Alexandra Barth (1989, Malacky, Slovakia)
based in Sanguinetto (VR), Italy
Gallery representation (US): Mrs. gallery, NY
With the gentle touch of airbrush on canvas, Alexandra Barth renders hard objects softly, their intention appearing more clear as the gaze lingers. She captures the memory of details in a particular room using flat, soft color and a nuanced range of white. Light casts heavy shadows, angular objects converge and are personified in her scenes which evoke the quality of film stills.
Barth’s works document objects, human intervention and absence. Each painting is initiated with a photograph captured by the artist. She transforms these images by creating a painting smaller in scale, only to enlarge and apply this very same imagery to a grander canvas.
The precision of her hand in replicating these compositions at both scales serves as a form of photographic duplication – in this way, Barth’s paintings function similar to editions, the petite works carrying as much weight as the more sizable ones.
Barth, who grew up in Slovakia in the 1990s within the starkness of Soviet bloc architecture, hones in on objects that offer a sense of minimalism and uniformity. It is through this lens that she encounters other design traditions and class signifiers — Venetian moldings, fabrics, and wardrobes of her current residence in Sanguinetto, Italy– allow Barth’s paintings to fuse time and geography. They remain rooted in the present while looking back.
Education
2007 – 2013 MFA in painting, Academy of fine arts and design Bratislava
Solo shows
2025 In the Country of Last Things, Document, Lisbon
2024 Folds, Loom, Milan
2023 Soft Corners, Mrs., New York
2023 Necessity of Artifice, Photoport, Bratislava
2022 The door hinge, A SUD, Pescara
2022 Mechanical bath, Stone projects, Prague
2021 Scenography, Chris Sharp, Los Angeles
2021 Meno domu, Photoport, Bratislava
2020 Configurations of the banal (in a dramatic lighting), Phoinix, Bratislava
2020 The Elevator, Fondazione Zimei c/o Urban gallery, Pescara
2019 Evidence of Absence, Hotdock project space, Bratislava
2018 Pozoruhodnosti, Žumpa, Bratislava
2018 Stav vecí, Sumec, Bratislava
2017 Pôvodný stav, Temporary Parapet, Bratislava
2017 Poriadok vecí, Kunstverein Bratislava
2015 Pokoj, PRFR studios, Bratislava
Group shows
2025 L’essenza documentaria, Grand Tour of Alex, Sanguinetto, IT
2025, Folds, Secrist I Beach, Chicago
2024 Dvojice/Pairs, Medium gallery, Bratislava
2024 “My place, my palace”, F2T, Milano
2024 Bella Figura, Carole Lambert presents, Paris
2023 Meteor, Document x Mrs., Chicago
2023 Galaxia P50, DKP, Bratislava
2023 On longing (Or, Modern Objects volume II), Huxley-Parlour, London
2022 High Humanity, Jack Siebert, Paris
2022 Iba, iba jednu, Photoport, Bratislava
2022 The Bright Side of the Moon, Annarumma, Naples
2021 The dreams in which I’m _ are the best I’ve ever had, Mauve, Vienna
2020 Like a picture, Photoport, Bratislava
2019 The Elevator, Temporary Parapet, Bratislava
2018 Pozoruhodnosti, Žumpa, Bratislava
2018 Stav vecí, Sumec, Bratislava
2017 MDŽ, White&Weiss, Bratislava
2016 Kunstverein Selection
2016, PRFR Studios, Bratislava
2016 Jej svet, OGV Jihlava, CZ
2014 Diversity required, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava
2013 Master’s diploma work, House of Arts, Bratislava
2010 Art now, Kasárne/Kulturpark, Košice
Collections
Morgan Stanley Collection, New York, NY
ZGJM – Zahorie Gallery of Jan Mudroch, Senica, Slovakia
GMB – Bratislava City Gallery, Slovakia
Art Fairs
2025 ArtVerona, Grand Tour of Alex, duo
2025 ARCOlisboa, Document, group
2025 Esther II, NYC, Mrs., duo
2025 Expo Chicago, Document, group
2025 Miart, Milan, Loom gallery, group
2024 Artissima, Turin, Loom gallery, group
2024 The Salon by NADA & The Community, Paris, Mrs. gallery, group
2024 The Armory Show, NYC, Mrs. gallery, solo
2024 Miart, Milan, Loom gallery, group
2023 Kiaf, Seoul, Mrs. gallery, group
2023 Miart, Milan, Chris Sharp gallery, solo
2023 Felix Art Fair, Los Angeles, Mrs. gallery, group
2022 Artorama, Marseille, Photoport x Svit, duo
2021 Swab, Barcelona, Photoport, solo
2021 Art Rotterdam, Photoport, solo