ANDREW GILBERT, GB

Andrew Gilbert (1980, Edimburgo) combina nelle sue opere su carta e nelle sue installazioni scultoree i suoi studi sul Primitivismo nell’arte moderna, la storia militare e il suo ricco linguaggio personale, fatto di simboli e personaggi da lui creati (come “Andrew, l’Imperatore d’Africa”, o “Holy Brocoli” – il Sacro Broccolo). L’artista esamina la rappresentazione dei cliché esotici e le tecniche propagandistiche utilizzate per demonizzare l’eternamente straniero “Altro”. Le sue opere contengono riferimenti alle “Esposizioni coloniali” tipiche della cultura occidentale, ai diorami presenti nei musei di storia militare e agli allestimenti dei musei etnografici, e traccia parallelismi tra le conquiste degli Imperi del IXX secolo e le occupazioni militari dei nostri giorni. Con questa operazione, Andrew Gilbert si chiede chi sia davvero “primitivo” e critica la narrativa storica occidentale e la nostalgia contemporanea per il concetto di “Impero”, legato, ad esempio, alla Brexit e al trionfo dei nazionalismi nell’Europa di oggi. Tutto questo è amalgamato a un pungente umorismo ed episodi grotteschi. L’artista, che attualmente vive e lavora a Berlino, ha visitato quattro volte negli ultimi anni il Sudafrica, per studiare i campi di battaglia della Guerra Anglo-Zulu del 1879, la Guerra Boera e le campagne militari di Shaka Zulu. Andrew Gilbert ha esposto in molte sedi internazionali (Europa, Sudafrica, Giappone) pubbliche e private, tra cui la Tate Modern di Londra.

Education

1997 - 2002: M.A: (Hons) Fine Art - University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh College of Art

Solo Exhibitions (selection)

2020

• Andrew Gilbert - The Rise and Fall of Emperor Andrew's Instant Coffee Plantation, Kunstverein Friedrichshafen, Friedrichshafen, German

2019

• The Royal Botanical Drawings of Emperor Andrew, Ten Haaf Projects, Amsterdam

2018

• The Glorious Opening of Emperor Andrew's Museum, Sperling, Munich

• Andrew Gilbert solo presentation, Sunday Fair, London, with Sperling Und willst du nicht mein Brueder sein, so schlag ich dir den Schaedel ein - with Martin Neumeier, Botschaft, Berlin

2017

• Andrew Gilbert and Sam Durant, Last Tango, Zurich

• The Sun Will Never Set on the British Empire - The Beast Awakens, Ten Haaf Projects, Amsterdam

• Andrew's Glorious Occupation of Exotic Bavaria, Filsers, Mainburg
  Into the Valley of Death - Rode the Six Hundred, Galerie Kai Erdmann, Hamburg

2016

• Solo Presentation, ABC Kunst Messe, Berlin, with Sperling Shaka Zulu the Musical - Directed by Andrew, Sperling, Munich Ulundi Is Jerusalem Andrew Is Emperor Brocoli Is Holy, Overbeck - Gesellschaft Museum / St Petri Kirche, Luebeck

• Emperor Andrew Meets His Waterloo, Superdeals, Brussels

2015

• Trophies of the Savages - Idols of Civilisation, Blank Projects, Cape Town, South Africa

• The Life of Baby Afghan Squirrel, Sperling, Munich

• European Tribal War Idols, Waterloo 1815, Gallery Polad - Hardouin, Paris Je suis...Brocoli!, Jagla Ausstellungsraum, Koeln

• Andrew's Exotic and Erotic Massage Parlour, Sightfenster, Koeln

2014

• Fiori e Soldati - with M. Galliani, Studio d'Arte Raffaelli, Trento Sacred Soil and Bloody Ground, Galerie Kai Erdmann, Hamburg Forte Comune 1914/2014 - with Michelangelo Galliani, Forte Strino Military Museum, Vermiglio

• Andrew Gilbert at Settlement Projects, Leith Late 14, Edinburgh The Glorious Return of Emperor Andrew, Summerhall, Edinburgh

