PAST EXHIBITIONS
The Complex visual art programme is different from most in Ireland because it is based on a particular grouping of artists rather than a concept. The curatorial approach is process-based, with a prolonged conversation between artists and curator shaping the exhibition concept in a collaborative way for up to 12 months. With the concept of hospitality as a foundation, the approach aims to avoid hierarchy and prescriptive traditions in exhibition-making, hosting artists and publics in ways that supports open discourse and inclusivity. The program emphasises building a community with each exhibition, encouraging experimentation and risk, and responding to the context of the building and locality of Dublin 7.
ELIZABETH HILLIARD
5.6.2024
DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
he world première of this exciting new performance piece will be performed alongside an other-worldl ...
ABEL SELAOCOE
5.6.2024
DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
Abel Selaocoe returns with the sure promise to engage and excite audiences in this exciting new venu ...
ON THE WATERFRONT
1.11.2024 - 16.11.2024
After the murder of his best friend, Terry Malloy faces the threat of physical danger to himself and ...
CONTINUE READING
1.5.2024 - 4.5.2024
A JOURNEY THROUGH SOUND, MOVEMENT & TECHNOLOGY
"Continue Reading" by Tadhg Kinsella is a sound exhibition exploring disability and queer identity t ...
TRAILS OF UNCERTAINTY
18.5.2024 - 31.5.2024
MARK BUCKERIDGE & VIVIENNE DICK
Mark and Vivienne have been shooting footage at these events to make a collaborative video work that ...
THE DEPOT SESSIONS
6.6.2024 - 7.6.2024
Announcing The Depot Sessions @ The Complex! The Depot Sessions are two summer nights of live music, ...
AENGUS HACKETT
5.4.2024 - 6.4.2024
TRIO ALBUM LAUNCH
Drawing on his diverse influences, Hackett’s music combines elements of jazz, rock and electronica ...
MIKKEL PLOUG TRIO
23.4.2024 - 24.4.2024
Star Danish jazz guitarist Mikkel Ploug stops in Dublin for one night only with his world-renowned t ...
ALCHEMIST DREAMING
28.3.2024 - 29.3.2024
A 10 YEAR RETROSPECTIVE BY AMANDA CULLEN
I welcome you to take your time and go on a journey through the space, surrounded by these images. ...
A SOD STATE
13.4.2024 - 27.4.2024
EOGHAN RYAN
Shown for the first time in Ireland, the film unravels a world of untrustworthy narration, wandering ...
DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
22.2.2024 - 2.3.2024
The Complex woll be hosting a series of events and talks as part of this years Dublin Film Festival ...
PALIMPSEST
13.3.2024 - 23.3.2024
COISCÉIM DANCE THEATRE
Coming Soon In March The Complex Presents Palimsests A New Production By Coiscéim Dance Theatre ...
BANANA ACCELERATIONISM
13.1.2024 - 25.1.2024
SEAN LYNCH & LAURA NÍ FHLAIBHÍN
The first set of thoughts around this exhibition can be traced back to the initial walk-throughs of ...
OTT WRESTLING
16.12.2023
NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL CHRISTMAS
Over The Top Wrestling Returns To The Complex in Dublin City For Its Christmas Party Event ! Featuri ...
A VERY DUBLIN MODULAR PANTO
22.12.2023
Welcome to the heart of Dublin's holiday cheer! Gather 'round for a very special celebration at A Ve ...
SCLIMPÍNÍ
10.12.2023
DANCING LIGHTS
A powerful show featuring 12 circus artists. Join us for a journey into the mist, the liminal space ...
ART FOR CONNECTION
26.11.2023
NANA KELEKHIDZE
Nana Kelekhidze is a Georgian Poet, artist, and translator. Her poems are published in Georgian peri ...
CLUB LOOSEN: SOBER RAVE NYE
31.12.2023
A New Year’s Eve sober rave/party happening in awesome warehouse venue in Dublin city centre ...
MACRO SENIOR CITIZENS PAINTING GROUP
22.11.2023 - 23.11.2023
During a friendly catch up with visual artist Sibyl Montague a few months back I found out that she ...
