Triennial of Sculpture with Dr Gindi
Vernissage report – Bad Ragaz, May 4/5
The Swiss Triennial of Sculpture – one of Europe’s largest open-air art shows – began in Bad Ragaz on May 4th. Triennial Director Rolf Hohmeister and Minister Laura Bucher officially opened the show – against an impressive mountain backdrop, in wonderful weather and together with several hundred participants. For the next few months, three-dimensional art will become the focus of the Swiss Alps and a unique encounter with nature.
At the outset, Dr Gindi and other renowned sculptors including David Černý, Yasuda Kan, Markus Lüpertz, Jörg Plickat and Ren Rong answered questions about their works from the many art enthusiasts, collectors and visitors. Dr Gindi explained the waywardness of the human condition encapsulated in her sculpture The Fateful Choice: ‘We constantly have to make decisions that affect our individual humanity on the way through the mountains of despair and desire‘, she said. And indeed, the sculpted reality of The Fateful Choice – a naked girl with a dagger behind her back – refers to the inherent ferment and fierce uncertainty within the mystery of being. We seem to be present and concurrently ahead of our existence.
On May 5th, at the Triennial’s Festival of Small Sculptures which is taking place in the Museum Old Baths Pfäfers, Dr Gindi presented Fear is Hunting You – a bronze sculpture illustrating the fear that consumes us all and, at the same time, gives us everything – if we are able to overcome the ingrained bondage of our own introspection. Both The Fateful Choice and Fear is Hunting You are emphatically showing us that the labyrinths toward the future are apprehensible, and yes: penetrable.
Many of Dr Gindi’s works either allude to or directly incorporate the floating entropy of the human condition. Dr Gindi, who has exhibited internationally and whose work is held in various private collections, believes that the infinity of our existence is firmer than ever.
Dr Gindi at the
9th Swiss Triennial of Sculpture in Bad Ragaz
Exhibition: May 4 – October 30, 2024
Vernissage: May 4 2 pm meet the artist – 5 pm Opening Celebration
May 5 11 am - Festival of Small Sculptures
Venue: Bad Ragaz, Switzerland
Dr Gindi has been invited to exhibit during the Swiss Triennial of Sculpture in Bad Ragaz. In its 9th edition, the Triennial has become one of the biggest open-air art shows in the world. In 2024, hundreds of thousands of visitors will make their way to Bad Ragaz to view the multifaceted artworks of some of the world’s best-known sculptors. For several months, three-dimensional art becomes the focus of an entire town and the inspiration of the entire globe.
Together with selected works of other renowned artists, Dr Gindi’s sculpture The Fateful Choice will make The Present both visible and tangible – in the many parks, gardens, streets and squares of Bad Ragaz. The motto of this year’s Swiss Triennial of Sculpture is ‘The Present – as without today, tomorrow there would be no yesterday’. Dr Gindi’s The Fateful Choice symbolizes the Triennial’s intended leitmotiv as the bronze sculpture refers not only to the existential survival of human mankind but to the inherent restlessness and uncertainty within The Present.
To heed the present moment is a lasting concern of Dr Gindi. She craves time in all its duration, so that – rather logically - The Fateful Choice’s wants to be herself, audaciously, unconditionally. To give more context: The Fateful Choice is a rebound of The Present. The sculpture shows a naked girl with a dagger behind her back. The girl is about to make a decision. A decision that will finally turn yesterday into tomorrow. A decision – still - that will always continue to linger in the here and now.
Furthermore, at the Triennial’s Festival of Small Sculptures which is taking place in the Museum Old Baths Pfäfers, Dr Gindi is showing Fear is Hunting You – a bronze sculpture depicting a chained corpse which is fed by the unborn dawn. The Present flows within a timeless space, an unfettered yearning that is coalescing fear with hope.
Dr Gindi is an artist based in Switzerland. Her poignant works explore the imprints of time on the circumstances that define the human condition.
Dr Gindi’s immersive High School experience
Opening Performance by Yin Mei Dance Company
Vernissage report – Beacon, November 5
WOW, so many people enrolled in school – well, for a few days - to revive the past and to cast the future – at Ethan Cohen Gallery’s KuBe Art Center in Beacon, New York. For sure, school life is the best life - the golden period of learning and yearning. Dr Gindi joined other artists and the public for an immersive High School experience, uplifting to travel back in time, to sit in the classroom, to debate with teachers. And – most importantly – to rave the after-school parties of our youth. The Opening of Back to School culminated in the gym for a real Homecoming, with a DJ Dance party and performances.
Visitors got a chance to imagine the educational awakening they wished they would had. Indeed – no homework, no grades, no bullies .. but just art. Ethan Cohen and renowned pop artist Ron English have co-curated this mesmerizing show, exploring subjects like “Irrational Experiments in Physics”, “Hip Hop 101”, “Sex Ed”, “Art History Reimagined,” and a take on the Warhol classic “Silver Fame Factory”. Dr Gindi’s sculpture The Fateful Choice was in the center of all this action, …. dancing, …. being danced around. The girl intimated in The Fateful Choice taps into her own instantiation, relieving her to make the fateful choices of life.
Other participating artists included: Aboudia, Halil Altındere, Mina Cheon, Innocent Nkurnuziza, Yigal Ozeri, Ai Wei Wei and Liu Xiaodong.
Back to School
with Dr Gindi
Exhibition: November 3, 2023 – May 18, 2024
Vernissage: November 3, 7-10 pm
Venue: KuBe Art Center, 211 Fishkill Ave, Beacon, NY 12508, USA
Dr Gindi has been invited to participate in the Group Show ‘Back to School’, at KuBe Art Center, Beacon, New York. The KuBe Art Center is an initiative by one of New York’s leading galleries - Ethan Cohen Gallery. The KuBe Art Center repurposes the site of a former high school as a space to promote international exchange of culture and art, as well as uniting local and global artists in a community forum. The Exhibition ‘Back to School’ is hence inspired to bring us back to school, in a very literal sense.
The immersive art show is both a homecoming and a departure, as schools prepare ourselves for the next steps in life – nostalgia interweaves with euphoria to grasp the future. Schools prepare us to take decisions, to make choices – as symbolized by Dr Gindi’s sculpture The Fateful Choice, a bronze sculpture that captures the imaginal nature of decision-making.
Dr Gindi is a Switzerland-based sculptor who creates abstractions of the human condition which, with the airiest of beacons, hint at the infinite vacuity of being.
The exhibition will run from November 3 – May 18th, 2024 with a vernissage on November 3.
Engaging Ascend and Decay:
Dr Gindi at the Salon des Beaux Arts
Vernissage report – Paris, September 20
The 2023 edition of the Salon des Beaux Arts of the National Society of Fine Arts opened in Paris. Dr Gindi was invited by a jury composed of art critics, museum directors and gallerists to take part in the exhibition. Under the patronage of French President Emmanuel Macron, the Salon des Beaux Arts is one of Paris’ leading annual art events, showing the latest and ardently most striking examples of contemporary art.
Dr Gindi presented the bronze sculpture The Last Second. With this work, she consciously reflects on the dichotomy of life and death – knowing that it usually takes death to think about life in all its infinity. At first sight, it seems there is no one who cares about that forlorn character in his last second, even not himself – we see a limbless stranger, fordone, alone on his stony dead bed. Yet so pure, so free of future confinement, as he is mounting the zest of his own contentment. It becomes clear: this character has no front without a back - it is his death that nurtures his life with purpose.
The Last Second highlights Dr Gindi’s probe into the infinite – an inquiry that runs throughout her whole art career, integrating memories of the unvarnished that we human beings can hardly seize. Emerging from an earlier pursuit as physician, Dr Gindi developed a unique aesthetic that engages ascend and decay as an intrinsic component of her practice. The quivering edges of Dr Gindi’s sculptures make them simultaneously petrify and pulse. Her work has been widely exhibited in Europe and the US.
Dr Gindi at the Salon des Beaux Arts in Paris
Exhibition: September 14-24, 2023
Vernissage: September 20, 12-15h
Nocturne: September 23, 11-21h
Venue: Réfectoire des Cordeliers, 15 Rue de l'École de Médecine, 75006 Paris, France
Dr Gindi was invited to take part in the annual Salon des Beaux Arts of the National Society of Fine Arts (Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts) in Paris. Her sculpture The Last Second was selected by a jury and is going to be exhibited alongside other examples of contemporary fine art.
