Jay Gard
Jay Gard constructs works whose visual language combine aesthetics and rationality. His expression is dominated by strict geometrical shapes. Here are no coincidences, rather a calculated and conceptualized expression. Industrial materials such as wood, steel and plywood are basic elements of the works, whose surfaces are painted in industrial colours or carries traces of calculations of angles and dimensions.
His works relate to our communication saturated contemporary society. Their clear design become an iconography of the signs and graphic expressions, that we are bombarded with every day. In a split second, we need to intercept a visual message while we are racing on. The concept must therefore be clear and precise for it to settle in us. With the exhibition making things makes us human the communication becomes a sense of clarity and beauty through the concrete and the rational.
The works refer to Constructivism, with pioneers like Aleksandr Rodtjenko, Bauhaus and De Stijl. Here the geometric shapes were used to prioritize the rational and objective. The movement sought to combine art, architecture and design.
Gard's works represent the junction between the rational and the beautiful. In spite of the industrial materials used, a beautiful coherence arises from the juxtaposition of the materials. A symmetry and visual balance is created despite, the coarse materials.
Jay Gard (f. 1984, Halle) lives and works in Berlin. He is a graduate from Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst i Leipzig, 2011 and Hochschule für Kunst und Design Burg Giebichenstein in Halle, 2006. Jay Gard has solo exhibited at Museum Günzenhauser (DE), Jonas Mekas Visual Art Center (LT), KanyaKage (DE), Half Gallery (US), Sexauer (DE), Gether Contemporary (DK), Galerie Oelfrüh Cabinet (DE) among other, and he has participated in group exhibitions at Kunstverein Montez (DE), Bauhaus Museum (DE), Alexander Ochs (DE), BW Foundation Herbert Quand (DE), JG Gallery (UK), Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer (A), Axel Obiger Galerie (DE), Schau Fenster (DE). Recent publications include the artist monograph "Jay Gard: Form und Farbe” and "Zeichen unter Zeichen". The works of Jay Gard can be experienced at Bauhaus Museum and is acquired by Ny Carlsberg Fondet.
Selected Exhibitions & Projects
Jay Gard - Sculpture-Scribbles
Møbel
Colors
CV
Born 1984, Halle, Germany
Lives and works in Berlin
EDUCATION
Hochschule für Kunst und Design Burg Giebichenstein / Halle
Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst / Leipzig
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2023
Gether Contemporary, ‘Sculpture-Scribbles’, Copenhagen
2022
‘Through the Gard-Glass’, KanyaKage, Berlin
2021
‘Warte für Kunst’, Curves, Kassel
Grimmwelt, ‘Circles’, Kassel
2020
IG-Metall Haus presented by Haus am Lützowplatz, ‘We Built this City’, Berlin
Gether Contemporary, ‘Møbel’, Copenhagen
2019
Museum Gunzenhauser, ‘Gabriele’, Chemnnitz
2018
Gether Contemporary, ‘Colors’, Copenhagen
2017
Sexauer Gallery, ‘Zeichen unter Zeichen’, Berlin
Jonas-Mekas-Visual-Art-Center, ‘It’s the Frame Not the Painting’ , Vilnius
2016
Gether Contemporary, ‘making things makes us human’, Copenhagen
2015
Sexauer Gallery, ‘Wrong History’, Berlin
Galerie Oel-Früh Cabinet, ‘Jay Gard’, Hamburg
2014
Galerie B2, ‘Everybody’s Moving’, Leipzig
2013
Sexauer Gallery, ‘Jay Gard’, Berlin
