07 Feb 2021 – Hear now, the new dawn – Gloria Zein
Article for the catalogue of the exhibition: 89. Herbstausstellung des Kunstvereins Hannover (2021)...
07 Feb 2020 – Materialize me! – Sequential processes in sculpture – Sarah Maske
The process of sculpture creation includes complex occurrences of decision-making and realization that often remain unconcluded and that extend into the exhibition space. For several years, Gloria Zein has been creating culptural groups from various materials that, in their heterogeneity, appear like active characters. ...
07 Feb 2012 – Artist Talk: Goethe-Institut London, Gloria Zein im Gespräch mit Stephanie Rosenthal
GZ: A sculpture is a body. It’s nothing that exists for itself. It always establishes a relationship to the surrounding space. My project for the Goethe-Institut deals with this specific place, which is neither a gallery nor a white cube. I’ve worked with the facts...
07 Feb 2012 – Letter From London – An interview with Gloria Zein, on dancing chickens and German art – Matthew Rose
GZ: I’ve been exploring a participatory approach to art making for quite a while. For the Goethe-Institut project I interviewed every employee, from the receptionist, the librarian and cleaning staff to the German teachers, the cultural department workers and the director to understand the structure...
07 Feb 2009 – catalogue text on “zein’s fiction” at Kunstraum Düsseldorf – Katja Schlenker
„Do you … believe there is an innocent past?“ steht auf der Zeichnung und schwingt gleichzeitig als Stimmung über Gloria Zeins Rauminstallation „zein’s fiction“....
07 Feb 2014 – Specific degrees of whiteness in a poisenous elephant – Gloria Zein
Allegedly, Siam kings offered white elephants to adversaries, who they wanted to financially (and politically) destroy. Unable to refuse the sovereign’s giant gift, they had to provide for the animal while slowly falling into ruin. What a deliciously elegant, sleeky and despicable gesture. Spitefulness and torture...
07 Feb 2016 – Everything is needed – some notes and associations on the work of Gloria Zein – Noor Mertens
Transformation or: Hands and Brains...
02 Dec 2019 – Reflections on art in a fragmented society of control – Gloria Zein in conversation with Roberto Nigro
GZ: You have extensively researched and written on Foucault, and especially on his seminal publication Discipline and Punish (...
30 Nov 2018 – The mysterious settlement of sheep at Melle – Hajo Eickhoff
The terms pecunia and pecus are etymologically linked and a central concern of du vertige de la contingence, a work by artist Gloria Zein for the 2018 biennale at Melle. Pecunia means money and wealth, pecus means sheep and cattle. Thus, the sheep is not...
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