Alex Besta
Alex Besta is an artist and curator who has dedicated herself to transdisciplinary practice in her work. She studied scenography and curatorial studies at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design.
Artistic work
Multimedia artist Alex Besta creates immersive spatial installations. Her work encompasses found objects and artefacts combined with self-composed soundscapes and cinematic sequences, offering viewers both a psychological and a physical experience. Her interest in theatre and spatial staging is an essential feature of her compositions.
Alex Besta's artistic approach is shaped by her studies in scenography at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, where she pursued her studies until 2018, as well as her extensive experience in the theatre. With a foundation of thorough research, Besta endeavours to comprehend and then reimagine or deconstruct societal and historical narratives using an abstract visual language. Her installations, created for specific locations, possess a poetic, aesthetic, and associative quality. They skilfully blend natural materials and structures with contemporary everyday objects, resulting in a captivating fusion. Currently, Alex Besta resides and works in Karlsruhe.
Curatorial Work
Alex Besta's curatorial work is characterized by a transdisciplinary approach. She conceives installative experiential spaces that create a specific effect by means of intermedial links. Conventional patterns of perception are challenged by unconventional compositions. She is particularly fascinated by artistic positions that combine visionary and historical elements through diachronic links and synchronous dialogs. These approaches invite the audience to question and redefine traditional boundaries between disciplines and ways of thinking.
Artworks
Vita
lives and works in Karlsruhe (GER)
Education
Stage design assistant | Badisches Staatstheater | Karlsruhe (GER)
Studied at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (GER)
Exhibitions (selection)
sleeping trees | video projection | Unesco City of Media Arts Karlsruhe (GER)
fluid futures | installation | Künstlerhaus Lauenburg (GER) (group show)
Sentiments | City of Media Arts | Vierordtbad | Karlsruhe (GER) (group show)
agency accessories & gelbe Städte | Kunstraum Luis Leu | Karlsruhe (GER)
gelbe Städte | installation | X-Keramika | Majolika | Karlsruhe (GER)
agency accessories | sculpture | Atelier Speicher II | Münster (GER) (group show)
a room with a cue | Karlsruhe (GER) (group show)
agency accessories | installation | Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe | Ettlingen (GER)
viscous places | Kunstraum BLECH | Halle (GER)
viscous places, an excerpt of thoughts | soundperformance | Beautiful Bastard Festival | Berlin (GER)
structure of relations | Künstlerhaus Eisenhammer | Schlepzig (GER)
the happiness of belonging | ßpace | Karlsruhe (GER)
recreation | installation | Kunstverein EBENE B1 | Frankfurt am Main (GER)
recreation | installation | theartape | Karlsruhe (GER)
shifting bodies | diploma | installation | Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design | Karlsruhe (GER)
Awards and Scholarships
Cité Internationale des Arts | Paris (FR)
X-Keramika Residence | Majolika Karlsruhe (GER)
Scholarship | Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn (GER)
Project scholarship | Ministry of Science, Research and Arts Baden-Württemberg (GER)
Project scholarship | Neustart Kultur (GER)
Project scholarship | Ministry of Science, Research and Arts Baden-Württemberg (GER)
Attendance scholarship | Künstlerhaus Eisenhammer | Spreewald/Berlin (GER)
Postgraduate scholarship | Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (GER)
Arte creative Price for Mama-Peter Löres | temporary architecture | Mannheim (GER)
Catalogues
Künstlerhaus Eisenhammer | catalog with artistic works of the scholarship holders 2021 | Lausitz/Berlin (GER)
Hotel shabbyshabby | raumlaborberlin | spector books | 2014 | Leipzig (GER)
Employment relationships
Artistic Director | Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe | Ettlingen (GER)
Artist Liaison/Content Manager | Gallery Artpark | Karlsruhe (GER)
Stage design | Scenic readings | Badisches Staatstheater | Karlsruhe (GER)