Gego

As a young woman, Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt) worked as a draftsman in several architecture firms, painting workshops, and carpentry shops in her native Germany while completing a degree in architecture from the University of Stuttgart in 1938. To escape the increasing anti-Semitism in her home country, she emigrated to Venezuela in 1939, where she worked as a freelance architect and industrial designer until the mid-1940s. In 1953, she moved to the coastal town of Tarma and began her artistic work, producing drawings, watercolors, monotypes and xylographs; the majority of these early works were figurative and expressionist. She returned to Caracas in 1956, and there, using pure abstraction as her starting point, she began to address problems of sculptural space in her work; in 1957, along with artists Carlos Cruz-Diez, Alejandro Otero, and Jesús-Rafael Soto, Gego participated in the exhibition Arte abstracto en Venezuela. By 1959, the Museum of Modern Art in New York had begun to acquire her work; she moved to New York in 1960 and remained in the United States until 1967.

2022    
Gego: The Architecture of an Artist, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

2019    
Gego: The emancipated line, The Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), São Paulo, Brazil 

2017    
Between the lines: Gego as Printmaker, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX, USA

2016    
Gego: Autobiography of a Line, Dominique Levy Gallery, London, England

2015    
Gego: Autobiography of a Line, Dominique Levy Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2014    
Gego: La poetique de la Ligne, Colección Mercantil, La Maison de la Amerique Latine, Paris, France
Gego: Line as Object, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Gego: Line as Object, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK

2013    
Gego: El trazo transparente, Museo de la Estampa y el Diseño Carlos Cruz-Diez, Caracas, Venezuela
Gego: Tejeduras, Bichitos y Libros, Periférico de Caracas / Arte Contemporáneo, Caracas, Venezuela; Centro de Arte Los Galpones, Caracas, Venezuela
Gego: Line as Object, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany 

2012    
Gego: Origin and Encounter, Mastering the Space, The Americas Society, New York, NY, USA
Gego: Construcciones Tangents, Galería de Arte Nacional, Caracas, Venezuela
Gego, Obra Abierta. Testimonios y Vigencia, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas, Venezuela
Gego: Procedencia y Encuentro, Sala Mendoza, Universidad Metropolitana, Caracas, Venezuela

2008    
Gego: Estructuras diluídas, Museo de Barquisimeto, Barquisimeto, Venezuela
Gego: Prints & Drawings 1963-1991, Federico Sève Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2006    
Gego arquitecto, Trasnocho Arte Contacto, Sala TAC, Caracas, Venezuela; Centro de Arte de Maracaibo Lía Bermúdez, Maracaibo, Venezuela; Museo de Arte Moderno Jesús Soto, Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela; Galería Universitaria Braulio Salazar, UCV, Caracas, Venezuela
Gego: Defying Structures, Museu de Arte Contemporánea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal; Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona, Spain

2005    
Gego: Between Transparency and the Invisible, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), Houston, TX, USA; Colección Costantini, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina; Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia; The Drawing Center, New York, NY, USA

2004    
Gego: Anudamientos, Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela

2003      
Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt), Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX, USA

2002    
Gego: Works on Paper 1962-1991, Latin Collector Art Center, New York, NY, USA
Questioning the Line: Gego, A Selection, 1955-1990, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), Houston, TX, USA ; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (MARCO), Monterrey, Mexico; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico

Alte Oper, Frankfurt, Germany

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA

Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), Miami, FL, USA

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, USA

Colección Banco Mercantil, Caracas, Venezuela

Coleccion Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York, NY, USA

Daros Latinamerica Collection, Zürich, Switzerland

Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, USA

El Rancho High School, Pico Rivera, CA, USA

Facultad de Arquitectura Urbanismo, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Venezuela

Fundación Banco Mercantil, Caracas, Venezuela

Fundación de Museos Nacionales, Caracas, Venezuela

Fundación Polar, Caracas, Venezuela

Galeria de Arte Nacional, Caracas, Venezuela

Grunwald Art Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC), Mérida, Venezuela

Iowa State University (Film Department), Iowa City, IA, USA

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Francisco Narváez, Nueva Esparta, Venezuela