sommer & kohl
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Alexandre da Cunha
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
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2002
1998
MCA Chicago Plaza Project: Alexandre da Cunha; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (US)
Real, Luisa Strina Gallery, Sao Paulo (BR)
Alexandre da Cunha / James Lee Byars, Question Centre, London (UK)
Contratempo, Sommer & Kohl, Berlin (DE)
Alexandre da Cunha, Grand Café Saint Nazaire, curated by Zoe Gray, Saint Nazaire (FR)
Full Catastrophe, Thomas Dane, London (UK)
Kentucky Pied de Poule, CRG Gallery, New York (US)
Monolith, Sommer & Kohl, Berlin (DE)
Duble, Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo (BR)
Fair Trade, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo (BR)
Laissez Faire, Camden Arts Centre, London (UK)
Club Sandwich, Sommer & Kohl, Berlin (DE)
Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo (BR)
Vilma Gold, London (UK)
Passengers, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco (US), catalogue
Alexandre da Cunha – Damien Roach, NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen (DE)
Paco das Artes, São Paulo (BR), catalogue
Colorama, Vilma Gold, London (UK)
Alexandre da Cunha, Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte (BR)
Carro Novo, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo (BR)
Alexandre da Cunha & Brian Griffiths, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo (BR), catalogue
Alexandre da Cunha, Projeto Macunaima Funarte, Rio de Janeiro (BR)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015
2014
British Art Show 8, Leeds (UK)
Pangaea II: New Art from Africa and Latin America, Saatchi Gallery, London (UK)
Fiber: Sculpture 1960 – present, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio;
Des Moines Art Center, Iowa; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas (US)
Fiber: Sculpture 1960 – present, West Gallery / Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (US)
Permission to be Global/ Prácticas Globales: Latin American Art from the Ella
Fontanals-Cisneros Foundation, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (US)
Decorum: Carpets and tapestries by artists, Power Station for Art, Shanghai (CN)
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
Cruzamentos Contemorary Art in Brazil!, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus,
Ohio (US)
Deslize/ Museu de Arte do Rio MAR, Rio de Janeiro (BR)
Arroz sem Sal, Galeria Sylvia Cintra Box 4, Rio de Janeiro (BR)
Homebodies, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago (US)
COLLECTION, Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain Basse–Normandie, Caen (FR)
The World Turned Upside Down – Buster Keaton, Sculpture and the Absurd,
Mead Gallery, Warwick Art Centre, Coventry (UK)
On the passage of a few, Simon Preston Gallery, New York (US)
Alexandre da Cunha, Michael Rey, Michael Williams, B.Wurtz, Office Baroque,
Antwerp (BE)
Decorum, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (FR)
Passengers, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco (US)
Block, Pillar, Slab, Beam, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (US)
The Imminence of Poetics, 30th Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo (BR)
Neil Campbell – Alexandre da Cunha, Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
economy of means: toward humility in contemporary sculpture, Scottsdale
Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona (US)
British Modern Remade, Arts Council Collection, Park Hill Estate, Sheffield (UK)
Garden of Reason, curated by Tessa Fitzjohn, Ham House, London (UK)
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)
Inaugural Show, CRG Gallery, New York (US)
Primeira e Última, Notas Sobre o Monumento [First and Last, Notes on the Monument],
!Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao 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, Lisbon (PT)
A very, very long cat, !Wallspace, New York (US)
!Los Impoliticos, curated by Laura Bardier, !Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Naples (IT)
Pete and Repeat, Works from the Zabludowicz Collection, London (UK)
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)
Transformational grammars, Galeria Francesca Kaufmann, Milan (IT)
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, Sao Paulo (BR)
Nova Arte, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil CCBB, Rio de Janeiro (BR)
The Gentle Art of Collapsing the Expanded Field, Cardenas Bellanger, Paris (FR)
Pendre la crémaillère, Sommer & Kohl, Berlin (DE)
Fortunate Objects, CIFO, Miami (US)
Passengers, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco (US)
Bildertausch 2, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch (DE)
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999
1998
Close to me, Studio Guenzani, Milan (IT)
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)
Prague Biennale 2, Prague (CZ)
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)
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)
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool (UK)
Materia Prima, Novo Museu, Curitiba (BR)
Desenhistas e Coloristas, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo (BR)
Arco das Rosas, Casa das Rosas, São Paulo (BR)
PICAF, Pusan International Contemporary Art Festival, Pusan (KO)
EV+A Biennial, Friends and Neighbours, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick (IE)
Herancas Contemporaneas, Museu de Arte Contemporanea de São Paulo, São Paulo (BR)
Projeto Macunaima, Rio de Janeiro (BR)
selected Museum Collections
Tate Modern, London (UK)
Museu de Arte de Pampulha, Belo Horizonte (BR)
Inhotim – Instituto de Arte Contemporanea, Brumhadinho (BR)
CIFO – Cisneros Collection, Miami (US)
Ellipse Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Cascais (ES)
Rennie Collection, Vancouver (CA)
Sammlung Marli Hoppe-Ritter, Waldenbruch (DE)
Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo (BR)
Grants / Residencies
2010
2009
2008
2002
2001
Artist in Residence, Headland Center for the Arts, Marin, California (US)
Camden Arts Centre’s Artists’ Studios, Camden Arts Centre, London (UK)
Guilbaud residency, Martinique
Visiting Artist Programme, Gasworks, London (UK)
International Artist-in-Residence Programme, Guernsey College of Art
Wellcome Trust Artist-in-Residency Award, Wellcome Trust, London (UK)
Bibliography
2014
2012
Janelle Porter, Fiber: Sculpture 1960-present, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston,
p.190
Ida Feldman; Uma rapidinha com u Uia: Alexandre da Cunha, uiadiario.com.br, April 16
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
Holiday by Alexandre da Cunha, MONO, Issue 6, 2012
monograph, Alexandre da Cunha, published by Cobogó, Rio de Janeiro (BR)
Jill Feldman; Meet Brazilian Artist Alexandre da Cunha, Who Makes Art With Mops, Ironing
Boards, and Bracelets, artinfo.com, 6.3.2012
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
Scott Indrisek; First and Last, Notes on the Monument, Modern Painters, October 2010
Alexandre da Cunha, Interview, dossier 049, Videobrasil, 2010
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
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)
catalogue: Jens Hoffmann; Poor Materials with Rich Meaning, CCA Wattis, San Francisco
Judith Collins; Sculpture Today, Phaidon, London
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
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
Allan Phelan; Imagining Curating, Gandon Editions (IR)
Os des +, Mais! No 667, 28 November
Adriano Pedrosa; Fragmentos e Souvenirs Paulistanos, Vol 1, Galeria Luisa Strina, p.8
It’s a Bourgeois Feeling, The Wrong Times, The Wrong Gallery, New York
Brasilieros em Veneza, Illustrada, 19 April
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
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