LUKE VAN GELDEREN          
b.1997, Dublin
Lives and works in Dublin & Berlin
www.lukevangelderen.com


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

                         

CURRENT & FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS
2026 Callie’s, Berlin (Residency)
Afterimage: Photography in the Digital Age, Photo Museum Ireland,  (group/tour)
FACT, Liverpool, UK (group screening) 


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2027 AUTHENTIC SELF, The Complex, Dublin, Ireland

2024Romeo Save Me, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin, Ireland

2020unrecognisable (spillway), Ormond Studios, Dublin, Ireland

2019My Activity, Rua Red, Dublin, Ireland

Chatroullete, K4 Galleri, Oslo, Norway


SELECTED GROUP/DUO EXHIBITIONS

2025 New Artists New Works, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin

I DON'T FEEL ANYTHING, TRIBECA GALLERY, New York, USA (online)

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

2024Uncanny 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

2023Periodical 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

2022you breathe differently down here, Draíocht, Dublin, Ireland

2021Periodical Review 11—Return to Disintegration, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin, Ireland

2020Rendering 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

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

2018Winter Open, Rua Red, Dublin, Irealnd

FORETHOUGHT, United Art’s Club, Dublin, Ireland

2017 Claremorris Open Exhibition, Claremorris, Ireland

SCREENINGS

2025 I’m (Un)real Boy, PAF – Festival of Film Animation and Contemporary Art, Olomouc, Czech Republic

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

2026 Visual Arts Project Award

Professional Development Grant, Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council

2025 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

2025Evolve 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)

2023Maslow’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)

Unable to Exhibit Indoors, Artists Mock-Up Gentrified Ring Forts and More in the Mountains, Claudia Dalby, Dublin InQuirer, Ireland (online)


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