GELITIN

Born:
1970
Residence:
Vienna, Austria
Nationality:
German, Austrian
Trust:
APT London
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PRESS & PUBLICATIONS

  • Greene Naftali is hosting an exhibition “New York Golem” by artist-group Gelatin at the gallery’s New York location.

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  • Summer’s here, and with it comes a brand new crop of must-see exhibitions scattered throughout the Asian region, from Hong Kong, Tokyo and Singapore to Chiang Mai and Taipei.

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  • 10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

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  • The Frieze New York 2015 Art Fair comes to Manhattan this Wednesday May 14 to Sunday May 17.

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  • Written by the artists, the press release for Gelitin’s unfolding act of on site creation at Greene Naftali is a model of terseness. It's clunky humor

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  • This past Saturday, VIPs got a first glimpse of the new home of Aspen Art Museum (AAM), a building designed by Pritzker Prize winning starchitect, Shigeru Ban. The new museum meshes architecture with the magnificent art inside, bringing the beauty of the Aspen landscape side-by-side with the innovative exhibitions on display. To kick off the new digs, the museum will present six new exhibitions, with the headliner "David Hammons Yves Klein/Yves Klein David Hammons." Members only were invited to the spectacular commencement on August 2nd, which included a specially commissioned explosive project by Cai Guo-Qiang. The museum will treat the general public as well, with a free 24-hour opening party of music, performances, film and food, starting on August 9th at 5pm and stretching into 5pm the next day.

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  • A subterranean museum hewn from a sandstone cliff on an Australian island, founded by a maverick gambling millionaire, sounds like a far-fetched art world fantasy

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BIOGRAPHY

Gelitin is an artist collective based in Vienna, composed of members Tobias Urban, Wolfgang Gantner, Florian Reither, and Ali Janka. The group—whose members met at summer camp in 1978 and began exhibiting together in the early 1990s—is best known for their sensationalist artistic happenings, which often take place in public spaces. Gelitin takes human relationships and social conditions as their point of departure, creating installations and staging performances that encourage human interaction or which rely on human interaction within the confines of the art project itself. 

 
Gelitin has had solo exhibitions at a number of notable institutions including the Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Vienna, Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris,  Kunstraum Innsbruck, Kunsthaus, MoMA PS1, and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Sofia, Bulgaria. Gelitin represented Austria at the 2001 Venice Biennale, and was included in the Arsenale exhibition at the 2011 Venice Biennale.
 

Gelitin is represented by Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Greene Naftali, New York, Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery, Paris and Miami, and Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan/London/Hong Kong, Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zurich and Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp.


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