GABRIELE SENN GALERIE curated by Gianni Jetzer
„Beginnings, Middles and Ends“

9.5. - 13.6.2009 Press release Arrow
GABRIELE SENN GALERIE, Schleifmühlgasse 1a, 1040 Vienna
www.galeriesenn.at

Curator(s):

Gianni Jetzer More Arrow
Gianni Jetzer is an independent curator and critic based in New York as well as Curator-at-large at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC.

Artist(s):

  • Gedi Sibony More Arrow
    Born in 1973 in New York where he lives and works, Gedi Sibony is the 2006 Metcalf Award winner. In 2000 he received a MFA from Columbia University New York City. Sibony’s work has become increasingly visible in prominent group exhibitions such as the 2006 Whitney Biennial, and the New Museum’s inaugural exhibition Unmonumental. The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis is the first to recognize Gedi Sibony in a significant one-person museum exhibition. Other recent one person exhibitions include FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France (2008); Kunsthalle St, Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland (2007); and gallery exhibitions at Galerie Neu, Berlin (2008); Greene Naftali, New York (2008), Zero..., Milan (2008); and art:concept, Paris (2007).
  • Matthew Higgs More Arrow
    Matthew Higgs (b.1964. Wakefield, England) is a curator, writer and artist currently living and working in New York. Since the early 1990s he has sought to develop a practice that considers the intersections and overlaps between these disciplines. Over the past fifteen years he has organized more than two hundred exhibitions and projects in Europe and North America. His writings have appeared in more than fifty books, catalogs and periodicals, including Artforum, and Frieze. In the past two years he has contributed to publications for artists such as Elizabeth Peyton, John Baldessari, John McCracken, Christian Marclay, Oliver Payne & Nick Relph, Ken Price, Marilyn Minter, and Kay Rosen, amongst others. Higgs is currently the Director and Chief Curator of White Columns, New York's oldest non-profit art space. Since his arrival at White Columns in the fall of 2004 he has organized more than one hundred individual exhibitions and projects there, showing the work of more than 400 international artists of all generations. He has taught extensively over the past ten years and was a lecturer at Goldsmiths College, London and the Royal College of Art, London.

Photos

Matthew Higgs & Gedi Sibony: Exhibition view
Exhibition view
Courtesy of Gabriele Senn Galerie, Photo: Karl Kühn