Alex Martinis Roe

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Alex Martinis Roe (b. 1982) practice explores feminist genealogies and seeks to foster specific and productive relationships between different generations as a way of participating in the construction of feminist histories and futures. This involves developing research and storytelling methodologies that employ non-linear understandings of time, respond to the specific practices of different communities, experiment with the set-up of discursive encounters and imagine how these entanglements can inform new political practices.

Martinis Roe is a former fellow (2013-2016) of the Graduate School, University of the Arts Berlin and holds a PhD (2011) from Monash University, Naarm/Melbourne. Martinis Roe is the Head of Drawing and Printmaking at the Victorian College of the Arts and was the 2018 recipient of the Kunstpreis Europas Zukunft [Future of Europe Art Prize]. Recent exhibitions include: Coming Home, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (solo, 2021-22), Unlearning Australia, Seoul Museum of Art (2021-2022), 1 Million Roses for Angela Davis, Albertinum (2020-2021), Dresden, Alliances, GfZK – Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig (solo, 2018), Fabriques de contre-savoirs, Frac Lorraine, Metz (2018) and Sex, Taxispalais - Kunsthalle Tirol (2018). The artist's project To Become Two (2014-2018) — a series of films, workshops, public events and a monograph To Become Two: Propositions for Feminist Collective Practice (Berlin and Milan: Archive Books, 2018)— is a social history of the feminist practices that invented the affirmative concept of “sexual difference.” This project was co-commissioned as a series of solo exhibitions by If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution (Amsterdam), Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory (Utrecht), The Showroom (London) and ar/ge kunst (Bolzano), and has also been exhibited at Badischer Kunstverein (Karlsruhe) in 2017 and at Samstag Museum (Adelaide) in 2021. In 2018 To Become Two was also presented at the Centre George Pompidou, Paris, as part of Mai 68 – Assemblée Générale.

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