Gee Vero

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Gee Vero in May 2014

Gee Vero (* 1971 in Grimma as Gerrit Helmholz) is a German artist and author . She was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome at the age of 37 . Since 2011 she has lectured on autism and published books and texts on the subject.

Life and work

After graduating from high school in 1990, Vero first studied English at the University of Leipzig before moving to London in 1993. She ran two toy stores in London and Bad Lausick. Her artistic career began in 1993 in London . In 2004 she returned to Germany and from 2010 worked initially on a fee basis for the autism clinic in Leipzig . She has been working as a freelance speaker on autism and art since 2013. Since her time in London she has appeared as an artist under the pseudonym Bareface (bare = unveiled / face = face). Vero lives and works near Leipzig. She is married and has two daughters and a son; her son is diagnosed with early childhood autism .

The Art of Inclusion project

Gee Vero and Silvio Neuendorf in the Kleisthaus , May 2014

In 2010 the artist started the project The Art of Inclusion . Vero sends an unfinished portrait to personalities from politics, sport, science or culture. It usually consists of one right half of the face, which is drawn with a few black lines on watercolor paper. She asks those who have written to add the work of art according to their ideas. Two - mostly personally unknown - people create an individual work of art. By 2014, more than 100 portraits had been created in this way. The “artists” involved include, for example, Angela Merkel , Udo Lindenberg , Ben Kingsley , Manfred Krug , Herbert Feuerstein and Dieter Hallervorden . 40 selected works were on view from May to June 2014 in the Kleisthaus in Berlin . In order to enable blind people to participate in the works of art, three selected works of art were created as reliefs especially for the exhibition . The Federal Government Commissioner for the Disabled, Verena Bentele, praised her work on the occasion of the vernissage as a “vivid and lively example of inclusion . They are an appeal from an autistic artist to promote respect, togetherness and equality between all people in our society - regardless of individual abilities, ethnic or social origin, gender or age. ”Then Gee Vero designed a new, together with illustrator Silvio Neuendorf common portrait. The art historian Bernd Apke sees a passion of the artist in the recurring concept . Vero's work turns the reactions of the people contacted into self-portraits of those who are contacted: “Everyone is an artist”. At the same time, the question arises as to why the artist has exposed herself to the “creative reactions” of other people for many years. Apke therefore sees the artistic concept of Gee Vero in the questions about “external and self-image creators, according to modes of perception and staging”.

Exhibition / project presentations The Art of Inclusion

  • 2018: Martin Gropius Hospital Eberswalde
  • 2018: Berlin Pfefferberg
  • 2018: University of Leipzig as part of DOKversity
  • 2017: Stadtsparkasse Viersen
  • 2017: Needle factory Aachen ft. Silvio Neuendorf
  • 2017: District Office Delitzsch
  • 2016: Leipzig City Archives
  • 2015: Neighborhood Home Schöneberg eV, Berlin
  • 2015: Evangelical Technical Academy Lutherstadt Wittenberg
  • 2015: Galerie Kugel, Nauenhof
  • 2014: 6th Dresden Forum Employability, Dresden
  • 2014: Practice Dr Wunderlich, Dresden
  • 2014: The Art of Inclusion, Kleisthaus, Berlin
  • 2014: Augusteum , Leipzig
  • 2014: Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn Museum, Freyburg
  • 2014: Rockville, Maryland, USA
  • 2013: Gallery in the State Gallery of Saxony, Dresden
  • 2013: Apex, Göttingen
  • 2013: Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine , Göttingen
  • 2013: Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , Halle (Saale)
  • 2012: Tapetenwerk , Leipzig
  • 2012: 7th Teacch Forum, Mainz
  • 2011: Federal Autism Congress Germany eV, Hamburg
  • 2011: Tapetenwerk, Leipzig

