Vita
1983Born in Breisach am Rhein, Germany
2003Diploma in Berlin
2005Visual Communication, Berlin University of the Arts, Germany
2006Visual Communication, Digital Class, under professor Joachim Sauter, Berlin University of the Arts, Germany
2007MFA-Program, Hunter College New York, NY, USA
2009Institute for Spacial Experiments, under professor Olafur Eliasson, Berlin University of the Arts, Germany
2012-13Meisterschüler (master student) under professor Olafur Eliasson, Berlin University of the Arts, Germany
Lives and works in Berlin
Grants, Awards and Residencies
2018Award of the Shifting Foundation, Beverly Hills, CA, USA
2017Junge Stadt sieht Junge Kunst, Prize of the City of Wolfsburg, Germany
2013IBB Photography Award, IBB Atrium, Berlin, Germany
2011Prix Ars Collide@CERN, Linz, Austria, CERN, Switzerland
2010Beep Electronic Art Award, Madrid, Spain
2009Prix Ars Electronica Award with the Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus, Linz, Austria
Selection of the Jury – Japan Media Arts Festival 09, Tokyo, Japan
Golden Nica Award with the Image Fulgurator at Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
Works in Public Collections
Arken Museum, Ishøj, Denmark
Colección BEEP de Arte Electrónico, Spain
FRAC Alsace, Sélestat, France
Fundación Televisa, Mexico City, Mexico
Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany
Musac – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, France
Sammlung Philara, Dusseldorf, Germany
Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany
Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hanover, Germany
Stadtgalerie Wolfsburg, Germany
Solo Exhibitions
2024Grenzen der Intelligenzen, alexander levy, Berlin, Germany
Zwei Wölfinnen, Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany
Julius von Bismarck, La Pista 500, Pinacoteca Agnielli, Torino, Italy
In the Beginning, Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf, Germany
When Platitudes Become Form, Berlinische Galerie. Museum für Moderne Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Whole Earth Archive, alexander levy, Berlin, Germany
2021Heat Shields, Frieze London, UK
Die Mimik der Tethys, Art Basel Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland
Neustadt, with Marta Dyachenko, Emscherkunstweg, Duisburg, Germany
Landscape Painting , Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf, Germany
Feuer mit Feuer, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
Berliner Luft, Folge 12, with Julian Charrière, Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Berlin, Germany
2019Art Club#28, Villa Medici – Académie de France à Rome, Rome, Italy
I Am Afraid, with Julian Charrière, Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf, Germany
Baumanalyse, Haus Mödrath – Räume für Kunst, Kerpen, Germany
Die Mimik der Thetys, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Immer noch der Lauf der Dinge, alexander levy, Berlin, Germany
I’m afraid I must ask you to leave, with Julian Charrière, Kunstpalais Erlangen, Germany
Public Face, with Benjamin Maus and Richard Wilhelmer, Hamburg, Germany
Gewaltenteilung, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Germany
Talking to Thunder, Sies + Höke, Dusseldorf, Germany
Good Weather, Marlborough Contemporary, New York, NY, USA
Approximately Three Dimensions, alexander levy, Berlin, Germany
Desert Now, with Julian Charrière and Felix Kiessling, Steve Turner, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Objects in mirror might be closer than they appear, with Julian Charrière, Villa Bernasconi, Grand-Lancy, Geneva, Switzerland
Landscape Painting, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY, USA
Tiere sind dumm und Pflanzen noch viel dümmer, Kunstverein Göttingen, Germany
History Apparatus, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Germany
Unfall am Mittelpunkt Deutschlands, alexander levy, Berlin, Germany
Les bêtes sont bêtes et les plantes le sont encore plus, Galerie Ilka Bree, Bordeaux, France
This is so romantic, IMO Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Punishment I, alexander levy, Berlin, Germany
LE DICTATEUR: These Peanuts are Bullets, Family Business, New York, NY, USA
5 Minute Museum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Group Exhibitions
