Artist Talk
Alexandra Bircken in conversation with Kathrin Becker
as part of the exhibition
Alexandra Bircken. Fair Game

17 November 2021, 7 pm
Maschinenhaus M0
In German

Kathrin Becker will speak with Alexandra Bircken about her work and her installation Fair Game, which is currently on view in the Kesselhaus. In what ways is the human body a reference point in Bircken’s work? How does she approach materials and working with sculpture in space? The discussion will focus on these and other questions.

Alexandra Bircken (*1967 in Cologne, lives in Berlin and Munich) has been a professor of sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich since 2018.
Selected solo exhibitions: Museum Brandhorst, Munich (2021 – 2022); Fridericianum, Kassel (since 2020); Secession, Vienna (2019); Studio Voltaire, London (2018 and 2011); Le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine (2017); Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach (2017); Künstlerraum, K21 Ständehaus, Düsseldorf (2016); Kunstverein Hannover (2016); Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2014); The Hepworth Wakefield (2014); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2008).
Selected group exhibitions: Museum Folkwang, Essen (2019); KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2019); 58th Venice Bienneale (2019); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2018); The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2016); Glasgow International (2016); Des Moines Art Center, Iowa (2015); Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio (2015); Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden (2014 – 2015); Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston (2014 – 2015); National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare and Bulawayo (2014).

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