Artist
Gun Gordillo
Copenhagen, Denmark
Light ArtNeon SculptureInstallation
Gun Gordillo was born in Lund, Sweden, and graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1975. For more than fifty years she has worked with light as both subject and material, establishing herself internationally as a pioneer of light art.
A 1974 trip to Egypt, where she encountered large glowing public script, proved a turning point in her engagement with illuminated form. Her practice spans neon sculpture, light installation, relief work and art-architecture integration, and in 2024–25 she held a major solo project at Copenhagen Contemporary.
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Represented by
- 2112Copenhagen
Selected solo exhibitions
- 2025PORTA BLANCA STRATOS ROXI, Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen
- 2024Project: Gun Gordillo, Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen
- 2023REFLEXION, Gallery 2112, Copenhagen
- 2022Three Sculptures, 2112 Project Space, Copenhagen
- 2021INTERRUPTION, Sophienholm Orangeriet, Denmark
- 2019INFINI, Last Resort Gallery, Copenhagen
- 2017for F, Last Resort Gallery, Copenhagen
- 2016in light, Last Resort Gallery, Copenhagen
- 2016in WHITE, Munkeruphus, Denmark
- 2015FUGAX, Banja Rathnov Galleri, Copenhagen
- 2015Solo exhibition, Galerie Denise René Rive Gauche, Paris
- 2014VITA LUX, Broby Kulturhus, Sweden
- 2010Solo exhibition, Galerie Denise René, Paris
- 2006Spins & Spells (Gordillo/Fraek), Galleri Profilen, Aarhus
- 2004Kristianstad Konsthall, Sweden
- 2001vibrationer (Gordillo/Fraek), Kunstbygningen, Copenhagen
- 1998lys & lyd (Gordillo/Fraek), Cisternen, Copenhagen
- 1996Borås Konstmuseum, Sweden
- 1995Lunds Konsthall, Sweden
- 1994sine qua non (Gordillo/Fraek), Aarhus Kunstbygning, Denmark
- 1990White Art Center, Ghent, Belgium
- 1986Galerie Asbæk, Copenhagen
- 1984Galerie Léger, Malmö, Sweden
- 1981Ordrupgaard Museum, Copenhagen
- 1977Galerie Léger, Malmö, Sweden
Selected group exhibitions
- 2024Market Art Fair (with 2112), Liljevalchs, Stockholm
- 2022Faaborg Museum, Faaborg
- 2022Forme/Mouvement, Galerie Denise René, Paris
- 2022Hommage à Denise René, Bonisson Art Center, France
- 2021Erupting Light, Topographie de l'Art, Paris
- 2021Small is Beautiful, Galerie Denise René, Paris
- 2020Colorful!, Galerie Denise René, Paris
- 2020Art Genève, Galerie Denise René booth, Geneva
- 2020ARCO Madrid, Galerie Denise René booth, Madrid
- 2017Que de la Sculpture, Galerie Denise René, Paris
- 2017Room with its Own Rules, Chamber, New York
- 2016Sculptures et Reliefs, Galerie Denise René, Paris
- 2013Hommage à Denise René, Galerie Denise René, Miami
- 2012Néon, who's afraid of red, yellow and blue?, La Maison Rouge, Paris
- 2006Quadrature du Cercle, Galerie Denise René, Paris
- 2006Kunst ist Bewegung, Forum Würth, Arlesheim/Basel
- 2003The Spirit of White, Galerie Beyeler, Basel
- 2001Klar Form, Gammel Holtegård, Denmark
- 2000Le Mouvement et la Lumière, Musée de Cambrai, France
- 1998Blanc, Galerie Pixi, Paris
- 1997Fluide Peripherique, Centre Culturel Suédois, Paris
- 1991lys, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen
- 1988La Forêt Imaginaire (neon project), Wanåsutställningen, Sweden
- 1981Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Denmark
- 1977dan lund, Lunds Konsthall, Sweden
Education
- 1969–1975Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen (with Gunnar Aagaard Andersen)
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