Alex Bodea

Fueled by a desire to witness and record, she makes use of a language based on drawing and text, both of them stripped down to essential. She is mostly interested in documenting aspects of urbanity such as everyday street life, various social interactions and "the making-of" behind theater and visual arts productions. Alex Bodea has collaborated with and made visual reports about institutions such as Serralves Foundation (Porto), Institute for...

Fueled by a desire to witness and record, she makes use of a language based on drawing and text, both of them stripped down to essential. She is mostly interested in documenting aspects of urbanity such as everyday street life, various social interactions and "the making-of" behind theater and visual arts productions. Alex Bodea has collaborated with and made visual reports about institutions such as Serralves Foundation (Porto), Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Martin-Gropius-Bau, HAU, Berliner Festspiele (Berlin), Deutsche Oper (Berlin), Deutsches Theater (Berlin) and she has documented moments in the professional life of artists/filmmakers/actors/writers/directors such as Benjamin Verdonck, Salomé Lamas, Ana Moreira, Yevgenia Belorusets, France-Elena Damian, Karl Ove Knausgård (work-in-progress) and opera director Peter Sellars. She is the author of "Visual notes on Berlin", a collection of street life drawings and "Six Breakfasts, One Lunch" a visual account of assisting with meals in a refugee shelter. She lives and works in Berlin.