Gerhard Marx develops his projects through an engagement with pre-existent conventions and practices. This process entails careful acts of dissection and rearrangement, which allow Marx to engage the poetic potential and philosophical assumptions of his chosen material, developing original drawing, sculptural and performative languages. 

Marx was born in 1976 and completed his undergraduate degree at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT and received his MA (Fine Art) (Cum Laude) from Wits School of Art, Johannesburg.Marx’s work is shown regularly at international art fairs, is held in numerous public and private art collections and was included on the South African pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale.

Marx has been involved in the making of numerous public sculptures, including three collaborations with William Kentridge. He has extensive theatre experience as a scenographer, director, filmmaker and playmaker, including REwind: A Cantata for Voice, Tape and Testimony (an interactive film by Marx and Maja Marx, and composed by Philip Miller).