Artist Name: Alice Anderson
Residency Dates: September – November 2026
Born: 1972
Hometown: Alfortville, France
Lives & Works: London, UK
URL: alice-anderson.org | Instagram: @aliceandersonstudio
Education:
2005 – Goldsmiths College London, UK
2001 – École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, France
Bio/Statement:
Alice Anderson’s performative practice is rooted in animist ontologies and explores our relationship with what communicates otherwise (rivers, plants, stones, landscapes, architectures, objects). With Ailton Krenak, they build bridges between indigenous knowledge and quantum physics, recognising matter as a vibrating field by entering into relation with it. For more than twenty years, Anderson has been in poetic dialogue with non-human intelligences such as tools, machines, electronic circuits, architectural elements, spaces, or meteorites. The artist creates a bond with these objects by applying liquid paint onto their surface to free them from their primary functionality. The traces created on the canvas with these objects record these communications beyond the visible world during states of trance. These imprints bear witness to another possible intelligence in the age of AI: the one that inhabits matter. These objects, transformed during the performative paintings that are Technological Dances, Digital Goddesses, Data Dances, Human- Nonhuman Bodies, Chance Compositions, become the sculptures Awakened Objects or Spiritual Machines.
Among Alice Anderson’s numerous solo and group exhibitions are Technological Dances, Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Curitiba, Brazil (2026); Undersea Internet Cables, MacVal Museum, Vitry-sur-Seine, France (2026); Corpos Humanos–Não Humanos, Centro Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2025); To Open Eyes, Centre Pompidou Málaga, Spain (2025); Collective Technological Dances In The Forest, Instituto As Josefinas, Rio de Janeiro (2024); Spiritual Urgency, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, the Netherlands (2023); Réseaux-mondes, Centre Pompidou Paris, France (2022); Female Power Figures, Modern Art Museum of Fontevraud, France (2021); Nommés Du Prix Marcel Duchamp, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2020); Performance, Peinture, Sculptures, Atelier Calder, France (2019); G.P.S, Patinoire Royale, Brussels, Belgium (2018); Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (2017); Columns Data, Eiffel Historical Building, Paris, France (2016); DATA space, Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris, France (2015); Memory Movement Memory Objects, Wellcome Collection London, UK (2014); MEMORISATIONS, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2012).