2013

• Andrew's Glorious Army Crosses the Alps, Studio d'Arte Raffaelli, Trento The Battle of Blood River, Ten Haaf Projects, Amsterdam

• Andrew Gilbert and Akiyoshi Mishima, Nanzuka, Tokyo
  Les Maitres Fous - Starring Andrew and Emil Nolde, Gallery Polad - Hardouin, Paris

• North European Primitivism - Andrew, Gislerbertus, Nolde, Rogier van der Weyden, Galerie Andreas Hoehne, Munich

2012

• Colonial Exhibition – Culloden 1746, Power Galerie, Hamburg

• The Sacred Ambush Is Full of the Sound of Parrots Screaming’ - with Anna Parkina, SVIT,Prague

• Solo Presentation, NADA Art, Cologne, with Power Galerie

• Solo Presentation, NADA, New York, with Ten Haaf Projects

2011

• Trophies of the Savages, Galerie 207, Prague

• The Lost Art of Convalescence - with Lucy Stein, Gimpel Fils, London

• Hallucinatory Mahdis and Aeons - with David Tibet, Nationalmuseum, Berlin

• The Erotic Adventures of Andrew in the Sudan,1895, Galerie Andreas Hoehne, Munich

• Der Heiliger Krieg - with Tomas Roubal, Kino Kytka, Prague

• Austerlitz – The Fate of Empires,Ten Haaf Projects, Amsterdam 

• Andrew Emperor of Africa, Galerie Polad - Hardouin, Paris

2010

• Andrew’s Death in Afghanistan, 1842, Power Galerie, Hamburg

• Veronika Landa and Andrew Gilbert, MeetFactory International Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague

• Andrew’s Honeymoon in India,1857, Gallery Kabinet T, Zlin, Czech Republic Cut out Her Eyes – Cut off His Penis - with Lucy Stein, Forgotten Bar, Berlin

2009

• The Zulu Queen Stood as Jerusalem Fell, Ten Haaf Projects, Amsterdam

2008

• Black Magic White Power, Galerie Andreas Hoehne, Munich

• Fix Bayonets and Die Like British Soldiers Die!, Galerie Eva Bracke, Berlin

2007

• Solo Presentation, Jam Art Fair, Mallorca, with Galerie Eva Bracke To Wipe the Blade-Zulu, Galerie Eva Bracke, Berlin

2006

• Vezalay to Ulundi, Galerie Na Bydilku, Brno, Czech Republic

2005

• The Fall of the Pagan Idols, curated by Caroline Nathusius, Kjubh Kunstverein, Köln

• The Dance around the Golden Calves, Galerie Antik, Berlin

2004

• The Tempation of John Knox, Forever and a Day Buero, Berlin Vezelay to Jerusalem, Galerie Na Bydilku, Brno, Czech Republic

2003

• Deutsch Afrikanische Freundschaft, Autocenter, Berlin

• The False Miracles of Mohammed, Galerie Nomadenoase, Hamburg

Group Exhibitions (selection)

2023

• Alptraum, Polarraum, Hamburg, Germany

• Pop Life, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2022

• Beyond Homogeneity, Syker Vorwerk - Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Syke, Germany

2021

• Ain't No Mountain High Enough, Galerie Peter Gaugy, Vienna, Austria

• Salon der Gegenwart 2021, salondergegenwart, Hamburg, Germany 

2019

• The Fate of Empires, Studio d’Arte Raffaelli + Cellar Contemporary, Trento

• Deset - Works from the Richard Adam Collection, The House of the Arts Ostrava, Ostrava, CZ

• Another Country Part 4, Thurso City Gallery, Thurso, Scotland

• Another Country Part 5, Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, Inverness, Scotland

• What the Night Brings, Phantom Projects Contemporary, Ateliers La Bitche, Nantes, France

2018

• Another Country Part 3, City Arts Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland

• Another Country Part 1, St John's University Art Center, Minnesota, U.S.A En quete de Graal, Ceres Franco Collection Museum, Montolieu, France Group Exhibition, Galerie Kai Erdmann, Hamburg

