Gerhard Marx
Johannesburg, 1976. Vive e lavora a Cape Town.
Gerhard Marx considera l’atto della creazione dell’immagine come una forma di costruzione del mondo. La sua ricerca decostruisce i linguaggi visivi propri della modernità e della rappresentazione scientifica, utilizzando la logica del collage per elaborare nuovi immaginari spaziali e sviluppare una riflessione contemporanea sull’esperienza del paesaggio. La sua pratica, caratterizzata da un’attenta e meticolosa elaborazione formale, si articola tra opere bidimensionali e tridimensionali, scultura pubblica e arti sceniche.
Il lavoro di Marx è regolarmente presentato in importanti mostre collettive internazionali e nelle principali fiere d’arte, tra cui la Biennale di Venezia, Art Basel, Frieze London, FIAC, Art Basel Hong Kong, Art Basel Miami e The Armory Show. Le sue opere sono presenti in numerose collezioni pubbliche e private. È rappresentato dalla Everard Read Gallery. Vive e lavora a Città del Capo, in Sudafrica.
Gerhard Marx
Johannesburg, 1976. Lives and works in Cape Town.
Gerhard Marx considers the act of image-making as a form of world-making.
His work undoes existing ‘modern’ and scientific visual languages, and uses the logic of collage to construct new spatial imaginaries that pursue a contemporary engagement with the experience of ‘landscape’. His considered and carefully crafted work spans both two-dimensional and three-dimensional practices, public sculpture, and theatre arts.
Marx’s work is regularly shown at various international group exhibitions and art fairs (Venice Biennale, Art Basel, Frieze London, FIAC, Art Basel Hong Kong, Art Basel Miami, Armory), and is held in numerous public and private art collections. He is represented by the Everard Read Gallery. He lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa.
Selezione di esposizioni personali / Selected solo shows
2025
Johannesburg, Everard Read Gallery, Landscape Would Be The Wrong Word
2024
Cape Town, Circa Gallery, Everard Read, Thin Places
2023
Cape Town, Cape Town Art Fair, Terraterraterra, Solo Booth, a cura di Sean O’Toole
2022
Cape Town, Everard Read, Hold This Distance Close
2021
Londra, Goodman Gallery, Spatial Imaginaries, Propositional Cartographies
2020
Johannesburg, Goodman Gallery, Near Distant
Stellenbosch, US Woordfees, Soundings and Fathoms
2019
Johannesburg, Goodman Gallery, Ecstatic Archive
2017
Johannesburg, The Viewing Room, Goodman Gallery, Transparent Territories
2015
Cape Town, Goodman Gallery, A Geometry of Echoes
2014
Potchefstroom, NWU Gallery, The Garden at Night
2013
Johannesburg, Goodman Gallery, Lessons in Looking Down
2011
Cape Town, Goodman Gallery, Cumulus
Johannesburg, The Viewing Room, Goodman Gallery, The Viewing Room
2007
Johannesburg, Warren Siebrits Modern and Contemporary, photo-
2005
Johannesburg, Warren Siebrits Modern and Contemporary, Gerhard Marx
2003
Pretoria, Outlet, New Works
2000
Pretoria, Open Window Gallery, Drawing and Animation
1999
Johannesburg, Civic Gallery, You Are Here