Alex Diamond

CURRENT EXHIBITION UNTIL FEB 12: KUNSTVEREIN BUCHHOLZ/NORDHEIDE  

Alex Diamond is unseizable as a person and difficult to categorize as an artist, he is more fantasy than reality. His main issue always centres around his work and its presentation, but never around the personality of an individual. Alex Diamond appears always as a new and different creation of a role or character with every one of his shows. Not limited by a CV, a formative education or even a dedicated technique or style, Alex Diamond constantly develops a new specific presence for the “Artist behind the work“. Alex Diamond is an artist who apparently lives solely through the art he creates – and vice versa. He plays mind tricks with visual aids, pleasing at one moment, disturbing in the next. Independent from styles and techniques, he mirrors life and our constant fight for possession, superiority, survival and love in an almost nonchalant way.

Images from past shows: 

The Alex Diamond Mining Company: You can have your cake, but you can't touch the icing (Kunstverein Buchholz/Nordheide) | Jan - Feb 2012

The Alex Diamond Mining Company (Vicious Gallery, Hamburg) | Aug - Sep 2011

Into The Night (Nice/Nice, Hannover) | Feb 2011 

Damage:Control (with Boris Hoppek, Factory Fresh, New York) | Mar 2010

Demon Circus (at Iguapop, Barcelona) also: watch the video | Feb 2010 

Don't worry 'bout a thing! (Being Alex Diamond) | Oct 2009

Love me with a Gun to my Head | Nov 2007

Artist website: alexdiamond.net

You can have your cake, but you can‘t touch the icing (feat. Betty Diamond, Taesch Diamond & Mimi Diamond) photography/collage, wood carving, acrylic paint, aerosol paint, wood 220 x 210 x 12 cm (2011)(click image to enlarge) 

Exhibitions (selection)

2012

The Alex Diamond Mining Company: You can have your cake, but you can't touch the icing - Kunstverein Buchholz/Nordheide

2011

The Alex Diamond Mining Company - Vicious Gallery, Hamburg
Into the night - Nice/Nice Galerie, Hannover 

2010

Preview Berlin Art Fair – with heliumcowboy artspace; Berlin, Germany
Mountain to Surf – group show, heliumcowboy artspace; Hamburg, Germany
Street Art New York – Silent Auction Benefit for "Free Arts NYC" at Factory Fresh Gallery; New York, USA
DAMAGE:CONTROL – joint exhibition with Boris Hoppek at Factory Fresh; New York, USA
Don’t worry ‘bout a thing 2 | Demon Circus – solo show, Iguapop Gallery; Barcelona, Spain

2009

Charity auction – 15quadrat/Kunstclub; Hamburg, Germany
Don’t Worry ‘bout A Thing! Being Alex Diamond – heliumcowboy artspace; Hamburg, Germany
ARTotale – street art project curated by Rik Reinking; Lüneburg, Germany
Nachschlag! – group show in collab. with NoNewEnemies at heliumcowboy artspace; Hamburg, Germany
VOLTA5 – with heliumcowboy artspace; Basel, Switzerland
Threesome – group show curat. by ArtBAstard.com at Nice Nice Exhibition Space; Hannover, Germany
Das Herz von St. Pauli – group show, Iguapop Gallery; Barcelona, Spain

2008

SCOPE Art Fair Miami – with heliumcowboy artspace; USA
5 years heliumcowboy artspace – gallery anniversary exhibition; Hamburg, Germany
Unseen – group show at Art Basel Design Miami; Switzerland
No New Enemies – group show at Le Musee du Botanique; Brussels, Belgium
SCOPE Art Fair New York – solo booth, with heliumcowboy artspace; USA
Helping Hounds Of Hell – group show at Neurotitan and heliumcowboy artspace; Berlin/Hamburg, Germany

2007

SCOPE Art Fair Miami – with heliumcowboy artspace; USA
SCOPE Art Fair Basel – with heliumcowboy artspace; Switzerland
Don’t Wake Daddy – group show at Feinkunst Krüger; Hamburg, Germany
Love Me With A Gun To My Head – heliumcowboy artspace; Hamburg, Germany
SCOPE Art Fair New York  – with heliumcowboy artspace; USA

2006

SCOPE Art Fair Miami – special project Mural, with heliumcowboy artspace; USA
FriendsWithYou-Bootleg Show – group show at heliumcowboy artspace; Hamburg, Germany

2005

Gold, Kinder! – heliumcowboy artspace; Hamburg, Germany

2004

Alex Diamond’s Strange Sofa – incarnation exhibition, heliumcowboy artspace; Hamburg, Germany

Publications (selection)

2011

The Alex Diamond Mining Company – publ. by GUDBERG; Hamburg, Germany | more info/purchase online

2009

Don’t Worry ‘bout A Thing! (Being Alex Diamond) – publ. by GUDBERG; Hamburg, Germany | more info/purchase online

2007

Love Me With A Gun To My Head – exhibition catalogue, heliumcowboy artspace; Hamburg, Germany


Besides, various features in international magazines and newspapers, among them:

ElPais (Spain)
Art Price (Korea)
GUDBERG (Germany)
Art Bastard (Germany)
DP Magazine (Taiwan)
Modart magazine (Europe)
ROJO (Spain)
Actitudes (Spain)
Blond (Germany)
Frame (UK)