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born 1969 Rio de Janeiro (BR), lives and works in London (UK)
Education
1999-2000
MA Chelsea College of Art and Design, London (UK)
1998-1999
Royal College of Art, London (UK)
1992-1996
Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado, São Paulo (BR)
Solo Exhibitions
2012
Thomas Dane, London (UK)
Kentucky Pied de Poule, CRG Gallery, New York (US)
2011
Monolith, Sommer & Kohl, Berlin (DE)
Duble, Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo (BR)
Fair Trade, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo (BR)
2009
Laissez Faire, Camden Arts Centre, London (UK)
2008
Club Sandwich, Sommer & Kohl, Berlin (DE)
Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo (BR)
Vilma Gold, London (UK)
2007
Passengers, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco (US), catalogue
Alexandre da Cunha – Damien Roach, NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen (DE)
2006
Paco das Artes, São Paulo (BR), catalogue
2005
Colorama, Vilma Gold, London (UK)
Alexandre da Cunha, Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte (BR)
2004
Carro Novo, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo (BR)
2002
Alexandre da Cunha & Brian Griffiths, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo (BR), catalogue
1998
Alexandre da Cunha, Projeto Macunaima Funarte, Rio de Janeiro (BR)
Group Exhibitions
2012
The Imminence of Poetics, 30th Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo (BR)
Neil Campbell – Alexandre da Cunha, Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
British Modern Remade, Arts Council Collection, Park Hill Estate, Sheffield (UK)
Garden of Reason, curated by Tessa Fitzjohn, Ham House, London (UK)
economy of means: toward humility in contemporary sculpture, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona (US)
2011
Nova Escultura Brasileria, Caixa Cultural, Rio de Janeiro (BR)
Vestigios de Brasilidade, Santander Cultural Recife, Recife (BR)
Caos e Efeito, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo (BR)
Mythologies, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (FR)
Into the Green, Frankendael Foundation, Amsterdam (NL)
Making is Thinking, curated by Zoe Gray, Witte de With, Rotterdam (NL)
The Extension, Vilma Gold, London (UK)
Government Art Collection: Selected by Cornelia Parker: Richard Of York Gave Battle in Vain, Whitechapel Galllery, London (UK)
2010
Inaugural Show, CRG Gallery, New York (US)
Primeira e Última, Notas Sobre o Monumento [First and Last, Notes on the Monument], Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo (BR)
Paralela 2010 // A Contemplação do Mundo, Liceu de Artes e Ofícios de São Paulo, São Paulo (BR)
Inhotim, Brumadinho, Minas Gerais (BR)
Bildertausch 2: A New Presentation of the Marli Hoppe-Ritter Collection, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch (DE)
Panamericana, Kurimanzutto, Mexico City (MX)
The Big Ripoff, Camden Arts Centre, London (UK)
Tristes Tropiques: A proposal by Pable Leon de la Barra, The Barber Shop, Lissabon (PT)
A very, very long cat, Wallspace, New York (US)
Los Impoliticos, curated by Laura Bardier, Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Naples (IT)
2009
Pete and Repeat, Works from the Zabludowicz Collection, London (UK)
China Series, Organhaus, Chongqing (CN)
Die Ordnung der Dinge. Revolution des Alltäglichen, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen (DE)
IV Jafre Biennial, Jafre_Girona (ES)
II. San Juan Triennial, San Juan, Puerto Rico (PR)
2008
Transformational grammars, Galeria Francesca Kaufmann, Milan (IT)
Paralela 08 / De Perto e de Longe, curated by Rodrigo Moura, Galpaodo Liceu de Artes e Oficios, São Paulo (BR)
An Unruly History of the Readymade, Ecatepac de Morelos, Estado de Mexico (MX)
This is not a Void, curated by Jens Hoffmann, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo (BR)
Nova Arte, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil CCBB, Rio de Janeiro (BR)
Chambres a part II, la Réserve Paris, 10 place du Trocadero, Paris (FR)
The Gentle Art of Collapsing the Expanded Field, Cardenas Bellanger, Paris (FR)
Group show, Andre Schlechtriem, New York (US)
Pendre la crémaillère, Sommer & Kohl, Berlin (DE)
2007
Fortunate Objects, CIFO, Miami (US)
Es wird scho glei dumpa’ group show, Vestibül, Berlin (DE)
ctrl_c + ctrl_v, Sesc Pompeia, São Paulo (BR)
Passengers, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco (US)
Eurovision-Jahresgaben 07, NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen (DE)
Bildertausch 2, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch (DE)
Close to me, Studio Guenzani, Milan (IT)
2006
Around the world in eighty days, ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts / South London Gallery, London (UK)
Wrong, Klosterfelde Gallery, Berlin (DE)
Contrabando, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo (BR)
Geracao da Virada, Instituto Tomie Otake, São Paulo (BR)
Paralela, Pavilhão Armando de Arruda Pereira, Parque do Ibirapuera, São Paulo (BR)
2005
Prague Biennale 2, Prague (CZ)
2004
Fragmentos e Souvenirs Paulistanos Vol.1, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo (BR)
