Alex McQuilkin
*1980 Boston, Massachusetts


1998-2002   BFA, New York University, New York, USA
2006–2008 
MFA, NYU Steinhard School, New York, USA

   

Einzelausstellungen

2009 I Wish I Was a Beam of Light, Galerie Adler, Frankfurt am Main
2008 Romeo and Juliet, subZONE Galerie Adler, Frankfurt am Main
2007 Joan of Arc, Marvelli Gallery, New York, USA
2006 Live Through This, Marvelli Gallery, New York City, USA
2005 New Media Wall, Tufts University Art Gallery Aideman Arts Center, Medfort, MA, USA
        Test Run, Marvelli Gallery, New York, USA (mit Angela Strassheim)
2004 Tragically Sweet, Galerie Adler, Frankfurt am Main
2003 Double Life: Alex McQuilkin; Trine Boesen, 404 arte contemporanea, Naples,  
        Italien (mit Trine Boesen)



Gruppenausstellungen

2011 Deperate Acts, Columbia University Macy Art Gallery, New York, USA (curated by Maurizio
        Pellegrin and Gerald Pryor)
2010 Höhepunkte der Kölner KunstFilmBiennale in Berlin, KW Institute für Contemporary Art, Berlin
        Hip & Cool, Fundación Marcelino Botín, Santander, Spanien
        Gewalt, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
        Mother, NYU Steinhardt Commons Gallery, New York, USA
        Julia Stoschek Collection - I want to see how you see, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
        Crystal Pantomime, St. Mark's Church, New York, USA
2009 On Portrait – 01, Kunstagenten Gallery, Berlin
        Radiografias 09, Centro de Cultura Antiguo Instituto, Gijon, Spanien
        Kunst Film Biennale Köln, Köln / Bonn
        East Coast Video, Ramis Barquet Gallery, New York, USA (with Rashaad Newsome,
        Caraballo-Farman, Kate Gilmore & Jamie Diamond)
        Höhepunkte der Kölner KunstFilmBiennale auf Tournee, KW Institute for Contemporary Art,
        Berlin, Deutschland - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spanien - Centre
        Pompidou, Paris, Frankreich
        talk talk. Das Interview als künstlerische Praxis, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig,
        - Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz, Austria - Galerie 5020, Salzburg, Austria (curated by
        Marc Ries)
        Talk Dirty to Me, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, USA
        That's Just the Way It Is, Marvelli Gallery, New York, USA
 

2008 Diana und Actaeon. Der verbotene Blick auf die Nacktheit, Museum Kunstpalast,   
        Düsseldorf
        Number Two: Fragile, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf
        Busan Biennial, Korea
 
       VIDEOCRACY, tina b. 2008 The Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Prag,
        Tschechische Republik (curated  
        by Micaela Giovannotti)

2007 Look Away, Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York, USA
        12th Biennial of Moving Images, Centre pour l’image Contemporain, Saint Gervais,
        Genève, Schweiz
        Teenage Kicks, Vegas Gallery, London, UK
        Aggression, Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur, Schweiz (with Marc Bijl, Stefan Burger, Centre
        of Attention, Brice Dellsperger, Tom Ellis, Joep van Liefland, Alex McQuilkin, Laura
        Parnes, SIS.TM, Sündikat, Alejandro Vidal)
        KunstFilmBiennale Köln, Köln

        Gefühlte Temperatur ..., Kunstverein Langenhagen, Langenhagen

       
Into Me/Out of Me, MACRO - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italien  
        Je suis une bombe, Von der Heyd Museum, Wuppertal / Kunsthalle Barmen

        Final Cut, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabrück (curated by Hermann Nöring, Paul

        McCarthy, Candice Breitz, Bjorn Melhus, Mischa Kuball, Christoph Giradet and others)
 

2006 VIDEONALE Bonn, Ernst Museum´s Dorottya Gallery, Budapest

        When the Revolution comes, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York, USA

        America. How Contemporary Artists see the USA, Figge von Rosen Gallery, Köln

        Video Heroes, CGAC, The Contemporary Art Museum of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de

        Compostela, Spanien (curated by Javier Duero)

        Into Me/Out of Me, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (curated by Klaus

        Biesenbach)

        Into Me/Out of Me, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, USA (curated by Klaus

        Biesenbach)

        HER-SELF, Ritter/Zamet Galerie, London, UK

        Lo último de Nueva York, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spanien

