Alexandra Metcalf
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Egon Investment Scores
Liquidity
2/10
How easily works can be bought and sold at auction
Institutional
7/10
Museum collections, biennials, and institutional recognition
Momentum
9/10
Recent price trends, gallery moves, and market buzz
Discovery
4/10
Undervaluation opportunity relative to peer artists
Risk
4/10
Investment risk factors — higher means more volatile
Market Position
- Comparables
- Artists at similar career stage with gallery representation: Tiffany Sia, Ahmed Umar (2024 Baloise winners), Sky Hopinka, Sin Wai Kin (2023 Baloise winners)
- Collector Base
- Collector Types
- Institutional collectors, contemporary art collectors focused on feminist and identity-driven work
- Known Collectors
- Milo Astaire (Plaster Magazine founder) - owns work
- Alexander V. Petalas (The Perimeter founder) - acquired work for permanent collection
- Geographic Distribution
- UK, Germany, US collectors
- Primary Market
- Availability
- Works available through Capitain Petzel (Berlin) and Ginny on Frederick (London)
- Price Points
- Estimated €15,000-€80,000 based on gallery tier and work scale
- Demand Indicators
- High - nominated for Baloise Art Prize 2025, described as 'buzzy' and 'on everyone's lips' by Artnet News June 2025, featured in Artnet '25 of 2025' list
- Auction History
- Price Range
- No public auction records found in major databases
- Five Year Summary
- Limited secondary market data available. Artist is primarily in the primary market phase with emerging auction presence.
- Market Trajectory
- Rapidly ascending - early-stage primary market with strong institutional and critical momentum
- Sell Through Rate
- Not applicable - insufficient data
- Recent Transactions
- Date
- 2024
- Work
- Jane's Addiction
- Year
- 2024
- Venue
- Bonhams - Hospital Rooms Charity Auction
- Result
- Not disclosed (charity auction)
- Provenance
- Courtesy of the artist and Ginny on Frederick, London
- Lots Offered Annually
- Less than 5
Institutional Presence
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Library Collection
New York, USAThe Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Brown University
Providence, USAThe Perimeter
London, UK- Exhibitions
- Solo Exhibitions
Title Year Dates Venue Location Notes Gaaaaaaasp 2025 May-July 2025 The Perimeter London, UK Four-floor immersive installation transforming the space into Victorian asylum/1960s psychiatric facility 1st Edition 2024 — Ginny on Frederick London, UK Featured spiral wooden staircase installation 'The Mind is Maya' Vol. 18 2023 March 16 - April 23, 2023 15 Orient Gallery New York, USA First solo exhibition in New York Room 131 2016 July 15-20, 2016 Ginny Projects, The Knights Inn Motel Seekonk, USA — - Additional Venues
- No. 9 Cork Street, LondonChamp Lacombe, BiarritzFitzpatrick Gallery, ParisLOMEX, New YorkDowns and Ross, New York
- Group Exhibitions
Title Year Venue Location Karla Black and Alexandra Metcalf 2024 Capitain Petzel Berlin, Germany Arcanes, rituals and chimeras 2024 FRAC Corsica Corte, Corsica Dream Stage 2024 Forde Geneva, Switzerland Kunsthalle Zürich Biennial 2023 Kunsthalle Zürich Zurich, Switzerland Liste Art Fair Basel 2023 Ginny on Frederick booth Basel, Switzerland - Biennials and Fairs
Year Event Participation 2025 Art Basel Statements sector with Ginny on Frederick 2023 Kunsthalle Zürich Biennial Featured artist
- Museum Collections
- Curatorial Interest
- High - First institutional solo exhibition at The Perimeter (2025); featured in major European institutions including Kunsthalle Zürich; catalogue published by The Perimeter with texts by Jennifer Higgie
- Awards and Recognition
- Year
- 2025
- Award
- Baloise Art Prize Nomination
- Status
- Nominee (final decision June 17, 2025)
- Details
- Nominated for prestigious prize awarded annually at Art Basel; CHF 30,000 cash prize plus museum acquisitions by MMK Frankfurt and MUDAM Luxembourg; jury includes directors of major European museums
Career & Biography
- Career
- Biography Summary
- Born in London in 1992 and raised between London and Florida, Alexandra Metcalf is a rising British-American artist currently based in Berlin. She graduated from Chelsea College of Art and Design and Rhode Island School of Design. Metcalf works across painting, sculpture, and installation to explore gendered labor, Victorian womanhood, psychiatric histories, Freudian psychology, and feminist counter-culture movements. Her artistic practice combines traditional craft techniques like stained glass, woodworking, bronze casting, and decoupage with conceptually rigorous explorations of femininity, madness, and institutional confinement. Her work references historical figures like Maria Callas and literary tropes from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper.' The death of her mother in 2017 has deeply influenced her work, with biographical elements appearing in installations like 'Cam 2017/2018.'
