Petra Gell
Studio
Siebensterngasse 26/3, 1070 Vienna
petra.gell@live.de
0043/650/4852241
lives and works in Vienna
2003-2006 Paintings and Graphics, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Gunter Damisch
1997-2003 Visual Education, Markus Prachensky, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
(diploma work ‚Fascist architecture in Italy)
1996-2003 design textiles, Josef Schulz, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
2001 Universita di Roma Sapienza
2023 founding of MATCHPOINT
2021 Member Frauendomäne
2019 Member of Artist Association MAERZ Linz
2018 founding BUILD AND SHARE.artist coach with Nadine Lemke
2018 Member of SALOON Vienna, Network for women of Viennas art scene
2014 Member of Künstlerhaus Wien
2002-2017 establishing artists collective ‚Die 4 Grazien‘ (Petra Gell, Mela Kaltenegger, Susanna Schwarz, G. Maria Wetter)
Lectures and talks
2023 ARTIST TALK about the exhibition ABSTRACT ENTITIES, MAERZ gallery, Linz
2023 ARTIST TALK about GENDER AND SPACE, UNDP Gender programm Montenegro, City Museum Podgorica
2023 FRAUEN IN ARCHITEKTUR UND KUNST, Podiumsdiskussion, Künstlerhaus Vienna – mit Judith Benzer, Judith Eiblmayr, Petra Gell, Ingrid Holzschuh, Franziska Leeb und Ines Nizic. Moderation: Sne Veselinovic
2022 Artist Talk Petra Gell & Bernadette Krejs, architect and researcher TU Vienna
2021 Let’s talk Art! Petra Gell with ANDREA GRASER , architect, PAULA MARSCHALEK arthistorian, cultural manager, LISZ HIRN, philosopher, journalist
2021 Saloon Hamburg – EIGENE WEBSITE, Lecture
2019 Saloon Hamburg – WHY FEMALE PERSPECTIVES MATTER LIKE NEVER BEFORE, Warbourg House, Lecture
Awards/Grants:
2023 Purchase of the State Collection Lower Austria
2022 State Scholarship Fine Arts
2022 The Private is still political, BEYOND BEYOND, Stilwerk Hamburg, project grant Upper Austria
2022 The Graphic of the space, Villa Tugendhat, Brno, project grant, Lower Austria
2021 ‚Boost‘, project grant Bildrecht, Upper Austria
2020 ‚The space around‘, project grant Bildrecht, Lower Austria
Residencies:
2019 Exchange Saloon Hamburg
2018 Exchange Saloon Berlin
2015 Villa Waldberta, Munich
2010 Hospiz am Arlberg
2008 Vis, Croatia
Collections:
Art Collection of the state of Upper Austria
Country Lower Austria
Collection of the City of Vienna
Collection Leopold, Vienna
MOYA Vienna
Collection of the Austrian National Library
Accademy of fine Art, Vienna
Landesklinikum Innsbruck
Château des Réaux, Frankreich
Bank Austria
2023
ABSTRACT ENTITIES, MAERZ Gallery, Linz
ON-GOING, HOW MUCH SPACE DO YOU HAVE, State Scholarship Fine Arts
MATCH, site-specific installation, Künstlerhaus Vienna – through DRAFT 2.0
TAKE BACK THE SPACE, City Museum Podgorica, MNE
Flags of a shifted Territory, Project Space Festival, Berlin
2022
Linzer Kunstsalon, Palace Museum Linz, A
BEYOND SPACE, MeetFrida Art Space Hamburg and KantGaragen Berlin, D
GRAPHIC OF THE SPACE, Solo Show, Space Interpretation Villa Tugendhat, Brno, CZ
Galery Klatovy, Klenová, CZ postponed
Künstlerhaus Wien, AT – 2023
BEYOND BEYOND, Saloon Hamburg, MeetFrida Art Space, D
2021
I GUESS IT’S MY LIFE, Solo Show, Kunstraum Nestroyhof, Vienna
ON THE NATURE OF COLOUR, Austrian Cultural Forum Warsaw
Boost, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, Festivalzentrale, Solo Show
NEU IN DER MAERZ, MAERZ gallery, Linz
Kunsthalle Linz, Es ist schon wieder MAERZ!
