Agatha Gothe-Snape’s work engages with the politics and poetics of language and other embodied knowledge as it is performed interpersonally and is creative of our relationships with each other, with art and architecture and other histories. Rooted in performance, her work operates intuitively and is generated via improvisation and collaboration. In its visual economy and aesthetic weightlessness indebted to minimalism, Gothe-Snape’s often text-based work finds short cuts through complexity and ambiguity to arrive at fertile slippages that wed emotional impact with conceptual rigour. The work inhabits spaces that are both physical and non-physical. It occupies thresholds that are negotiable.
Gothe-Snape has exhibited in major international biennales including Gwangju Biennale (2018), 20th Biennale of Sydney, curated by Stephanie Rosenthal (2016), PERFORMA, New York curated by RoseLee Goldberg (2015) and the 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, curated by Juan A. Gaitan (2014).
Since 2020, Gothe-Snape has worked as Artistic Associate with Powerhouse, Sydney.
Key exhibitions
- The Medium is the Medium || Agatha Gothe-Snape Material, curated by Robert Cook, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 2024
- Agatha Gothe-Snape - The Outcome is Certain, curated by Hannah Mathews, Monash University Museum of Art in Melbourne, 2020
- The National: New Australian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Carriageworks, Museum of Contemporary Art over three iterations 2017, 2019, 2021
- Agatha Gothe-Snape: Lion's Honey, Kaldor Art Projects, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2019
- Agatha Gothe-Snape: Rhetorical Chorus, Carriageworks and PERFORMA, New York, 2017
- Agatha Gothe-Snape: Oh Window, curated by Haruko Kumakura, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2017
Key readings
- Hannah Matthews (ed.), Agatha Gothe-Snape: The Outcome is Certain, exh. cat. Monash University Museum of Art x Perimeter Editions, Melbourne, 2020, pp. 176
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Mori Art Museum, Agatha Gothe-Snape: Oh Window, MAM Project 023, exh. cat. Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, pp. 64
Public Art
- A Well Being, University of New South Wales, Village Green, Kensington Campus, 2023
- Notes on Sydenham, Sydenham Station, Sydney Metro/Transport for NSW, 2022
- The Noblest, The Greenland Centre, 115 Bathurst Street, Sydney, 2021
- Here, an Echo, Wemyss Lane, Surry Hills, Biennale of Sydney Legacy Commission, 2017
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The Scheme was a Blueprint for Future Development Programs, Monash University, Caulfield Campus, Melbourne, 2015
Collections
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Campbelltown Arts Centre
Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art/University of Western Australia
Griffith University Art Collection
Heide Museum of Modern Art
Kadist Collection, Paris
Kaldor Collection, Sydney
Monash University Museum of Art
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
National Gallery of Australia
National Gallery of Victoria
University of Technology Sydney Collection
Wesfarmers