Felix Gmelin

Felix Gmelin employs painting and video as a means to investigate political imagery and language, utopia and dogmatism, while comparing contemporary political "activism" with that of times past. Gmelin's method of questioning the aestheticization of politics through historical comparison was first widely seen by art audiences in his video installation at last year's Venice Biennale, were his "Farbtest, Die Rote Fahne II", (now in Malmö Artmuseum´s collection) became one of the most talked about works. The work is both a tribute to his father as much as it discusses how revolution has turned into fashion today, something he continues in his new work.

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Felix Gmelin