Alex Martinis Roe

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Born: 1982
Lives: Berlin

Education
2011 PhD Fine Arts, Monash University, Australia.
2007 International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg, Austria: three-week workshop with VALIE EXPORT.



Solo Exhibitions
2012 non-writing histories, Artspace, Sydney.
2011 Alex Martinis Roe interviews Wendy Webster, Alterations, Wellington.
2011 Genealogies; Frameworks for Exchange, Pallas Projects, Dublin.
2010 Encounters: Conversation in Practice, Sexuate Subjects Conference, University College London.
2010 Encounters: Conversation in Practice, Limbus Europae, Berlin.
2010 Towards a Positive Politics of Difference, Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne.
2010 Affirmations, Light Projects, Melbourne.
2009 Pull, Un Magazine artist pages: cover, centerfold and centerfold-out poster, Un Magazine 3.1, Melbourne.
2009 Anti Vertical Demonstration, live demonstration of an action, Kunsthaus KuLe, Berlin.
2008 The Assumption, Next Wave Festival Melbourne.
2007 The Closet: Open Studio Project, Studio 9 Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces Melbourne.
2007 Practical Illustrations of Body Configurations in Architecture, Conical Inc, Melbourne.
2007 Fresh Foundation, TCB art inc. Melbourne.
2007 Sticky Dimensions, Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne.
2007 Practical Illustrations of Rhetorical Gestures and Actions, Midsumma Festival, Melbourne.
2005 Alex Through the Looking Glass, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne.

Group Exhibitions
2011 Urban research project, Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul.
2011 Relay: repeat action over distance, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney.
2011 Mnemonics, Bibliothekswohnung, Berlin.
2011 Collected Collaborations, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne.
2011 Denkmalpflege, “Außer Haus” Heidelberger Kunstverein.
2010 Time/Lapse, Perth Institute for Contemporary Art, Perth.
2010 Unseen Forces, Institute for Contemporary Art Newtown, Sydney.
2010 Change, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne.
2010 Alex Martinis Roe: Square 2, Wellington City Gallery, Wellington.
2010 Discreet Objects, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne.
2010 HaVE A LoOk! HAve a Look! FormContent, London.
2010 Opening Lines, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne.
2010 The Politics of Art, Linden St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne.
2009 Once More with Feeling, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne.
2008 Next Wave Festival Project Space, Melbourne Art Fair.
2008 Australian Video Art, ICA, London.
2008 A, Switchback Gallery in Gippsland and Peloton, Sydney.
2008 Pure Pleasure, Men’s Gallery, Melbourne.
2008 Collective Conscience, Human Rights Arts and Film Festival, Carlton Hotel and Studios, Melbourne.
2008 Objects in Space, West Space, Melbourne.
2008 Chaos and Revelry, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne.
2007 Studio Artists Show, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne.
2007 VALIE EXPORT: Media Work Class: Exhibition 2007, International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg.
2007 An Edge Meets an Edge, Spectrum Project Space, Perth.
2007 Too Near, Too Far, C/O- careof, Milan.
2007 Oomph, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra.
2006 Gertrude Studios, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne.
2006 Lexicon, City Library Gallery, Melbourne.
2006 Girls on Video, RMIT First Site Gallery, Melbourne.
2006 Feminist Actions, Spacement, Melbourne.

