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.
PRESS / TEXT
Gallerytalk: Highlights der Liste Art Fair Basel, June 2023
1e9: Ein Dirigent mit neuem Orchester – Die Kuenstlerin Susi Gelb über ihre Kooperation mit Ki, Oktober 2022
Kubaparis: Loopzring, Oct 2022
Les Nouveaux Riches, Loopzring, Oct 2022
Loopzring Zurich Preview PDF, Oct 2022
Press Release for Loopzring Zurich 2022
Press Release for Frieze London 2021, Unworlding, Oct 2021
The Spectator: Paintings dominate – the good, the bad and the very ugly: Frieze London 2021 reviewed, Oct 23 2021
Another: An Orgiastic Carnival of Creativity: Frieze London Returns to the Capital, Oct 15 2021
Artnet: Frieze London’s Newest Section Seeks to ‘Deconstruct the World as We Know It.’ There’s Good Art There, Too, Oct 13 2021
Pressetext Museum Schloss Moyland: Wiedereröffnung der Beuys Etage, Oktober 2021
WDR, Wer war Joseph Beuys?, 12.Mai 2021
SZ Extra, Angst vor den Wutbürgern, 4. März 2021
Gallerytalk, Unsere allerliebsten Jahresgaben, 9. Dezember 2020
Tagesspiegel, Mehr Berlin: Leuchtendes Beispiel, 18. Juli 2020
Arte Fuse, Susi Gelbs user-defined landscape at Nir Altman, July 2020
Art Viewer, Susi Gelb at Nir Altman, July 2020
Daily Lazy, Susi Gelb at Nir Altman, July 2020
NXT A, Interview: Wann hört die Natur auf, wann beginnt die Technologie, Juli 2020
Süddeutsche Zeitung, Eskalierende Geschmacksfrage, Juli 2020
Kubaparis, user-defined landscape, Juli 2020
Gallerytalk, Interview: Verflochtene Hierarchien, Juni 2020
Exhibition text by Dominikus Müller, user-defined landscape, May 2020 (EN)
Ausstellungstext von Dominikus Müller, user-defined landscape, Mai 2020 (DE)
Booklet zu user-defined landscape (DE)
Interview Madeleine Freund + SusiGelb (DE)
interview Madeleine Freund + SusiGelb (EN)
Süddeutsche Zeitung, Citrus North, November 2018
Kubaparis, Citrus North, November 2018
Gallerytalk, Französische Fabelwelt, Mythe en Place in Paris, April 2018
Kuba Paris, no such things grow here, August 2017
id vice, diese Künstlerin erschafft mitten in München …, Juli 26 2017
Süddeutsche Zeitung, Wachstum für München, 22/23. Juli 2017
ZEIT Magazin, Die Spartanische, Mai 2017
Bild, München mediterran, 21. Juli 2017
Abendzeitung, Unter dem Pflaster liegt der Strand, 26. Juli 2017
Süddeutsche Zeitung, Wie kommt denn die Palme auf den Odeonsplatz?, 22.Juli 2017
Gallerytalk.net, Albino-Schlange auf LED Screen, Juli 21 2017
UND Magazin, Dreimal Tropen, Juli 2017
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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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