Aleksandra Mir

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Aleksandra Mir

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Aleksandra Mir (born 1967) is a Swedish-American contemporary artist known for her collaborative installations and projects. Her work deals with travel, time, placehood, language, gender, identity, locality, nationality, globality, mobility, connectivity, performativity, representation, transition, translation and transgression. She is known for her large scale collaborative projects and for her anthropological methods, involving rigorous archival research, oral history and field work.
She has exhibited at Kunsthaus Zurich (2006), Tate Modern, London (2014), Tate Liverpool (2017), Modern Art Oxford (2017), Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2009), M – Museum Leuven (2013), Whitney Museum of American Art (2014), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2007), MoMA, New York City (2012), YUZ Museum, Shanghai (2018), Whitney Biennial (2004), Biennale of Sydney (2002), Biennale di Venezia (2009), and Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre (2015), Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong (2020).

Creator

Mir, Alexandra

Collection Items

Stonehenge II
Stonehenge II is a proposal for a work in a public space by Aleksandra Mir.Originally presented to the Artangel/Times open commission in 1998 (and subsequently rejected), the proposal was to build a Stonehenge replica close to the original, to reduce…

The Great Ears
Proposed as part of the Monuments for the USA exhibition in 2005, the project involved the construction of two monumental ears, respectively placed on the East and West coasts of the United States.Read more.

Wildflower Meadow
This project consists in a proposal for the redevelopment of the Gorbals Partnership, Glasgow. Inspired by the lyrical settings in which Ingmar Bergman often placed his romancing youth, isolated in nature, protected from judgement and convention, the…

CityForest
In 1997, Aleksandra Mir proposed to the Public Art Fund to collect trees thrown away from the streets of New York City after the Christmas holidays and replant them in a common area until they had dried out completely. The project, while welcomed,…

Narvik Superstars
This project, commissioned by the Narvik City Council and Artscape Nordland, proposed to realise a star in the pavement for every child born in during the next 5-7 years in Narvik. This Norwegian city threatened to become vacated, with this work the…
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