September: An exhibition without borders
September: An exhibition without borders
September 18 @ 10:00 am – October 16 @ 6:00 pm IST
Multidisciplinary exhibition presented by Green on Red Gallery
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Artists
Kirstin Arndt
Alan Butler
Brian Hegarty
Tom Hunter
Július Koller
Scott Lyall
Niamh McCann
Nigel Rolfe
Nil Yalter
Full Event Details
Green On Red Gallery is delighted to announce September an exhibition of new and existing works by gallery artists plus new artists.
New to the gallery are Drogheda-based artist and curator Brian Hegarty and the late Slovakian artist and stalwart of Eastern European avant-garde from the 1960’s on, Július Koller (d. 2007). Gallery artists include Kirstin Arndt (drawings), Alan Butler (deskscapes), Tom Hunter, Scott Lyall (painting), Niamh McCann (polished brass silkscreen) Nigel Rolfe (photoworks) and Nil Yalter (video).
September is a cross-section of artists working in a wide variety of media and from many different cultures, partly to emphasise the beauty of open borders and open minds.
There isn’t a fixed theme to September but the show will allow the artists’ works to set the conversation and to create an open dialogue between multiple worldviews from different eras. September – An Exhibition without Borders runs at the Green on Red Gallery Dublin from 18 September to 16 October 2026, 10am-6pm, Monday to Friday weekly. Green on Red Gallery is situated at Park Lane, Spencer Dock, Dublin 1, D01 Y821.
Green on Red Gallery
The Green On Red Gallery began in 1992 and has since become one of Ireland’s most dynamic and exciting galleries. We represent some of the best contemporary work on the market, both Irish and international. The programme is based on 6-7 solo exhibitions and 2-3 group or thematic exhibitions per year. Green On Red Gallery participates in international art fairs and the gallery’s artists regularly exhibit abroad in both private and public venues.
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Speaker Biographies:
Brian Hegarty
Hegarty’s practice sits somewhere between painting, sculpture, and assemblage, and resists settling into any one of them. Working with found and everyday materials, mainly paper and card he builds layered surfaces through accumulation, alteration, and repair.
Rather than hiding how the works are made, they are self-explanatory. Visible seams, exposed edges, runny glue, the evidence of the hand are all apparent and exposed. Cutting, folding, layering, and gluing are both method and meaning — structures built provisionally, likely to fail, not built to last. This instability isn’t separate from the work’s meaning; it is the meaning, mirroring an existential unease the work doesn’t resolve, only makes visible, and briefly, holds together.
Brian Hegarty is an artist based in Drogheda County Louth. He was born in Dublin in 1970 and graduated from D.I.T. College of Fine Art in 1994. He has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally. He runs thirtythree-45, a multi-platform arts project working independently and in collaboration with other artists, musicians, and arts organisations. Most recently he initiated The KIOSK Project Art Space, a small artist-run project space on Narrow West Street in Drogheda.
Július Koller
Delving beyond art as a practice, Koller’s work explores art as a medium of cultural action. In a bid to investigate communications and actions beyond their institutional and political definitions his work hones its focus on everyday gestures and rituals. In doing so he creates the concept of “‘cultural institutions”.
In late 1980s Czechoslovakia, Koller found himself deeply concerned with the Czechoslovakian Spring liberation. This event saw Warsaw troops invade Czechoslovakia in a bid to suppress the Spring liberation process within the region. At the same time, there was an exponential growth in the economic shift to a globally driven free market society. This period of change prompted much reflection – specifically the contradiction of Utopia and real life. Here his series U.F.O.-naut J.K. was conceived. An almost life-long series of self-portraits released annually, many pieces feature Koller himself using ironic gestures and using wildly various symbols and everyday objects like nets, tennis rackets, table-tennis bats, his own head of hair, and so on.
The (otznik) question mark recurs throughout his work. As the collection evolves so does the question mark. He weaves the symbol in throughout a wide variety of materials and formats. The symbol serves not only as a reference and prompt to question politics, society and environment but also as a universal term: it stood for openness, willingness to explore, uncertainty and doubt. In his work Meditacia / Meditation (U.F.O.) 1983 Július is pictured with his head perched and eyes closed, holding only a piece of paper. The piece of paper contains a small pencil illustration – a circle drawn unsteadily. This sketch encapsulates the spirit of the man. Here too, the subject of free expression has become an inquiry, one that is not only focused on social conditions but on one’s own capacity for action.
For an Irish equivalent, think the late Maurice O’Connell, an art rogue, a performer, a wanderer and a unique presence in the Irish art world of the 1990s. He took part in the first Manifesta ( 1996 ), Europe’s only Nomadic Biennial of Contemporary Art. He had a solo exhibition The Last Great Buffalo Hunt in Green on red Gallery in 1997.
Nil Yalter
Born in Cairo and raised in Istanbul, Nil Yalter is a pioneering Turkish artist whose work has been shaped by her experiences across different cultures, traditions and political landscapes. Drawing on her Anatolian heritage while embracing the experimental possibilities of contemporary art, Yalter has developed a practice that spans more than five decades.
Her work explores migration, identity, feminism and social justice through the stories of those often overlooked. Combining visual art, performance, technology and traditions drawn from oral and visual cultures, Yalter examines the resilience and complexity of human experience while giving voice to marginalised communities and questioning the social and political structures that shape their lives.
In Lord Byron Meets the Shaman Woman (2009), Nil Yalter draws on her longstanding interest in shamanism, nomadic cultures and the cultural histories of Anatolia to revisit the figure of the female shaman. Combining performance, costume, archival imagery and text, the work pays tribute to women who occupied significant spiritual, social and intellectual roles within their communities. By staging an imagined encounter between the shaman woman and Lord Byron, Yalter brings together different histories and cultural perspectives, questioning how identities and traditions have been represented and understood.
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