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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 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 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 Berlin.

In 2015 SG founded 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, 2024
solo Easy abyss, strobe, New York
duo Soft liquids, hard shells, Kunstraum Konrad, Puchberg
group Nature is never finished, Galerie Borchardt, Hamburg

2023
duo Art Cologne, duo booth w. Josephine Baker with Nir Altman, Cologne,
solo Unsee, Nir Altman, Munich
duo Wanderer, der Stuhl, Seodaemun-Gu, Seoul
duo C, Marathokampos, Samos
solo Liste Art Fair Basel
group Control and Coincidence, Villa Grunewald, Berlin
group An insurmountable tension to the level of an incommensurability, Like a Little Disaster, Polignano a Mare

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

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

2020
group Jahresgaben, Kunstverein München, Munich
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
group Jahresgaben, Kunstverein München
group Disruptive Scenario, Z Common Ground, Munich
group Inspiration Meisterwerk, Museum Villa Roth, Burgrieden-Roth
group Imitations, Kunsthaus Raab, Munich

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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