Alexandra Bircken

Alexandra Bircken

SomaSemaSoma

Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal

October 25, 2025 – February 1, 2026

Alexandra Bircken

Alexandra Bircken

SomaSemaSoma

Kunsthaus Biel, Biel, Switzerland

June 8 – August 31, 2025

Alexandra Bircken

Alexandra Bircken

Alexandra Bircken: A–Z

Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany

July 28, 2021 – January 16, 2022

Alexandra Bircken

Alexandra Bircken

TOP DOWN / BOTTOM UP

Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany

Alexandra Bircken

Alexandra Bircken

Unruhe

Secession, Vienna, Austria

September 13 – November 10, 2019

Alexandra Bircken

Alexandra Bircken

STRETCH

Kunstverein Hannover, Germany

October 1 – November 27, 2016

Alexandra Bircken

Alexandra Bircken

Eskalation

The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, UK

October 1, 2014 – January 25, 2015

Alexandra Bircken

CV

Solo Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions

  • 2026

  • 2025

  • 2024

  • 2023

    • Home Is Where You're Happy, Haus Mödrath, Kerpen, Germany
    • resetNOW! – Künstlerinnen zwischen Wissenschaft, Technik und Kunst. Künstlerverbund im Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
    • Arch of Hysteria. Between Madness and Ecstasy, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
    • The King is Dead, Long Live the Queen, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany
    • In First Person Plural, MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy
    • Outer View, Inner World, Morena di Luna, Hove, UK
    • Ich-Maschine, BQ, Berlin, Germany
    • Humain Autonome: Joyridin’, FRAC Normandie, Caen, France

  • 2022

    • Phantoms of the Night. 100 Years of Nosferatu, Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection, Berlin, Germany
    • New Space Show, Layr, Vienna, Austria
    • Bodies in Society, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
    • Street Fight. Warsaw under Construction, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
    • Empowerment, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
    • Musterung - Pop und Politik in der zeitgenössischen Textilkunst, Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, Ravensburg, Germany
    • Future Bodies from a Recent Past – Sculpture, Technology, and the Body since the 1950s, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany
    • An eeriness on the Plain, 1301SW, Melbourne, Australia
    • Let's Live Where The Indoors & Outdoors Meet, BQ, Berlin, Germany

  • 2021

    • Matter-of-Fact, Galerie Duchamp, Yvetot, France
    • Metamorphosis, Gewölbe, Cologne, Germany
    • Warum ist nicht alles schon verschwunden?, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum, Germany

  • 2020

    • Musterung - Pop und Politik in der zeitgenössischen Textilkunst, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany
    • Grace Before Jones: Camera, Disco, Studio, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
    • The Making of Husbands: Christina Ramberg in Dialogue, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
    • The Making of Husbands: Christina Ramberg in Dialogue, Frac Lorraine, Metz, France
    • Rohstoff pourquoi, BQ, Berlin, Germany
    • Via dell’Inferno, Herald St at Galleria Spazia, Bologna, Italy

  • 2019

    • The Assembled Human, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
    • The Making of Husbands: Christina Ramberg in Dialogue, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
    • Yorkshire Sculpture International, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, UK
    • J'aime le rose pâle et les femmes ingrates, Crédac, Ivry, France
    • Maskulinitäten, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln, and Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
    • Erratic Resistance, Deborah Schamoni, Munich, Germany
    • Forever Young, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany
    • May You Live In Interesting Times, 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
    • Noise Flannel Big Shirt #2, Herald St, London, UK
    • Tainted Love (club edit), Villa Arson, Nice, France
    • Sick and Desiring, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, Norway
    • Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
    • Mercury, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia

  • 2018

    • Naked, Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen, Norway
    • The Revolutionary Suicide Mechanised Regiment Band, Part 2, Rob Tufnell, London, UK
    • Self Collection: Bumped Bodies, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
    • Alexandra Bircken, Josh Brand, Matthew Darbyshire, Michael Dean, Cary Kwok, Amalia Pica, Nicole Wermers, Herald St, London, UK

  • 2017

    • Made Of Using Found Images curated by Johannes Wohnseifer, Galerie Thoman, Vienna, Austria
    • Sammlung mit losen Enden 03:22, Kunsthaus NRW Kornelimünster, Aachen, Germany

