{"id":202790,"date":"2026-04-19T21:26:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/202790\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T21:26:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:26:22","slug":"all-for-all-at-perrotin-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/202790\/","title":{"rendered":"“All for All” at Perrotin New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"\/Portrait of Gelitin. Photo: Julian Mullan. Courtesy of the artist.<\/p>\n

By MADELEINE\u00a0CRONN\u00a0April 19, 2026<\/p>\n

Up a flight of stairs on the second floor of the Perrotin New York art gallery, you will find Gelitin\u2019s latest New York-based exhibition: All for All, composed of a combination of their latest sculpture series All for All and sketches from past project WirWasser.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gelitin, a Vienna, Austria based self described \u201cnon-collective,\u201d consists of members Wolfgang Gantner, Ali Janka, Florian Reither, and Tobias Urban. Four people who make up one artist. I recently spoke with Ali Janka and Tobias Urban of Gelitin on their latest series All for All, and the art of human connection.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gelitin\u2019s work is community-focused, accessible, and inherently social in its practice. \u201cWe try to be very direct, very accessible, not complicated. It’s not like you need this very expensive process,\u201d Tobias Urban said. \u201cClay is $10 a package, and you can make four faces out of it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

All for All is inspired by a past exhibit of Gelitins, of the same theme and form, which they made for a primary school in Munich, Germany. Upon entering the first showroom, a wall of evenly spaced clay faces greets you at eye level. Each face is different from the next, portraying the inherently different ways in which we all exist and interact with each other as human beings. \u201cYou can have any face, and that is okay, any look, any color, everything is okay,\u201d said Tobias Urban. \u201cThe idea was that everybody’s connected to everyone.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\"\"\/Installation views of Gelitin’s exhibition All for All at Perrotin New York, 2026 Photographer: Guillaume Ziccarelli Courtesy of the artists and Perrotin.<\/p>\n

Some of the sculpture faces are beautiful, others are scary, ugly, hilarious, or vulgar, but they are all hung at the same level, looking directly at gallery guests as they peruse the two-room exhibition. \u201cThere’s the bully, and then there’s the asshole, and then there’s the always smiley-guy, and then there’s all kinds of people you can think of. Anything you can think of, we try to integrate,\u201d said Urban. \u201cBad and good is subjective.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The relationship between bad and good, and its subjectivity, is inherent to Gelitin\u2019s practice. This concept manifests in both their work and in their group dynamic. \u201cI mean, there’s four people, and everybody makes something different,\u201d said Urban. \u201c The whole thing creates the work, not what you like or don’t like, what’s your taste or your not taste, not the ugly one or the pretty one, or the nice one or the nasty one,\u201d said Urban. \u201cThey’re all together, and then it works.\u201d<\/p>\n

In All for All, Gelitin includes all types of the embodied human disposition, not just those that are pleasant. Without that variety, something would be missing. \u201cIn the groups, you sometimes need one that wouldn’t work alone, as itself, but the group needs it to be interesting,\u201d said Ali Janka.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\"\"\/Installation views of Gelitin’s exhibition All for All at Perrotin New York, 2026 Photographer: Guillaume Ziccarelli Courtesy of the artists and Perrotin.<\/p>\n

Walking into the second room, the viewer is met with clusters of faces, contrasting the evenly spaced singular entities adorning the walls of the first room. Similarly to how, in New City, while being met with an intense culture of loneliness and individuality, people can still find a way to form a community. \u201cNew York is the best place for this work, I think,\u201d said Urban.<\/p>\n

How the difference between public and private spaces dictates connection sparks inspiration for Gelitin\u2019s work on All for All. \u201cOf course, it has to do with the individual and the public sphere,\u201d said Janka. \u201cThere is no idea of public space in the U.S. like it is in Europe. It’s just much less present.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although our societal reality does run through the minds of Gelitin, they argue that their artwork comes from a different place entirely, \u201cWe think more about what is a good artwork instead of what social context we want to display,\u201d said Urban.<\/p>\n

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\"\"\/All for All, 2025 Glazed ceramic tiles 71 5\/8 x 52 3\/8 inches Photographer: Guillaume Ziccarelli Courtesy of the artists and Perrotin.<\/p>\n

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\"\"\/All for All, 2025 Glazed ceramic tile 14 3\/16 x 9 13\/16 x 1 9\/16 inches Photographer: Guillaume Ziccarelli Courtesy of the artists and Perrotin.<\/p>\n

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Gelitin is primarily known for their striking performance art, but in All for All, their performance lives on the walls of the gallery. \u201cPeople usually ask us: So when does the performance start?\u201d said Urban. \u201cBut I think our approach to sculpture is, in a way, performative.\u201d<\/p>\n

The act of creating a performative entity outside of themselves, one that others can also connect to and participate in, remains a goal for Gelitin. \u201cIn our work, we always look to create a concept, an idea that people can link into very well and contribute with their personal expression,\u201d said Janka. The group is currently working alongside staff and inmates at a correctional facility in Troms\u00f8, Northern Norway, to co-create a public art commission for the prison, capturing their personal expressions in the same form of a clay face. \u201cYou sit around the table, a big table, and then you do your thing. You talk, you start talking, also doing this process, and you also have talks like, what is freedom?\u201d said Urban.\u00a0<\/p>\n

To Gelitin, the act of art making is a joyful process, meant to bring us together and to symbolize what togetherness means. \u201cWe like it when it’s so easy and simple that you say, my four-year-old daughter can do the same,\u201d said Urban. \u201cIt\u2019s like a party, if there’s somebody dancing so embarrassingly that you also feel free to dance too.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Ali Janka\u2019s words, Gelitin\u2019s work realises \u201cthe ongoing joy of being together.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAll for All\u201d ran at Perrotin New York from March 5th to April 11th, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Portrait of Gelitin. Photo: Julian Mullan. Courtesy of the artist. By MADELEINE\u00a0CRONN\u00a0April 19, 2026 Up a flight of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8360,8363,8362,8361,9,24,55,54,56,8359,8364],"class_list":{"0":"post-202790","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-art-magazine","9":"tag-art-news","10":"tag-art-show-reviews","11":"tag-contemporary","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-city-news","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-whitehot","18":"tag-whitehot-art"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}