Gesche Wuerfel

CONTACT INFO
gesche@geschewuerfel.com

+49 176.20409221 (until July 31, 2016)
+1 617.417.8149 (from August 1, 2016)

EDUCATION
2015 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, MFA Studio Art

2006 Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, M.A. Photography & Urban Cultures

2003 University of Dortmund, Germany, Diploma Spatial Planning

GRANTS / FELLOWSHIPS / AWARDS

2016 GlogauAIR, Berlin, Germany (regretfuly declined)

2015 Regional Emerging Artist-in-Residence, Artspace, Raleigh

2015 Third New York Portfolio Review organized by The New York Times

2015 Shortlist Felix Schoeller Emerging Photographer Award 

2014 Two Travel Grants from the Center for the Study of the American South (CSAS) 

2014 Professional Shortlist in the Architecture Category, Sony World Photography Awards, London, UK

2013 Final Round Aperture Portfolio Prize, New York, NY

2013 Final Round, Critical Mass, Photolucida, Portland, OR

2012 Manhattan Community Arts Fund Grant (MCAF), Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), New York, NY
2012 Creative Grant, Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA), New York, NY
2012 Runner-up, Camera Club New York (CCNY) Darkroom Residency 2013, New York, NY
2011 Individual Artist Grant, Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA), New York, NY
2008 Merit, Fujifilm Dinstinctions Award, UK
2007 Bloomberg New Contemporaries, UK

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2015  We Still Love Life, Allcott Gallery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC

2015 Basement Sanctuaries, Gallery 1401, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2014 Basement Sanctuaries, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR 
2013 Basement Sanctuaries, New York Public Library (NYPL), New York, NY
2012 Basement Sanctuaries, Field Projects, New York, NY
2012 Go for Gold! The Underground Gallery, London, UK
2010 Go for Gold! The East London Landscape of the 2012 Olympics, Wolk Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA
2010 Go for Gold! The Transformation of the Lower Lea Valley, Civilian Art Projects, Washington, DC
2009 Transitory Spaces, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK
2005 Raumvorstellungen, University of Dortmund, Germany
2004 PERSPECTIVES_The Nordmarkt in Words and Images, University of Dortmund and traveling, Germany

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2015 40/40, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR

The Land of No Things, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC 

          Association of Urban Photographers: Movement, Bogotá Arte Contemporáneo, Bogota, Columbia        

2014 LMCC Autumn Art Auction, William Holman Gallery, New York, NY 

         NUTUREart Annual Benefit, The Boiler, Brooklyn, NY 

         Contemporary German Photography, The 14th China Pingyao International Photography Festival, China

         LensCulture 2014 Emerging Talent Awards Exhibition, Valid Foto, Barcelona, Spain 

         Association of Urban Photographers: Movement, Silverprint Gallery, London, UK 

         Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition, Somerset House, London, UK 

         Uptown Arts Review - Grantee Show, Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA), New York, NY

         Photography and Urban Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

2013 Rising Waters: Photographs of Hurricane Sandy, co-organized by the International Center of Photography and the Museum of the City of New York, Building 19 at Governors Island, New York, NY
2013 Adrift - The Unfamiliar Familiar in Modern Society, Galerie Ruberl, Vienna, AT
2013 TokoNoMAA - Reflections on the Heights. A NoMAA-MoMA Multidisciplinary Project, New York, NY (and traveling)
2013 ARTexchange, College Art Association's (CAA) Annual Conference, New York, NY
2012 Habitats, Grady Alexis Gallery at El Taller Latino Americano, New York, NY
2012 Adrift - The Unfamiliar Familiar in Modern Society, Gasket Gallery/Truman Brewery, London, UK
2012 Residual Traces, Photofusion, London, UK
2012 FRESH 2012, Klompching Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (online)
2012 THE FENCE, PHOTOVILLE, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Uptown Arts Review - Grantee Show, Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA), New York, NY
2011 Hackney Observed, Hackney Museum, London, UK
2011 Elephant in a Room, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
2011 Uptown Arts Review - Grantee Show, Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA), New York, NY
2010 Mixology II: Photography & Photo-based Work, Curator's Office, Washington, DC
2009 Olympic Visions, The Nunnery Gallery, London, UK
2009 A Line Is There To Be Broken, Viewfinder Photography Gallery, London, UK
2008 AMPS/08, Photofusion, London, UK
2008 A Line is There to be Broken, This is not a Gateway (TINAG) Festival, London, UK
2007 Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2007, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall; Rochelle School, London; Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK
2007 Roof Unit - Foundations, [space], London, UK
2006 MA Thesis Exhibition No Right Turn, Village Underground, London, UK
2006 Tor 38, Kokerei Zollverein, Essen, Germany
2006 The Elephant Vanishes, Tate Modern, London, UK
2003 Phoenix_werke. Kunst in der Zwischenzeit, Phoenix-West, Dortmund, Germany

