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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 between Berlin and Munich, Germany. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 2014. She has been artist in residence at w-o-l-k-e (Brussels), Malimage Monitor Center (Sri Lanka) and Fogo Island (Newfoundland). Recent exhibitions include Gegenüberstellungen at Museum Schloss Moyland (Bedburg-Hau), Loopzring at The Lighthouse (Zurich), and Unworlding (Frieze London). In 2015 Susi Gelb founded the nomadic artist-run space easy!upstream in Munich, and has curated several exhibitions.

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Born 1985 in Germany

SG lives and works in Europe and the tropical region.

Since 2015 SG operates the nomadic artist-run space easy!upstream with fellow artists Niko Abramidis &NE and Quirin Brunnmeier.

Recent Prizes and Residencies
2019 Leif Rumke Price
2019 Residency, Fogo Island, Newfoundland, Canada
2018 Bavarian Art Award
2017 Residency at Malimage Monitor Center, Sri Lanka
2016 1st price, competition by invitation „public art Munich 2017“

Education
2008-2014 Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Germany, with Professor Magdalena Jetelová, Professor Olaf Metzel, Professor Julian Rosefeldt
Residencies in South Corea, Portugal, Belgium, Serbia, Kosovo, Georgia, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Turkey
2014 Master Student of Professor Olaf Metzel
2010-2014 Federal Grant for emerging artists, Cusanuswerk Bonn

From 2010 till 2013 SG ran the lecture series jour fixe at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and invited Ayse Erkmen, Mona Hatoum, Santiago Sierra, Monica Bonvicini, Bruce LaBruce, Daniel Buren, Wolfgang Tillmans, Hans Haacke and others.

Exhibitions

upcoming in 2023
duo Art Cologne, Germany
solo Unsee, Nir Altman, Munich, Germany

2023
duo Wanderer, der Stuhl, Seodaemun-Gu, Seoul
duo C, Marathokampos, Samos, Greece
solo Liste Art Fair Basel, Switzerland
group Control and Coincidence, Villa Grunewald, Berlin, Germany
group An insurmountable tension to the level of an incommensurability, Like a Little Disaster, Polignano a Mare, Italy

2022
group Jahresgaben Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany
group Backbord, Steuerbord, Empfangshalle Munich, Germany
solo LOOPZRING, Lighthouse, Zurich, Switzerland
group Kritamon Oracle, Marathokampos, Samos, Greece
group Amid Summer Night, Auction for Joan Jonas, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
group 100 Jahre Joseph Beuys, Gegenüberstellungen, Museum Schloss Moyland, Germany

2021
group Jahresgaben Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany
duo booth at Artissima, Turin, Italy
solo booth at Frieze London, UK
group 100 Jahre Joseph Beuys, Gegenüberstellungen, Museum Schloss Moyland, Germany
group Various Others, Nir Altman, Munich
solo T2051MCC, Set Design for the Climate Conference, Bellevue di Monaco, Munich

2020
group Jahresgaben, Kunstverein München
group TROST, Galerie der Künstler, Munich
group transformative figures, Schaulager Basel
solo user-defined landscape, Nir Altman, Munich
group ground level, Berlin

2019
solo 49°, Long Studio, Fogo Island, Newfoundland, Canada
group Jahresgaben, Kunstverein München
group Disruptive Scenario, Z Common Ground, Munich, Germany
group Inspiration Meisterwerk, Museum Villa Roth, Burgrieden-Roth, Germany
group Imitations, Kunsthaus Raab, Munich, Germany

2018
duo MYTHE EN PLACE, Cité Internationale, Paris, France
group Jahresgaben, Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany
solo fluidity device, escape hatch, New York, USA
group CITRUS NORTH (artist & curator), Schwabinger Tor, Munich, Germany
group I shot Mercury to make this exhibition, Galerie Nir Altman, Munich, Germany

2017
solo NO SUCH THINGS GROW HERE, public art project, Munich, Germany
group Jahresgaben, Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany
group PIN. Auction, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
group 3000 years Rhadamanthys Foundation, easy!upstream, Munich, Germany

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

2015
solo field office, Menath Metal Museum, Puchheim, Germany
duo full size original ∞ loading (with Gabi Blum), Kunstarkaden, Munich, Germany
group Art Unanchored, M.S. Stadt Wien, Vienna, Austria
group It’s more like an elevator, Halle 12 Werkschau, Leipzig, Germany
group Animal Friends, RSTR4, Munich, Germany
group Jahresgaben, Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany
group Idle upgrade illusion, easy!upstream Munich, Germany

2014
duo night yellow, w-o-l-k-e, Brussels, Belgium
duo results, easy II, Headegg, Munich, Germany
solo unspaced measures, AdBK, Munich, Germany
group Infame Esilio, studio5, Berlin, Germany

2013
solo Enzyklopädie von S bis G, Galerie Knust x Kunz, Munich, Germany
group Quarterly Statement, easy!upstream, Munich, Germany
group Take the manet and run, AdBK, Munich, Germany
group II:NA-EN-DE-NA-EN-DE-NA-WIDA:II, Schaustelle, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
group I Never Read, Art Book Fair Basel, Volkshaus Basel, Switzerland

2012
group Doublings, Curated by Gregor Schneider, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin, Germany
duo ESC, Galerija FLU, Belgrade, Serbia
group Underworld, Galerie f5,6, Munich, Germany

2011
group Noordkaap EU Tour, Istanbul, Turkey
group Jetklasse Tbilisi, Tiflis, Georgia

2010
solo Pullout, Space Hamilton, Seoul, South Corea
group Jetklasse Seoul, Space Hamilton and Gallery27, Seoul, South Corea group Kunst und Klima, Munich Re Insurance, Munich, Germany
group Zimmer frei, Hotel Mariandl, Munich, Germany
group art goes green, Praterinsel Munich, Germany
group Goldenes Dorf, Ruhr.2010, Recklinghausen, Germany
group Kunstmeile Mainburg, Mainburg, Germany
group Hermetisch Zwart, Eergiehuis Dordrecht, Netherlands

2009
group Jetklasse Lisboa, Fábrica do Braço de Prata, Lisbon, Portugal
group invasion occupation transformation, Norwich, England
duo Meine Projektion ist größer heller und schneller als deine, Akademiegalerie, Munich, Germany

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

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