Alexandra Bachzetsis b. 1974
Exhibitions
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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 chorégraphique,...Read more
Works
Overview
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.
Much of Bachzetsis’s work involves choreographies of the body and, in particular, the way that popular culture provides source material for gesture, expression, identification, and fantasy as we continually create and re-create our bodies and the way we identify. Within this, she scrutinizes the mutual influence between the use of gesture and movement in the ‘popular’ or ‘commercial’ genres on the one hand (online media, video-clip and television as a resource) and in the ‘arts’ on the other hand (ballet, modern and contemporary dance and performance). For Bachzetsis, the artificial and often precarious relationship between such genres produce an inquiry into the human body and its potential for transformation, however conceptual or actual. 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.
Much of Bachzetsis’s work involves choreographies of the body and, in particular, the way that popular culture provides source material for gesture, expression, identification, and fantasy as we continually create and re-create our bodies and the way we identify. Within this, she scrutinizes the mutual influence between the use of gesture and movement in the ‘popular’ or ‘commercial’ genres on the one hand (online media, video-clip and television as a resource) and in the ‘arts’ on the other hand (ballet, modern and contemporary dance and performance). For Bachzetsis, the artificial and often precarious relationship between such genres produce an inquiry into the human body and its potential for transformation, however conceptual or actual. 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.
Biography
Her work has been exhibited in a variety of contemporary art spaces and museums, including Kunsthalle Basel (Basel, 2008), the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam, 2013 and 2015), Tate Modern (London, 2014) and the Jumex Museum (Mexico City, 2014), as well as a number of international biennials, such as the 5th Berlin Biennial (Berlin, 2008), (d)OCUMENTA 13 (Kassel, 2012) and the Biennial of Moving Images (Geneva, 2014). Bachzetsis was nominated for the DESTE Prize (2011) and is a laureate of the Migros Kulturprozent Jubilee Award (2007), the Swiss Art Award (2011 and 2016) and Swiss Performance Prize (2012).