Alex Hartley

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About the Artist

Encounters with buildings are grounded by conventions and expectations, but Alex Hartley shows us new ways of physically experiencing and thinking about our constructed surroundings – through surface and line, scale and materials, locations and contexts.

 

Hartley's work addresses complicated and sometimes contradictory attitudes toward the built and natural environments. His practice is wide ranging, comprising wall-based sculptural photographic compositions, room-sized architectural installations and, more recently, unique photographic works with sculptural elements inserted as low-relief into the surfaces of large-scale colour prints. Uniting these works is an investigation of modern architecture and the ways in which it is conceived and presented. Often destabilising ideas of 'iconic' architecture, Hartley's practice allows room for multiple perceptions of and uses for the built form.

In Focus – Alex Hartley: Closer Than Before

 

 

The first site-specific installation at Victoria Miro Venice, Closer Than Before (on view 22 April–17 June 2023) features a dynamic architectural intervention that transforms part of the gallery, providing context for new wall-mounted works that continue the artist’s interest in layering, materiality, illusion and how art questions our relationship to time. 

Previous exhibitions at Victoria Miro

22 April - 17 June 2023

Alex Hartley: Closer Than Before

The first site-specific installation at Victoria Miro Venice, Closer Than Before features a dynamic architectural intervention that transforms part of the gallery, providing context for new wall-mounted works that continue the artist’s interest in layering, materiality, illusion and how art questions our relationship to time.
Victoria Miro Venice
28 July - 29 August 2020

Alex Hartley: The Houses

An extended reality (XR) exhibition of new works by Alex Hartley, featuring for the first time examples of British modernist architecture. In his acclaimed ongoing series The Houses, Alex Hartley brings together photographic and overlaid painterly...
Victoria Miro on Vortic
21 June - 28 July 2018

Alex Hartley: The Houses

The Houses is a series of new wall-based works by Alex Hartley inspired by iconic examples of modernist domestic architecture. Alex Hartley’s work addresses complicated and sometimes contradictory attitudes toward the built and natural environments, showing us new ways of...
Victoria Miro Mayfair
19 November - 16 December 2016

Alex Hartley: After You Left

An exhibition of new work by the British artist, including a major architectural intervention in the gallery’s waterside garden. Thoughts of modernism and its legacy, as well as Romantic ideas of the ruin and the picturesque are conjured in these...
Victoria Miro Gallery I
14 November 2011 - 21 January 2012

Alex Hartley

The world is still big
Victoria Miro is pleased to present Alex Hartley's most recent culmination of his on-going investigation into dystopian architecture, secular habitation and the construction of sanctuary as an inherent drive to form refuge from the world. Hartley returns to his previous...
Victoria Miro Gallery I
24 March - 9 April 2009

The Collection

Group Exhibition

Victoria Miro collaborates with Siobhan Davies to present The Collection. For three weeks, performers and artists present specially commissioned dance and artworks at Victoria Miro Gallery in North London and Siobhan Davies Studios in South London. 

Victoria Miro Gallery I
6 September - 8 October 2005

Alex Hartley

Don't want to be part of your world
Don't want to be part of your world is a series of large-format landscape photographs Alex Hartley has taken in remote locations around the world. To these idyllic, desolate vistas he has inserted detailed architectural models meticulously built in relief...
Victoria Miro Gallery I
28 March - 12 May 2001

Alex Hartley

Case Studies
Alex Hartley is primarily known for his glass encased photographs of gallery spaces, tower blocks and fictional architectural constructions. In this exhibition he pursues his dialogue with iconic modernist architecture. The centre piece of the exhibition is Case Study, which...
Victoria Miro Gallery I
7 May - 30 June 2000

Raw

Group Exhibition
Yayoi Kusama. Francesca Woodman, Robin Lowe, Adriana Varejão, Isaac Julien, Doug Aitken, Abigail Lane, Hadrian Pigott, Brad Lochore, Cecily Brown, Chris Ofili, Andreas Gursky, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Inez van Lamsweerde, Peter Doig, Thomas Demand, Stephen Willats, Dawn Mellor, Chantal Joffe,...
Victoria Miro Gallery I
29 October - 21 November 1997

Alex Hartley

Viewer
Alex Hartley presents a major new work, Viewer . A gargantuan fully functioning slide viewer, based on an early sixties design, takes over the gallery space whilst oversized slides lean casually against the wall. The 35mm slide is recognised in...
Victoria Miro Gallery II
5 - 28 July 1995

Temples

Group Exhibition
Juren Albrecht, Bernd & Hiller Becher, Thomas Demand, Andreas Gursky, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Alex Hartley, Keir Smith, Stephen Willats
Victoria Miro Gallery II
1 March - 7 April 1995

Alex Hartley

Fountain Head
Victoria Miro Gallery II
30 June - 30 July 1992

Group exhibition

David Batchelor, Jake Chapman, Steven Cockerton, Alex Hartley, Pat Kaufman, Sarah Station
Victoria Miro Gallery II
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