Buenos Aires, 1981
Lives and works in Milan
Selected works
Selected exhibitions
Biography
Solo show – Martina Simeti, Milan 2023
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 PAROLACCE, curated by Massimiliano Scuderi, Fondazione Zimei, Pescara, IT
La prima rosa, Spazio Lima, Milan, IT
Lamb Arts, London, UK (forthcoming)
2017 L’impero delle luci, Frutta, Rome, IT
2016 Time Goes By So Slowly, Jeanine Hofland, Amsterdam, NL
2014 If There is a Last Summer Morning, Frutta, Rome, IT
2013 On Parasols, Jumpers and Balls, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels, BE
Uprisings: Alek O., MOSTYN, Wales, UK
2010 The Thing, Gallery Vela, London, UK
2009 Rien que les heures, 317 association pour l’art contemporain, Nice, FR
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Back Home, Lamb Arts, London, UK (forthcoming)
There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in, Martina Simeti Gallery
L’abaco rovesciato, Straperetana 2022, Pereto, IT
2021 To Situations New, Lamb Arts, London, UK
2020 Io dico Io – I say I, curated by Cecilia Canziani, Lara Conte e Paola Ugolini, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e contemporanea, Rome, IT
Unquiet Moments: Capturing the Everyday, MA Curating the Art Museum, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Sommerset House, UK
2019 Appocundria, curated by Marta Cereda, Casa Testori, Novate Milanese, IT
2018 Into the Wild, curated by Christiane Rekade, KunstMeran, Meran, IT
In Addition, an Exhibition of Artist Editions, curated by Adam Carr, MOSTYN, Llandudno, UK
The Collector’s House, curated by Caroline Corbetta, Salone del Mobile, Molteni&C., Milan, IT
Per andare dove dobbiamo andare, per dove dobbiamo andare?, Nomas Foundation, Rome, IT
One Missing Sock After Doing Laundry, The Art Laundrette, curated by Giulia Colletti, Glasgow, UK
The Annotated Reader, curated by Ryan Gander and Jonathan P. Watts, Cork Street, London, UK
Ortica, Frutta, Rome, IT
2017 Deposito d’Arte Italiana Presente, curated by Ilaria Bonacossa and Vittoria Martini, Artissima, Turin, IT
Playspace, PS8, curated by Samantha Rosenwald, Rosa Tyhurst and Grace Xu, CCA, San Francisco, US
EXIT, curated by Adam Carr, Rodolphe Janssen Gallery, Brussels, BE
ALL’APERTO – Tre artiste per Trivero, curated by Barbara Casavecchia and Andre Zegna, Fondazione
Zegna, Trivero, IT
2016 La seconda volta, curated by Cristiana Perrella, 16a Quadriennale d’Arte 2016, Palazzo Delle Esposizioni, Rome, IT (Awarded: Special Mention Under 35)
Ma l’amor mio non muore, Opere dalla Collezione Alloggia, curated by Rita Selvaggio, Casa Museo Ivan
Bruschi, Arezzo, IT
Je Ne Sais What?, Carnelutti Firm Law, Milan, IT
Support Material, soft furnishings, curated by Liang Luscombe and Lisa Radford, Royal Melbourne
Institute of Technology Project Space, Melbourne, AU
Sem Saber Quando Virá o Amanhecer…, curated by Luiza Teixeira de Freitas, Silvia Cintra + Box4, Rio
De Janeiro, BR
Art Situacions III, SPAIN / ITALY, curated by Vicente Todolì, Maria de Corral, Lorena Martinez de
Corral, Ilaria Gianni, Matadero, Madrid, ES
2015 Ennesima, curated by Vincenzo de Bellis, Triennale, Milan, IT
What is a Bird? We Simply Don’t Know, curated by Domenico de Chirico, Nicodim, Bucharest, RO
16° Premio Cairo, la Permanente, Milan, IT
Art Situacions I-II, SPAIN / ITALY, curated by Vicente Todolì, Maria de Corral, Lorena Martinez de