2024Heavy Water | of Coordinates, Containers and Containment, curated by Jessica Edwards, alexander levy, Berlin, Germany
Wälder: Von der Romantik in die Zukunft, Deutsches Romantik-Museum, Germany
High Five, Kunstpalais, Erlangen, Germany
2023The Unexpected Universe: Traces of the Anthropocene, alexander levy, German
Erde. Verwobenes Leben, DZ Bank Art Foundation, Germany
ENERGIE:ENERGEIA, Delphie Space, Freiburg, Germany
Artists for Nature, Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Germany
Abenteuer Abstraktion, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany
ANGST – Krisenindikator oder Überlebenstrieb?, Künstlerverein Walkmühle, Germany
Ausstellung zum Wettbewerb des Hans-Purrmann-Preises, Kulturhof Flachsgasse, Speyer, German
Pista 500, Pinoteca Agnelli, Turin, Italy (upcoming)
Mexichrome. Fotografía y color en Mexico, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, City of Mexico, Mexico (upcoming)
2022Bienal do Mercusol: BIENAL 13, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Breathing Water, Drinking Air, Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf, Germany
Mehr als 1100 Bäume, Mönchehaus Museum, Goslar, Germany
Forest Through the Trees, Aronson Fine Arts Center – Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, USA
Art Biesenthal, with Julian Charrière, Wehrmühle Biesenthal, Germany
4. ART SAFIENTAL Biennale *von der Erde lernen, Tenne, Safiental, Switzerland
Landscape of Memory, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Conference Center, Paris, France
When the Wind Blows, Kunsthaus Wien, Vienna, Austria
Breathless, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
Sammlung Boros #4, Boros Collection, Berlin, Germany
Breathless, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
Sammlung Boros #4, Boros Collection, Berlin, Germany
2020Lichtsicht 7 Projektions-Triennale, Bad Rothenfelde, Germany
K60, Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin, Germany
Studio Berlin, Berghain, Berlin, Germany
Als wir verschwanden. Vier Videoarbeiten, Bündner Kunstverein, Chur, Switzerland
NEUSTADT, Emscherkunstweg, Oberhausen, Germany
Féstival Images Vevey, Switzerland
Amish Quilts meet Modern Art. Staatliches Textil- und Industriemuseum Augsburg, Germany
Seestücke – Von der Romantik bis zur klassischen Moderne, Museum Kunst der Westküste, Alkersum/Föhr, Germany
2019Nowness Experiments: The Mesh, K11 Art Foundation, Shanghai, China
Just a bowl of cherries, 7th Thessaloniki Biennale, Experimental Center for the Arts, Thessaloniki, Greece
Festival GAMERZ 15e Édition, Aix-en-Provence, France
The Third Bank, Anozero ’19 – Bienal de Coimbra, Portugal
Das Tier in der Kunst, Wurlitzer PTC, Berlin, Germany
No mould. Sculpture in the MUSAC Collection, Museo de La Rioja, Spain
Symposium at the 58th Venice Biennale – SPACE IS THE PLACE, Centro Culturale Don Orione Artigianelli, Venice, Italy
Elementarteile. Grundbausteine des Sprengel Museum Hannover und seiner Kunst, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hanover, Germany
Ré-flexions. Autour des nouvelles acquisitions, FRAC Alsace, Sélestat, France
MASK. THE ART OF TRANSFORMATION, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
Post-Water, Museo Nazionale della Montagna CAI Torino, Italy
Nature in Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow (MOCAK), Poland
Public Face, with Benjamin Maus and Richard Wilhelmer, Hamburg, Germany
Days without a Night, Goethe Institut New Delhi, India
Entangle | Physics and the Artistic Imagination, Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden
Lichte Momente, Stadthaus Ulm, Germany
Without Nature, Nicoletti Contemporary, London, UK
The Sensation of the Sea: In Honour Of Bas Jan Ader, The Mesdag Collection, Den Haag, The Netherlands
Zürcher Theater Spektakel, Zurich, Switzerland
November, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany
Räumlichkeiten, Kunstwerk – Sammlung Klein, Eberdingen-Nussdorf, Germany
Impact, Kunst- und Gewerbeverein Regensburg e.V., Germany
Im Zweifel für den Zweifel, NRW Forum, Dusseldorf, Germany
Haus der Sinnsuche. Gutes Leben durch Kultur, Kunstsaele Berlin, Germany
Objects in Mirror Might Be Closer Than They Appear, with Julian Charrière, Swiss Institute, New York, NY, USA
Inside Ecologies, Weltkunstzimmer, Dusseldorf, Germany
