Galerie Barbara Thumm \ Alex Schweder

\Alex Schweder

Alex Schweder, *1970 in New York City, USA,
lives and works in New York and Berlin

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For over a decade Alex Schweder has used the term ‘performance architecture’ to describe the creative practice in which he uses buildings as media to ask questions about who we become through our actions in relation to them.

His works along these lines have been collected and exhibited internationally including New York’s Museum of Modern Art, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Performa 17, and the Tate Britain. Recently Schweder has been exploring inflatables as instruments to simultaneously create sound and space in collaboration with sound artist Mieko Suzuki for the 2020 A L’ARME! Festival with The Breath Before.

In the fall of 2021 this auditory direction will be furthered at the invitation of Carrie Mae Weems as part of her ground breaking presentation of ideas at New York’s Park Avenue Armory.

Selected Works

Alex Schweder

How Does Your Inside Become My Inside? (2020)
Digital Animation
Duration 00:00:58 min.
Edition of 5
Galerie Barbara Thumm \ Alex Schweder \ How Does Your Inside Become My Inside? (2020)

Alex Schweder

How Does Your Inside Become My Inside? (2020)
C-Print
50 x 70 cm
Edition of 5
Galerie Barbara Thumm \ Alex Schweder \ How Does Your Inside Become My Inside? (2020)

Alex Schweder

How Does Your Inside Become My Inside? (2020)
C-Print
50 x 70 cm
Edition of 5
Galerie Barbara Thumm \ Alex Schweder \ How Does Your Inside Become My Inside? (2020)

Alex Schweder

How Does Your Inside Become My Inside? (2020)
C-Print
50 x 70 cm
Edition of 5

Alex Schweder

From Want Of Purse To Crave Of Pout (2020)
Digital Animation
Duration 00:00:52 min.
Edition of 5
Galerie Barbara Thumm \ Alex Schweder \ Reactor (2016)

Alex Schweder

Reactor (2016)
Wood, Steel, Concrete, Household Items
14m x 2,5m x 2,5m
Galerie Barbara Thumm \ Alex Schweder \ The Sound and The Future (2016)

Alex Schweder

The Sound and The Future (2016)
Fabric, Faux Fur, Fan Blown Air
Duration 01:00:00 min.
5m x 5m x 5m

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