{{Short description|German artist (born 1962)}} {{Infobox artist | name = Else Gabriel | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth year|1962}} | birth_place = Halberstadt, East Germany | death_date = | death_place = | education = | field = Performance art, Photography | training = | movement = | works = | patrons = | awards = | spouse = | partner = | website = }}
'''Else Gabriel''' (b. 1962) is a German performance artist and educator.
==Biography== Else Gabriel was born in Halberstadt, East Germany in 1962. She studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts.<ref name="CreativeMornings">{{cite web |title=Else Gabriel {{!}} Boneless Art (About Viruses in Veritas) |url=https://creativemornings.com/talks/else-gabriel |website=CreativeMornings |accessdate=13 April 2020 |language=en}}</ref> Else was a key artist in the alternative arts scene that formed by late 1980s. Along with Micha Brendel, Rainer Gorb, and Via Lewandowsky. She was a member of ''Autoperforatsionsartisten'' (Auto perforation artists). The ''Autoperforatsionsartisten,'' an East German performance art group, combined fluxus and neodada with body art and installations in a multimedia spectacle.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Eisman|first=April A.|date=2015|title=East German Art and the Permeability of the Berlin Wall|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24808963|journal=German Studies Review|volume=38|issue=3|pages=597–616|jstor=24808963 |issn=0149-7952}}</ref> In addition to performance art, Else is known for her photographs, in which she combined personal text with images. Though this format did not appear to be logically tied, her intent behind this is to produce an associative, sensual frame of reference.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Tannert|first1=Christoph|last2=Neugroschel|first2=Joachim|date=1991|title=Another Country|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24472424|journal=Aperture|issue=123|pages=42–49|jstor=24472424 |issn=0003-6420}}</ref> In 1989, six weeks before the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Gabriel married West-Berlin writer Max Goldt in order to leave the GDR.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2013-02-09 |title=DIE KÜNSTLERIN |language=de-DE |work=Der Tagesspiegel Online |url=https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/die-kuenstlerin/7757664.html |access-date=2022-07-30 |issn=1865-2263}}</ref>
Since 1991, she has been a part of the group ''(e.) Twin Gabriel'' with her partner Ulf Wrede.<ref name="Performance Art in Eastern Europe">{{cite web |title=Else Gabriel |url=https://performingtheeast.com/else-gabriel/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141213095443/http://performingtheeast.com/else-gabriel/ |url-status=usurped |archive-date=December 13, 2014 |website=Performance Art in Eastern Europe |accessdate=13 April 2020 |language=en |date=21 February 2019}}</ref> Gabriel was included in the 1991 exhibition ''Berlin Divided: Sissel Tolas, Milovan Markovic, Else Gabriel, Rolf Julius'' at MoMA.<ref name="MoMA">{{cite web |title=Else Gabriel |url=https://www.moma.org/artists/71212 |website=The Museum of Modern Art |accessdate=13 April 2020 |language=en}}</ref> In 2019 she was included in the exhibit ''The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain'' at Wende Museum in Culver City, California.<ref name="Wende Museum">{{cite web |title=The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain |url=https://www.wendemuseum.org/programs/medea-insurrection-radical-women-artists-behind-iron-curtain |website=Wende Museum |accessdate=13 April 2020 |archive-date=3 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210803051759/https://www.wendemuseum.org/programs/medea-insurrection-radical-women-artists-behind-iron-curtain |url-status=dead }}</ref>
She has taught at the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California and lectured at the University of Hamburg, the University of Kassel, the University of Kiel and Saarland University.<ref name="CreativeMornings"/> Since 2009 she has taught in Berlin at Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee, in the Sculpture Department.<ref name="KCRW Berlin">{{cite web |title=29 years after the Wall fell: Else Gabriel reflects on 'Autoperforationsartisten,' a 1980s performance group that challenged norms of art world in the GDR |url=https://kcrwberlin.com/2018/11/29-years-after-the-wall-fell-else-gabriel-reflects-on-autoperforationsartisten-a-1980s-performance-group-that-challenged-norms-of-art-world-in-the-gdr/ |website=KCRW Berlin |accessdate=13 April 2020 |date=9 November 2018}}</ref>
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==External links== *[http://www.twingabriel.de/Twin_Gabriel/Home.html (e.) Twin Gabriel] website *[https://kcrwberlin.com/2018/11/29-years-after-the-wall-fell-else-gabriel-reflects-on-autoperforationsartisten-a-1980s-performance-group-that-challenged-norms-of-art-world-in-the-gdr/ 2016 radio interview with Gabriel] on KCRW Berlin *[https://www.are.na/block/10839375 https://www.are.na/block/10839375 JHU “East German Art and the Permeability of the Berlin Wall”] *https://www.are.na/block/10839551. Aperture x Princeton “Another Country (mention) *{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20141213095443/http://performingtheeast.com/else-gabriel/ Article title]}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gabriel, Else}} Category:1962 births Category:20th-century German women artists Category:21st-century German women artists Category:German performance artists Category:People from Halberstadt Category:Living people