Galway Arts Center
10.00am - 5.30pm, Mon - Sat, 12.00pm - 5.30pm, Sun

Guy Ben-Ner - Second Nature

HD video, color, sound

Guy Ben-Ner born in 1969 in Israel is a video artist whose work represented Israel in 2005 Venice Biennale. He participated in Skulptur Projekte Münster in 2007. He is currently having a mid-career survey exhibition at MassMOCA and will premiere a new work at Performa Biennial in New York in November 2009.

Photograph courtesy of the Artist and Postmasters Gallery, New York

Galway Arts Center
10.00am - 5.30pm, Mon – Sat 12.00pm - 5.30pm, Sun

Cleary & Connolly - R V B

Digital Video
Images Denis Connolly and Anne Cleary
Sound Denis Connolly with Dinahbird

Living and working in Paris and working frequently in Dublin, Anne Cleary and Denis Connolly’s recent ensemble of work ‘HereThereNowThen’, first exhibited at LCGA in Limerick, Ireland, regrouped at the Pompidou Centre in winter 2008, for an exhibition entitled Pour quoi pas Toi ?. Their work has been exhibited worldwide including at the Yokohama Triennial in Japan, the Czech National Gallery in Prague, the Museum of Modern Art in Marseille. They are currently presenting their interactive works at Sesc Pompéia in Sao Paulo in the exhibition Sombras e Luz (Ombres et Lumières, Cité des sciences et de l’industrie, Paris ). In 2008 their work was featured at the Forum of Cognitive Science at the Cité Internationale Universitaire in Paris. Cleary and Connolly were awarded the AIB prize 2009.

Galway Arts Centre
10.00am - 5.30pm, Mon - Sat 12.00pm - 5.30pm, Sun

Clare Langan - Metamorphosis

16mm anamorphic film transferred to DVD
with 5.1 surround sound

Clare Langan has exhibited worldwide, including most recently representing Ireland at Sounds and Visions , Art Film and Video from Europe , Museum of Modern Art, Tel Aviv (February 2009). In 2008 ‘Metamorphosis’ was exhibited in the Singapore Biennial (2008), curated by Fumio Nanjo, won the Principle Prize at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Germany and was exhibited at the Lyon Biennale; Houldsworth Gallery, London; Loop, Barcelona; NCA Gallery, Tokyo; Pratt Art Gallery New York and the Miguel Marcos Gallery, Barcelona. She represented Ireland in the 25th Bienal de Sao Paulo (2002), Brazil with ‘Too dark for night’. ‘A Film trilogy’ was exhibited at The International 2002, Tate Liverpool, The Liverpool Biennial.

Galway Arts Centre
10.00am - 5.30pm, Mon - Sat 12.00pm - 5.30pm, Sun

Dennis McNulty - location/ translation

Mixed Media Installation

McNulty represented Ireland at the São Paulo Bienal in 2004 and returned in 2008 with the collaborative multidisciplinary project ‘Weightless Days’. He was awarded a residency at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris in 2005. Recent shows include, The sound I’m looking for , Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver (2008), Landscape 08, The Dock, Carrick On Shannon (2008). Solo shows include dx/dt at VOID, Derry (2006) and most recently framework /rupture at Green On Red, Dublin (2008), which was accompanied by the seminar AFTERTHOUGHTS. Curatorial projects include Underground, Dublin (2008) and Volume at Temple Bar Galley & Studios (2009).