GABI BLUM
Nominee Fine Arts
Person mit Hut und Teetasse sitzt in einem bühnenartigen Ambiente an rundem Tisch in einem Raum mit mehreren Stühlen, anderen Objekten und Zuschauern im Hintergrund
NY Tea Time Work in Progress (same procedure as ever ff.) (2017)/Installation and Performance/ HD-Video 30:18 mins.
© VG Bild Kunst Bonn, Photo: Florian a. Betz
Person in weißem Overall richtet eine Wand auf, die zu einer großen weißen Holzkonstruktion gehört, die einen Hausumriss darstellt, mit Fenster- und Türöffnungen, vor einem echten Haus im Garten
The Wolpertinger Project (2023)/ Kunst im öffentlichen Raum/ Installation und Rundgänge/ Public Art Munich / Annuale Freiräume/ ~ 500 × 400 × 300 cm
© VG Bild Kunst Bonn, Photo: Florian a. Betz
Drei Personen arbeiten an einem raumfüllenden, aus Holzlatten bestehenden, abstrakten Skulpturengerüst, dass auf einem Edelstahltisch steht, in einem Raum mit rotem Kachelboden
Die Hand der Bavaria / Head Office (2025)/ Installation and Performance/ ~ 820 m × 230 × 250 cm/ HD-Video 37:00 min.
© VG Bild Kunst Bonn, Photo: Florian a. Betz

"My room-filling installations are accessible experimental setups in which the border between reality and staging, art and audience is constantly being renegotiated. In doing so, I explore the structures of social, stereotypical, pop-cultural, private and public spaces. I question power structures and gender roles, and explore the creation of icons and myths, as well as the forms of representation developed for this purpose and the audience's perception thereof. Usually, I work in a site-specific context and invite other people in, shifting and varying contexts and narratives until new constellations arise from chaos or repetition. The "making-of", construction and deconstruction usually occur publicly or are incorporated into my work as documentation."

After completing an apprenticeship as a fashion and communications graphic designer, Gabi Blum studied sculpture under Professor Stephan Huber at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, graduating in 2014 with a diploma as a master student. She works as an artist, curator and initiator of temporary spaces (e.g. Kunsthaus Raab, 2018) and in public spaces, incorporating the specific contexts of each project. She has received numerous awards and grants, including the Bavarian Art Promotion Prize, the USA Stipend and the Work Stipend of the Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn. As co-founder of the Initiative K&K – Bündnis Art & Child, she is active since 2018 particularly for female artists with a responsibility for care and at the BBK Munich and Upper Bavaria since 2018 for the needs of artists in general. Her work has been exhibited, amongst others, at Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren, Fleischermuseum Böblingen, A.K.T. Pforzheim, DG Kunstraum Munich, Kunstverein Ebersberg, Galerie 21 in the Künstlerhaus Vorwerkstift Hamburg, at the 16. RischArt_Projekt …Mischen, in the Städtische Galerie Böblingen and the Pinakothek der Moderne.

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