Are you satisfied? Aktuelle Kunst und Revolution, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Germany
Greffes, Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Berlin, Germany
Entfesselte Natur – Das Bild der Katastrophe seit 1600, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany
Between Realities, Färgfabriken, Stockholm, Sweden
Power to the People, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Antarctic Biennale, The Antarctic Pavilion, Venice, Italy
KULT! Legenden, Stars und Bildikonen, Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen, Germany
Unboxing, LEVY Galerie, Hamburg, Germany
BEOBACHTUNG, Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Berlin, Germany
Art Basel Unlimited, with Julian Charrière, Basel, Switzerland
Festival of Future Nows, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
Small – an exploration of miniature, SEXAUER Gallery, Berlin, Germany
The Raft. Art is (not) Lonely, Mu.Zee, Ostend, Belgium
Unter Waffen. Fire & Forget 2, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Citynature: Vilnius and Beyond, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania
PRODUKTION. Made in Germany Drei, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hanover, Germany
Santiago Sierra. Mea Culpa, PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
NACH DER NATUR – Material, Form, Struktur, Museum Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg, Germany
The End of the world, Centro Pecci Prato, Italy
It’s all natural . . . /, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany
Über die Unmöglichkeit des Seins, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
In Space No One Can Hear Your Laugh, Galleria Giovanni Bonelli, Milan, Italy
Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany
From Science to Fiction, Florian Christopher, Zurich, Switzerland
Art Cologne, New Contemporaries, Germany / alexander levy, Berlin, Germany
+ultra. Gestaltung schafft wissen, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
Back to the Land, Studio La Città, Verona, Italy
5th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Trekhgornaya Manufaktura, Moscow, Russia
OPENING ON THE FOAM, Schloss Sacrow, Potsdam, Germany
Art Basel Unlimited, Switzerland
In the Land of the Blind The One Eyed Man Loses Sight, DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM, Berlin, Germany
Fusion, Knust x Kunz +, Munich, Germany
Welcome to the Jungle, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
The Future of Memory, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Invento | As Revoluções que nos Inventaram, OCA Parque Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil
Stranger than Paradise, Sies + Höke, Dusseldorf, Germany
Beuys ohne Hut – Karin Székessy fotografiert Künstler, Horst-Janssen-Museum, Oldenburg, Germany
Fire and Forget. On Violence, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Group Show V, alexander levy, Berlin, Germany
8th Momentum Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art, Moss, Norway
Höhenrausch: Das Geheimnis der Vögel – Mystery of Birds, OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria
Pencil / Line / Eraser, Carroll / Fletcher, London, UK
Der schwarze Hund, Gesellschaft der Freunde junger Kunst, Baden-Baden, Germany
Lichtwark revisited Künstler sehen Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Treasure of Lima: A Buried Exhibition, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Academy, Cocos Island, Costa Rica
ONE PLACE NEXT TO ANOTHER, Winzavod Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
mira mira Neue Jahresgaben, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Germany
I CAN’T CONTROL MYSELF, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany
CLOCKWORK, Oben, Vienna, Austria
Festival of Future Nows, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
thingworld, International Triennial of New Media Art, National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), Beijing, China
ONE TORINO: SHIT AND DIE, Palazzo Cavour, Turin, Italy
5th Annual Exhibition of Hybrid Art, VDNKh, Optika Pavilion, Moscow, Russia
Die Eigenheit der Dinge, Franz Josefs Kai 3, Vienna, Austria
Screening – Julius von Bismarck | Fabian Knecht | S.T. Paul, alexander levy, Berlin, Germany
