chart art fair
adam christensen,
ann lislegaard,
benedikte bjerre,
cally spooner,
magnus andersen,
marie lund,
simon dybbroe møller,
tora schultz,
young-jun tak,
daiga grantina,
kirsten ortwed
28–31 august 2025
education
2004–2007 BA Hons Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
2002–2003 The European Film College, Ebeltoft, DK
upcoming
2025 Grønningen, Den Frie, Copenhagen, DK (group)
2026 Gammel Strand, Copenhagen, DK (group)
solo exhibitions
*catalog
2025 LISTE art fair, Basel, CH
2025 Is That All You’ve Got?, Huset for Kunst og Design, Holstebro, DK
2024 I’ve got a bad feeling about this, Horsens Art Museum, Horsens, DK
2024 why don’t you shut it?, palace enterprise, Copenhagen, DK
2023 Bedtime, Tønder Art Museum, Tønder, DK*
2023 Lise, Haus N Off-Site, Athens, GRE
2022 The Wind Swallowed My Words, Hunt Kastner, Prague, CZ
2022 You Might Wanna Stay Over, w/ Ursula Reuter Christiansen, Rønnebæksholm, Næstved, DK
2021 Küss mich, bevor du gehst, Kunstverein Harbuger Bahnhof, Hamborg, DE
2020 The beauty about antisocial behaviour is that it takes you away from other people, however briefly, Futura, Prague, CZ
2019 I’m not done with you yet, Goldsmiths CCA, London, UK
2019 Criminal Longing 3, Almanac Projects, London, UK
2018 Shitty Heartbreaker, O–Overgaden Kunsthalle, Copenhagen, DK
2017 You Don’t Treat Me Like You Should, Almanac Projects, OuterSpace, Milan, IT
2016 2 Late 2 Talk part two, OUTPOST Gallery, Norwich, UK
2016 If He’s Innocent, He’s Really Fucked, Queen Adelaide, London, UK
2015 Art Show, Maison Maca, Athens, GRE
2015 Why can’t we just enjoy it the wat it is?, Artes, Porto, PT
2014 Its raining btw x, Southard Reid, London, UK
2010 My heart forgot to leap when you looked at me, Rachmanioff’s, London, UK
group exhibitions
2025 Grønningen, Den Frie, Copenhagen, DK
2025 Needle & Thread, Vendsyssel Kunstmuseum, Hjørring, DK
2025 Needle & Thread, Sorø Art Museum, Sorø, DK
2025 Denne Nye Verden – overvejende Tekstil, Lundsgaard Gods, Kerteminde, DK
2024 Needle & Thread, Art Museum Brandts, Odense, DK
2024 25, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, DE
2024 The Vejen Way To Art, Vejen Art Museum, Vejen, DE
2023 Forms of The Surrounding Futures, Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Göteborg, SE
2023 X A CAPUTAL DESIRE, Le Bicolore, Paris, FR
2023 Woke Up Feeling Better, Staffordshire St, London, UK
2022 Kunstnerkolonien På Sydfyn, Faaborg Kunstmuseum, Faaborg, DK
2021 Too Much (too little, too late), Glasgow International, Glasgow, UK
2021 Valentine Special, Romika TV, (online)
2020 Ghosthouse, Den Frie, Copenhagen, DK
2020 Underneath, The Nordic House, Reykjavik, IS
2020 Máscaras (Masks), Galaria Minicipal do Porto, Porto, PT
2020 Sets and Scenarios, Royal College of Art, Nottingham Comtemporary, (online)
2019 You’re In My Veins, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, DK
2018 Give Up The Ghost, Baltic Triennial 13, Vilnius/Tallin/Riga
2018 We Are Having A Little Flirt, Pump House Gallery, London, UK
2018 Cryptopian States, Cycle Music and Art Festival, Berlin, DE
2018 Staging Realities 1, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, DE
2017 When My Eyes Saw And When My Ears Heard, Hollybush Gardens, London, UK
2017 Beauty and Room, Palp Festival, Sion, CH
2017 56 Artillery Lane, w/ Keira Fox, Raven Row, London, UK
2016 Planned Obsolescence, Muscovite Gymnasium, Moscow, RF
2015 I am here, but you’ve gone, Fiorucci Art Trust and Creative Perfumers, London, UK
2014 Feeling Queezy, EKKM, Tallinn, EE
2014 Forget Amnesia, Fiorucci Art Trust, Stromboli, IT
2014 Je suis Féministre, Unit 21, Penarth Centre, London, UK
2014 Terminos, LimaZulu, London, UK
2013 One Day the Day Will Come When the Day Will Not Come, Futura, Prague, CZ
2013 Lutz Kinoy’s Loose Bodies, Elain, MGK, Basel, CH
2013 Nestbeschmutzer, Southard Reid, London, UK
2012 Soundworks, ICA, London, UK (online)
2012 She Doesn’t Care, EB&Flow Gallery, London, UK
2012 Artist Urban Action, Enclave, London, UK
2012 Group Show, Rachmaninoff’s Smith/Arnett, London, UK
2011 Film i Samtidskonsten, Bio Rio, Stockholm, SE
2011 Facts and Systems: A Science Fair, 120 East Road, London, UK
2010 i modi, Benderspace, Bermonsey, London, UK
2009 Sexually Motivated, South London Cultural Centre, London, UK
