Else Gabriel (b. 1962) is a German
performance artist and educator.
Biography
Else Gabriel was born in
Halberstadt
Halberstadt ( Eastphalian: ''Halverstidde'') is a town in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, the capital of Harz district. Located north of the Harz mountain range, it is known for its old town center that was greatly destroyed by Allied bombi ...
, East Germany in 1962. She studied at the
Dresden Academy of Fine Arts.
Else was a key artist in the alternative arts scene that formed by late 1980s. Along with Micha Brendel, Rainer Gorb, and Via Lewandowsky. She was a member of ''Autoperforatsionsartisten'' (Auto perforation artists). The ''Autoperforatsionsartisten,'' an East German performance art group, combined fluxus and neodada with body art and installations in a multimedia spectacle. In addition to performance art, Else is known for her photographs, in which she combined personal text with images. Though this format did not appear to be logically tied, her intent behind this is to produce an associative, sensual frame of reference. In 1989, six weeks before the
Fall of the Berlin Wall, Gabriel married
West-Berlin
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writer
Max Goldt
Max Goldt (pseudonym of Matthias Ernst) (born 23 November 1958) is a German writer, columnist and musician.
Early life
Goldt was born in the town of Weende, now Göttingen, to working-class parents originally from Silesia. In 1977, he moved to ...
in order to leave the GDR.
Since 1991, she has been a part of the group ''(e.) Twin Gabriel'' with her partner Ulf Wrede.
Gabriel was included in the 1991 exhibition ''Berlin Divided: Sissel Tolas, Milovan Markovic, Else Gabriel, Rolf Julius'' at
MoMA
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In 2019 she was included in the exhibit ''The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain'' at
Wende Museum
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Mission
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in Culver City, California.
She has taught at the
ArtCenter College of Design
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History
ArtCenter College of Design was founded in 1930 in downtown Los Angeles as the Art Center School.
In 1935, Fred ...
in
Pasadena, California
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and lectured at the
University of Hamburg
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, the
University of Kassel, the
University of Kiel and
Saarland University
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.
Since 2009 she has taught in
Berlin
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at Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee, in the Sculpture Department.
References
External links
(e.) Twin Gabrielwebsite
2016 radio interview with Gabrielon KCRW Berlin
https://www.are.na/block/10839375 JHU “East German Art and the Permeability of the Berlin Wall”*https://www.are.na/block/10839551. Aperture x Princeton “Another Country (mention)
*https://performingtheeast.com/else-gabriel/
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1962 births
20th-century German women artists
21st-century German women artists
German performance artists
People from Halberstadt
Living people