        Coolhunters. Jugendkulturen zwischen Medien und Markt, Budapeset Műcsarnok Kunsthalle

        Ungarn

        Youth of Today, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main (Kuratoren Max Hollein,

        Matthias Ulrich)

 

2005 Corpus 05 Brügge, Musea Brugge, Belgien

        Video/ökonomie, ZKM |Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe

        Realities III: Exeptions, Fotogalerie Wien, Österreich

        Poesia in forma di rosa: tribute to Pasolini, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea

        Monfalcone, Italien

        Ratatouille, 20.21 Galerie Edition Kunsthandel, Essen

        First We Take Museums, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsiniki, Finnland

        COOLHUNTERS. Jugendkulturen zwischen Medien und Markt, Künstlerhaus Wien, Österreich

        Vicious, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, USA (curated by Liz Mulholland)

        Dead kids do nothing, 31 Grant, Brooklyn, USA (curated by Adam Stennett)

        Himmelsbilder, Dommuseum zu Salzburg, Salzburg, Österreich (curated by Dr. Peter Keller)

        Videonale 10, Kunstmuseum Bonn (curated by Georg Elben)

        boost in the shell, Cultural Center of Bruges (with Jake & Dinos Chapman, John Isaacs, Bruce

        Naumann a.o.), Belgien

        Nocturnal Transmissions, curator´s office, Washington, USA (curated by Andrea Pollan)

        COOLHUNTERS. Jugendkulturen zwischen Medien und Markt, ZKM | Center for Art and

        Media, Museum Karlsruhe, Deutschland

        Charmed, The Lower Eastside Girls Club, New York (curated by Michael St. John, Jason Duval)

        orgien, voelcker & freunde galerie, Berlin, Deutschland

        unspeakable, Aeroplastics, Brussels, Belgien  

 

2004 Body, Gimm Eis, Copenhagen, Dänemark

        Black, Marvelli Gallery, New York, USA

        Short Histories Of Video, John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

        Like a Virgin, Eastern Edge, St. John's, Canada

        Pulse Of America, Aeroplastics, Brussels, Belgien

 

2003 Without Fear or Reproach?, Witte Zaal, Gent, Belgien

        Foreplay, Ritter/Zamet, London, Großbritannien

        Meanwhile In the Real World, Chapelle de la Sorbonne, Paris, Frankreich

        Female Turbulence, Aeroplastics, Brussels, Belgien

        De Cuerpos y Almas: Pornografias 03, Galería de Arte Carmen De La Guerra, Madrid, Spanien

        Interdit aux moins 18 ans, Galerie Une, Neuchâtel, Schweiz

        Luxurious, Galerie Clairefontaine, Luxemburg

        No Platform Just a Trampoline, Marcus Ritter Gallery, New York, USA

        Emergencias, Galería de Arte Carmen De La Guerra, Madrid, Spanien

        Le Printemps Extra Large Festival, Espace Cambre, Brussels, Belgien

        Bad Girls, Ikon Ltd./Kay Richards Contemporary Art, Santa Monica, California, USA

        Scope Video and Film Festival, -Scope New York, The Dylan Hotel, New York, USA

 

2002 Cabaret Electronico, Galería Carmen De La Guerra, Madrid, Spanien

        Porn Ar(t)ound the World, KC nOna, Mechelen, Belgien

        Room For a Revolution, Deluxe Projects, Chicago, Illinois, USA

        Manifiesta 2002, La Casa de Campo de Madrid, Madrid, Spanien

        Strip and Tease, Aeroplastics, Brussels, Belgien

        Permanent Vacation: Senior Show 2002, Rosenberg Gallery, N.Y. University, USA

 

2001 Pixel Vision, Void, New York, New York, USA

        Reflect/Refract, Mickey's Blue Room, New York, New York, USA

 

1999 Jungle Juice, No Malice, New York, New York, USA
 

 

Sammlungen


Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf
The Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russ
land
Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, USA
Collection Hugo & Carla Brown, Den Haag, Niederlande
Collection Eric Decelle, Belgi
en
Collection Olbricht, Essen
Collection Plum,
Deutschland
Mobley-Springmeier Collection,
Schweiz und Deutschland
Collection Reydan Weiss, Essen

 
 
