Andréhn-Schiptjenko is proud to announce representation of Ailbhe Ní Bhriain, following her solo exhibition with the gallery earlier this year.
Ailbhe Ní Bhriain’s practice is concerned with how histories are constructed, mediated and transmitted through images, objects and institutions. Working across film, photomontage, CGI, tapestry and installation, she creates layered visual environments that draw on archival material, historical photography, museum displays and sites of architectural or environmental ruin. Ní Bhriain’s work is marked by an associative use of narrative and a meticulously crafted visual language that verges on the surreal. She sidesteps directive positions and familiar binaries, exposing instead the layers of ambiguity and contradiction embedded in fraught issues.
Ailbhe Ní Bhriain, (b. 1978, Clare, Ireland) received a BA from the Crawford College of Art, Cork, an MA from the Royal College of Art, London and a PhD from Kingston University, UK. Her work has been exhibited widely at venues including Broad Art Museum, (Michigan), the 16th Lyon Biennale (France), Gagosian–Deitch Projects (Miami), Irish Museum of Moden Art (Dublin), Whitechapel Gallery (London), Centre for Contemporary Art (Glasgow), Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), and Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid).
She lives and works in Cork, Ireland and is also represented by the Kerlin Gallery in Dublin.
Portrait of Ailbhe Ní Bhriain 2025. © Hugh Lane Gallery
