Chicks on Speed are Kathi Glas (born Germany, 1977, lives and works in Berlin), Melissa Logan (born USA, 1970, lives and works in Hamburg and New York), Alex Murray-Leslie (born Australia, 1970, lives and works in Barcelona), Anat Ben-David (born Israel, 1970, lives and works in London) and A.L. Steiner (born USA, 1967, lives and works in New York).

 

Solo Exhibitions

2010

Chicks on Speed, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee

2009
Viva la Craft!, Craft Victoria, Melbourne

2008
Art Rules, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
A New Line, Kate MacGarry

2007
Shoe Fuck!, CAC Vilnius
Art for Sale (with Douglas Gordon), Yvon Lambert, Paris

2005
It's not what you think, it's the way you look, Kunstraum Innsbruck

 

Group Exhibitions

2009

Best of 50 Years, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany

Skyscraper, Kate MacGarry

The Making Of Art, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
21:100:100, 100 sound works by 100 artists from the 21 Century, Melbourne International Arts Festival and Gertrude Contemporary Arts Spaces

2008
Interdisziplinäres Kunstfestival, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Oct
It's Not Only Rock'n'Roll, Baby! - A Story of Art and Music, BOZAR Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles

2007
Switch on Power!, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, Museo de BellasArtes, Bilbao, Spain

2006
Switch on Power!, MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Vigo, Spain

2005
(Prologue) new feminism/ new Europe, Cornerhouse, Manchester
Diamonds for Workers, Kate MacGarry

2004
Atelier COS, Kunstverein Wolfsburg
Chicks on Speed: It's a Project, Deitch Projects, New York

2001
Shopping, Generali Foundation, Vienna

1999
Talk Show, Haus der Kuenst, Munich

 

Selected Live Performances

Skyscraper, Kate MacGarry, 3 September 2009

The Making Of Art, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, 28 May 2009

Bawag Contemporary, Vienna, 7 May 2009

Art Rules Kyoto, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 3 May 2008

A New Line, Kate MacGarry, 25 January 2008

Turner Prize: A Retrospective, Tate Britain, 1 October 2007

Art Rules, (presented by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary), Gartenbau Kino, Vienna, 28 April 2007
Art Rules (with Douglas Gordon), Pompidou Centre, Paris, 24 February 2007

Art Rules (with Douglas Gordon), MoMA, New York, 24 June 2006

Live, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 13 May 2004

 

Education

Chicks On Speed started at the Munich Art Academy in 1997.

 

Publications

It's Not Only Rock'n'Roll, Baby! - A Story of Art and Music, Jérome Sans, BOZAR - Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles, 2008
Live: Palais de Tokyo, Frédéric Grossi and Jérome Sans, Palais de Tokyo, 2006
Chicks on Speed: It's a Project, Booth Clibborn Editions, 2004

 

Selected recent press

Skyscraper, Time Out London, JJ Charlesworth, September 17-23 2009, p.50

Chicks on Speed - Cutting the Edge, Uncut, Stephen Dalton, July 2009

Chicks on Speed, The Wire, Joseph Stannard, June 2009

Chicks on Speed - Cutting the Edge, NME, Louise Brailey, 23 May 2009

We don't play art!, Flash Art (Italy), June-July 2008 Francesco Spampinaro, p.48

Pollastrelle in Velocita', D-La Repubblica delle Donne (Italy), Daniela Zenone, 25 May 2008
Chicks on Speed, Art Review, April 2008, Laura Allsop, p.126
Chicks on Speed - A New Line, The Wire, March 2008, Louise Gray
Chicks on Speed, Frieze, Nov- Dec 2007, Christy Lange
Chicks on Speed, Flash Art, July - Sept 2006, Gea Politi

Arte Que Suena, El Pais (Spain), Manuela Villa, 16 June 2006