Performance

Alexandra Pirici works in museum contexts, in public space and sometimes in theatrical frameworks. She choreographs ongoing actions, performative monuments and performative environments that fuse dance, sculpture, spoken word and music. Her works deal with monumentality or the history of specific places and institutions in order to playfully tackle and transform existing hierarchies. They also reflect on the history and function of gestures in art and popular culture or on questions about the body, its presence, absence or image.

 

Alexandra Pirici (born in 1982 in Bucharest, Romania) is an artist with a background in dance and choreography, considered to be one of the leading figures in the field of contemporary performance art. Her work has been widely exhibited internationally, two times included in the Venice Biennale - the International Art Exhibition in 2022 and the Romanian Pavilion in 2013, and in the decennial art exhibition Skulptur Projekte Munster in 2017. She had collective and solo exhibitions in contexts such as New Museum New York, Art Basel Messeplatz, The 9th Berlin Biennale, Manifesta 10, Tate Modern London, Centre Pompidou Paris, Museum Ludwig Cologne, The Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, NTU CCA Singapore, among many others.

 

Her class focus on the expanded field of Performance, understood as an interdisciplinary, fluid space of thinking and making, primarily concerned with communicating through action and the body but also extending to other mediums and means.