Gilbert & George
Gilbert: San Martino, Dolomites, Italy, 1943 / George: Devon, England, 1942
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George Passmore and Gilbert Proesch meet at Saint Martin’s School of Art in London, which they both entered interested in some professors, such as Anthony Caro and Philip King. George has previously studied at the Dartington Hall Adult Education Centre, Dartington College of Arts, and Oxford School of Art.
Gilbert has studied at the Kunstschule Wolkenstein, Germany; Kunstschule Hallein, Austria; and Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich
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Present the exhibitions Christmas Show, at Robert Fraser Gallery in London, and Three Works/Three Works, at Frank’s Sandwich Bar in London.Move to a house in Spitalfields, a working-class neighborhood in London. They call the house “Art for All” and declare themselves “living sculptures.”
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Stage the performance Reading from a Stick at the Geffrye Museum in London. Excluded from the Conceptual art exhibition When Attitude Becomes Format the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, but stage one of their “living sculptures” during the opening.
The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam presents an exhibition of their work.
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Konrad Fischer Galerie in Düsseldorf shows their work.
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Create their first photo-pieces.
Exhibit the series The Paintings at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
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Take part in Documenta 5 in Kassel, Germany.
The Paintings are exhibited at the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp. Exhibit at Anthony d’Offay Gallery in London.
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Begin to feature the color red in their photo-pieces, first using it in the Cherry Blossom series. In the early 1980s, they will begin to include other colors, such as green and yellow.
Begin to feature the color red in their photo-pieces, first using it in the Cherry Blossom series. In the early 1980s, they will begin to include other colors, such as green and yellow.
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Exhibit at the Art Agency in Tokyo.
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Participate in Documenta 6 in Kassel, Germany.
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Participate in the XXXVIII Biennale di Venezia.
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The Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, organizes a retrospective of their work. The exhibition later travels to the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Kunsthalle Bern; Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris; and Whitechapel Art Gallery in London.
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Participate in the XVI Bienal de São Paulo.
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Participate in Documenta 7 in Kassel, Germany.
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The Baltimore Museum of Art presents an exhibition of their work that later travels to other museums in the United States, including the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Nominated for the inaugural Turner Prize. Participate in the Fifth Biennale of Sydney.
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Win the Turner Prize.
A retrospective exhibition opens at CAPC, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux and later travels to the Kunsthalle Basel, Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Palacio de Velázquez in Madrid, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich, and Hayward Gallery in London.
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Organize a show at Anthony d’Offay Gallery in London for CRUSAID, an organization dedicated to helping people affected by HIV and AIDS.
Create the Cosmological Pictures series, which is displayed at the Sonnabend Gallery in New York. The New Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow presents an exhibition of their work.
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The exhibition Cosmological Pictures opens at the Palac Sztuki in Kraków and travels over the next two years to several European cities, including Rome, Vienna, Budapest, Dublin, Liverpool, and Barcelona, ending at the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart.
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Gilbert & George: New Democratic Pictures is displayed at the Aarhus Kunstmuseum in Aarhus, Denmark.
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Their work is shown at the National Art Gallery in Beijing and the Art Museum in Shanghai.
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The Museo d’Arte Moderna in Lugano, Switzerland, presents an exhibition of their work.
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The exhibition Singing Sculpture is shown at CAPC, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux.
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The Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Bologna and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam mount exhibitions of their work.
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Exhibitions are presented at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and the Sezon Museum of Art in Tokyo.
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The Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst in Oslo holds a retrospective of their work.
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The Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien in Vienna shows their work.
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The Centro Cultural de Belém in Lisbon mounts a solo show.
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Represent Great Britain at the 51st Biennale di Venezia.
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Participate in the XII Biennale Internazionale di Scultura di Carrara in Carrara, Italy, and in group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Kunst- Werke Berlin.SONOFAGOD PICTURES: Was Jesus Heterosexual?, an exhibition of the artists’ work, is presented at White Cube in London.
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Tate Modern in London holds an extensive retrospective of their work, Gilbert & George: Major Exhibition, which later travels to other museums in Europe and the United States, concluding at the Brooklyn Museum in New York in January 2009.
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Gilbert & George’s work is featured in the exhibition History in the Making: A Retrospective of the Turner Prize at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo.
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Their work is included in the group exhibition The Fallen Angels II at the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo.
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The retrospective exhibition opened in 2007 at the Tate Modern in London travels to the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo in Málaga, Spain; to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, Croatia; and to the Palais des Beaux-Arts/Paleis voor Schone Kunsten in Brussels. Their work is also shown at the DOX – Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, and Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands.
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The White Cube gallery in London inaugurates the exhibition Gilbert & George: The Urethra Postcard Art of Gilbert & George, which later travels to the ARNDT in Berlin. The Deichtorhallen Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany, and the Robert Miller Gallery in New York host an exhibition each of the their works. Publish The Complete Postcard Art of Gilbert & George, with an essay by Michael Bracewell.
Gilbert & George receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the New Museum in New York.
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The exhibition London Pictures is on at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris, White Cube in London, Arndt in Berlin, Bernier/Eliades in Athens, Lehmann Maupin in New York, and Galerie Baronian-Francey in Brussels.
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The exhibition London Pictures travels to Casal Solleric in Palma de Mallorca and the MKM Museum Küppersmühle in Duisburg, Germany.
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Gilbert & George: Scapegoat Pictures is on at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris and White Cube in London.
The Lehman Maupin gallery in New York stages a show of Gilbert & George’s video sculptures.
The Nouveau Musée National de Monaco organizes a large exhibition titled Gilbert & George Art Exhibition.
Gilbert & George: Artist Rooms opens at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery in Exeter, UK.
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Gilbert & George: The Early Years opens at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.
London-based gallery White Cube Bermondsey and Arndt in Singapore present exhibits by Gilbert & George.
The Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) organizes the artists’ first retrospective show in Tasmania.
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Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in London open exhibitions with recent works and video sculptures by the artists.
Gilbert & George: Scapegoating Pictures for Budapest can be seen at the Ludwig Múzeum in Budapest.
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Gilbert & George: THE GREAT EXHIBITION (1971–2016) opens at Luma Arles, France. The exhibition later travels to the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, the Astrup Fearnley Museet in Oslo, and the Reykjavik Art Museum.
Gilbert & George: SCAPEGOATING PICTURES for Belfast is presented at the Metropolitan Arts Centre (MAC) in Belfast.