WAVE
2.12.2023
ANOTHER ONE
WAVE 2.0 is back again! A dance show that combines music, storytelling and movement, celebrating the ...
AL REDDAN
18.11.2023
SUPPORT BY ELLIE O'NEILL
Al Reddan is a songwriter originally from Tipperary ...
THE COPE
7.12.2023
ALBUM LAUNCH
THE COPE Launch THEIR DEBUT ALBUM “DANCER” @ The Complex ...
BAHI KUBO
10.11.2023 - 14.11.2023
AN EXHIBITION OF NEW WORK BY VIVIAN HANSBURY
‘Bahi Kubo ’is a lullaby about a little home in the Tagalog language of the Philippines. ...
NOCTURNAL ANIMALS
15.12.2023
PRESENT: NEXTUS
Dance with us at our trailblazing immersive Techno experience. ...
XMAS ARTS QUIZ 2023
6.12.2023
Calling all Arts Orgs it’s your time to shine at The Complex’s second annual Christmas Arts Quiz! ...
THE EXORCIST
30.11.2023
50TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING + Q&A
Kicking off our "WINTER OF DESPAIR" with a special screening of The Exorcist ...
ALTERNATING CURRENT 2023
26.10.2023 - 28.10.2023
Alternating Current, Dublin Digital Radio’s celebration of the experimental currents in contemporary ...
ACTS OF LIGHT
24.10.2023 - 25.10.2023
HILARY WOODS & GABRIEL FERRANDINI
Following excavations and explorations in intuition and physicality through sound which culminated i ...
ART IS MAGIC
21.10.2023
JEREMY DELLER
Join us at The Complex for an evening with the Turner prize-winning conceptual, video and installati ...
THE WEIGHT
8.11.2023 - 11.11.2023
This immersive new dance work created by Luca Truffarelli explores ideas of freedom and the individu ...
MEMORIES PIECED TOGETHER
30.9.2023 - 11.10.2023
PAUL MCGRANE
I have known Paul for a long time now. I have spent more hours in his studio talking to him about hi ...
MOVE – SET – MOVE
19.8.2023 - 2.9.2023
LUCY ANDREWS, ANDY FITZ, & KATIE WATCHORN
The months leading into this exhibition differed slightly from most as we zoomed to chat a lot, as o ...
DIZNEY IN DRAG: ONCE UPON A PARODY
19.7.2023 - 21.7.2023
THE HAIRY GODMOTHERS PRESENT DIZNEY IN DRAG: ONCE UPON UPON A PARODY AT THE COMPLEX
THE HAIRY GODMOTHERS PRESENT DIZNEY IN DRAG: ONCE UPON UPON A PARODY AT THE COMPLEX ...
MUSIC TOWN
27.7.2023 - 30.7.2023
An Essential Inspection And Celebration Of The State Of Irish Music In 2023. ...
WETWARE
22.3.2018
JANIS LIEPA, JULIE WEBER, HANNAH BLOOM, EMMA HOWE, PETER SMYTH, ALEX HARVEY & RICKY LAHART
This experimental exhibition explores ideas surrounding technology and its relationship to human exp ...
THE BLOOD-DIMMED TIDE LOOSED
17.5.2018
ELEANOR MC CAUGHEY
McCaughey contemplates impenetrable forces shaping our contemporary society, from the ideological to ...
COMPOSITION 2: NOTES ON BREATHING + SPACE
1.8.2018 - 14.8.2018
SIOBHAN KAVANAGH & ADAM GIBNEY
This project will combine live experimental vocal composition with generative technological assembla ...
HOW TO GROW (BLACK MOON)
18.1.2018 - 21.1.2018
AARON SMYTH ALEX DE ROECK CIARAN GALLEN MARK O'GORMAN PAUL MCGRANE &SOFYA MIKHAYLOVA
Six artists investigate the overlap of instant and eternal gratification that defines the contempora ...
HEED, TO THE MOUND
22.9.2018
EMMA BRENNAN
This video installation was made in the context of the INCUBATE studio residency in Draíocht,Blancha ...
