Through drawing, installation, performance and video, Robert Gabris's art explores multiple questions of diverse and convertible identity as well as hybridity, based on the representation and perception of the body. As an artist who is both Roma and queer, Robert Gabris examines the mechanisms of marginalisation and exclusion, and has developed a postcolonial critique of institutional structures. In opposition to the patriarchal, capitalist system, he seeks to invent inclusive, sensitive and supportive spaces that celebrate the diversity of life and the variety of emotions.
Photo: @Michal Blecha
BIOGRAPHY
Born 1986 in Hnusta Likier (SK)
living and working in Vienna (AT)
EDUCATION
2010 - 2014 Academy of fine Arts Vienna, Stagedesign / Diploma / (AT)
2006 - 2010 Academy of performing Arts in Bratislava, Stagedesign and Costume / Bachelor / (SK)
SOLOEXHIBITIONS - SELECTION
2023 This Space Is Too Small For Our Bodies / Belvedere21 /Vienna (AT)
2023 Bodyshop / Gregor Podnar / Vienna (AT)
2022 White Cinema / Museum of Romani Culture / Brno (CZ)
2021 Inventing Human: Sketches / Strabag Kunstforum / Vienna (AT)
2021 Insectopia / Villa Romana / Florence (IT)
2019 Daydreams / Gandy Gallery, Bratislava (SK)
2017 The Forest / Vicino-Lontano Festival / Bunker del Castello di Udine / Udine (IT)
2015 The Dream / Collective by Pure / Shanghai (CHN)
2013 Abbilder / Amerlinghaus / Wien (AT)
GROUPEXHIBITIONS - SELECTION
2024 Displacements and Torrents / Cite Des Arts / Paris (FR)
2024 Horror Patriae / Steierischerherbst´24 / Graz (AT)
2024 Model: Museum of Contemporary Art / Slovak National Gallery / Bratislava (SK)
2024 Avant-Garde And Liberation / Mumok / Vienna (AT)
2023 Gestures Of Affection /Neue Galerie / Innsbruck (AT)
2023 Unruly Kinships / Temporary Gallery / Cologne (DE)
2022 Actually, The Dead Are Not Dead / Total Museum / Seoul (KOR)
2022 Beyond nuclear Family / The Elisabeth Fundation For The Arts / New York (USA)
2022 New Entry. Vienna / Gregor Podnar Gallery / Vienna (AT)
2022 Curated by / Wonnerth Dejaco / Vienna (AT)
2022 Material Nation / Urania Berlin (DE)
2022 Wesen & Kreaturen / Rotor Graz (AT)
2022 Whiteness as Property / Künstlerhaus Wien / Vienna (AT)
2021 To Be Like Water / Tent Rotterdam (NL)
2021 Actually, The Dead Are Not Dead 3 / Würtembergischer Kunstverrein / Stuttgart (DE)
2021 CJCH Awardshow / Moravska Galeria / Brno (CZ)
2021 Strabag International Art Art Award Show / Vienna (AT)
2021 Resist! / Rautenrausch Joest Museum / Cologne (DE)
2020 Actually, The Dead Are Not Dead 2 / Würtembergischer Kunstverrein / Stuttgart (DE)
2020 Being Safe is Scary / Survival Kitt11 / Riga (LT)
2020 Actually, The Dead Are Not Dead 1 / Würtembergischer Kunstverrein / Stuttgart (DE)
2019 Keres Kultura / Central Gallery, Banska Bystrica (SK)
2019 Art Queer Space Vienna / Kunsthalle Exnergasse / Vienna (AT)
2018 Queer Stories / Tranzit Gallery, Bratislava (SK)
2017 Romane Thana / Vorarlberg Museum / Bregenz (AT)
2016 Romane Thana / Landesgalerie Eisenstadt (AT)
2016 Ghosts Of The Civil Dead / Gallery Tranzit / Bratislava (AT)
2015 Romane Thana / Wien Museum / Vienna (AT)
2014 Have a look into my Life / Strasbourg (FR)
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE - SELECTION
2023 Cite Des Arts / Paris (FR)
2022 MeetFactory / Prague (CZ)
2021 Kair Kosice / Kosice (SK)
2020 Villa Romana / Florence (IT)
2017 Gallery8 / Budapest (HU)
2017 Lokomotiv / Örnsköldsvik (SWE)
2016 Jaw Dikh / Czarna Gora (PL)
2015 Swatch Art Peace Hotel / Shanghai (CHN)
AWARDS / GRANTS
2024 Staatsstipendium BMKÖS (AT)
2022 Belvedere 21 Art Award / Vienna (AT)
2021 Jindřich Chalupecký Award / Brno (CZ)
2021 Recognition Art Award / Strabag International SE / Vienna (AT)
BIENNALES
2024 La Biennale De Lyon / Lyon (FR)
2024 Anozero`24 Biennal De Coimbra / Coimbra (PT)
2024 Ten Tousand Suns - Biennale of Sydney / Sydney (AUS)
2022 One Day We Shall Celebrate Again / Documenta Fifteen / Kasel (DE)
2022 Sugar / Biennale - Matter of Art / Prague (CZ)
2020 Matter Of Art / Biennale / Prague (CZ)
2019 Actually, The Dead Are Not Dead / Bergen Assembly / Bergen (NOR)
