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 i 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
Møbel
Colors
CV
Jay Gard
Born 1984, Halle, Germany
Lives and works in Berlin
Education
Hochschule für Kunst und Design Burg Giebichenstein / Halle
Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst / Leipzig
Selected solo exhibitions:
2022
Through the Gard-Glass, KanyaKage, Berlin, DE
2021
‘Curves’ at Warte für Kunst, Kassel, DE
‘Circles’ at Grimmwelt, Kassel, DE
2020
‘We Built this City’ at IG-Metall Haus presented by Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, DE
‘Møbel’ at Gether Contemporary, DK
2019
March 2019 Museum Gunzenhauser, Chemnnitz
2018
Colors, Gether Contemporary, Copenhagen
2017
“Zeichen unter Zeichen” Sexauer Gallery, Berlin
“It’s the Frame Not the Painting” Jonas-Mekas-Visual-Art-Center, Vilnius
2016
making things makes us human, Gether Contemporary, Copenhagen
2015
Wrong History, Sexauer, Berlin
Jay Gard, Galerie Oel-Früh Cabinet, Hamburg
2014
Everybody’s Moving, Galerie B2, Leipzig
2013
Jay Gard, Sexauer, Berlin
we make it, Berlin
J.G.P.C. – The Jay Gard Picture Collection
2011
Universal Cube, Leipzig
FunHouse
2010
Salon Zitala, Leipzig
VEGA Collection #1
2008
Hammertime, UFO Galerie, Halle / Saale
Double Gard, Half Gallery, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2022
Group exhibition ‘New Positions’ at Gether Contemporary, Copenhagen, DK
2021
Gods and Monsters, Kunstverein Montez, Frankfurt, DE
Der kürzere Weg durch die Wand, Atelierhaus Fritz Bornstück, Altfriedland
Bei uns. Bei euch!, Alexander Ochs Private, Berlin DE
2020
Group show, Schlossgut Schwante, Skulpturenpark Schlossgut Schwante, Oberkrämer, DE
Group show, Transformale Potsdam, Rechenzentrum Kunst- und Kreativhaus, Potsdam, DE
Planet B, BMW Foundation Herbert Quand, Berlin
2019
‘Überdruck’, Druckwerkstatt des bbk Berlin, DE
‘Salon Hansa: InterINTIMES_AutoPORTRAIT’, Lachenmann Art, Frankfurt am Main, DE
‘Coming Home’ at Galerie Borssenanger, Chemnitz, DE
‘Habitat’ at JGM Gallery, London, UK
‘Frame / ing’ at Galerie Axel Obiger, Berlin, DE
‘Galerie Kandlhofer | Sculpture Garden’ at Galerie Kandlhofer, Klosterneuburg, AT
‘Die Zukunft Ist Das Neue Ding’ at Kunststiftung des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle, DE
‘Il est temps de s’enivrer | Zeit, sich zu berauschen’ at Bamhaus, Luxembourg
‘Looking For Dick’ at SCHAU FENSTER, Berlin, DE
‘All Out’ at Kwadrat, Berlin, DE
2018
‘Melting Point’, double solo with Michelle Jezierski, Kunst und Denker, Düsseldorf
‘demi-gros’, Safe Gallery at les Valseuses, Berlin, Germany
‘Ein Turm von Unmöglichkeiten’ König Galerie, Berlin
‘Ave Magazine #2’ Kunstraum SUPER, Wien
“Hunters & Collectors” Wunderkammer Zitadelle Spandau, Berlin
2017
“La Table ronde” DISKURS Berlin, Berlin
“Skulpturen Triennale Bingen 2017 – Nah und Fern” Bingen am Rhein
“MEGABOCK” Uferhallen Wedding, Berlin
“lower color” Botschaft, Uferhallen Wedding, Berlin
“Golden Ass” Laden für Nichts, Leipzig
“Art Rotterdam” Open Air Section, Netherlands
“SMALL” – an exploration of miniature, Sexauer Gallery, Berlin
“Art Herning” Gether Contemporary, Herning
2016
“Salon der Gegenwart”, Hamburg
“The Shape Of Things To Come” Gether Contemporary, Copenhagen
“Große Pläne” art in public, Bauhaus Foundation, Dessau
“Lithomania”, Schaufenster, Berlin
2015
Arcadia Unbound, Funkhaus, Berlin
c_d_s, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin
Schlaraffenland, Hilbertraum, Berlin
Spring Exhibition, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
2014
Museum Marta Herford, Herford
Booster Art.Sound.Machine.
2013
Nietenblätter
2012
Neuzugänge zeitgenössischer Kunst im Kunstfonds, Vertretung des Freistaates Sachsen beim Bund, Berlin
WinWin, Halle 14, Leipzig
2011
Grassimesse, Grassimuseum, Leipzig
VEGA Collection #2, Unicredit Kunstraum, München
2010
Verwohnung, Galerie Emmanuel Post, Leipzig
2009
Décohérence, Sortie d‘Artistes, Rennes, France
2008
Wore, Jack The Pelican Presents, New York
Art Fairs
2019
Vienna Contemporary, Sexauer booth, Austria
Art Brussels, Sexauer booth, Brussels, Belgium
Art Rotterdam, Sexauer booth, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Art Herning, Gether Contemporary booth, Herning, Denmark
2018
Art Berlin” Sexauer booth, Flughafen Tempelhof, Berlin
Biennale Ansbach Contemporary, Gotische Halle, Ansbach
2017
Art Rotterdam, Open Air Section, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Art Herning” Gether Contemporary, Herning, Denmark
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