Alex McQuilkin represented by Galerie ADLER

	Alex McQuilkin *1980 Boston, Massachusetts, USA 1998-2002 BFA, New York University, New York, USA 2006 – 2008 MFA, NYU Steinhard School, New York, USA

Solo Exhibitions

2009 I Wish I Was a Beam of Light, Galerie Adler, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

2008  Romeo and Juliet, subZONE Galerie Adler, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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 (with Angela Strassheim)
2004 Tragically Sweet, Galerie Adler, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2003 Double Life: Alex McQuilkin; Trine Boesen, 404 arte contemporanea, Naples,
        Italy (with Trine Boesen)

Group Exhibitions

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, Germany
        Hip & Cool, Fundación Marcelino Botín, Santander, Spain
        Gewalt, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
        Mother, NYU Steinhardt Commons Gallery, New York, USA
        Julia Stoschek Collection - I want to see how you see, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
        Crystal Pantomime, St. Mark's Church, New York, USA
2009 On Portrait – 01, Kunstagenten Gallery, Berlin, Germany
        Radiografias 09, Centro de Cultura Antiguo Instituto, Gijon, Spain
        Kunst Film Biennale Köln, Köln / Bonn, Germany
        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, Germany - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain - Centre
        Pompidou, Paris, France
        ttalk talk. Das Interview als künstlerische Praxis, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig,
        Germany - 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, Germany
        Number Two: Fragile, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany
        Busan Biennial, Korea
        VIDEOCRACY, tina b. 2008 The Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Prague (curated
        by Micaela Giovannotti)

2007 Look Away, Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York, NY
        12th Biennial of Moving Images, Centre pour l’image Contemporain, Saint Gervais,
        Genève, CH
        Teenage Kicks, Vegas Gallery, London
        Aggression, Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur, CH (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, Germany
        Felt temperature ..., Kunstverein Langenhagen, Langenhagen, Germany
        Into Me/Out of Me, MACRO - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy
        Je suis une bombe, Von der Heyd Museum, Wuppertal / Kunsthalle Barmen, Germany

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, Cologne, Germany

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

Compostela, Spain (curated by Javier Duero)

Into Me/Out of Me, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany (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, Spain

Coolhunters. Youth cultures between the media and the market, Budapest Műcsarnok |

Kunsthalle, Hungary

Youth of Today, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (curated by Max Hollein,

Matthias Ulrich)

2005 Corpus 05 Brügge, Musea Brugge, Belge

Video/ökonomie, ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Museum Karlsruhe, Germany

Realities III: Exeptions, Fotogalerie Wien, Austria

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

Monfalcone, Italien

Ratatouille, 20.21 Galerie Edition Kunsthandel, Essen, Germany

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

COOLHUNTERS. Youth cultures between the media and the market, Künstlerhaus Wien, Austria

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, Austria (curated by Dr. Peter Keller)

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

Naumann a.o.)

Videonale 10, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany (curated by Georg Elben)

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

COOLHUNTERS. Youth cultures between the media and the market, ZKM | Center for Art and

Media, Museum Karlsruhe, Germany

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

orgien, voelcker & freunde galerie, Berlin, Germany

unspeakable, Aeroplastics, Brussels, Belgium

2004 Body, Gimm Eis, Copenhagen, Denmark

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, Belgium

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

Foreplay, Ritter/Zamet, London, Great Britain

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

Female Turbulence, Aeroplastics, Brussels, Belgium

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

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

Luxurious, Galerie Clairefontaine, Luxembourg

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

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

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

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, Spain

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

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

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

Strip and Tease, Aeroplastics, Brussels, Belgium

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

Collections

Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany
The Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, USA
Collection Hugo & Carla Brown, Den Haag, The Netherlands
Collection Eric Decelle, Belgium
Collection Olbricht, Essen, Germany
Collection Plum, Germany
Mobley-Springmeier Collection, Switzerland and Germany
Collection Reydan Weiss, Essen, Germany

Bibliography

Number Two: Fragile, Julia Stoschek Collection, Hatje Cantz, 2009, p. 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, ed. By Axel Heil & Wolfgang Schoppmann, comment by Thomas Olbricht, Cologne 2005
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Der Standard, Austria, ’Der Ort ist die Straße’, Anne Katrin Feßler, July 22, 2005, p. 22
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Art, ‘Karlsruhe: Coolhunters - Wie die Halfpipe ins Museum kommt‘, May 2005, p. 92
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ArtNet, ’The Next Big Thing,’ Charlie Finch, 2. April, 2003
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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