• Das Raubkunstkabinett, Theater Acker Stadt Palast, Berlin
  Save PR17, PR17, Berlin

• Val di Non. Sguardi sulla Grande Guerra, Casa De Gentili, San Zeno, Italia

2017

• The Beauty of Difference, Rohkunstbau 2017, Lieberose Castle, Lieberose

• Takes Two to Tango, Sperling, Munich

• Berlin Klondyke, UGM Studio, Maribor, Slovenia

• New Adventures of Vexillogoly - Part 3, Kunstverein Amrum

2016

• Artist and Empire, National Gallery of Singapore, Singapore

• Drawing on Drawing, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh

• Bootleg Trienalle, Atlantic House, Cape Town, South Africa

• Post Colonial Contemporary, curated by John Zarobell, Incline Gallery, San Francisco

2015

• Artist and Empire, Tate Britain, London, England

• European Tribal Wars - with D. Wood and S. Kaminiski, Bavarian Army Museum, Ingolstadt

• State of Mankind, Draw a Line, Berlin

• Alptraum, Visual Voice Gallery, Montreal Canada

• Salon International de Bobanisme, Salon Boban Andjelkovic, Munich House of Pain, curated by Veit Loers, Galerie Petra Martinetz, Koeln Berlin Klondyke, Salon Dahlmann, Berlin

• Tales of Darkness, Sunaparanta, Goa Centre for Arts, India 

• PigDogandMonkeyfestos, curated by S.Doyle and M.Mallinson, Phoenix Gallery, Exeter, England

• A Man Walks into a Bar, Me Collectors Room, Berlin

• Alptraum, Salon de Liria, Goa, India

2014

• VIII Bienale d'Arte Giovani, MAM, Gazoldo degli Ippoliti

• 3 Carrots - 1 Tea Pot - Biber, Braun, Gilbert' Salon, Tom Biber, Berlin

• A Man Walks into a Bar, Mainsburg

• Seemed like a Good Idea at the Time, Sperling, Munich

• In Furs, Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

• PigDogandMonkeyfestos, curated by S. Doyle and M. Mallinson, Airspace Gallery, Stoke on Trent, England

• Alptraum, UGM Maribor Art Gallery, Maribor, Slovenia

• Hauptstadt, Galerie Kai Erdmann, Berlin

• Half Devil Half Child, Blank Projects, Cape Town, South Africa

2013

• SVIT, Svit Praha, Praha

• Lord of the Flies, Wannieck Gallery of Modern Art, Brno

• Apokalyptik als Wiederstand - Collection Tom Biber, Bavarian Army Museum, Ingolstadt

• Imaginaere Loesungen - part 1, by F. Hufnagel, Kosmetik Salon, Berlin

• The Hecklers, curated by C. Lewisohn, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, England

• Dawn of the Hermetics - part 2, Wonderloch Kellerland, Berlin

• The Best Haircuts in History, curated by C. Lewisohn, We are Cuts, London Visionen, Marta Heford, Herford

• 1.per.sing., curated by Johannes Sperling, b – 05, Montabaur

• Hamburger Bahnhof, curated by O. Zybok, Power Galerie, Hamburg

• Images for Images - Artists for Tichy - Tichy for Artists, curated by Zdenek Felix, GASK Gallery of central Bohemia, Czech Republic

• The Beautyful Ones, curated by Storm Janse van Rensburg, Nolan Judin, Berlin

• Waar ken ick u van?, LUMC Gallery, Leiden

• Berlin – Klondyke, Werkschauhalle, Leipzig

• Das Allerletze Prof. Winkler Stipendium, Kunstverein Weyden

• The Legend of the Shelves, Autocenter, Berlin

• Dawn of the Hermetics, Kosmetiksalon, Berlin

• Primitve Cabaret – A spiritual Voodoo confrontation, Polad – Hardouin, Paris

2012

• LAmerika-China, Phoenixhalle, Hamburg

• Fliegen, Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

• Home Is where the Peppers Grow, Autocenter, Berlin

• Convoi Berlin, curated by J. Sperling, Biksady Gallery, Budapest 

• Berlin–Klondyke, Neuer Pfannenhofener Kunstverein

• Thingsplace, by John Brown, Superclub, Edinburgh

• L’amour herouiqe, Muba Eugene Leroy, Tourcoing

• Necessarily True, Garage, Rotterdam

• Berlin Status (1), Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

• The International Bongo Bongo Brigade – The Hair in the Cannibal-Prophetic Soup of Dr Emil Holub, NTK Gallery, Prague

