Margarita Gluzberg British, b. 1968
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Overview
“Margarita Gluzberg’s works–featuring spheres rendered in pastel that appear to sit lightly upon a rich effervescent ground–belie the long and involved labour and physicality of their making and ethereal appearance as they evoke a music of the spheres if not indeed their own cosmology.”
–John Slyce
The work of Margarita Gluzberg often explores the tensions and reciprocal interplay between the past and the present, memory recall alongside recurring fiction, and the politics of desire. Gluzberg’s practice ranges from drawing, photography and performance to sound and film installation while drawing upon historical events and semi-biographical stories in its content, form and presentation.
Born in Moscow in 1968, Margarita Gluzberg has lived in London since 1979. She studied at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, and the Royal College of Art in London. Solo exhibitions include Otherwhere, Alma Pearl, London (2023; Proper Time, Karsten Schubert, London (2022); In Paradise, Pushkin House, London (2019); For Children Not For Children, Filet Space, London (2018); Avenue des Gobelins, Paradise Row, London (2012). Her work was presented at major contemporary art spaces including the Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Paris; Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius; Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö; Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort; Lunds Konsthall, Lund; The British School at Rome (where she was a Wingate Scholar); Drawing Room, London; and Site Gallery, Sheffield. In 2016, her Wellcome Trust project ‘Rock on Bones’, a series of multimedia performance lectures, was staged at the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill; the London Performance Studios; and the Royal College of Art. Her work was featured in Artforum, Art Review, The Guardian and Frieze Magazine, amongst others. -
Works
Margarita Gluzberg British, b. 1968
Green Influence 1960/2020 Mix, 2023Pastel, graphite and colour pencil on canvas217 x 156 cm
85 1/2 x 61 1/2 in1of 3Exhibitions-
Margarita Gluzberg
Otherwhere 3 Nov 2023 - 13 Jan 2024Alma Pearl is pleased to present Otherwhere, Margarita Gluzberg’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. The work of Margarita Gluzberg often explores the tensions and reciprocal interplay between the past...Read more -
Positions, Part Two
23 Jun - 5 Aug 2023Positions, part two runs 23 June to 5 August with a private view on Thursday, 22 June 6 - 9 PM.Read more -
Positions, Part One
28 Apr - 10 Jun 2023Positions, part one runs 28 April to 10 June with a private view on Thursday, 27 April 6-9pm; Positions, part two will run from 23 June-3 August.Read more
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Artforum, review by Laura K. Jones -
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Artforum, review by Michael Archer -
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Frieze Magazine, review by Sam Thorne -
Caroline Douglas, Director of the Contemporary Art Society, writes about Otherwhere in her Friday Dispatch
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Circuits and Loops: Tom McCarthy & Margarita Gluzberg
BOMB Magazine, Conversation between Tom McCarthy & Margarita Gluzberg -
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Artissima 2024
1 - 3 Nov 2024We are delighted to announce the gallery’s first participation in Artissima this November. Alma Pearl will present works by gallery artists Cullinan Richards, Margarita Gluzberg...Read more -
Dr Clare Carolin in conversation with Margarita Gluzberg and Babar Suleman at The Fitzwilliam Museum
4 Apr 2024To accompany their group exhibition 'The Goddess, the Deity and the Cyborg’, The Women’s Art Collection has partnered with the Fitzwilliam Museum on a programme...Read more -
Margarita Gluzberg in conversation with Daniel Birnbaum
15 Nov 2023On the occasion of the artist’s solo exhibition in London, Margarita Gluzberg will be in conversation with Daniel Birnbaum. Please join us at Alma Pearl...Read more