Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili
The Wet Material
galerie frank elbaz, Paris
05.02.2022 - 19.03.2022
New Memories
ECHO, Cologne
21.01.2022 - 05.03.2022
CV
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
Education
2003
BFA in Photography from Bard College, Annandale, New York, US
Solo Exhibitions
2022
Flush, Galerie Molitor, Berlin
Verkleidung, back wall project, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
Confines, (with Jakub Czyszczoń), June, Berlin
The Wet Material, (with Rooms Design), galerie frank elbaz, Paris
2021
Dog Smile, Siegfried Contemporary, Saanen
2020
Boiled Language, LC Queisser, Tbilisi
2019
mother ,feelings ,cognac, galerie frank elbaz, Paris
2016
Hollow Body, Andrea Rosen Gallery 2, New York
I Move Forward, I Protozoan, Pure Protein, Micky Schubert, Berlin
2015
Hollow Body, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
2013
Things are going great in my absence, Kaufmann Repetto project space, Milan
German Flowers, Micky Schubert, Berlin
2012
Tunnel, with Benedicte Gyldenstierne Sehested, Ancient & Modern, London
2011
One Hand Clapping, Spazio Morris, Milan
2010
Here is my head, Eight Veil, Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibitions
2022
An Ocean Standing, LC Queisser, Tbilisi
New Memories, ECHO, Cologne
2021
Chewing Fat, Kristina Kite Gallery, Los Angeles
Capturing Light, ung5, Cologne
VIBRANT VOID, as part of HALLEN #2 – Yes to all!, Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin
TRUE PICTURES? From Document to Concept. Positions of Contemporary Photography from the USA, Museum für Photographie Braunschweig, Braunschweig
Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Ser Serpas (Group exhibition), Palai, Palazzo Tamborino Cezzi, Lecce
Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Selection for the Louis Roederer Discovery Award, Les Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles, Arles
The Displacement Effect, curated by Kirsty Bell with Hans-Peter Jochum Rodgers, Capitain Petzel, Berlin
In A Dead Heat For Cold Cash Ans Buxom Babes, Angela Mewes, Berlin
Soft As Velvet Eyes Can See, Bureau, New York
2020
Albrecht Fuchs: Album. Portraits 1989-2020, Museum für Photographie Braunschwei, Braunschwei
Mount Kaplan, Angela Mewes, Berlin
Studio Berlin, presented by the Boros Foundation, Berghain, Berlin
Rigor & Relevancy, Angela Mewes, Berlin
Local Talent, Sprüth Magers, Berlin
Reverie, curated by Tenzing Barshee, Efremides Gallery, Berlin
The Artist and the Self, jamesfuentes.online
2019
Fixing the ‘...not but’, LC Queisser, Tbilisi
You, Œuvres de la collection Lafayette Anticipations, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Auguries Cast Aside, KARMA, New York
2018
I Do Speak Landscape, curated by Lisa Offermann, Braunsfelder Family Collection, Cologne
Outlandish and Emblematic, the Still Life in Photographic Concepts of the Present, Kunst Haus, Vienna
Twelve Women Gone Missing, curated by Elene Abashidze, The Writer‘s House Museum, Tbilisi
Untitled, LC Queisser, Tbilisi
I dreamed I was leaving on a trip but I forgot my money, with works from the private collection of Kasper König, Galerie Thomas Fischer, Berlin
The Hired Grievers, curated by Jason Dodge, Galeria Madragoa, Lisbon
2017
Made in Germany III, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover
Seven Sisters, curated by Martha Kirszenbaum, Kasia Michalski Gallery, Warsaw
A Birthday Present as a Watch, curated by Julia Trotta, galerie frank elbaz, Paris
Group Exhibition 2017, James Fuentes Gallery, New York
Laurel, private aparment, curated by Laurence Dujardyn, Tatiana Kronenberg and Rosie Motley, New York
Made in Germany, Sprengel Museum, Hannover
2016
Breather, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
The Pleasure of Love, October Salon, Belgrade
On Empathy, curated by Miciah Hussey, Bridget Donahue, New York
The Portrait of the Artist as Alter, FRAC Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen
2015
Picture the Cricket‘s Legs Apart, curated by James Krone, Kavi Gupta, Chicago
The Lazy Sunbathers, Sies+Höke, Düsseldorf
Mental Diary, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover
I am attracted none the less, their variousness, their ingenuity, their élan vital, and that something, essence quiddity, I cannot penetrate or name, Casey Kaplan, New York
Eat abstractedly, Mary Mary, Glasgow
Group show, Micky Schubert, Berlin
2015 Triennial: Surround Audience, New Museum, New York
Künstler als Auftraggeber von zeitgenössischer Architektur, Kunstverein Bielefeld
2014
Collecting mode, Neumeister Bar-Am, Berlin
I bought a hyacinth flower with lots of leaves, just to make me feel like spring, Karma International, Zurich
Scratch It, Stitch It, Cut It, Keep It, Fotogalleriet, Oslo
A Boat, Its Wake, A Dive and The Bends, curated by Jason Dodge, Elisa Platteau, Brussels
2013
Revolution from within, Kaufmann Repetto, Milan
Diamonds, Diamonds, Gallery Diet, Miami
2011
That is the Dawn, Galerie Gregor Steiger, Zurich
The Last Song, with Victor Delestre, Nino Sekhniashvili, Micky Schubert, Berlin
Productive Steps, Mount Tremper Arts, New York
Evening’s Tears, Morning’s Dew, Ancient & Modern, London
Alias, Photomonth in Krakow 2011, Krakow
Boundary Issues, Horton Gallery, Berlin
Destructionconstruction, Tape Modern, Berlin
Just Photography, Ancient & Modern at Martos Gallery, New York
The Collector’s Guide to New Art Photography Vol. 2, Chelsea Art Museum, New York
2010
Patching, Thomas Brambilla Contemporary Art, Bergamo
Get Behind Me Satan and Push, Peres Projects, Berlin
Anonymous Materials, Binz 39, Zurich
2009
Time-Life Part 1, Taxter & Spengemann, New York
Utopics, 11th Swiss Sculpture Exhibition, Bienne
2008
I Love the Horizon, MAGASIN-Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble
8 1/2 x 11 / A4, James Fuentes Gallery, New York
Publications
CATALOGUE RENCONTRES D'ARLES 2021
Boiled Language, LC Queisser Gallery, 2020
Hollow Body, Kölnischer Kunstverein, 2016
Surround Audience, New Museum Triennial 2015
Ere Is My Head, Eight Veil, Los Angeles, 2013
Press
Artforum, November 2022
Cee Cee Creative, November 2022
Ocula, April 2022
Infrasonic, October 2021
Kunstforum, February 2021
Artforum, Summer 2019
Kunstforum, May 2018
Frieze, October 2016
Artforum, September 2016
Kaleidoscope No28, Fall 2016
The New York Times, June 2016
Artforum, October 2013
Frieze, June 2010