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2013 Pete Brook, 'Photographer finds Cockatiels, Jesus in NYC Basements', WIRED
2013 Anne Biroleau, "Weekend Portfolios: Basement Sanctuaries", Le Journal de la Photographie
2013 Julianne Welby, "One NY Artist: Photographer Gesche Wí¼rfel". WNYC-New York Public Radio
2013 Eva Dewes "Die Individualisierung der Welt. Neue Positionen der Fotografie bei Ruberl in Wien", Parnass
2013 Gregg McQueen, "Sanctuary in the cellar", Manhattan Times
2012 Jordan Davidson, "Uptown's Underground Spaces to be Featured in Chelsea Art Show", DNAinfo.com
Wei Yu, "2012 Olympics Feature", ARTCO
2012 Bruce Diamond and Max Sass, "NoMAA's 'Women in the Heights' show puts vibrancy of Northern Manhattan's burgeoning arts scene on display", NYDailyNews.com
2011 Entretien avec Brian Massumi avec Marie-Pier Boucher et Jean-Franí§ois Prost, "Fragments d'action pour la ville", INTER. Art Actuel
2010 Macarena Garcí­a González, "Londres: La Reforma urbana que alista a la ciudad para las Olimpí­adas 2012", El Mercurio
2010 Louis Jacobson, "City Light This Week's Best. Gesche Wí¼rfel: Go for Gold! at Civilian Art Projects", Washington City Paper
2010 The Pink Line Project, "Salon Contra: Go For Gold! with Gesche Wuerfel and Al Miner", (online video)
2009 Peter D. Osborne, "The Unreachable Landscape: Some Themes in Photography in England 1990 to 2007", CAHIER FOTOGRAFIE #2
2007 "Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2007", The Artists Information Company Magazine
2007 "Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2007", British Council China
2007 "Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2007", Sunday Times: Culture

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2015 Elizabeth Avedon, "The New York Times Portfolio Reviews By Elizabeth Avedon - Day 1", L'Oeil de la Photogrphie

        Caitlin Schneider, "Basement Sanctuaries”, mental_floss 

2014 Jordan G. Teicher, "The Hidden Beauty of New York City’s Basements”, Slate

         Margot Peppers, "Inside New York City’s basements: Fascinating photo series reveals the rarely seen underground homes of      superintendants and their families”, Daily Mail 

         Hanne Venderwege, "Zo hip zijn kelders in New York”, Het Nieuwsblad 

         Brian Howe, "Gesche Wí¼rfel: Basement Sanctuaries”, INDYweek 

         Eve Kahn, "Decorator Underground”, The New York Times 

         Amy Wolff, "Basement Sanctuaries - Photo of the Day”, PDN Online 

         no author, "Paradies im Untergeschoss”, DIE ZEIT Online

         Alan Feuer, "The Lairs of Super Men”, The New York Times

2014 Basement Sanctuaries, Schilt Publishing 
2013 "Basement Sanctuaries", In: Boucher, Marie-Pier; Dufresne, Jean-Maxime; Melgar, Gema and Jean-Franí§ois Prost (eds.), Heteropolis
2013 "Basement Sanctuaries", In: PlanerIn. Fachzeitschrift fí¼r Stadt-, Regional- und Landesplanung
2012 Go for Gold!, The Velvet Cell
2012 "Go for Gold!", Story of the Week, Foto8
2012 "Go for Gold!", London - Olympia Issue, StadtBauwelt
2012 "Go for Gold!", Olympics Special Issue, Visual Studies
2012 "Go for Gold!", In: Isaac Marrero-Guillamón and Powell, Hilary (eds.), The Art of Dissent
2011 "Basement Sanctuaries", Story of the Week, Foto8
2010 "Fotografie und Stadtplanung: Olympische Spiele 2012", In: PlanerIn. Fachzeitschrift fí¼r Stadt-, Regional- und Landesplanung, Volume 2
2009 "2070B", In: Prost, Jean-Francois (ed.), Adaptive Actions
2009 "Gesche Wuerfel", In: New Museum (ed.), Younger Than Jesus: The Artist Directory
2009 with David Kendall and Tristan Fennell "A line is there to be broken. Conversation with Prof. Caroline Knowles", Critical Cities. Ideas, Knowledge and Agitation from Emerging Urbanists. Volume 1
2009 Viewfinder Photography Gallery, A Line Is There To Be Broken (catalogue)
2008 "Farewell from the Garden Paradise", London Independent Photography London Independent Photography Magazine
2008 Photofusion, AMPS08
2007 Bytheway, Bev and Eileen Daly (eds.) Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2007 Catalogue. London: New Contemporaries [1988] Ltd.
2007 "Go for Gold! Photographically engaging with the Olympics 2012", Rising East Online. Making regeneration our business, Issue 6
2006 Go for Gold!, self-published artist book
2005 "Terrains Vagues", Mí¶gliche Orte - Bilderwelten, Planerwelten?
2004 "Fotografierte Wahrnehmungen. Der Dortmunder Nordmarkt aus unterschiedlichen Sichten", PlanerIn. Fachzeitschrift fí¼r Stadt-, Regional- und Landesplanung, Volume 2

COLLECTIONS
Public collections: Portland Museum of Art; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Museum
Private collections: in Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, United States