Alicja Kwade’s work investigates and questions the structures of our reality and society and reflects on the perception of time in our everyday life. Her diverse practice is based around concepts of space, time, science and philosophy, takes shape in sculptural objects, video and even photography. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany; MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge; Dallas Contemporary; Centre de Création Contemporaine Olivier Debré, Tours; Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona; ESPOO Museum of Modern Art; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; Fondazione Giuliani, Rome; Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich; YUZ Museum, Shanghai; de Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam; Kunsthalle Nürnberg; Kunsthalle Schirn Frankfurt/Main; Haus am Waldsee Berlin; and on the occasion of the award ceremony of the Hectorpreis 2015, at Kunsthalle Mannheim. She has been included in group exhibitions at the Hayward Gallery, London; 57th Venice Biennale; Madam, Luxembourg; Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach; Kunsthalle Wien; Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit; and CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco. She was the recipient of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2019 Roof Garden Commission. In 2015-2016, Public Art Fund commissioned “Against the Run,” an installation in New York’s Central Park. Her works belong to many important international private and public collections. Alicja Kwade was born in 1979 in Katowice, Poland; she currently lives and works in Berlin.
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 In Agnosie, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
2021 In Abwesenheit, Berlinische Galerie – Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Berlin
2020 Kasualkonsequenz, Langen Foundatation, Neuss, Germany
2019 In Between Glances, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
Moving In Glances, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX
ParaPivot, The Roof Garden Commission, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Resting Thought, Centre De Creation Contemporaine Olivier Debre, Tours, France
2018 Trans-For-Men, EMMA-Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki
AMBO, Kunstalle Kiel, Kiel Germany
Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland
Materia, Per Ora, Fondazione Giuliani, Roma, Italy
2017 ReReason, YUZ Museum, Shanghai, China
2016 Medium Median, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
de Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2015 Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany
Hector Prize, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Public Art Fund, New York, NY
Kunsthalle Schirn, Frankfurt, Germany
Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
2014 Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Germany
2013 Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany
2010 Ereignishorizont, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
2008 Piepenbrock Förderpreis für Skulptur, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Desert X, Coachella Valley, CA
2018 Hayward Gallery, London, UK
2017 57th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2016 Me, Schirn Kunstalle, Frankfurt, Germany
2015 Mudam, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
2014 Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL
2013 Cologne Sculpture Park, Cologne, Germany
2012 CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA
2012 Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2012 Sculpture Center New York, France
2012 KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
2011 Mot Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
COLLECTIONS
Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Boros Collection, Berlin, Germany
Burger Collection, Hong Kong, China
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Coppel Collection, Mexico
Daimler Art Collection, Stuttgart, Germany
European Patent Office, Munich, Germany
K11 Foundation, Hong Kong, China
LACMA, Los Angeles
MACBA Collection, Barcelona, Spain
Mudam, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Mumok Foundation Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China