Ill-equipped
A walk through the artist’s practice in his different mediums and references aimed to engage in a wider discussion around the question of the self and the community, between insecurity and security, within failure and disappearance.
Samuel Georgy (b.1994, Cairo, Egypt), lives in Frankfurt, Germany.He graduated from École de design et haute école d’art du Valais with a bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts. He is currently studying at Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main.
He participated at exhibitions at venues such as: Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz (2019); Standard Deluxe, Lausanne (2021); Galerie 3000, Berne (2021); Vika e.V., Halle (2022); Espace Graffenried, Aigle (2022); Kaiserwache, Freiburg (2022); Parfumerie, Frankfurt (2023) In 2017 Georgy was awarded the Hansjoerg Wyss Scholarship and in 2022 a DAAD scholarship. His installation, video, performance and curatorial work approach with a quirky humor the themes of self sufficiency, the creative arrangement of energies, and the training of the artist in his movement and his heritage vis-vis a culture of a given society.
