- Alexandra Bircken
Alexandra Bircken (born 1967) is an artist based in
Cologne .Bircken creates assemblages featuring everyday ephemera like wood, knitted fragments and twigs. [ [http://www.friezeartfair.com/artists/yearbook/alexandra_bircken1 FriezeArtFair.com] ] Her work has strong references to traditional craft practices and to the natural world, from which she sources her materials. [ [http://www.maisonpop.net/IMG/CP_Paysages_visites_engl.doc Maisonpop.net] ]
She studied fashion at
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design inLondon .elected Exhibitions
Bircken creates assemblages featuring everyday ephemera like wood, knitted fragments and twigs. [ [http://www.friezeartfair.com/artists/yearbook/alexandra_bircken1 FriezeArtFair.com] ] Her work has strong references to traditional craft practices and to the natural world, from which she sources her materials. [ [http://www.maisonpop.net/IMG/CP_Paysages_visites_engl.doc Maisonpop.net] ]
She studied at
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design inLondon .elected Exhibitions
2007
"Unmonumental", New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
"Holz", Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
"Um Kehrungen", Kunstverein Braunschweig
"Statements", Art Basel 37
"Hope and Despair", Cell Project Space, London
"L’Homme nu, Volume 2/3: L’Homme et son environnement", Maison Populaire, Montreuil
"L’Homme nu, Volume 1/3: Allures anthropomorphes", Maison Popoulaire, Montreuil
"Common Threads", Charlottestown Confederation Centre, Charlottestown, Canada and Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, Canada
2006
"Klötze", BQ, Cologne
"Dereconstruction", curated by Matthew Higgs, Gladstone gallery, New York
"Das Grosse Rasenstuck", Nurnberg
"K'n-yan", Christine Mayer, Munich
2005
Herald St, London
"5 Sculptors", Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster
Interim Art, London, UK
"Other People’s Projects", Herald St, White Columns, New York
2004
BQ, Cologne
References
External links
*Further information from [http://www.heraldst.com/artists/bircken/06birc/bircken.html Herald Street Gallery]
*Images, biography, texts from the [http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/alexandra_bircken.htm Saatchi Gallery]
*Alexandra Bircken on [http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/artistInfo/artist/54615 ArtFacts.net]
*Karen Rosenberg on Alexandra Bircken, [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/05/arts/design/05gall.html?pagewanted=print New York Times online]
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