• A Votre Decharge, Chateau de Servieres, Marseille

2011

• Berlin Klondyke, L.A. Art Centre, Los Angeles

• Gastspiel Paris Munich Teil 2, Galerie Van de Loo Projekte, Munich 

• Verbrechen und Bild, Kuenstlerverein Walkmuehle

• The Magic Sexy Temple of Wonderloch, Wonderloch Kellerland, Berlin 

• Dormition, Contra Gallery, Slovenia

• Rosskur und Stalldrang bei den Wolfs, Atetier N.A. Wolf, Berlin

• Berlin Klondike 2011, The Odd Gallery, Dawson City, Canada

• Pure Freude, curated by Jonny Mullen, Nationalmuseum, Berlin 

• Moraltarantula 5, Hamburg

• Charlottenburg Diktator, curated by C. Malycha, Babbettes Bar, Berlin Lady Paranoia and Mr Killer, Gallery Polad – Hardouin, Paris

• The International Bongo Bongo Brigade Meet the Haffners, Haffner Galerie, Innsbruck

• The Raising of Lazarus, Nationalmuseum, Berlin

• Best of Invites, Wonderloch Kellerland, Berlin

• Flashback, Gallery Polad – Hardouin, Paris

2010

• Wherever They Fell, Wilkinson Gallery, curated by Anna Parkina, London

• Powerhouse, Power Galerie, Hamburg

• Transcendenz ink, Autocenter, Berlin

• Richtigen Zeit am Richtigen Ort, curated by C. Nathusius, Temporary Gallery, Cologne

• White Stallions, Fischer und Fischer Galerie, Berlin

• Moraltarantula 4, Hamburg

• Schwarzgold, Schloss Beesenstedt, Beesenstedt bei Halle

• Zipor, Galerie Lichtpunk – Ambacher Contemporary, Munich Lontana, Centre for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

• International Bongo Bongo Brigade, curated by the Holy Brocoli from India, MeetFactory, Prague

• International Bongo Bongo Brigade – Queen Loser, Silwex House, London Paranoid, De Nederlandische Cacao Fabrik, Helmond, Netherlands Easy Jetsetters, curated by Lucy Stein, Forgotten Bar, Berlin

• 6th Biennale for Contemporary Art, Salle des Calandres, Eragny, France 

• Bushwick Schlacht, Fortress of Solitude, New York

• Domestic Violence, Studio N.A. Wolff, Berlin

• Early Works, Wonderloch Kellerland, Berlin

• The Product of Exchange, Sudhaus, Berlin/Texas Firehouse, New York 

• Obscene, Wiensalon, Berlin

• Riders, Gallery Polad – Hardouin, Paris

2009

• Der Muede Tod, Kai 10 Raum fuer Kunst, Dusseldorf Zeigen, Temporary Kunsthalle Berlin, Berlin

• Les portes du Paradis, Galerie Eva Bracke, Berlin

• Free Nelson Mandela, Spor Klublu, Berlin

• George Says: No Martini, No Party, Apartement, Berlin Am Anfang war das Ende, Galerie in Ballhaus Ost, BerlinTjorg Douglas Beer presents...,Forgotten Bar, Berlin Friendly Fire, PR17, Berlin

• Transcendendenz Ink, Forgotten Bar, Berlin Moraltarantula II, Hamburg

• Borderline Pleasures, Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin The lovers of Lutz Braun, Galerie Antik, Berlin

2008

• Moving Walls, Museum of New Art, Detroit

• Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, WhitelacesLivingRoom Gallery, Berlin A4 Editions, Five Years Gallery, London

