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Aleana Egan

1979
born in Dublin

lives and works in Dublin
 

1999–2003
Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK


 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
FRAC des Pays de la Loire, France
Dallas Museum of Art
The Art Council, Ireland

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
 

2024

Second-hand, Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, Ireland
 

2023

Repeating Song, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
 

2022

Sampler, Void, Derry, Northern Ireland
 

2021

Small Field, Künstlerhaus, Bremen, Germany
 

2020

New Peopl, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf

Shadowy Forms, NICC, Brussels, Belgium
 

2019

Spitze, Farbvision, Berlin
 

2017

A House and Its Head, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

Illuminations Gallery, Maynooth University, Ireland
 

2015

light on a leaf, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin

hapes from life, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

Out there, thataway, CCA Derry-Londonderry, Derry, Nothern Ireland

Shapes From Life, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
 

2014

There are all sorts of lives, Mary Mary, Glasgow

Vestibule, Merrion Square Park, Dublin, Ireland
 

2013

The Sensitive Plant, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
 

2012

day wears, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
 

2011

nature had an inside, Mary Mary, Glasgow, UK

Aleana Egan (At intervals, while turning), The Drawing Room, London, UK
 

2009

Sunday Night, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

Space for the man whose keys I rescued, Art Basel Statements, Basel, Switzerland
 

2008

War Atlas Yachting & Nautical Cuttings, Mary Mary, Glasgow, UK

we sat down where we had sat before, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
 

2006

Mary Mary, Glasgow, UK
 

2005

Doldrums, Mary Mary Project Space, Glasgow, UK
 

2003

Assembly Gallery, Glasgow, UK
 

2002

Collaborative work with John Egan, Assembly Gallery, Glasgow, UK

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
 

2024

Sentients, Alte Westend Apotheke, Munich, Germany

like the light at the beginning of the world, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

Material Flux, Aleana Egan & Isabel Nolan, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Ireland
 

2023

BEADS, Stations, Berlin
 

2022

Yugen, CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
 

2021

Feeling of Knowing, The Complex, Dublin, Ireland

The Museum of Ancient History, The Classical Museum, UCD, Dublin, Ireland
 

2020

LINES, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
 

2019

and the days run away like wild horses over the hills, Scoil Lorcain, Seapoint, Dublin, Ireland

from narrow provinces, Cample Line, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, UK

staring forms, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, Ireland
 

2018

Dorothy Cross, Aleana Egan, Siobhan Hapaska, Isabel Nolan, Kathy Prendergast, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

Aleana Egan/Pearl Blauvelt Mary Mary, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
 

2017

50 Years of Konrad Fischer Galerie 1967–2017, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf

Cut-out Shapes in Secondhand Daylight, Marian Cramer Projects, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Intelligent Touch, Project Space Tilburg, Netherlands

Drawing Biennial 2017, The Drawing Room, London, UK
 

2016

WITH A TOUCH OF PINK - WITH A BIT OF VIOLET - WITH A HINT OF GREEN - Dorothee Fischer in memoriam, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf 

Out there, thataway, CCA Derry-Londonderry, Ireland

Contemporary Drawings, Kettles Yard, Cambridge, UK

Curve of a hill like the curve of a green shoulder, Mary Mary, Glasgow, UK 

Sculptors’ Drawings, Alma Zevi, Venice, Italy

186th Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland

The Hyena Is a Striped Dog Who Thought He Was a Laughing Horse, curated by WHATSPACE, Halsay McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY, USA
 

2014

Dukkha, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

Vestibule, outdoor work commission, Merrion Square, Dublin, Ireland

Deep One Perfect Morning, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

In the Line of Beauty, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

Sculpture Unchaperoned, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Vienna, Austria
 

2013

The Line of Beauty, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

Rain, Steam and Speed, Sommer & Kohl Gallery, Berlin

Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in Cave and Grooving with a Pict, Veneklasen/Werner, Berlin

Francesco Arena / Aleana Egan / Rudolf Polanszky, Kadel Willborn, Karlsruhe, Germany

Aleana Egan / Lucia Nogueira / Bojan Sarcevic, Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Drawing - Sculpture, The Drawing Room, London, UK

Spaced In, Spaced Out, Chesa Lendi / Marolani, Celerina, Italy
 

2012

A Reader of Materials and a Writer of Forms, MOT International, Brussels, Belgium

Drawing - Sculpture, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, UK

All humans do, White Box, New York, USA
 

2010

The Alchemy of Material, Landesmuseum Münster, Germany

Arrivals & Departures Europe, Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, Italy

Leopards in the Temple, Sculpture Center, New York, USA
 

2009

About Premises and Promises, Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna, Austria