Bibliography
2011 John Gayer, ‘Alex Martinis Roe: Dublin, Ireland’, Art Papers, September/October 2011.
2011 Laura Preston, ‘Thoughts for Alex’, Genealogies; Frameworks for Exchange publication.
2010 Melissa Loughnan, ‘Re-imagining the Future’, Oyster magazine online.
2010 Melissa Loughnan and Helen Hughes, Discreet Objects catalogue essay.
2010 Emily Cormack, ‘Chalk’, Opening Lines catalogue essay.
2010 Fiona Macdonald, ‘Retreat: The Political in The Politics of Art’, The Politics of Art catalogue essay, Linden St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne.
2009 Alexie Glass, ‘Extimacy: A New Generation of Feminism’, Art & Australia, Vol 47, No. 1 Spring 2009.
2009 Meredith Turnbull, ‘Once More with Feeling’, catalogue essay, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne.
2009 NY Arts, Artfairs International, ‘Artfully Political’, March- April, 2009, New York.
2008 Robert Nelson, ‘Theatricality so extreme it’s believable’ (review: Chaos and Revelry), The Age, Melbourne, 30 January, 2008.
2008 Edwina Bartlem, ‘Chaos and Revelry’, catalogue essay, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne.
2008 Daniel Palmer, ‘What are you looking for?’, catalogue essay: Objects in Space, West Space, Melbourne.
2008 Mickie Skelton, ‘Alex Martinis Roe’, catalogue notes: ‘House Proud’, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne.
2007 Lucy Elliot, ‘Gertrude Studios 2007’, MCV 6 Dec, 2007.
2007 Meredith Turnbull, ‘Are you fucking with me or am I fucking with you?’ catalogue essay: Fresh Foundation, TCB art inc. , Melbourne.
2007 Dan Mackinlay, ‘Indoors and out there’, (review: Oomph) Realtime, no. 78, April – May 2007.
2007 Amita Kirpilani, ‘Oomph’, catalogue essay, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra.
2007 ‘The Value of Experience’ (review of An Edge Meets an Edge) The West Australian, April 29, 2007.
2007 Olivia Poloni, ‘Languages of Movement: The Female Body in Studio 12’, catalogue essay for Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, as part of the Emerging Writers Program: Express Media in collaboration with Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne.
2007 Spiros Panigirakis, ‘The Posture Repeats’, catalogue essay: Practical Illustrations of Rhetorical Gestures and Actions, Midsumma Festival, Melbourne.
2006 Domenico De Clario, ‘ACUADS supplement’, The Australian, 21 September, 2006.
2006 Anthony Gardner, ‘Rosaries and Ovaries’, catalogue essay: Feminist Actions, Spacement, Melbourne.
2006 Felicity Coleman, ‘Affective Woman Sense’, catalogue essay: Feminist Actions, Spacement, Melbourne.
2006 Veronica Tello, ‘Fe Fie Faux Femme’, catalogue essay: Feminist Actions, Spacement, Melbourne.
2005 Tamsin Green, ‘Alex Through the Looking Glass’, un Magazine, Vol. 1, Issue 6.

Grants/Awards
2012 Studio residency at Artspace, Sydney.
2011 Studio residency at Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul.
2011 Australia Council for the Arts New Work Grant.
2010 Residency in Porto Cesario, Puglia with Caterina Riva.
2006-10 Monash University Silver Jubilee Scholarship for 2006-10.
2009 Janet Holmes a Court Artist’s Grant.
2006-7 Studio residency at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne.
2006 City of Melbourne Young Artists Grant for 2007.

Projects
WRITING/PUBLISHING PROJECTS

2011 ‘Authoring Spaces: Encounters: Conversation in Practice’ in Lilo Nein (ed), The Present Author: Who is Speaking in Performance? (Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2011).
2010 ‘Correspondence’, email conversation with Fiona Macdonald for her exhibition Access Restricted, Light Projects, Melbourne.
2010 ‘Text Diagram’, catalogue text piece for Tamsin Green’s To the End of the World and Back, Conical Inc. Melbourne.
2008 ‘Kel Glaister and Simon Horsburgh in conversation with Tamsin Green and Alex Martinis Roe’, Un Magazine, Vol 2 Issue 2.
2008 ‘Descent into the Pit’, review: Brodie Ellis’ The Super Pit, Conical for Runway, Issue 11.
2007 ‘Feedback, Static and the Malfunctioning TARDIS’, catalogue essay: Andrew Atchison Island Drawing, TCB art inc. June 6-23, Melbourne.
2006 ‘The Velodrome Project’, catalogue essay: Laresa Kosloff and Alicia Frankovich The Velodrome Project: outdoor sculpture exhibition and performance event at Brunswick Velodrome, CLUBSproject, Melbourne.
2006 ‘The Body the Ruin’, review: Eyeline Contemporary Arts Magazine, No. 60.

TALKS / LECTURES

2011 Speaker at Roundtables: Relational Participation in Public Matters of Concern, Architecture Design Innovation Programme, TU, Berlin.
2006-8 RRR Co-presenter of Art Attack community radio art review segment (with Tai Snaith) as part of RRR Smart Arts Programme
2008 ‘VALIE EXPORT: Her politics of representation and Feminist Actionism’, 40 Years of Video Art: Digital Heritage: Video Art in Germany from 1963-2004: Lecture Series, Monash University Art & Design, Melbourne.
2007 Panellist for the Feminism Never Happened Forum, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne.
2007 Speaker at the Documenta Picnic, Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University
2007 Speaker for the Pompidou Talks: Video Me at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne.
2006 Panellist for the Drag Mash Forum, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne.

Publications
2011 Genealogies; Frameworks for Exchange, edited by Alex Martinis Roe and Gavin Murphy, published by Pallas Projects, Dublin.