Gina Fischli

Gina Fischli

BornNationalityBased In
1989SwissZürich, London
Biography

Gina Fischli’s practice is characterised by the playful employment of a multitude of different media, including glitter and denim, to explore notions of fantasy, food, materiality and consumption in contemporary society. Cleverly upending notions of scale, fake and real, Fischli sculpts castle-shaped cakes – complete with fondant-like turrets and windows – from polymer clay, as well as large portraits on plywood bejewelled with glitter that depict cocktail glasses and Diet Coke cans. Fischli’s castle cakes are often named after real British and German medieval or neo-Gothic castles, monumental and supposedly haunted buildings, humorously rendered by the artist in saccharine, sugar-frosted technicolour. Written by Goldsmiths CCA ...

Selected Artworks
Albers (Summer)
Gina Fischli
Albers (Summer), 2021
21 x 21cm
Brompton
Gina Fischli
Brompton, 2018
59 x 57cm
Capital House
Gina Fischli
Capital House, 2019
60 x 60 x 72cm
Red Chair
Gina Fischli
Red Chair, 2020
120 x 100cm
The Roberta
Gina Fischli
The Roberta, 2019
341 x 478 x 70cm
To be titled (Ashtray)
Gina Fischli
To be titled (Ashtray), 2020
12 x 10 x 12cm
To be titled (Bird House)
Gina Fischli
To be titled (Bird House), 2020
18 x 18 x 18cm
Can
The Roberta
Gina Fischli
The Roberta, 2019
345 x 470 x 120cm
Albers (Greener)
Gina Fischli
Albers (Greener), 2022
53 x 53cm
Baby Albers (flirt)
Gina Fischli
Baby Albers (flirt), 2024
25 x 25cm
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