Alexander Polzin

Alexander Polzin is a sculptor, painter, and stage designer whose practice uniquely fuses material, music, and performance. Originally trained as a stonemason, he brings a deep physical understanding of form and scale to an international career spanning visual art, opera, dance, and theatre. Polzin is particularly recognised for creating sculptural and spatial responses to musical structures, often translating rhythm, counterpoint, and emotional architecture into three-dimensional form.

Alongside major stage and orchestral collaborations at venues including the Boulez Saal, Elbphilharmonie, and Snape Maltings, his visual art has gained significant international recognition. At the Venice Biennale, his monumental sculpture Double Angel was exhibited as a meditation on duality, balance, and transcendence, combining architectural mass with a sense of poised fragility. At the Royal Academy of Music, one of his Bach sculptures was installed as a permanent dialogue between music and material, distilling Bach’s contrapuntal thinking into a restrained but resonant physical form. Together, these works exemplify Polzin’s distinctive ability to make music tangible through sculpture.