Festival of Landscape Objects ARCHSTOYANIE, Kaluga Region, Russia
BERLIN . STATUS [ 2 ], Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
TEA, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts Taichung, Taiwan
Let’s invent a language to narrate my story, Dienstgebäude, Zurich, Switzerland
Ich bin dein Nachbar, Bromer Art Collection, Roggwill, Switzerland
Skulpturenprojekt Wallanlage / Stade, Germany
Handlungsbereitschaft – Skizze einer Generation am Ende der Geschichte (3. Aufl.), Motorenhalle, Dresden, Germany
Berlin Masters, Arndt, Berlin, Germany
Public Abstraction Private Construction VI VII, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Germany
LE DICTATEUR : UN HOMME JUST EST QUAND MEME UN HOMME MORT, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Raumtrigger, taiga, St. Petersburg, Russia
13th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, a collaboration with Julian Charrière, supported by Vogt Landscape Architects Ltd., Venice, Italy
APO-CALYPSE, Montreux, Switzerland
Handlungsbereitschaft – Skizze einer Generation am Ende der Geschichte (2. Aufl.), Kunstsaele, Berlin, Germany
Grosses Feld, with Institut für Raumexperimente, Janmeda, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Glasauge, with Institut für Raumexperimente, Berlin, Germany
Addis Fotofest, with Institut für Raumexperimente, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Syabi, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan
Raum #6, Zurich, Switzerland
Weltausstellung, Tempelhof Airport, Berlin, Germany
Life Clock, Den Frie center of contemporary art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Cyberarts 12, OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria
PHotoESPAÑA, Off Limits, with Santiago Sierra, Madrid, Spain
Electron Festival, Geneva, Switzerland
Kackwald, Nation of Gondwana, Grünefeld, Germany
Pièce de Résistance, Mediamatic, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
TGM, Munich, Germany
Impakt, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Solares Fondazione Delle Arti, Parma, Italy
Almost Cinema, Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium
Seeing/Knowing, Gund Gallery, Gambier, USA
Index, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, Switzerland
Handlungsbereitschaft – Skizze einer Generation am Ende der Geschichte, Berlin, Germany
URO, IMO Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Electrified 02, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium
Transmediale 2010, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Reflective Interventions, Gallery Art Claims Impulse, Berlin, Germany
Provinz, Lindau, Germany
Shift Festival, Basel, Switzerland
Geist III, Berlin, Germany
Stadt am Rande, Today Arte Museum, Beijing, China
Agents & Provocateurs, Hartware MedienKunstVerein Dortmund, Germany
lets start to implement litle errors, Institut für Raumexperimente, Berlin, Germany
StreetArtGalerie, Berlin, Germany
Persistence of Vision, Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT), Liverpool, UK
Persistence of Vision, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark
Artefact – BEHIND THE IMAGE | THE IMAGE BEHIND, Stuk Kunstencentrum Leuven, Belguim
Are we human?, New Media Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
Illustrative 09, Berlin, Germany
Agents & Provocateurs, Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros, Hungary
My Map Is Not Your Map, Arteleku, San Sebastian, Spain
Cyberarts 09, OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria
Geist, Berlin, Germany
Bilderschlachten, European Media Art Festival, Museum für Industriekultur Osnabrück, Germany
Pixelache 09, Kiasma – Museum of Contemporary Art Helsinki, Finland
The Infuancers, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Spain
Japan Media Arts Festival 09, Tokyo, Japan
UM – festival, Lisbon, Portugal
Mediascot, Edinburg, Scottland
Beeldfestival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Fotofolgen, HFBK, Hamburg, Germany
HU-Berlin, Institut für Physik, Quantenoptik, Berlin, Germany
Medienfassaden Festival 08, Berlin, Germany
Cyberarts 08, OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria
Pixelache 08, Kiasma – Museum of Modern Art Helsinki, Finland
Social intervention, Gallery Sangsangmadang Seoul, South Korea