GABRIELLE KRUGER

"For sommer.frische.kunst 2026 in Bad Gastein, I propose to showcase an experiential presentation of installation- based painting and a choreographed Performance Painting in
collaboration with three local performers who might wear my work in the form of sculptural costume, or what I call ‘Wearable Paintings’. In creating an outdoor living painting ‘set’ with Hanging Landscape Paintings and moving performers, I hope to create a site-responsive theatrical “landscape painting” of the area."



Bio:
Gabrielle Kruger (b. 1993) is based in Cape Town. She holds a BFA(summa cum laude) from Stellenbosch University (2015) and an MFA with Distinction from Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town (2018). Kruger’s practice transforms painting through material experimentation, performance and installation.

Gabrielle Kruger’s research-led, process-based practice redefines the conventions of painting through radical experimentation with the materiality of acrylics. She re-imagines notions of ‘landscape’ and ‘nature’ through laboratory-like methods of experimentation and inventive painting techniques that transform paint into sculptural forms and the physical act of painting into performance. Her ecological reflections question the boundaries between nature and artifice, inviting dialogue on material life and the Anthropocene; creating new mythologies for our contemporary era.



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