Artist CV
Artist's statement
(b 1981BE. Lives and works in London)
Kronacker makes paintings that combine imagined places, architectural fragments, and the observations of people around him. He reconfigures these elements into narrative scenes with a surreal, comi-tragic edge.Solo exhibitions
- 2015
- Recent Paintings, Wolvenbosch, Belgium
- 2013
- Casablanca Moon, Jerwood Project Space, London
- 2013
- Friendly Horizons, Locomotion, London
- 2012
- Life at Sea, Southard Reid, London
- 2011
- Frigid Air, Homefront Projects, London
Group exhibitions
- 2015
- Longing for Leisure, Open Space, Baltimore
- Creekside Open Selected by Lisa Milroy, APT Gallery, London
- 2014
- A Union of Voices, Horatio Jr, London
- Issues presents: Celia Hempton, Alec Kronacker, Anna Uddenberg, Oscar Carlson, Issues Gallery, Stockholm
- 2013
- Creekside Open, Selected by Paul Noble, APT Gallery, London
- 2012
- Creative Cities Collection, Barbican, London
- Likeable, Supercollider, Blackpool
- 2011
- Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries, London
- Asbestos Curtain, Galleries Goldstein at Goodhood, London
- Slade MA Degree Show, Slade School of Art, UCL, London
- 2010
- New Contemporaries, A Foundation, Liverpool / ICA, London
- LeandaKateLouise, Project 1, Shows 1-10
- Terminator, Camberwell Space, London
- 2008
- Bad Bat (with Jo Robertson), URA, Istanbul
- 2008
- Inaugural Show, Fold Gallery, London8
- 2007
- Jerwood Contemporary Painters, Jerwood Space, London touring to Bay Art, Cardiff and The Lowry, Salford
- 2007
- Carcus, V22 Ashwin Street, London
Press & publications
- 2016
- Alec Kronacker: Lifestyle Apocalypse, Ambit Magazine 225
- 2013
- See/Hear: Alec Kronacker, Culture Critic blog
- 2011
- Asbestos Curtain (cat.), essay by James Boaden
- 2010
- Sarah Kent, Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2010 review, The Arts Desk
Ben Luke, Promise of a new decade from Bloomberg, Evening Standard - 2007
- Jerwood Contemporary Painters (cat.), essay by JJ Charlesworth,
Education
- 2009-2011
- MFA Painting, Slade School of Art, UCL, London
- 2000-2003
- BA(Hons) Painting, Camberwell College of Arts, London