Gabriel Kuri (Mexico City, 1970) lives and work between Mexico City and Bruxelles.

Gabriel Kuri's art maintains an effective balance between poetic sensibility and conceptual skill. In his works, composed by installations, photographs, drawings and sculptures, he displays personal observations of the day-to-day life into the terrain of formal aesthetics, setting up a creative dialogue of many tropes including cultural identity, history and, temporality. Kuri's world is structured on a playful language and festive decoration made by common objects and materials of low-level commerce for their physical properties and particular meanings. A recurrent theme is time and how the objects can incarnate its signs. Kuri's works become involuntary sculptures that commemorate its flow, each element is related with others in refusing any hierarchy between the every day stuff and art: objects and fragments, protagonists of context always different, seem to acquire new meanings.

His work has been shown in solo exhibition in international and private Institutions, including: Jumex Museum, Mexico City, Mexico (2023); Aranya Art Center, Beidaihe, China (2023); The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (2020); WIELS, Brussels, Belgium (2019); Oakville Galleries, Centennial Square, Oakville, USA (2018); Alte Fabrik, Rapperswil, Switzerland (2016); Aspen Art Museum, Aspen USA (2015); The Common Guild, Glasgow, UK (2014); Parc Saint Leger-Centre d’art contemporain, Pougues-les-Eaux, France (2013); Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway (2012); Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston, USA (2011); Museion, Bolzano, Italy (2010); MUHKA - Museum of Modern Art Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium (2003); Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico (2000); Le Magasin - Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France (1996).

He has also taken part in many group exhibitions in Institutions such as: The Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2023); MoMA, New York, USA (2023); Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (2021); Jumex Museum, Mexico City, Mexico (2020); GAK - Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany (2020); Casa Luis Barragán, Mexico City, Mexico (2019); Museo Amparo, Puebla, México (2019); Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Gallen, Switzerland (2018); Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2017); Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France (2016); MCA - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, USA (2015); Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2014); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA (2012); Carrè d’Art – Musèe d’Art Contemporain de Nimes, Nimes, France (2011); The Sculpture Centre, New York, USA (2009); he New Museum, New York, USA (2007); MOCA - The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA (2006); CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA (2005); Serpentine Gallery, London, UK (2004); MoMA PS1, New York, USA (2002).

His work has been shown in biennials and international group exhibitions such as: Geneva Biennale, Geneva, Switzerland (2022); Biennial of Graphic Arts Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia (2017; 2015); East Wing Biennial, London, UK (2016); 12th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba (2015); 54th  Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (2011); 5th Berlin Biennial, Berlin, Germany (2008); 50th Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (2003); Tirana Biennal, Tirana, Albania (2001). 

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