Alexander Brix Tillegreen (b. 1991) is a visual artist and composer educated at the Städelschule, Frankfurt, and The Cooper Union, New York.
His practice is marked by a continual cross-pollination between painting, printmaking, sound installation, sculpture, video, and composition. He explores how perception, abstraction, and embodied listening shape meaning and activate the unconscious.
Through artistic research into the phantom word illusion, including a research collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, he investigates how the listener’s linguistic and cultural background, memory, attention, and movement shape the words they hear. His work also explores how identity and gender are perceived and projected onto the voice, making listening a bodily, situated, and co-creative process.
His paintings, sculptures, and other visual works explore temporality, organic transformations, and relationships between body and architecture, informed by listening and musical thinking.
In several exhibitions, Tillegreen has developed works in direct dialogue with artworks by other artists he selected from museum collections, exploring the seams between visual, spatial, sculptural, and sonic forms.
Tillegreen’s work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions at institutions including Kunsthalle Mannheim (2026), Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen (2025), CCA Glasgow (2024), Kunsthalle Darmstadt (2023), Museum Tinguely, Basel (2023), Kunstforeningen GL Strand, Copenhagen (2023), O–Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen (2022), FuturDome Museum, Milano (2022), Kunstverein Göttingen (2022), MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (2017), and the National Gallery of Denmark (2008).
His music has been presented at festivals including STRØM, Roskilde, CTM, ISCM World New Music Days, and Nordic Music Days. He released his debut album in words on rastermedia in 2023, and his commissions include works for the Darmstädter Ferienkurse, ensemble mosaik, Riot Ensemble, and accordionist Andreas Borregaard, among others.
Alexander Brix Tillegreen (b. 1991) is a visual artist and composer educated at the Städelschule, Frankfurt, and The Cooper Union, New York.
His practice is marked by a continual cross-pollination between painting, printmaking, sound installation, sculpture, video, and composition. He explores how perception, abstraction, and embodied listening shape meaning and activate the unconscious.
Through artistic research into the phantom word illusion, including a research collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, he investigates how the listener’s linguistic and cultural background, memory, attention, and movement shape the words they hear. His work also explores how identity and gender are perceived and projected onto the voice, making listening a bodily, situated, and co-creative process.
His paintings, sculptures, and other visual works explore temporality, organic transformations, and relationships between body and architecture, informed by listening and musical thinking.
In several exhibitions, Tillegreen has developed works in direct dialogue with artworks by other artists he selected from museum collections, exploring the seams between visual, spatial, sculptural, and sonic forms.
Tillegreen’s work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions at institutions including Kunsthalle Mannheim (2026), Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen (2025), CCA Glasgow (2024), Kunsthalle Darmstadt (2023), Museum Tinguely, Basel (2023), Kunstforeningen GL Strand, Copenhagen (2023), O–Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen (2022), FuturDome Museum, Milano (2022), Kunstverein Göttingen (2022), MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (2017), and the National Gallery of Denmark (2008).
His music has been presented at festivals including STRØM, Roskilde, CTM, ISCM World New Music Days, and Nordic Music Days. He released his debut album in words on rastermedia in 2023, and his commissions include works for the Darmstädter Ferienkurse, ensemble mosaik, Riot Ensemble, and accordionist Andreas Borregaard, among others.