Corral, Ilaria Gianni, Villa Croce, Genova, IT, MACRO, Rome, IT
TAVERNA – We are open (Icastica 2015), curated by Ilaria Gianni, Fraternità dei Laici, Arezzo, IT
Shadow Scenes, Colomoscope 2015, curated by Natasha Ginwala and Menika Van der Poorten
Colombo, LK
Fantastica. The way we make art, BeatTricks, Milan, IT
Alek O. and James Viscardi, Carl Kostyál, Stockholm, SW
Le regole del gioco, curated by Luca Lo Pinto, Studio Castiglioni, Milan
2014 The Go-Between – artists from the Ernesto Esposito collection, Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli, IT
SMALL, curated by Adam Carr, Frutta, Rome, IT
Ab-Stretching the Canvas, Jeanine Hofland, Amsterdam, NL
Non-Profit & Profit, SpazioA, Pistoia, IT
Accordion, Laura Bartlett, London, UK
2013 Grand Opening, Frutta, Rome, IT
Premio Moroso, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, IT
2012 D’après Giorgio, Fondazione Casa Giorgio De Chirico, Rome, IT
Differenza e ripetizione, Galleria Lia Rumma, Naples, IT
Everything old was once new, National Trust, Arts Council Collection, Worcester, UK
Als Morandi mit der Kinematographie liebäugelte, Supportico Lopez, Berlin, DE
An Incomplete History of Incomplete Works, Francesca Minini, Milan, IT
Lucie Fontaine: Estate, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, US
Without (Jonathan Monk), Meessen De Clercq, Brussels, BE
Detective, Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna, AT
2011 Illy Prize Present Future, Artissima 18, Turin, IT
To see an object, to see the light, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene, IT
Ariane De Rothschild Prize, Palazzo Reale, Milan, IT
Domesticity, Prague Biennale 5, Prague, CZ
Fruits, Flowers and Clouds, with Gallery Vela, MaK, Vienna, AT
Quite Like A Lake, Unosunove, Rome, IT
Like rowing a boat; facing the way you came, Gallery Vela, London, UK
V Bienal de Jafre, various seats, Jafre, ES
2010 Exhibition Exhibition, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Turin, IT
Certo sentimento, Cripta 747, Turin, IT
Olivia Flecha, Alek O., Helen Marten, Gallery Vela, London, UK
Gallery, Galerie, Galleria, Galleria Norma Mangione, Turin, IT
2009 Lisson Presents 6, A Troubling Metamorphosis of Loose Ideas into Cast Forms, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Italian Open, Annet Gelink, Amsterdam, NL
Territoria 4, The Great Leap, Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, IT
Playlist, Neon > Campobase, Bologna, IT
2008 Seek Refuge, Venezia Village, Venice, IT
Onufri Award 2008, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, AL
Don’t disappear, Expotrastiendas, Buenos Aires, AR
2007 La legge è relativa per tutti, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene, IT
2006 5th Shenzhen International Ink Painting Biennal, The Black Theater, E-6, Shen Zhen, CN
La necessità di un’isola, Isola Art Center, Milan, IT
2005 J’en rêve, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, FR
Isola in-video, Isola Art Center, Milan, IT
PRIZES AND AWARDS
2018 Premio Lissone 18 / Exibart Editorial Prize, MAC Lissone, IT
2017 Level 0, ArtVerona, Verona, IT
2016 Special Mention Under 35, 16th Art Quadriennial, Rome, IT
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2018 Ho Ho Ho, Frutta, Rome, IT
2016 Je Ne Sais What?, Carnelutti Firm Law, Milan, IT
2011 ‘Two Times Once’- an exhibition by Mr. Rossi, Limoncello, London, UK
