Alexandra Pirici

A collaboration project between tranzit/sk, Studio IN (Department of Intermedia and Multimedia, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava) in the context of the Open Studio program, and Kunsthalle Bratislava.

On the occasion of the exhibition Ilona Németh: Eastern Sugar (13.4.–15.7.2018) at Kunsthalle Bratislava.

The lecture will be conducted in English.

The lecture looks at the body as material, medium and technology for remembering, imagining, labouring, transforming and informing socio-economic landscapes. It also references the artist’s own performative practice in relation to situated, embodied histories, the intermingling of the local and the global, art both as possibility for insight and mass industry and ways to complicate its future.

Alexandra Pirici is an artist with a background in choreography that works undisciplined, across different mediums, from performance to visual arts and music. She recently opened a large-scale solo presentation at the New Museum in New York (2018). Her works have been exhibited within the decennial art exhibition Skulptur Projekte Munster 2017, the 55^th edition of the Venice Biennale - Romanian Pavilion, Tate Modern London, Tate Liverpool, the 9^th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Manifesta 10, Centre Pompidou - Paris, New Museum – New York, Museum Ludwig Cologne, the 12^th Swiss Sculpture Exhibition, the Van Abbemuseum, Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, Museum of Modern Art – Warsaw, among many others.

In 2015 she received the Excellency Award from the National Dance Center, Bucharest.

Some of her public space performances are on Vimeo.

Credits for the images:

“Alexandra Pirici: Co-natural,” 2018. Exhibition view: New Museum, New York. Photo: Julieta Cervantes

ERSTE Foundation is the main partner of tranzit. 

Project Open studio is supported by Ministry of education Slovak republic in program KEGA (no.005VŠVU-4/2016)