CV (1994 - 2008)
 
Born 1967 Lubin, Poland. Citizen of Sweden and USA. Lives in Palermo, Sicily.
 

Aleksandra Mir's works often take the form of social processes that are open for anyone who wishes giving the work meaning. The work of art is an exercise that operates in everyday life; a humanistic and playful organism with a large social appetite. The works course of events is often started by Mir as a situation-bound joint between specific events, and the works location. From this starting point the discussion is extended to more general conditions like traditions, norms and categorization. Pick Up (Oh Baby) was a public collection and broadcast of sexy male whistles at Town hall Square in Copenhagen. The sound encroached on the people passing by. The lightly dressed girls looked over their shoulders in vain trying to catch a glimpse of the man who whistled. Cinema for the Unemployed — Hollywood Disaster Movies (1970-1997) is produced by Mir in cooperation with Moss employment service. From May 25th - 29th at 9am - 5pm (on weekdays, during work hours!), disaster movies will be shown in a shut down cinema, in the center of Moss. In this way, Mir connects ideas about leisure culture and labor life in a situation, which is both metaphor and productive circumstance.

Lars Bang Larsen, MOMENTUM catalogue, 1998.

 
Formal Education
1994-96 Cultural Anthropology, The Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research, NYC.
1989-92 Media Arts, BFA, School of Visual Arts, NYC.
1986-87 Communication & Media studies, Schillerska/Gothenburg University, Gothenburg.
 
Talks & Teaching
2008 Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Olso.
2006 Columbia School of Art, NYC.
  Roski School of Fine Art, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
2005 Solomon. R. Guggenheim Museum Museum, NYC.
  TICA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago.
2004 Funky Lessons at Münzsalon, a conversation with Jörg Heiser, Berlin.
  Cine y casi cine, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid.
  ICA, Ramp Revisited: A Conversation on Commissions, Philadelphia.
  Frieze Art Fair / Trafalgar Hotel, London.
  MFA lecture series, School of Visual Arts, NYC.
  Slade School of Art, University of London, London.
  ICA, Artist Talk, Philadelphia.
2003 Arnolfini Lecture series, Bristol.
2002 Columbia School of Art, NYC.
  School of Art, University of Tasmania, Hobart.
  Sydney College of Art, Sydney.
  California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco.
2001 Helsinki Art Academy, Helsinki.
2000 Royal College of Art, London.
1999 Valand School of Art, Gothenburg.
  Casco Projects, Utrecht.
1998 Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow.
  The Proto Academy, Edinburgh.
  Remarks on Interventive Tendencies, DCA, Copenhagen.
  Beyond Modernism and Postmodernism: A New Cultural Role for Art?, CCA in Helsinki, Moss.
 
Residencies
2004 Perros Negros, Mexico City.
2003 Ringier, Zurich.
2002 Sydney Biennale, Sydney.
2001 CCAC Wattis Institute, San Francisco.
2001 Delfina Studio Trust, London.
1998 CCAC, Glasgow.
 
