Alexander Klaubert (*1991) lives and works in Berlin. Since 2022 he is Meisterschüler (postgraduate studies for artists) of Isabel Lewis at HGB – Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. Before he studied Fine Arts at in the classes of Tina Bara, Joachim Blank and Peggy Buth. Alexander Klaubert’s works were already shown among others at Galerie KLEMM’S, ZAK – Centre for Contemporary Art Berlin and Diskurs Festival Gießen. He works in the field of performance, sculpture, video and sound. Thematically he is located in social structures, gender constructs and identity.
In 2018 Alexander Klaubert founded together with Francis Kussatz the artists collective ‚otc – Observant Think Conversation‘ (formerly ‚Law of Life – LoL‘). 2020 they founded their experimental performance duo ‚Klaubert & Kussatz‘. 2020 Alexander Klaubert founded the art platform ‚Tired Mass‘.
Upcoming Projects & Exhibitions
‚Shifting Temple‘ Solo Exhibition & Performance Programme in cooperation with Colette Patterson, Techne Sphere, Leipzig (September 2024)
‚Forest Families‘ at Berlínskej Model curated by Alexander Klaubert with Cihan Çakmak, Francis Kussatz, Julia Lübbecke, Natália Sýkorová, Tim Plamper, Vanessa Amoah Opoku, Alexander Klaubert (September 2024 as part of Prague Art Week)
‚Have we passed peak collective?‘ Part 3, Talk by otc, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen (October 2024)
‚Have we passed peak collective?‘ Part 4, Talk by otc, Soft Power, Berlin (December 2024)
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Selected Exhibitions, Performances and Projects
2024
‚A while to move‘, ASPN Galerie, Duo with Benedikt Leonhardt, Leipzig
‚Have we passed peak collective?‘ Part 1, Symposium by otc, Künstlerhaus Lauenburg, Lauenburg
‚The Institute for Embodied Creative Practices‘ by Isabel Lewis, Workshop, Shedhalle, Zürich
‚PART TIME COMMITMENT SERIES. Chapter 1–4‚, Group Exhibition with otc, Lothringer 13 Halle, München
2023
‚You will succeed where I have failed.‘ Solo, EIGEN + ART Lab, Berlin
‚WHERE ARE WE NOW‘, Art’Us Collectors Collective, Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin
‚ACT II‘, SLUG, Leipzig
‚INVENTUR‘, Duo with Francis Kussatz, Alte Tankstelle Deutz, Cologne
2022
‚Why can’t we live together‘ Collection Peters-Messer, Marburger Kunstverein, Marburg
‚I don’t work on weekends‘, Kunstverein Göttingen, Göttingen
2021
‚echoes remain forever‘, Ulme 35, Berlin
‚INTO THE PUBLIC‘, Walter-Möller Park, Hamburg
2020
‚Weltuntergang‘, Display Gallery, Berlin
‚PlusX w/Klaubert & Kussatz‘, Cashmere Radio, Berlin
‚VERLETZBARE SUBJEKTE‘, ZAK – Center for Contemporary Art, Berlin
2019
‚Falling Rock’ Performance with Francis Kussatz, A&O Kunsthalle, Leipzig
‚Never Again‘, Diskurs Festival, Gießen
‚Resistance II‘, Frappant Galerie, Hamburg
‚Resistance I‘,VUNU Gallery, Košice (SK)
‚Agitation‘ Screening, Rencontres d’Arles/Fotohaus ParisBerlin, Arles (FR)
‚YOU ARE HERE‘ Works from the collection of Peters-Messer, Werkschauhalle/Spinnerei, Leipzig
‚Agitation‘ Performance with Julia Lübbecke & Francis Kussatz, HGB Gallery, Leipzig
2018
‚Limited Narrator‘ Anomalie Art Gallery, Berlin
‚THE PRESENT AGREEMENT‘, Academy of Fine Arts, Leipzig
2017
‚Unsichere Geschichte‘, Galerie KLEMM’S, Berlin
‚Wider dem Verstand‘, Tapetenwerk, Leipzig
Grants
2022 – 2024
State Postgraduate Scholarchip / Sächsisches Landesstipendium
2019
Goethe Institut (exhibition funding)
European Cultural Foundation (exhibition funding)
Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen (performance founding)
NATIONALE PERFORMANCE NETZ Gastspielförderung Theater (performance founding)