Gabriela Golder

Gabriela Golder
Born
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Known forVideo art
Installation art
Websitegabrielagolder.com

Gabriela Golder is an Argentine artist and curator. She works primarily in experimental video art and audiovisual installation art. She also writes electronic literature.

Life, education, and career

Golder was born in Buenos Aires.[1] She attended the Universidad del Cine, Buenos Aires, Argentina from 1991 to 1995.[1] In 1997, she conducted Post-graduate studies at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. She earned her DESS (Diplôme d’Etudes Supérieures Spécialisés) in Hypermedia, Université Paris VIII, Paris, France in 2000.[1] She has had many international artist residencies, including Banf Center for the Arts in Alberta, Canada, Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio; and UQAM in Montral Canada (2007).[1]

Works and awards

Her electronic literature piece, Postales, was featured in the Electronic Literature Organization Symposium for the Arts (2002). This work is a journey where "Sequences are derogating, asking for answers, facing or not each other. A quest or an escape, or simply to be a Labyrinth, where images goes back to the target, in the central node of it's performance and it's hopeless thoughts: the nude, the nude flesh of life."[2]

Her works have appeared in multiple exhibits, including in National Museum of Fine Arts of Chile; Sesc_Videobrasil Contemporary Art Biennial, São Paulo; Bienalsur, Buenos Aires; Jakarta Biennial; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Dazibao, Montreal; La Maison Rouge, Paris; Dissonance, Getty Center, Los Angeles; DEAF, Rotterdam; Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates; Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany; Monitoring, Kassel; Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw; X Havana Biennial.[3] Her work is in the collection of the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe.[4]

Golder has received many awards, including First Prize at the National Salon of Visual Arts (2003), First Prize Videobrasil (2003), the Media Art Award from the Zentrum für Kunst und Medietechnologie (ZKM)(2003),Grand Prize Videoformes Festival, France, (2003), First Prize at the National Salon of Visual Arts (2004), the "Sigwart Blum" from the Association of Art Critics of Argentina (2007),[5] Ars Electronica, 80+1 Project (for ARRORRÓ project), (2009); Luis Espinal-Mostra CineTrabalho Award, Brazil, (2011); BA Specific Site, (2014); Germany, Estado da Arte, at the 21st Bienal de Arte Contemporânea Sesc_Videobrasil, (2019);[6] Itaú Visual Arts Award (2020);Presidency of the Nation Award for the best work of the 109th National Salon of Visual Arts, 2021; KONEX Award:Art and Technology (2022);[7][8] 2nd ARTHAUS Award (2022); andTokyo Video Award, Japan, (2002).[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Rolf Weber, Nestor EDV Service. "Gabriela Golder". www.balmoral.de. Archived from the original on 2011-01-10. Retrieved 2025-06-04.
  2. ^ "ELO 2002 Symposium - Featured Work: Postales". www.eliterature.org. Retrieved 2025-06-04.
  3. ^ a b García de la Huerta, Marcos (December 2020). "Celebración del 177 Aniversario de la Universidad de Chile. Discurso en el acto de homenaje de la Universidad a los cinco profesionales laureados con el Premio Nacional en sus respectivas disciplinas el año 2019". Revista de filosofía. 77: 235–237. doi:10.4067/s0718-43602020000100235. ISSN 0718-4360.
  4. ^ "Gabriela Golder". ZKM. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
  5. ^ Rolf Weber, Nestor EDV Service. "Gabriela Golder". Archived from the original on January 10, 2011. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  6. ^ "Gabriela Golder". Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  7. ^ Zacharías, María Paula (2022-05-16). "Premios Konex 2022: distinguen a cien personalidades de las artes visuales". LA NACION (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-06-04.
  8. ^ "Gabriela Golder Konex Award". Fundación Konex.