Gina Folly

Gina Folly was born in 1983, Zürich (CH), she lives and works in Basel (CH).

Gina Folly multimedia work embracing sculpture, photography, drawings, film, and installation, she subjects objects and symbols to minimal contextual shifts and critically thematizes the promises that our striving for greater naturalness and productivity in an increasingly technologized environment holds out. The domestication and imitation of natural phenomena play an important role for Folly. As a result, animals and plants occur repeatedly in her works as motifs or materials and looking for a confrontaion between humans and their natural surrounding. These relations and exchanges are emphasised in the way Folly uses, alters and mixes industrial production processes with artisanal or even homemade techniques.

Gina Folly graduated in Master of Art in Fine Arts, Zhdk, Zürich in 2014. Since 2013 she’s running the artist space Taylor Macklin in Zürich together with Selina Grüter and Michèle Graf. Recent exhibitions include: Domestic Problems, Almanac, London, 2016 (Solo); New Conditions, Ermes-Ermes, Roma, 2015; Ströme, Duoshow with Mandla Reuter, SALTS, Birsfelden, 2015 (Solo); L’état parfait, Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Basel, 2016 ; Adrift on a Plastic Island, Galerie Bernhard, Zürich, 2016; 13. Triennale Kleinplastik 2016, Fellbach ,2016; Some of my best friends are germs, Le Doc, Paris, 2016; NATURAL INSTINCTS, Les Urbaines 2015, Lausanne, 2015; Some Gallerists, ML Artspace, The Duck, Berlin, 2015; Summer Group Show organized by Matt Moravec & Taylor Trabulus, Germantown, NY, 2015