Gelatin - Vorm - Fellows - Attitude

This summer, the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen’s Bodon Galleries will be taken over by Vienna-based Gelatin as they present a major body of new work entitled Vorm – Fellows – Attitude.

Demanding an unbiased curiosity and calling for active participation from the viewer, Gelatin’s humorous, non-hierarchical and subversive oeuvre has a directness that stimulates and confronts as it highlights and breaks down social conventions and taboos.

Gelatin operates on the borders of sculpture, painting and rock music; of architecture and sport, performance and fashion. Working in the area between staged event and spontaneous discussion, they evade every attempt of categorization. Exhibition curator Francesco Stocchi compares Gelatin to a bar of soap: "As soon as you think you have a grip on them, they slip away from you, leaving their essence in your hands." The new sculptures—especially composed for Rotterdam—continue a line of works and sculptural concepts that Gelatin has been playing with for more than two decades.

Vorm – Fellows – Attitude will be Gelatin’s first solo exhibition within a Dutch institution. The exhibition follows a tradition at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen of giving the stage—and total artistic freedom—to internationally renowned artists as they exhibit within a major Dutch institution for the first time. Previously, the museum has shown Urs Fischer (2006), Erik van Lieshout (2006), Andreas Slominski (2007), Pipilotti Rist (2009), Carsten Höller (2010), Ugo Rondinone (2016) and Tal R (2017).