Chicks on Speed
Melissa Logan, b. United States of America, lives and works in Munich, Germany
Alex Murray-Leslie, b. Australia, lives and works in Sydney, London and Barcelona
Solo Exhibitions
2016
Victor Saavedra, Barcelona
2015
SCREAM, ArtScience Museum, Signapore, SGP
Golden Gang, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
Datastravaganza, 401Contemporary, Berlin, D Art Cologne
2014
Chicks on Speed SCREAM, Fremantle Art Centre, Fremantle
Chicks on Speed SCREAM, Design Hub, RMIT University, Melbourne
Chicks on Speed SCREAM, Institute of Contemporary Art, Singapore
JAMaramma, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
2013
Chicks on Speed SCREAM, Artspace, Sydney
Chicks on Speed SCREAM, Brisbane
2012
The Endless Song, Zuecca Gallery & University IUAV, Venice, Italy
2011
Chicks on Speed: Cultural Workship Now! Kunstraum Kreuzberg
Bitanian, Berlin, Germany
Chicks on Speed Happening, Kate MacGarry Gallery, London, UK
Prototype Hits, L’Estruch, Sabadell, Spain
2010
Chicks on Speed, Don’t Art, fashion, Music, DCA, Dundee Contemporary Arts,
Dundee, Scotland, UK
2009
Viva La Craft, Craft Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Art Rules, Thyssen Bornesmizsa Contemporary 21, Vienna, Austria *
Power Tools for the remote controlled Metaverse, Bawag Contemporary,
Vienna, Austria
2008
Art Rules, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Art Rules, MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York *
A New Line, Kate MacGarry Gallery, London, UK
2007
SHOE FUCK! CAC Contemporary Arts Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
Art For Sale, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
It’s not what you think, it’s the way you look!, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria
Group Exhibitions
2019
Hope Dies Last: Art at the End of Optimism, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
2016
Geek Girls, Creative Industries Precint, Queensland University Gallery, Brisbane (Upcoming)
2015
Girls at The Tin Sheds: Sydney Feminist Posters 1975-90, University Art Gallery, University of Sydney
Experimental Practice: Provocations in Design, RMIT Design Hub, Melbourne
The Armory Show, New York
2014
Der Stachel des Scorpions, Museum Villa Stuck
Der Stachel des Scorpions, Instituts Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt
Der Stachel des Scorpions, “Carte Blanche”, Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt
Green Cathedral, Wollongong Art Gallery, Australia
Fau-Tourism, The Scandinavian Institute, New York
Whitney Biennial, (a collaborative piece with A.L. steiner) New York
2013
Touch me baby, I'm bodycentric, a multimodalplosion. With Lisa Walker, City Gallery, Wellington, NZ
2012
Cross Counter, Vacant, Tokyo, Japan
Limited-Unlimted , Alta Roma, Rome, Italy
Feminist Fashion Film Now, A Shaded View on Fashion Film,
CaixaForum, Barcelona, Spain
2011
The Power of Making, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
Contour, 5th Biennale of the Moving Image, Sound and Vision
beyond reason, Mechelen, Belgium
DIY, Museum for Communication, Frankfurt
2010
Figura Cuncta Videntis: The All Seeing Eye/Hommage to Christophe Schlingensief TBA-21, Vienna Austria
(Back to) the Robots, Sonar, International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art, Barcelona, Spain
It’s Not Only Rock and Roll baby! Trienale, Bovisa, Milan, Italy
Scope @ The Armoury Show, Curated by Diane pernet, New York, USA
Estoril Fashion Art Festival, Lisbon, Portugal
2009
A Shaded View on Fashion Film, Centre Pompidiou, Paris, france
Best of 50 Years, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany
Skyscraper, Kate MacGarry Gallery, London, UK
A hanging Garden Party, Chicks on Speed and Pelican Avenue Paris, France
A hanging Garden Party, Chicks on Speed and Pelican Avenue Tokyo Fashion Week, Tokyo, Japan
The Making Of Art, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
21:100:100, 100 sound works by 100 artists from the 21 Century, Melbourne International Arts Festival & Gertrude Contemporary Arts Spaces
Performances
2019
I'll be your body instrument, Performance Space, Sydney
2016
Artformance, Volksbuhne, Berlin
Pohoda Festival, Slovenia
W, GOA, India
2015
Artstravaganza, for the closing of Karl Lagerfeld, 'Modemethode', Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
Finnish Pavilion vernissage, Venice Biennale
ArtScience Museum, Singapore, SGP
Golden Gang film screening, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney,
Artformance, PS1 MoMA, New York
Chicks on Speed Artformance, 'The Fashion World of Jean Pault Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
ASVOFF8, Centre Pompidiou, Paris
2014
Unpainted, Media Art fair, Munich
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Chicks on Speed SCREAM, Fremantle Perth
Chicks on Speed SCREAM, RMIT University, Melbourne
Chicks on Speed SCREAM, Institute of Contemporary Art, Singapore
JAMaramma, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
Witte de With | Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
ZKM, Centre for Art and Media (vernissage Lynne Hershman exhibition)
Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt
2013
Gigahertz festival, ZKM, Centre for Art and Media, karlsruhe
Australian pavillion vernissage, 55th Venice Biennale
TBA 21 Art Contemporary, 55th Venice Biennale
Chicks on Speed SCREAM, Artspace, Sydney
Chicks on Speed SCREAM, Brisbane
2012
Laus Awards, CCCB, Centre de Cultura Contempornia, Barcelona
2011
Contour, 5th Biennale of the Moving Image, Sound & Vision beyond reason, Mechelen,Belgium
Video Art at Midnight, Babylon, Berlin, Germany*
MIS Museum of Image & Sound, Sao Paulo
