Giò Marconi: YES WE'RE OPEN | opening on Thursday 19 February 2015, h. 7-9 p.m., via Tadino 20, Milan

VIA TADINO 20 20124 MILANO ITALY T +39 02 29 404 373 F +39 02 29 405 573 INFO@GIOMARCONI.COM WWW.GIOMARCONI.COM                                                 GiòMARCONI YES WE'RE OPEN: Group Show Franz ACKERMANN, ATELIER VAN LIESHOUT, Trisha BAGA, Rosa BARBA, Will BENEDICT, John BOCK, Kerstin BRÄTSCH, Matthew BRANNON, André BUTZER, Nathalie DJURBERG & Hans BERG, Günther FÖRG, Simon FUJIWARA, Nikolas GAMBAROFF, Wade GUYTON, Allison KATZ, Annette KELM, Sharon LOCKHART, Oliver OSBORNE, Jorge PARDO, Tobias REHBERGER, Markus SCHINWALD, Dasha SHISHKIN, Lucie STAHL, Grazia TODERI, Francesco VEZZOLI, Fredrik VÆRSLEV, Amelie VON WULFFEN Official opening of its new space in via Tadino, 20 - Milan Thursday 19th February 2015 from 7 pm-9 pm From 20th February-18th April 2015 Tuesday - Saturday 10 am-1 pm; 3 pm -7 pm YES WE'RE OPEN will be opening on Thursday 19th February at Giò Marconi. This group show will mark the fact that the Milanese gallery is moving premises to a new space at via Tadino 20 to celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary in business. It will be displaying works by twenty-five of its own artists – Franz Ackermann, Atelier Van Lieshout, Trisha Baga, Rosa Barba, Will Benedict, John Bock, Kerstin Brätsch, Matthew Brannon, André Butzer, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, Günther Förg, Simon Fujiwara, Nikolas Gambaroff, Wade Guyton, Allison Katz, Annette Kelm, Sharon Lockhart, Oliver Osborne, Jorge Pardo, Tobias Rehberger, Markus Schinwald, Dasha Shishkin, Lucie Stahl, Grazia Toderi, Francesco Vezzoli, Fredrik Værslev and Amelie Von Wulffen –Giò Marconi is celebrating an important career that began in 1990 working alongside his father Giorgio after first gaining some experience at Studio Marconi 17, an initial experimental workshop space run by Giò for young artists, critics and people working in the culture industry. Over a period of twenty-five years since it first opened, the gallery has developed its own consistent approach to exhibiting, combining brave choices well ahead of their time - such as the first solo exhibition by the Chapman brothers in Italy held in 1996 or the retrospective on Martin Kippenberger held in 1990 - with continual talent scouting work aimed at discovering the most interesting up-and-coming artists on the international scene and a focusing on past artists, who worked with his father at Studio Marconi until 1992. Deeply rooted in Milan's own history and future, Giò Marconi gallery is now moving to its new location in Via Tadino 20, inside a space that has been totally redesigned by KUEHN MALVEZZI, a Berlin-based firm founded in 2001 by the archi- tects Simona Malvezzi and Wilfried and Johannes Kuehn, which specialises in designing exhibition-museum spaces and installing public-private collections from all over the world. The graphics for the YES WE'RE OPEN exhibition were designed by Chris Rehberger, the founder of Double Standards Graphics Agency based in Berlin, who has already worked with artists, museums and contemporary art foundations from all over the planet and who has been working with Giò Marconi Gallery since 2003. Artists Franz Ackermann – Neumarkt-Sankt Veit (D), 1963, Atelier Van Lieshout – Rotterdam (NL), 1995 Trisha Baga – Venice (US), 1985 Rosa Barba – Agrigento (I), 1972 Will Benedict – Los Angeles (US), 1978 John Bock – Gribbohm (D), 1965 Kerstin Brätsch – Hamburg (D), 1976 Matthew Brannon – St. Maries (US), 1971 André Butzer – Stuttgart (D), 1973 Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg – Lysekil (S), 1978; Rättvik (S), 1978 Günther Förg – Füssen (D), 1952 – Friburgo (D), 2013 Simon Fujiwara – London (UK), 1982 Nikolas Gambaroff – Germany, 1979 Wade Guyton – Hammond (US), 1972 Allison Katz – Montreal (CDN), 1980 Annette Kelm – Stuttgart (D), 1975 Sharon Lockhart – Norwood (US), 1964 Oliver Osborne – Edinburgh (UK), 1985 Jorge Pardo – Havana (C), 1963 Tobias Rehberger – Esslingen (D), 1966 Markus Schinwald – Salzburg (A), 1973 Dasha Shishkin – Moscow (RUS), 1977 Lucie Stahl – Berlin (D), 1977 Grazia Toderi – Padova (I), 1963 Francesco Vezzoli – Brescia (I), 1971 Fredrik Værslev – Moss (N), 1979 Amelie Von Wulffen – Breitenbrunn (D), 1966 Giò Marconi via Tadino, 20 20124 Milan tel +39 02 2940 4373 fax +39 02 2940 5573 info@giomarconi.com www.giomarconi.com