2008 Think Again, Rachmanioff’s London, UK
2008 Annual Members’ Exhibition, Studio Voltaire, London, UK
performances
2025 Taxi Club, Copenhagen, DK
2025 GARGLE, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
2025 Interval #1, La Fabra Centre d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, ES
2025 Screening, Christiania Biennale, Copenhagen, DK
2025 Cafe OTO, London, UK
2025 Augend&Addend, Vienna, AT
2025 Liste Art Fair, Basel, CH
2024 Home Live Art, Shoreditch Town Hall, UK
2024 Performissima, Le Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles / Paris, Paris, FR
2024 Somerset House, London, UK
2023 September Sessions, Stockholm, SE
2023 Damascus Copenhagen, Fetish Shop, Vilnius Biennial, Vilnius, LT
2023 10 Year Party, Almanac, Turin, IT
2023 Subset 2, SET Woolwich, London, UK
2023 Kulturpris, Kulturpriser, Vordingborg, DK
2022 Lyra Pramuk and Adam Christensen, Valby Kulturhus, Valby, DK
2022 NIGHTHAWKS: A G.L.I.T.S. Fundraiser on International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, Ormside Projects, London, UK
2022 Feature, iklektik, London, UK
2022 Warm Little Pond x Sans Souci, Salon 75, Copenhagen, DK
2022 The Ladies Club, w/ Keira Fox, Sodas 2123, Vilnius, LT
2022 Stranger Gentle presents… Two Nights of Unlearning, Horse Hospital, London, UK
2022 FuturShock, Fold, London, UK
2022 FRIEND, Pfeil Magazine 16 Launch, Montez Press, London, UK
2022 Iconoclast, Todmorden, UK
2022 Yaga Gathering, Varėna, LT
2022 S_ex_Clu_b, Wharf Chambers, Leeds, UK
2022 Cars don’t talk back, Institut Funder Bakke, Silkeborg, DK
2022 Earth Hackney, London, UK
2021 Performance Festival: Resonance & Wonder, with Deniz Unal, O–Overgarden Kunsthalle, Copenhagen, DK
2021 Adam Christensen & Deniz Unal, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK
2021 Badesøen Festival, Albertslund, DK
2021 Mo.Co., Montpelier, US
2020 Confessions: Making a Performance of Yourself, Jerwood Art Space, London, UK
2020 Anarchy 99+ XCRSWX + Adam Christensen, Café Otto, London, UK
2019 Sweet Surrender, OGR, Torino, IT
2019 I wanna be lonely, Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmunder, DE
2019 It’s a lot like life, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2019 Beatrice Gibson/Crone Music, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
2019 Reacción A Islandia, Pavilion Nordico, Buenos Aires, AR
2018 DRAG, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
2018 ERROR, Pfeil Magazine 9, Montez Press, Hamburg, DE
public collections
Horsens Art Museum, Horsens, DK
Museum Sønderjylland, Tønder, DK
The New Carlsberg Foundation, Copenhagen, DK
Danish Arts Foundation, DK
awards & grants
2023 Inger Goldmanns Fond, DK
2022 Aage & Yelva Nimbs Foundation honorary scholarship, DK
2021 Work scholarship (3 years), the Danish Arts Foundation, DK
2020 Work scholarship, the Danish Arts Foundation, DK
2019 Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s Artist Award, London, UK
2006 Hamad Butt Fine Art Award, Goldsmiths College, UK
projects
2022 Kunstnerkolonien, television, season 3, DRTV, DK
2012 Ectopia, music project with Jack Brennan and Vicky Steiri
2011 Hotel Garderobe, cinema club and event space, George Tingle House, London, UK
2008 Eyes Of Blood, erotic thriller video project with Sidsel Christensen
2008–2009 South London Cultural Centre in association with Spartacus Chetwynd, Vicky Steiri, Aki Ilomaki and Urara Tsuchiya
bio
Born 1979, Vejen, Denmark
Lives and works in London, UK
Adam Christensen is a multidisciplinary artist based in London, whose work is primarily realized through textiles, music, and installation, blurring the boundaries between everyday life and fiction. Based on his immediate experiences, colored by the theatricality of every day, the spectacle of domesticity, chance encounters, and emotional and physical dramas, Christensen conveys these experiences through his performances. A primary concern of Christensen’s practice is the construction and representation of space, and what ‘activates’ that space – the unfolding narrative of heartbreak, desire, memory, and identity. He forms a ‘stage’ from which he interacts with the audience and can edit the narrative, often by singing with the accordion and reading short stories, adding layers to a story in a process of continuous development.