Established in 1862, the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts was spearheaded by the painters Eugène Delacroix, Carrier-Belleuse, and Puvis de Chavannes, and among the exhibitors were Léon Bonnat, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Charles-François Daubigny, Gustave Doré, and Édouard Manet. In 1864, just after the death of Delacroix, the society organized a retrospective exhibition of 248 paintings and lithographs of this famous painter. Today, the Society’s Salon des Beaux Arts is one of Frances’s leading art exhibitions, showing the latest of French and international contemporary art.
With The Last Second Dr Gindi portrays the final moment on earth of a genderless person as life elapses and leaves the corpse. But although the sculpture might evoke a sense of terror at the moment of death, the work is also an affirmation of life, an exhortation to live it in all its intensity and beauty. It shows a dramatic collision of beclouding and becoming.
The dichotomy of birth and death plays a crucial role in Dr Gindi’s oeuvre. The split between the extreme states of (non-)existence never stops welling up for the protagonists in her sculptures. The flow is deeply cathartic for them – Dr Gindi calls such flow infinity. Infinity is reached in the moment when the oppositions of birth and death unite – not statically but dynamically. For Dr Gindi, there is no such thing as linear causality in human nature.
Infinity is a kind of wholeness that is not similar to absoluteness and only possible in the specific movement of yearning. Even and – particularly - in our last second we yearn for the infinite – a moment of bliss, when opposites unite.
The Last Second is part of Dr Gindi’s series Fluidity of Being. The series deals with the unknown spaces of origin and destiny. Where do we come from? And where are we going, now and in our afterlife? Everything is fluid as we oscillate between being and not being. The search to understand what constitutes this state of metamorphosis allows us to glimpse the intricacy of existence.
Get me out here!
at Goldbach Center Lake Zürich, Switzerland
Vernissage report – Küsnacht, Switzerland, September 14
Dr Gindi is just back from Küsnacht where she took part in the annual juried exhibition of Artischock Art Society. 32 works were selected to be included, featuring some of Switzerland’s best known artists. Dr Gindi joined the show with Get me out here! – a work created with wood shavings, glue and colour. Art lovers from the Zurich area and beyond attended the prodigious vernissage.
The character emerging from the forlorn dark does not seem to be limited by the harsh confines of material existence. Well, he is winding his way back into his perceived reality, or even into the truth of his erstwhile mire. His beinghood, in other words, has not yet wholly become form; yet the increase in profundity culminates in the relief of his inner self.
Dr Gindi at Gallery Goldbach Center
Küsnacht, Switzerland
Exhibition: September 14 – October 29, 2023
Vernissage: September 14, 6-8 pm
Venue: Gallery Goldbach Center, Seestrasse 39, 8700 Küsnacht, Switzerland
Dr Gindi has been invited to participate in the juried exhibition of Artischock Art Society - one of the oldest and largest art associations of Switzerland. Artischock is committed to convene artists and art patrons through their shared curiosity for visual imaginations, and to elevating their vision.
The exhibition shows artwork selected through a competitive process by a jury composed of some of Switzerland’s best known art critics. The exhibition will be held at Gallery Goldbach Center in the outskirts of Zurich, a place of encounter and interaction with the works of local and internationally renowned artists.
The exhibition assembles works that informs us of disintegration and reassembling, and the departing to new pastures. Dr Gindi joins the exhibition with the sculpture Get me out here!. It is a figure that does not seem to enjoy the future old age of its fractured reality. Trying to leave a swamp, a kind of marshland that our human condition has always been, the figure just wants to get out; with vigor - turning its back on that annoying swamp into which it is submerging.
Much of Dr Gindi’s works contain dichotomies, and though the finished form is often alluring, her oeuvre is grounded in a more complex universe than first meets the eye. Dr Gindi has said of her work that by exploring these dichotomies, she is able “to delve into the unprecedented and to allow it to unfurl into life.” Like in Get me out here!, a solace for being able to overcome the fractured reality we are living in.
Dr Gindi is a Switzerland-based sculptor who creates abstractions of the human condition which, with the airiest of beacons, hint at the infinite vacuity of being.
The exhibition will run from September 14 – October 29 with a vernissage on September 14 from 6-8 pm.
Dr Gindi in London at FACE 2023
Vernissage report – London, June 14
At The Prince’s Foundation in London, a distinguished exhibition currently brings together contemporary portrait sculptures as part of FACE 2023, a competition of the British Society of Portrait Sculptors. On view through September 10, the show is a rare opportunity to see a range of artworks from some of the UK’s and the world’s best-known artists working in the three-dimensional portrait sphere. The well-attended vernissage took place on June 14th, in the presence of Dr Gindi and other honored sculptors.
Dr Gindi was represented by the sculpture The Sweetness of Being, a work that shows an elderly man who increasingly and lastingly eschews being turned away, thus growing towards the sweet flux of infinity as the goal of his desire - a real accomplishment, a summit of his humanity. His charming aura is somewhat pungent and therefore does not carry plethora in its wake but rather illuminates the more profound aspects of human nature, thus suggesting a connection between the beginning and the end. Spurred by his journey, he aspires to affirm that as many of us as possible reach the sweetness we are yearning for.
Dr Gindi invited by the
Society of Portrait Sculptors
to exhibit in London
Exhibition: August 14 - September 10, 2023
Venue: The Prince’s Foundation, The Garrison Chapel, Chelsea Barracks, London, UK
Daily 11 am - 4 pm
Dr Gindi was invited to exhibit at FACE 2023 of the British Society of Portrait Sculptors. Her sculpture The Sweetness of Being was selected by a renowned jury and is going to be exhibited alongside 30 other fine examples of contemporary portrait sculpture.
FACE 2023 will be on show in London at The Prince’s Foundation Garrison Chapel from 14th August through 10th September 2022. The work of The Prince’s Foundation is inspired by His Royal Highness King Charles III’s philosophy of harmony: that by understanding the balance, the order and the relationships between ourselves and the world around us we can create a more organic purpose – a thought entirely in line with Dr Gindi’s The Sweetness of Being – a sculpture that epitomizes the human yearning for infinity to meet the inclinations of time.
FACE is the only annual show in the world devoted solely to portrait sculpture. Entries are chosen from international submissions and juried by a council of seven practicing sculptors. Featured works include interpretations of the human condition like The Sweetness of Being – images of why being is a sweet blessing to those seized in its grip.
In The Sweetness of Being, an older man comes off as rather carried away but deeply gratified; he almost invisibly smiles, perhaps even about himself. No longing palliates as much as longing for memories that always existed. Perpetuated by a sweetness that enables him to wrap all existence, the portrayed character preserves the idea how sublime being could be.
The Sweetness of Being is part of Dr Gindi’s series Finding Ways. The series addresses the longed-for removal of obstacles that might prevent us from realizing our true vocation. Finding Ways is about the necessity to act and live in midst of fluidity and fracture.
Ethan Cohen Gallery presents:
Dr Gindi’s first solo show in New York
Vernissage report – Beacon, New York, June 3
Ethan Cohen Gallery at the KuBe Art Center staged Dr Gindi’s first solo show in New York. The gallery has represented both emerging and internationally renowned artists for over thirty years: Forbes Magazine has praised Ethan Cohen Gallery as an ‘exemplar in the field’, for putting on ‘resplendent, probing shows.’
Ethan Cohen, Founder and Director of the gallery, welcomed Dr Gindi and a group of 50 art-lovers and public figures: ‘Ethan Cohen Gallery is delighted to host Dr Gindi, showing her nonconformist work to you and to the broader public,’ he said. ‘Dr Gindi is an eminent Swiss-based sculptor whose work has been exhibited globally. With a background in art and medicine, Dr Gindi views the process of sculpting as a way to experience existence. Her work delves into the delineation of the human condition and how it is perceived in the ambiguous world we are living in. We are now going to present The Fateful Choice, a bronze sculpture that captures the fragmental nature of imagination.’
Michael D. Brown, US Senator, District of Columbia emphasized that, ‘with her work, Dr Gindi favors human choices that accept our limitations but yet recognize the future as open. In that sense, the ambiguity of opting, of figuring, of purposing is an avenue towards fulfillment. I, as politician, agree with her aesthetical and ethical position.’ Further, ‘Dr Gindi signs our permission to step into the role of meaning-makers. But because our consciousness is ambiguous, we human beings can never succeed fully in disclosing the meaning of the world. We remain wanderers, searching for purpose,’ added Harold Sjursen, Professor, New York University.
‘As the female figure in The Fateful Choice might know: there is always a decision to make, a decision that brings us forward. While in some moments our future is a total mystery, we seem to find our way back to reliance —perhaps reliance is that deep, inner yearning for infinity,’ concluded Dr Gindi.
The Opening was featured as Welcome Summer Cocktail Party and accompanied by jazz singer Melanie Marod - underscored by the generous surroundings of Beacon, the emerging art center in the Hudson Valley where art-lovers and collectors can explore galleries, see international exhibitions, and gain an understanding of New York’s burgeoning contemporary art scene.
