Alexandra Kordas
With her paintings, Alexandra Kordas is currently presenting a spiritual, sentimental and symbolist solo show at the National Art Museum La Paz, Bolivia – February 12 to March 30, 2025 – with the aim of reminding us that all people share the same essence: ‘From the beginning to the end, we are all the same’. Since the beginning of time, we have wanted the same things, felt the same emotions and suffered in the same way. This message runs like a red thread through the exhibition and confronts the visitor with the opposites of light and darkness, purity and evil – universal forces that are present in every human being.
Alexandra´s works thematise a number of original and currently relevant ideas such as feelings of closeness, spirituality, affection, solidarity or unity in the face of danger. She depicts this group of emotions in abstract and symbolist works that show influences of German ‘Informel’ and Expressionism and play with a visual and visceral colouristic technique.
As a kind of ‘aesthetic anthropologist’, Alexandra Kordas delves into the most primal areas of the human soul. The spontaneity of her brushstrokes and the symbols she has created turn her innermost self outwards and pose the question of whether man is guided by the light or the shadows
of his soul.
Dr. Tayfun Begin, Director of Osthaus Museum Hagen a.D, Germany, describes her enormously diverse painting:
“Her painting is rooted in the tradition of international abstraction. In the period of the Second Modernism, after the end of the world war in 1945, the then new painterly tendencies developed only tentatively at first, as Informal Painting in Europe and Abstract Expressionism in the USA. In the course of the 1950s, these artistic trends took on an intensity that also allowed a complete distance from the representational. Enormous impulses developed from extra-figurative events – with reference to the world of things – which still have an effect today. Alexandra Kordas internalizes this inner vision in her art, which gives rise to the forms and colors that define her original art. Her works created since 2018 is characterized by a degree of artistic freedom that is particularly possible in the medium of abstraction. The artist introduces us to her picture stories in a special way: With large-format works on canvas, which for the untrained viewer can appear hard and raw as they are exhibited without a frame. The idea of freedom and the immediacy of this painting is reflected in the particular use of material and technique.”
For Alexandra Kordas, it is essential that her art points a finger at the wounds of society and the hurts of people. Her art should open the eyes of the viewer. In doing so, the artist deliberately addresses difficult topics that people normally don’t like to look at because they are painful. She has made it her task to bring the viewers into contact with the problems and grievances of our world in order to stimulate a debate. „My deepest desire is to open the viewer’s eyes to this, to bring them to an examination of themselves and the world, in the hope of not only making the world a better place for us all, but also ultimately leading our souls to redemption.”
Current exhibitions (a selection only)
Feb. 12 – Mar. 30, 2025
ALEXANDRA KORDAS – FUNDAMENTAL
From the beginning to the end we are all the same
National Museum of Art La Paz
La Paz, Bolivia
Dec. 5 – Dec. 20, 2024
Luci di Natale 2024
Galleria “La Pigna” – ROMA
Oct. 21 – Oct 26. 2024
Rome Art Week
Palazzo Cancelleria Vaticana – ROMA
Oct. 16 – Oct. 22, 2024
Alexandra Kordas Solo Show
Galerie Corrado Bortone – PARIS
Aug. 8 – Aug. 11. 2024
Bank Art Fair Seoul 2024
Capital Culture House – SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA
July 5, 2024
Rise of the Young Kingdom
El Barrio Art Space PS109 – NEW YORK
June 21 – June 30, 2024
From the Dark into the Light
Paseo de la Castellana – MADRID
May 24 – May 31, 2024
ALEXANDRA KORDAS
C. de Andrés Mellado – MADRID
April 27, 2024
Mostra Personale – ALEXANDRA KORDAS
Gallerista “Il Collezionista” – ROMA
March 8 – March 14, 2024
ALEXANDRA KORDAS
Pop-Up Galerie – Munich
Feb. 12 – Feb 20, 2024
Contemporaneidad
Captaloona Art Gallery – MADRID
Jan 25 – Feb 18, 2024
RESTART
Hub/Art – MILANO
Nov. 25 – Dec. 06, 2023
LITTLE TREASURES
Galleria de Marchi – Bologna