Jerwood Contemporary Painters, PSL, Leeds (Project Space Leeds), UK

Green Light, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London, UK

Jerwood Contemporary Painters 2009, Jerwood Space, London, UK

Working Space, Dublin, Ireland

Nina Canell / Aleana Egan / Marzena Nowak, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
 

2008

Heavy Metal, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Transformational Grammers, Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, Milan, Italy

abc - art berlin contemporary, Berlin (with Galerie Sandra Buergel)

Gracelands Festival, Ireland

5th Berlin Biennale, Berlin

Scala Paradisi, Schurmann, Berlin

Wilkommen to reality, Galerie Sandra Buergel, Berlin
 

2007

Eccentric Growth, Galerie Sandra Buergel, Berlin

Our affects fly out of the field of human reality, Galerie Sandra Buergel, Berlin
 

2006

Peaton House, Cove, Argyll & Bute, Scotland, UK

Mantua Arts Festival, Ross Common, Ireland
 

2005

Take it further (Part 2), Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, UK (curated by Gyonata Bonvicini)

Flounder 2, Amsterdam, Netherlands
 

2004

Aleana Egan / Lee O’Connor, Mary Mary project space, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

GSS Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
 

2003

Royal Scottish Academy, City Arts Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
 

2002

Group Show, Mitte, Berlin
 

2001

Aleana Egan / Robert Hardy, Assembly Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

2022

Sampler, Void Gallery, Derry-Londonderry, Northern Ireland
 

2021

small field, Künstlerhaus, Bremen 
 

2012

day wears, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 
 

2011

At intervals, while turning, Drawing Room London
 

2010

Neue Alchemie - Kunst der Gegenwart nach Beuys, Landesmuseum Münster
 

2008

We sat where we had sat before, Kunsthalle Basel

2023

Exhibition review, Paper Visual Art, October (forthcoming)

Niall MacMonagle, Artist Aleana Egan: ‘Drawings, paintings and combined materials were always a feature of my work’, The Sunday Independent, 14 May 

some shadows left hanging, Dublin Digital Radio, radio collage, 10 May

Tony Clayton-Lee, ‘Aleana Egan, Repeating Song’, The Irish Times – The Ticket, 15 April


2022

Eva Kenny, ‘Aleana Egan, Void’, Artforum, May 2022

Georgina Adam, ‘Marguerite Steed Hoffman: ‘You can’t make a great museum by acquiring works one by one’, The Financial Times, 9 May 2022


2021

Gallen Cranz, ‘Sitting Still’, Quercus Magazine


2019

Aidan Dunne, ‘Staring Forms review: An elegant consideration of the spaces around us’, The Irish Times, 4 Jun

Aidan Kelly Murphy, ‘staring forms: review’, thisistomorrow, 17 June


2018

Susan Mansfield, ‘Art review: Pearl Blauvelt & Aleana Egan | Mark Handforth | Steven Berkoff’, The Scotsman, 31 July


2017

Stephen Moloney, ‘The Certainty of Uncertainty’, Totally Dublin, April


2016

Lorena Muñoz-Alonso, ‘See the Top 10 Booths at Independent Brussels’, artnet news, 21 April

Dennis McNulty, ‘Shapes from life, Aleana Egan’, Paper Visual Art, 17 February


2015

Aidan Dunne, ‘Visual Art Round-up’, The Irish Times, 18 August

Adrian Duncan, ‘light on a leaf’, Frieze d/e, No.20 June–August

Fridey Mickel, ‘The Magic and Fantasy of Aleana Egan’, Taz.de, 14 April


2014

Gemma Tipton, ‘Dukkha’, Frieze, No.166, October 2014

Galen Cranz, Architecture Boston (AB), Vol. 18 No. 3, Fall Gemma Tipton, ‘Postcard from Dublin’, Frieze Blog, 10 July

Aidan Dunne, ‘Conceptual art: a walk in the park’, The Irish Times, 7 June

Rosa Abbott, ‘Park Life’, Totally Dublin, June


2013

Declan Long, Frieze, No. 159, NovemberJohn Gayer, Sculpture, November

Adrian Duncan, Paper Visual Art Journal, October

Aleana Egan - BERLIN
Aleana Egan
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15. Feb 2025 - 12. Apr 2025
BERLIN

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LINES

04. Sep 2020 - 06. Nov 2020
DÜSSELDORF

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ALEANA EGAN

17. Jan 2020 - 06. Mar 2020
DÜSSELDORF

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50 Years of Konrad Fischer Galerie 1967-2017

08. Sep 2017 - 17. Nov 2017
DÜSSELDORF

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WITH A TOUCH OF PINK - WITH A BIT OF VIOLET - WITH A HINT OF GREEN - DOROTHEE FISCHER - IN MEMORIAM

03. Jun 2016 - 23. Jul 2016
DÜSSELDORF

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Aleana Egan

13. Mar 2015 - 18. Apr 2015
BERLIN

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