Gareth Pugh, Aftershow Party, Pitti, Florence
Chicks on Speed: Cultural Workship
Now! Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bitanian, Berlin, Germany*
Oddstream Festival, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Legacy, Taipei, Taiwan
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
La Machine du Moulin Rouge, Paria, france
2010
Chicks on Speed, Don’t Art, fashion, Music, DCA,
Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland, UK
Express yourself Night, Manhattan Cosmetics, Berlin, Germany
The Brandery, Barcelona, Spain
The Naked Performer, Inkonst, Malmo, Sweden
The Sound of Munich, Munich, Germany
2009
Bread and Butter, Berlin
Viva La Craft, Craft Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Art Rules, Thyssen Bornesmizsa Contemporary 21, Vienna, Austria *
Made in Munich, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Volksbuhne, Berlin, Germany
Fashion on Paper, Alta Roma, Rome, Italy
The Brandery Opening Gala event, Barcelona, Spain
2008
Art Rules, by Chicks on Speed & Douglas Gordon,
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Art Rules, by Chicks on Speed & Douglas Gordon,
MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA *
Fashion Against Aids/H&M Launch Party, Berlin, Germany
Diesel XXX Party, with Whomadewho, Milan, Italy
Fashion Against Aids/Hennes&Mauritz Launch, Colette, Paris
Future Music Festival, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Australia
Yoox.com Birthday Party, Bologna, Italy
2007
Art Rules by Chicks on Speed and Douglas Gordon,
Centre Pompidiou, Paris, France
SHOE FUCK! CAC Contemporary Arts Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
Art For Sale, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris, France*
It’s not what you think, it’s the way you look!,
Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria
2006
LIVE! Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2005
What is Music, Australian Tour
Nu Music festival, Stavanger, Norway
2004
Glastonbury, UK
Red Hot Chilli Peppers & James Brown, European tour support
Primavera Sound Festival, Barcelona, Spain
Diesel Music Awards, Ghent, Belgium
Jalouse party, Moscow, Russia
Sonar Festival of Advanced Music, Sao Paulo, Brazil & Tokyo, Japan
Transmediale Festival, Berlin, Germany
Public speaking, Workshops & Lectures
2015
DIY, Musical instrument design workshop, Material Futures, Central St Martins, Univeristy of the Arts, London (Alex)
Keynote presentation, Faculty of Art, Media and Technology, Parsons the New School, Paris (Alex)
Performance Workshop, Interface Cultures, The University of Art and Design Linz (Alex)
Keynote presentation, Design Friends, Rotondes, Luxemburg
2014
SCREAM, Design Hub, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
SCREAM, Fremantle Art Centre, Perth, Australia
Interface Cultures, University of Art and Design Linz (Alex Murray-Leslie)
Subversion in Art & Culture, Theory, HAW Hamburg (Melissa Logan)
Creativity and Cognition Studios, University of Technology Sydney (Alex Murray-Leslie)
University Pompei Fabre, Barcelona (Alex Murray-Leslie)
Costume Colloqium, Colours of fashion, Keynote presentation (Alex Murray-Leslie)
Xcommunicate, University of Technology, Brisbane (Alex Murray-Leslie)
2013
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (Alex Murray-Leslie)
Interface Cultures, University of Art and Design Linz (Melissa Logan and
Alex Murray-Leslie)
HAANGAR. Org
SymbioticA, University of Western Australia (Alex Murray-Leslie)
University Pompei Fabre, Barcelona (Alex Murray-Leslie)
2012
Utopia Utopia! Superstadt
Performance Lecture & interview with curator Milovan Farronato, MiArt, Milan Art Fair
Book Works, London. ( Melissa Logan & Anat Ben-David)
Lecture, University IUAV, Venice, Italy (Alex Murray-Leslie)
Lecture & Workshop with Sabine Seymour, Hangar, Barcelona
Art and Humor, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich (Melissa Logan)
Don't Art, Fashion. HfK Bremen, (Melissa Logan)
Humor & Very Serious Cheekiness, From Video to Tit-Prints.
Raum Blau, Hamburg. (Melissa Logan)
2011
Chicks on Speed, don’t Art, fashion, Music, book launch & lecture, Corso Como 10, Milan, Italy
Chicks on Speed, don’t Art, fashion, Music, book launch & lecture, Gallery Mutt, Barcelona, Spain
2010
Lecture, Prototype, Symposium, convened by the Victoria & Albert
Museum & Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee
Workshop & Lecture series, Music 2.0, Camon, Alicante, Spain
2008
“Fashion as Song”, performance lecture, L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival, Australian
Centre for The Moving Image (ACMI) Melbourne, Australia
“Play It Loud” Panel discussion, Adelaide Arts Festival, Australia
Women in Research, workshop and residency, Monash University, Australia
“Art Rules” lecture Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Elisava School of Art and Design, lecture, Barcelona, Spain
2007
„Lebe wild, prekär und gefährlich“ Heinrich Böll Stiftung (Melissa Logan)
2006
The Inflencers, CCCB, Barcelona
2003
The Art of Pop, Goldsmiths collage of Art, London
Residencies
2015
2014
ArtSpace, Sydney
ZKM, Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
SymbioticA, University of Western Australia
2013
ArtSpace, Sydney
ZKM, Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Thyssen Bornesmizsa Contemporary 21
2012
Hangar.org, Barcelona, Spain
2011
L’Estruch, Sabadell, Spain
2010
Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, United Kingdom
Hangar.org, Barcelona, Spain
2009
Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia
Thyssen Bornesmizsa Contemporary 21 & Museum of Modern
Art Vienna, Austria