Gertrude Glasshouse will present a solo exhibition by Gian Manik, You own the school, embrace your responsibility for its legacy.
Harnessing imitative techniques honed during a childhood spent voraciously copying old master paintings, Gian Manik recasts and filtrates Caravaggio’s second version of Supper at Emmaus (1606) for the exhibition. By speculating upon the futures and legacies of reproduced artworks,the exhibition demonstrates a research-led practice responding to the ontology of “institutional painting,” that has been canonised in western art history.
Manik will be in conversation with curator Amelia Winata on Saturday, 13 April at 4pm in Gertrude Glasshouse, discussing the considerations and drives behind the exhibition and its positioning when situated within the artist’s wider practice.
Gian Manik You own the school, embrace your responsibility for its legacy Gertrude Glasshouse 12 April – 11 May 2024
Gian Manik and Mia Boe included in Gertrude Studios 2023, Gertrude Contemporary
The annual Gertrude Studios exhibition presents new and recent works produced in the organisation’s 16 studios, celebrating the site as a conduit for dialogue and making. A collective snapshot of the practices supported within the program, the exhibition offers the opportunity to experience a broad diversity of works from leading arts practitioners in Naarm/Melbourne, as well as examine material and conceptual developments in contemporary practice.
The exhibition features work from each of Gertrude’s sixteen Studio Artists, including Mia Boe and Gian Manik, remaining a cornerstone of the annual Gertrude programme that is conceived throughout the year by the Gertrude Studio Artists and the Curator in Residence Amelia Winata. The Studio Artists experiment with divergent ideas or reflect on recent productions in new configurations, all in conversation with the work of fellow practitioners.
Gertrude Studios 2023 Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne 11 November – 17 December 2023
Review: Vanessa Francesca, ‘Gian Manik, ‘Don Quixote”, Art Guide Australia
September 2023
Read Vanessa Francesca’s current review of Gian Manik’s exhibition Don Quixote.
“Gian Manik is one of Australia’s most exciting contemporary artists. His exhibition Don Quixote is a palimpsest that pays tribute to the many layers of identity, interpretation and innovation that have characterised the history of the work.”
Don Quixote continues at Sutton Gallery until the 30 September, 2023.
Gian Manik is exhibiting in a group show at Chauffeur, Sydney. Titled The Profane Opening upon the Sacred, the exhibition runs from April 14 – May 27, 2023.
Artists include: Antoine Aguilar Gian Manik Luke Pither
Gian Manik announced as a finalist in the 2023 Ramsay Art Prize
Congratulations to Gian Manik, who is a 2023 finalist in the Ramsay Art Prize.
Presented by the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA) and supported in perpetuity by the James & Diana Ramsay Foundation, Gian Manik is one of twenty-seven finalists who have been selected for the Ramsay Art Prize 2023 – a $100,000 acquisitive prize for contemporary Australian artists under the age of forty.
The works selected will be exhibited in a major exhibition at AGSA from 27 May until 27 August 2023. The winning work will be acquired into AGSA’s collection, joining works by past prize winners Sarah Contos (2017), Vincent Namatjira (2019) and Kate Bohunnis (2021).
Once a year, Gertrude opens their private studios to the public, providing audiences with a special opportunity to meet the artists, view works in progress, and experience the environment in which Gertrude Studio Artists create their work. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Join Sutton artists Mia Boe, Catherine Bell & Gian Manik this Saturday 18 February for a peek into their studio practice alongside the 2022-2024 cohort.
ACCA Art Kitchen #4 ‘Primary Colour Oil Painting with Gian Manik’
Join Gian Manik to learn how to create an oil painting from a source image by mixing the three primary colours, plus black and white. You will also hear why Manik approaches painting as a discipline, thinks of his practice as a form of self-portraiture, and chooses to work in a dedicated art studio.
Image: Gian Manik, ‘Micro-dosing in Kallista 3’, 2018, oil and aerosol on canvas, 153 x 112cm.
The singular work in this exhibition by artist Gian Manik is a portrait of Ralph McLean (1957–2010), the first openly gay person to be elected as Mayor in Australia (former City of Fitzroy, 1984-85) and a gay rights and social justice advocate.
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Having researched the City of Yarra Collection, the reference image Manik used for the portrait was one of only two images he found of McLean. The work’s format, execution and framing speaks to the agency of significant historical and cultural collections and commissions.
Gian Manik ‘Ralph McLean’
Friday 11 November 2022 – Friday 27 January 2023
Richmond Town Hall, 333 Bridge Road. Richmond VIC
With new works by Sutton artists Gian Manik and Catherine Bell.
Gertrude’s annual Gertrude Studios exhibition presents new and recent works produced in the organisation’s 16 studios and celebrates the site as a conduit for dialogue and making. As a collective snapshot of the practices supported within the program, the exhibition offers the opportunity to experience a broad diversity of works from leading arts practitioners in Naarm Melbourne, as well as examine material and conceptual developments in contemporary practice.
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The exhibition is conceived across the year by the Gertrude Studio Artists and the Curator in Residence Tim Riley Walsh.
‘a do ocean’ featuring Gian Manik, George Egerton-Warburton, Raafat Ishak and Nick Selenitsch
‘a do ocean’ curated Christopher L G Hill at Kings Artist-Run, featuring Sutton artists: Gian Manik, George Egerton-Warburton, Raafat Ishak and Nick Selenitsch
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Also with Cameron Allan McKean, Ricarda Bigolin, Hugo Blomley, Nicola Blumenthal, Holly Childs, Stacey Collee, Renee Cosgrave, Gabriella D’Costa, Debris Facility, Endless Lonely Planet 11, Sam George, Luke Gerrard, Aurellia Guo, Chloe Hagger, Christopher L G Hill, Jesse Hogan, Lou Hubbard, Helen Hughes, Eleanor Laver, Alice McIntosh, Sean McMorrow, Kate Meakin, Virginia Overell, Ashley Perry, Lisa Radford, Yuval Rosinger, Amy May Stuart, Savanna Szelski, Christopher Theofanous, Yundi Wang, and more.
Gian Manik’s is included in ACCA’s ‘Like a Wheel That Turns: The 2022 Macfarlane Commissions’, the third edition of a multi-year partnership that supports the commissioning of ambitious new projects by contemporary emerging to mid-career artists.
Exhibition dates: 2 July – 4 September 2022. Curated by Max Delany and Annika Kristensen.
Gian Manik has been awarded a studio position at Gertrude Contemporary in their highly competitive Studio Program.
The application–based program supports 16 artists for a two–year period, with 8 artists invited to join the program each year. Gertrude Contemporary is committed to supporting artists at key moments in the development of their practice, to represent an inter–generational selection of artists, and to support a diverse range of artistic practices. The selection of artists is by a competitive application process led by an advisory committee.
Gian Manik will relocate his studio to the Preston premises in 2022.
