Melissa Gordon
born in Boston (US) in 1981, lives and
works in London. She is a painter, printmaker and editor, whose work
encompasses painted and silkscreened objects, installations, performances and feminist
magazines. In painting and silkscreen series that play with forms of
abstraction, by mimicking residual marks on studio surfaces or forensically
investigating ageing male modernist paintings, Gordon’s work turns the question
of abstraction and gesture on its head. Her installations and architectural
interventions in exhibitions are concerned with the “staging” of objects.
Gordon is the editor of an ongoing series of feminist publications and events.
She is a lecturer in Fine Art at Goldsmiths University, London.
Solo exhibitions
2016 Painting Behind Itself, Cosar HMT, Dusseldorf. Routine Pleasures,
Vleeshal, Middelburg (NL). Derivative Value, Overbeck-Gesellschaft,
Lübeck (DE). Fallible Space, The Bluecoat, Liverpool (UK). 2015 WE
(Not I), Artists Space, New York, NY (US). 2014 Mimetic
Pleasures, Boesky East, New York. ZOOOOOM, Juliette Jongma,
Amsterdam (NL). 2013 Material Evidence, Spike Island, Bristol
(UK).
Group
exhibitions
2016 Modern Talk, Deweer Gallery, Otegem (BE). 2014 During the
exhibition, the studio will be close, Wiels Contemporary Art Centre,
Brussels. 2013 HERstories, Bonner Kunstverein (DE). Specific
Collisions, Marianne Boesky, New York. 2012 Parallax Curtain,
S1 Artspace, Sheffield (UK). Art & Press, ZKM | Center for Art and
Media, Karlsruhe (DE), Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin.
Publications
Roos Gortzak, Oliver Zybok (eds.), Painting
Behind Itself, Revolver Press, Berlin 2016.
Lorenzo Benedetti, Caroline Dumalin (eds.), During the exhibition, the studio will be close, Motto Books, Berlin 2014.
Marie-Anne McQuay (ed.), Material Evidence, Sternberg Press, Berlin 2014.
Melissa Gordon and Marina Vishmidt (eds.), PERSONA, Archive Books, Berlin 2013.
Will Holder and Melissa Gordon (eds.), Specific Collisions, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York 2013.
Lukas Pusch, born in Vienna in 1970, studied painting at the
Vienna University of Applied Arts, the Surikov Institute in Moscow and the
Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. Although his works are frequently seen as
provocative, his primary concern is image-finding and artistic autonomy. His
working method may be described as a combination of research and
psychoanalytical free association. His most spectacular works, recognised
worldwide, include the founding of Siberia’s first centre for contemporary art
(2008) and of Slum TV (2006) a local broadcasting station in Mathare,
Nairobi – one of the largest slums in the whole of Africa. The Christmas
edition of the daily newspaper Die Presse (2010), illustrated with Pusch
woodcuts, received the European Press Award twice in succession.
Solo exhibitions
2015 Deutsche Moscheen, CAT, Cologne (DE). Shanghai Boogie Woogie,
Halle, MQ, Vienna. Soumission, weltecho. Galerie, Chemnitz (DE). 2014
Arbeiten eines Jungvaters, Lust Gallery, Vienna. 1. Wiener
Luftausstellung, public space, Vienna. 2013 Kunstdiskurs mit
einer sibirischen Kuh, Neuer Pfaffenhofener Kunstverein (DE). 2012 Siberian
White Cube goes Art Cologne, main entrance, ART Cologne. 2011 Die
Presse Künstlermappe, Albertina, Vienna. Neues Tahiti, Galerie Ernst
Hilger, Vienna.
Group exhibitions
2014 In Search of the Horizon, Institute for Contemporary Art, Riga. 2011 Gute
Aussichten, special project at the 4th Moscow Biennial, Haus am Ufer,
Moscow. 2010 Lebt und arbeitet in Wien III, Kunsthalle, Vienna. 2009
Ferne – 8th Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale, Museum Centre and public
space, Krasnoyarsk (RU).
Publications
Lukas Pusch & TOMAK (eds.), der
Antist, self-published, Vienna 2015 and 2016.
Deutsche
Moscheen, exh. cat. CAT Cologne, 2015.
Hurra!
1914–1918, Zucker Art Books, New York 2014.
Kunstdiskurs
mit einer sibirischen Kuh, exh. cat.
Kunstverein Pfaffenhofen, 2013.
ZIL-130, Sensationsverlag, Waldhausen 2013.
Sabrina Steinek (Sabrina Möller), born 1986 in Lingen (DE), studied History of Art
with Friedrich Teja Bach at the University of Vienna. While still an
undergraduate, she established a successful art blog entitled art and
signature, and in summer 2016 she founded the art magazine keen on –
the first online interactive art magazine distinguished by innovative design
and a new kind of application for the user. Its contributors include
internationally eminent curators and critics. Apart from her focus on digital
media, Sabrina Möller writes for various magazines in Germany, Austria and
Switzerland.
Since studying History of Art at
the Ruhr University in Bochum, Sabine B. Vogel has worked as a freelance
art critic and curator. She gained a doctorate at the University of Applied
Arts in Vienna with a thesis entitled “Biennalen – Kunst im Weltformat”. She
has held a post as lecturer at the University of Applied Arts since 2003, and
has been president of the AICA AUSTRIA (International Association of Art
Critics) since 2008. She writes for Kunstforum, NZZ and Die
Presse. Since 1996 she has run independent weblogs, the most recent being
www.kunstundbücher.at for book reviews, and has posted picture series,
exhibition reviews, news and interviews online at sabinebvogel.at since 2012.
Publications
Sabine B. Vogel (ed.), Neue
Auftragskunst, Kunstforum International, vol. 244, Jan–Feb, 2017.
Sabine B. Vogel (ed.), Grenzenlose Skulptur: ein Überblick über das skulpturale Heute, Kunstforum International, vol. 229, Okt–Nov, 2014.
Sabine B. Vogel (ed.), Political Patterns. Ornament im Wandel, exh. cat. ifa-Galerie Berlin, Stuttgart, 2011.
Sabine B. Vogel (ed.), Die Macht des Ornaments, exh. cat. Belvedere, Vienna 2009.