Night School #8, performance as Mr. Rossi, ICA, London, UK Festivela, Gallery Vela, London, UK
Colazione con Mr. Rossi, performance as Mr. Rossi, Artissima Lido, Turin, IT
2009 As you enter the exhibition, you consider this a group show by an artist you don’t know by the name of Mr. Rossi, ex-fabbrica Minerva, Milan, IT
L’indiano in giardino, various seats, Milan, IT
2007 A Certain Ratio, Room arte contemporanea, Milan, IT
WORKSHOPS AND RESIDENCIES
2010 Flux Factory Inc., Long Island City, New York., US
HIAP, Helsinki International Artist-in-residence Program, Helsinki, FI
2006 Wherever we go, workshop with Adrian Paci, Viafarini, Milan, IT
Making Of, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg, LU
2004 Real Presence 4, Museum 25th May, Belgrad, RS
2003 Corso Superiore di Arti Visive, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, IT
REVIEWS AND CRITICAL TEXTS
Silvia Conta, «Alek O.», Exibart n.104, April – June 2019, Milano
Caroline Corbetta, «Il mestiere dell’arte», Esquire n.3, March 2019, Milano
Enrico Migliaccio, «Alek O.», Insideart n. 102, May 2015, Roma
Pier Paolo Pancotto, «Alek O.», Artforum, November 2014, New York
Vincenzo Latronico, «Alek O., Un’opera di specchi (questo ricordo di te)», Flash Art n. 314, Feb.2014, Milano
Luca Lo Pinto, «Histoire d’O.», in Moroso Award for Contemporary Art catalogue, 2013
Alessandra Galletta (interview with), Flash Art n. 308, February 2013, Milano
Chris Fitzpatrick, «A Few Recombinant Layers», in Artissima 18 catalogue, 2011
Vincenzo Latronico, «Alek O., Questo ricordo di te», Flash Art n. 293, May 2011, Milano
Francesco Manacorda, «Alek O.», in Ariane De Rothschild Prize catalogue, 2011
Adam Carr, «Lives and works – Alek O.», Spike Quarterly n. 26, 2010, Wien
Laura McLean-Ferris, «Alek O.: The Thing», Art Review on-line, November 2010
Marco Tagliafierro, «Esotico quotidiano, Fenomenologia dell’alterità», Flash Art n. 276, June – July 2009, Milano
Roberta Tenconi, «Permission To Stay. Essere un artista straniero a Milano», Flash Art n. 268, February – March
2008, Milano
Roberta Tenconi, «A Certain Ratio, spostamenti minimi», Flash Art n. 267, December – January 2008, Milano
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
The Annotated Reader, Ryan Gander & Jonathan P. Watts, London 2019
Artists’ Artists, Frieze Masters, Issue 6, London 2017
2015: Present Tense, Indefinite Mood, Mousse Publishing, Milano 2015
A Metaphysical Interior, Izet Sheshivari & Luca Lo Pinto, Boabooks, Genève 2014
TERRAZZA. Artisti storie luoghi in Italia negli anni zero, Marsilio, Venezia 2014
Alek O., Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales 2013
Moroso Award for Contemporary Art, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia 2013
To see an object, to see the light, Mousse Publishing, Milano 2011
Artissima Lido, catalogue of the project, 2011
Ariane De Rothschild Prize 2011, catalogue of the exhibition, 2011
Exhibition Exhibition, Skira, Milano 2010
Ange Leccia et le Pavillon, Musée Bourdelle, Paris 2009
100e Ceramiche per il Paradiso, Mariogros edizioni, Torino 2008
Oh, Charlotte, artist book, Salzinsel, Luxembourg 2007
J’en rêve, catalogue of the exhibition, Actes Sud, Arles 2005
Design at Work, Stefania Palmieri, Edizioni Polidesign, Milano 2004
Richard Nonas, Quaderni del Corso Superiore di Arte Visiva, Charta, Milano 2004
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
2011 Arts Council Collection, London, UK