Alexandra Bachzetsis b. 1974
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Alexandra Bachzetsis
2020: Obscene
Festival Move, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR 15 Jun - 2 Jul 2023Pour cette septième édition du festival, l'exposition regroupe le travail de quatre artistes ou duo d’artistes femmes, autour des enjeux de la représentation du corps féminin – de son dévoilement...Read more -
Alexandra Bachzetsis
Notebook
Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Sankt Gallen, CH 1 Apr - 18 Jun 2023In der Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen präsentiert Bachzetsis ihre neue Arbeit Notebook , die als Performance und Videoinstallation zu sehen ist. Das Werk ist eine radikale Auseinandersetzung mit ihrer eigenen...Read more -
Alexandra Bachzetsis
This This Side Up
in Collaboration with Julia Born In the context of the group exhibition Hannah Villiger: Amaze Me
Museum Susch, Susch, CH 4 Jan - 2 Jul 2023Muzeum Susch presents Hannah Villiger: Amaze Me, a comprehensive survey dedicated to the Swiss artist Hannah Villiger (1951-1997) with contributions from contemporary artists Alexandra Bachzetsis, Lou Masduraud (b. 1990) and...Read more -
Alexandra Bachzetsis
2020 Obscene
Kunsthaus Zürich, CH 25 Mar - 1 May 2022Alexandra Bachzetsis’ neuste Arbeit ist Ausstellung und Live-Performance zugleich und konzentriert sich auf das Verhältnis der Inszenierung des exzessiven Körpers und dessen Verzehr durch den begehrenden Blick. Kunsthaus ZürichRead more -
Alexandra Bachzetsis
Rehearsal (Ongoing) 17 Sep - 30 Oct 2021 Weststrasse 70, Zurich, CHRead more -
Alexandra Bachzetsis
Chasing a Ghost
Art Institute Chicago, US 31 Oct - 2 Nov 2019In her newly commissioned work Chasing a Ghost , which premieres at the Art Institute of Chicago, Bachzetsis continuously creates a double—a double body, a double sound, a double space,...Read more -
Alexandra Bachzetsis
AN IDEAL FOR LIVING
Centre culturel suisse, Paris, FR 7 Sep - 9 Dec 2018L’exposition An Ideal for Living , qu’elle a conçue pour le Centre culturel suisse, fait partie d’une recherche sur les corps dans le temps, qui abouti aussi à une pièce...Read more -
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Alexandra Bachzetsis’s Massacre: Variations on a Theme
MoMa, New York, US 17 - 31 Jan 2018MoMA presents Massacre: Variations on a Theme, a major new performance commission by Alexandra Bachzetsis. Comprising choreography for three dancers and a musical composition for two pianos, Bachzetsis’s performance positions...Read more
Alexandra Bachzetsis is a choreographer and visual artist, based in Zurich (CH). Her practice unfolds at the intersection of dance, performance, the visual arts and theater, generating a conflation of the spaces in which the body, as an artistic and critical apparatus, can manifest. This fundamentally interdisciplinary approach is reflected in her educational background. She studied and graduated at the Zürcher Kunstgymnasium (CH), the Dimitrischule in Verscio (CH), the Performance Education Program at the STUK arts centre in Leuven (BE), and then continued to post-graduate level at Das Arts, the Advanced Research in Theatre and Dance Studies centre in Amsterdam (NL). During these years of training, Bachzetsis began to work as a dancer in the contemporary dance and performance context, collaborating with Sasha Waltz & Guests (Berlin) and Les Ballets C. de la B. (Gent), among others. Collaboration, transference and a plurality of voices and bodies have informed Bachzetsis’ work ever since and is often thematized as a method of developing new work in her practice.
Much of Bachzetsis’s work involves choreographies of the body, focusing on the ways in which popular culture provides source material for gesture, expression, identification, and desire as we continually create and re-create our bodies and the way we identify through them. Within this, she scrutinizes the mutual influence between the use of gesture and movement in “popular” or “commercial” genres on the one hand (online and social media, fashion, video-clips, television, etc.) and in the “arts” on the other hand (ballet, modern and contemporary dance, photography, performance, and so forth). For Bachzetsis, the relationship between these varying forms and genres produce an inquiry into the human body and its potential for transformation. Ultimately, the way we all perform and stage our bodies and ourselves – through stereotypes and archetypes, through choice and cliché, through labor and spectacle – is a question that continues to shape the work of Bachzetsis.