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Alexandra Bachzetsis is a choreographer and visual artist, based in Zurich (CH). Her practice unfolds at the intersection of dance, performance, the visual arts and theater, generating a conflation of the spaces in which the body, as an artistic and critical apparatus, can manifest. This fundamentally interdisciplinary approach is reflected in her educational background. She studied and graduated at the Zürcher Kunstgymnasium (CH), the Dimitrischule in Verscio (CH), the Performance Education Program at the STUK arts centre in Leuven (BE), and then continued to post-graduate level at Das Arts, the Advanced Research in Theatre and Dance Studies centre in Amsterdam (NL). During these years of training, Bachzetsis began to work as a dancer in the contemporary dance and performance context, collaborating with Sasha Waltz & Guests (Berlin) and Les Ballets C. de la B. (Gent), among others. Collaboration, transference and a plurality of voices and bodies have informed Bachzetsis’ work ever since and is often thematized as a method of developing new work in her practice.
Her work 2020: Obscene premiered its theatre version in November 2021 at the Gessnerallee in Zurich, while the exhibition version was shown for the first time in a solo exhibition in spring 2022 at the Kunsthaus Zürich. Bachzetsis presented her piece Notebook at the Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen in 2023 as an installation that reviews, challenges, and expands her artistic methodologies of the past two decades—produced in collaboration with various conversation partners. On the occasion of the exhibition, Bachzetsis’ monograph Show Time Book / Book Time Show was published edited by Hendrik Folkerts and designed by Julia Born. Alexandra Bachzetsis recent work entitled Exposure was commissioned by Cullberg in Stockholm. This act study reveals elements of endurance in performance, transforming static concepts of power into an empowering language of intimacy. The work premiered in Sweden in September 2024 and is currently touring in Europe.
Centre Pompidou (Paris, 2023)
Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 2019)
Museum of Modern Art (New York, 2017)
Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam, 2013 and 2015)
Tate Modern (London, 2014)
Jumex Museum (Mexico City, 2014)
Kunsthalle Basel (Basel, 2008)
documenta 14 (Athens and Kassel, 2017)
Biennial of Moving Images (Geneva, 2014)
(d)OCUMENTA 13 (Kassel, 2012)
5th Berlin Biennial (Berlin, 2008)
AWARDS
Kunstpreis Zurich in 2018
Nominated for DESTE Prize (2011)
laureate of the Migros Kulturprozent Jubilee Award (2007)
Swiss Art Award (2011 and 2016)
Swiss Performance Prize (2012)
ALEXANDRA's ADDRESSES
Bechtler Foundation Uster – Café Bicerin
Kopernik Polish Shop
Miki Ramen
Ooki Pavillion
Restaurant Italia
DRINK
Belcafé Bellevue
Bar Lupo
Bar Sacchi
NICE TO HAVE
Bogen 33
H. Schwarzenbach
Japanese Shop Nishi
La Cucina Tee & Gewürze
Maana Studios
Neumarkt 17 Garage
Nomadenschätze
Osswald Parfumerie
Reformhaus Vier Linden
PROVENCE'S PICKS
BREAKFAST: Tsugi Bakery
Karma International, Septic Sun, Ida Ekblad
Damien & The Love Guru, Apparat Kleptokrat, Jasmin Werner
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Franz West: Eearly Works
Kunsthalle Zürich, Over Out und Above, Klara Lidén
SWIMMING: Flussbad Unterer Letten
LUNCH: Südhang Austernbar
ICE CREAM: Zentrale Für Gutes / Eisvogel
Galerie Gregor Staiger, Bada-Bing!, Monster Chetwynd
Kunsthaus Zürich, The Trompe L’Oeil Clevage, Monster Chetwynd
Larkin Erdmann, Intersections, Sophie Taeuber-Arp
Cabaret Voltaire, Tage Und Nächte, Emma Jung & Rebecca Acroyd
Cabaret Voltaire, Dreams, PROVENCE
Bechtler Stiftung, Andrea Büttner Works, Andrea Büttner
APERITIVO: Gamper Bar
DINNER: Derby Pizza
COCKTAILS: Play Bar
ZAW'S CLASSICS
Fischer Fritz
Kleinwäscherei
Kronenhalle Bar
Kunsthaus Bar
LOI–Vegetarian Bistro
DRINK & SNACKS
Barfussbar
Eisvogel Gelato
La Stanza
Kasheme
SHOP
Hermès Boutique
Hosting happenings through
the weekend
Swatch Store
Artwork by Sauromane on view through June 12–15, 2025
SLEEP
25Hours Hotel Zürich Langstrasse*
25Hours Hotel Zürich West*
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