< CV
Alexi Kukuljevic
*1978 Johannesburg, SA
Lives and works in Berlin
Educational Experience, Residencies and Institutional Affiliations
2015 Lecturer at Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien
2014 Center for Expanded Poetics, Concordia University, Montreal
2013 IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden
2010-2012 Researcher Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht NL
2004-2009 Ph.D. in Philosophy, Villanova University
2005-2006 Albert Ludwigs Universität, with the support of a DAAD grant
2000-2003 MA Villanova University, 2003
1996-2000 BA Seattle University
Solo-Exhibitions
2017
2014
You Can’t Rely on the Joke as Your Only Mode of Social Relation, Kunsthalle Leipzig
2013
Don’t Be a Dreamer Mr. Me, Marginal Utility, Gallery, Philadelphia
2012
Caput Mortuum, Gallery SIZ, Rijeka, Croatia
The I Lesson, Part I, Marginal Utility at ICA Philadelphia part of First Among Equals
2010
Yes, Yes I am Happy aber Glücklich bin ich nicht, Vox Populi Gallery, June 2010
Group Exhibitions
2018
10 Years Anniversary, Tanya Leighton, Berlin
Heavenly Beings: Neither Human nor Animal, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovina
2016
The Collapse of the Mind’s Ordering System Leads to some rather Wanton Developments, Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin
2015
Picture the Cricket’s Legs Apart, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago
Improper Nouns, Black Bridge Off-space, Beijing, China
2014
La Longue Image Panoramique de la Révolution d’une Oeuvre de Christophe Lemaitre, CNEAI Paris
Moon Voyage 36, Fridge Art Center, Sophia, Bulgaria
2013
Skull Island, Galerija Miroslav Kraljevi, Zagreb, Croatia
Nouvelles Vagues, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
They Might Have Been Remnants from the Boat, Calder Foundation, NY
2012
The Beginning, Wild West Active Space, Maastricht
“Three Artists Walk into a Bar…”, De Appel Arts Center, Amsterdam
First Among Equals (with Machete Group), ICA Philadelphia
2011
A Corps Perdu, curated by Vanessa Desclaux, FRAC Bourgogne, Chateuneuf-en-Auxois
What a Drawing, curated by Hans Christian Dany, Wild West Active Space, Maastricht, NL
Kunsttour, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL
The Island Beautiful/ Mortal Mirror, Bodega and Extra Extra, Philadelphia
Opening Week Exhibition, Jan van Eyck Academie
2009
Splav Meduze, Zavod Celeia Celje/ Center for Contemporary Art Celje in Likovni salon Gallery, Celje, Slovenia
A Minor Interruption, Performance Vox Populi Death 2+3+, VOX V, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia
2007
This is Not the Future, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia
Artist Books
Liquidation World: On the Art of Living Absently, 2017 (MIT Press)
Cracked Fillings, 2012 (Jan van Eyck Publication)
Hiatuses, Holes, or Tears, 2012 (a pdf book project with Bodega gallery, Philadelphia: http://bodegaphiladelphia.org/document.html
Oswald Wiener’s The Bio-Adapter, ed. and trans. Ludwig Fischer, 2012 (Jan van Eyck Publication)
Catalogues
Nouvelles Vagues, The magazine of the Palais de Tokyo, 2013
First Among Equals, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Philadelphia, 2013
Publications
“An Object that Speaks,” Spike Magazine, Art Quarterly #48, 2016
“The Happy Melancholic” forthcoming in “Politics and Melancholia,” Special Issue of Crisis and Critique, 2016
“The Nihilist” in To the Reader, ed. Benjamin Fallon, 2013
“Suicide by Decapitation” in And They Were Two in One and One in Two, ed. Nicolo Masciandaro, 2014
“The Dissolute Subject,” Pages (Issue 9: Seep), 2013
“More or Less Art, More or Less a Commodity, More or Less an Object, More or Less a Subject—The Readymade and the Artist,” in Frakcija 64/65
“AND Alghieri e Boetti at Moma,” Machete, 2012
“Suicide by Decapitation,” Machete, 2012
“On Assignment,” (Visiting Jan Mot Gallery) Machete, 2011
“Accepting the Worst,” Machete, 2010
“The Dross of Humanity: Justin Matherly at Marginal Utility,” Machete, 2010
“The Creation of Brainstorms and Other Destructive Ends,” Machete, 2010
“Abigail Deville’s America,” Machete, 2010
“Calming the Rage of the Wounded and Defeated,” Machete, 2010
“Keeping the Bewildered Herd Bewildered: The American Constitution Center,” Machete, 2010
“Let us Not Pine after an Absent God,” Machete, 2010
“A Little Reassurance in Barbaric Times,” Machete, 2010
“Fearless Foot and an Unscrupulous Mind (A Scream from the Extremity),” Machete, 2009
“Leaving No Maggot Lonely,” Machete, 2009
“Like a Nightmare on the Brain of the Living,” Machete, 2009
“Putting on the Frock: Jeff Wall at the PMA,” Machete, October 2009
“The Politics of Being,” Philosophy Today, 52: 5, 2009
"Deleuze’s Metaphysics and the Reality of the Virtual", Philosophy Today, 49:5, 2005
“The Work of the Question” in Searching For Romberg: Art and Interactivity in the Work of Osvaldo Romberg, Ed. Aaron Levy. Slought Books, Philadelphia. 2001
"Feeling Through the Flesh: An Analysis of the Unconscious in Merleau-Ponty's Later Thought", Existential Analysis, Vol. 11.2, Being-in-the-World, 2000
Reviews
Anne van Leeuwen, Review, You Can’t Rely on the Joke as the only mode of social relation! at Kunsthalle-Leipzig, http://www.berlinartlink.com/2014/05/09/exhibition-you-cant-rely-on-the-joke-as-the-only-mode-of-social-relation-at-kunsthalle-leipzig/
Schwartz, Chip Alexi Kukuljevic Dares Not to Dream, http://www.knightarts.org/community/philadelphia/alexi-kukuljevic-marginal-utility
Epstein, Edward First Among Equals in Art Papers July/August 2012
Krucvar, Zoran, http://www.mojarijeka.hr/kultura/galerija-siz-u-novom-prostoru-ugostila-izlozbu-alexija-kukuljevica/
Alpert, Avi. Ludwig Fischer, Machete July 2010
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