Gina Folly’s work explores the potentials of photography, expanding the medium by developing novel formats, materials, and modes of presentation. The photographic gaze anchors a practice in which she analyzes and reflects on environments and experiences. Folly’s multilayered pictures, sculptures, and installations examine emotions and interpersonal relationships in her everyday life. Bringing situations, places, and objects into focus, her works interrogate commonsense conceptions of permeability and demarcation, naturalness and artificiality, or private and public spaces. They often turn the spotlight on what is inconspicuous and typically eludes our conscious attention.

Folly received the Manor Art Prize in 2023.

Gina Folly (b. 1983 in Zurich, Switzerland) lives and works between Basel, Switzerland and Paris, France.

Education

She graduated with a MFA from Zhdk, Zurich, in 2014.

Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions include Fanta-MLN, Milan; CAC Synagogue de Delme, Delme (both 2024); Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva; Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel (both 2023); Tonus, Paris (2022); Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel (2019); Hard Hat, Geneva (2018); Ermes Ermes, Vienna (2017); Almanac, London (2016); and Ermes Ermes, Rome (2015).

Folly’s work has been included in group exhibitions at Super Super Markt, Berlin; Swiss Institute, New York; Fanta-MLN, Milan (all 2024); Layr, Vienna; Salts, Basel; Essener Kunstverein, Essen (all 2023); Sgomento Zurigo, Zurich (2022); Fondation Fiminco, Paris; Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris; CAC Synagogue de Delme, Delme (all 2021); Basement Roma, Rome; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (both 2020); Kunstverein Köln, Cologne (2018); and Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus (2015); amongst others.

Milk, 2024
Mousse Magazine, interview by Milo Christie, 2024

Six Exhibitions to Visit in Basel and Zurich
Frieze, Krzysztof Kościuczuk, 2023