Alicja Kwade
Born in Katowice, 1979 and lives in Berlin, Germany
Alicja Kwadestudied at the Universität der Künste in Berlin from 1999 to 2005.
Her interdisciplinary work uses ordinary objects such as mirrors, lamps, glass and stone to question the structure of reality by playing with mental perceptions and physical experiences of space and time. In creating elegant, melancholic universes based on duplication and unexpected manipulations, Kwade approaches serious questions of science, societal constructs, and physicality in ways that cause the viewer to reevaluate their view of the purpose of the original object.
Alicja Kwade’s work gained critical recognition via important solo exhibitions at respected international institutions, including Whitechapel Gallery, London; MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge; Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin; Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, and the Public Art Fund, New York. In 2019, she created a monumental site-specific installation for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Roof Garden Commission in New York, featuring sculptures made of steel and enormous spherical rocks evoking a temporary solar system above Manhattan’s skyline. Other notable projects include her participation at Desert X AlUla in 2022 and her installation at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017.
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