Welcome Summer Cocktail Party
to celebrate Dr Gindi’s art
Exhibition: June 3 - September 23, 2023
Cocktail Party: June 3, 2-5pm
Venue: Ethan Cohen Gallery at KuBe Art Center, 211 Fishkill Ave, Beacon, NY 12508
Ethan Cohen Gallery at the KuBe Art Center is pleased to announce Dr Gindi’s first solo show in New York. The opening is staged as Welcome Summer Coctail Party, accentuated by the sprawling landscape of the Hudson Valley and accompanied by jazz singer Melanie Marod with a special performance.
Dr Gindi is an acclaimed sculptor whose work has been exhibited globally. Known for her illuminative works, she occupies an unusual position - Dr Gindi is widely regarded as one of the most intellectually daring sculptors. Deeply grounded in the humanities, she dares to reveal the torn human condition against the backdrop of the infinite - the overarching concept in her sculptural practice. For Dr Gindi, the infinite is spirited, enchanting, and very much of this world.
Dr Gindi is going to unveil The Fateful Choice, a bronze sculpture that captures the chimeric nature of decision-making. Deep in contemplation, a young woman muses elated at the power and burden she has, feeling the weight of the knife in her hands. The ambiguity of her choice hangs in the balance.
Ethan Cohen Gallery has represented both emerging and internationally renowned artists for over thirty years. The gallery occupies a distinct place in contemporary art as a center of creativity across disciplines and countries. Today Ethan Cohen Gallery has two gallery locations, one in Chelsea in the heart of New York City and the other in The KuBe Art Center in Beacon, Upstate New York.
The KuBe Art Center repurposes the site of a former high school as a space to promote international exchange of culture and art, as well as unite local and global artists in a community forum.
Dr Gindi at ENERGY in Zwolle
…. infinity is always full of energy, pulsating forever
Vernissage report – Zwolle, May 26
The group exhibition ENERGY at Zwolle’s CoolWater art space features sculptures, paintings, videos and performances of artists whose practice is impinged on the pivotal energy to safeguard the future of humanity. ENERGY presents a conundrum of scale: a sublimity of puissance that can mirror the perceived reality in its own set.
Welcoming guests and introducing the participating artists during the opening, curator Ralph Keuning said: ‘There is an enlightening vivacity in terms of how Dr Gindi goes about the manifestation of her ideas within the medium of sculpture. She goes all-out to heighten the level of energy towards the infinite.’ Thanking him for inviting her to join the show, Dr Gindi added: ‘Glowing with energy, the characters in my sculptures are an assortment of live wires floating within the human condition. They are destined to quest and finally grasp the infinite. Infinity is always full of energy, pulsating forever.’ The processes that led to the three sculptures exhibited by Dr Gindi at ENERGY represent the stages of becoming, transformation and transfiguration - space and time are thus emergent fluctuations of energy.
The exhibition was conceptualized in collaboration with the following galleries: Gallery Ysebaert, Belgium; Gallery Gerhardt Braun, Spain; Gallery Eigen + Art, Germany; Harms Rolde Collection, The Netherlands; Gallery SheBam, Germany; Gallery Ramakers, The Netherlands.
The CoolWater art space (The Koelwaterhal) is an initiative of Dutch artist Ronald Westerhuis and ENERGY is its inaugural show. Together with Ralph Keuning he invited some of Europe’s best-known artists to inspire new modes of energy, both in the literary and imagery sense. Although each work remains individually authored, their presentation under the collective title ENERGY epitomizes the connected complexion of the works and their makers.
The Koelwaterhal is a former energy transformation complex situated in an enchanting spot on the river IJssel. An extraordinary structure, it has a huge 10-metre-tall glass space reflected in 10-metre-deep underground spaces. The Koelwaterhal has been transformed into a large art venue, a place to host groundbreaking exhibitions of international scope.
The opening of ENERGY was well attended, uniting artists, curators, collectors, critics and other public figures. ‘ENERGY delivers a strong message of energy conversion as well as a sense of community that is compatible with Zwolle, as the city is known for its capacity to innovate and to make bold decisions,’ concluded Monique Schuttenbeld, Deputy Mayor in charge of culture, City of Zwolle.
Dr Gindi joins ENERGY
Art Space CoolWater - Zwolle, The Netherlands
The Chalice of Life - closeup view
Exhibition: May 28 - September 17, 2023
Grand Opening: May 27, 3pm
Venue: Art Space CoolWater – Koelwater Hal
IJsselcentraleweg 6, 8015 Zwolle, The Netherlands
ENERGY invites us to focus our energies on the future, subtly and sustainably, and – as sculptor Dr Gindi puts it – on the infinity of existence in our search for meaning. Thus, she will be participating in ENERGY, a group exhibition at Art Space CoolWater, Zwolle, The Netherlands. Widely recognized for her singular approach, Dr Gindi’s inquiry-based work is instigated by the human search for meaning, and articulated by often jagged and seemingly somber bronze sculptures. Her presentation in Zwolle is curated by artist Ronald Westerhuis, gallerist Annelies Ysebaert and museum director Ralph Keuning. Dr Gindi is joined by fellow artists who have been selected for their supremely edgy work which explores the determination and vulnerability associated with the quest for new pathways.
A former industrial complex, CoolWater is a laboratory of innovation offering a stage for free exchange of thoughts - an experimental art space where creative projects are performed off the grid onto a new reality. The inaugural exhibition is named ENERGY – the theme was chosen to reflect on nature, people, vanity, shine, damage, utopias and dystopias. Driven by a commanding care for our sanity, ENERGY provokes us to heed our innermost zeal on where we are heading to. ENERGY is part of IJssel Biennale, an international art event located by the IJssel River with indoor and indoor exhibitions.
…. caught in a vortex of swirling winds
Gallerist Mona Brulhart with Dr Gindi
Vernissage report – Geneva, April 13
On April 13, Geneva-based Gallery Brulhart held a preview celebration of its newest exhibition She That Spreads The Winds. “I am glad to bring together two leading contemporary female artists with strong rooting in African culture: Dr Gindi and Sheila Nakitende, of Egyptian and Ugandan heritage respectively,“ said Mona Brulhart, the gallery’s director during the opening. “Both artists encourage the exploration of identity, humanity and dignity, transcend traditional notions of culture and thus create novel yet fickle artistic narratives - entirely in the spirit of tonight’s exhibition which is named after one of Dr Gindi’s sculptures, a small bronze depicting a twisting figure seemingly caught in a vortex of swirling winds.”
Al Miner, Associate Professor, Georgetown University stated in the accompanying exhibition catalogue: “The mix of struggle and a persistent glimmer of hope lies at the heart of Dr Gindi’s conceptually driven sculptural practice. With clay, wax and bronze she aims to make solid humanity’s sometimes agonizing quest to understand and access infinity.” According to Dr Gindi, “infinity is at the root of human fulfillment, it is a state of being that epitomizes the things which cannot be understood.” In the same catalogue, Ugandan curator Helga Rainer added: “By exposing her vulnerability, and integrating herself in the works, Sheila Nakitende is asking us to be vulnerable, to acknowledge our fragility, and ask ourselves who we truly are. It is perhaps through this process will we find the strength to make the changes the world so desperately needs, and create meaningful futures of co-existence amongst ourselves and the forces of nature.”
The vernissage evening was very well-attended, gathering Geneva-based UN officials and art collectors from near and far. The exhibition is on view until May 20.
Photos by Bertrand Rey
The exhibition She That Spreads The Winds is named after one of Dr Gindi’s sculptures, a small bronze depicting a twisting figure seemingly caught in a vortex of swirling winds – unless she is controlling them. In Dr Gindi’s work, the invisible forces of human feeling and meditation are forged through fire into abstracted human forms. Surrounding the bronze silhouettes, Sheila Nakitende ’s works tremble in whispering, featherlight tapestries. The meditative process of harvesting the bark and reshaping it into fleece, weaving emotion and air into her pieces as she goes, echoes Dr Gindi’s breaking down of the human psyche, casting it through wax and rebuilding it as filigree, but sturdy bronze. The iterative process of examining and dismantling emotion and materials in order to capture their form, is what brings these two artists together in an incarnation of human resilience, and transcendence.
