Born in 1971 in Kungälv, Sweden. Lives and works in Malmö, Sweden.
Alexander Gutke works within the conceptual and minimalist tradition. Analogue apparatuses such as cameras, film and slide projectors are some of the main components in his art practice. Gutke investigates these technical elements as objects and mechanical devices, and uses them as tools and objects in his works and narrative creating a visual illusionism and a poetic and mystical materialism. Through his works, the artist explores a whole host of issues, ranging from narrative self-reflexivity, measurement, space, light, shade, darkness and what can be best described as a metaphysical existentialism.
Selected solo exhibitions
2023
Another Aspect, A Different Ratio, Gregor Podnar, Vienna – Opening June 2
2016
Silver Lining, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Germany.
2015
Alexander Gutke, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz, Switzerland.
Alexander Gutke, Vera Cortês Art Agency, Lisbon, Portugal.
2014
Belenius /Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden.
2013
When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, MoCAD, Detroit, USA.
Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland.
2012
Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Germany.
Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden.
2010
Galerie Nordenhake, with Christian Andersson, Stockholm, Sweden.
2009
Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, USA.
Lichthaus Arnsberg, Arnsberg, Germany.
Culturgest, Porto, Portugal.
2008
Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Germany.
2007
Hollybush Gardens, London, UK.
Sies + Höke Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Marabouparken Annex, Soundbyberg, Sweden.
2005
Galerija Gregor Podnar, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Baltic Art Center, Visby, Sweden.
Elastic Gallery, Malmö, Sweden.
2002
MUU Galeria, Helsinki, Finland.
UKS, Oslo, Norway.
Luna International, Berlin, Germany.
2001
MA-Exhibition, Peep, Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden.
1999
Wednesday Project, Y-1, Stockholm, Sweden.
Selected group exhibitions
2022
Zijn naam was Austerlitz/Austerlitz was his name, curated by Sam Steverlynck, Tlön Projects, A Tale of A Tub, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
New Entry. Vienna, Gregor Podnar Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2020
Beyond Measure, TKM Bispegata, Trondheim, Norway.
2019
No habrá nunca una puerta. Estás adentro. Pieces from the Coleção Teixeira de Freitas, Sala de Arte Santander, Madrid, Spain.
2018
Measurements, Société Bruxelloise d’Électricité, Brussels, Belgium.
Recollection – A Journey After 28 Years, PROYECTOSMONCLOVA, Mexico City, Mexico.
2016
2006 IMMERSIONS 2016, Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne, France.
2015
Space is Only Noise, Belenius/Nordenhake Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden.
Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant To Be Viewed as Art (After Bochner), CAC Bukovje/Landskrona for Kilometre of Sculpture, Võru, Estonia.
Trois Collectionneurs, autrement #2, ETE 78, Brussels, Belgium.
IN/VISIBLE, In Search of the Invisible Masterpiece, Frac Lorraine at The ikob, Museum of Contemporary Art, Eupen, Belgium.
Art et Archéologie. Les narrations de l’absence, Musée d’Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France.
2014
Coffee & Ink, Galeria Casas Riegner, Bogota, Colombia.
The Registry of Promise – 3: The Promise of Moving Things, Centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry – le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine, France.
2013
Old-School ASMR, CAC Bukovje, Landskrona, Sweden.
Bring in the Noise, Ormston House, curated by Mary Cremin, Limerick City, Ireland.
PIROEROTOMACHIA, curated by Krzysztof Gutfrański, Galeria Arsenał, Poznan, Poland.
Works on Paper, i8 Gallery, Reykjavík, Island.
1966-79, Institut dʼart contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, France.
EXPLODED VIEW* … INTERFACE** … LETTER & SPIRIT*** , Laxart, Los Angeles, USA.
Collection Joseph Kouli, Mains d’Oeuvres, Saint Ouen, France.
When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, USA.
2012
When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, USA.
Vitruvian Man, CREDAC, Ivry-sur-Seine, France.
Dimensions Variables, Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne, France.
Beyond Words, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst (GAK), Bremen, Germany.
2011
On the Nature of Things, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, Canada.
Untitled, 12th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey.
Under Destruction, Swiss Institute, New York City, USA.
The emergence of things, STUK Kunstcentrum, Löwen, Belgium.
2010
Displaced Division, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Under Destruction, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland.
The Moderna Exhibition 2010, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Being There, Meet Factory, Prague, Czech Republic.
The Mousetrap or Something old something new something borrowed something blue, Galleria
Tiziana Di Caro, Salerno, Italy.
2009
La Preuve Concrète, Centre Européen d´Actions Artistiques et Contemporaines (CEAAC), Strasbourg, France.
Un Plan Simple (1/3 Perspective), La Maison Pop, Montreuil, France.
2008
L´Éternel Retour (1/ La Méduse), La Salle de Bains, Lyon, France.
Disarming Matter, Dunkers kulturhus, Helsingborg, Sweden.
Object, The Undeniable Success of Operations, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Exploded View, Studio La Città,Verona, Italy.
Trava Linguas (Tongue-twister), Vera Cortes, Lisbon, Portugal.
2007
The Garden of Cyrus, Galerie Edouard Manet, Gennevilliers, France.
Vergänglichkeit, Galerie Schleicher + Lange, Paris, France.
Die Wörter, Die Dinge, Kunstverein, Düsseldorf, Germany.
2006
Objet à part, La Galerie, Noisy-le-Sec, France.
Phases of the Moon, Irma Vep Lab, Lieu de creation contemporaine, Châtillon sur Marne, France.
How Soon Is Now, Luis Seoane Foundation, Coruña, Spain.
On Metaphors, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland.
Dreamlands Burn, Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary.
Humour Me, H&R Block Art Space, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, USA.
2005
Nothingness, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Kranj/Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Temporary Import, Art Forum, Berlin, Germany.
2004
Rendez-Vous, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France.
Nothingness, Galerie Eugen Lendl, Graz, Austria.
(dys)function, Lunds Konsthall, with Attila Csörgő, Ceal Floyer, Rivane Neuenschwander, Lund, Sweden.
Heimweg, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Cologne, Germany.
Emotions Eins, Frankfurter Kunstverein, curated by Nicholaus Schafhausen, Frankfurt, Germany.
Venture, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Kranj/Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Old Habits die Hard, Sparwasser HQ, Berlin, Germany.
10e Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement, Centre pour l’Image Contemporaine, Genève, Switzerland.
2003
Wild Strawberries and Familiar Haunts, Suite 106 Gallery, New York City, USA.
OK, Video Art, National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia.
Cultural Territories, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, curated by
Barbara Steiner, Leipzig, Germany.
Nya Namn / New Names, Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden.
Modesty, Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2002
Modesty, Steirischer Herbst, Pavel-Haus, curated by Gregor Podnar & Livia Paldi, Laafeld, Austria.
P-A-U-S-E, 4th Gwangju Biennale, curated by Charles Esche & Hou Hanru, Gwangju, South Korea.
2001
Greetings from Liverpool, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK.
VI, Nomadsland, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, curated by Charles Esche, Malmö, Sweden.
Et Annet Sted, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, Norway.
Blick: New Scandinavian Film and Video, video-screening selected by Maria Lind, Moderna Museet and Rebecca Gordon Nesbitt, NIFCA, various venues.
2000
Videoshop, Edinburgh, UK.
Viva Scanland, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, UK.
1999
Cashbox, Galleri Box, Göteborg, Sweden.
Zwischenräume 4, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany.
1998
Urban Angst, Out of Sight Seminar, Malmö, Sweden.
Narrative Structures, Forumgalleriet, Malmö, Sweden.
1997
Non-Stop Videobar, Göteborg, Sweden.
Under Ytan, Lysekil, Sweden.
Grants and prizes
Hovedskous Skulptur, Gothenburg, Sweden, 1995-1996.
Hähnels Donationsfond, Sweden, 2001.
NIFCA, Suomenlinna Residency, Helsinki, Finland, 2002.
Konstnärsnämnden (one-year working grant), Sweden, 2003.
Malmö Art Museum, Aase & Richard Björklunds Prize, Sweden, 2003.
IASPIS Internationellt Kulturutbyte, 2003, 2004 and 2009.
Konstnärsnämnden Kostnadskrävande project (production grant) Sweden, 2004.
Production in Residence, Baltic Art Centre, Visby, Sweden, 2005.
Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center Istanbul Residency, Turkey, 2005.
International Residence at Centre International des Récollets, Paris, France, 2007.
Konstnärsnämnden (two-years working grant) Sweden, 2007.
Public collections
Frac Lorraine, Metz, France.
Frac Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France.
Institut d’Art Contemporain (IAC), Villeurbanne, France.
Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz/Basel, Switzerland.
Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden.
Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.