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Gabo Camnitzer (born 1984) is a Swedish and American artist, pedagogue, and musician.[1][2][3]

Life and work

Using installation, sculpture, drawing and pedagogical interventions, Camnitzer's work focuses on questions surrounding childhood, subject formation, and socialization.[4][5][6][7] Camnitzer has said that his interest in early childhood is in parted inspired by his experience with middle ear effusion as a small child, which led to significant hearing loss and language-learning difficulties in his early life.[2][8]

Having worked as an elementary school teacher, Camnitzer often draws on collaborative and anti-hierarchical forms of education to engage groups in explorations of experimental knowledge forms.[9] In 2016 Camnitzer initiated the artistic research project titled, Meaning Machine, at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, focusing on the performativity of children.[10][3] The project was supervised by the educational researcher Liselott Mariette Olsson.[3]

Other projects of Camnitzer have explored the assimilationist educational practices of charter schools in New York City (The Student Body);[11] the problematic origins of developmental psychology (in collaboration with the architect, Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco);[12][13][14] and the connection between aesthetic abstraction and epistemological abstraction (Evil Shapes).[15]

Camnitzer attended the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program and Valand Academy, Gothenburg, Sweden, where he studied with Esther Shalev-Gerz. After graduating from Valand Academy, Camnitzer worked as an assistant to the Brazilian artist, Cildo Meireles.[2]

Camnitzer is visiting assistant professor of art at Columbia University.[16] Camnitzer sits on the editorial board of the Sweden's oldest art journal, Paletten.[17]

Exhibitions

  • Queens Museum, New York
  • Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden[18][19][20]
  • Malmö Konsthall, Sweden[21]
  • Netherland Flemish Institute, Cairo, Egypt[22]
  • Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway[23]
  • Nurture Art, New York[14][24]
  • Artists Space, New York[25]
  • GfZK Leipzig, Germany[26][27][28]
  • Tenthaus, Oslo, Norway[29][30][31]
  • 11th Mercosul Visual Arts Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil[32]
  • Västerås Art Museum, Sweden[33][34][7][6]
  • Gertrude Contemporary Art Center, Melbourne;[35][36]
  • Exit Art, New York;[37][38]
  • El Basilisco, Buenos Aires
  • Kunstsaele, Berlin;[39]
  • Göteborg Konsthall, Sweden;[40][41][42]
  • Museo Blanes, Montevideo, Uruguay.[43][44][45][8]

Music

Camnitzer was the frontman of the Gothenburg-based band, Gabo and the Wartels.[46][47] As Oma 333 label head and Stockholm based concert promoter, Gavin Maycroft describes it: “Gabo and the Wartels started in May 2007 when Gabo Camnitzer, an artist and musician came across a family playing marching band music on the side of the street in Gothenberg. The family band was made up of a girl, Georgia (b.1995), playing bass drum, her father, Jonny Wartel (b.1959), playing sax, and her cousin, Andreas (b.1984), playing snare. Gabo approached the Wartels and proposed a collaboration. The band was formed in the basement of the Valand Academy two days later and the week after that they were on stage supporting Deerhoof.”[48]

The group went on to record several EPs and an album, touring the US and Scandinavia.[49][2] They released In a Very Small Boat, on the label Oma 333 in 2013.[50][48][51] Camnitzer also founded the band Glenn and Glenn with Markus Görsch of Love Is All (band), self-releasing a record in 2010,[52] and an EP on Swedish imprint, Zeon Light in 2013.[53][54] Camnitzer played guitar in the band Love Is All (band) on tours across the US and Europe in 2009 and 2010.

Camnitzer is the son of Uruguayan conceptual artist Luis Camnitzer, and political scientist, Selby Hickey.

References

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  4. ^ Olofsson, Mikael (May 15, 2008). "Idel extremer". gp.se.
  5. ^ "PressReader.com – Your favorite newspapers and magazines". www.pressreader.com.
  6. ^ a b Gustavsson, Robert (June 2, 2017). "Kulturministern invigde utställningen "Den fria leken"" – via www.svt.se.
  7. ^ a b "Den fria lekens lekande allvar – ny utställning på Västerås konstmuseum". vlt.se. June 1, 2017.
  8. ^ a b "Expone Gabo Camnitzer: Transformables, 2010". Dodecá. May 6, 2010.
  9. ^ "Meaning Making Meaning: Art and Pedagogy – Announcements – Art & Education". www.artandeducation.net.
  10. ^ http://3.kkh.se/en/mejan-residents/gabo-camnitzer/
  11. ^ "Exhibition Catalogs | Formats | LIBRARYSTACK∎ | Page 2". LIBRARYSTACK∎.
  12. ^ Lubitz, Joseph (March 7, 2019). "Gabo Camnitzer and Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco: Aesthetic Behavior; Developmental Sequences". The Brooklyn Rail.
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  39. ^ Bouqdib, Joseph (November 20, 2017). "Handlungsbereitschaft (2. edition) | Bublitz". bublitz.org.
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  42. ^ "En lokal konstexplosion". Göteborgs Fria.
  43. ^ "Gabo Camnitzer : 12 Bienal de Artes Mediales".
  44. ^ Uruguaya, Sociedad (May 12, 2010). "Camnitzer expone en el Blanes". Sociedad Uruguaya.
  45. ^ "Inauguración 2". LARED21. April 26, 2010.
  46. ^ "dreamtrashbigdog". www.dreamtrash.com.
  47. ^ "Gabo And The Wartels". BrooklynVegan.
  48. ^ a b "Gabo and the Wartels : In a Very Small Boat – Levykauppa Äx". www.levykauppax.fi.
  49. ^ Wistrand, Erik (July 7, 2007). "Obsessive Username Disorder: Koloni 2007-07-06".
  50. ^ "Releases". Tumblr.
  51. ^ "R. Stevie Moore releases new cassette on new label Oma333, premieres video for "I'm Dancing," answers our questions!". Tiny Mix Tapes.
  52. ^ "Download Glenn & Glenn – Glenn Vs. Glenn album mp3". free music albums – mostrapalazzofarnese.it.
  53. ^ "Glenn & Glenn | Glenn vs. Glenn (zeon light 043), by zeon light". zeon light.
  54. ^ "Gabo Camnitzer". Discogs.