Al Miner, Founding Director/Chief Curator, Georgetown University Art Galleries and Associate Professor, Georgetown University says in the accompanying exhibition catalogue: “All of Dr Gindi’s figures arise from a primordial pile of wax or clay then survive the purgatory of the kiln to contain multiple dualisms. They are each mental and physical, hard and soft, sorrowful and celebratory. Like Camus’ Sisyphus, they have accepted their fate, embraced that the universe is complicated. For Dr Gindi, the crux of the human condition can be found at this crossroads of our overlapping boundaries and the embattled quest to break through this great barrier to realize our greater spiritual potential.”
The exhibition is hosted by Gallery Brulhart, a Geneva-based gallery dedicated to the promotion of contemporary art by women of African heritage. Gallery Brulhart is part of the network of art spaces and the wider international humanitarian community in Geneva and Switzerland.
Dr Gindi at The Hive Gallery
Los Angeles, USA
Exhibition: December 3, 2022 - January 15, 2023
Venue: The Hive Gallery, 729 South Spring St., Los Angeles, California, USA
Los Angeles’ The Hive Gallery is currently presenting the group show Robot Circus with sculptor Dr Gindi. The exhibition highlights artists that create bridges between the evolutionary history of humanity and the emergence of cybernetic intelligence – a kinetic performative that emanates from indeterminate matter in motion.
Dr Gindi's sculptures dwell on spatiality and travel across boundaries between human and supranaturally created being. In a synthesis of figuration and abstraction, the artist finds solutions to drive the relationship of widespread forms of life and quasi-life. Her poignant oeuvre narrates a universe that is more different than it seems – as it is in a state of flux, without linear causalities. The work of the Switzerland-based artist has been exhibited and collected world-wide.
Dr Gindi is represented with a video installation of In Reverie, an aluminium-casted sculpture showing a seated humanoid figure leaning forward in contemplation of a flower holding in its hand. Focused on the bloom, the figure purses its lips to blow the petals into the air, suggesting an intimate connection to the life cycle of all beings but also the infinite cosmos beyond - a strategy which in the future may be endowed with supranatural forms of existence. The apprehension of what constitutes human nature in its inherent transition might lighten the matrix of consciousness, allowing us to wink at the intricacy of reality.
The Hive Gallery is a large art exhibition space in downtown Los Angeles. The Gallery specializes in exhibiting thought provoking work from artists around the world. One of the longest standing galleries on the Downtown Art Walk, the gallery is on the forefront of establishing the Los Angeles Metro area as a global art nexus.
National Sculpture Society’s
Annual Awards Exhibition
Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina, USA
22 October 2022 - Report
America’s National Sculpture Society (NSS) hosted the closing of the 89th Annual Awards Exhibition at Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina on October 22. Dr Gindi was one of the honored artists invited to exhibit her work in this juried show. Founded by Archer and Anna Hyatt Huntington in 1931, Brookgreen Gardens contains the largest and most comprehensive collection of sculptures in the US showcased in a stunning garden setting, three galleries, and a visible storage and research facility.
The Annual Awards Exhibition is National Sculpture Society’s most popular fair. Featuring the work of master sculptors, the society’s competition presents the finest in contemporary three-dimensional art.
Dr Gindi was represented with the sculpture ‘The Fateful Choice’. Having recently been shown at the Venice Biennial, Dr Gindi’s piece portrays a solitary female character holding a knife behind her back, frozen in time against a multiplicity of possible outcomes.
The NSS’s Annual Awards Exhibition has been a huge success with attendance returning to pre-pandemic levels. ‘We are so excited to host today’s show with some of the world’s leading sculptors,’ said Page Kiniry, CEO, Brookgreen Gardens during the reception.
Dr Gindi à Paris
at Mémoire de l’Avenir
Vernissage Report
The acclaimed Parisian art institution Mémoire de l’Avenir is currently opening its doors to Dr Gindi’s exhibition ‘Transcending the Human Condition’, showing ten of her key works.
Known for her discursive sculptures, Dr Gindi occupies an unusual position as large-minded artist – as she always intently examines how man traverses the great macro-cosmos he is thrown into, ultimately straggling from birth to death – a journey that intimates ubiquitous narratives of life.
‘I see the human condition as something discrepant. But I also want to make the case that the human condition permits bliss, rather than just mandating anxiety,’ said Dr Gindi during the vernissage on October 14th. ‘In a very existentialist sense Dr Gindi’s show is exciting and at the same time utterly uncanny - knocking the beholders off their pivot,’ Mémoire de l'Avenir’s Margalit Berriet added. ‘The sculptures of Dr Gindi are primaeval in the sense that they reintroduce us to ourselves as natural creatures, living in organic unity with the earth,‘ illustrated Harold P Sjursen, Professor of Philosophy, New York University in the exhibition catalogue.
The vernissage was accentuated by an expressive danse performance of Charlotte Colmant, offering a rousingly eerie change of pace. Always staged against the ragged realities of the human condition, her fluid allusive solos provided palatable dance throughout.
The exhibition is still on display until November 5th.
Solo Exhibition by Dr Gindi
Exhibition: 14 October - 5 November 2022
Vernissage: 14 October, 7-9pm
Venue: Mémoire de l’Avenir, 45/47 rue Ramponeau Paris 20, M° Belleville, France
From October 14th to November 5th 2022, Mémoire de l’Avenir presents the latest works by sculptor Dr Gindi. Under the title Transcending the Human Condition, Dr Gindi explores the human condition as an ample form of choice whilst humanity is being threatened by permanent alienation and estrangement.
Dr Gindi’s punctured and fragile three-dimensional art is often epically intense and has been displayed around the world. In her sculptural practice, she endeavors to explore the traversal of time and the metamorphosis of mime whilst illuminating the wickedness of human decay. Denuded of almost everything except for canorous resonance, her sculptures take the form of morphologically inspired silhouettes that illustrate the potential transcendence of the human condition.
The vernissage on October 14th relates Dr Gindi’s work with the expressive dance interpretations of Charlotte Colmant, a contemporary dancer. The goal is for two different art forms to meet in an event to create a dialogue between sculpture and dance but also to inspire a synthesis of what the human condition could ultimately be – an intimate journey, an unravelling, a path towards transcendence.
Bringing together artists from all disciplines to brush up habitual references and ways of thinking, Mémoire de l'Avenir’s founder and director Margalit Berriet aims to facilitate imagination - transmitting a message of hope enriched by the manifoldness of humanity. The fundamental issue, therefore, is how we can genuinely lead a purposeful life.
Solo Show
Gallery Simone Menne
Kiel, Germany
Vernissage Report
3 September 2022
Last Saturday, September 3, Gallery Simone Menne was the setting for a unique vernissage, opening Dr Gindi’s solo show ‘Variations of Human Existence’. With the gallery being housed in an old fire station, guests had the opportunity to appreciate ten of Dr Gindi’s most recent works in a prodigious and eccentric way.
‘Rooted in deep reasoning on what existence verily means, sculptor Dr Gindi defies the usual conventions whilst breaking through the merely sculptural. Her imaginative inquiry probes the boundaries of personhood,’ said gallerist Simone Menne during the opening. Further, ‘the human being is always in the center of Dr Gindi’s observation. What ties her work together both intellectually and artistically is that they depict the variations of human existence,’ stated Alexander Nyerges, Director and CEO, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in the exhibition catalogue. ‘Our way of existing is to be ahead of ourselves, in the slack infinite space,’ added Dr Gindi.
The title of the exhibition, Variations of Human Existence, is ambiguous in itself. With this show, Dr Gindi explores the illusion of being and the reality of becoming – humanness manifests itself in varying degrees of existence, induced by fluidity, unconditioned by time. The displayed bronze sculptures appear foreign and familiar at the same instant, evoking an eerie devotion towards the infinite.
Gallery Simone Menne is located at Alte Feuerwache 13, at the heart of Kiel’s old town: it is open every Saturday, 10am – 2pm. More information about the gallery’s programming and events on www.galerie-simonemenne.de or by email at iam@simonemenne.de
Variations of Human Existence
Dr Gindi’ Solo exhibition at Gallery Simone Menne
Exhibition: September 3 - October 4, 2022
Venue: Gallery Simone Menne, Alte Feuerwache, 24103 Kiel, Germany
Vernissage: 3 September 2022, 3pm
With Variations of Human Existence, Gallery Simone Menne is pleased to present a solo exhibition of Dr Gindi, one of the most idiosyncratic sculptors of our time. The exhibition will be on view from September 3rd through October 4th. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, September 3rd from 6-8pm.
Variations of Human Existence shows a selection of works that touch upon recurring themes in Dr Gindi’s work; the carnal body; existential yearning; and the perception of infinity. The displayed bronze sculptures have been drawn from across Dr Gindi's artistic career and from multiple series, exploring her enduring interest in the un-boundaries of human existence. Mankind is perceived as fluid species.
