BIOGRAPHY


Statement/Texts/Press

OLIVIER GUESSELÉ - GARAI
 
Born 1976 in Paris
Lives and works in Berlin


 
 
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
          Nära det vilda hjärtat / Near to the Wild Heart, curated by Lisa Rosendahl, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, SE, (Cat.) 
          Forgive Us Our Trespasses / Vergib uns unsere Schud Of (Un)Real Frontiers,Of (Im)Moralities and Other                                     Transcendences, curated by Paz Guevara, Cosmin Costinaș, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin, DE (Cat.)
         WKRÓTCE | FLOW/ PRZEPŁYW, curated by Agnieszka Brzeżańska, Ewa Ciepielewska, Centrum Sztuki                                     Galeria EL,Elbląg,PL
2023
        Schweinebewusstsein, Sprengel Museum Hannover, curated by Heidi Specker, Inka Schube, Hannover, DE
 
2022
         Perspectives #02 Les nouvelles oeuvres de la collection, Frac Alsace, Sélestat, FR
2021 
        Cornfeld, invited by Heidi Specker, Kunsthalle Lingen, Lingen, DE
        Dear Reader, curated by Michael Lailach and Dirk Peuker, Kunstbibliothek – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin
        Angst, Keine Angst/Fear no Fear, initiated by Huang Xiaopeng and curated by Dorothee Albrecht, Antje Majewski and                   Stefan Rummel, Times Art Center, Berlin, DE
2020 
        The Faculty of Sensing – Thinking With, Through, and By Anton Wilhelm Amo, curated by Bonaventure Soh                                 Bejeng Ndikung, Jule Hilltgärtner, Nele Kaczmarek, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, DE (Bkl, B)
         Kunst – Handwerk, curated by Barbara Steiner and Lea Altner, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, DE 
        Cornfeld, invited by Heidi Specker, Kommunale Galerie Berlin, Berlin, DE
        Kunst – Handwerk, curated by Barbara Steiner and Franciska Zólyom,
        Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Leipzig, DE
        The Faculty of Sensing – Thinking With, Through, and By Anton Wilhelm Amo,
        curated by Jule Hilltgärtner, Nele Kaczmarek, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung,
        Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, DE (Bkl)
2019
        Karavane – verschollene Collagen von Hannah Höch, curated by Martin G. Schmid, Jaro Straub,Christl Mudrak, MEWO            Kunsthalle Memmingen, Memmingen, DE
        Kunst – Handwerk, curated by Barbara Steiner, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, AT (Cat./Bkl)
        And Berlin will always need you, Art, Craft and Concept made in Berlin, curated by Julienne Lorz, Natasha                                   Ginwala,Gropius Bau, Berlin, DE (Bkl)
        The MOLAF installement No.21, The Darling Foundry, Montreal, CA
2018
        How to talk with birds, trees, fish, shells, snakes, bulls and lions, curated by Ina Dinter, Aleksandra Jach,Antje                                Majewski,Melanie Roumiguière, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, DE (Cat./Bkl)
        Motława Flow Vol.3, In the wild I love Vistula, curated by Agnieszka Brzeżańska,
        Ewa Ciepielewska, Tomek Pawłowski, Gdańsk City Gallery 2, Gdańsk, PL
        Kyiv Art Fair, Galerie Pola Magnetyczne, Kiev, UA
        Artmonte-carlo Fair, Galerie Pola Magnetyczne, Monaco, MC
        Untragbar. Von der Sehnsucht nach Veränderung, curated by Marjatta Hölz,
        Kunstverein KISS im Schloss Untergröningen, Abtsgmünd-Untergröningen, DE (Cat.)
2017
        Salon Zimowy, Galerie Pola Magnetyczne, Warsaw, PL
2016
        Art & Anthropology, curated by Heike Fuhlbrügge and Christine Nippe, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin, DE

2015
        STADT/BILD. Image of a City. Fluids. A Happening by Allan Kaprow, 1967/2015,
        Versions by Olivier Guesselé-Garai, Assaf Gruber, Antje Majewski, Agnieszka Polska und Juliane Solmsdorf; Ahmet Ögüt;            Alexandra Pirici; Stadt im Regal, curated by Udo Kittelmann and Lisa Marei Schmidt, Nationalgalerie – Staatliche                         Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, DE (B) (Cat.)
        Die Stadt als Detail, curated by Dirk Peuker, Salon am Moritzplatz, Berlin, DE
2014
        Voyage Voyage, curated by Antje Majewski, The Wand, Berlin, DE (Bkl.)
2013
        Stag Berlin / London, curated by Katrin Plavčak - Cullinan Richards, dispari&dispari project, Reggio Emilia, IT
        The MOLAF installement No.11, Blumen Künstlerresidenz , Leipzig, DE
        Color Sharks, curated by Melissa Steckbauer, The Wand, Berlin, DE
        IMAA 2013-15, Espace d'art contemporain 14°N 61°W, Fort de France, MQ
2012
        Chains, curated by Dani Jakob, Gabriel Vormstein, Sebastian Hammwöhner, Horse, Berlin, DE
        Malerei der Ungewissen Gegenden, eingeladen von Antje Majewski, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2011
        Kita "the art of playfulism", presented by Dadatek, Panke Space, Berlin, DE
2007
        ArtParis - Abu Dhabi international art fair, Galerie Lahumière (Paris), Abu Dhabi, UAE
        Triptyque manifestation d'art contemporain, Galerie Lahumière (Paris), Le Grand Théâtre, Angers, FR (Cat.)
2005
        Salon Réalités Nouvelles N° 59, Parc Floral de Paris, Paris, FR (Cat.)
        St'art international art fair, Galerie Lahumière (Paris), Strasbourg, FR
2004
        Accrochage 2+2, Galerie Lahumière, Paris, FR
2003
        Oeuvres Massacrées, Galerie Annie Stansal, Paris, FR
        Festival art & squats 2, Studio Baltazzart Collective, Paris, FR
2002
        Apologie Polygonale hommage à Carmelo Arden-Quin, Galerie Claude Dorval, Paris, F Lineart international art fair, Galerie         Claude Dorval (Paris), Gent, BE
        Festival art & squats, Studio Baltazzart Collective, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
        Diversité de l'art Galerie Artitude (Paris), Galerie Prince & Prince, Berlin, DE
        Salon international d'art N° 9, Galerie GNG (Paris), Centre Culturel la Coupole, Saint-Loubes, FR (Cat.)
2001
        Tendances Abstraites, Galerie Artitude, Paris, FR
 
 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 
         _Encore un effort _2023_ An effort again_ (with Katharina Karrenberg), After The Butcher, Berlin,DE
2017
        Tak Tak Nem Nem, Galerie Pola Magnetyczne, Warsaw, PL
        The Shadow of the Sun (with Antje Majewski), curated by Aurelia Nowak, Zona Sztuki Aktualnej,Szczecin, PL (Bkl.)

2003 
        Szabadság hommage à Sandor Petőfi, Institut Hongrois, Paris, FR



GRANTS/RESIDENCY
2024 
        Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn, DE
2021 
        Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, NYC, USA
2017
        Bandjoun Station Residency, Bandjoun, CM
        IFA artist contact grant for Cameroon, Stuttgart, DE