education
1988–1993 The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, DK
upcoming
2026 KIASMA, Helsingfors, Finland (solo)
2026 Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany (solo)
2026 ARKEN – Museum for Contemporary art, Ishøj, Denmark (solo)
2026 ANIMOID, Henie Onstad, Oslo, Norway (solo)
2025 Winter Garden, Testa Kosthall, Stockholm, Sweden (group)
solo exhibitions
*catalogue
2025 The Lost Voices, Nivaagaards Museum, Nivå, DK
2024 Gateways, with coyote, palace enterprise, Copenhagen, DK (duo)
2023 insect media, palace enterprise, Copenhagen, DK
2021 extinct, palace enterprise, Copenhagen, DK
2020 Fertile Ghosts, Kunstfort, Vijfhuizen, NL
2019 Some Animals Never Sleep, CFHILL, Stockholm, SE
2019 Oracles, Owls…, Kunstfort, Vijfhuizen, NL
2017 Hybrids and Bastards, Shanaynay, Paris, FR
2016 Spinning and Weaving, Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK
2016 Pollen Messages, Viborg Kunsthal, Viborg, DK
2015 Shadow Ya Ya, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, JP
2015 Paraspace, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, IL*
2014 Oracles, Owls…some animals never sleep, Murray Guy Gallery, New York, NY, US
2012 Speaking in Tongues, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, NL
2011 Time Machine, Murray Guy Gallery, New York, NY, US
2010 Tapping of the Fox Sisters, Marabouparken – Contemporary Art Center, Sundbyberg/Stockholm, SE*
2009 What if, MOCAD – Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI, US
2009 2062, The Henry Art Museum, Seattle, WA, US
2009 Ann Lislegaard (solo with Ultra Red, Thomas Bayrle), Raven Row, London, UK
2008 Science Fiction, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, NL
2008 Left Hand of Darkness, Murray Guy Gallery, New York, NY, US
2007 Science Fiction and Other Worlds, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, NO*
2007 Crystal World, x-rummet, Statens Museum for Kunst/National Gallery, Copenhagen, DK*
2007 Art–Unlimited, Ann Lislegaard, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Basel, CH
2006 Ann Lislegaard – Bellona, NCA – Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, JP
2006 Ann Lislegaard, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, NL
2006 Ann Lislegaard, Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, Esbjerg, DK
2005 51st Venice Biennale, Danish Pavillion (solo with Eva Koch, Gitte Villesen, Joachim Koester, Peter Land), Venice, IT*
2005 Bellona, Murray Guy Gallery, New York, NY, US
2005 Kunstpassagen, Astrup Fearnly Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, NO
2004 Sonic Construction, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Rigdefield, CT, US
2003 Ann Lislegaard, Galleria Raucci e Santamaria, Naples, IT
2003 Ann Lislegaard, Murray Guy Gallery, New York, NY, US
2003 Art-Unlimited, Ann Lislegaard, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Art Basel, Basel, CH
2002 Ann Lislegaard, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, NL*
2002 Ann Lislegaard, Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, Esbjerg, DK
2002 Eyes Wide Open, Det Nationale Fotomuseum, Diamanten, Copenhagen, DK*
2002 The Space Between Us, DCA – Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland, UK
2002 Empty, the room seems large to me, Arthouse, Dublin, Ireland, UK
2001 Slowly Spinning, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO*
2000 Corner Piece – the space between us, Galleria Raucci e Santamaria, Naples, IT
2000 Lige med et blev alt anderledes, The Children’s Reading Room, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, DK
2000 I-You-Later-There, Galleri Tommy Lund, Copenhagen, DK
2000 Ann Lislegaard, Huis A/D Werf, Utrecht, NL
2000 Ann Lislegaard, Kunstpanorama, Luzern, CH
1999 Double Room, Moderna Museet Project, Stockholm, Sweden* Transparent Walls, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, NL
1998 Bicycle Thieves, Crown Gallery, Chicago, IL, US
1997 Blind Date (with Olaf Nicolai), Luthringer Strasse, Munich, DE*
1997 Nothing But Space, Galleri Tommy Lund, Odense, DK
1995 Ann Lislegaard, Schaper Sundberg Galleri, Stockholm, SE
1995 Ann Lislegaard, Galleri Tommy Lund, Odense, DK
1995 Ann Lislegaard, LXX, Aarhus, DK
1995 Ann Lislegaard, Galleri Struds, Oslo, NO
1994 Liberty Bells, Lageret, Kunstforeningen Gl. Strand, Copenhagen, DK
1992 A Touch of Fear, Galleri Basilisk, Copenhagen, DK
group exhibitions
2025 Almost Unreal – Munch Triennale, Munchmuseet, Oslo, NO
2025 Nordic noir: works on paper in the collection, The British Museum, London, UK
