About

Berlin artist Alex Head’s work explores the impact of culture on our interior worlds. Broadly speaking he assesses the ways in which the artistic method lends clarity to embodied, spiritually undernourished minds. He translates bodies of research into public events, drawing and print, working with non-hierarchical networks of artists, researchers and citizens. In his forthcoming book project 1001 Accurate Memories (Plural Studio), he presents an analysis of traumatic memory, set side by side with day-to-day lived experiences that the reader will no doubt be familiar with: conflict, fear, hope, love and loss in an ever more unstable environment. The book draws an arc from foreshadowing future events in Here Comes Trouble (ZK/U Press, 2016) and Ricochet (Ljå Forlag, 2021), to a proposal about how the past is remembered, and why. Alex is a pansexual bilingual dual national white male.

Alex studied a Bachelors of Arts in Sculpture & Environmental Art at The Glasgow School of Art (2007), including an exchange programme at Pratt University, New York (2005). He attained a Masters degree in Raumstrategien (Spatial Strategies), focusing on Fine Art and Political Theory, at Weißensee School of Art, Berlin.

His recent book Ricochet has drawn approval from artistic, scientific, architectural and anthropological quarters.

Publications carried by:
Salon für Kunstbuch, Wien (AT), BATT Coop, Paris (FR), After8, Paris (FR), Giselle’s Books, Marseille (FR), bruno, Venice (IT), Stampa, Basel (CH), PUNCH, Bucharest (RO), Skylight, Los Angeles (USA), McNally Jackson, New York (USA), Mast Books, New York (USA), 2 Bridges, New York (USA), Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University (USA), Shakespear and Sons (Czech Republic), Housmans Bookshop (UK), ICA Bookstore (UK), Whitechapel Books (UK), Donlon (UK), Pages of Hackney London (UK), and Hopscotch Reading Room (DE), Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt (DE), bbooks (DE), Walter König (DE), Pro qm (DE), Do You Read Me?! (DE), Zabriski (DE), She Said (DE), Arnolfini (UK), Bookhaus (UK), South London Gallery (UK), Serpentine (UK). Now distributed by Public Knowledge Books

Alongside a number of public engagements through the research and publication platforms mentioned above, Head has been invited for commissioned work and as a guest artist with: Hopscotch Reading Room, Berlin; Center for Theoretical Studies, Prague; Haus der Statistik, Berlin; Theater X, Berlin; Motto Berlin; Center for Art and Urbanistics (ZK/U), Berlin; Berlin Biennale #10; KAPiTAL, Berlin; KUNCI Study Forum & Collective in Yogyakarta, Indonesia; Rujak Center for Urban Studies in Jakarta, Indonesia; Jakarta History Museum; Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden; Neue Berliner Räume, Berlin; European Capital of Culture Plovdiv, Bulgaria; DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service); ifa Gallery (Institute for Foreign Relationships), Berlin; Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt (House of the World’s Cultures), Berlin; Threads Radio, London; NTS Radio, London; Deutschlandradio; Worldwide FM, London; Muzeum Sztuki Lodz, Poland; The Substation, Melbourne; Babylon Cinema, Berlin; Arte de Obra, Lanzarote; Transition Finsbury Park, London; W139 Gallery, Amsterdam.

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