BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Incorporated as a non-profit art organisation in May 2025, Kunstverein Projects CLG is goverened by a Board of Directors. The members of the Board of Directors are Clíodhna Shaffrey, Dónall Curtin, Dr. Linda Doyle, and Rosie Lynch (Chairperson).
Clíodhna Shaffrey is director of Temple Bar Gallery + Studios Dublin. She has an MA in Curatorial Studies from Goldsmiths College London and a BA from Trinity College Dublin in Art History and Sociology. She has worked for many years in the arts as an independent curator, local authority arts officer and was a former Visual Arts Advisor to Arts Council Ireland. In 2022 she was part of the curatorial team for Niamh O’Malley’s Gather, representing Ireland at the 59th Biennale di Venezia. She is a board member of Kunstverein Aughrim, Esker Arts Centre, County Offaly and Eblana Ensemble and is Chair of the Golden Fleece Award 2024-2025.
Dónall Curtin is an experienced accountant, board director and business leader with a background in Finance, Corporate Governance, Audit and Risk Management who is highly skilled with extensive experience in both the public and private sectors. Board directorships include Green Effects Investments plc, Arts Council, Office of Government Procurement, Irish College Leuven, and Early Childhood Ireland. Dónall founded one of Ireland’s leading accountancy practices. Dónall is a strong advocate of ensuring that best practice and good corporate governance exist within the boardroom and ensuring relevant structures within businesses to facilitate adoption of organizational values throughout. He is an avid supporter of the arts, having consulted with and advocated on behalf of several organisations in Ireland, UK, France and USA and Dónall was appointed to the Arts Council in 2018 for a period of 5 years.
Dr Linda Doyle is the Provost and President of Trinity College Dublin. She was previously Professor of Engineering and The Arts in Trinity and served as Trinity’s Dean & Vice President of Research (2018-2020). She was also the founding Director of CONNECT - Ireland's national research centre for future communication networks - with 300 researchers across ten higher education institutions. Combining creative arts practices with engineering for many years, she founded the Orthogonal Methods Group (OMG) - a research initiative that works in critical and creative tension with technology with the purpose of generating knowledges, insights and alternative research orientations across disciplines that are sometimes perceived to be mutually exclusive.
Rosie Lynch is the Creative Director of Workhouse Union, a community co-design and creative placemaking organisation based in Callan, Co. Kilkenny. Workhouse Union facilitates community-led processes that support local decision-making at a neighbourhood level. Rooted in care and collaboration, their approach uses creativity to bring people together around complex issues, needs and challenges. Rosie is a member of the team leading the ten-year Nimble Spaces/Inclusive Neighbourhood community-led housing project in Callan, and she has recently supported the development of Trí Síolta Community Land Trust. She remains actively involved in and committed to community-led housing advocacy in Ireland.
ADVISORY PANEL
We draw advice and expertise from our International advisory panel, meeting irregularly to discuss the development, vision, direction, and artistic programme of Kunstverein Projects CLG. Members of the advisory panel have included Yana Foqué, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, Yazan Khalili, and Sukhdev Sandu among others. The assessment panel for our Creative Producer Programme Open Call in 2025 included the expertise of Aude Christel Mgba, Lara Khaldi and Krist Gruijthuijsen.
POLICIES
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