2025 When We Dead Awaken, Gammel Strand, Copenhagen, DK
2025 Fred med jorden/Peace with Earth, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, SE
2025 (Un)real, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, DK
2025 Winter Garden, Testa Kosthall, Stockholm, SE
2025 Major Works, Den Frie Udstilling, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK
2024 Parrhesia* – works from the collection, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, DK
2024 Worlds in Motion – 30 Years Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Kunstumuseum Wolfsburg, DE
2023 Bad Timing – or How to Write History Without Objects, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK (Bob Smith Projects with Christine Melchiors, Eva Larsson, Susan Hinnum)*
2023 Orbital Time, Frieze New York, US
2022 #empowerment, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, DE*
2022 Vertigo, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus, DK
2022 Unweaving the binary code – Hannah Ryggen Triennale, Kunsthal Trondheim, NO
2022 World Machine, Schlossmuseum, Linz, AT
2022 Le Royaume des Clowns, Le Bicolore – Maison du Danemark, Paris, FR
2021 SF2021: A Fantasy Odyssey, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, KOR
2021 Spor af Liv, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, DK
2021 Mapping an Unlimited Landscape, Danish Cultural Center, Beijing, CN
2020 Not Without My Ghosts: The Artist as Medium, Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition; Drawing Room, London; Millenium Gallery, Museums Sheffield; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea (2021); Levinsky Gallery, Plymouth (2021); Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool (2021), UK
2020 Unmuted, Mañana Bold, Frankfurt, DE
2020 Den Frie Udstilling, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK
2019 Unexpected Encounters, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga, LV
2019 Mitos del futuro próximo: Enredo/Myths of the Near Future: Entangled, FotoNoviembre Biennale, TEA, Tenerife, ES
2019 Cosmic Existence: Unexpected Encounters – Possible Futures, Den Frie, Copenhagen, Denmark
2019 Im Licht der Nacht – Die Stadt schläft nie/In the Spotlight of the Night – Cities never Sleep, KAI 10, Düsseldorf, DE*
2019 ON EDGE: Living in an Age of Anxiety, Science Gallery, King’s College, London, UK
2019 DRAWING ATTENTION, Den Frie, Copenhagen, DK
2018 The Marvellous Cacophony, 57th October Salon, Belgrade, SRB*
2018 Liquid Crystal Display, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK*; Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, UK (2019) OPUS Merriweather 2018, Merriweather Post Pavillion, Columbia, MD, US
2018 Wunderkammer I – Flydende form, Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, Esbjerg, DK
2018 Adapt to Survive: Notes from the Future, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Center, London, UK*; Concrete, Dubai, UAE
2018 Snart nog: konst och handling/Soon Enough: Art in Action, Tensta konsthall, Stockholm, SE
2018 Exposició Elèctric i Ilunyà – Fotografia contemporània – Colección Olorvisual, Centre d’Art Tecla Sala, L’Hospitalet, ES
2017 Field Guide, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, SK, CAN
2017 Lofoten International Art Festival – LIAF – I Taste the Future, Henningsvær, Lofoten, NO*
2017 When it hasn’t been your day, your week, your month or even your year, Weekends, New Galerie, Paris, FR
2017 Uncertain Reflections – Ann Lislegaard, Neil Wedman, OR Gallery, Vancouver, BC, CA
2017 Final Show, Murray Guy Gallery, New York, NY, US
2017 STRANGE ECOLOGIES, X and Beyond, Copenhagen, DK
2016 11th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, KOR*
2016 Eksperiment 111: Ann Lislegaard, Lea Porsager, Tove Storch, KØS – Museum of Art in Public Spaces, Køge, DK*
2016 Amsterdam Drawing 2016, Contemporary Art on Paper, NDSM Plein, Amsterdam, NL
2016 S.O.S Save Our Souls. Art for a Time of Urgencies, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, KOR
2016 Gegenstand, Entreentre, Halle, DE
2016 Danmark, curated by Mikkel Carl, Code Art Fair, Copenhagen, DK
2015 In An Absolut World True Taste Comes Naturally, Camberwell Space, London, UK*
2015 Resumé, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, NL
2015 THE SECRET LIFE, co-curated with Leidy Churchman, Murray Guy Gallery, New York, NY, US
2015 PARASOPHIA, Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture, Kyoto, JP*
2015 Beam me up!, Kristianstads Konsthall, Kristianstad, SE
