"Life is a Mandelbrot Set, I paint life and I paint the universe"
- Aelita Andre
Career Milestones Thus Far With Links
Quick Info
Born in Melbourne, Australia, 2007
First begins painting at 9 months old
First solo exhibition at 2 years old in BSG Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Solo Exhibition Highlights:
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4 New York solo shows
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1 Museum solo show Russia.
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4 Hong Kong solo shows
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1 solo show, China
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4 solo shows, Australia
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2 solo shows, Korea
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Aelita Andre, at 9 years old, is the youngest artist to ever have her work featured in a solo museum exhibition.
Painting style is categorised as Abstract Expressionism
Range of Work: Painting, Soundpaintings, Music, Drawing, Sculpture, Installations
Aelita Andre (born in Melbourne, Australia, in 2007) is an Australian artist. She first began painting at nine months old, staging her first solo exhibition at the age of two.
Her primary work consists of what others describe as abstract expressionism, and Soundpaintings of this style, which she describes as 'puzzle pieces' of the universe of her art, connected through String Theory, the idea that the entire universe is by its fabric, composed of minuscule strings which are constantly vibrating - singing, but unheard by human ears.
Aelita Andre's broader art practice includes drawing, sculpture, and video art. She creates richly textured works in which abstract gestures appear to depict and suggest imagined landscapes, creatures and cosmic worlds. She describes her approach as “Magical Abstraction”: an invitation to discover images and stories within the interplay of colour, form and chance. Her work draws on her love of nature, science and the universe, moving between the vast and the microscopic. Aelita Andre describes her work functioning as a Mandelbrot set; infinitely divisible in that simply because scale isn't recognised by overt complexity that humans are predisposed to seeing, on its own wavelength it is still of infinite complexity.
Her Synaesthesia forms a vital aspect of her art practice, fusing a unifying colour, sound and touch. Her Soundpaintings incorporate painted violins as both sculptural elements and playable instruments producing soundscapes of great texture and atmosphere of oceans, wind and natural sounds, while her interactive Touchpaintings respond to contact with recorded and composed sounds. Through live improvisation, she extends these works into performances in which a painting becomes something to hear as well as physically experience.
Aelita Andre first rose to public attention for her astounding achievements at such a young age; first known to be a leading child prodigy within the field of art. She has done extensive charity work for children in addition to esteemed brand partnerships, now having established her career as an evolving visionary adult artist.
Her first international solo exhibition was held in Hong Kong, age two, and she subsequently held a 2011 New York exhibition, which brought international attention, followed by exhibitions across Europe, Asia and the United States. In 2013, she painted live in front of 20,000 people in the US, Utah. In 2016, aged nine, she presented Music of the Infinite at the Russian Academy of Fine Arts Museum in St Petersburg. In 2021-2023, she staged three seperate major solo shows in South Korea. Aelita has staged over 35 solo exhibitions worldwide thus far. Her first fifteen years of artistic development are documented in Aelita Andre: Prodigy of Colour, a 208-page monograph published by Skira in 2023.
Aelita is on the brink of unveiling her broader and evolved artistic practice. Philosophically inspired, as the very nature of complexity and consciousness on different scales, unseen by humans, are part of the very fabric of the universe, such is a grounding core of her new collection as a multisensory artist.
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