G.R.I.T. Gestural Reflective & Inquiring Tales, Berlin & Dundee 2024
Artists/ Künstler-innen
Angove, Jacopo dal Bello, Jenny Eden, Rao Fu, Ina Gerken, Alena Hil, Erika Krause, Eglé Otto, Alex Roberts, Geraldine Swayne, Anita Taylor, Henry Ward, Waldemar Zimbelmann, Michaela Zimmer
Curated by/ Kuratiert von Alex Roberts
G.R.I.T. Berlin 9.-31. August, KUNSTPUNKT Berlin, Schlegelstr. 6, 10115 Berlin-Mitte & G.R.I.T. Dundee 13 September - 12 October, Drawing Projects UK, Scotland - Corner of West Bell Street & Constitution Road, Dundee, DD1 1EX
The project Gestural Reflective & Inquiring Tales is centred around an exhibition of fourteen painters, which explores how gesture and its physicality engage both the maker and the viewer. The contributing artists tackle some of the core principles of contemporary painting, and G.R.I.T. contextualizes art as a collective practice which, at the same time, requires deep contemplation. With international contributors, the show aims to bridge Europe, and it will be on view first in Berlin, and then in Dundee, Scotland. Through those two instalments, the project develops a model for sustainable artistic exchange. Beyond the exhibition, G.R.I.T. includes symposia as well as a public program, and the project aims to further discourse with a publication.
Im Mittelpunkt des Projekts Gestural Reflective & Inquiring Tales steht eine Ausstellung von vierzehn Maler*innen, die untersucht, wie sich die Grundprinzipien der Malerei — Geste und Körperlichkeit — zu Künstler*in und Betrachter*in verhalten. Dabei setzen sich die Künstler*innen mit Kernthemen der zeitgenössischen Malerei auseinander: G.R.I.T. kontextualisiert die Malerei als eine kollektive Praxis, die gleichzeitig Kontemplation erfordert. Mit ihren internationalen Beiträgen will die Ausstellung ganz Europa verbinden, und sie wird zunächst in Berlin und dann in Dundee, Schottland, zu sehen sein. An diesen beiden Stationen entwickelt das Projekte ein Modell für einen nachhaltigen künstlerischen Austausch, denn über die Ausstellung hinaus umfasst G.R.I.T. Symposien und ein öffentliches Programm. Schließlich zielt das Projekt darauf ab, den Diskurs mit einer Publikation zu erweitern.
The Performativity of Painting, 2018
Alex intermittently curates art exhibitions. Her research develops as a two-fold method: personal, studio practice centred around the relationships of painting. Often extending to public, collaborative platforms of exchange which seek to examine how painting beholds the viewer. E.g., The Performativity of Painting at The Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich and Arts Council England & British Council funded, Connect: Katowice, a British-Polish, yearlong exchange and series of exhibitions.
Willingly view the archive of selected curated research via the following pages.
The Performativity of Painting
A choreographed meeting.
16 January – 16 February 2018, The Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich Galleries.
Artists: Tobias Buckel, Liz Elton, David Lock, J.A. Nicholls, Selma Parlour, James Pimperton, Rebecca Molloy, Alex Roberts
Painting – the performance of structures, fragments and use of space within the perceived painted frame, and the relating inherent surround.
In bringing together these artists, through their distinct individual accounts and methodologies, the exhibition, The Performativity of Painting offered the opportunity to consider site-specificity, theatrical tropes, depicted surfaces, staging and the interconnectedness of the artwork’s context (in the works’ content and proximity). In this sense, the exhibition sought to address painting's embodiment of the performative space.
Curator: Alex Roberts
To access the full press release please download here
Documentation of the recent exhibition is available to view via an email accessible PDF.
We would like to thank Dr. Ken Wilder for his insightful text, written specifically to accompany the exhibition. To download a copy of the E-Catalogue please click here
Dr. Ken Wilder is an artist and writer. Having practiced and taught architecture, he now makes site responsive installations and films. Based at Chelsea College of Arts, he is the University of the Arts Reader in Spatial Design. He has published widely on issues of reception aesthetics, including Bloomsbury’s 2016 anthology Painting: Critical and Primary Sources.
Archive - coming soon
Archive editing in progress
Connect: Katowice, London, 2016-2017. British-Polish exchange, collaboration and display.
Housed, The Cookhouse, Chelsea College of Arts, 2015.
Transient Façades, The Well, London College of Communication, University of Arts London, 2012.
Art & Sausages, 17 Somerton Road; trion contemporary, The Arndean Gallery, Cork Street; 2d Olympia, Olympia London; Model Village, Northdown Street, London; Lot.18, The Candid Gallery; late arrivals @ kings cross, 36-40 York Way, London - Archive.
Curated Research