Further group and solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2012: AutArt. U.FO Kunstraum Hamburg
  • 2012: And no end in sight. Reef Gallery, Bad Lausick
  • 2012: HFFA Art Exhibition London
  • 2012: Dove Sci. Geithain library
  • 2012: Bareface. Adult Education Center Leipzig
  • 2011: HFFA Art Exhibition London
  • 2011: Visions of the future, Görlitz
  • 2010: HFFA Art Exhibition London
  • 2010: I see what you don't see. Battery Art. Documenta-Halle, Kassel
  • 1992: Art in The Park. Dulwich, London
  • 1992: The Art Show, Alexandra Palace, London

literature

  • Federal Government Commissioner for the Concerns of Disabled People (Ed.): Gee Vero - The Art Of Inclusion , exhibition catalog, 2014
  • Gee Vero (author): Autism- (m) another perception , 2014, ISBN 978-1-78407-973-4
  • Gee Vero (Author): Nosce Te Ipsum-Know Yourself , Poetry Book , 2014, ISBN 978-1-78407-867-6
  • Gee Vero (author): "Nowhereland", Collection of Poems , (English), 2014, ISBN 978-1-78407-929-1
  • Gee Vero (author): "I, me and myself - my life with autism", (English) 2016, ISBN 978-1-78697-050-3
  • Gee Vero (author) / Melanie Matzes-Köhler (author): "My bridge to you: people inside and outside the autistic spectrum in dialogue", Kohlhammer 2016, ISBN 978-3-17-030599-1
  • Theunissen, Kulig, Leucht, Paetz (eds.) / Gee Vero (involved co-author): Handlexikon Autism Spectrum: Key terms from research, theory, practice and the view of those affected , Kohlhammer, 2014, ISBN 978-3-17-023431- 4th
  • Theunissen (ed.) / Gee Vero (participating co-author): "Understanding Autism: Outside and Inside Views", Kohlhammer 2016, ISBN 978-3-17-030786-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gee Vero's website ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / geevero-bareface.jimdo.com
  2. ↑ Gee Vero's website
  3. ^ The Altenburger Land - Official Gazette of the district June 5, 2004, accessed on July 20, 2017
  4. ↑ (M) Another Perception - How I Perceive Non-Autistic People , accessed July 20, 2017
  5. ^ Art: Merkel supports autistic artist , message on Focus dated May 21, 2014, accessed on July 18, 2014.
  6. ↑ Merkel supports autistic artist ( Memento from August 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), message on westline from May 21, 2014, accessed on July 18, 2014.
  7. ↑ Merkel supports autistic artist , In: Recklinghäuser Zeitung of May 21, 2014, accessed on July 18, 2014.
  8. ↑ Merkel supports autistic artist , In: Die Welt from May 21, 2014, accessed on July 18, 2014.
  9. ↑ a b Federal Government Commissioner for the Issues of Disabled People (Ed.): Gee Vero - The Art Of Inclusion , exhibition catalog, 2014
  10. ↑ May 21, 2014, 7 pm: Exhibition opening “Gee Vero. The Art of Inclusion “ ( Memento of July 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), website of the Commissioner for the Disabled, accessed on July 17, 2014.
  11. ↑ Events 2014 ( Memento from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), website of the custody of the University of Leipzig, accessed on August 13, 2014.
  12. ↑ Panel discussion “Conceivable” debates autism . In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine , June 6, 2013, accessed on August 13, 2014.
  13. ↑ Events: When nerve cells misunderstand each other - Biological causes of autism , website of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, accessed on August 13, 2014.
  14. ^ Exhibition of autistic artist "The Art of Inclusion" accompanies the symposium , press release of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg number 215/2012 of November 27, 2012, accessed on August 13, 2014.
  15. ^ Exhibition 2012 , website of the wallpaper factory, accessed on August 14, 2014.
  16. ↑ Autismus Aktuell ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), March 2012 edition, (PDF), website of the International Education and Social Welfare Association Iserlohn, accessed on August 11, 2014.
  17. ↑ autART in Hamburg , website of akku - Autismus, Kunst und Kultur eV Association for the Promotion of Artists with Autism, accessed on August 17, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Vero, Gee
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Grimma