- Identity
- Birth Location
- London, UK
- Studio Practice
- Metcalf maintains a studio in Berlin where she works with labor-intensive traditional methods including stained glass fabrication, bronze casting, handcrafted woodwork, and decoupage. She collects Victorian expressions from dictionaries for her titles and repurposes antique objects like grandfather clocks, walking canes, and millinery blocks. Her materials include buttons, nylon stockings, cathedral glass, lead came, and reclaimed wood.
- Current Location
- Berlin, Germany
- Artistic Context
- Artistic Influences
- Victorian literature (Charlotte Brontë, Charlotte Perkins Gilman)Lee Bontecou (1960s gas mask flowers)Richard Dadd (Victorian painter)Maria Callas (opera singer as recurring motif)Isa GenzkenWagner's Bayreuth theaterBritish punk zines1960s counterculture and Harry Gordon poster dressesArts & Crafts movement
Artistic Profile
- Style
- Intense patterns and coloring with 'girlish palette' (pastels, pinks, lilacs, yellows)Layered compositions suggesting accumulation of timeMarbled swirls and psychedelic formsRorschach-like inkblot patternsVictorian expressions and 19th-century typography in titlesCamp aesthetics with satirical edgeBalance between humor and darknessAnthropomorphized objects (walking canes, surgical lamps as figures)
- Themes and Subjects
- Victorian madness and the institutionalization of women
- Gendered labor and craft traditions (embroidery, stained glass, woodworking)
- Domestic confinement and psychological breakdown
- Counter-culture movements (1960s Youth Quake, punk)
- Operatic drama and hysteria (Maria Callas as recurring motif)
- Cycles of life, death, and transformation
- Memory, grief, and maternal relationships
- The grotesque femininity and camp aesthetics
- Domestic interiors with anxiety-laden patterns
- Women's bodies (often fragmented or anonymous)
- Psychiatric spaces (waiting rooms, surgical theaters, asylums)
- Victorian architectural elements and wallpapers
- Repurposed domestic objects (cribs, grandfather clocks, walking canes)
- 1960s poster dresses and fashion
- Psychedelic landscapes and atmospheric mentalscapes
- Scissors as symbols of femininity and violence
- Movements and Periods
- Techniques and Mediums
- Innovations
- Regendering traditionally masculine craft techniques (stained glass, bronze casting) as feminist practice
- Transformation of static domestic objects into emotionally charged sculptures
- Merging of multiple historical periods within single installations
- Theatrical mise-en-scène approach to painting and installation
Critical Reception
- Critical Reception
- Online Discourse
- Strong social media presence; described as 'Instagram magnet' by Luster Magazine regarding Art Basel 2025 installation; work generates significant engagement particularly around immersive installations
- Catalogue Raisonnes
- None published
- Critical Reception Summary
- Metcalf has received overwhelmingly positive critical attention from major contemporary art publications including Frieze, Artnet News, Flash Art, and Wallpaper*. Critics consistently praise her ability to blend dark subject matter with humor and craft mastery. Frieze noted her exploration of institutional confinement beneath domestic surfaces. Artnet described her as 'a rising artist on everyone's lips' and featured her in their prestigious '25 of 2025' list. Flash Art emphasized her 'unapologetic femininity' and emotional resonance. The exhibition 'Gaaaaaaasp' at The Perimeter received significant critical coverage across multiple platforms in May-July 2025, indicating strong curatorial and critical interest. Her work is consistently framed within feminist art discourse and compared to historical precedents like Charlotte Perkins Gilman's writings.
- Publications and Media
- Major Publications
Title Date Publication Type Alexandra Metcalf's Sinister Vignettes June 23, 2025 Frieze Exhibition review For Rising Artist Alexandra Metcalf, There's Beauty in the Breakdown June 12, 2025 Artnet News Profile/Interview Compose Yourself. Alexandra Metcalf July 16, 2025 Flash Art Feature article with photoshoot Alexandra Metcalf turns a London gallery into an eerie medical facility in new exhibition 'Gaaaaaaasp' June 9, 2025 Wallpaper* Exhibition review Alexandra Metcalf's 'Gaaaaaaasp': a surreal journey through feminine spaces and eras May 30, 2025 Contemporary Art Society Exhibition review 25 of 2025: 5 Painters You Need to Know September 2025 Artnet News Feature list Wet Paint in the Wild: Artist Alexandra Metcalf Gallery-Hops Her Way Through London July 1, 2024 Artnet News Artist diary/photo essay Alexandra Metcalf and the totalities of current life September 22, 2023 Conceptual Fine Arts (CFArts) In-depth critical essay — — Plaster Magazine Coverage — — Emergent Magazine Interview - Documentary Coverage
- Featured in Artnet 'Wet Paint in the Wild' photo diary (2024); Flash Art photoshoot by Oscar Foster-Kane (2025)
Gallery & Representation
- Fair Presence
Year Fair Gallery 2025 Art Basel Ginny on Frederick 2023 Liste Art Fair Basel Ginny on Frederick - Representation
- Previous Galleries
- Gallery
- 15 Orient Gallery
- Location
- New York, USA
- Exhibitions
- Vol. 18 (2023)
- Geographic Reach
- Strong presence in Berlin, London, and New York art scenes
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