Simone Gilges (1973 – 11 August 2023) was a German contemporary artist who was a founding member of Honey-Suckle Company, and the publisher of "Freier", a magazine for the mental state. She lived and worked in Berlin.

Biography

Simone Gilges was born in

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in 1973. She studied Visual Communication at UdK

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, as well as Photography/Design at FH Dortmund. Her solo work has been exhibited widely internationally, including Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin;

Foxy Production Foxy Production is a New York contemporary art gallery founded by Michael Gillespie and John Thomson. Foxy Production, established in 2003, is currently located in Chinatown, New York City. Windowed on three sides and housed within a landmark Vi ...

, New York; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; CAPC, Bordeaux; CRAC Alsace, France; pret a pARTager, Dakar, Senegal a.o.; Screen and Decor, Canada;

Chelsea Art Museum The Chelsea Art Museum (CAM) was a contemporary art museum located at 556 22nd Street (Manhattan), West 22nd Street on the corner of Eleventh Avenue (Manhattan), Eleventh Avenue in the Chelsea (Manhattan), Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New Y ...

, New York; Studio Voltaire, London; The John Institute, Zurich; Künstlerhaus Stuttgart; 4th Berlin Biennale, Gagosian Gallery, Hinterconti, Hamburg. Honey Suckle Company has been exhibited at

Frankfurter Kunstverein The Frankfurt Art Association (german: link=no, Frankfurter Kunstverein) is an art museum founded in 1829 by a group of influential citizens of the city of Frankfurt, Germany. The aim of the institution is to support the arts in the city, which w ...

; Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg; Kunsthalle Basel; Cubitt Gallery, London; Künstlerhaus Stuttgart;

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Festival, Barcelona; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; Berlin Biennale 1. Gilges died on 11 August 2023, at the age of 50.

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