Aleksandra Mir

Aleksandra Mir (born 1967) is a Swedish-American[1] 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.[2]

Aleksandra Mir
Aleksandra Mir (1999)
Born1967 (1967)
Lubin, Poland
EducationUniversity of Gothenburg, School of Visual Arts, New School for Social Research
AwardsBaloise Art Prize (2004), Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2018)
Websitealeksandramir.info

She has exhibited at Kunsthaus Zurich (2006), Tate Modern, London (2014), Tate Liverpool (2017), Modern Art Oxford (2017), Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2009),[3] M - Museum Leuven (2013),[4] Whitney Museum of American Art (2014),[5][6] 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),[7] Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong (2020).[2]

Personal life

Mir was born in Lubin, Poland in 1967.[8] Her Polish citizenship was revoked during the 1968 Polish political crisis.[9] She holds dual Swedish-American citizenship.[10] She grew up in Sweden, where she studied at the University of Gothenburg. She moved to the United States in 1989[11] to attend the School of Visual Arts in New York and studied cultural anthropology at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research.[12] Mir lived in Palermo, Sicily from 2005 to 2010.[3] She lives in London.[13]

Work

The How Not to Cookbook, (Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, 2009 and Rizzoli, NYC 2010) collected advice from 1,000 home cooks from around the world who explained what not to do in the kitchen.[14][15]

In First Woman on the Moon (1999), Mir converted a Dutch beach into a moonscape for one day with the help of bulldozers.[16][17][18] The video of this event has been presented at multiple venues,[19][20] at the International Space University, Strasbourg [21] and at the UK Space Conference, Liverpool, 2015.[22]

In 2002, Mir painted the Mandela Way T-34 Tank pink with Cubitt Artists.[23]

For Newsroom 1986–2000 (2007), Mir with a group of assistants copied 240 NYC tabloid covers in felt-tip marker and mounted them in an ever-revolving installation to simulate the daily workings of a Manhattan newsroom.[24][25][26][27][28][29] Mir has created a series of large scale murals using only Sharpie marker pens.[30]

In Triumph she collected 2529 trophies from the general public of Sicily and exhibited them all in one installation at the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2009). It traveled to the South London Gallery for the London Olympics in 2012.[31]

Mir has created Plane Landing, a real size helium inflatable jet plane, meant not to fly, but to hover above the ground as "a sculpture of a jet plane in a permanent state of landing".[32]

References
  11. "Aleksandra Mir - Top Ten". Art Forum. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
  14. Alex Renton, Never boil and avocado, and other handy tips, The Times, 20 August 2009
  15. Forbes, Paula. "The How Not to Cookbook: Lessons Learned the Hard Way, the Anti-Cookbook – Eat Me Daily". Eat Me Daily. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
  16. Lars Bang Larsen Archived 2008-12-03 at the Wayback Machine, First Woman on the Moon, Frieze, London, #50, January 2000
  17. Will Bradley Archived 2011-09-09 at the Wayback Machine, Life and Times: Aleksandra Mir, Frieze, Issue 75, 2003
  18. Nancy Spector Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine, All the World..., Frieze, Issue 98, London, April, 2006
  19. Jeroen Junte, Kunstenares Mir landt op strand, De Volkskrant, Amsterdam, 27 August 1999
  20. Tim Griffin, Openings: Aleksandra Mir, Artforum, NYC, February 2003
  21. Lecturers, International Space University, Strasbourg, 2015
  22. Speakers, UK Space Conference, Liverpool, 2015
  23. Gibbs, Jonathan (2 November 2003). "Talk of the Town: Pink Tank". The Independent on Sunday. Archived from the original on 2005-09-04. Retrieved 2017-01-01.
  24. Steven Stern Archived 2010-08-28 at the Wayback Machine, Newsroom, Frieze, #115, London, May 2008
  25. Simon Houpt, Yesterday's front page turns into today's art, The Globe and Mail, Toronto, October 22, 2007
  26. Roberta Smith, New York Stories: Art Torn Screaming From the Headlines, Then Hung on Walls, New York Times, October 20, 2007
  27. gninja, Review of "Newsroom 1986 – 2000": What Is Roberta Smith Going on About?, Art(h)ist'ry, 20 October 2007
  28. Jen Schwarting, Aleksandra Mir Newsroom 1986-2000, The Brooklyn Rail, NYC, November, 2007
  29. James Reinl, 9/11 art and the 'Course of Empire' , Al Jazeera, NYC, 10 September 2015
  30. Johanna Hofleitner, Albertina: Zeichnungen zimmern, Die Presse, Vienna, 21 May 2015
  31. Catherine Gaffney, Going for Gold: Aleksandra Mir investigates our relationship with the trophy, itsnicethat, London, July, 2012
  32. Aidan Dunne, A Sligo group show dreams big and succeeds, The Irish Times, Dublin, 10 September 2015
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