With attention to the intricacies of material, construction and placement, SIMONE GILGES' photographs, found objects and sculptures form an intriguing symbolic system. Gilges mixes monochromatic and minimal styles with expressive uses of colors and figures. Her work is permeated by a powerful sense of the uncanny; she infuses textures and images with a dramatic, atmospheric charge.

Evoking a magical and emotive experience of time, place, and action, Gilges both romances and unsettles the viewer. Recalling Beuys' investigations of the poetic and political resonances of materials, she invests her work with a sense of both revelation and mystery. She arranges elements in ways that privilege texture and tactility. With a theatrical flair reminiscent of Duchamp, she explores the social and personal implications of mixing abstraction, figuration, and performance.

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SIMONE GILGES (Bonn, Germany, 1973) lives and works in Berlin. She studied visual communication at Universität der Künste Berlin and photography at the Fachhochschule Dortmund.

Gilges is a founding member of Honey-Suckle Company (HSC), Berlin. She is the founder of the Publishing House and project space Neue Dokumente, Berlin. Gilges is the publisher of “freier: the magazine for states of emotion."

Selected exhibitions include: Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin (solo); Schirn Kunstalle, Frankfurt (both 2011); Gallery Marquise Dance Hall Istanbul, Turkey (solo)(2010); Foxy Production, New York (solo); Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany (both 2009-2010); Kunstverein Hannover; Foxy Production, New York (both 2009); Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin (solo); pret a pARTager, Dakar, Senegal; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (HSC); Studio Voltaire, London (all 2008); Kunstraum Innsbruck; Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg (solo with HSC)(both 2007). Künstlerhaus Stuttgart; 4th Berlin Biennale; Galerie Art:Concept, Paris; Kunsthalle Basel (solo with HSC)(all 2006); CRAC Alsace, France (solo); Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; Künstlerhaus Stuttgart; Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland; Cubitt, London (HSC)(all 2005); Neue Dokumente, Berlin (solo); Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (HSC)(both 2003); Wilhelm-Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany (solo)(2002); Kunst-Werke, Berlin (HSC)(2001); PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (HSC); Galerie Berlintokyo, Berlin (HSC)(both 1999); and 1st Berlin Biennial (HSC)(1998).

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