Aleana Egan
1979
born in Dublin
lives and works in Dublin
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
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
Shapes From Life, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
2014
There are all sorts of lives, Mary Mary, Glasgow
Vestibule, Merrion Square Park, Dublin
2013
The Sensitive Plant, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
2012
day wears, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
2011
nature had an inside, Mary Mary, Glasgow
Aleana Egan (At intervals, while turning), The Drawing Room, London, UK
2009
Sunday Night, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
Space for the man whose keys I rescued, Art Basel Statements, Basel, Switzerland
2008
War Atlas Yachting & Nautical Cuttings, Mary Mary, Glasgow
we sat down where we had sat before, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
2006
Mary Mary, Glasgow
2005
Doldrums, Mary Mary Project Space, Glasgow
2003
Assembly Gallery, Glasgow
2002
Collaborative work with John Egan, Assembly Gallery, Glasgow
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
like the light at the beginning of the world, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2023
BEADS, Stations, Berlin, Germany
2022
Yugen, CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
2021
Feeling of Knowing, The Complex, Dublin, Ireland
The Museum of Ancient History, The Classical Museum, UCD, Dublin
2020
LINES, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
2019
and the days run away like wild horses over the hills, Scoil Lorcain, Seapoint, Dublin
from narrow provinces, Cample Line, Dumfriesshire, Scotland
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
2017
50 Years of Konrad Fischer Galerie 1967–2017, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Du?sseldorf, Germany
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, Germany
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
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
2010
The Alchemy of Material, Landesmuseum Münster, Germany
Arrivals & Departures Europe, Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, Italy
Leopards in the Temple, Sculpture Center, New York
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
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
GSS Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
2003
Royal Scottish Academy, City Arts Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland
2002
Group Show, Mitte, Berlin
2001
Aleana Egan / Robert Hardy, Assembly Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
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
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
