Alexandra Bircken Biography

In 2019, Bircken will have a solo show at Secession in Vienna.

Recent solo exhibitions include: Carried by Something Else, Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, Schwaz, AT (two-person with Anna Holtz) (2019); Secession, Vienna, Austria, AT (2019); Mammal, Studio Voltaire, London (2018); STRETCH, Crédac, Ivry (2017), Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach (2017) and Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover (2016); Ping, BQ, Berlin (2017); Parallelgesellschaften, K21 Ständehaus, Düsseldorf (2016); Needle, Herald St, London (2016); Eskalation, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield (2014); Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2014); Kunstverein Hamburg (2012); Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn (2012); Studio Voltaire, London (2011); Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2010) and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2008).

Group shows include: Yorkshire Sculpture International, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, UK (2019); Forever Young, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, DE (2019); May You Live In Interesting Times, 58^th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2019); Tainted Love (club edit), Villa Arson, Nice (2019); Herald St | Museum St, London (2019); Sick and Desiring, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen (2019); Naked, Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen (2018); ISelf Collection: Bumped Bodies, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2018); Alexandra Bircken, Josh Brand, Matthew Darbyshire, Michael Dean, Cary Kwok, Amalia Pica, Nicole Wermers, Herald St | Museum St, London (2018); ISelf Collection: Bumped Bodies, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2018); The problem with having a body / is that it always needs to be somewhere, The Approach, London (2017); Trolley, Glasgow International, Tramway, Glasgow (2016); Mapping Bucharest: Art, Memory and Revolution 1916—2016, MAK–Austrian Museum of Contemporary Art, Vienna (2015); Rates of Exchange, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb (2015); Humain non humain, Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris (2014); Fiber in Form, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2014); Ökonomie der Aufmerksamkeit, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2014); The Love of Things, Kunsthalle Münster (2013);A Disagreeable Object, SculptureCenter, New York (2012); Made in Germany Zwei, International Art in Germany, Sprengel Museum, Hannover (2012); Skulpturales Handeln, Haus der Kunst, Munich (2011); Gesamtkunstwerk: New Art From Germany, Saatchi Gallery, London (2011); Undone, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (2010); Feint Art, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg (2010); Borders, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2008); Martian Museum of terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London (2008); Unmonumental, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2007).

Bircken had a professorship at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London from 2000—2008.

In 2016, Kunstverein Hannover published STRETCH to accompany the artist’s solo show. Other selected publications include: Bircken, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen (2014); Rektudsiastase (2013) Koenig Books/Bonner Kunstverein; Klötze (2006) and Alex Bircken (2004), both published by BQ, Berlin.

Text courtesy Herald St.