Rosie Gibbens
British, 1993
Rosie Gibbens lives and works in London. She holds an MA in Fine Art, specialising in Performance from Central Saint Martins, London. Gibbens makes performances, videos, sculptures and photographs that feature her body. Using absurd humour, she explores the slippery overlaps between identity, labour and consumer desire. She often makes sculptures that combine household gadgets with sewn body parts. These are brought to life through low-tech chain reactions in the performances/films. Rosie playfully blends bodies with objects to unpack and question the prospective future body as it becomes increasingly ‘optimised’ by technological augmentation. The mindset behind her work is of a nonsensical product demonstration combined with a perverse children's TV show. Solo exhibitions and performances include: To Dust: A Memorial for Robot Vacuum Cleaners, Riga Art Week, Latvia (2026); Muta, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, The Box, London (2025); Parabiosis, Arken Museum of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen (2024); Parabiosis, The Bomb Factory, London (2024); The New Me, Shoreditch Arts Club with Daata, London (2023) and Soft Girls, Zabludowicz Collection, London (2021). Group shows include: Buffet D’Art, Ambika P3, London (2026); TOYS! TOYS! TOYS!, Spielzeug, New York, (2025); The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2025; The artist is naked, Kunstpalais Erlangen, Germany, (2025); Absurd Visions, Bow Arts Shaftesbury Avenue Takeover, London (2024); The Amber Room, Matt’s Gallery, London (2023); Are you working now, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan (2023); Body Poetics, Giant, Bournemouth (2023).