2015 I hear your voice reflected in a glass and it sounds like it is inside of me, curated by Emily Wardill in conversation with Jesi Khadivi, Carlier Gebauer, Berlin, DE
2015 Voyage to the Virtuel, Scandinavia House, New York, NY, US
2015 ♀vartet, Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, Esbjerg, DK
2015 Kvinder, Horsens Kunstmuseum, Horsens, DK
2015 Self-Storage, Another Space, Copenhagen, DK
2014 You Imagine What You Desire, 19th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, AU*
2014 L’avenir, La Biennale de Montréal 2014, Montréal, CAN*
2014 Magnus, Scènes de l’imaginaire automate, Mamco – Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Genève, CH; Lumionous Spaces, Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, Esbjerg, DK
2014 Re:visited, Latvian Center of Contemporary Art, Riga 2014 – European Culture Capital, Riga, LT*
2013 12e Biennale de Lyon, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, FR*
2013 Seismology, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
2013 Approximately Infinite Universe, MCASD – Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA, US
2013 Flowers and World Views, Statens Museum for Kunst/National Gallery, Copenhagen, DK*
2013 Malmö Art Museum @ Malmö Konsthall, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, SE
2013 The Beginning Is Always Today, Bob Smith Project (with Christine Melchiors, Eva Larsson, Susan Hinnum), SKMU – Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, NO
2013 The Enormous Speed of Change, Utrecht, NL
2013 ZEIGEN – an audiotour through Copenhagen, curated by Karin Sander, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, DK
2013 Et rum med udsigt, Bob Smith Project (with Christine Melchiors, Eva Larsson, Susan Hinnum), Rønnebæksholm, Næstved, DK
2013 24 Spaces – A Cacophony, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, SE
2013 Distinguished from the melee of user comments and structurally misogynist chat rooms harbouring rapid-fire trolls, Skt. Gertruds, Malmö, SE
2013 Contemporary #2, Museet for Samtidskunst/Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, DK
2012 Narrative Arc, GUAG – Griffith University Art Gallery, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane, AU*
2012 Theater of the World, Museum of Old and New Art, Berriedale, Tasmania, AU
2012 Beyond Good and Evil, Den Frie, The Copenhagen Art Festival, Copenhagen, DK*
2012 West of Bard, Woodstock, NY, US
2012 Dexter, Bang, Sinister, Research Program, Charlottenborg Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark Overgaden at The Armory Show, Armory, New York, NY, US
2012 Rum, terrain video – Video på kanten, Holstebro Kunstmuseum/Musikteatret, Holsterbro, DK
2011 Imagine Being Here Now, The 6th Momentum Biennial, Moss, NO*
2011 The Smithson Effect, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, UT, US*
2011 The Man Without Qualities/L’uomo senza qualita, Teatro Margherita, Bari, IT
2011 Assim é, se lhe parece, Museu da Imagem e do Som, Paço das Artes, São Paolo, Brazil VideoSpace – Astrup Fearnley Collection, Astrup Fearnly Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, NO
2011 The Passenger, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, NL
2011 Contemporary #1, Museet for Samtidskunst/Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, DK
2011 Donne Donne Donne, Fondazione Pierluigi e Natalina Remotti, Camogli, IT
2010 Power Games, Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary* Busan Biennale, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, KOR
2010 Wall of Sound, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Auckland, NZ
2010 P(art)ners: Gifts from the Heather and Tony Podesta Collection, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, US
2010 US MURDER AT THE SAVOY – Exhibition of a Crime, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, SE*
2010 Gestures – Performance and Sound Art, Museet for Samtidskunst/Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, DK
2010 Pastiche 2010, VAK, Jyderup, DK
2010 Connexions, Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, Esbjerg, DK
2010 25 OR 30 YEARS GALLERY – Part 2: Papier, Paper, Papel, Carta, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, NL
2009 Automatic Cities, MCASD – Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA, US*
2009 Euphoria Left the Room, Scion, Los Angeles, CA, US
2009 Entr’acte, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, KOR
2009 Dream, Statens Museum for Kunst/National Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
2009 Rotating Views #2 – Astrup Fearnley Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, NO*
