biography / bibliography
GEHARD DEMETZ
Born in Bolzano, Italy, 1972
Lives and works in Selva di Val Gardena
EDUCATION
2000–2001
Attends Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts
Zhou Brothers lessons in Chicago and Jakobo Borges lesson in Caracas
1995
Graduates as a sculptor
1992
Apprenticeship to Matthias Resch
1989–1991
Studies at the vocational school for sculptors, Selva
1986–1989
Studies at the Institute of Art, Selva
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
Gehard Demetz: Threshold Space, Jack Shainman Gallery, April 26–May 26, 2012.
2011
Gehard Demetz: Contenitore, Beck & Eggeling new quarters, Dusseldorf, Germany
Mutterland, Galleria Rubin, Milan, Italy
Gerhard Demetz, Palacio de Pimentel, Valladolid, Spain
Mutterland, l’età estranea, Fondazione Mimmo Rotella, Catanzaro, Italy
2010
Threshold Area, Galeria Raquel Ponce, Madrid, Spain
2009
Superheroes: Kinder-Träume? (with Raquel Muñoz López), Galerie Gefängnis Le Carceri, Bolzano, Italy
Love at First Touch: Gehard Demetz, ex Chiesa di San Francesco, Como, Italy. Curated by C. Antolini.
2008
Gehard Demetz: Skulpturen, Kunstverein Villa Wessel, Iserlohn, Germany
2007
Gehard Demetz, Galleria Rubin, Milan
2006
Gehard Demetz, Comunità Compensoriale Oltradige, Bassa Atesina, Enga (Bz)
Gehard Demetz, Appel Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
2005
Gehard Demetz, Galleria Rubin, Milan (Catalogue; text by M. Sciaccaluga)
2002
Gehard Demetz, Institut Ladin Micurà de Rü, St. Martino in Thurn, Gadertal, Italy
Camera con prima colazione, Circolo Artistico, Ortisei (Bz)
Zimmer mit Frühstück, Kreis Für Kunst und Kultur, St. Ulrich, Bozen, Italy
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
+50 Sculture in Città: Tra Memoria (1962) e present (2012), Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto, June 23–October 28, 2012.
Panorama: Arte nuova in Alto Adige, Forte di Fortezza, Bz, Italy, June 16–September 30, 2012. Curated by D. Isaia, T. Moroder, C. Naegele and L. Trockner.
2011
Scultori del XXI secolo, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan, Italy
2010
Liebhaberstücke, Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr in der Alten Post, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
Veerbelding uit Val Gardena, CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, NL
La scultura italiana del XXI secolo, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan, Italy
IndividuAnimal, Beck & Eggeling new quarters, Dusseldorf, Germany
2009
Rolli Days: Rolli Contemporanei, Palazzo Francesco Grimaldi, Galleria Nazionale Palazzo Spinola, Genova
2008
Molded, Folded and Found, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York
Small Forms, Great Attitudes, Galleria Rubin, Milan, Italy
2007
Agreiter Prize, Museo Ladino, San Martino in Badia
Portrait – The View Behind, Drees Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
SerrOne Biennale Giovani, Villa Reale, Monza
Allarmi 3, Caserma De Cristoforis, Como, by C. Antolini
Art Cologne, Galleria Rubin, Cologne, Germany
New Entries – Contemporary Italian Art, Associazione Contemporaneamente, Milan, by M. Pizziolo and R. Ravasio
MiArt 2007, Galleria Rubin, Milan
Rotary Prize to expertise 2007, Rotary Lombardia grants three sculptures of Gehard Demetz to Teatro Dal Verme, Milan, with an official ceremony on February the 26th
2006
Kunst067Zurich, Galleria Rubin, Zurich
Cairo Prize 2006, Museo della Permanente, Milan (finalist 2006)
Ars in fibula, Palazzo Pretorio, Certaldo (Fi) by M. Sciaccaluga (catalogue)
Group Show, Galleria Rubin, Milan
Sculture da Viaggio, Galleria Del Tasso, Bergamo, by M. Sciaccaluga
Miart, Galleria Rubin, Milan
Group Show, Galleria Rubin, Milan
Artefiera 2006, Gallerian Rubin, Bologna
2005
Riunione di famiglia, Galleria Goethe2, Bolzano
Art-Frankfurt, Galleria Rubin, Frankfurt
Gerhard Demetz meets Cy Twombly, “Tazl” Gallery, Graz (AUT)
2004
“Tazl” Gallery, Graz (AUT)
2003
Triennale Ladina- Museo Ladino, San Martino in Badia (Bz)
2002
Daetz Centrum Museum (Lichtenstein –GER)
2001
UNIKA
Daetz Centrum Museum (Lichtenstein –GER)
Open House, Salzburg (AUT)
2000
UNIKA
Expo of Hannover, Hannover (GER)
1999
Open House, Salzburg (AUT)
UNIKA
AWARDS
2007
Richard Agreiter prize for sculpture