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, USA2016: 2te 11te Interventionale, Showroom IG Metall (+ HaL), Berlin, Deutschland2016: Kunst/Plakat/Kunst, Landtag of Brandenburg (+ dkw.), Potsdam, Deutschland2015: Made in Berlin, Galerie Mathgoth, Paris, France2015: Backjumps 20+1, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany2013: Wanted Witches - Witches Wanted, Open Walls Gallery, Berlin, Germany2013: The Pressure of Printing, Open Walls Galerie, Berlin, Germany2013: Kopf an Kopf, Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus, Germany2012: Backjumps - Junior Issue 2, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany2012: ReKOLLEKT V, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany2012: Outside in, ALAN Galerie, Istanbul, Turkey2012: Es geht UM die Welt, Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus, Germany2012: Nostalgia, Rook & Raven Gallery, London, Great Britain2011: Street Art Saved My Life, C.A.V.E. Gallery, Los Angeles, US2010: Make it fit, Brooklynite Gallery, New York, US2010: Wendezeiten, Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus, Germany2010: Help! - Soziale Appelle im Plakat, Museum of Design, Zürich, Switzerland2009: Identity Crisis, Shiv Gallery, London, Great Britain2009: À chacun ses étrangers?, Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration, Paris, France2008: Time Machine, Brooklynite Gallery, New York, USRandgänge des Gesichts: Kritische Perspektiven auf Sichtbarkeit und Entzug, Trajekte, Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin, 2016, ISBN 978-3-7705-6064-6WILD, Urban Spree Books, Berlin, 2016The Art of Rebellion, Publikat Publishing, 2016, ISBN 978-3-939566-49-6Berlin What? – 102 Contemporary Artists, Verlag Ch. Schroer, Berlin, August 2013Es geht UM die WELT – Ausstellungskatalog, DKW, Cottbus, 2012Trespass 2012, Taschen Press, Cologne, 2011Street Art Cookbook, Dokument Verlag, Sweden, 2010Urban Interventions, Gestalten Press, Berlin, 2010Help! – Ausstellungskatalog, Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich, 2009Untitled II, Pro-Actif Communications, Darlington, 2009Street Art – Legenden zur Straße, Archiv der Jugendkulturen Verlag, Berlin, 2008/09100 Beste Plakate 07 – Ausstellungskatalog, Verlag Hermann Schmidt, Mainz, 2008Urban Art Photography,Gestalten Press, Berlin, 2008Urban Illustration Berlin, Gingko Press, Hamburg, 2007Street Art – Die Stadt als Spielplatz, Archiv der Jugendkulturen Verlag, Berlin, 2006