  • 2016

    • The Distance of a Day: Connections and Disconnections in Contemporary Art, Israel-Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
    • Trolleys, Tramway, Glasgow International Festival, Glasgow, UK
    • At the Cliffs of River Rhine, Oslo 10, Basel, Switzerland

  • 2015

    • Fiber: Sculpture 1960 - Present, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, USA
    • Basket Case II, National Gallery, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
    • 10 Years, Herald St, London, UK
    • Fiber: Sculpture 1960 - Present, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, USA
    • Art, Memory and Revolution 1916 – 2016, MAK, Vienna, Austria
    • Wo ist hier ? #2: Raum und Gegenwart, Kunstverein Reutlingen, Reutlingen, Germany
    • Rates of Exchange, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia

  • 2014

    • Basket Case II, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe
    • Blicke! Körper! Sensationen!, Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden, Germany
    • Fiber in Form, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
    • Humanonhuman, Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris, France
    • Ökonomie der Aufmerksamkeit, Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria
    • Die Antwort der Dinge,Lothringer13_Halle, Munich, Germany
    • The Great Outdoors, Awst & Walther Schaufenster, Berlin, Germany

  • 2013

    • Die Liebe zu den Dingen, Kunsthalle Münster, Münster, Germany
    • Nur hier – Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland / Ankäufe von 2007 – 2011, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
    • Days in Lieu, David Zwirner, London, UK

  • 2012

    • Made in Germany Zwei, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
    • Neuralgie, Kunstraum Düsseldorf, Germany
    • A Disagreeable Object, Sculpture Center, New York, USA

  • 2011

    • Skulpturales Handeln, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
    • Gesamtkunstwerk: New Art from Germany, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
    • Mailles. Art en laine, Maison du Danemark, Paris, France
    • My Beautiful Mongo, Thomas Brambrilla, Bergamo, Italy
    • H x W x D, Wentrup, Berlin, Germany
    • Eins PLUS Eins, M.1 Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung, Hohenlockstedt, Germany
    • Wash, then dance, Tinderbox, Hamburg, Germany
    • Suspense. Suspended Sculpture, EX3, Centre of Contemporary Art, Florence, Italy

  • 2010

    • Kimmerich Gallery, New York, USA
    • Neues Rheinland. Eine postironische Generation, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
    • Folklore?, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, France
    • Undone, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
    • Rive droite / Rive gauche, Paris, France
    • The Long Dark, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK
    • SPOT ON 05, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany
    • The same sight slighter, Renwick Gallery, New York'Feint Art', Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

  • 2009

    • The Long Dark, The International 3, Manchester; Hatton Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
    • Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
    • Arrival Inside, Mary Mary, Glasgow, UK

  • 2008

    • Vom Gehen in viele Richtungen, 701 e.V. zu Gast im KIT - Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf, Germany
    • 1st Brussels Biennial, Brussels, Belgium
    • Borders, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
    • View 14: Hooking up, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA
    • Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
    • Paradies und zurück, Sammlung Rheingold in Schloss Dyck, Jüchen, Germany
    • Anti-Baby Pille, Aktualisierungsraum, Hamburg, Germany

  • 2007

    • Unmonumental, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
    • Hope and Despair, Cell Project Space, London, UK
    • Common Threads, Charlottestown Confederation Center, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, Canada
    • Um-Kehrungen, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
    • L’Homme nu, Volume 2/3: L’Homme et son environnement, Maison Populaire, Montreuil, France
    • L’Homme nu, Volume 1/3: Allures anthropomorphes, Maison Populaire, Populaire, Montreuil, France

  • 2006

    • dereconstruction, Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
    • Das große Rasenstück. Zeitgenössische Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, eine Ausstellung der Stadt Nürnberg und des Deutschen Fußball-Bundes, Nürnberg, Germany

  • 2005

    • Kn’-yan, Galerie Christine Mayer, Munich, Germany
    • Other People's Projects: Herald St, London, White Columns, New York, USA
    • Alex Bircken, Mari Eastman, Maaike Schoorel, Maureen Paley Interim Art, London, UK
    • Us, Herald St, London, UK
    • fünfmalskulptur, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany
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