Gabrielle Goliath
Works
Installation view, Room 25, Central Pavilion, 60° Venice Biennale, 2024
Video and sound installation
Variable dimensions
Installation view, Room 25, Central Pavilion, 60° Venice Biennale, 2024
Video and sound installation
Variable dimensions
Installation view, 15th Sharjah Biennal, 2023
12-channel sound and light installation
Site specific
Installation views, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, 2022
2-channel video & sound installation
Variable dimensions
Video and sound installation
variable dimensions
2 (11-channel) video & sound installation
Variable dimensions
Installation views, Kunsthaus Baselland, 2022
Pigment ink on cotton Baryta
108 x 75cm each, 19 elements
Installation view, Kunsthaus Baselland, 2022
Pigment ink on cotton Baryta
90 x 90 cm each, 11 elements
Pigment ink on cotton Baryta
70 x 80 cm each
Pigment ink on cotton Baryta
70 x 80 cm, 1 of 7 prints
Pigment ink on cotton Baryta
70 x 80 cm
Pigment ink on cotton Baryta
70 x 80 cm
Oil stick on cotton rag
80 x 71 cm
Oil stick on cotton rag
80 x 71 cm
Oil stick on cotton rag
76,5 × 56 cm
Oil stick on cotton rag
76,5 × 56 cm
Oil stick on cotton rag
56 x 38 cm
Oil stick and pigment on Fabriano Rosaspina Avorio 285gsm
101 x 70.5 cm
Oil stick and pigment on Fabriano Rosaspina Avorio
88.3 x 71 cm
Biography
Gabrielle Goliath (b.1983) lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa.
She works with Galleria Raffaella Cortese since 2024.
Through the ritual, sonic and social encounters of her art practice, Gabrielle Goliath attends (and tends) to histories and present-day conditions of differentially valued life, reaffirming ways in which black, brown, femme and queer practices of possibility perform the world differently. Each of her works convenes a coming-to – a tenuous community – collapsing the presumed remove and privileged subject position of representation (as white, male, heteronormative) and calling for meetings in and across difference, on terms of complicity, relation and love.
Goliath’s immersive, often evolving installations have been exhibited throughout South Africa and internationally. She has received numerous awards, including the Future Generation Art Prize – Special Prize (2019), the Standard Bank Young Artist Award (2019), and the Institut Français, Afrique en Créations Prize at the Bamako Biennale (2017).
Her work is featured in numerous public and private collections, including MoMA New York, MUDAM Luxembourg, Kunsthalle Zürich, TATE Modern, Frac Bretagne, Iziko South African National Gallery, Johannesburg Art Gallery, and Wits Art Museum.
Recent exhibitions include Rewilding, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel (2024); This Song is For… Vol. 1, 2021, Frac Bretagne, Rennes (2024); Chorus, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas (2022); This song is for…, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel (2022); The Normal, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh (2021); This song is for…, Konsthall C, Stockholm (2021); Our Red Sky, Göteborgs Konsthall, Gothenburg (2020); and The Power of my Hands, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris (2020). She participated in the Sharjah 15 Biennial (2023), Jaou Photo, Tunis (2022) the Kochi Muziris Biennale (2021) and she has taken part to the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.
Gallery Exhibitions
Public exhibitions
Press
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