2009 Nyerhvervelser 2007-2008, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, DK
2009 Retreat, UNStudio, Fort Aspen, NL
2009 Das Gespinst, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, DE*
2009 Until the End of the World, AMP, Athens, GR
2009 Helsingborg og Malmö – 22 Major Works From the Collection of Malmö Art Museum, Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg, SE
2009 In Search of the Unknown, Montevideo, Amsterdam, NL
2009 Cut & Paste, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, DK
2009 Britta Huttenlocher / Ann Lislegaard / Michael Landy / Antonietta Peeters, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, NL
2009 Romantikens kraft – på spaning efter romantiken, Slottet Malmöhus/Malmö Museer, SE
2008 The Cinematic or Moving Images Expanded: Artists’ Film and Video Showcase 2008, Insa Art Space, Seoul, KOR
2008 Modern Ruin, Queensland Art Gallery – Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, AU*
2008 The Future as Disruption, The Kitchen, New York, NY, US
2008 JG Ballard. An Autopsy of the New Millennium, CCCB – Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona, ES*
2008 Reality Check, Statens Museum for Kunst/National Gallery, Copenhagen, DK*
2008 U-Turn Quadrennial for Contemporary Art, Carlsberg Garden, Copenhagen, DK*
2008 Re-Enactments, DHC/ART (Foundation For Contemporary Art), Montréal, CAN*
2008 The Light Project, The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, MO, US
2008 In the Space of Elsewhere, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University, London, UK*
2008 The Map is not the Territory, curated by Per Aage Brandt and Claus Carstensen, Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, Esbjerg, DK*
2008 Danskjävlar – a Swedish Declaration of Love, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK*
2008 Auricula, Krabbesholm Højskole, Skive, DK
2008 Audiograf 14: In Space No One Can Hear You Scream, Tycho Brahe Planetarium, Copenhagen, DK
2007 Jano – La doble cara de la fotografía, Museo National Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, ES
2007 Off Screen, Montevideo, Amsterdam, NL*
2007 Animated Painting, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, US*; Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, US (2009); El Cubo at Centro Cultural Tijuana, MX (2009)
2007 Mind the Gap, Fabrikken, Copenhagen, DK
2007 V-effekten, curated by Sanne Kofoed, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, DK*
2007 space.gaze.desire, Den Frie, Copenhagen, DK*
2007 LARM – From Myth Cavity to Laptop, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE
2006 Como viver junto – How to live together, 27th Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, BR*
2006 Contos Dixitais/Digital Tales, CGAC – Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, curated by Manuel Olveira, Santiago de Compostella, ES*
2006 Realitātes arheoloģija/Archeology of Reality, curated by Solvita Krese, Andrejsala, Riga, LV, Vilnius, LT*
2006 A BRIGHTER DAY, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY, US
2006 News: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, IR
2006 El Espacio Interior, Exhibition Room Alcalá 31, Madrid, ES*
2006 Mission: Reality, Museet for Samtidskunst/Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, DK*
2006 Places where Immaterials can be Obtained, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, The NL
2006 RF: Det reale og det fantastiske, Den Frie, Copenhagen, DK
2006 Other Voices, Other Rooms – Contemporary Art from the Frac Collections, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, IR
2006 PhotoEspaña 06, PhotoEspaña, Madrid, ES
2005 Ecstasy: In and About Altered States, MOCA – The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, US*
2005 More! than this – Negotiating Realities, Göteborgs International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Göteborg, ES*
2005 Water Event 2005, Yoko Ono – Horizontal Memories, Astrup Fearnly Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, NO
2005 Editionen, Secession, Vienna, AT
2005 Forget-me-not, Maison du Danemark, Paris, FR
2004 Son et Lumière, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, US
2004 Instructions, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, AT*
2004 Sound Migration, Electronic Signal Project, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA, US
2004 Kurzdavordanach, Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur Lädt, Cologne, DE*
2004 Rum i Rum, Vendsyssel Kunstmuseum, Hjørring, DK
