Alexis Blake
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Recent – Current – Upcoming

Alexis Blake’s multidisciplinary practice coalesces visual art, performance and dance. She investigates the way in which the body is represented and treated as an archive, which she then critically examines, disrupts, and re-negotiates. Her work directly engages with the representation and subjectification of gendered bodies while activating them as sites and agents for socio-political change. In doing so she creates languages of resistance and spaces to expose and elude systems of power.

Blake received an MA in Fine Art from Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam (2007) and was an artist-in-residence at WIELS, Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels (2020+2021), the Delfina Foundation, London (2016), Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (2014–15), Fondazione Antonio Ratti with Yvonne Rainer (2015). Her work has been presented at numerous locations, such as: KW Contemporary (Berlin), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Holland Festival (Amsterdam), 1st Riga Biennial (Riga, Latvia), BOZAR (Brussels), Performatik19 (Brussels), IMMA – Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin), Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam), British Museum / Block Universe Performance Festival (London), TENT (Rotterdam), ExtraCity (Antwerp) and La Triennale di Milano XXI (Milan). She is the winner of the Dutch art prize, Prix de Rome 2021.

Supported by Mondriaan Fonds

Webdesign by Sandra Kassenaar
Development by Kay Pisarowitz and Eurico Sá Fernandes

1/19
rock to jolt [ ] stagger to ash — Kunsthaus Zürich - Performance
1/16
rock to jolt [ ] stagger to ash — Prix de Rome – Performance
1/11
rock to jolt [ ] stagger to ash — Publication
1/20
We Will Not be Moved — GfZK - Performance
1/33
Crack Nerve Boogie Swerve — High Line - Performance
1/17
Crack Nerve Boogie Swerve — KW Contemporary – Performance
1/15
Crack Nerve Boogie Swerve — Act Two
1/11
Crack Nerve Boogie Swerve — Act One
1/3
Crack Nerve Boogie Swerve — Prelude
1/6
Crack Nerve Boogie Swerve — Installation
1/4
Anthology of Anger — IMMA - Performance
1/4
Anthology of Anger — Poster Intervention
1/8
Anthology of Anger — Performance
1/12
Allegory of the Painted Woman — BOZAR / Performatik19 – Performance
1/9
Allegory of the Painted Woman — BOZAR / Performatik19 – Publication
1/13
Allegory of the Painted Woman — Riga Biennial – Performance
1/8
Allegory of the Painted Woman — Riga Biennial – Publication
1/6
Allegory of the Painted Woman — Rijksmuseum – Performance
1/7
Allegory of the Painted Woman — Rijksmuseum – Publication
1/5
Allegory of the Painted Woman — Jan van Eyck – Performance
1/7
Allegory of the Painted Woman — Oude Kerk – Performance
1/8
Allegory of the Painted Woman — Oude Kerk – Publication
1/9
Allegory of the Painted Woman — Video Installation
1/8
Allegory of the Painted Woman — Research
1/6
Allegory of the Painted Woman — Screenprints
1/10
Allegory of the Painted Woman — Screenprints
1/12
Conditons of an Ideal — Performance
1/10
Conditons of an Ideal — Video
1/8
Conditons of an Ideal — Verbania, Italy – Performance
1/12
We Will Not be Moved — Milan XXI Triennale – Performance
1/10
We Will Not be Moved — Milan XXI Triennale – Workshop
1/6
We Will Not be Moved — Stedelijk Museum Schiedam – Performance
1/10
We Will Not be Moved — Screenprinted Garments
1/5
she who has no crown — Riga Biennial: Part One – LP record
1/4
she who has no crown — Riga Biennial: Part Two – Live broadcast
1/8
she who has no crown — Riga Biennial – Workshop
1/1
How to Handle an Object — Screenprints
1/8
How to Handle an Object — Performance Series of "handlings"
info@alexis-blake.com