BASIC TALKS ~ Eoghan Ryan ~ November 2026, TU Dublin
12.30pm, 12/11/2026
TU Dublin, Grangegorman Campus, Dublin 7
Basic Space is delighted to present Eoghan Ryan for our November BASIC TALK - 12.30pm on Thursday the 12th of November 2026, TU Dublin, Grangegorman Campus, D7.
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 long 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.
BASIC TALKS is a series of informal talks with leading contemporary practitioners. Curated by Basic Space in partnership with the Hugh Lane Gallery, BASIC TALKS is an open platform for lectures, workshops, presentations and performances. Speakers include artists, curators, writers and critics who generate discourse on producing, framing and exhibiting art.
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For the months of October, November and December 2026, Hugh Lane Gallery & Basic Space are delighted to have the Basic Talks programme hosted by the TU Dublin School of Art & Design, Grangegorman, Dublin 7.
This talk is presented as part of the HLG Explore & Learn offsite programmes during the Gallery’s period of temporary closure.
How to get to TU Dublin:
TU Dublin School of Art and Design is located in the East Quad building, Grangegorman campus, Dublin 7 (D07 XFF2).
The talk will be held in room EQ-203 located on the second floor and is directly opposite the main lifts - you can also use the maze map to find room EQ-203.
The building is served well by public transport with both the Luas Red Line (Smithfield stop) and the Luas Green line (Broadstone stop) close by. https://www.luas.ie/ . Further information about getting to our campus can be found here: Grangegorman | Getting Here | TU Dublin