Since the beginning of her career, Dr Gindi has reawakened the use of three-dimensional objects as visual art form. For her, the human existence and its variations have always been both motif and medium. Rational thinking and intuition, collective cognition and individual-psychological experience are the jitters characterizing her work. While doing so she never loses sight of the overarching infinity which speaks from each of her works.
Dr Gindi at the National Sculpture Society’s
Annual Awards Exhibition
Exhibition: August 6 - October 23, 2022
Venue: Brookgreen Gardens, Pawleys Island, South Carolina, USA
America’s National Sculpture Society is hosting the opening of the 89th Annual Awards Exhibition at Brookgreen Gardens in Pawleys Island, South Carolina on August 6. The juried show features the works of 38 contemporary sculptors and is on view through October 23. Dr Gindi is one of the honored artists invited to exhibit her work.
The Annual Awards Exhibition is National Sculpture Society’s most popular fair. Featuring the work of masters alongside rising stars, the society’s sculpture competition presents the finest in contemporary three-dimensional art. An exhibition catalog has been created for the exhibition.
Dr Gindi is represented with the ‘The Fateful Choice’, a bronze showing a solitary female character holding a knife behind her back. Not sure, herself, about latent polarities and prophesies, the character and all of us have to permanently take decisions – for survival but also for revelation. Dr Gindi is an acclaimed Egyptian-born artist who is currently based in Switzerland. Her sculptural work is set somewhere in between the hard ground of our universe and the realm of the infinite. Her work has been exhibited and collected widely.
The finissage in presence of the artist will be held on Saturday, October 22. Brookgreen Gardens contains the largest and most comprehensive collection of sculptures in the US, displayed in a stunning garden setting, three galleries and a visible storage and research facility.
MOMOK with Dr Gindi
Vernissage Report
16 July 2022
Dr Gindi took part in a group exhibition organized by MOMOK (Mode und Moderne Kunst - Fashion and Modern Art) in Kreuzlingen, a Swiss town located on the shores of Lake Constance. Visitors to the exhibition at the former Apollo Cinema were invited to enter a conversation with the exhibiting artists about the hermeneutics of Times of Change, MOMOK’s polysemic title of this year’s show.
‘In these unprecedented times of change, I am very glad to open the inaugural edition of MOMOK - in the premises of a historic cinema. MOMOK is on its way to establish the Lake Constance region as a creative hotspot for fashion and modern art,’ said curating artist Jörg Rudolph. Dr Gindi added ‘MOMOK is where art and fashion converge, in the light and shadow of changing times. I am pleased to contribute to this truly innovative endeavor, together with my fellow artists Jörg Rudolph, Silwi Rutz, Tiziano Autera, Stefanie Scheurell, Anna Appadoo, Marlies Gerson, Klara Schneider and Veronika Fischer.
Times of Change is a notion broadly embodied in Dr Gindi’s three-dimensional art. Sculpting the entirety of being and infinity of becoming, she illustrates metonymies to explore the jitters between figuration and abstraction – always aware of where space ends and time begins. For her, space is the volume in which all things exist. Whereas time is a concept beyond human imagination - time is endless but hitherto always in change. All we need to do is be sentient and be ourselves.
Dr Gindi is a Switzerland-based sculptor. Her vision of reality is a selective one, reflecting her own complexion in the lonely figures she favors to sculpt. Many of her works have been displayed in exhibitions around the world.
Fashion and Modern Art
Dr Gindi participates in MOMOK Kreuzlingen
Vernissage: 15 July 2022, 5-9pm
Exhibition: 16 July 2022, 1-5pm - 4.30pm fashion show
Venue: Apollo Kreuzlingen, Konstanzerstrasse 32, 8280 Kreuzlingen, Switzerland
Dr Gindi is pleased to join the inaugural edition of MOMOK (Mode und Moderne Kunst - Fashion and Modern Art), an annual cultural encounter blending high fashion with contemporary expressions of art. The event is held at the premises of Kreuzlingen’s former Apollo Cinema, a building that is protected by the Swiss government as historic monument. The theme of this year’s MOMOK is Times of Changes – a leitmotiv adopted to address multiple levels of causation and conversion. Dr Gindi is joined by artists Silwi Rutz, Stefanie Scheurell, Tiziano Autera, Marlies Gerson, Anna Appadoo, Veronika Fischer, Klara Schneider and curating artist Jörg Rudolph.
Dr Gindi is one of the most idiosyncratic sculptors of our time – she endeavors to wittingly explore the infinite of being. The bronze sculptures displayed at MOMOK approach the un-boundaries of human existence, juxtaposing Dr Gindi’s artistic theme of Infinity with MOMOKS theme of Times of Change - we terrestrials are perceived as fluid beings.
Since the beginning of her artistic career, Dr Gindi has reawakened the use of three-dimensional objects as visual art form. For her, the human body has always been both motif and medium. Rational thinking and intuition, collective cognition and individual-psychological experience are the jitters characterizing her work. While doing so she never loses sight of the overarching infinity which speaks from each of her works.
Dr Gindi at the Villa Doria D'Angri in Naples
Event report
29 June 2022
Dr Gindi exhibited and spoke at a seminar cum vernissage at the Villa Doria D'Angri in Naples/Italy on 29 June. The theme of the seminar was ‘The Role of Women in Art, Business and Science’. Introduced by Prof. Alberto Carotenuto, Rector of University of Naples Parthenope, Dr Gindi joined 6 panelists to reflect on how women can best harness their strengths. ‘I increasingly witness the process of overcoming gender biases, by women who define themselves as sovereigns in their respective fields. Let us live an active life, for the good of women as well as their male counterparts,’ said Dr Gindi.
Dr Gindi then presented her sculpture ‘The Fateful Choice’ – a life-size bronze sculpture illustrating a moment of decision from a female perspective. The choice of the depicted women hangs in an ambiguous balance, beyond the centrifugal forces of femininity. The female protagonist might take the opportunity that she has been aspiring for. and she might be an inspiration to others.
Framed by the stunning views from Villa Doria d’Angri, ca 100 guests from Italy and beyond attended the event. The seminar cum vernissage was curated by Marco Ferretti and Riccardo Monti and organized in collaboration with University of Naples Parthenope.
The Role of Women in Art, Business and Science
Seminar cum Vernissage: 29 June, 18.00-20.00
Villa Doria D'Angri, Via Francesco Petrarca, Naples, Italy
Hosted by University of Naples Parthenope
The University of Naples Parthenope is hosting the Seminar cum Vernissage ‘The Role of Women in Art, Business and Science’ at the Villa Doria D'Angri in Naples on the 29th June. The first part of the event is devoted to an in-depth discussion about the role of women in art, business and science. The discussion is led by journalist Fiorella Anzano. Alberto Carotenuto, Rector of University of Naples Parthenope is delivering the welcome address. The discussion leaders will ask: What is the current and future role of women in art, business and science? In spite of cultural and systemic hurdles, how can women best harness their strengths?
In the second half, sculptor Dr Gindi will present ‘The Fateful Choice’ – a life-size bronze sculpture depicting a moment of decisive bifurcation from a female perspective. Deep in contemplation, a young woman muses - elated at the power and burden she has while feeling the weight of a knife in the crossed hands behind her back. Her choice hangs in an ambiguous balance, beyond the centrifugal forces of femininity.
The event is held at Villa Doria d’Angri, a grand neo-classical mansion replete with Pompeian atrium and fountains, offering stunning views across the Port of Naples and Mount Vesuvius. The infinite view from the Villa Doria d'Angri is so sublime that Richard Wagner was inspired to compose his opera Parsifal here. Likewise, the ephemeral imagery of Dr Gindi’s sculpture emerges on the villa’s horizon, probing both our relationship to time and space against the backdrop of human and particularly female yearning.
A graduate of the Florence Academy of Art, Dr Gindi lives and works in Switzerland. Best known for her sculptures of humans in introspection whilst approaching the infinity of being, she is widely celebrated for her often-unsettling narratives and her images of fickle characters who refuse to conform to societal observance. Through her immersive sculptures, she invites the beholder to anticipate new perspectives by creating illusions which upend what we think we know to be our universe. ‘The Fateful Choice’ was exhibited in Venice (during the Biennale) and in Rome (Gallery Basile Contemporary) earlier on.
The Seminar cum Vernissage in the presence of Dr Gindi, Fiorella Anzano and 6 further discussion leaders is held on Wednesday, June 29th at 18:00. Neapolitan refreshments will be served.
