Basic Talks: Eoghan Ryan

For the months of October, November and December 2026, Hugh Lane Gallery & Basic Talks are delighted to have the Basic Talks programme hosted by the TU Dublin School of Art & Design, Grangegorman, Dublin 7.

Join us for a Basic Talks with Eoghan Ryan on Thursday 12 November at 12.30pm .

Eoghan Ryan works across moving image, installation, performance, puppetry, text and collage to explore how power circulates socially and through mediated culture, and how working from within existing systems can create space to question the structures that sustain their authority.

His process involves sustained periods of editing, documentation and attention to specific people, sites, objects or songs, shaping these encounters into fable-like reflections on how individual experience and shared narratives become entangled within broader institutional environments, ranging from states of being and nation-states to the cultivation of provisional cultures, in art as in bacteria. He is currently interested in how histories of community action intersect with faith, and in the contradictions that emerge when movements grounded in pacifism and social justice come into alignment with compromised moral, political or religious positions.

Selected exhibitions and performances include Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh (UK); Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede (NL); De Appel (NL); EVA International 2025 (IRE); IMMA (IRE); Ilmin Museum of Art (KR); Viewmaster Projects (NL); Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (IT); Haus für Medienkunst (DE); Centrale Fies (IT); Busan Biennale 2022 (KR); Kunstverein Freiburg (DE); South London Gallery (UK); and Serralves Museum (PT). Selected screenings include BFMAF 2026 (UK); Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2026 (DE); BFI Film Festival and ICA London (UK); IFFR (NL); and IFI, Dublin (IRE).

He completed an MFA at Goldsmiths (2013), attended the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (2019–21), and participated in VISIO European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images (2021). He received the Stiftung Niedersachsen Grant for Media Art (2024), took part in the Dwell Here residency at IMMA (2025), and currently holds a Project Studio at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin.

Free, book or come on the day subject to availability.

Basic Talks is a series of talks with leading contemporary practitioners. Curated by Basic Space in partnership with Hugh Lane Gallery, BASIC TALKS is a platform for lectures, workshops, presentations, and performances. Speakers include artists, curators, writers, and critics who will generate discourse on producing, framing and exhibiting art. BASIC TALKS is a collaboration between Basic Space and the Hugh Lane Gallery, exploring alternatives in the dissemination of contemporary art and its discourses.

Location: TU Dublin School of Art and Design is located in the East Quad building , Grangegorman campus, Dublin 7 (D07 XFF2).

The room that the talk is being held in is EQ 112. To find the room, go to East Quad reception and take…