FELIX GAUDLITZ curated by Tolia Astakhishvili
„I am the secret meat“

13.9. - 15.10.2022 Press release

FELIX GAUDLITZ, Werdertorgasse 4/2/13, 1010 Vienna
www.felixgaudlitz.com

Curator(s):

Tolia Astakhishvili More

Tolia Astakhishvili was born in Tbilisi in 1974. She lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Tbilisi, Georgia. Following her BA studies at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, she attended the Master’s program at Akademie für Bildende Künste, Mainz, and completed MA Fine Arts at Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, in 2001. Since 2004 she has taught at several institutions, as a guest lecturer in Mixed Media – Klasse Friedemann Hanh at Akademie für Bildende Künste Mainz, visiting lecturer in Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, and a docent of Installation Art at UDK. Tolia Astakhishvili works under different pseudonyms, in collaboration and in solo practices, among them are: Tolia Astakhishvili, Khishvi, Astali / Peirce.

Tolia Astakhishvili’s recent solo and group exhibitions were held in LC Queisser, Tbilisi; Art Hub Copenhagen, Denmark; Capitain Petzel Galerie, Berlin; Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn; Haus Mödrath – Räume für Kunst, Kerpen; Goethe Institut, Sofia; Cabinet Gallery, London; Galerie Demlmes und Zander, Köln; chapter Gallery, Cardiff, and many more. Her work has been shown in several museums, including Cobra Museum, Amstelveen; Art Museum Guangzhou, Guangzhou; Museen der Stadt Lüdenscheid.

Artist(s):

Tolia Astakhishvili More

Tolia Astakhashvili works and lives in Berlin, Germany and Tbilisi, Georgia. Since 2004 she has taught at several institutions, as a guest lecturer in Mixed Media - Klasses Friedemann Hanh at Akademie für Bildende Künste Mainz, visiting lecturer in Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, and a docent of Installation Art at UDK. Tolia works under different pseudonyms, in collaboration and solo practices, among them are Tolia Astakhasvili, Khishvi, Astali / Peirce. Her work has been included in the exhibitons LC Queisser, Tbilisi (2022); Art Hub Copenhagen, Copenhagen (2021); Räume für Kunst, Kerpen (2021); Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn (2021); Capitain Petzel Galerie, Berlin (2021); Goethe Institute Bulgaria / Earth and Man National Museum, Sofia (2019); Malmö Konsthall, Malmö (2019); Cabinet, London (2018)
Simon Lässig More

Simon Lässig lives and works in Berlin.
Nat Marcus More

Nat Marcus is a poet, vocalist and designer. Along with Zoe Darsee, she is co-editor of TABLOID Press, an imprint for poetry and art-books founded in Berlin in 2014. The publishing house maintains a focus on the public space of a poem and the poetics of a social body. Marcus’ poetry, art criticism and lyric journalism have also appeared in Arts of the Working Class, The Ransom Note, Edit, Novembre, DIS and Berlin Art Link. Marcus has participated in poetry readings and performances in a variety of venues across Europe and the US including Haus Wien (Vienna, AT), Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin (Berlin, DE), Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek (Copenhagen, DK) and Karlin Studios (Prague, CZ); as a vocalist, she has collaborated with musical artists such as Perila, exael and Ulla Straus. In addition to the collections of clothing Marcus silkscreens and releases under the TABLOID imprint, she has worked as a designer for numerous record labels including Uzuri, West Mineral Ltd., wood//work and 3XL. Her graphic works have also been exhibited in Villa Kultur (Copenhagen, DK), and Blake & Vargas (Berlin, DE).
Hervé Guibert More

Hervé Guibert (1955–1991) was a French writer and photographer. A critic for Le Monde, he was the author of some thirty books, most notably To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life (1990), which presents an intimate portrait of Michel Foucault and played a significant role in changing public attitudes in France toward AIDS. First published by Régine Desforges in 1977, Hervé Guibert—who wrote in the wake of Jean Genet, Hermann Ungar and Thomas Bernhard—also produced an important body of photographs, exhibited in 2011 as a retrospective by the Maison européenne de la photographie, Paris. In Ghost Image (1981), a book whose subject is photography and in which no photographs appear, Guibert offers a singular look at this art form. La pudeur ou l’impudeur (1990), Guibert’s only film, follows the last months of his life in plenary detail. Hervé Guibert died at the age of 36 in Paris following a failed suicide attempt. His journals, The Mausoleum of Lovers, spanning the last fifteen years of his life, were published in an English translation in 2014 by Nightboat Books.
James Richards More

James Richards (b. Cardiff, UK 1983) lives and works in Berlin and London. Known for his provocative and visually seductive moving-image works that collage together a wide range of source material, James Richards’s work carves out a space where personal politics and digital materiality might meet. Recent exhibitions include When We Were Monsters, Haus Mödrath (2021); The Holding Environment, Bonner Kunstverein (2021); Alms for the Birds, Castello Di Rivoli (2020); Speed II, Malmö Konsthall w/ Leslie Thornton (2019) Requests and Antisongs ICA, London (2016) In 2017 Richards represented Wales at the 57th Venice Biennale, and he was shortlisted for the 2014 Turner prize.
Galen and Edwin Riley More

Galen Riley is a sculptural installation artist based in Hackney, UK. Solo exhibitions include End Days, At Last!at Ridley Road, Hackney and Extra Time, Third Text, Enclave, UK. Selected group exhibitions Space Shift, APT, London, After Hours (formerly Artificial Paradise), 6second, Hobby Life, Carter Presents, London, Killing Time, Stavanger, NO and Laboratory Polymorphic, Tou Scene, NO. A recent focus has been 6second Gallery a collaborative exhibition process, made possible by occasionally but radically transforming Riley’s studio. 6second Gallery is now transient and mobile, next to appear in Crete, GR.