• Sovereign European Art Prize Exhibition, Somerset House, London

• Oil Prices Reach Sky High, Ferenbalm Gurbue Station, Karlsruhe Ecstatic Stairs, Die Aenderei, Munich

• Porridge Wogs, Five Years Gallery, curated by Cedar Lewisohn, London 

• Madonna und Wir, curated by C. Nathusius, Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin

• Eins zu Eins Ruegen, Park Gut Kartzitz, Ruegen

2007

• Autocenter 1, Autocenter, Berlin

• Ben Cottrell, Andrew Gilbert, Andreas Hofer, Forever and a day Buero, Berlin

• Irresistible Magazine, curated by Cedar Lewisohn, Tate Modern, London 

• Return to Forever, Forever and a day buero, Berlin

• La Boum III, Breslau / Warschau, PolandNiveaualarm, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria

• Ketzer und Co. The Golden City, Galerie Jiri Svestka, Prague

2006

• Bellevue, curated by C. Nathusius, Galerie Eva Winkeler, Frankfurt La Boum II, Galerie Sie und Höke, Düsseldorf

• Psycho. Zeitgenössiche Positionen zwischen Seelenheil und Apokalypse, Kunstverein Mönchengladbach

• Ketzer und Co, Haus der Kunst, Brno, Czech Republic

• Horizont, Forever and a Day Büro, Kunsthaus Bethanien Berlin

2005

• Schwarz, Brot, Gold, Kunstverein Oldenburg

• Viewing Club, Berlin/Hamburg /London

• Palace of the Zulu-Queen, Kunsthalle Pankow, Berlin Professor Winkler Stipendium, Berlin

2004

• Commando Henry Ford, Neuro Cafe, Stuttgart

• Works on Paper, Forever and a Day Büro, Berlin

• The Banana Tree, with A. Hofer, A. Sourkova, Neue Bahnhofstrasse 5, Berlin

2003

• Heckel und seine drei Scheisshaufen, with A. Butzer and M. Selg Neue Bahnhofstrasse 5, Berlin

• Illegale Kunstwerke auf Papier, PR 17, Berlin

• Ghadafi ́s Ascension, Neue Bahnhofstrasse 5, Berlin

2002

• Friede, Freude, Freiheit, Galerie Maschenmode/Guido Baudach, Berlin 

• Express, curated by O. Lanz, Schoenhauser Allee, Berlin

• Northern Exposure, Isle of Uist Art Center, Scotland

Publications

• Andrew Is Emperor, Brocoli Is Holy, Ulundi Is Jerusalem, Kerber Verlag, 2017 

• The Life of Baby Afghan Squirrel, SPERLING / Taube Verlag, Munich,2015 

• European Tribal Wars, Bavarian Army Museum. Kettler Verlag, 2015

• Forte Comune - 1914 – 2014, Forte Strino Military Museum, Vermiglio, 2014 

• Andrew's Glorious Army Crosses the Alps, Studio d'Arte Raffaelli, Trento, 2013

• Andrew Gilbert / Colonial Exhibition – Culloden 1746, Power Galerie, Hamburg, 2012

• Andrew Emperor of Africa, Kerber Verlag, 2011

• Andrew You Must Kill Your Enemies before They Kill You, Q.H.S.O.I.Q.O.C.M.S., Berlin, 2011

• Andrew Gilbert / Colonial Exhibition – Culloden 1746, Power Galerie, Hamburg, 2012

• The 17th Lancers in the Anglo Zulu War, 1879, Possible Press, Berlin
  

Residencies

2016

• Superdeals , Brussels

2010

• Goethe Institute Artist in Residency, Meetfactory International Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague

Lectures

2017

• The Beauty of Difference. Representations of the Exotic Enemy in historical and contemporary propaganda, Schloss Lieberose / Heinrich Bohl Stiftung

2013

• Holy Brocoli and North European Primtivism, Edinburgh College of Art

2011

• Artists Who Drink Alcohol Should Be Killed, Academy for Applied Arts, Prague

2010

• Vezelay to Ulundi – from the First Crusade to the Anglo Zulu War, Camberwell College of Art, London