Bibliograph
ie

Number Two: Fragile, Julia Stoschek Collection, Hatje Cantz, 2009, S. 231-244
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Juni 8, 2009, Posen, Blick, Tränen, by Christoph Schütte, p.35
The Brooklyn Rail, October 2007, Alex McQuilkin: Joan of Arc, by Thomas Micchelli
The New York Sun, November 1, 2007, Double Dose of French Film, by David Cohen
Village Voice, April 28, 2006, Desperata, by Jerry Saltz

Olbricht - MOST WANTED. The Olbricht Collection. Some Recent Acquisitions, Hrsg. von Axel Heil & Wolfgang Schoppmann, Nachwort von Thomas Olbricht, Köln 2005
Artkrush.com, October 19, 2005 - Issue #17, One to watch: Alex McQuilkin, October 19, 2005 - Issue #17
Der Standard, Austria, ’Der Ort ist die Straße’, Anne Katrin Feßler, July 22, 2005, p. 22
Regioartline>Kunstmagazin, June/July , p. 1
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, ’Wie man Insider ausgrenzt’, Dietmar Dath, June 8, 2005, p. 42
ArtNet, ‘London in pictures‘, Ana Finel Honigman, 6.6.2005
Art, ‘Karlsruhe: Coolhunters - Wie die Halfpipe ins Museum kommt‘, May 2005, p. 92
Stuttgarter Zeitung, no. 98, April 29, 2005, p. 31
Frankfurter Rundschau, April 27, 2005, no 97, p 15
Spiegel, Kultur, 17/2005, p 147
Art, Ute Thon, ’Mädchenkunst echt böse’, January 2005, p. 44-49
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, ’Pferdebilder und Lippenstift’, Christoph Schütte, 18. October, 2004, p. 50
Financial Times Deutschland, ’Punkvideos und rosarote Backfischwelt’, Judith Borowski, 22. October 2004, p. 3
Lapiz, ’Alex McQuilkin’, Amanda Coulson, Nr. 206, October 2004, p. 86
Frankfurter Rundschau - plan.F, ’So beeinflußbar’, Marc Peschke, 37-2004, p. 15
MONOPOL Magazin für Kunst und Leben, August/September 2004, p. 126
ProArts.at, ’Alex McQuilkin - Tragically Sweet’, Andrea Sedlaczek, September 2004
Portalkunstgeschichte.de, ’Teenage-Daydreams and Suicide-Chic’, Uta Parsche, 09/04/2004
Flash Art, ’Alex McQuilkin – Smells like teen spirit’, Michael Cohen, March-April 2004, p. 94-95
ArtNet, ‘Gotham Dispatch,’ Max Henry, 19. March, 2004
ArtNet, ‘Hot Toys For the Wealthy, Good Art For the Wise,’ Charlie Finch, 13. March, 2004
frieze, ‘Reviews: No Platform Just a Trampoline,’ Adam Mendelsohn, Oktober 2003, p. 124-125
Metropoli, ‘Arte:  Almas de carne,’ 7. August, 2003
Chueca, ‘Espectáculos: 'De cuerpos y almas:  Pornografías 03,’ Sebastián Alonso, July 2003
Artforum, ‘Critics' Picks: New York; 'No Platform Just a Trampoline,’ Martha Schwendener, June, 2003
Suds and Soda, ‘Notes On Art: Wednesday 02 April,’ Arjette Hinke Schreuders, 2. April, 2003
ArtNet, ’The Next Big Thing,’ Charlie Finch, 2. April, 2003
Exibart, ‘Trine Boesen e Alex Mcquilkin–Double Life: Napoli, 404 Gallery,’ Maya Pacifico, Feb., 2003
adrART, ‘404 arte contemporanea, Napoli: 'Double Life: Trine Boesen e Alex McQuilkin,’ January 2003
Le Journal des Arts, ‘L'art et son marché: Une foire jeune,’ Adrian Dannatt, April, 2002, p. 21
The Art Newspaper, ‘Raunchy Merchandise On Virtually Every Stand,’ Adrian Dannatt, April 02, p. 37
likeYou.com, 'Strip and Tease': Nudity With Something Else,’ Pierre-Yves Desaive, May-July 2002
ArtNet, ‘Weekend Update,’ Walter Robinson, April, 2002
New York Arts Magazine, ‘Post Sept. 11: Eroticism In New York,’ L.P. Streitfeld, April 2002
The Free Biennial, ‘Projects: 'Permanent Vacation;' April 2002
The Art Newspaper, "Raunchy Merchandise On Virtually Every Stand," Adrian Dannatt, March
, 2002