To coincide with his current exhibition The Struggle With the Angel, Gerard Byrne will appear in conversation with curator Daniel Birnbaum on Thursday 27 March.

Doors open at 5:30pm, with the talk commencing at 6pm and lasting approximately one hour. 

Please RSVP to rosa@kerlin.ie.

Gerard Byrne has realised projects for many international exhibitions such as Skulptur Projekte Muenster (2017), Documenta 13, 54th Venice Biennale, and biennials in Sydney, Gwangju, Busan, Lyon, and Istanbul. His solo exhibitions include Towner Eastbourne, UK (2024); Centraal Museum Utrecht, Netherlands (2020); Void, Derry (2019); Secession, Vienna (2019), Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2018); ACCA, Melbourne (2016), Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (2015), FRAC Pays de la Loire (2014), Whitechapel Gallery (2013), Renaissance Society, Chicago (2011), IMMA (2011). In 2007 he represented Ireland at the 52nd Venice Biennale. He has held professorships at the art academies of Copenhagen (2007–16) and at Staedelschule, Frankfurt (since 2018). In October 2024 together with Judith Wilkinson, he curated the first comprehensive survey of Samuel Beckett’s oeuvre of German teleplays, presented at WKV Stuttgart.

Daniel Birnbaum is a writer and curator based in London and Stockholm. He is the artistic director of Acute Art, a laboratory exploring art and technology and professor of philosophy at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. From 2000 to 2010 he was rector of the Städelschule in Frankfurt and director of its Portikus gallery. Between 2010 and 2018 he was director of Moderna Museet in Stockholm. In 2009 he curated the the 53rd Venice Biennale. His most recent exhibitions are Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint. Dreams of the Future at K20 in Düsseldorf (with Julia Voss) and Dream Machines at DESTE Foundation (with Massimiliano Gioni). Recent publications include Exhibition, Academy, Museum: Notes on the Frames of Art (Walther König, 2022) and the novel Dr B (Gallimard, 2022). In 2024 Birnbaum joined the Warburg Institute’s Visionary Circle.