Various & Gould is a Berlin based artist duo.
The Berlin-based artist duo Various & Gould works in collaboration since 2005. After studying at the Berlin-Weissensee School of Art, the artists graduated under the tutelage of Prof Alex Jordan in 2010.
Various & Gould work in screen-printing and collage, but their art also emerges in public performances or installations.
The artist duo deals with socially prominent themes such as work, migration, (sexual) identity, death, religion or the financial crisis. Various & Gould's work is influenced by (political) poster graphics, Dada and Pop Art. Characteristics are vivid colors combined with typography and encrypted messages .
2016: Permanently Improvised, Anno Domini, San Jose, USA
2016: 2te 11te Interventionale, Showroom IG Metall (+ HaL), Berlin, Deutschland
2016: Kunst/Plakat/Kunst, Landtag of Brandenburg (+ dkw.), Potsdam, Deutschland
2015: Made in Berlin, Galerie Mathgoth, Paris, France
2015: Backjumps 20+1, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2013: Wanted Witches - Witches Wanted, Open Walls Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2013: The Pressure of Printing, Open Walls Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2013: Kopf an Kopf, Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus, Germany
2012: Backjumps - Junior Issue 2, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2012: ReKOLLEKT V, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2012: Outside in, ALAN Galerie, Istanbul, Turkey
2012: Es geht UM die Welt, Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus, Germany
2012: Nostalgia, Rook & Raven Gallery, London, Great Britain
2011: Street Art Saved My Life, C.A.V.E. Gallery, Los Angeles, US
2010: Make it fit, Brooklynite Gallery, New York, US
2010: Wendezeiten, Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus, Germany
2010: Help! - Soziale Appelle im Plakat, Museum of Design, Zürich, Switzerland
2009: Identity Crisis, Shiv Gallery, London, Great Britain
2009: À chacun ses étrangers?, Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration, Paris, France
2008: Time Machine, Brooklynite Gallery, New York, US
Randgänge des Gesichts: Kritische Perspektiven auf Sichtbarkeit und Entzug, Trajekte, Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin, 2016, ISBN 978-3-7705-6064-6
WILD, Urban Spree Books, Berlin, 2016
The Art of Rebellion, Publikat Publishing, 2016, ISBN 978-3-939566-49-6
Berlin What? – 102 Contemporary Artists, Verlag Ch. Schroer, Berlin, August 2013
Es geht UM die WELT – Ausstellungskatalog, DKW, Cottbus, 2012
Trespass 2012, Taschen Press, Cologne, 2011
Street Art Cookbook, Dokument Verlag, Sweden, 2010
Urban Interventions, Gestalten Press, Berlin, 2010
Help! – Ausstellungskatalog, Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich, 2009
Untitled II, Pro-Actif Communications, Darlington, 2009
Street Art – Legenden zur Straße, Archiv der Jugendkulturen Verlag, Berlin, 2008/09
100 Beste Plakate 07 – Ausstellungskatalog, Verlag Hermann Schmidt, Mainz, 2008
Urban Art Photography,Gestalten Press, Berlin, 2008
Urban Illustration Berlin, Gingko Press, Hamburg, 2007
Street Art – Die Stadt als Spielplatz, Archiv der Jugendkulturen Verlag, Berlin, 2006
