# Alice Könitz URL: https://vielmetter.com/artists/alice-koenitz/ Has exhibited with Vielmetter Los Angeles ## Exhibitions - [Summer Group Show](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2010-08-edgar-arceneaux-whitney-bedford-andrea-bowers-summer-group-show.md): August 7 — 30, 2010 · Artists: Edgar Arceneaux, Whitney Bedford, Andrea Bowers, Jane Callister, Sean Duffy, Nicole Eisenman, Charles Gaines, Karl Haendel, Jutta Koether, Alice Könitz, Shana Lutker, Rodney McMillian, Martin McMurray, Wangechi Mutu, Elizabeth Neel, Ruben Ochoa, Amy Sillman, Joel Tauber, Tâm Văn Trần - [Alice Könitz: Stay Calm, Walk Home, and Induce Low Stress](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2008-09-alice-koenitz-stay-calm-walk-home-and-induce-low-stress.md): September 6 — October 25, 2008 · Berlin · Artists: Alice Könitz - [Alice Könitz: Public Sculpture](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2006-01-alice-koenitz-public-sculpture.md): January 21 — February 28, 2006 · Artists: Alice Könitz - [Alice Könitz: Owl Society Part II](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2004-02-alice-koenitz-owl-society-part-ii.md): February 21 — March 20, 2004 · Artists: Alice Könitz - [Alice Könitz: Owl Society](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2003-04-alice-koenitz-owl-society.md): April 26 — May 24, 2003 · Artists: Alice Könitz ## Biography 1999 MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California 1996 Akademiebrief at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf 1994 Master Student, Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf (MFA) **Selected Exhibitions** 2009 “Arthur Ou & Alice Könitz: Resort, A Station for Display”, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA (two-person show) 2008 "Stay Calm, Walk Home, and Induce Low Stress", Susanne Vielmetter Berlin Projects, Berlin 2006 "Two Proud Society Spouses Are Reclining on Contemporary Furniture As A Golden-Eyed Ghost Lady Looks Over The Coffee Tables”, Hudson Franklin, New York "Public Sculpture”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA 2004 "Centric 66", University Art Museum, California State University Long Beach, curated by Mary-Kay Lombino "Owl Society Part II", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA "Pan American Nightclub Sculptures", boom editions, Chicago, IL 2003 "Owl Society", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA "Owl Society Part II", Hudson and Franklin, New York, NY 2002 "Beautiful Ornaments as Shadows, Crashed Down and a Video of Flickering Light in a 70’s Office Tower”, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions 2001 Chicago Project Room, Los Angeles 1998 Center for Land Use Interpretation, Wendover, Utah 1996 Luis Campaña Gallery, Cologne **Group Exhibitions** 2010 “Sun Zoom Spark”, WPA, curated by Pamela Jordan, Los Angeles, CA “Mostly Sculpture Show”, Sea and Space Explorations, Los Angeles, CA “The Secret (Still) Knows”, Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), Los Angeles, CA 2008 California Biennial 2008, High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree, CA, off-site project location in association with the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA "The Whitney Biennial”, Whitney Musuem of American Art, New York, NY "We construct the chorus”, I-Space, Chicago, IL 2007 Hug Fu: Kathryn Andrews, Alice Könitz, Stephanie Taylor”, Daniel Hug Gallery "Young artists from St Petersburg and Los Angeles”, Gallery G18, Helsinki, Finland, curated by Emily Newman "Time Writers from the Mirror Horizon”, David Patton Los Angeles "Cock: Kathryn Andrews, Alice Könitz, Stephanie Taylor”, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China, curated by Zhao Gang "Laying Bricks”, Wallspace Gallery, NY, curated by Michael Ned Holte "Blockbuster Summer”, Taxter and Spengemann, New York "Aspects, Forms, and Figures”, Bellwether, New York "Being There”, Fine Arts Gallery, Cal State LA "Half Square Half Crazy”, Villa Arson, Nice, France, with Pae White, Raymond Pettibon, Jeppe Hein, Sherrie Levine, Tom Friedman, Martin Creed, Jonathan Monk and others (catalogue) 2006 "Reality is an August Imagination", Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, curated by Andrew Hahn "Bring the War Home”, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York and QED, Los Angeles, curated by Drew Heitzler New Ghost Entertainment Entitled, Or Gallery Vancuver, Kunsthaus Dresden, by Katrin Pesch 2005 "Celine and Julie Go Boating”, Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, organized by Michael Ned Holte "Kicking Rocks", Champion Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA "Bull's Eye", Hudson Franklin, New York, NY 2004 "Brown Constructions", LemonSky Miami, Miami, FL, curated by Amir Zaki. Backstage Tourismus, Forum Stadtpark, Graz (catalog) "Upstream: Idea drawings", Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles 2003 Sundown Salon at the Schindler House presented by the MAK Center for Art & Architecture at the Schindler House "International Paper", UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA "Win, Loose, or