Dr Gindi: Voyage into Vacuity
Finissage Report
26 June 2022
Dr Gindi was invited to participate in the exhibition Departure held at Gallery Höchhuus Küsnacht in Zurich. Curated by Artischock Art Society, the show focused on works that symbolize departures into the unknown. Dr Gindi was represented with Voyage into Vacuity, a sculpture depicting an elderly women habitually envisioning her trajectory. ‘All ingredients of the future are already here, now we are aroused to gouge the future,’ said Dr Gindi during the reception.
Dr Gindi is a sculptor who explores the human ability to bespeak the infinite departures we are blessed with in life.
Dr Gindi at Gallery Höchhuus
Küsnacht, Zürich, Switzerland
Exhibition: 16-26 June 2022
Vernissage: 16 June, 17.00-20.00
Finissage: 26 june, 11.00-17.00
Venue: Gallery Höchhuus Küsnacht, Seestrasse 123, 8700 Küsnacht, ZH, Switzerland
Dr Gindi has been invited to participate in the group exhibition Departure held at Gallery Höchhuus Küsnacht in the outskirts of Zurich, with members of Artischock Art Society - one of the oldest and largest art associations of Switzerland. Artischock’s mission is to convene artists and art patrons through their shared curiosity for visual imaginations.
Curated by Sandra Kazbegi and Jill Vickerson, Departure assembles works that tells us of disintegration and reassembling, and the departing to new pastures. Dr Gindi joins the exhibition with the bronze sculpture Voyage into Vacuity. An elderly woman gazes into the room, musing between fulfilment and sedateness. Taking stock of her life, where shall she move from here?
Sculptor Dr Gindi creates abstractions of human existence which, with the airiest of beacons, hint at the infinite vacuity of being. She graduated in sculpture from Florence Academy of Art and in medicine from Free University of Berlin.
The Fateful Choice in Rome
Vernissage Report
18 June 2022
Basile Contemporary Gallery was pleased to present Dr Gindi’s sculpture ‘The Fateful Choice’ during a well-attended vernissage on 17 June. Joined by Italian artists Luca Coser and Antonio Montariello who are showing works that exemplify ambiguity and hence unbound human expediencies, Dr Gindi seeks to communicate discretion through the hulls of body and mind.
Known for her bronzes that often take on a chimeral feel while also seeming eerie at times, Dr Gindi is essentially searching for the infinite to render the real conjectural and the conjectural real. The sculpture on display at Basile Contemporary Gallery depicts a young woman gripping a long, curved dagger behind her back. Epitomizing integuments of existence, her lips either unfurl a subtle smile or a germination of some nameless precursory emotion,
The exhibition is still held until 25 June at Rome’s renowned Basile Contemporary Gallery. The gallery’s vision is to be a living room hosting both local and international artists. It also endeavors to engage its artists in a dialogue with the global public to shape the future of humanity. The three artists invite Roman citizens and studious travelers to interact with the existential ground of beinghood, in a play of references between external and internal, public and private.
Dr Gindi, Luca Coser, Antonio Montariello:
The Fateful Choice
Exhibition: 17-25 June 2022
Vernissage: 17 June, 18.00
Venue: Basile Contemporary Gallery, Via di Parione 10, Rome, Italy
Rome-based Galleria Basile Contemporary is pleased to present an exhibition entitled "The Fateful Choice". The title is named after the exhibition's main work, the large bronze sculpture of Dr Gindi. The artist's work is accompanied by paintings by Luca Coser and Antonio Montariello.
Educated as a medical doctor, sculptor Dr Gindi spent her entire life wandering around different cultures and alongside emotional abysses. She attempts to understand why certain phenomena appear as they are and why she interacts with them in the way she does. “Over the years, my experience in both science and life has taught me that our existence and options are infinite – if we allow them to be. Submitting to fate and having a sense of resignation can often be the norm, but if we can these attitudes, we shall be able to model the infinity of our existence”. Her classical training as a sculptor enables Dr Gindi to approach humanness more profoundly. Through working with models and meticulously exploring the human morphology, inner dialogues are evoked and reflected in her works. “My work is full of dichotomies as I seek to stage paradox and harmony". The sculpture on display at Basile Contemporary Gallery depicts a young woman gripping a long, curved dagger behind her back. Epitomizing integuments of existence, her lips either unfurl a subtle smile or a germination of some nameless precursory emotion.
Luca Coser is an artist already exhibited in the gallery. Luca Coser's canvases are paintings in which the figure tends to vanish, to dissolve, but also paintings in which an image slowly emerges from the background to the surface. This progression of the image from inside to outside and its opposite creates expectations in the eyes of the observer, who is forced to continually focus his gaze. A particular "ecole du regarde" then, the one developed by Coser, which tends to stimulate the visual capacities of the spectator to make him change his perspective, his vision on the things proposed. Well-known images lose their consistency to become abstract and, conversely, images that cannot be grasped at first glance can be read after careful observation. Poised between abstraction and figuration, that of the Coser's work is a dimension present in almost all the artist's creations and it's what we might say, what constitutes a recognizable note of his painting. It is precisely this happy combination of abstraction and figuration that generates in all his works this perspective oscillation capable of urging the public to get in touch with the painting, revealing its various layers and the infinite veils of which it is composed. It is a work, certainly a sensitive one, linked to an intimacy that is also perceived in the colours used. Never sharp or dissonant, but calm and quiet. Coser's paintings never have shrill notes but demand to be looked at in a whisper.
Antonio Montariello. Art is his life, he has breathed it since he was child. Eclectic, sensitive, introspective and extrovert, his personality is a constant dichotomy. An all-round artist with a passion for graphics, drawing and architecture. Raised in Naples, in the artistic milieu with Lucio Amelio, Antonio Montariello, born in 1967, is an artist who deserves great attention for the quality of his work. Multifaceted and refined, Montariello transposes his passion for spatial construction onto canvas. His compositions are always perfectly calibrated, preserving a harmony that Montariello sometimes amuses himself by breaking down and in some ways desecrating. Conceptual but also figurative, reality in his stroke, sometimes nervous and dramatic, becomes pure composite engraving. He decomposes, dematerializes, but then returns to a purity of line, to a subtle evanescence. His, as he himself confesses, is a work on identity, the solitary man who often appears in his works is a sign, a trait of possible identity, an obscure but dramatically present presence. An introspective and delicate artist, he transposes his whole world into his work, which smells of a refined search for identity. Antonio Montariello is himself a universe in perpetual becoming.
Three artists from totally different geographical and cultural backgrounds come together in a communicative dance in this exhibition at Galleria Basile Contemporary.
The exhibition will be held from 17 to 25 June.
Dr Gindi during documenta 15
Vernissage Report
Kassel, 10 June 2022
Some of the most wayward three-dimensional works shown during documenta 15 are Dr Gindi’ sculptures at d:gallery. Joined by painter and architect Gernot Minke in an exhibition called ‘…in dialogue’, both artist’s ideation strikes a meaningful and unexpected conversation. Gernot Minke intersplices bold experiments in color and form to generate images as involute and abstract as retinal phosphenes. Dr Gindi - quite conversely - untangles the unbound universe embodied in her sculptures as a state of flux beyond reality.
For sure - as visitors of the vernissage could note - the exhibition depicts Dr Gindi and Gernot Minke using the language of art to articulate scenarios that adumbrate the infinite of human existence. ‘My aim here in Kassel was to juxtapose my conceptual focus on infinity with the understanding of collective beinghood promoted at documenta 15,’ said Dr Gindi during the vernissage. ‘Searching for the infinite, my work might sometimes be perceived as lucid and dreamlike, but it always stays grounded in its stance to allow the colors to flow,’ added Gernot Minke. Both artists agreed that art shall attempt to realize serendipity and yes, infinite opportunities. ‘The exhibition was consciously curated as prelude and counterpoint to documenta 15 which opens its doors a few days later,’ observed gallerist Rainer Henze. ‘We are very glad to have two icons of contemporary art with us tonight.’
The musical part of the vernissage was accompanied by pianist Natsuko Inada with improvisations, rousing Dr Gindi’s and Gernot Minke’s enigmatic work to life. The show is open until 10 July.
… in dialogue
Dr Gindi and Prof. Gernot Minke converse during documenta 15
Dates: 10. Juni - 10 Juli 2022
Venue: d:gallery, Schönfelder Str. 41B, 34121 Kassel, Germany
Vernissage: 10. June, 19.00-21.00
d:gallery invited two artists, Sculptor Dr Gindi and painter Prof. Gernot Minke, to be in dialogue with each other while showing new works of art. The conversation into which the artists have entered is determined by the creative process with which both employ their overlapping interest in the infinity of human existence. The exhibition was consciously curated as prelude and counterpoint to documenta 15 which will open its doors a few days later, playfully juxtaposing the artists’ focus on infinity with documenta’s theme of collectivity.
