Hollywood star Keanu Reeves (61) accompanied his partner Alexandra Grant (53) on Thursday evening at the opening of her exhibition at the Neues Museum Nuremberg. Under the title "One Star Is Enough to Believe in the Light", the American artist presents large-format paper works there. At the opening, the "Matrix" star often remained by her side. The Instagram channel of the "Nürnberger Nachrichten" published a video showing Reeves in warm exchanges with the guests at the opening.
At the center of the exhibition, according to the Neues Museum Nuremberg, are large-format paper sheets that Grant covers with colored script. The artist sees herself as a mediator of female voices, making them visible and amplifying them so they can be heard.
For the project in Nuremberg, Grant went on a search for traces in the city's past and present. Four of the eight female authors she engaged with are from Nuremberg or live there. One of the works is based on the Engelthal Sister Book by the medieval nun Christina Ebner from 1346.
"I like to change locations more often", Grant explained in 2021 in an interview with "Monopol" magazine about her life as an artist. "That works well because I work a lot on paper and often only assemble my large-format images at the end; sometimes I only see them as a whole when they're installed in the gallery." She doesn't need a large studio, "I work in the apartment, on the floor, on the wall".
From Los Angeles to Franconia
Grant lives in Los Angeles and works with painting, drawings, and texts on the question of how language shapes social power relations. The exhibition at the Neues Museum Nuremberg can be seen until October 11, 2026. To kick things off, the museum on opening day invites visitors to the English-language Artist Talk "Networks of Exchange".
Grant has clearly experienced that the public often prefers to talk about her famous partner rather than her art. She has been officially together with Reeves since 2019. They appeared together at the gala evening of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) at that time. "There were a lot of comments about my hair, not about my art", Grant reflected on the evening in the "Monopol" conversation. "As an artist, working woman, and feminist, it's important to me how female biographies are told. The desire to erase you is very real. Especially online. [...] It's exhausting to be a female public person who doesn't conform."
Since 2019, the couple has appeared together on the red carpet from time to time, but there are few details about their private life. "The good news about falling in love as an adult is that by the time my relationship began, I had built my own career", Grant told "People" magazine in 2023 in a rare private interview. The couple feels comfortable both together and alone-they are in the best sense "dependent on each other and independent at the same time".
