Exhibition
CREATIVE PATHWAYS - DÉAD
![CREATIVE PATHWAYS - DÉAD Writing: DÉAD](/resources/files/png141/creative-pathways-event-website-v2-formatkey-png-w320m.png)
Immersive art exhibition DÉAD* celebrates the cultural legacy of "Dracula" and "Nosferatu"
This interdisciplinary art exhibition draws on immersive technologies to celebrate the legacy of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula and Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau’s classic silent film Nosferatu.
Through virtual reality (VR) installations, 3D animations, video projections, sculptures and more, the exhibition brings vampires, monsters and the undead to life and invites visitors to Merrion Square to explore topics including life cycles, (im)mortality, and transience.
Created by students and recent graduates from six notable arts colleges in Ireland and Germany, the exhibition has emerged from the Creative Pathways programme, an initiative established by the Irish Embassy in Berlin to bring together students and lecturers based in both countries to develop collaborative and interdisciplinary artworks.
At the start of the programme, artists based in Ireland were paired with artists based in Germany. Artists with complimentary skillsets and practices were matched and their collaboration was guided by lecturers from participating colleges.
The current edition of Creative Pathways is run in partnership with the Goethe-Institut in Ireland. The students and graduates come from a wide range of artistic disciplines, including fine art, drama and theatre, film, and sound art. Through their interdisciplinary work, they explore the joint German-Irish heritage of Dracula and Nosferatu, and raise intriguing questions about life, death and the complexity of the human condition.
DÉAD will open at the Goethe-Institut Irland on Friday, 22 September (Culture Night) and run until Friday, 27 October 2023.
*'Déad' is the Irish word for ‘set of teeth’.
Gallery Opening Hours
Monday - Thursday 10:00am – 9:00pm
Friday 10:00am – 5.00pm
Saturday 10:00am – 3:00pm
Closed on Saturdays of Bank Holidays
Please note that due to the protected structure of the Georgian building the exhibition is only partially wheelchair accessible.
More about the exhibition pieces
EVERGREEN
![Evergreen a human form cut from gras laying on the ground. © Sona Smedkova Evergreen](/resources/files/png140/evergreen-formatkey-png-w320m.png)
Kindly supported by Dublin City Council.
SUSURRATION
![Susurration Video Screen with red and abstract shapes © Stefany Smolkina/Dunk Murphy Susurration](/resources/files/png140/susurration-formatkey-png-w320m.png)
ASHES TO DUST / LAment of Light
![Ashes to Dust Video installation showing a small dog © © Patryk Kujawa Ashes to Dust](/resources/files/png140/ashes-to-dust-formatkey-png-w320m.png)
Ana / Pack of Cigarettes
![Pack of Cigarettes A pack of cigarettes shaped like a coffin © © Maximiliano Sinani / Melissa Morrigan Pack of Cigarettes](/resources/files/png140/pack-of-cigarettes-formatkey-png-w320m.png)
Deathlocked Phoenix
![Deathlocked Phoenix installation including a tree, a red painting and a vampire © Adrian Q. Vardi / Manuel McCarthy Deathlocked Phoenix](/resources/files/png140/deathlocked-phoenix-formatkey-png-w320m.png)
Last Body, Last Territory
![Last Body Last Territory VR installation showing mutated animal © © Rocío Romero Grau / John Flindt Last Body Last Territory](/resources/files/png140/last-body-last-territory-formatkey-png-w320m.png)
The following arts colleges and lecturers are participating in the Creative Pathways programme:
ATU – Atlantic Technological University Galway (Ben Geoghegan)
UCC – University College Cork (Bernadette Cronin)
UL – University of Limerick (Jürgen Simpson)
HGB – Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst / Akademie der Bildenden Künste Leipzig (Clemens von Wedemeyer / Dieter Daniels)
Städelschule – Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt am Main (Gerard Byrne)
HfBK - Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden (Susan Philipsz)
Presented by the Goethe-Institut Irland in cooperation with the Embassy of Ireland in Berlin.
Kindly supported by Dublin City Council.
Press Coverage
Irish Tech News - 9 September 2023
Dublin.ie
Books Ireland
The Irish Times Book Club Newsletter
The Irish Times - Culture Night
Details
Goethe-Institut Irland
37 Merrion Square
D02 XK52 Dublin
Price: Admission free
+353 (1) 6801100