2004 17 Reasons, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA, US
2004 Violence of Tone, W 139, Amsterdam, NL
2004 Descriptions, Iaspis, Stockholm, SE
2004 The Ballroom Blitz, Gimm Eis Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
2004 Posters, videoes and other stuff, Consulta, Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, ES
2004 Tusenfryd, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Drammen, NO
2004 Ground Zero, Nomads & Residents, SoundArtMuseum, Rome, IT
2004 Forskudte Hverdagsobjekter, Bob Smith Project (with Christine Melchiors, Eva Larsson, Susan Hinnum), Trapholt Museum, Kolding, DK
2003 Warped Space, CCA Wattis – Institute for Contemporary Art, San Fransisco, CA, US*
2003 Sharjah International Biennial 6, Sharjah Art Museums and Expo Centre Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE
2003 Fra objektiv til Objekt, Den Frie Centre for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK
2003 17 Reasons, Temporary Interventions, San Fransisco, CA, US
2003 Off, Murray Guy Gallery, New York, NY, US
2003 De bortbjudna – Malmö Kunstmuseum gæster Rooseum, Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden Piacenza Garden, Piacenza, IT
2003 Summer, Nils Stærk Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
2003 Summer Destinations, Murray Guy Gallery, New York, NY, US
2003 Telling Stories, Vedanta Gallery, Chicago, IL, US
2003 Billboard, www.women, Copenhagen, DK*
2003 Benefit Auction 2003, White Columns, New York, NY, US
2003 Territories, Kunst-Werke Berlin / KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE
2003 Nostalgic Real, magnus müller, Berlin, DE
2002 Frequencies(Hz), Shirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, DE*
2002 Thin Skin – The Fickle Nature of Bubbles, Spheres and Inflatable Structures, AXA Gallery, New York, US; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ, US; Gemeentemuseum Helmond, Helmond, NL; International Museum of Art and Science, McAllen, TX, US (2003); Chicago Cultural
2002 Center Chicago, IL, US (2003); Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, KS, US (2003), Bedford Gallery – Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA, US (2004); Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID, US (2004)
2002 Mirages – Un pratique de l’espace projeté, Maison du Danemark, Paris, FR
2002 ¿skönhetens metamorfoser?, Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg, SE
2002 JE T’AIME…MOI NON PLUS, Kunsthal Bergen, Bergen, NO; Museum Het Domein, Sittard, NL; Esap, Perpignan, FR; Leisure Club Mogadishni, Copenhagen, DK; Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Wilhelmshaven, DE
2002 Imágenes Nórdicas, Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid, ES
2002 Fiona Banner, An-My Le, Ann Lislegaard, Murray Guy Gallery, New York, NY, US
2002 Benefit Auction 2002, White Columns, New York, NY, US
2002 Periphera, Murray Guy Gallery, New York, NY, US
2002 Video Works, Museum het Domein, Sittard, NL
2001 Audible Imagery, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, US
2001 The 9th Biennial of Moving Images (BIM), Mamco – Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Genève, CH
2001 Ground Zero, Nomads & Residents, New York, NY, US
2001 HUMID, The Moore Building, Miami, FL, US
2001 New Acquisitions, Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, SE
2001 In a Lonely Place, National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford, UK
2001 Silhouettes ’n’ Shadows, Tilburg, NL; Palazzo Della Papesse, Siena, IT; SMK – National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, DK
2001 Quality Street, Galleri Tommy Lund, Copenhagen, DK
2001 [untitled]654321, Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, DK
2001 Get that balance, K3 Kampnagel, Hamburg, DE
2001 Treff, Bergen Art Museum, Bergen, NO
2001 Dansk i galleriet, Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, SE
2001 Dévoler, IAC – Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbane, FR
2001 In a Lonely Place, National Media Museum, Bradford, UK
2000 Liste 2000 – The Young Art Fair, with Tommy Lund Gallery, Basel, CH
2000 Vision Machine, Musée des Beaux Arts de Nantes, Nantes, FR
2000 The North, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, AT
2000 Another Place, Tramway, Glasgow, UK
2000 Audible Light, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
2000 Prophecies, SI/NY – Swiss Institute, New York, NY, US
2000 Waterfront, Kronborg Castle, Helsingør, Denmark
1999 Conceptual Art as Neurobiological Praxis, curated by Warren Neidich, Tread Waxing Space, New York, NY, US
