No Man is an Island | Gabriele Grones and Nazim Ünal Yilmaz | ZⓈONAMACO

No Man is an Island | Gabriele Grones and Nazim Ünal Yilmaz | ZⓈONAMACO MÉXICO ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO, Mexico City MX, 8-12 Febbraio 2023

Artists: Gabriele Grones and Nazim Ünal Yilmaz
Curated by Giorgia Lucchi Boccanera and Michela Rizzo

No Man is an Island

“No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.”
John Donne

At ZⓈONAMACO 2023, Boccanera Gallery (Trento/Milan) and Galleria Michela Rizzo (Venice) want to consolidate their relationship with Mexico and open a new chapter through a collaboration, based on mutual esteem and a shared vision.

Thus, the two galleries are pleased to present the work of Gabriele Grones (Italy, 1983), represented by Boccanera Gallery and Nazim Yilmaz (Turkey, 1983), represented by Galleria Michela Rizzo, making their poetics dialogue in the same booth.

The title of the exhibition No Man is an Island refers to a famous text by John Donne and is intended to be a cue for the investigation of Grones’s and Yilmaz’s works, through a set-up designed to highlight the thematic cross-references of the two artists.

Solo exhibitions

2010 Theological Time, Mean Landscape, …, Exilegallery, Vienna

2018 Fieberblasenmond, Gallery PSM, Berlino

2017 Sibel Beauty Parlor, Sanatorium, Istanbul

2015 Hotel Principles, Funktion Room, Londra

Blue Justice, Mekan68, Vienna

2014 Self-portrait with a Gorilla, Function Room, London

2012 Waiting for the Barbarians, Pilevneli Project, Istanbul

2007 Straight, Gallery Kunstbüro, Vienna

Selected group exhibitions

2021 Earthly Coil, Magenta Plain, New York

NADA, with Nschotschi Haslinger, Exile Gallery, Miami

2020 Open Landscape, a cura di Angels Miralda, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallin

Echo, Club Club, Vienna

2019 Zwei Alter: Jung, Galerie Crone, Berlino

2019 Absurd, Art Week Akaretler, Istanbul

Read my Lips, Club Club, Wien

2018 I can bite the hand that feeds me, Carbon12, Dubai

From outside to inside, Galerie Crone, Vienna

A Fleshly School of Poetry, curated by Daniela Brunand,

KunstraumD21, Leipzig

2017 If l can´t fuck, it is not my tradition, con Özlem Ünlü, OJ, Istanbu

2016 Moment and Movement, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna

2015 o.T (ohne Titel), curated by Arne Reiman, Arp Museum, Remagen

2014 Howl, a cura di Rafet Arslan, Galerie 44A, Istanbul

2013 Transtone, with Kay Walkowiak, Krokus Gallery, Bratislava

2012 Making Normative Orders, a cura di Fanti Baum, Britta Peters e Dr. Sabina Witt, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt

2011 Double Crescent, curated by Dan Cameron, Gallery C24, New York

Pants on Fire, con Mäds Westrup, Ve.Sch Kunstverein, Vienna

Sieben Grenzgänge, Haus Wittgenstein, Vienna

Where Fire Has Struck, Depo, Istanbul

Polis-Pollis-Politis, Das Weiße Haus, Vienna

2010 Painters on the Run, a cura di Daniel Richter, Kunsthaus, Stade

Vienna-Ankara, a cura di Ayse Artun, Gallery Nev, Ankara

2009 Made in Turkey, curated by Heike Steckhaus, Ernst Barlach Museum, Hamburg

2008 Mit anderem Blick, AusstellungsHalle, Francoforte

Hier Bei Uns, con Marlene Haring, Forum Stadtpark, Graz

Dear Anus, VKÖ, Vienna

2007 Georg Eisler Preis, Kunstforum BACA, Vienna

Real – Young Austrian Art, Kunsthalle Krems

2006 Basecamp2, Kunsthaus Merano

2005 New Suggestions – New Propositions, a cura di Beral Madra, Gallery Borusan, Istanbul