I am a multi-disciplinary artist with painting as a base. Themes I explore are around dichotomies of motherhood, emotional strains around memory and dementia, and psychologies of the self and other. My art projects have taken me on residencies in Indonesia, Japan, Syria and Majorca, amongst others. My work has been exhibited internationally in New York, London and Amsterdam and is held in high profile collections such as Caldic Collection and Torch Gallery in the Netherlands.
Education
2014 European Reminiscence Network, Certificate Facilitator of Art workshops for people with Dementia 2004 – 2006 Royal College of Art, London, England MA Painting, June 2006 (Distinction) 1997 – 1998 Guildhall University, London, England Erasmus Exchange Program 1993 – 1998 Utrecht School of Art, Netherlands BA Hons Fine Art
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Before, Because, Why, Regent’s University, London 2014 Solo Show, Marian Cramer Projects, Amsterdam 2012 Psychology of Fire, Brenda Taylor Gallery, New York 2011 Musings, Marian Cramer Projects, Amsterdam 2008 Solo Show, Museum of Installations, London, England
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 The London Group Open 2023, Copeland Gallery, London The London Group at Linden Hall Studio, Deal The London Group at Scarborough, Old Parcels Office, Westborough 2022 The London Group at Bankside, London Catch Your Breath, Morley Gallery, with The London Group 2020 Isolation, Online exhibition with TLG 2018 The London Group at St Ives 2016 Breaking Borders, Charity auction and art exhibition in aid of Calais Refugee Crisis 2015 The London Group Open 2015, The Cello Factory, London 2014 The London Group on London, The Cello Factory, London Spoil & Fill Exhibiting commissioned Pop-Up-Book as part of Amanda Loomes’ Spoil & Fill project, Studio 1.1, London 2014 London Art Book Fair Whitechapel Gallery, with the London Group 2013 2Q13 Women Collectors Women Artists Lloyds Club, London, curated by Marcelle Joseph Huguenot Silk in Spitalfields Houses, exhibition of photographs as part of the Huguenots in Spitalfields Festival 2013 2010 Longstories, film launch of ‘Marjo Pullens”, a film about lung cancer made in collaboration with Amanda Loomes, in association with Roche to be screened during lung cancer awareness month in the Netherlands www.longstories.nl Locus Solus, Group Exhibition currated by Sozita Goudouna at the Benaki Museum in Athens, Greece soluslocus.blogspot.com Sanjh, Group Exhibition for Relief of Flood Affectees, Alhamra Art Gallery, The Mall, Lahore, Pakistan Gabeler-Kraal, with Doina Kraal, galerie 32-34, Amsterdam
Broken Bisquits, Group Exhibition for Relief of Flood Affectees, Alhamra Art 2009 Inhabitants, with Sarah Douglas, London www.douglasgabelerinhabitants.wordpress.com 2008 Longstories II, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam , Netherlands www.longstories.nl
Divination, group exhibition, Brunswick centre London, England www.divination.org.uk
Mappamundi, collaboration with Nynke Gabeler, Project Space Anna, Den Haag
The Painting Room, Transitiongallery, London www.transitiongallery.co.uk 2007 Can Marques, intervention at Can Marques, Majorca, Spain
Divination, group show, collaboration with Lucy Pawlak, Hamburg,Germany 2006 Generation, Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London 2000 Paris Photo, International Photography Fair, Louvre, Paris, France
Nieuwspoort, Dutch Young Talent, The Hague, Netherlands
Gabeler- Tollens, Gallery Serieuze Zaken, Amsterdam 1999 Lightning 6, exhibition and performance at Museum ‘Beyerd’, Breda
Kunstrai 1999, Art Fair Amsterdam, Netherlands
Art Primeur 1999, Center of Visual Art, Dordrecht, Netherlands 1998 Oeuvre, International Group Show, Gallery Serieuze Zaken, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Artist Residencies and Research Projects
2013 Slipping Away Residency Beach Lookout Aldeburgh, www.aldeburghbeachlookout.com Venice Water & Climate Change, Venice 2008 Tana Toraja, Sulawesi, Indonesia, with Boise Travel Scholarship 2007 Can Marques, Majorca, with http://www.canmarquescontemporaneo.net 2007 The School Uniform, Tokyo, Japan, research with Startstipendium Fonds BKVB
Awards
2008 Awarded Boise Travelscholarship Slade School of Art 2006 Winner of the Parallel Prize for Painting 2006 2004-2005 Awarded Project Subsidie Fonds BKVB 2000 Awarded Startstipendium Fonds BKVB 1997 Nominated Piet Bakker Prize
Publications
2021- present Contributions to TLG newsletter, on Art and Health 2007 A Damascus Tale, article in Total:Spec, Monthly magazine 2001 Posing, photo book, edition 5000 1998 The School Girl’s Diary, book, edition 20
Reviews
2023 On the Exploration of Identity by Ariella Yedgar 2011 Parool: Vannostalgie doordrenkte werken 2010 Independent: Observations, a feast of food, art and storytelling in East London 2009 Guardian: culture art beat
MurmurArt: Sarah Douglas and Marenka Gabeler Dialogue 2008 Breda Vandaag, local paper: 'Levensverhalen over longkanker' 2003 Time Out: 'The Hormones' 2001 Delftsche Courant, local newspaper: 'Posing' 2000 HP/De Tijd, magazine: 'Dossier Porno' Photo in Agenda van Verlangen 2000 1999 BN De Stem: 'Uniform project Artotheek' Dutch Elle magazine: 'Dress-up-doll Marenka' Alert: 'Knickers from Japan' Algemeen Nijmeghen's Studentenblad, magazine: 'School Girl Marenka' Carp, magazine: 'De Spiegel van Lolita' 1998 Algemeen Dagblad, Dutch newspaper: 'Marenka Gabeler - Levend kunstwerk'2 Volkskrant, Dutch newspaper Parool, Dutch news paper: 'De serieuze zaken van Rob Mallasch'
