Alek(Alexandre Levi)

““For me, what is left behind is not absence. It is where the future begins and where I allow myself to dream.“”

Alek (Alexandre Levi, born 1984) is a French Polish artist based in Berlin whose practice brings together photography, risograph printing, mixed media painting and drawing, ceramics, and scent. With a background in visual communication and design in Germany and France, he graduated in Fashion and Design from IFM (Institut Français de la Mode, Paris) in 2010, after earning a Master of Engineering from ECL (École Centrale de Lyon) in 2009. Alek has presented his work internationally, with exhibitions in Bangkok, Seoul, Berlin, Tokyo, Sydney, and New York City. His work reflects on presence and what follows. His artistic vocabulary is shaped by growing up queer in Paris’s 19th arrondissement in the 1990s, an area reminiscent of Queens, as well as formative years in Japan and Thailand and his life in Berlin today.