Else Gabriel

Else Gabriel (b. 1962) is a German performance artist and educator.

Else Gabriel
Born1962 (1962)
Halberstadt, Germany
NationalityGerman
Known forPerformance art

Biography

Else Gabriel was born in Halberstadt, East Germany in 1962. She studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts.[1] She was a member of Autoperforatsionsartisten (Auto perforation artists), an East German performance art group, and since 1991 is part of the group (e.) Twin Gabriel with her partner Ulf Wrede.[2]

Gabriel was included in the 1991 exhibition Berlin Divided: Sissel Tolas, Milovan Markovic, Else Gabriel, Rolf Julius at MoMA.[3] In 2019 she was included in the exhibit The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain at Wende Museum in Culver City, California.[4]

She has taught at the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California and lectured at the University of Hamburg, the University of Kassel, the University of Kiel and Saarland University.[1] Since 2009 she has taught in Berlin at Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee, in the Sculpture Department.[5]

References
  1. "Else Gabriel | Boneless Art (About Viruses in Veritas)". CreativeMornings. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  2. "Else Gabriel". Performance Art in Eastern Europe. 21 February 2019. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  3. "Else Gabriel". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  4. "The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain". Wende Museum. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  5. "29 years after the Wall fell: Else Gabriel reflects on 'Autoperforationsartisten,' a 1980s performance group that challenged norms of art world in the GDR". KCRW Berlin. 9 November 2018. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
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