Andrew Gilbert

Andrew Gilbert (b.1980) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and lives and works in Berlin. “A personal obsession” is how Andrew Gilbert describes the dominant subject of his work. In his drawings, paintings, installations and sculptures the Scottish born artist occupies himself with the excesses of British imperial wars and allows the public to immerse themselves into his multiply disturbing inner world. “I want to describe a certain feeling, which creeps over me when visiting European museums,” says Gilbert, “eurocentrism, the fetishizing of Africa, war propaganda and the insanity of Western arrogance and Colonial Violence are some of the topics I am looking at”. His recent solo exhibitions include Colonial Expedition, Starring Andrew and Emil Nolde at Galerie Polad-Hardouin, Paris in 2013; Colonial Exhibition – Culloden 1746 at Power Galerie, Hamburg in 2012; Solo Presentation, Ten Haaf Projects, NADA, New York in 2012 and Cut out her eyes – Cut off his Penis (with Lucy Stein) at Forgotten Bar, Berlin in 2010.