info – SUSI GELB

ABOUT

In Susi Gelb’s artistic cosmos, the boundaries between nature and technology, the organic and the artificial, are blurred and ultimately dissolved. The artist oscillates between the concepts of control and chance, merging algorithm, randomness, entropy and material agency, to create environments that lead a certain life of their own.

In the studio, Susi Gelb is something of an alchemist – testing materials, processes, new technologies, interactions. Outside she is highly aware of the context. This is how a sculpture may glow in the dark, with its embedded phosphorescence. And this is also how a palm tree grows impossibly in the middle of Odeonsplatz in Munich. Her multimedia installations modify the perception of space, physics, time.

Susi Gelb (born 1985 in Bad Tölz, Germany) is based in Berlin, Germany. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 2014. She has been artist in residence Fogo Island Arts (Newfoundland, Canada), at w-o-l-k-e (Brussels, Belgium) and Malimage Monitor Center (Sri Lanka). She recently exhibited at Nir Altman (Munich, Germany), Like a little disaster (Polignano a Mare, Italy), der Stuhl (Seoul, South Korea), Museum Schloss Moyland (Bedburg-Hau, Germany), The Lighthouse (Zurich, Switzerland), and at Frieze London within the Curated Section (London, UK). In 2015 Susi Gelb co-founded the nomadic artist-run space easy!upstream in Munich, and has curated several exhibitions.

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Born in Bad Tölz, DE
Based in Berlin, DE

Since 2015 Susi Gelb co-operates the nomadic artist-run space easy!upstream

Prizes and Residencies
2023 Resicency, The Arctic Hideaway, Bodo, NO
2021 Neustart Kultur Stipend, DE
2019 Leif Rumke Prize, Prague / Munich, EU
2019 Residency, Fogo Island, Newfoundland, CA
2018 Bavarian Art Award, Munich, DE
2017 Studio Grant, Bavaria, DE
2017 Residency at Malimage Monitor Center, Hikkaduwa, LK
2016 First prize, competition by invitation „Public Art Munich 2017“, DE
2014 Residency, w-o-l-k-e, Brussels, BE
2013 Catalogue Grant by lfa Bank, Munich, DE
2010-2014 Federal Grant for emerging artists, Cusanuswerk Bonn, DE

Education
2014 Diploma, Academy of Fine Arts Munich
2014 Master Student of Professor Olaf Metzel
2013 First State Examination, Academy of Fine Arts Munich
2008-2014 Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Germany, with Professor Magdalena Jetelová, Professor Olaf Metzel, Professor Julian Rosefeldt
2009-2014 Residencies in South Korea, Portugal, Belgium, Serbia, Kosovo, Georgia, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Turkey

Lectures and Artist Talks
2022 Capri-Batterie, Artist Talk with Dr. Alexander Grönert, Museum Schloss Moyland, Kleve, DE
2022 Vortices, artist talk, Lighthouse, Zurich, CH
2019 Polar Vortex, Artist Talk, Fogo Island Arts, Newfoundland, CA
2018 Mythological systems, Artist Talk, Citrus North, Munich, DE
2018 Artist Talk at Platform, Munich, DE
2014 Encyclopedia, Artist Talk at Klasse Metzel, Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, DE
2010-2013 organisation of the lecture and workshop series jour fixe at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Ayse Erkmen, Mona Hatoum, Santiago Sierra, Monica Bonvicini, Bruce LaBruce, Daniel Buren, Wolfgang Tillmans, Hans Haacke et al.

Solo and Duo Exhibitions
2025 Easy abyss, strobe, New York, USA (upcoming)
2024 Soft liquids hard shells, with Davide Allieri, Kunstraum Konrad, Puchberg am Schneeberg, AT
2023 Art Cologne, with Josephine Baker, Cologne, DE
2023 Unsee, Nir Altman, Munich, DE
2023 Wanderer, with Geum Bi Hwang 금, Der Stuhl, Seodaemun-Gu, Seoul, KR
2023 C, with Niko Abramidis &NE, Marathokampos, Samos, GR
2023 Liste Art Fair Basel, CH
2022 LOOPZRING, Lighthouse, Zurich, CH
2021 Reality is a Fake, with Catalin Pislaru, Artissima, Turin, IT
2021 Unworlding, curated by Cedric Fauq, Frieze London, UK
2021 T2051MCC, Bellevue di Monaco, Munich, DE
2020 User-defined landscape, Nir Altman, Munich, DE
2019 49°, with Niko Abramidis &NE, Fogo Island Arts, Newfoundland, CA
2018 MYTHE EN PLACE, with Regine Rode, Cité Internationale, Paris, FR
2018 Fluidity device, Escape Hatch, New York, USA
2017 NO SUCH THINGS GROW HERE, public art project, Munich, DE
2015 Field office, Menath Metal Museum, Puchheim, DE
2015 Full size original ∞ loading, with Gabi Blum, Kunstarkaden, Munich, DE
2014 Night yellow, w-o-l-k-e, Brussels
2014 Results, easy II, Headegg, Munich
2014 Unspaced measures, Diploma Show, Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
2013 Enzyklopädie von S bis G, curated by Felix Gaudlitz, Knust x Kunz, Munich
2012 ESC, with Carola Keitel, Galerija FLU, Belgrade

