two artists
a dialogue
New perspectives
Gott&Gilz
Art is never just an image.
but always also attitude
We believe in the freedom of art, in the freedom of the gaze, and in the diversity of perspectives.
As photographers and painters, we aim to challenge visual conventions, question traditional images of femininity, and make feminist perspectives visible. Not to provide answers, but to ask questions and enable change.
Works & Editions
Positions & Work
Every image contains decisions
Who is looking? Who becomes visible? What is considered self-evident – and what remains outside the picture? GOTT&GILZ is interested in how images shape bodies and shape meanings, but also in how they can be questioned.
In our series of works, photographic staging is accompanied by painterly interventions. Color either covers, connects, wounds, or displaces the original image. Visibility and deprivation are part of the same process. Instead of creating a balance between two media, a third image is created.
Images between Photography and Painting
Our work develops from the meeting between photography and painting. Photographic images are further developed through color, drawing, scratching, and collage. These interventions alter their original readability and open up new connections.
From portraits, staged situations, found spaces, and historical art references, different series of works emerge. They are united by a question that has always accompanied our work: how do images create meaning – and how can this meaning be shifted?
Exhibitions
Art, the body and new perspectives
NEOPHONIE
From destruction to creation.
It is 2015. Roman Gilz, a photographer, receives a message:„I admire your photos and want to destroy them.“The beginning of an artistic collaboration that became GOTT&GILZ in 2018.
Press
„Roman Gilz is one of the ten best erotic photographers in Germany.“
art – The art magazine, 2013
„An imagery that combines documentary precision with painterly gesture—while finding its own distinctive voice.“
Gallery Z22, Berlin, 2024
„Supernatural Beings — a retrospective that understands the transformed body as a place of negotiation.“
DCV Books, Berlin, 2024