TENDER PRIDE
24.6.2023
A block party is a party in which members of a community congregate, either to observe an event of s ...
ANTHROPOMORPHIA
10.6.2023 - 23.6.2023
MEL FRENCH & CELINE SHERIDAN
Anthropomorphiais a two-site Dublin exhibition by multidisciplinary Visual Artists Mel French and Ce ...
RUINING THE ACT
8.6.2023
Anxiety, people pleasing, going through the motions, existential dread; what do we do to fight and c ...
CLUB LOOSEN: SOBER RAVE
7.10.2023
Club Loosen - sober rave/party: Fun ravey-vibe energy. For people who want to enjoy themselves witho ...
WAIT
15.3.2012 - 23.3.2012
ANNEMARIE KILSHAW
This exhibition of works by Annmarie Kilshaw encourages the viewer to explore the concept of waiting ...
PAPER DOLLS
14.9.2011 - 19.9.2011
EMILY AOIBHEANN, ELAINE MCCAGUE, KAREN ANDERSON, NIAMH CREELY
Paper Dolls begins with a quiet ambient track with Emily Aoibheann coming centre stage walking along ...
COUPLE
23.6.2011 - 30.6.2011
NEROSUNERO
The Complex presents Couple by Nerosunero ...
SHUL
21.9.2012 - 9.10.2012
PAUL HICKEY, JUDY FOLEY, ROGER O’NEILL, JANE LOCKE
'Shul’ is a Tibetan word meaning a mark that remains behind ...
FRESH CUTS
17.8.2017 - 16.8.2017
CELINA MULDOON, DARREN YORKE, HEY MR DJ!, SARA FRENCH SUZI COOMBS, VICKEY CURTIS
LIVESTOCK presented Fresh Cuts, an evening of exciting new performance art. ...
QUEERSTOCK
20.1.2017
AMY GUILFOYLE, CIANA SPELMAN AND ANNE EBELING CIARAN O'KEEFFE, DAY MAGEE, DYLAN KERR, FRANCIS FAY, OLLIE BELL, PAUL FRANCIS QUINN, RYAN BACKER,STICKY BISCUITS, TALES FREY, THE PINK TRIANGLE, & VICKEY CURTIS
QUEERSTOCK" highlights work that pushes the norms of artistic expression. Thinking beyond the expect ...
BODY TALK
4.11.2016
ARTIST INCLUDE, ARTHUR CLAY, BRANWEN KAVANAGH,CIANA SPELLMAN, CIARÁN NASH, EMMA BRENNAN, KARMEL DALY, KATE MCELROY, LIESELLE MCMAHON, LISA FREEMAN, SARAH DIVINEY, VALERIE DRISCOLL
Livestock presents ‘Body Talk.' ...
GET REAL
30.10.2017
ARTISTS INCLUDE, ROBERY SUCHY, AUSTIN HEARNE, ANNE EBELING, TARA CARROLL,ROB MCGLADE,SIOBHAN KELLY,ROBBIE MAGUIRE, EL PUTNAM, PAULA GUZZANTI, JOAN SOMERS DONNELLY, AINE O'HARA, MICHAL LUBINKSI
The Complex presents "Get Real" ...
STREAM
20.4.2017 - 23.4.2017
ALEX DE ROECK, BASSAM AL-SABAH, PADDY JOE RICKARD, PAUL MCGRANE, PEADER JOLIFFE BYRNE, LEONARD TRAYNOR, MARK O'GORMAN, RONAN O'REILLY
The concept behind Stream is to provide a platform for recent graduates ...
RAMP
25.2.2016 - 28.2.2016
ROGER O'NEIL
O'Neill's semi representational paintings form “almost landscapes” where geometric forms and shapes ...
STILL
6.10.2016 - 9.10.2016
ANNEMARIE KILSHAW, ANGELA MCDONAGH, AUSTIN HEARNE, CELINA MULDOON
“Still” brings together four artists that are actively engaged with contemporary live art and instal ...
EMBER
21.12.2017
EL PUTNAM, & DAVID STALLING
Ember is a multimedia performance encompassing live action and electroacoustic improvisation. Fibre ...