Paralela, São Paulo (BR)
Imagine Limerick, EV+A 2004, Limerick (IE)
Produciendo Realidad, Prometeo Associazione Culturale, Lucca (IT)
Sneeze Project 80 x 80, Gazon Rouge Gallery, Athens (GR)
2003
50th Venice Biennale, The Structure of Survival, Venice (IT)
The Virgin Show, The Wrong Gallery, New York (US)
The Lost Collection of an Invisible Man, The Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle (UK)
PoT, Galeria Fortes Vilaca, São Paulo (BR)
2002
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool (UK)
Materia Prima, Novo Museu, Curitiba (BR)
2001
Brighton Icons, St Bartholomew Church, Brighton (UK)
Desenhistas e Coloristas, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo (BR)
13 Videobrasil, SESC SP, São Paulo (BR)
Arco das Rosas, Casa das Rosas, São Paulo (BR)
2000
PICAF, Pusan International Contemporary Art Festival, Pusan (KO)
EV+A Biennial, Friends and Neighbours, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick (IE)
1999
Herancas Contemporaneas, Museu de Arte Contemporanea de São Paulo, São Paulo (BR)
1998
Projeto Macunaima, Rio de Janeiro (BR)
1997
Suspended Instants, Art in General Gallery, New York (US)
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück (DE)
Grants / Residencies
2008
Guilbaud residency, Martinique
2002
Visiting Artist Programme, Gasworks, London (UK)
International Artist-in-Residence Programme, Guernsey College of Art
2001
Wellcome Trust Artist-in-Residency Award, Wellcome Trust, London (UK)
1998
CAPES, Brazilian Sponsorship for the Arts
Bibliography
2012
Jill Feldman; Meet Brazilian Artist Alexandre da Cunha, Who Makes Art With Mops, Ironing Boards, and Bracelets, artinfo.com, 6.3.2012
2011
Sean O’Toole; Making is Thinking, Witte de With Rotterdam, FRIEZE, May 2011, p.129
Lena De Boers; Unterm Schirm, Tagesspiegel, 28 May 2011
Daniel Barnes; The Extension at Vilma Gold, www.spoonfed.co.uk, 18 January 2011
2010
Scott Indrisek; First and Last, Notes on the Monument, Modern Painters, October 2010
Alexandre da Cunha, Interview, dossier 049, Videobrasil, 2010
2009
Jens Hoffmann; The sixth sense, File Notes Camden Arts Centre, London
Vitamin 3–D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation, Phaidon, Press, London
Uta M. Reindl; Revolutionen des Alltäglichen, Kunstforum Bd. 199, Okt. – Dez. 2009
Michael Kohler; Sinn und Sinnlichkeiten, art, September 2009
Walter Gauer, Ungeahnte Perspektiven, Luxemburger Wort, 11. September 2009
Jochen Stöckmann; Die Kunst-Schrauber, deutschlandradio.de, 23. August 2009
catalogue: Stefanie Kreuzer für das Museum Morsbroich; Revolutionen des Alltäglichen, Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nürnberg
Coline Millard; Art in America, artinamericamagazine.com, 22 October 2009
Rodrigo Moura; The Bloc of Me Alone – The Brasilian Art Circuit in the New Century, Metropolis M, No.3, p.52, 56, 82-83
Fabio Cypriano, This Is Not A Void, Frieze Issue 122, April 2009, p.123
2008
Sculpture Today, Phaidon Press, London
Julian Myers; Pioneers / Passengers, Frieze magazine 112, London
Quartiersblatt Nr.40, p.2
Focus London: Alexandre da Cunha, Flash Art No. 262, October, p.90
JJ Charlesworth; Art Review, July–August
Nicola Harvey; Alexandre da Cunha, Frieze.com (published on 2 June)
2007
catalogue: Jens Hoffmann; Poor Materials with Rich Meaning, CCA Wattis, San Francisco
Judith Collins; Sculpture Today, Phaidon, London
2006
catalogue: Rodrigo Moura; Economies of Desire, Paco das Artes, São Paulo
catalogue: Around the World in 80 Days, ICA London, p.116-117
Anna Dezeuze; Thriving on Adversity, Naked Cities-Mute Publishing U.K
Max Andrews, Alexandre da Cunha, Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2006-07, Frieze Publishing
Art Review, Around the World in 80 Days, Metro, 31 May
Sue Hubb; A Global Tour Going Nowhere, Independent, 1 June
2005
catalogue: Rodrigo Moura; Alexandre da Cunha, Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte
Walter Sebastiao; Estetica da Gambiarra, Estado de Minas, Belo Horizonte, 13 August
Peter Chatman; Colorama, The Independent, London
Bought for Tate, The Art Newspaper, 21 October
Helen Sumpter; Alexandre da Cunha, Time Out, London
Melissa Dunn; The Venice Biennale, Flash Art News
Julo Assis; A Refazenda de Alexandre da Cunha, O Tempo, August
A Refazenda de Alexandre da Cunha, Magazine Belo Horizonte, 13 August
2004
Allan Phelan; Imagining Curating, Gandon Editions (IE)
Os des +, Mais! No 667, 28 November
Adriano Pedrosa; Fragmentos e Souvenirs Paulistanos, Vol 1, Galeria Luisa Strina, p.8
2003
It’s a Bourgeois Feeling, The Wrong Times, The Wrong Gallery, New York
Brasilieros em Veneza, Illustrada, 19 April
2002
Charley Magazine, New York
Exposicao Transforma o Banal em Arte, Caderno 2, October
catalogue: Alexandre da Cunha and Brian Griffiths, Galeria Luisa Strina, British Council
2001
Paul Thek; Body Matters, Wellcome News, London
Helio Lara; Coverman, SESC-SP, São Paulo
2000
Rosa Martinez; On Emotional and Social Interaction, 2000 EV+A, Limerick
Katia Canton; Novissima Arte Brasileira, Editora Iluminuras, São Paulo
Aidan Dunne; Never the Twain Shall Mate, The Irish Times |
