Gesche Würfel

Gesche Würfel (born 1976 ) is a visual artist born in Bremerhaven, Germany, and based in the United States since 2009. Her practice mostly focuses on photography, but also includes video, sound, installation, and urban interventions.

Education Würfel received an MFA from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States in 2015. Her work investigates the relationship between people and place, focusing on how humans interact with their environment in urban spaces, and in cultural and natural landscapes. Würfel's photography engages with the socio-political implications of spatial processes by exploring notions of geography, history, race, class, and gender. Though the majority of her photographs do not include people in particular, they still reflect traces where people have left behind using or passing through these spaces, by photographing unusual and overlooked areas with hidden histories. the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts; Klompching Gallery, New York, NY, US; the Tate Modern, London, UK; Goldsmiths University of London, London, UK; Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK; and the Kokerei Zollverein in Essen, Germany.

She has received grants from the Puffin Foundation, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) among others. was a finalist in 2017 and 2018 for the Lange-Taylor Award, and was a Top 50 Critical Mass winner in 2017.

She is also the author of ‘Basement Sanctuaries’ (Schilt Publishing 2014). Würfel's work has been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, LENSCRATCH, ARTCO, Art Actuel, Stadtbauwelt, and many other outlets.