Enej Gala lives and works between London, Venice and Nova Gorica. He completed his B.A. and M.A. in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice and graduated from Royal Academy Schools Postgraduate Programme in London in 2023. In 2014 he participated in an exchange program at the William De Kooning Academy in Rotterdam.
Enej Gala's practice is based on an acute awareness of thinking through making, attempting to grasp the experience of otherness. Puppetry is used as a lense to focus on materials as entities, expanding their potential by exposing and building on their intrinsic qualities. This process questions traditional perspectives on art, craftsmanship, installation, performance and different forms of production.
Recent solo exhibitions include 'The invention of footsteps' Almanac, Turin (2023); 'Saving chewing gums from mammoth's hair', text by Treti Galaxie, TJ Boulting, London (2023) and 'Nevereverevereverevereverever learn', text by Marta Papini, Aplusa gallery, Venice (2022). Group exhibitions include 'Lapsus Calami', curated by Eddie Peake, Marlborough gallery, London (2023-24); 'Objective Objects', Gallery daSein, OCT Creative park, Shenzhen, (2023); Hôtel-Dieu, Aplusa Gallery, Venice (2023); 'It's the sea gone with the sun', curated by Almanac, Iceland rd, London (2023); 'Melt', curated by Hypa Studios, Euston Road, London (2023)
Fondazione Malutta in Spazio, text by Antonio Grulli, Spazio Contemporanea, Brescia, (2023); 'Fever Dream', curated by ETC curators, Galerija MK, Zagreb (2023); 'Les guerriers, les loups et l'enfant', curated by Francesco Battistello, Moonens Foundation, Bruxelles (2023); RA Degree Show, RAS Postgraduate Program, Royal Academy, London, (2023); 'Camminando sul ciglio di un instante', curated by Sukanya Baskar, Shaelyn Hanes, Eunice Tsang, YCRP FSRR Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene (2022); 'Who killed Bamby?' curated by Gianluca D'Inka Levis, Dolomiti Contemporanee, Nuovo Spazio di Casso,Casso (2022); 'Surreal and the real', debut exhibition by W.H.Y. Art Gallery Hong Kong, China (2022); 'Ghostly like traces', curated by Thorp Stavri, Unit 1 Gallery Workshop, London (2022). Gala was the winner of the Xenia residency award, Bow Arts Almacantar RAW studio award, Wolfson College Cambridge RAS Graduate Prize and Gilbert Bayes Sculpture Award.