Group Exhibitions

2024
Invited, Werkschauhalle, Spinnerei Leipzig, DE
Serpentinite, PAW, Karlsruhe, DE
Nature is never finished, Galerie Borchardt, Hamburg, DE

2023
An insurmountable tension to the level of an incommensurability, Like a Little Disaster, Polignano a Mare, IT
Control and Coincidence, Villa Grunewald, Berlin, DE

2022
Jahresgaben Kunstverein München, Munich, DE
Backbord, Steuerbord, Empfangshalle Munich, DE
Kritamon Oracle, Marathokampos, Samos, GR
Amid Summer Night, Auction for Joan Jonas, Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE
100 Jahre Joseph Beuys, Gegenüberstellungen, Museum Schloss Moyland, DE

2021
Jahresgaben Kunstverein München, Munich, DE
100 Jahre Joseph Beuys, Gegenüberstellungen, Museum Schloss Moyland, Kleve, DE
Various Others, Nir Altman, Munich, DE

2020
Jahresgaben, Kunstverein München, Munich, DE
TROST, Galerie der Künstler, Munich, DE
transformative figures, Schaulager Basel, CH
ground level, Berlin, DE

2019
Jahresgaben, Kunstverein München, DE
Disruptive Scenario, Z Common Ground, Munich, DE
Inspiration Meisterwerk, Museum Villa Roth, Burgrieden-Roth, DE
Imitations, Kunsthaus Raab, Munich, DE

2018
Jahresgaben, Kunstverein München, Munich
CITRUS NORTH (artist & curator), Schwabinger Tor, Munich
I shot Mercury to make this exhibition, Galerie Nir Altman, Munich

2017
Jahresgaben, Kunstverein München, Munich, DE
PIN. Auction, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, DE
3000 years Rhadamanthys Foundation, easy!upstream, Munich, DE

2016
Jahresgaben, Kunstverein München, Munich, DE
Spreez at Dash, Dash Gallery, Kortrijk, BE
Coral North (artist & curator), Schwabinger Tor, Munich, DE
Machinery (artist & curator)/ easy!upstream Munich, DE
Hybrids, Curated by We Are Hercules, Agip Gas Station, Munich, DE
Upstream!edition (artist & curator), easy!upstream Munich, DE

2015
Art Unanchored, M.S. Stadt Wien, Vienna, AT
It’s more like an elevator, Halle 12 Werkschau, Leipzig, DE
Animal Friends, RSTR4, Munich, DE
Jahresgaben, Kunstverein München, Munich, DE
Idle upgrade illusion, easy!upstream Munich, DE

2014
Infame Esilio, studio5, Berlin, DE

2013
Quarterly Statement, easy!upstream, Munich, DE
Take the manet and run, AdBK, Munich, DE
II:NA-EN-DE-NA-EN-DE-NA-WIDA:II, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, DE
I Never Read, Art Book Fair Basel, Volkshaus Basel, CH

2012
Doublings, curated by Gregor Schneider, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin, DE
Underworld, Galerie f5,6, Munich, DE

2011
group Noordkaap EU Tour, Istanbul, TR
group Jetklasse Tbilisi, Tiflis, GE

2010
Pullout, Space Hamilton, Seoul, KR
Jetklasse Seoul, Space Hamilton and Gallery27, Seoul, KR
Kunst und Klima, Munich Re Insurance, Munich, DE
Hermetisch Zwart, Eergiehuis Dordrecht, NL
Zimmer frei, Hotel Mariandl, Munich, DE
art goes green, Praterinsel Munich, DE
Goldenes Dorf, Ruhr.2010, Recklinghausen, DE
Kunstmeile Mainburg, Mainburg, DE

2009
Jetklasse Lisboa, Fábrica do Braço de Prata, Lisbon, PT
invasion occupation transformation, Norwich, UK
Meine Projektion ist größer heller und schneller als deine, Akademiegalerie, Munich, DE

2008
Tirana Munich – so near so far, Lothringer 13, Munich, DE

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