Draw", Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA "If the Hippies Cut Their Hair, I Don’t Care, I Don’t Care", Galerie Michael Hall, Vienna, Austria 2002 "Play it as it Lays”, 17 Artists from Los Angeles, The London Institute, London "Out of the Ground Into the Sky Out of the Sky Into the Ground”, A Detour show organized by Kopp Kordansky at Pond in San Francisco, Black Dragon Society in Los Angeles 2001 "Sharing Sunsets”, MOCA Tucson "Drawn from LA (Home is where the Heart is)”, Midway Initiative, Saint Paul, Minnesota "Tirana Bienniale”, Albania 2000 Guggenheim Gallery of the Chapman University in Orange County "The Closet Show”, Los Angeles, 3424 Council ST. Los Angeles "Legal Paper” Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles "DRS Project Wall 2000”, Los Angeles 1999 "Colab” at 240 South Broadway, Los Angeles "Expanding Limited Space”, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles "Touring the Frame”, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles "Remaining Speculations”, 926 Chung King Road, Los Angeles "The Temptations”, Mark Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles "The CAA Show”, Barnsdall Building, Los Angeles 1998 "Anwander” Bazaar de Cologne, Cologne 1997 "Das Leben in der Wüste”, kj, Cologne 1995 "Papier”, Bärbel Grässlin Gallery, Frankfurt 1994 "Zwischenbilanz”, Kunstverein Lingen **Bibliography** 2008 Chuan Tan, Pey, "Alice Könitz in Berlin”, Art Info, September 18 Jocob Weil, Harry, "Whitney Biennial 2008”, artUS, Summer Dambrot, Shana, "Report: New York City, The Ghost of Jason Rhoades”, Art Ltd, July Holte, Ned Michael, "Openings: Alice Könitz”, Art Forum, Summer Keehn Dorka, "Frame of Reference: Alice Konitz”, California Home and Design Magazine, June Vikram, Anuradha, "The LA Annual”, Artillery, May/June Vikram, Anuradha, "The LA Annual”, Artillery, May/June Volk, Gregory, "Spring In Dystopia”, Art In America, May Sneed, Gillian, "The Whitney Biennial 2008: Expanded Walls, Expanded Practices”, Art Fairs International, March 10 Cotter, Holland, "Art’s Economic Indicator” The New York Times, March 7 Dalton, Trinie, "2008 Biennial Exhibition Catalogue”, The Whitney Museum of American Art, March 10 2007 Vogel, Carol, "Whitney Biennial Stretches to Armory,” New York Times, November 16 "Artists Announced for 2008 Whitney Biennial,” Artforum.com, November 16 Smith, Roberta, "In these Shows, the Material is the Message”, New York Times, August 10 Coburn, Tyler, "Build it High: Laying Bricks”, Art Review, July/August Cotter, Holland, "Aspects, Forms and Figures”, New York Times, March 2 2006 Brooks, Amra, "Must See Art”, LA Weekly, July 26 Miles, Christopher, "Disconcerting world views”, Los Angeles Times, July 21 Site, Publication of text and images Melrod, George, Sculpture, July/August Bluhm, Erik, "Perfect City Telepathy", Art US, March/April, issue 12 Balaschak, Chris, "Alice Könitz”, Frieze, April Martin, Victoria, "Alice Könitz at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Artweek, April Holte, Michael Ned, "Alice Könitz”, Artforum, April, pgs 255-256 2005 Myers, Holly, "Six journeys of imagination”, LA Times, August 12 Rath, Jessica, "Alice Konitz”, Art US, March 10 2004 Weinberg, Michelle, "Brown Constructions", Miami New Times, November 11 Holte, Michael Ned, "Alice Konitz - Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects", Artforum critic's pick, March 4 "Backstage Tourismus", Forum Stadtpark, Graz, catalog 2003 Ruhrpreis für Kunst und Wissenschaft, 1987-2001, catalog Frank, Peter, "The Paper Chase", art on paper, April issue, pg 36-39 Mathis, Sommer, "Paper Trail", UCLA Daily Bruin, January 31 Worman, Alex, "L.A. Confidential", artnet, February Knight, Christopher, "Drawing, not toeing, the Line," Los Angeles Times, February 7 Hammer Calendar, Winter Spring issue, Elaine, James, "International Paper - Drawings by Emerging Artists", UCLA Hammer Museum, exhibition catalog, Los Angeles, CA, 2003 Leah Ollman, "Three mediums, three messages", Los Angeles Times, January 10 2002 "Play it as it Lays” at London Institute Gallery, by JJ Charlesworth, artext, Summer issue Deamer, Julie, "London Street Projects", Quick Stretch, August 2 "The London Institute", Contemporary, March issue Charlesworth, JJ, "Play it as it Lays" at London Institute Gallery, artext, Summer issue 2001 Tirana Biennale 1, interview with Paul Quiñones Bruce Hainley, Artforum, April Julie Deamer, Flashart, March/April I-D Magazine, The Gallery Issue Malik Gaines, Art and Text, May Malik Gaines, essay about the show at the Guggenheim Gallery of the Chapman University Doug Harvey, LA Weekly, November 26 - December 2 David Pagel, Los Angeles Times, July 30 Great God Pan, number thirteen, publication of drawings Christopher Smith, The Salt Lake Tribune, July 1998 Matthew Coolidge, CLUI Newsletter 1996 Martin Pesch, Frieze, November **Awards, Grants and Fellowships** 2007 Tong Xian Artist Residency, Beijing, China **Conferences and Panel Discussions** 2003 University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA 2001 Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA Chapman University, Orange County, CA