studio, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin
2022 Studio Residency, SÍM, Reykjavík, Iceland
Recent Graduate Residency, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin
Studio Residency, BEK—Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts, Norway
2020 Graduate Residency, Ormond Studios, Dublin
Online Digital Residency, SPUR.WORLD, UK
PUBLICATIONS & REVIEWS
2025 File Note IX, Fire Station Artist Studios (print)
Staying with the Trouble, Review, Sadbh O’Brein, Visual Artists News Sheet (print)
All Flowers in Time Bend Towards the Sun review: 19 artists united by Flann O’Brien’s avant-garde,
The Irish Times, (print)
Hardcore Fencing, Sean Kissane, Visual Artist’s News Sheet (print)
2024 Uncanny Valley, The Italian Art Guide, (online)
The Master of Noise, Sadbh O’Brien, Commissioned Text (print + online)
https://rrrreal.com, published by CRUX (online)
Howling Influencers, Tilman Baumgärtel, Die Tageszeitung, Germany (online)
2023 Maslow’s Hammer, Sara Muthi, Periodical Review 13, PVA/ Pallas Project Studios (print + online)
An Interview with: Luke van Gelderen, Ellen O’Connor, Screen Service, Ireland (online)
RTÉ Nationwide, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios 40th, Ireland (television)
2022 Visual Artist’s Newsletter, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios 40th, (print)
ARTISTS TALKS & LECTURING
2025 Artist Talk / Workshop, The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Visiting Lecturer / Panel Discussion with Vivienne Dick, Cian McCarthy, IADT, Dublin, Ireland
Artist Talk, Goldsmiths University of London, UK
Artist Talk, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, Ireland
2024 In Conversation with Nora O Murchú, Pallas Projects/Studios
Visiting Lecturer, Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art Design and Technology, Dublin, Ireland
2023 Open Studio + Talk, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, Ireland