Gabrielle Goliath
Works
Installation view, MoMA PS1, New York City, USA, 2025
Installation view, Pichuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine, 2025
Installation view, Room 25, Central Pavilion, 60° Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, 2024
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 prints
Installation view, Kunsthaus Baselland, 2022
Pigment ink on cotton Baryta
90 x 90 cm each, 11 elements
Installation view, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy, 2024
Pigment ink on Hahnemühle matt Baryta
70 × 80 cm; 70,5 × 80,5 × 3,5 cm framed
Pigment ink on Hahnemühle matt Baryta
70 × 80 cm; 70,5 × 80,5 × 3,5 cm framed
Pigment ink on Hahnemühle matt Baryta
70 × 80 cm; 70,5 × 80,5 × 3,5 cm framed
Oil pastel on paper
74,5 × 55,5 cm; 83,5 × 63,5 × 3,5 cm framed
Oil pastel on paper
76,5 × 56 cm; 83,5 × 63 × 3,5 cm framed
Oil and chalk pastel on paper
101 × 70.5 cm; 107 × 77,5 × 3,5 cm framed
Oil and chalk pastel on paper
88.3 × 71 cm; 95,5 × 78 cm framed
Oil and chalk pastel on paper
100 × 70 cm; 113 × 84 × 7 cm framed
Chalk pastel on paper
152 × 112 cm
Oil and chalk pastel on paper
88.3 × 71 cm; 95,5 × 78 cm framed
Oil and chalk pastel on paper
140 × 100 cm each
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, she 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 works are in several collections, among them: MoMA New York, MUDAM Luxembourg, Kunsthalle Zurich, TATE Modern, London, Frac Bretagne, France, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, and Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg.
Recent exhibitions include Personal Accounts, MoMA PS1, New York (2025); Personal Accounts, Pinchuck Art Centre, Kyiv (2025); Personal Accounts, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh (2024); 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 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (2024), the Sharjah 15 Biennial (2023), Jaou Photo, Tunis (2022), and the Kochi Muziris Biennale (2021).
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