Alex Baczyński-Jenkins (UK/PL/DE) is a Berlin-based artist and choreographer engaging with queer affect, embodiment and relationality. Through gesture, collectivity, touch and sensuality, his practice unfolds structures and politics of desire. Relationality is present in the dialogical ways in which the work is developed and performed as well as in the materials and poetics it invokes. This includes tracing relations between sensation and sociality, embodied expression and alienation, the textures of everyday experience, the utopian and latent queer histories. He approaches choreography as a way of reflecting on the matter of feeling, perception and collective emergence, while indulging in other ways of experiencing memory, time and change. 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.
RESIDENCIES
• Art Explora, Paris, 2022
• Callie’s, Berlin, 2021
• Onassis AiR, Athens, 2020
• Home Workspace Program, Beirut, between 2012-2013
PRIZES
• Live Art Prize–ANTI, Helsinki, 2021
• Shortlisted for 6th edition of the Future Generation Art Prize, Kiev and Venice, 2021
• Arts Foundation Award, 2018
• Frieze Artist Award, 2018
TEACHING
• Visiting Faculty Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg, Germany, 2021-2022
• Kem School, Warsaw, Poland, 2022
CURATING
• A strange encounter / Hey You (1-3) with Kandis Williams, Lias Saoudi & Lydia Ourahmane, Zuzanna Bartoszek, KEVIN Space, Vienna, Austria, 2017
• For the time being with Ligia Lewis, Isabel Lewis, Ian Kaler, 2011
UPCOMING
Untitled (Holding Horizon), kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels, Belgium, 26-29.05.2023 ↗
CONTACT
studio[at]baczynski-jenkins.com
STUDIO DIRECTOR
Andrea Rodrigo
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
Krzysztof Bagiński
STUDIO MANAGER
Sarie Nijboer
ARCHIVE / COMMUNICATIONS
Filip Preis
MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT
Rui Silveira – Something Great
DISTRIBUTION
Something Great ↗
SELECTED PRESS
- • A Queer Politics of Entanglement: Alex Baczynski-Jenkins, Mousse 68, Summer 2019 ↗
- • Apertures of Queer Prophecy. Alex Baczynski-Jenkins’s Such Feeling, Flash Art, 2019 ↗
- • What Makes Performance the Required Medium of the Day?, Frieze, 2019 ↗
- • Such Feeling, Alex Baczynski-Jenkins solo exhibition in Kunsthalle Basel, Exhibition text and related events, 2019 ↗
- • Feature in: 15 Young LGBTQ Artists Driving Contemporary Art Forward Artsy, 2019 ↗