Mark Alexander (b. Horsham, UK) is a British artist whose work attends to endurance, belief, and the human search for meaning under technological, spiritual, and cultural conditions that no longer promise certainty or resolution.

He earned a BFA from the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, in 1996. Before becoming an artist, Alexander worked in aerospace — an experience that continues to inform a body of work characterised by restraint, precision, and a sustained awareness of consequence and failure.

Alexander’s work does not offer solutions. His images are held between reverence and critique, between the sacred and the mechanical. A flag becomes a wound. A Madonna becomes residue. A sun becomes a mask. What remains is neither hope nor despair, but something slower and more exacting: a form of attention that resists closure and refuses consolation.

photograph of the Artist Mark Alexander in the Bode Museum looking at a bronze bird.

Bode Museum Berlin . Photo credit . Humphrey Ocean.

2025

The Villa Wasmuth Paintings. Intérieur No 253. Remagen. Germany.

2021

Love Between The Atoms: SAUVAGE, Düsseldorf, Germany

2020

Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London

2016

Wrestling with Angels, exhibited with permanent collection, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

2015

Credo, Beethoven-Haus, Bonn, Germany

2014–2015

Mark Alexander Red and White Mannheim, Bode Museum, Berlin, Germany curated by Dr. Julien Schapuis.

2014

Mannheim Paintings, Galerie Bastian, Berlin

2013

American Bog, Broadway 1602, New York

2012

Ground and Unground, Wilkinson Gallery, London

2011

Red Mannheim: Special Display, St. Paul’s Cathedral, London

2010

2009

A Blacker Gold, Haunch of Venison, Berlin

2005

The Bigger Victory, Haunch of Venison, London

2001

The Abhorrence of Virtue and the Love of Vice, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London

1999

Ozymandias, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London

2020

Hotel Beethoven: Bozar Brussels

2019

Guard, Android, Radical Dream…. - Projectraum, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin Germany.

2018

Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London

The times they are a-changin. Galerie Bastian ,Berlin

2016

LUDWIG VAN : Le Mythe Beethoven, Philharmonie de Paris, Paris, France.

The Thea Westrich Wagner and Ethan Wagner Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.

At The Still Point, Gallerie Bastian, Berlin, Germany.

Herd of Sheffield, The Children’s Hospital Charity, Sheffield, UK

One Egg a Day, Pantaleons Muehlengasse, Köln, Germany.

2015

Beethoven im Blick moderner und historischer Kunst - Kulturhaus Zanders Bergisch Gladbach, Germany

Beethoven viewed through the lens of both modern and historical art featuring Credo.

The Lost Museum - The Berlin Sculpture and Paintings Collections 70 Years After World War II Bode Museum, Berlin, Germany.

The "Lost Museum" exhibition highlighted the 1945 flak tower fires and the fate of the affected artworks. Plaster casts and photos showcased lost masterpieces from Berlin collections. The exhibit also delved into the controversial restoration of war-damaged art, a topic influenced by changing trends.

2013

Green Flower Street, curated by Ariel Roger-Paris, Tatiana Kourochkina Galleria D’Art, Istanbul, Turkey-

Part of the Bicentennial showing Ground and Underground and Sand Madonnas.

PLAY – The Frivolous and The Serious, Collectors Room/Olbricht Foundation, Berlin

The exhibition was the outcome of a partnership between the Olbricht Foundation and two students from the Master's program 'Curating the Contemporary' at London Metropolitan University. This effort was in cooperation with the Whitechapel Gallery, London, under the guidance of Nico de Oliveira.

2012

powerFlower, Galerie ABTART, Stuttgart, Germany

The magic of flowers in contemporary art showcasing Via Negativa.

2011

Ars Apocalipsis – Kunst and Kollaps, curated by Malte Boecker, Kunstverein Kreis Veerhoffhaus, Gütersloh, Germany

The exhibition displayed the seldom-seen woodcut series "Apocalipsis cum figuris: The Secret Revelation of St. John" by Albrecht Dürer. This 500-year-old series, from its original 1511 edition.

2010

Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London

The Library of Babel – In and out of Place, 176 Zabludowicz Collection, London

Flowers, Death and Butterflies, Bastian Gallery, Berlin

Poetic License, Moss Gallery, New York, USA

2008

Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London

2002

Painting on the Move, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland

The exhibition's focus was on the evolving narrative of the art of painting throughout the 20th century. While frequently challenged and its conventional values as the premier art genre questioned, it was repeatedly rediscovered and reinvented.

The Galleries Show, Royal Academy, London

2001

I Am a Camera - Saatchi Gallery, London.

1998

Black (with Lucia Nogueria), Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London

PLAY The Frivolous and the Serious, Me Publications

The Art of Colour by Dr. Kelly Grovier, Thames & Hudson

A New Way of Seeing: The History of Art in 57 works, Dr. Kelly Grovier, Thames & Hudson

Humphrey Ocean: Royal Academy of Arts Publishing London

Ludwig Van Le Mythe Beethoven Gallimard Cite de la musique Philharmonie de Paris

Art since 1989 (World of Art): Dr. Kelly Grovier, Thames & Hudson

Picturing People: The New State of the Art, Charlotte Mullins

100 works that define our age: Dr. Kelly Grovier, Thames and Hudson

Young British Art: The Saatchi Decade, Richard Cork

More Dynamite by Craig Raine

1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die: Stephen Farthing

The Lost Museum: Exhibition catalogue, Böde Museum Berlin

Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner: Whitney Museum, New York

Credo I-V: Exhibition catalogue, Beethoven Haus, Bonn

American Bog: Exhibition catalogue, Broadway 1602, New York

The Bigger Victory: Exhibition catalogue, Haunch of Venison, London

‘Painting on the Move’: Exhibition catalogue, Kunsthalle Basel

The Sleepwalker at the Sea by Kelly Grovier

A Lens in the Palm by Kelly Grovier

The New Neurotic Realism: The Saatchi Gallery

I am a Camera: The Saatchi Gallery

Berlin

mark@markalexanderart.com