New American Biography and Exhibitions from Aleksandra Mir Artist at The Saatchi Gallery
Aleksandra Mir constructed a lunar landscape out of sand, erected an American flag on the highest peak, and declared herself 'The First Woman on the Moon.' The year before, in Norway, Mir teamed up with a local unemployment agency and showed a series of Hollywood disaster films, running them only during work hours, for the city's unemployed. In Denmark in 1996, she set up twenty six speakers in a town square and broadcast the sound of men whistling as women walked by. Earlier this year, she proposed the building of an exact-scale replica of Stonehenge, only a few miles from the original site. Unlike the first, 'Stonehenge II' offers full access to visitors-down to a 'Stonehenge' soccer team that uses the rocks as goalposts.
BIOGRAPHY
1970 Born in Lubin, Poland, Citizen of Sweden
Lives and works in New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005
WELCOME Sometimes, Greengrassi Gallery, London
Aeropuerto, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona
Baloise Art Prize: Aleksandra Mir - The Big Umbrella, SMAK, Ghent
The World from Above, Lisboa 20 Arte Contemporanea, Lisboa
Organized Movement', Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
The Most Beautiful Thing Today, White Columns, NYC.
NEW DESIGNS: Birth, Death and Abortion, Andrew Roth Inc, New York
Love Stories, Fundacion NMAC, Montenmedio
Narvik Superstars, Kunst I Nordland, Narvik
2004
Living & Loving #2-The Biography of Zoe Stillpass, Frieze Art Fair, London
The Big Umbrella (New York), PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
The Big Umbrella (Copenhagen/Dresden), Statements, Basel
The World from Above, greengrassi, London
Naming Tokyo (part III), ICA, Philadelphia
2003
Happy Holidays, The Wrong gallery, New York
The Big Umbrella (Paris), Jousse enterprise, Paris.
Naming Tokyo (part II), Swiss Institute, New York
Plane Landing, Compton Verney House Trust, Warwickshire
Welcome back to Earth, Kunsthalle St. Gallen, St Gallen.
HELLO Ringier, Ringier annual report, Zurich
Corporate Mentality, Lukas & Sternberg, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005
GuestRoom #2, Museum Heit Domein, Sittard
Organized Movement', Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
Return To Space, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Encore, Istanbul Foundation for Cultural and Arts, Istanbul
A Lucky Strike: Kunst findet Stadt, GAK, Bremen
Bonds of Love, John Connelly Presents, New York
The Gesture. A Visual Library in Progress, Oxymoron, Athens; Quarter, Florence
Merit Badge, 445 Old State Road 82, Craryville
Publish and be Damned, Outpost gallery, Norfolk; LOT, Bristol; Display, Praha
Someone somewhere is furiously traveling towards you, La Casa Encendida, Madrid
Largo Alcance, Centro de Arte Santa Monica, Bracelona
Social Democracy Revisited, Apexart, New York
Post No Bills, White Columns, New York
Trade, White Columns, New York
Social Democracy Revisited', Apexart, New York
Monuments for the USA, CCAC Wattis Institute, San Francisco
Tea and video art, Locus, Athens
Aleksandra Mir birthday edition of the New York tabloid designed to "reclaim" her birthday, which falls on September 11. For Naming Tokyo, dozens of acquaintances inside and outside the art world pitched in with thematic lists of suggested street names--Italian swear words, Vivienne Westwood's couture collections, New York City drag queens--which were then published on a large handout map with a blank Tokyo city grid on one side and selected rechristenings on the other
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