Director
Luke van Gelderen (Dublin, b. 1997) is an artist exploring the performance and mediation of contemporary identity online. His multimedia practice, encompassing film, appropriation, sculpture, and image-making, examines themes of authenticity, youth, celebrity, trauma and violence. He has exhibited internationally at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; TRIBECA Gallery, NYC; SEAGER, London; Palazzo Bronzo, Genoa; Transmediale, Berlin; The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; and Pallas Projects, Dublin. He has screened work at FACT, Liverpool; PAF, Olomouc; Goldsmiths; Kunsthaus, Zürich; Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival and TOXI Space, Zürich. He has been awarded residencies from Callie’s, Berlin; FSAS, Dublin; Kulturforum Witten, Germany; SÍM, Reykjavík; and BEK, Norway. He is a co-founder of CRUX, an off-site curatorial collective. He lives and works between Dublin and Berlin and has been awarded a studio at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios since 2022.
