ALICJA KWADE

b. 1979 in Katowice, Poland

Lives and works in Berlin

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021
In Abwesenheit, Berlinische Galerie – Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Berlin

2020
Kausalkonsequenz, Langen Foundation, Neuss
Petrichor, KÖNIG Galerie, Tokyo, Japan

2019

ParaPivot, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

ParaParticular, 303 Gallery, New York, USA

The Resting Thought, Centre de Création Contemporaine Oliver Debré, Tours, France

In Between Glances, MIT List Visual Art Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Weltenlinie, Palazzo Biscari, Catania, Italy

2018

GLANCES, Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
TRANS-FOR-MEN, EMMA - Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland
Out of Ousia, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
Entitas, St. Agnes | Nave, KÖNIG Galerie, Berlin, Germany
TunnelTeller, Castle Hill on the Crane Estate, Ipswich, MA, USA
Being..., Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
MATERIA, PER ORA, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, Italy
AMBO, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
LinienLand, Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland

2017
Sterne, Kosmische Kunst von 1900 bis heute, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria
Rereason, YUZ Museum, Shanghai, China
A Trillionth of a Second, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
Sichtbare Unsichtbare Grenzen, Sigmar Polke – Alicja Kwade, Museum Frieder Burda, Salon Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Phase, König Galerie, St. Agnes, Berlin, Germany

Revolution Orbita, Kamel Mennour, London, UK 

2016
In Aporie, Kamel Mennour, Paris, France
Medium Median, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
I Rise Again, Changed But The Same, 303 Gallery, New York, USA
Alicja Kwade, de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2015

Nach Osten, TRAFO Centre for Contemporary Art, Szczecin, Poland

Monolog aus dem 11ten Stock, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany

Against the Run, Public Art Fund, New York, USA

Hectorpreis, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

Etwas Abwesendes, dessen Anwesenheit erwartet wurde, König Galerie, Berlin, Germany

Warten auf Gegenwart II, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany

Die bewegte Leere des Moments, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

2014

Warten auf Gegenwart, Kunstmuseum | Kunstverein St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Forecasting Horizon, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark

2013

Solid Stars and other Conditions, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland

Degree of Certainty, Kunstmuseen Krefeld | Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany

Nach Osten, ST. AGNES, Berlin, Germany

Gegenwartsdauer, Kamel Mennour, Paris, France

Alicja Kwade, Kunstmuseum Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany

2012

The heavy weight of light, Harris Lieberman, New York, USA

Die Gesamtheit aller Orte, Kunsthal 44 Møen, Askeby, Sweden

In Circles, König Galerie, Berlin, Germany

2011

Sensor - Zeitraum für junge Positionen, ZKM Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

Alicja Kwade, Villa Tokyo, Toyko, Japan

52°31'17,23, 13°24'02,64, Polnisches Institut, Berlin, Germany

Belebung toter Einheiten, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany

Alkahest, Kunstverein Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany

2010

Probleme massereicher Körper, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany

Ereignishorizont, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany

Broken away from Common Standpoints, Museion at Peep-Hole, Milan, Italy

2009

Grenzfälle fundamentaler Theorien, König Galerie, Berlin, Germany

Vom äußersten Rand der Bedingung, Galerie Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, Denmark

2008

Von Explosionen zu Ikonen, Hamburger Bahnhof-Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany

2007

Junge Sterne Rauchen, Galerie Lena Brüning, Berlin, Germany

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021
The Same Sea - Helsinki Biennial 2021, HAM | Helsingin taidemuseo / Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki
Diversity United – Moskau, Berlin, Paris

Spatial Affairs, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
SUPERmARKT – Frische Lieferung, REWE Premium, Munich
Desert X, Coachella Valley, CA

2020
NGV Triennial 2020, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Wiedererwachen, STATION Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Mirage: Contemporary Art in Augmented Reality, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Peking, China
7 Mediations - Biennale Polska by Thomas Zitzwitz, Warsaw, Poland
Studio Berlin, Berghain, Berlin, Germany
Ascensions, Off Paradise, New York, United States
... aber nur zuschaun tut richtig weh., Edition Block, Berlin, germany
Szene Berlin - Berlin kommt nach Niedersachsen, Hall Art Foundation, Schloss Derneburg, Germany
Down to Earth (AT), Berliner Festspiele Immersion, Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
ROHKUNSTBAU XXV, Lieberose, Germany
Bingen Skulpturen-Triennale 2020, Bingen am Rhein, Germany
Zeitlos. Vom Wesen der Zeit, Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen, Germany
Hypothetical Reality, Winsing Art Place, Taipei, Taiwan
Momentum, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, Netherlands

