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Alice Anderson

Alice Anderson's work brings together ancestral cultures and transhumanist thought that aims to increase human capacities through technology. His works include paintings and sculptures, initiated by a dance-performance that is either dazzling or meditative. To interact with the objects in the collection, it is this last practice that Alice Anderson has favored, choosing to include a selection of sculptures from the "Spiritual Machines" series. These different machines, once assembled, are "woven" by means of extremely slow gestures of "memorization" which consist in surrounding an object with copper-colored wire symbolizing the connections, both cerebral and technological, of the dawn of the internet. Here, the abstract forms of the statuettes made from computer equipment are confronted with Cycladic idols or stylized African figures; there, an anthropomorphic totem converses with sculptures by Germaine Richier. Special moments of this exhibition, performances will offer the possibility of an unprecedented proximity to the artistic practice of Alice Anderson.

In 2020, Alice Anderson was nominated for the Prix Marcel Duchamp. Anderson has exhibited in international institutions, including the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Whitechapel Art Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, The Wellcome Collection and Freud Museum in London, the Musée d’Art Moderne de Fontevraud, France, Bâtiment Historique Eiffel, Paris, Patinoire Royale, Brussels, and Den Frie Contemporary Art Centre, Copenhagen, among others.
Alice Anderson graduated from Ecole Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Paris in 2001 and completed her MFA at Goldsmiths College London, 2004.

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Selected artworks

  • Alice Anderson, DANSES GÉOMÉTRIQUES, LA PUERTA AL CIELO, NABUSIMAKE I, 2020

    Alice Anderson DANSES GÉOMÉTRIQUES, LA PUERTA AL CIELO, NABUSIMAKE I, 2020

    Acrylic on felt
    1,025 x 300 cm
    403 1/2 x 118 1/2 in

  • Alice Anderson, RANDOM CHROMATICS, 2021

    Alice Anderson RANDOM CHROMATICS, 2021

    Collective performance with Harry Alexander, Alice Anderson, Jon Caruana, Yen Ching, Valerie Ebuwa, Zinzi Marsh, Moses Ward at KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin

Alice Anderson in discussion with Eva Langret, Artistic Director of Frieze London

Gallery exhibitions

Museum exhibitions

Selected press