Born in 1982 in Buenos Aires,
Lives and works in New York.
www.gabrielavainsencher.com
Gabriela Vainsencher was born in 1982 in Buenos Aires and grew up in Tel Aviv. She’s lived and worked in Brooklyn since 2005.
Vainsencher has been making work about other people’s art and her private life for as long as anyone can remember. Her work has been shown in New York, Berlin, Leipzig, Tel Aviv and Skien.
Her latest Solo exhibitions include “Working Title” at WORK gallery in Brooklyn, NY and “The Unfinished Museum Tour- Quebec”, at La Chambre Blanche in Quebec City, Canada.
Proposal for Twice A Stranger:
For Twice A Stranger I plan to create the third installment of an ongoing project titled “The Unfinished Museum Tour” The nature of this project is site- sensitive, and it is, in its very core, a work in progress, directly influenced by my fellow artists’ work and the time I will spend in Istanbul myself.
This Unfinished Museum Tour Istanbul will be a hybrid of video, drawing and photography, emanating from my experiences and put immediately on display, as it will be created, changed and re-worked throughout the time of the show.
My work is heavily influenced by the fact I am a wandering person, I travel extensively and it has become not only a way of life for me, but almost a prerequisite for the production of much of my work. I find Twice A Stranger to be an appropriate framework in which to show and make my work, as it does accurately represent the state of the art today, as I see it.
Agnes Martin Both Sides of The Room, 2008, Marker on photograph, 8″x10″Walking to Quebec City, 3-track video in windows, 2009
Walking to Quebec City, 2009, 3-track video in windows
Airplane Window, 2007, Marker on paper 8.5″x12″
Education and scholarships
2001- 2005 Hamidrasha School of Art, Israel, BFA (Full excellence scholarship from the Ministry of Education)
2000 The Artists Association, Tel Aviv, Painting
1997-99 Aviva Pasternak, Tel Aviv, Painting
Solo Exhibitions
2009 The Unfinished Museum Tour- Quebec City, La Chambre Blanche, Quebec City, Canada.
2008 Working Title, WORK Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2007 I don’t care about Documenta 12, Leif Magne Tangens. Curated by Jan Christensen, Skien, Norway
Group Exhibitions, Screenings and Residencies
2009
Arthur Levitt ‘52 Artist in Residence for 2009-10, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, USA
“True stories true successes”, curated by Alanna Lockward, Freies Museum Berlin, Germany
“Videokemp”, contemporary video art festival, curated by Viktor Čech, Eva Riebová, Prague, Czech Republic
“One after Another”, curated by Chen Tamir, The National Gallery of Saskatchewan, Canada
Doubtful Lineage, site specific solo installation at the Russian Art Fair, London
“Drive In III” (Two-man show), WORK gallery, Brooklyn, NY
A Dry Run, Charlie Horse gallery, Brooklyn NY
Circa Magazine Video Screening, D21 Kunstraum, Leipzig, Germany curated by Lee Welch
La Chambre Blanche, Quebec City, Canada
2008
Beyondo, Sub Octo gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA
FUKT Magazine #7 (publication) released October 20
Circa Magazine Video Screening, Temple Bar gallery and studios. Curated by Lee Welch, Dublin, Ireland
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, Artist residency, NY, USA
Representations of the Artist as an Intellectual, D-21 gallery. Curated by Leif Magne Tangen, Leipzig, Germany
Some Sort of Literary Analysis, 50 minute session, collaboration/performance with Eve K. Tremblay for the show Becoming Fahrenheit 451, BUIA gallery, Chelsea, NY, USA
PAWNSHOP, by Julieta Aranda, Liz Linden and Anton Vidokle. NY, USA
NYNYNY, The Unfinished Museum Tour- New York, Flux Factory, Curated by Jean Barberis and Chen Tamir, NY, USA
2007 Notes on Places, Kunsthalle Berlin Lichtenberg, curated by Leif Magne Tangen and Alanna Lockward, Berlin, Germany
2007
The Flat Files- Pierogi gallery, Brooklyn NY, USA
The Flat Files- Pierogi Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Vonnegut, Galapagos Art Space, curated by Gabriel Berezin, Brooklyn NY, USA
Guild of the Black Eagle 3, curated by David Hochbaum, Hochbaum Studio, NY, USA
2006
Street Glam, Greenehouse Gallery, Curated by Jerry Foust, Soho, NY, USA
2005 Thesis show, The Art School, Beit Berl College, Israel
2005 Liga, curated by Galia Yahav, ‘Reading’ Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel.