Alex Baczyński-Jenkins is a Polish-British artist and choreographer. Through gesture, collectivity, touch and sensuality, his practice unfolds structures and politics of desire.
Alex Baczyński-Jenkins’ has had work presented amongst others by Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Southbank Centre, London, Serpentine Gallery, London, Whitechapel Gallery, London, Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, MACBA with Salmon Festival, Barcelona , Gropius Bau, Berlin, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Ludwig Forum Aachen, Kiasma, Helsinki, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, Festival D’Autumne at Le Carreau du Temple, Paris, La Biennale di Venezia, Istanbul Biennial, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zürich and Art Basel.
His solo exhibitions were on view at Kunsthalle Basel, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw and Chisenhale Gallery, London.
He won the Frieze Artist Award and the Arts Foundation Award in 2018. He was short-listed for the Future Generation Art Prize, Kiev and Paszporty Polityki and was awarded the Live Art Prize–ANTI, Helsinki, 2021.
He is co-founder of Kem, a Warsaw based queer feminist collective focused on choreography, performance and sound at the interface with social practice. Through various experimental formats and community building, Kem engages in critical intimacy and queer pleasure.
