Alexandra Corcode (b.2000), is a Romanian visual storyteller based between Syria and Romania, with a focus on documentary photography. Her practice is characterized by its openness to engage with various individuals, communities, or ideas, fostering a sense of inclusivity and diversity in the creative process, extensive research, and an immersive approach to her subject matter.
Through her photographic practice, she wishes to bring awareness to overlooked complex situations created by inequality, migration, poverty, tradition, loneliness, and traces of human absence. Alexandra embraces the photographic medium as a means to create encounters that establish relationships and question territories through memories, resilience, and generational transmission, with intimacy and dignity.
Corcode is a recent graduate from the Royal Academy of Art (KABK), The Hague with a BA in Photography. In 2023 she won the Tom Stoddart Award for Excellence from The Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant and was shortlisted for the Kassel Photobook Dummy Award with her book “Your Death is In My Hands”. In 2022, she had been selected as an “Emerging talent in photojournalism” by The Guardian, and won the Canon Student Development Programme. Beyond those, she was selected to participate in the 35th edition of Eddie Adams Workshop in New York, having been published in Reuve 6 Mois – La Revue de Photojournalisme and has been selected for the New York Times Portfolio Review.
Alexandra Corcode (b.2000), is a Romanian visual storyteller based between Syria and Romania, with a focus on documentary photography. Her practice is characterized by its openness to engage with various individuals, communities, or ideas, fostering a sense of inclusivity and diversity in the creative process, extensive research, and an immersive approach to her subject matter.
Through her photographic practice, she wishes to bring awareness to overlooked complex situations created by inequality, migration, poverty, tradition, loneliness, and traces of human absence. Alexandra embraces the photographic medium as a means to create encounters that establish relationships and question territories through memories, resilience, and generational transmission, with intimacy and dignity.
Corcode is a recent graduate from the Royal Academy of Art (KABK), The Hague with a BA in Photography. In 2023 she won the Tom Stoddart Award for Excellence from The Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant and was shortlisted for the Kassel Photobook Dummy Award with her book “Your Death is In My Hands”. In 2022, she had been selected as an “Emerging talent in photojournalism” by The Guardian, and won the Canon Student Development Programme. Beyond those, she was selected to participate in the 35th edition of Eddie Adams Workshop in New York, having been published in Reuve 6 Mois – La Revue de Photojournalisme and has been selected for the New York Times Portfolio Review.
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Calculating Empires / Kate Crawford & Vladan JolerNov 27, 2025 – Jan 31, 2027The monumental installation Calculating Empires impressively demonstrates how power and technology have been intertwined for centuries. The work, by artist-researchers Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler, and has been acquired by Rijksmuseum Twenthe...
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Mohammed Sami: HostlessOct 3, 2026 – Jan 3, 2027In his new body of work Hostless, Mohammed Sami focuses predominantly on internal spaces. The paintings become a site for mnemonic processes, mental operations in which abstraction falters and something unsettling begins to seep through.
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The Coming of AgeMar 26 – Nov 29, 2026
‘The Coming of Age’ features more than 120 artworks and objects, including historical artefacts and works by contemporary artists including John Coplans, Serena Korda, Suzanne Lacy, Anna Maria Maiolino, Rory Pilgrim, Paula Rego and more.
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Arnold J. Kemp: Not One ThingJul 28 – Dec 6, 2026
Arnold J. Kemp: Not One Thing is the first institutional survey of work by the Chicago-based artist Arnold J. Kemp (b. 1968, Boston). The exhibition focuses on Kemp’s performative and material tendencies of masking, traced through various media.
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Imagining an ArchipelagoJul 11, 2026 – Jun 6, 2027Art connects islands across thousands of miles in “Imagining an Archipelago: Art from Cuba, Guam, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Their Diasporas.” The visually stunning exhibition brings together more than 40 contemporary artists...
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Ahn Chang-Hong: noon-moolSep 5 – Dec 6, 2026American University Museum is honored to present noon-mool, a major solo exhibition by Korean artist Ahn Chang-Hong. Occupying both the second and third floors of the museum, the exhibition offers a rare opportunity...
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Wolf TonesOct 3, 2026 – Apr 4, 2027
Wolf Tones presents the work of six artists as a refracted analogy of an acoustic phenomenon. The wolf tone is an irregular vibration produced by a musical instrument such as the cello. It is the result of an acoustic conflict produced by its wooden body.
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Constellations: Contemporary Jewelry from the Dallas Museum of ArtJul 10, 2026 – Jan 3, 2027
“Constellations: Contemporary Jewelry from the Dallas Museum of Art” showcases more than 350 works from one of the most significant contemporary jewelry collections in the United States.
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A Zona / Diogo SimõesPublication
A Zona is Diogo Simões’s first book. Twelve years in the making, it marks the arrival of a major force in Portuguese photography. All the photos were done in Margem Sul, Tagus river south bank, opposite Lisbon.
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World Press Photo 2026Winners & ExhibitionsWorld Press Photo is an independent non-profit organization that champions the power of photojournalism and documentary photography to deepen understanding of the world’s complexities, promote dialogue, and inspire action.
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Wallace StevensPoetMore than any other modern poet, Wallace Stevens was concerned with the transformative power of the imagination. Composing poems on his way to and from the office and in the evenings, Stevens continued to spend his days behind a desk at the office...
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Housekeeping in a Dangerous TimeApr 24 – Dec 31, 2026Housekeeping in a Dangerous Time looks into artistic practices that engage with the contemporary forces shaping intergenerational ties and the distinctions between life stages.
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COLLECTIONSAvailable Works for Sale
Welcome to the new Online Boutique of Artpil with unique contemporary art works, limited edition photography, and monograph artist and photo books available for purchase. Here are some featured collections.
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Sean Scully, 48Apr 18, 2026 – Dec 24, 2028LongHouse welcomes the world-renowned Irish American artist Sean Scully into the garden with his colored stack entitled 48, 2024, a work that epitomizes his deliberate use of stripes and color, with gestures toward land, sea, and sky.
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39th Panorama of Brazilian ArtSep 12, 2026 – Jan 24, 2027Entitled After It’s All Said, 39th Panorama of Brazilian Art, under the curatorship of Diane Lima, questions where artistic production has overflowed in the search to expand the limits of aesthetic representation through a radical exercise of imagination.
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New Humans: Memories of the FutureMar 21, 2026 - OngoingNew Humans: Memories of the Future will inaugurate the New Museum’s expanded building with an exploration of artists’ enduring preoccupation with what it means to be human in the face of sweeping technological changes. New Humans will trace a diagonal history of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries...
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Urban Art Biennale 2026May 15 – Nov 15, 2026The URBAN ART BIENNALE is one of the world’s largest exhibitions of this anarchic art form, which transcends conventional ‘white cube’ aesthetics. Since 2011, every two years, the entire site of the Völklinger Hütte enters into dialog with this art form...
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The Present as FoundOctober 2–23, 2026The divergent creative practices of this year’s Zvono Award finalists – Ljiljana Arsić, Isidora Branković, Mustafa Mlinarević, and Emina Veladžić – have shaped a media-heterogeneous, methodologically diverse, and conceptually multilayered exhibition.
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