Solo projects and shows
2007 Gravity: The Eternal Countdown, ICA, London.
  A Retrospective of Printed Matter, Printed Matter, Inc, NYC.
  Newsroom 1986-2000, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC.
  Sicilian Pavilion, Palermo / Venice.
2006 Organized Movement - A video diary, The Power Plant, Toronto.
  The Meaning of Flowers, Gavlak, Art Basel Miami Beach.
  Gravity,Space Soon, Arts Catalyst, The Roundhouse, London.
  Switzerland and Other Islands, Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland.
  Living & Loving #3—The Biography of Mitchell Wright, White Columns, NYC.
  Mouvement Organisé, Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris.
2005 WELCOME Sometimes, Greengrassi Gallery, London.
  Aeropuerto, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona.
  Baloise Art Prize: Aleksandra Mir - The Big Umbrell, 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, NYC.
  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 (NYC), PS1 Contemporary Art Center, NYC
  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, NYC.
  The Big Umbrella (Paris), Jousse enterprise, Paris.
  Naming Tokyo (part II), Swiss Institute, NYC.
  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, NYC.
2002 Daily News, Gavin Browns enterprise, NYC / Greengrassi, London.
  Living & Loving #1—The Biography of Donald Cappy, Cubitt, London.
  Pink Tank, Cubitt, London.
  HELLO Bern, Galeria Francesca Pia, Bern.
2001 HELLO NYC, Gavin Browns enterprise, NYC.
2000 TOP SECRET, Kaffibarinn, Reykjavik.
1999 Conspiracy Night, Swiss Institute, NYC.
  First Woman on the Moon, Casco Projects, Utrecht.
  Garlands for people, The kitchen of Dorota and Feliks Puchlik, Sävedalen.
  Garlands for people, The country home of Maria and Martin Ståhl, Stora Askerön.
1998 Bingo Blues,Transmission Gallery, Glasgow.
  CityForest (prototype), Tompkins Square Park, NYC.
1997 Pick Up (oh baby!), Lyd/Galerie, Copenhagen.
  Fashion Hats, Window on Broadway, The New Museum of Contemporary Art/Fashion Hats, NYC.
1995 Life is Sweet in Sweden, Trixter, Gothenburg.
 
Group Shows
2007 Stardust ou la dernière frontière, MAC/VAL, Musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-seine.
  Come, Come, Come into my world, Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitão.
  PAWNSHOP, e-flux, NYC.
  Disco Coppertone, Megaron OLP, Piraeus.
  The Shapes of Space - Part IV, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC.
  Detourism, Orchard, NYC.
  Beauty is in the Street, Mason Gross Galleries/Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
2006 New York, Interrupted, PKM Gallery, Beijing.
  Labyrinth, Botkyrka Konsthall, Tumba.
  Bunch Alliance and Dissolve, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati.
  Fantastic Politics, Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo.
  USA Today, Royal Academy of Arts, London.
  Upstate, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC.
  Aleksandra Mir & Robert Orchardson, Bournville Centre for Visual Arts, Birmingham.
  Space Is The Place, Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art, Portland.
  The Starry Messenger: Visions of the Universe, Compton Verney, Warwickshire.
  Motion on Paper, Ben Brown Fine Arts Ltd, London.
  Nothing But Pleasure, BAWAG Foundation, Wien.
  Empieza el Juego, La Casa Encendida, Madrid.
  Miss America, Rental Gallery, Los Angeles.
  Yankee Doodle, Hillside Plaza, Tokyo.
  Art For Our Sake!, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson.
  Opere Su Carta, Studio Guenzani, Milan.
  Hiding In The Light, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC.
  My Way, Jousse Entreprise, Paris.
2005 GuestRoom #2, Museum Heit Domein, Sittard.
  Organized Movement, Andrew Kreps Gallery, NYC.
  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, NYC.
  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, NYC.
  Post No Bills, White Columns, NYC.
  Trade, White Columns, NYC.
  Social Democracy Revisited, Apexart, NYC.
  Monuments for the USA, CCAC Wattis Institute, San Francisco.
  Tea and video art, Locus, Athens.
2004 Funky Lessons, BAWAG Foundation, Vienna.
  Vacation: projection series 7, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery , New Plymouth.
  The exhibition Coalesce: Mingle Mangle, Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo.
  Communism, Project Art Space, Dublin.
  Che and Apple, Le Magasin, Grenoble.
  Terminal 5, JFK Airport, NYC.
  Never Never Landscape, Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin.
  Funky Lessons, Buero Friedrich, Berlin.
  Exhibition 13, Champion Fine Art, NYC.
  California Earthquakes, Daniel Reich Gallery, NYC.
  Localismos, Perros Negros, Mexico City.
  The Drawing Project, Vamiali's, Athens.
  Detox, The Murmanx connection, Grenselandsmuseet, Kirkenes.
  Socle du Monde Biennial 2004, Herning Kunstmuseum, Herning.
  Nuclear War, Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden.
  World Watchers, Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden.
  Untitled (Visione, Esistenza, Resistenza), Franco Soffiantino Arte Contemporanea,Torino.
  Tonight, Studio Voltaire, London.
  Whitney Biennial 2004, NYC.
  State of Play, Serpentine gallery, London.
  Le Proche et le Lointain, Domaine de Kerguehennec, CAC, Kerguehennec.
2003 The Outlaw Series 2003, NYC.
  The World, Jousse enterprise, Paris.
  The World, Gallery speak for, Tokyo.
  Sandwiched, Jacob Fabricius, NYC.
  24/7: Wilno-Nueva York, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius.
  Publicness, w. Jens Haaning & Matthieu Laurette, ICA, London.
  Overexposed, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona.
  La crise économique, Jousse enterprise, Paris.
  GNS (Global Navigation System), Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
  Sharjah International Biennial 6, Sharjah Art Museums, Sharjah.
  It doesnt matter what you know, because this is real life, GBE, NYC.
  Ill Communication, DCA, Dundee.
  The 20th Anniversary Show, Gavin Browns enterprise, NYC.
2002 Actualites, Le Rectangle, Lyon.
  The World (may be) Fantastic, Biennale of Sydney, Sydney.
  COPY, Roth Horowitz gallery, NYC.
  5th Anniversary show, Jousse Entreprise, Paris.
2001 How wonderful that the world exists!, CCAS, SF.
2000 Pyramids of Mars, Curve Gallery, Barbican Art Center, London.
  Pyramids of Mars, Trapholt Art Museum, Trapholt.
  Pyramids of Mars, Fruitmarket gallery, Edinburgh.
  FLAKK, or that extraordinary sensation of being abroad even when at home, The Nordic House, Reykjavik.
  Fuori Uso, Pescara.
  Democracy!, Royal College of Art, London.
  Viva Maria III, Gallery Karin Guenther, Hamburg.
1999 Empires without States, Swiss Institute, NYC.
1998 Oriental Nights, Gavin Browns enterprise, NYC.
  Slipstream, Center of Contemporary Art, Glasgow.
  Momentum, Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art, Moss.
1996 Update, Roskilde Festival, Roskilde.
  Update, Copenhagen.
 
