Artists

Alicja Kwade Born in 1979 in Kattowitz, Poland |Lives and works in Berlin

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Alicja Kwade

Alicja Kwade
Foto: Roger Eberhard

Alicja Kwade’s photographs, sculptures, and video works cause one to marvel at the world and her objects. Kwade offers some surprises in the works titledState of Aggregation; for example, by seemingly canceling the physical attributes of materials in her fascinating and evocative installations.

The installation,Breakthrough Through Weakness(2011), is an example of Alicia Kwade’s fascination for the subject of “temporality.” A large variety of clock weights—small, large, brass and bronze, modern and historical—hang from the ceiling of the exhibition room. Freed from their clock cases, they span across the room in a vertical line and, drawn down by gravity, even appear to slide through the floor. The artist describes time not through movement but through a balance of forces in stasis. With a concentrated form of language, Kwade manages sensuously staged scenarios that open up into a striking world of ideas.

Education

1999-2005 Studium der Bildenden Kunst, Universität der Künste, Berlin

Solo exhibitions (selection)

2012 Johann König, Berlin
2011 ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany
Villa Tokyo, Toyko
Polnisches Institut, Berlin
Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg
Kunstverein Bremerhaven
2010 Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster
kestnergesellschaft, Hannover
Museion at Peep-Hole, Mailand
2009 Johann König, Berlin
Galerie Christina Wilson, Kopenhagen
2008 Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum fĂĽr Gegenwart, Berlin

Group exhibitions (selection)

2012 Goldrausch, Kunsthalle NĂĽrnberg, Germany
Reisen in unbekannte Welten, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany
2011 Berlin 2000 – 2011 Playing among the ruins, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Over Black black, Castello di Rivara– Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivara, Italien
Abstrakt //// Skulptur, Georg-Kolbe-Museum, Berlin
 â€ž__“ VorĂĽbergehend unsichtbar, MMK Zollamt, Frankfurt am Main
From Trash to Treasure, Kunsthalle Kiel
Lake of Fire, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen
Unsichtbare Schatten – Bilder der Verunsicherung, Marta Herford
Die perfekte Ausstellung – oder warum eine solche nicht existiert, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Germany
380 – 750 nm, 401 contemporary, London
2009 Kunst zwischen Spurensuche und Utopie, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
Like a Rolling Stone, Museum of Contemporary Sculpture, Oronsko, Poland
Black Hole, CCA, Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
Spatial Works, Färgfabriken, Stockholm, Sweden
Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße 2009, Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
2008 Threeallities, Galerie unosunove, Rom, Italy
freunde und bekannte, Sparwasser H Q - Forum for contemporary art, Berlin
Do You Have Expectations?, Wartesaal, ZĂĽrich, Switzerland
2007 Auktion, NAK, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein
10th Istanbul Biennale, IMC, Istanbul, Turkey
Niveaualarm, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria