Alex Besta is an artist and curator. In her artistic practice, she develops conceptual spaces between installation and media composition. She translates theoretical investigations into a physically tangible language by combining sound, objects and filmic elements to create expansive compositions. She is interested in the emergence of social orders and aesthetic phenomena in their historical context. After studying at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (2010-2018), she was awarded a scholarship by the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris in 2024. From 2025, she will take over the artistic direction of the Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe in Ettlingen.
»The circle swirls its tempest skirts, to raise the trace from former phases. Bracing structures built from clay, all set and ready to reshape. Memories dancing walz in clockwise rounds. Waking a season sound, coloured by streaks on growing, worm-like grounds.«
Vorholzstrasse 15
76137 Karlsruhe
+49 172 9036967
ato.vision
Die Happy Few (Collective)
76666 (Collective)
ANTHROPOS EX
„Gathering Moss on worm-like Grounds“
Städtische Galerie Fruchthalle
May 2025
Participation in the mentoring programme 2024/25 in tandem with
Raphael Sbrezny
Kunstbüro der Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg
artistic direction at Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe Ettlingen
Shape Shifter
A Portal Between Post-Apocalyptic Visions and Dystopian Futures
By artistic duo Alex Besta & Felix Seelos
art karlsruhe
Funded by UNESCO City of Media Arts, Werner-Stober-Stiftung
20. - 23.02.2025
scholarship
La Cité internationale des arts Paris
05.05.24 - 28.10.24
Open Studio at Cité internationale des arts
16.10.24
6 pm - 9 pm
"sleeping trees"
videoprojection/sound.
Unesco City of Media Arts
15.08.2024 – 15.09.2024
"FLUID FUTURES"
03.03.24 - 19.05.24
Stadtgalerie Lauenburg
curated by Lena Fließbach
"sleeping trees"
Installation
21.02.24 - 24.02.24
Artini
eat, sleep, sleep, eat.
exist slowly, softly, like these trees [...]
j.p. sartre, nausea
Vernissage 27.01.24 7-10 pm
28.01.24-03.02.24 3-7 pm
live elektronische performance by nicolás kretz
group show together with:
chiara bellamoli
alex besta
irma chacall
georges
tenki hiramatsu
nemanja šarbajić
@
Hinterhofstudio
V12 Open Atelier zum Galerietag
22/23.09.2023 15-18 Uhr
Karlsruhe
V12 Atelier
"der Sommer neigt sich dem Ende zu"
Group exhibition
together with: Irma Chacall, Tenki Hiramatsu, Nemaja Šarbajić.
V12 Atelier
agency accessories & gelbe Städte
Vernissage 14.10.2022 6 pm
Luis Leu
instagram.com/luisleu.de
X-Keramika
gelbe Städte
group exhibition
Vernissage 23.09.2022, 6 pm
24.09.2022- 31.10.2022
youtube.com/watch
majolika-karlsruhe.de
sound contribution for the Perfomance of "anthropos ex"
"Die Bretter die, die Welt bedeuten"
at ato.vision
20:30
anthropos-ex.com
melody to mud
soundperformance
26.08.2022
WERKstattPALAST
gelbe Städte
13.08.2022 - 05.09.2022
WERKstattPALAST
X-Keramika Artist in resistance program at Majolika Karlsruhe
majolika-karlsruhe.de
07.06.2022 - 17.07.2022
"Family Affair"
Offene Recherche
30.06.2022
Berlin
ato.vision/exhibitions/family-affair-offene-recherche
10.04.22
a room with a cue
group exhibition
Karlsruhe
23.03.22
agency accessories
kunstverein-wilhelmshoehe.de
11.02.22 - 30.02.22
viscous places
Kunstraum BLECH
https://raumfuerkunsthalle.de/blech/
23.10.21
viscous places I, an excerpt of thoughts
Soundperformance
"Beautiful Bastard Festival"
Prinzenallee 58
13359 Berlin-Wedding
28.08.21
structure of relations
kuenstlerhaus-eisenhammer.de
01.08-31.08.21
scholarship at Künslterhaus Eisenhammer
03.07 – 18.07.21
the happiness of belonging
ßpace, Karlsruhe
29.10 – 04.11.21
recreation
theartape, Karlsruhe
17.07 – 23.07.18
shifting bodies
University of Art and Design, Karlsruhe
© Alex Besta, Last update: Jan 2025
Design & Code: Bela Meiers, Texts: Alex Besta, Lena Reitschuster, Norina Quinte.