About

Alex Head’s work explores the impact of culture on our interior worlds. His work with Cultural Epigenetics has contributed to our understanding of how traumatic cultural exposure impacts us on the cellular level. He translates bodies of research into public events, drawing and print, and is interested in working with non-hierarchical networks of artists, researchers and citizens. His work is characterised by in-depth analysis across differing scale vectors and multiple temporalities.

Out in May: 1001 Accurate Memories - From traumatic memory culture to learning with bodies - On Plural Studio (2025)

His 2021 book Ricochet has drawn approval from artistic, scientific, architectural and anthropological quarters.

Publications carried by:
Salon für Kunstbuch, Wien (AT), BATT Coop, Paris (FR), After8, Paris (FR), Giselle’s Books, Marseille (FR), bruno, Venice (IT), Stampa, Basel (CH), PUNCH, Bucharest (RO), Skylight, Los Angeles (USA), McNally Jackson, New York (USA), Mast Books, New York (USA), 2 Bridges, New York (USA), Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University (USA), Shakespear and Sons (Czech Republic), Housmans Bookshop (UK), ICA Bookstore (UK), Whitechapel Books (UK), Donlon (UK), Pages of Hackney London (UK), and Hopscotch Reading Room (DE), Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt (DE), bbooks (DE), Walter König (DE), Pro qm (DE), Do You Read Me?! (DE), Zabriski (DE), She Said (DE), Arnolfini (UK), Bookhaus (UK), South London Gallery (UK), Serpentine (UK) and Public Knowledge Books

Alongside a number of public engagements through the research and publication platforms mentioned above, Head has been invited for commissioned work and as a guest artist with: Hopscotch Reading Room, Berlin; Center for Theoretical Studies, Prague; Haus der Statistik, Berlin; Theater X, Berlin; Motto Berlin; Center for Art and Urbanistics (ZK/U), Berlin; Berlin Biennale #10; KAPiTAL, Berlin; KUNCI Study Forum & Collective in Yogyakarta, Indonesia; Rujak Center for Urban Studies in Jakarta, Indonesia; Jakarta History Museum; Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden; Neue Berliner Räume, Berlin; European Capital of Culture Plovdiv, Bulgaria; DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service); ifa Gallery (Institute for Foreign Relationships), Berlin; Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt (House of the World’s Cultures), Berlin; Threads Radio, London; NTS Radio, London; Deutschlandradio; Worldwide FM, London; Muzeum Sztuki Lodz, Poland; The Substation, Melbourne; Babylon Cinema, Berlin; Arte de Obra, Lanzarote; Transition Finsbury Park, London; W139 Gallery, Amsterdam.