Dr Gindi is one of the seminal sculptors of our time. The exhibition includes a group of 10 bronze sculptures in which the German-Egyptian artist treats the coverage and illumination of existence in the circle of infinity. Since the beginning of her artistic career, Dr Gindi has reawakened the use of three-dimensional objects as a visual art form. For her, the human body has always been both motif and medium to transcend mere intuition. There is a recurring esteem in her moving works: to be attentive about where collective humanness ends, and infinity begins.
Prof. Gernot Minke is a well-known artist and architect based in Kassel whose paintings have been featured in solo and group exhibitions worldwide. In his artistic process, he allows the diluted colors to flow, resulting in changeable and spontaneous shapes and structures that inspire him to compose. Minke's striking and expressive pieces are marked by the overlaying of bold colors, particularly the color blue that shall symbolize infinite being. He participated in documenta 14 with earth-sound-space, an installation symbolizing eco-conscious collectivity, acoustic therapy and infinite yearning.
During the vernissage on June 7th, both artists will engage in a dialogue moderated by gallerist Rainer Henze. The event will be accompanied and accentuated by music improvisations, rousing Dr Gindi’s and Prof. Gernot Minke’s enigmatic works to life.
Art Flow Zwolle: Vernissage Review
21 May 2022
Art lovers flocked to the Dutch city of Zwolle on May 21th to celebrate the opening of Art Flow Zwolle, which for four months transforms the city into one of Europe’s most appealing annual exhibitions of three-dimensional art. Twelve artists are part of this unique encounter in the midst of Zwolle’s picturesque urban landscape. Dr Gindi was particularly honored to be invited by curator Annelies Ysebaert to exhibit her sculpture ‘The Horticulturist’ alongside other emerging and established artists. Mayor Schepen van Cultuur and Ralph Keuning, the Director of Museum de Fundatie, ceremoniously opened the event. Later in the evening, artists and collectors met at the atelier of sculptor Ronald A. Westerhuis for a festive dinner.
Dr Gindi at Art Flow Zwolle
Exhibition: 21 May - 4 September 2022
Vernissage: 21 May, 16.00-18.00
Venue: Raw Space, Willemsvaart 21, 8019 AB Zwolle, The Netherlands
Sculptor Dr Gindi is invited to take part in the celebrated Art Flow Zwolle, an annual exhibition of three-dimensional art held in the Dutch city of Zwolle. The ambition of Art Flow Zwolle is to establish itself as a major event on Europe’s art circuit, offering visitors outdoor and indoor shows of international acclaim, and thus providing an important snapshot of the state of sculptural theory and practice. The opening of the exhibition will take place on 21 May at Raw Space, Willemsvaart 21, Zwolle.
Curated by Annelies Ysebaert, Art Flow Zwolle will present sculptures by 12 artists, many produced specifically for the exhibition. Dr Gindi is represented by ‘The Horticulturist’, an enigmatic portrait of a gardener who has committed his life to the pureness and beauty of plants. Germinating his infinite self, he becomes at one with his objects of love – his yearning for beauty makes him an alluring but bizarre creature that can only be deciphered through an enticement within the observers’ eyes. Still, he is nature’s plaything, forging an existence beyond ordinary everyday life.
With her practice, Dr Gindi creates an uncanny yet ubiquitous world that is inhabited by characters who seem often to be lost - momentarily solidified in their robe of bronze – before expanding into an indefinitely open future. Haunted by the achingly bucolic palpable in her mesmerizing works, Dr Gindi aspires to stir the infinite of human existence.
Dr Gindi at the Venice Biennale
Venice, May 1st 2022
Dr Gindi is just back from Venice where she is currently exhibiting her sculpture ‘The Fateful Choice’. A great number of Biennale guests took part in the vernissage on May 1st. The sculpture is still on show until May 29th, at the courtyard of the Hotel Ca’ Di Dio, a transformed ecclesiastical compound located at the entrance to the Arsenale district where the Biennale is held.
Christophe Mercier, General Manager of Hotel Ca’ Di Dio welcomed participants and introduced Dr Gindi. ‘Dr Gindi is one of the seminal sculptors of our time,’ he said. ‘With her extraordinary work, Dr Gindi ingeniously creates a spur of the moment leading to infinity,’ added Andrea Marcon, Consul General of Thailand. ‘The Venice Biennale is a microcosm of the current state of humanity, and Dr Gindi’s work is truly making sense of a world full of fateful choices,’ said Dana Dimitras, Founder of Visual Atelier 8.
‘With today’s vernissage at the heart of Venice,’ The Fateful Choice is humbly receiving the public’s gaze,’ stated Dr Gindi. ‘I am very glad to be with you tonight, contributing to the success of the Biennale. The Fateful Choice shall capture the complexity and duplicity of human nature and how we conceal our intentions cast as a pregnant moment poised between two forking paths.
Celebrating the Biennale with Dr Gindi
Exhibition: May 1st – May 29th, 2022
Vernissage: May 1st, 2022: 18:00-19:30
Venue: Hotel Ca’ di Dio, Riva Ca' di Dio 2183, 30122 Venice, Italy
Hotel Ca’ Di Dio and Visual Atelier 8 are pleased to present Dr Gindi’s ‘The Fateful Choice’ to celebrate the Biennale 2022. Dr Gindi is one of Switzerland’s foremost contemporary sculptors and known for her bronze sculptures that often entail an element of surprise. ‘The Fateful Choice’ is a life-size sculpture depicting a solitary female character holding a knife behind her back, exchanging our imagination between pique and poetry.
The exhibition is held at the courtyard of Hotel Ca’ di Dio, Venice’s new luxury hotel located at the entrance of the Biennale in Arsenale district. The event is co-hosted by Visual Atelier 8, the Italian art magazine committed to empower artists in the global public interest.
Dr Gindi’s intimate and speculative works are entrancing – and vitally analogous to celebrate and accompany the Biennale’s magic journey into the world of imagination. Combining literary sculpting with seditious abstraction to expedite the meandering into the infinity of human existence, Dr Gindi draws on the often-opposing assimilations of identity by reinterpreting memories from the perspective of a sculptor who transcends the binaries of being. Various institutions of international repute have presented shows of her work.
The Vernissage in presence of the artist will be held on Sunday May 1st at 18:00. Light refreshments are served.
Barcelona the Third:
“The Fateful Choice” at Gallery Guntrian
Barcelona, 13 March 2022
The love story with Barcelona is unfolding further. ’The Fateful Choice’ by renowned sculptor Dr. Gindi was exhibited earlier at two of Barcelona’s foremost art institutions - the Royal Artistic Circle and the European Museum of Modern Art. The bronze now greets visitors at the entrance of Gallery Guntrian, the Catalan capital’s newest art gallery.
The limpid sensation of Dr Gindi’s bronze gives character to the gallery’s inaugural exhibition that includes a series of oeuvres of some of the leading heralds of both modernity and post-modernity. Collectors can discover and appreciate works of Alexander Calder, Joan Miró, Sonia Delaunay, Gerhard Richter, Pablo Picasso, Victor Vasarely, Antoni Tàpies, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, among many others.
Dr Gindi challenges the inherent qualities of sculpture whilst affirming a new alliance between art and reality. With ‘The Fateful Choice’, in particular, she enquires into the flux between perception and meaning, conscious and unconscious, material and immaterial. This exhibited bronze certainly creates a succinct montage: “The protagonists in my sculptures are grounded in the primacy of escorting both nascence and decay, and ultimately approaching the Absolute,” says Dr Gindi. She endeavours to approach infinity from all possible angles. “My imaginings are as if they were the unbound cosmos, forgetting what has passed, and not knowing what will come,” she explains. In a way, Dr Gindi’s work reveals the pure and prime infinity of human existence.
Dr Gindi works and lives in Switzerland. Her work has been shown worldwide in numerous institutional exhibitions. ‘The Fateful Choice’ is presented at Gallery Guntrian until May 30th.
The Winding Way to Finding Our True Selves
Geneva, 2 March 2022
I am contributing a monthly column to Art Vista Magazine. Earlier pieces include Turning the Tables on Fear, The Unbearable Burden of Shame, Flying Into Life: Making the Infinite Tangible and Transcending Death: How art helps us to reimagine human continuity My recent column The Winding Way to Finding Our True Selves is about human transformation.
