Gina Folly

Gina Folly’s (b. 1983; Lives and works in Basel) sculptural works often incorporate cardboard packaging and mummified flowers, combining modest materials with preserved organic elements. These pieces function as intimate containers of time, holding dried blossoms whose careful preparation and placement imbue them with quiet emotional charge. Folly uses the language of everyday infrastructure to consider how domestic and urban environments shape sensorial and emotional experience.
Her photographic practice extends these concerns into observational studies of systems designed for maintenance and survival. Ventilation units, aquariums, terrariums, and improvised shelters appear with clarity and restraint, revealing the understated architectures that support daily life. Through precise framing, Folly draws attention to how care, adaptation, and memory are embedded within these structures.

Gina Folly graduated from Zhdk, Zurich, in 2014. Selected exhibitions include Super Super Markt, Berlin; Swiss Institute, New York; Fanta-MLN, Milan; CAC Synagogue de Delme, Delme (all in 2024); Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva; Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel (both 2023); Sgomento Zurigo, Zurich and Tonus, Paris (2022), Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel (2019) and Kunstverein Köln, Cologne (2018), amongst others. Folly received the Manor Art Prize in 2023.