Affordable art fair, mee#FridaArt, Hamburg
DRAFT Psychogramme einer Idee, KH Vienna
2020
HIDE AND SEEK SHOW AND TELL, curated by Georgia Holz, Kunstraum am Schauplatz
THAT’S NEW – AND NEEDED! art collection of the state of Upper Austria, Linz
Galerie MAERZ, Es ist MAERZ, Linz
PARALLEL VIENNA, Das T/ABOR
VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, Das T/ABOR
YOU’VE GOT MAIL, MOM ART SPACE, Saloon Hamburg
SWISS ART EXPO, Zürich
A PULL FULL OF YELLOW, in_conversation_with Katharina Wendler, Petra Gell & Franziska Degendorfer, basement, Vienna
HOW TO MAKE A BEE LINE, Elma Riza & Petra Gell, philomena+, Vienna
2019
VIENNA ART WEEK, open studio
Saloon exchange Hamburg
M.O.O.C.O.N. homebase, Vienna
smoothness, KRIDO OPEN, Kritzendorf
OpenArt summerstage, Vienna June
Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol, 36. Graphikwettbewerb, Innsbruck, A
LOOSHAUS Kunstauktion, Delta Cultura und Dorotheum, Wien
Künstlerhaus Wien, in between structures, Vienna
TRI, Gallery Loft8, Vienna
2018
Saloon exchange Berlin
Vienna art week, „Paradise Girls – 4 weibliche zeitgenössische Kunstpositionen im Miteinander“
OPEN CAVE, Vienna
‚Reflecting Space‘, installation with housportrait, KRIDO OPEN, Kritzendorf
Anonyme Zeichner, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin
Erinnern – Power to the ladies, Studio Die 4 Grazien, Vienna
Collection GPL Vienna, Kunsthaus 7B, Rumänien
‚Let’s take another road‘, daily, MQ, Vienna
Wikam, den blick öffnen, Palais NÖ, Vienna
2017
photovienna, MAK, Vienna
‚It’s up to you!‘, office wall painting, Vienna
Die Kunst zieht Kreise, Galerie artmark, Vienna
Kunst-Litfaßsäulen Salzburg
storage wars, GPL, Vienna
Scope Basel, GPL
summerstage, open art 2017
art on prescription, Venezia
Wir sind Wien.Festival der Bezirke. Atelier Die 4 Grazien, Vienna
Galerie Wolfrum, Vienna
Artwalk 18, Vienna
Galerie Lukas Feichtner, Vienna
2016
SUPER, Edition#6, Vienna
Das Glück ist ein Vogerl, Kulturherbst Neubau, Vienna
KRIDO OPEN, Das Glück ist ein Vogerl, Kritzendorf
POP HITS, Austria Auction Company, Vienna
Zukunftsphantasien, Art Weekend – 10 Jahre Metropolitain, Vienna
2015
artmart, k/haus Vienna
markieren, Passagegalerie k/haus Vienna
VIENNA ART WEEK, eyes on, Flat 1, Monat der Fotografie, Vienna
IDOL prähistorische und zeitgenössische Frauenbilder, k/haus Vienna, Rathausgalerie
Munich
Artist in residence Villa Waldberta, Munich
ARTMUC, Munich
Im Prater blühen wieder die Bäume, Galerie Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna
2014
MAK Wien, 14. Art Auction, Neuner Haus, Vienna
WIKAM, Palais NÖ, Galerie Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna
Das EINE, Monat der Fotografie, mo.e Vienna
amima.l, Schloss Büchsenhausen
Schmusen mit Musen, MOYA, Vienna
welcome, Galerie GEDOK, Munich
turbulent.Achterbahn der Kunst, Leipzig
2013
ci, Galerie Peithner-Lichtenfels, Istanbul
stay in shape, Kulturherbst Neubau, Vienna
Great Balls of Austria, CAMP! Athens
You’re a fine girl!, 10 Jahre ‚Die 4 Grazien‘, Catalogue presentation, Projektraum WUK, Vienna
CHEAPART artfair Limassol, Cyprus
2012
CHEAPART artfair Athens
CHEAPART artfair Amsterdam
Halali – Die Jagd nach dem Zeitgenössischen, Galerie Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna
Hotel, Atelier Suterena, Vienna
stay in shape – leider geil, Strombaden, Kritzendorf
2011
The Excitement Continues – Zeitgenössische Kunst aus der Sammlung Leopold II, Leopold Museum, Vienna
Art Austria Messe, Galerie Peithner- Lichtenfels, MQ Vienna
Artist in residence, Hospiz Galerie Bregenz, St. Christoph am Arlberg
Die Revolution ist eine Frau, Herbstfestival Neubau, Vienna
2010
Die 4 Grazien in Tirol, Galerie Nothburga, Innsbruck
reitet ohne mich weiter, Galerie young.austrian.art, Vienna
2009
stay in shape, Galerie am Lieglweg, Vienna
Salon Gier, Galerie young.austrian.art, Vienna
Bezirksfestwochen Theater am Spittelberg, Vienna
2008
Art Auction, Neuner Haus, MAK, Vienna
diving graces, Galerie Peithner Lichtenfels, Vienna