we make it, ‘J.G.P.C. – The Jay Gard Picture Collection’, Berlin
2011
Universal Cube, ‘FunHouse’, Leipzig
2008
UFO Galerie, ‘Hammertime’, Halle / Saale
Half Gallery, ‘Double Gard’, New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2023
Schloss Düneck, ‘ON AIR’, Moorrege
2022
Gether Contemporary, group exhibition ‘New Positions’, Copenhagen
2021
Kunstverein Montez, ‘Gods and Monsters’, Frankfurt
Atelierhaus Fritz Bornstück, ‘Der kürzere Weg durch die Wand’, Altfriedland
Alexander Ochs Private, ‘Bei uns. Bei euch!’, Berlin
2020
‘Skulpturenpark Schlossgut Schwante’, Oberkrämer
Rechenzentrum, ‘Transformale’, Potsdam
BMW Foundation Herbert Quand, ‘Planet B’, Berlin
2019
Lachenmann Art, ‘Salon Hansa: InterINTIMES_AutoPORTRAIT’, Frankfurt
Galerie Borssenanger, ‘Coming Home’, Chemnitz
JGM Gallery, ‘Habitat’, London
Galerie Axel Obiger, ‘Frame / ing’, Berlin
Galerie Kandlhofer, ‘Galerie Kandlhofer | Sculpture Garden’, Klosterneuburg
Kunststiftung des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt, ‘Die Zukunft Ist Das Neue Ding’, Halle
Bamhaus, ‘Il est temps de s’enivrer | Zeit, sich zu berauschen’, Luxembourg
Schau Fenster, ‘Looking For Dick’, Berlin
Kwadrat, ‘All Out’, Berlin
2018
Kunst und Denker, ‘Melting Point’ double solo with Michelle Jezierski, Düsseldorf
Safe Gallery at les Valseuses, ‘demi-gros’, Berlin
König Galerie, ‘Ein Turm von Unmöglichkeiten’, Berlin
Kunstraum SUPER, ‘Ave Magazine #2’, Wien Wunderkammer Zitadelle Spandau, ‘Hunters & Collectors’, Berlin
2017
DISKURS Berlin, ‘La Table ronde’, Berlin
‘Skulpturen Triennale Bingen 2017 – Nah und Fern’, Bingen am Rhein
Uferhallen Wedding, ‘MEGABOCK’, Berlin
Botschaft, Uferhallen Wedding, ‘lower color’, Berlin
Laden für Nichts, ‘Golden Ass’, Leipzig
Open Air Section, ‘Art Rotterdam’, Rotterdam
Sexauer Gallery, ‘SMALL’, Berlin
2016
‘Salon der Gegenwart’, Hamburg
Gether Contemporary, ‘The Shape Of Things To Come’, Copenhagen
Bauhaus Foundation, ‘Große Pläne’, art in public, Dessau
Schaufenster, ‘Lithomania’, Berlin
2015
Funkhaus, ‘Arcadia Unbound’, Berlin
Kunstquartier Bethanien, ‘c_d_s’, Berlin
Hilbertraum, ‘Schlaraffenland’, Berlin
Kunsthal Charlottenborg, ‘Spring Exhibition’, Copenhagen
2014
Museum Marta Herford, ‘Booster Art.Sound.Machine.’, Herford
2013
kjubh Kunstverein, Nietenblätter, Köln
2011
Grassimesse, Grassimuseum, Leipzig
Unicredit Kunstraum, ‘VEGA Collection #2’, München
2010
Galerie Emmanuel Post, ‘Verwohnung’, Leipzig
2009
Sortie d‘Artistes, ‘Décohérence, Rennes
2008
Jack The Pelican Presents , ‘Wore’, New York
ART FAIRS
2019
Vienna Contemporary, Sexauer Gallery booth, Vienna
Art Brussels, Sexauer Gallery booth, Brussels
Art Rotterdam, Sexauer Gallery booth, Rotterdam
Art Herning, Gether Contemporary booth, Herning
2018
Art Berlin, Sexauer Gallery booth, Flughafen Tempelhof Berlin
Biennale Ansbach Contemporary, Gotische Halle, Ansbach
2017
Art Rotterdam, Open Air Section, Rotterdam Art Herning, Gether Contemporary, Herning
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2019
Bauhaus Dessau Artist Residency, 100 years Bauhaus
Art Grant, Kunstfonds Foundation Bonn
Exhibition support for “Gabriele” by KdFS (Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen)
2017
Exhibition support for ‘It’s the Frame Not the Painting’ by Goethe-Institut-Litauen
2016
Artist in Residence, Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy, Lithuania