Collective work

Original member of M.I.M.E., a NY-based collective that aimed at revitalizing the art form of Mime through appearances in private and public space. Founded in 1999, the other original members included Christian Holstad, Sigrun Hrolfsdottir, Delia Gonzales and Gavin Russom. M.I.M.E. has not performed together since 2002, but you never know.

 
2002 M.I.M.E. Reunited, Paris.
2001 The first M.I.M.E. movie, NYC.
  M.i.m.e.w.a.v.e!!!!!, Niagra bar, NYC.
2000 Turn off the lights M.I.M.E., Public Access TV, NYC.
  Nightlife M.I.M.E., Gavin Browns enterprise, NYC.
  The second M.I.M.E. Swim, Asser Levy Public Pool, NYC.
  M.I.M.E., The Zoo and Rose Garden, Prospect Park, NYC.
1999 Iceland M.I.M.E.,Kóngshakki, Snefellsnes.
  Drunk M.I.M.E., Local bar, Utrecht.
  The M.I.M.E. Swim, Krommerin Public Bath, Utrecht.
  Supermarket M.I.M.E., Key Foods, Avenue A, NYC.
  Fleetweek M.I.M.E., Times Square, NYC.
 
Cancelled work
2004 Hello - from Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney to Whitney Houston, Whitney Biennial, NYC.
2001 Wildflower Meadow, Rebuilding the Gorbals Partnership, Glasgow.
2000 Cityforest, Public Art Fund, NYC.
 
Curatorial
2007 Donna / Woman, Laboratorio Saccardi, Francesco Pantaleone Art Contemporanea, Palermo.
2002 The Gareth James - Gareth Jones show, a cross atlantic extravaganza, private house, Bethnal Greene, London.