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)
2024
Anything is Everything, Galerie Grölle, Wuppertal
Ornament als Versprechen (duo show with Jan Tichy), Kornfeld Galerie, Berlin
2023
Sculpture-Scribbles, Gether Contemporary, Copenhagen
Ornaments from Earth, FS.ART, Bodensee
The Beginning of Shaping, 69Salon at Galerie Kornfeld, Berlin
2022
Through the Gard-Glass, KanyaKage, Berlin
2021
Curves, Warte für Kunst, Kassel
Circles, Grimmwelt, Kassel
2020
We Built this City, IG-Metall Haus presented by Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin
Møbel, Gether Contemporary, Copenhagen
2019
Gabriele, 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 Gallery, Berlin
Jay Gard, Galerie Oel-Früh Cabinet, Hamburg
2014
Everybody’s Moving, Galerie B2, Leipzig
2013
Jay Gard, Sexauer Gallery, Berlin
J.G.P.C. – The Jay Gard Picture Collection, we make it, Berlin
2011
FunHouse, Universal Cube, Leipzig
2008
Hammertime, UFO Galerie, Halle / Saale
Double Gard, Half Gallery, New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Purple Path, Skulpturenpark, Chemnitz-Olbernhau
Spektrale, Skulpturenpark, TU-Wildau
Intersections, AishoNanzuka, Hong Kong
X, Gether Contemporary, Copenhagen
2023
Skulpturenpark, Schloss Düneck, Hamburg
Bau Kunst, Galerie Borchardt, Hamburg
Body Language, Galerie Kornfeld, Berlin
Curator’s Choice II, FS.ART, Berlin
Bottom Up, Kühlhaus, Berlin
2022
Out There Again, Skulpturenpark, Metzdorf
Clash Valencia Berlin, BcmA Galerie, Berlin
New Positions, Gether Contemporary, Copenhagen
2021
Gods and Monsters, Kunstverein Montez, Frankfurt
Der kürzere Weg durch die Wand, Atelierhaus Fritz Bornstück,, Altfriedland
Bei uns. Bei euch!, Alexander Ochs Private, Berlin
2020
Skulpturenpark Schlossgut Schwante, Oberkrämer
Transformale, Rechenzentrum, Potsdam
Planet B, BMW Foundation Herbert Quand, Berlin
2019
Salon Hansa: InterINTIMES_AutoPORTRAIT, Lachenmann Art, Frankfurt
Coming Home, Galerie Borssenanger, Chemnitz
Habitat, JGM Gallery, London
Frame / ing, Galerie Axel Obiger, Berlin
Galerie Kandlhofer | Sculpture Garden, Galerie Kandlhofer, Klosterneuburg
Die Zukunft Ist Das Neue Ding, Kunststiftung des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle
Il est temps de s’enivrer | Zeit, sich zu berauschen, Bamhaus, Luxembourg
Looking For Dick, Schau Fenster, Berlin
All Out, Kwadrat, Berlin
2018
Melting Point (double solo with Michelle Jezierski), Kunst und Denker, Düsseldorf
demi-gros, Safe Gallery at les Valseuses, Berlin
Ein Turm von Unmöglichkeiten, König Galerie, Berlin
Ave Magazine #2, Kunstraum SUPER, Wien Wunderkammer
Hunters & Collectors, 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, Rotterdam
SMALL, Sexauer Gallery, Berlin
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
2014
Booster Art.Sound.Machine., Museum Marta Herford, Herford
2013
Nietenblätter, kjubh Kunstverein, Köln
2011
Grassimesse, Grassimuseum, Leipzig
VEGA Collection #2, Unicredit Kunstraum, München
2010
Verwohnung, Galerie Emmanuel Post, Leipzig
2009
Décohérence, Sortie d‘Artistes, Rennes
2008
Wore, Jack The Pelican Presents, 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