selected projects
biography
writing & edititorial
conferences & residencies
art practice
contact

An article that explores the affective power of the boche de leon (lion mouths) that were disseminated around the Venetian republic during Renaissance times and served as a means to collect denunciations.
Role: author.
www.animaloci.org/border-crossings

An interdisciplinary visual culture journal that publishes articles and photo-essays that explore the relationship between images and the places they inhabit.
Role: co-founder, editor.
www.animaloci.org

A publication to mark the 10-year anniversary of Archivo Platform – a research platform dedicated to photography and visual culture through editorial and curatorial activities.
Role: editor.
www.archivoplatform.com

An introductory text and a visual timeline for a publication to mark the 10-year anniversary of Archivo Platform for photography and visual culture.
Role: co-author with Gabriela Sá.
Dowload pdf

Archivo Papers Journal (APJ) is an open-access peer-reviewed journal, dedicated to the practice, theory and criticism of photography and lens-based media.
Role: editorial assistant for Vol 2, issues 1 & 2.
www.archivopapersjournal.com

Marginal Architectures, presentation at Margins and Forgotten Places – A conference organised by the Doctoral School of the University of Verona (17-19 May 2021) – as part of the panel: ‘Anima Loci. A journal of images in places’.
Role: speaker.
Conference site

Transformations Of Nature In Art: new vocalities and the aesthetics of radical immanence, presentation at On Transversality – a conference organised by TECHNE students at the University of Roehampton – as part of the panel: ‘Non Human Worldings’.
Role: speaker.
Conference site

The Cyborg Body in Biohacking Cultures in ‘Queer-Feminist Decolonial Ecologies’ – a critical reader for LADA (Live Art Development Agency). Published by Arts Feminism Queer.
Role: author.
Dowload pdf

The Rhetoric of Reproductive Choice in Post-Feminist Culture in ‘Disrupted: The Reproductive Health and Justice Issue’. Published by The Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy.
Role: author.
Dowload pdf

Architectural designer and engineer, Cecil Balmond’s monograph, Crossover
(Prestel 2013).
Role: project manager, editor.
www.waterstones.com/book/crossover

An online journal for architectural practice Balmond Studio.
Role: project manager, editor.
tip.balmondstudio.com
Alex Wilk is an independent interdisciplinary arts researcher, designer and editor.
She is a co-founder and editor of the online visual culture journal Anima Loci (2019-present) and has recently completed a year-long research and editorial placement at Archivo Papers Journal of photography & visual culture Archivo Platform.
She opened Visiva Studio in 2014, which combines design with research and editorial projects for creative and cultural organisations and individuals. Alex began her career as a research assistant at Serpentine Galleries and then at the architectural practice Balmond Studio. She was an editor of Balmond Studio’s e-journal Thinking in Practice, leading the first seven issues, and worked with Cecil Balmond on both the editing and design of his book Crossover (Prestel, 2013).
Alex’s personal research takes visual and textual formats. She has taken part in art residency programmes, exhibitions and enjoys writing articles. Her current research explores of the cultural construction of nature and the voice from posthumanist perspectives.
She lives between London and Verona and holds a BA in Art and Visual Culture (Bristol UWE) and an MA in Cultural Studies (Goldsmiths, University of London).
Articles
May 2024: Border Crossings, Animal Hybrids, Stone Voices. Anima Loci, issue 64. (PDF download)
Editorial Work
Ongoing (since 2019): Anima Loci: a journal of images in places. Eds. Alexandra Wilk, Tommaso Gorla, Francesco Della Puppa.
Conferences
Residencies
Aug 2013 – Culturia, 3-month art writing residency, Berlin
Aug 2012-13 – The Florence Trust, 1-year studio residency, London
Selected Artworks
Exhibitions
Apr 2017 – BeART At Art Montecarlo 2017 – Art Montecarlo 2017 – Montecarlo
Jun 2016 – The Print Show – Bomb Factory Art Foundation – London
Aug 2015 – The Red Files – Schwartz Gallery – London
Jul 2015 – Prism 17 – Tramlines Festival – Millenium Gallery – Sheffield
May 2014 – Building Volumes – Fringe Arts Bath – Roper Gallery – Bath
Jul 2013 – Florence Trust Summer Show – The Florence Trust – London
May 2013 – Rushing to Paradise – Royal Standard – Liverpool
Jan 2013 – Florence Trust Winter Open – The Florence Trust – London
Jul 2010 – Platform 2010: New Talent in the Southwest of England – St Paul’s Crypt – Bristol
Jun 2010 – The Show 2010 – Spike Island – Bristol
May 2010 – The Woods – Leigh Woods – Bristol [Curated]
Apr 2010 – Super Salon – Bristol Diving School – Bristol
Feb 2010 – Dialogues: A Fake Romance – Elysium Art Space – Swansea
Previous website: archive.alexwilk.com