2019
The Extreme Present: Presented by Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch, Moore Building, Miami
Setouchi Triennale 2019: Autumn Season, Honjima, Japan
Syncopation: Contemporary Encounters with the Modern Masters, Pola Museum of Art, Sengokuhara, Japan
Sound on the 4th Floor, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin
Laufrichtung, SMAC, Berlin
Space is the Place (4/4) – Intergalactic, BNKR, Munich
Blickachsen 12, Bad Homburg, Germany
Chronos Cosmos: Deep Time, Open Space, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York
Gorillas in Our Midst, MONA - Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania
Negativer Raum, ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe, Germany
Less is More, Voorlinden Museum, Wassenaar, Netherlands

2018

Space Shifters, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
THE MOON – From Inner Worlds to Outer Space, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Kunst & Kohle. Alicja Kwade mit Dirk Bell, Gregor Hildebrandt und Rinus van de Velde, Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen, Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Alicja Kwade & Jorinde Voigt - Shift Matters , Villa Schöningen, Potsdam, Germany
Into Nature: Out of Darkness, Into Nature, Drenthe, Netherlands
Biennale Gherdëina VI: Writing the Mountains, Ortisei / Val Gardena, Italy

2017
Perception is Reality - Über die Abbildung von Wirklichkeit und Virtuellen Welten, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany

Sterne, Kosmische Kunst von 1900 bis heute, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria

Deutschland 8 - German Art in Beijing, Beijing, China
Liaisons/Links, with Lara Favaretto and Latifa Exhakhch, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
Corridor 3: Valdemar Daa, Kunsthalle Viborg, Denmark
The Garden - End of Times; Beginning of Times, #3 The Future - coastal site, Aarhus, Denmark
Viva Arte Viva curated by Christine Macel, La Biennale di Venezia, 57th International Art Exhibition, Venice, Italy

2016

Forming in the pupil of an eye, Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016, Various Venues, Kochi, India
Inhabited by objects, CAB Art Center, Brussels, Belgium
Die Kerze, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany
Nuit Blanche, Paris, France
Food, 13th Fellbach Small Sculpture Triennial 2016, Fellbach, Germany

Wahlverwandtschaften. Deutsche Kunst seit den späten 1960er Jahren, Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia

EchtZEIT. Die Kunst der Langsamkeit, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Gartenschau, König Galerie, Berlin, Germany

Alicja Kwade / Tatiana Trouvé / Giorgio Griffa, Nymphius Projekte, Berlin, Germany

Gutes böses Geld. Eine Bildgeschichte der Ökonomie, Staatlichen Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany

ICH, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt/M., Germany

From the collection: NEW, Neuerwerbungen Sammlungspräsentation, SMAK, Ghent, Belgium

Le précieux pouvoir des pierres, MAMAC, Nice, France

Künstlerräume, Weserburg, Bremen, Germany

Now/Here, Franz Josefs Kai 3, Vienna, Austria

2015

On Curbstone Jewels and Cobblestones, Daimler Contemporary Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Night Begins the Day: Rethinking Space, Time, and Beauty, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA, USA

Eppur si Muove (And yet it turns), Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Diamonds Always Come in Small Packages, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland

Adam, Eve & the Devil, MARRES House for Comtemporary Culture, Maastricht, Netherlands

Glasstress Gotika, Palazzo Franchetti / Instituto Veneto di Scienze, Venice, Italy

2014

Trame. Copper Crossing in contemporary art and technology, Triennale di Milano, Italy

Noumenon, Pilara – Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst, Düsseldorf, Germany

Gold, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, USA

One place next to another, WINZAVOD Centre for Contemporary Art, Moskow, Russia

Vanitas - Ewig ist eh nichts, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin, Germany

Unendlicher Spaß / Unfinite Jest, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/M, Germany

Blow-Up, Albertina, Kunst Museum Palais, Vienna, Austria

Living In The Material World, Kunstmuseum Krefeld, Krefeld, Germany

Der Baum der Erkenntnis. Kunst und Alchemie, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany

"Nullpunkt aller Orte" in der Reihe Junge Sammlungen, Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany

Conceptual & Applied III: Surfaces and Pattern. Contemporary art from the Daimler art collection with design and architecture, Daimler Art Collection, Berlin, Germany

Widersprüchliche Konturen, Märkisches Museum Witten, Witten, Germany

Propaganda für die Wirklichkeit, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany

Far and High, Fahrenheit, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2013

Lightness of Being, Public Art Fund, City Hall Park, New York City, USA

Back to Earth. Die Wiederentdeckung der Keramik in der Kunst, Herbert Gerisch Stiftung, Neumünster, Germany

KölnSkulptur #7, Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne, Germany

Novecento mai visto. Capolavori dalla Daimler Art Collection. FROM ALBERS TO WARHOL TO (NOW), Museo di Santa Giulia, Brecia, Italy

An Idea of Beauty, Palazzo Strozzi Fondazione, Florence, Italy

Goldrausch. Gold in der Gegenwartskunst, Villa Merkel, Galerien der Stadt Esslingen am Neckar, Germany

When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, USA

Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK

2012

When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, USA

One-on-one, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany

Portfolio Berlin 2, Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Grey peak of the wave, Harris Lieberman, New York, USA