STREAM PRESENTS SANDMAN
27.7.2017 - 2.8.2017
LÉANN HERLIHY, STEPHEN LAU, MARK O'GORMAN, RONAN O'REILLY, & PAUL MCGRANE
For Stream’s second exhibition, we are asking the artists involved to produce work which considers t ...
DUBLIN LIVE ART FESTIVAL
17.8.2017 - 20.8.2017
REVEREND BILLY, MARTIN O' REILLY, ROBERT HESP, RIHAMMON ARMSTRONG, UMAMA HAMIDO, LIVESTOCK, GARETH CUTTER, & JOHANNA ZWAIG
Dublin Live Art Festival (DLAF) was founded in 2012 by live performance artist and curator Niamh Mur ...
THE CHILD SHE DIDN'T WANT,BUT THE STATE DID
24.5.2017
LEANN HERLIHY
Taking place on the eve of the Irish Referendum to legalise abortion 'the child She didn't want, but ...
STREAM AT CULTURE NIGHT
20.9.2017 - 23.9.2017
EILEEN HUTTON, KEVIN SMITH, PAUL ROSSER
Stream is a trio of artists that organises, curates and presents exhibitions. Stream will occupy the ...
HOW TO GROW GUM X STREAM
18.1.2018 - 21.1.2018
AARON SMYTH, ALEX DE ROECK, CIARAN GALLEN, MARK O'GORMAN,PAUL MCGRANE, SOFYA MIKHAYLOVA
Six artists investigate the overlap of instant and eternal gratification that defines the contempora ...
STREAM 2
10.5.2018 - 17.5.2018
ALEX DE ROECK, CIARAN GALLEN, MARK O'GORMAN, PADDY JOE RICKARD PAUL MCGRANE, PEADAR JOLLIFFE-BYRNE LEONARD TRAYNOR, RONAN O'REILLY
STREAM is a practitioner founded group of Dublin based artists. ...
COMPOSITION 2: NOTES ON BREATHING + SPACE
2.8.2018 - 14.8.2018
SIOBHAN KAVANAGH, ADAM GIBNEY
Combines live experimental vocal composition with generative technological assemblages which will re ...
STREAM PRESENTS BUNKER
24.5.2019 - 27.5.2019
LOUISA CASAS, ALEX DE ROECK, JANE FOGARTY, RIIN KALJURAND, PAUL MCGRANE, MARK O'GORMAN, & RONAN O'REILLY
STREAM have stumbled upon a forgotten art storage space in Mary's Abbey, Dublin 7. ...
DISPLAY, LINK & CURE
13.9.2019 - 26.9.2019
GLENN FITZGERALD, LILIANE PUTHOLD, RICHARD PROFFITT, & SIBYL MONTAGUE
Inspired by the Ground Floor Gallery’s new location adjacent to the Victorian Fruit Market in Dublin ...
FAR FROM HERE
9.11.2019 - 21.11.2019
ROBERT DUNNE, BARBARA KNEZEVIC, & PADRAIG SPILLANE
An out-of-place artifact (OOPArt) is an artifact of historical, archaeological, or paleontological i ...
THE GAP BETWEEN NOISE
6.12.2019 - 14.12.2019
ELAINE GRAINGER
The gap between noise is a site - specific installation by visual artist Elaine Grainger. This is th ...
CROSSINGS
13.2.2020 - 27.2.2020
FRANCES DISLEY, DAVID JACQUES, BRENDAN LYONS, & PAUL ROONEY
The Complex presents Crossings a group show reflecting a sample of Liverpool’s contemporary art scen ...
ALL ONE
6.3.2020 - 18.3.2020
TINE GÜNTHER
The Complex was delighted to welcome the work of Leipzig based artist Tine Günther to the Ground Flo ...
WE OFTEN FORGET
24.7.2020 - 4.8.2020
JOHN BUSHER
Working over a period of 18 months, artist John Busher has often traded back and forth between paint ...
CEREMONY
19.9.2020 - 30.9.2020
ANN ENSOR & AUSTIN HEARNE
For Culture Night The Complex presented a duo exhibition, showcasing the works of two artists schedu ...