Amin Gulgee (B.1965)
Amin Gulgee is a sculptor, curator and performance artist from Pakistan.
His works possess a spirituality that transcend religion, exploring spiritual territories and narrative traditions, with their intersections bridging sculpture, installation and performance. An aesthetic patron of Sufism – a unique manifestation of the spiritual side of Islam – his works mirror his individual struggle to perceive himself and to substantiate his essence through an immediate and pure union of the soul with the Divine. The elemental forms and simple scripts in his work, he believes, will help crystallize this connection.
In his curatorial strategy he explores the tension between gender, time, and human connections. He has curated or co-curated many large-scale non-commercial exhibitions in his eponymous gallery and was chief curator of the first Karachi Biennale in 2017.
In the last decade he has staged over a dozen performance works in Karachi, Lahore, Dubai and Nagoya, as well as the Royal Albert Hall in London and has exhibited his sculptures and installations extensively across the USA, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
His most recent solo exhibition, ‘7’, debuted at the Wei-Ling Contemporary in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 2018, and later travelled to the Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Milan, Italy, followed by the Museum of Contemporary Art Rome (MARCO) in Rome, Italy.
Amin Gulgee has received numerous awards, including the President’s Pride of Performance in 2005. In 2012, he was named one of the Pakistan Power 100. He has also been hailed as one of Pakistan’s most important sculptors on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History.