Made in Germany II, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Raw Materials, Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst und Design, Ingoldstadt, Germany

K21, Düsseldorf, Germany

Goldrausch. Gold in der Gegenwartskunst, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany

Into The Woods, Galerie des Galeries Lafayette, Paris, France

Karl-Schmidt-Rotluff Stipendium, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany

Reisen in unbekannte Welten, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

Carculture, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz, Austria

Gold, Belvedere, Vienna, Austria

Dreidimensional! Zeitgenössische Bildhauerei, Sammlung Würth, Kurpark Bad Mergentheim, Germany

Status Berlin, Werkschauhalle, Leipzig, Germany

Wie kommt das Neue in die Welt? Neun internationale Bildhauer in Berlin, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin

Surplus Authors, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands

A Disagreeable Object, SculptureCenter, Long Island City, NY

New Public, Museion Bolzano, Italy

Pommery, 10 ans d'Experiences, Domaine Pommery, Reims, France

The Garden of Eden, Palais de Tokyo, Paris

2011

Berlin 2000 – 2011 Playing among the ruins, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

Herbei ein Licht!, Lismore Castle Arts, Waterford, Ireland

Into the woods, Galeries Lafayette, Paris, France

„__“ Vorübergehend unsichtbar, MMK Zollamt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

From Trash to Treasure, Kunsthalle Kiel, Germany

Poetry & Forms, Kunsthaus Langenthal, Switzerland

Transformed Objects, KAI 10, Düsseldorf, Germany

Spaceship Earth, Centre of Contemporary Art, Torun, Poland

Lake of Fire, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark

Magical & Poetical Structures - New Existentialism Part 4, Rapperswill, Switzerland

2010

Dorothea von Stetten-Kunstpreis, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Unsichtbare Schatten – Bilder der Verunsicherung, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany

Leinen los!, Herbstausstellung, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Mutinity seemed a probability, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, Italy

Die perfekte Ausstellung – oder warum eine solche nicht existiert, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Germany

Wystawa, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

The Berlin Box, Kunsthalle Andratx / CCA, Mallorca, Spain

Silent Revolution, K21 Ständehaus, Düsseldorf, Germany

Neugierig?, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany

2009

Kunst zwischen Spurensuche und Utopie, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany

Like a Rolling Stone, Museum of Contemporary Sculpture, Oronsko, Poland

Inkonstruktion IV, Art Biesenthal, Biesenthal, Germany

scheinbar, Kunstverein Eislingen, Eislingen, Germany

Spatial Works, Färgfabriken, Stockholm, Sweden

ReMap 2, Kerameikos Metaxourgeio, Athens, Greece

Kunst zwischen Spurensuche und Utopie, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany

Was sonst soll ich lieben, wenn nicht das Rätsel?, Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg, Germany

Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße 2009, Weserburg, Bremen, Germany

Pragmatismus & Romantismus, Fondation Ricard, Paris, France

2008

Threeallities, Galeria unosunove, Roma, Italy

Endless Sphere, Center of Contemporary Art, Kiev, Ukraine

AURUM, Centre PasquArt, Biel, Switzerland

Lure, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, France

2007

Kunstpreis Junger Westen für Skulptur, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen, Germany

WG, Malkasten, Düsseldorf, Germany

Nightcomers, 10th Istanbul Biennale, IMC, Istanbul, Turkey

Niveaualarm, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

COLLECTIONS

About Change, Collection, Berlin, Germany
Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Burger Collection, Hong Kong
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
D.Daskalopoulos Collection, Halandri, Greece
Daimler Art Collection, Stuttgart, Germany
DekaBank Kunst aus der Sammlung des 21. Jahrhunderts, Germany
Domus Collection, NYC, NY, USA; Beijing, China
European Patent Office, Munich, Germany
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
GreyChurch Collection and Project Space, Vancouver, Canada
HEART - Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC, USA
Isabel and Agustín Coppel Collection (CIAC), A. C., Mexico
K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong
KAI 10 | ARTHENA FOUNDATION, Düsseldorf, Germany
Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN, USA
MACBA Collection, Barcelona, Spain
MATE - Mario Testino Museum, Barranco, Peru
Mudam – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
mumok – Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany
Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
Olbricht Collection, Berlin, Germany
Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
Riedel Collection, Copenhagen, Denmark
Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection, EMMA - Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland
SAHA Association, Istanbul, Turkey
Sammlung Andra Lauffs-Wegner, Bad Honnef, Germany
Sammlung Boros, Berlin, Germany
Sammlung Fiede, Aschaffenburg, Germany
Sammlung Grässlin, Sankt Georgen im Schwarzwald, Germany
Sammlung Haus N, Kiel, Germany; Athen, Greece
Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf, Germany
Sammlung Würth, Germany
Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany
Vehbi Koc Foundation, Istanbul, Turkey
Wrocław Contemporary Museum, Wrocław, Poland
Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China
Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK