ARTIST BIO
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ALEX WOLKOWICZ works with images, sculptural objects and sound. In her staged installations, her pieces are in dialogue with each other and the viewer. Beyond her studio practice, Alex creates site-responsive portraits of spaces. Through residencies and commissions, she examines external places and herself in relation to them.
Alex has worked with sound artists Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (2014) and the duo Tsantsa (2021). She has collaborated on film projects with artist Alison Nguyen (2016}. She co-founded Cave Collective, a multi-disciplinary art and design practice in 2012. Alex participated at residencies at Elsewhere Artist Collaborative (NC), Flux Factory (NY), Habitable Spaces (TX), Blackstad in residence (Sweden), PADA studios (Portugal) and Lichtenberg studios (Berlin). Past group shows in the US and Europe include ‘Cosmic Laughter’ at Kosmetiksalon Babette, Berlin (2017), Every Woman Biennial, NYC (2019), ‘Ride Your Pony’ at Warrington Contemporary (2019), ‘Take Care’ at 3+1 Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon (2021), ‘Splash’ at Mono, Lisbon (2022), and ‘Journey, That’s A Good Title’ at the Carlton Arms Hotel, NYC (2023). Solo shows include ‘Viscera’ at the Carlton Arms Hotel, NYC (2017) and at Färgkontoret, Stockholm, and Wildwuchs 1220211 at Galleri Torpet, Stockholm (2021). Alex created durational, site-specific installations for Doppelgänger Project’s ‘Eurydice’ in Hillsdale, NY (2019) and for ‘Recreational Grounds 7’ at Aylesbury Estate in London (2023). She has been included in White Column’s curated artist registry since 2021. Alex Wolkowicz is based in New York City.
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ARTIST STATEMENT
My interdisciplinary pieces address body, narrative, sexuality, nature, gender and ambivalent emotions in response to family, society, and art. By treating objects like actors in a composition, I examine my own agency, power and vulnerabilities in ways that aim to evoke emotional reactions in the viewer. Working in a theater as a teen, I witnessed narratives being transformed into environments, discovered the world of props and costumes and felt beguiled by their unknown histories. This formative experience resonates throughout my process.
Just as the body is a vessel for emotions, objects contain their own wisdom: working with domestic and found objects as my raw materials, I transpose different qualities to convey tension and contradiction, such as between attraction and disgust, or compliance and disobedience. Sometimes I place myself within my work by revealing parts of my process, such as repeatedly re-applying pigment to an installation or weaving a net in front of an audience. Sound allows me to create a ‘presence’ in a constructed environment. I make field recordings, samples and voice recordings which I then edit and blend to create a soundscape, sometimes integrating live elements. Using my own voice has been a natural progression in revealing myself through my work.
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RESUME
ALEX WOLKOWICZ
Born 1978, Germany.
Studied at John Moores University, Liverpool.
Lives and works in New York.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES
2024 The Sea | Brick Aux, Brooklyn (two person)
2024 Fortnight | Visionary Projects, NYC
2024 Sanctuary | Galerie Shibumi, NYC
2024 Saturn Return | Flux Factory, NYC
2024 I Will Always Love You | Every Woman Biennial, NYC
2023 Deep Dive | Baker Falls (formerly the Pyramid Club), NYC (solo)
2023 Taking The Light Out Of The Prism | Duplex / Lisbon art weekend | Lisbon, Portugal
2023 Recreational Grounds 7 | Aylesbury Estate, London
2023 Journey, That’s A Good Title | Carlton Arms hotel, NYC
2022 Goth Cabaret | The Green Building, Brooklyn
2022 Repopulations | NOoSPHERE Arts, Brooklyn
2022 Splash | Mono | Lisbon, Portugal
2022 Howl! Happening | The Seven Year Vacation by Edgar Oliver, NYC
2021 Take Care | 3+1 Arte Contemporânea | Lisbon, Portugal
2021 Keep Awake, Keep Awake, | PADA | Barreiro, Portugal
2021 Wildwuchs 1220211 | Galleri Torpet | Stockholm, Sweden
2021 Natch | PADA | Barreiro, Portugal
2021 Based On A True Story | PADA | Barreiro, Portugal
2019 Eurydice | Doppelgänger Projects | Hillsdale, NY
2019 H (voiceless glottal fricative) | Ride Your Pony | group exhibition | Warrington Contemporary, UK
2019 Norns | Every Woman Biennial, NYC
2019 Meat Curtains | Carlton Arms salon, NYC
2019 Trans IT | group exhibition | Kingsbury, Texas
2019 Meat Curtains | Nha Minh performance series | NYC
2018 Black & Blue | group exhibition | Carlton Arms hotel, NYC
2018 Ride Your Pony | group exhibition | Liverpool School of Art, UK
2017 Ride Your Pony | group exhibition | Islington Mill, Salford, UK
2017 Heathen | Ateljéföreningen Addo, Malmö
2017 Viscera | Färgkontoret , Stockholm (solo)
2017 Present | Blackstad, Sweden (solo)
2017 Heather Gabel: Hybrid | Carlton Arms hotel, NYC (curator)
2017 Viscera | Carlton Arms hotel, NYC (solo)
2017 Cosmic Laughter | group exhibition | Kosmetiksalon Babette, Berlin
2017 Turn and face the strange | Carlton Arms hotel, NYC (curator)
2017 Untouched | group exhibition | Stad in de maak, Rotterdam
RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
2022 Lichtenberg studios, Berlin, Germany
2021 PADA, Barreiro, Portugal
2019 Habitable Spaces, Kingsbury, Texas
2018 Habitable Spaces, Kingsbury, Texas
2017 Blackstad in residence, Blackstad, Sweden
2012 DIVA grant Danish Arts council (with Flux Factory)
2012 Carlton Arms Hotel New York, New York
2011 Flux Factory New York, New York
2010 LoBot gallery Oakland, California
2008 Elsewhere Artist Collaborative Greensboro, North Carolina
2008 The Pitch Open Eye projects, Open Eye gallery, Liverpool