Alan Butler

♂ *1981 / Ireland

Works

Solo exhibitions

Ein Vorbild bildendes Abbild eines Bildes

EIKON Schauraum, Wien (AT)
3 Sep 2021 – 24 Oct 2021

Group

Afterimage

Photography in the Digital Age

Photo Museum Ireland, Dublin (IE)
11 Jul 2026 – 23 Aug 2026

with Gregory Eddi Jones, Maria Mavropoulou, Ailbhe Ni Bhriain, Ellen Phelan, Michael Schaefer, Linn Phyllis Seeger, Luke van Gelderen
THE ART OF NAVIGATION

How to Get Lost in a World of Images

Fundacion Foto Colectania, Barcelona (ES)
11 Jun 2025 – 21 Dec 2025

with Sara Bezovšek, James Bridle, Juan Covelli, Marie Foulston, Kyriaki Goni, Roc Herms, Esther Hovers, Rayane Jemaa, Josèfa Ntjam, Giath Taha
Foreword

The inaugural exhibition

Int. Centre for the Image, Dublin (IE)
17 Jul 2025 – 14 Sep 2025

with Basil Al-Rawi, Bassam Issa Al-Sabah and Jennifer Mehigan, Jean Curran, Eamonn Doyle, Anna Ehrenstein, David Farrell, Dominic Hawgood, Mishka Henner, Jakob Ganslmeier & Ana Zibelnik, Colin Martin, Abigail O'Brien, Alex Prager …
The artist's garden

Galerie Conrads, Berlin (DE)
4 Nov 2023 – 31 Jan 2024

with Rosemary Laing, Gabriela Oberkofler, Malick Sidibe, Luzia Simons, Kiki Smith
transmediale 2023: Or So It Seems

Akademie der Künste, Berlin (DE)
1 Feb 2023 – 26 Feb 2023

with Nina Davies, Simone C Niquille
How to Win at Photography

Photographers' Gallery, London (GB)
24 Jun 2022 – 25 Sep 2022

with Cory Arcangel, Aram Bartholl, Dorothee Baumann, Justin Berry, Claude Cahun, Cibelle Cavalli Bastos, Dries Depoorter & Max Pinckers, Constant Dullaart, Harun Farocki, Gloria López Cleries & Sive Hamilton Helle, Christopher Graves, Aneta Grzeszykowska …
How to Win at Photography

Image-Making as Play / Die Fotografie als Spiel

Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur (CH)
5 Jun 2021 – 10 Oct 2021

with Cory Arcangel, Aram Bartholl, Dorothee Baumann, Justin Berry, Julius Brauckmann, Claude Cahun, Cibelle Cavalli Bastos, Philipp Dorl, Dries Depoorter & Max Pinckers, Constant Dullaart, Harun Farocki, Beate Guetschow …
Back to the Future

The 19th Century in the 21st Century

C/O Berlin, Berlin (DE)
29 Sep 2018 – 2 Dec 2018

with Johan Oesterholm, Anna Atkins, Sylvia Ballhause, Karl Blossfeldt, BOWNIK, Matthew Brandt, Warren de la Rue, Wiliam England, Sam Falls, Henry Frères, Pietro Guidi, Spiros Hadjidjanos …
SITUATIONS/Posthuman

Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur (CH)
7 Jul 2018 – 16 Sep 2018

with Florian Amoser, Marek Jancovic, René Mächler, Jannemarein Renout, Joanna Zylinska

Events

6. Fotofestival Lenzburg

Synthesis

Fotofestival Lenzburg, Lenzburg (CH)
25 May 2024 – 23 Jun 2024

with Mattia Balsamini, Damaris Betancourt, Raphael Brunk, Markus Bühler, Cortis & Sonderegger, Luisa Doerr, Federico Estol, Johanna-Maria Fritz, Anja Furrer, Gabriele Galimberti, Maria Giovanna Giugliano, Jana Hartmann …
transmediale 2023: Or So It Seems

transmediale, Berlin (DE)
1 Feb 2023 – 5 Feb 2023

with Basma Alsharif, Tekla Aslanishvili, Neil Beloufa, Nina Davies, Simone C Niquille, Bahar Noorizadeh, Evan Roth
PhotoIreland 2022

PhotoIreland, Dublin (IE)
7 Jul 2022 – 28 Aug 2022

with Enda Bowe, Noel Bowler, Simon Burch, Cian Burke, Martin Cregg, Eamonn Doyle, Mark Duffy, Ciaran Dunbar, John Duncan, David Farrell, Kevin Fox, Paul Gaffney …
viennacontemporary 2021

viennacontemporary, Wien (AT)
2 Sep 2021 – 5 Sep 2021

with AES+F, Victoria Coeln, Boris Gaberscik, Kathi Hofer, Alexander Kuznetsov, Lucija Rosc
viennacontemporary 2020

viennacontemporary, Wien (AT)
24 Sep 2020 – 27 Sep 2020

with Hynek Alt, Nobuyoshi Araki, Hubert Blanz, Kilian Breier, Christophe Chabot, Anetta Mona Chisa, Katrina Daschner, Liam Gillick, Hámos Gusztáv, Michael Hoepfner, Anna Jermolaewa, Juergen Klauke …
PhotoIreland 2019

PhotoIreland, Dublin (IE)
1 May 2019 – 31 May 2019

with Nadim Asfar, Cian Burke, Cihad Caner , Anna Ehrenstein, Robert Ellis, Lucie Khakhoutian, Aisling McCoy, Yvette Monahan, Sarah Pannell, Luis Alberto Rodriguez, Jessica Wolfelsperger
Pixels in Focus

Video games & photography

Fotografiska Berlin, Berlin (DE)

with Marie Foulston, Chloé Galibert-Laîné, Edwin Lo Yun Ting