I have witnessed how philosophical enquiry proposes transformative paths to self-discovery as do the creative processes that imbue artworks and engage viewers. In the bronze sculpture Sancta’s Broken Halo, a young woman exudes serenity and radiance. The golden patina of the bust emits a brightness echoed in the confidence of her forward-looking gaze. This brilliance further emanates from the aureole encircling her head like a crown, its cracks evoking the fractures that she has faced and overcome by revealing her vulnerability rather than repressing it. Our wounds and scars thus might be envisioned as badges of courage or medals of honor embellishing instead of marring the images we project of ourselves, which too often conform to an unrealistic ideal that is always shifting and beyond reach.
Determined and serene, Sancta furrows her brow ever so slightly, hinting at the precarious equilibrium she is striving to maintain. Although broken, her halo shines brightly, lighting the way in her search within while she also sets her sights on the vastness of the territory she is about to explore. Her eyes wide open, she is entranced with the dazzling peacefulness she perceives to be within her grasp. Sancta also seems to be addressing us, inviting us to follow in her footsteps by relying on our inner compass to guide us as we forge the way to an expansive experience of the self.
The Barcelona Story goes on:
Dr Gindi’s sculpture “The Fateful Choice” now at the Royal Artistic Circle of Barcelona
Barcelona, 14 January 2022
Dr Gindi’s sculpture The Fateful Choice remains in Barcelona – after being exhibited for three months at the European Museum of Modern Art it is now at display at the courtyard of the Royal Artistic Circle of Barcelona - an institution that was founded in 1881 with the aim of promoting the visual arts of Barcelona and the world. Located in the historic Pignatelli Palace in Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter, the Circle became a royal institution by order of His Majesty King Alphonse XIII. Frequent contributors during the founding years included artists like Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí.
“I am delighted and honored that ‘The Fateful Choice’ was chosen to be exhibited at such a preeminent institution,” said Dr Gindi during the vernissage on 14 January. “The beautiful palace housing the Royal Artistic Circle gives me the feeling of some very creative interaction with history, and with the future. Looking around, I am inspired to capture the grace of personhood in its contest of inalienable reality.“ ”We are glad to celebrate Dr Gindi today, one of the seminal sculptors of our time,” continued Josep Fèlix Bentz, the Circle’s President. ”The exhibition represents a unique opportunity to get to know the work of a unique artist who defies easy characterization. Dr Gindi’s sculptures are the result of a lifelong interest in profile and purpose – they embody frozen moments of human transition, as exemplified in The Fateful Choice.”
The Fateful Choice is going to be exhibited until 13 February 2022.
“The Fateful Choice”
at the Royal Artistic Circle of Barcelona
From January 13 through February 13, 2022, the Royal Artistic Circle of Barcelona will present a life-size bronze figure entitled ‘The Fateful Choice’ by renowned sculptor Dr Gindi. The sculpture was exhibited at the European Museum of Modern Art in Barcelona (MEAM) earlier on, with Dr Gindi being a finalist of ‘Figurativas 2021’ - one of the most important contests in the figurative art scene.
Based in Switzerland, Dr Gindi is one of the seminal sculptors of our time. Her intimate and speculative works are captivating, and a rarity in the art world. Educated at the Florence Academy of Art, she is best known for combining figurative sculpting with progressive abstraction to explore the infinity of our existence. Her work has been widely exhibited including shows in Spain, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and China.
‘The Fateful Choice’ portrays a young woman holding a knife behind her back. Deep in contemplation, she seems to be a stranger to herself. At crossroads, infinity will ultimately prevail as she holds all the options in her hands.
Dr Gindi exhibits at Swiss Art Association Artischock 28 Oct - 7 Nov 2021, Gallery kulturschiene, Zürich
Dr Gindi on Cut Off Corporeality
Zurich, 28 October 2021
As an internationally acclaimed sculptor, Dr Gindi is also engaging within the local art scene of Switzerland. She participated in a group exhibition held at the art gallery Kulturschiene in the outskirts of Zurich, with members of Artischock Art Society which is one of the oldest and largest art associations of Switzerland. Artischock’s mission is to convene artists and art patrons through their shared curiosity for visual imaginations. Kulturschiene is a place of lively encounter and interaction with the important works of local artists. Overlooking Lake Zurich, the gallery is housed in a former railway station built more than 100 years ago.
Under the motto Slender and Tall, the exhibition presented a range of wall-based and freestanding works. Dr Gindi joined the show with Cut Off, one of her latest sculptures. Headless, armless, legless – Cut Off is a fragment of a woman: self-mutilation seems to be an expression of her black despair. Reduced to the puny remains of her entire self and boxed into an angular perception, she strives to rediscover her infinite integrity.
“I am glad to participate in today’s exhibition,” said Dr Gindi during the opening night on 28 October 2021, “My sculptures are sometimes slender, sometimes tall but they always try to embody the untold infinity of our existence. I ultimately want to lend purpose and meaning to the cut-off corporeality around us.”
Dr Gindi is a Switzerland-based contemporary sculptor. Her creative practice is marked by an aptitude for inventing form and harnessing peculiarity.
Dr Gindi at the European Museum of Modern Art Barcelona, Oct-Dec 2021
Vernissage Report: Dr Gindi at the European Museum of Modern Art
Barcelona, 8 October 2021
Located in the 18th-century neoclassical Palacio Gomis in Barcelona, the European Museum of Modern Art hosted a prodigious vernissage on 8 October convening artists, critics and collectors to celebrate the finalists of the 2021 Figurativas Art Competition. This exclusive and much anticipated competition-cum-exhibition has developed a reputation as the world’s signature event of figurative art.
Dr. Gindi is a Switzerland-based sculptor currently making waves in the contemporary art scene. She was nominated for the competition with her sculpture The Fateful Choice that is going to be exhibited until December 2021. Blurring the line between figuration and insinuated abstraction, Dr Gindi catalyzes a field of gravitation that teases the observer to perpetually change positions. Conceptually, she is exploring the effect that infinity has on the human condition.
The exhibition brings together the foremost figurative creations of contemporary art on a truly international level. During his Opening Words, jury member Tomás Paredes, President, Spanish Association of Art Critics, said that “the aim of Figurativas is to find a new contemporary idiom that does not invalidate tradition but that proceeds from it to advance our human condition into the future. Such endeavor is particularly needed in those devastating times of pandemic, as we need to contend with the existential challenges facing humanity.”
“I am delighted that my work has been included into this ground-breaking exhibition,” Dr Gindi said during the vernissage. “With The Fateful Choice, and other sculptures I am currently creating, I hope to illuminate inflection points in human beings’ life. In deep affection for the mysterious attire of such moments – now during the pandemic and always, forever. My work can be seen as an attempt to make the unmentionable acceptable: the transition from expiry to infinity.”
As a medical doctor, Dr Gindi devoted her early career life to cure decaying bodies and minds. She later turned to sculpture and complemented her dedication with a formal degree programme at the Florence Academy of Art. Dr Gindi’s three-dimensional objects are said to reflect the daily suffering of humans and their dauntless reclamation of infinity.
Impressions from Dr Gindi’s exhibition reception during Art Basel week 2021
Basel, 25 September 2021
On the occasion of Art Basel, Basel Art Center welcomed visitors to an exhibition with Dr Gindi, one of the most exciting contemporary sculptors. Some of her recent works were at display - sculptures that epitomize the potential infinity of our existence. The buzzing event entiteled “The Quest for Infinity” was attended by 50 collectors, gallerists and critics from around the world.
Matthias Rüthmüller, Director of the Basel Art Center, welcomed participants and introduced Dr Gindi. “Dr Gindi imagines and creates bronze sculpture that infuse the most prosaic of abysses with invigorating poetry. She communicates through sculptures instead of arguments - art is her language,” he said. According to Martin Schulze, Founder and Director, Public Delivery, “Dr. Gindi's sculptures are captivating and never harmless. Intriguing at first glance, they only reveal their true nature after extended observation. Her work transcends time and individual experience and speaks a universal and unifying language. “ “Her pieces uniquely deal with the visual representation of complex human emotions,“ added Motti Abramovitz, Founder, Bruno Art Group.
“By unravelling the ultimate infinity inherent with our own existence, we might be able to act composedly, and ultimately care for others,” Dr Gindi said during her opening words.
Born as Egyptian, raised in Germany with study and work experience around the world, and based in Switzerland for the last couple of years, she carries a fascinating collection of cultural strands. Her interest in the human condition stems from her education as medical doctor – as physician she had to observe and cure decaying human matter and mind. She later followed her vocation and graduated in sculpting from the renowned Florence Academy of Art in Italy - and entered into a dialogue with a wealth of interpretations on human nature that propelled her cognizance into a vast range of contrasting perceptions.
Stephy Greiner, Founder, Xocotour Suisse presented Dr Gindi’s artwork while bassist Andrey Tatarinets contributed jazzy improvisations reflecting on the sculptures being presented.