1999 Time, Fotomuseet, Brandts, Odense, DK
1999 Fra det skjulte, Det Nationale Fotomuseum, Copenhagen, DK
1999 Anebølle-Amar, Galleri Tommy Lund, Copenhagen, DK
1999 Vårutstillingen, Vestfold Kunstnersenter, Haugar, NO
1998 Nuit Blanche, curated by H. U. Obrist and L. Bosse, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, FR*
1998 Twilight, Contemporary Art Center of Vilnius, Vilnius, LT*
1998 Edstranska stiftelsens konstnarsstipendiater 1998, Rooseum, Malmö, SE*
1998 Something’s Rotten, curated by R. Block, Friedericianum, Kassel, DE*
1998 Threshold: An exhibition where physical, mental and emotional spaces intersect, curated by Louise Dompierre, The Power Plant, Toronto, CAN*
1998 Do all oceans have walls, GAK – Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst e.V. Bremen, Bremen, DE*
1998 Come Closer, Liechtensteinische Staatliche Kunstsammlung, Liechtenstein, CH; Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, HU; Kunsthal Nikolaj, Copenhagen, DK*
1998 Jonge Deense kunst, Sint Lucas Galerij, Brussel, BE*
1998 Statens Museum for Kunst/National Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
1998 Nordic Nomads, curated by A. Krogsnes, White Column, New York, NY, US*
1998 Momentum, The Momentum Biennial, Moss, NO*
1998 HERENOW, Art Space, Sydney, AU
1998 Elevator, Stefhany Martz Gallery, New York, NY, US*
1998 Dissin’ the Real, Lombard/Fried Gallery, New York, NY, US; Galleri Krinzinger, Vienna, AT
1998 Contemporary Art from Denmark and Sweden, Wurtembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, DE*
1998 Contemporary Danish Photo Works, Galleri Tommy Lund, Odense, DK
1998 Clean and Sane, Galleri F15, Moss, NO
1997 The 5th International Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, TR*
1997 Nothing But Space – Media Art from Denmark, DASA, Dortmund, DE
1997 Alikeness – New Nordic Photography, CCP – Center for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, AU*
1997 The Louisiana Exhibition 1997, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, DK*
1997 Clean & Sane, Edsvik Konstmuseum, Stockholm, SE*
1997 Absence, Salon 75, New York, NY, US
1996 NowHere, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, DK*
1996 Disneyland after dark, Kunstamt Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, DE*
1996 In the Ruins of the 20th Century, PS1, New York, NY, US*
1996 Tinsel Tower, Clocktower Gallery, New York, NY, US
1996 Exiles, Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK*
1996 Brekt Bein – Contemporary Danish Art, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO*
1996 UKS-Biennalen, UKS, Oslo, NO
1996 Notell, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
1996 Brekt Bein: Ung dansk kunst, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO
1995 Mamma, Enkehuset, Stockholm, Sweden; Bohusläns Konstmuseum, Uddevalla Malmö, SE
1995 Ann Lislegaard – Mikael Thejll, Scoula Grande di san. Giovanni Evangelista, Biennale di Venezia 95, Venice, IT
1995 Wild at Heart, Gallerie Jousse Seguin, Paris, FR
1995 RAM, Kunsthallen Portalen, Greve, DK*
1995 I Confess, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, DK*
1995 Addicted, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, IS*
1995 Disneyland after dark, Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, SE
1995 Drawings/Tegninger, Campbell’s Occasionally, Copenhagen, DK
1995 O.V.E., Bob Smith Project (with Christine Melchiors, Eva Larsson, Susan Hinnum), Galleri Artpit, Malmö, SE
1995 Ann Lislegaard – Olafur Eliasson, Galleri Tommy Lund, Odense, DK
1995 Flower Power, Banegården, Aabenraa, DK
1995 Municipal Art Museum of Akureyri, Akureyri, IS
1994 Proms II, Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, DK
1994 Wish you were here, Bank, London, UK
1994 Glass Box, Malmö Konstmuseum – KM2, Malmö, SE
1994 Off Limits 2071, Fazerhuset, Malmö, SE
1994 Gl Kongevej 24+25, Copenhagen, DK
1994 Art Fair Cologne, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Cologne, DE
1994 Miniatures, The Agency, London, UK
1994 City Slang, Kunstforeningen Gl. Strand, Copenhagen, DK
1994 PIG, Oslo, NO
1994 SAGA Basement, Copenhagen, DK
1994 Smart Show, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Stockholm Art Fair, Stockholm, SE
1993 Black Box, curated by Globe, Linnégade, Copenhagen, DK
1993 Opening Show, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, DK
1993 Exclusion, curated by Simon Sheik, Concul, Århus, DK
1993 Kristianstad Kunstforening, SE
1993 17:00 CET, Stalke Out of Space, Copenhagen, DK
1993 Up-date, Café Krasnapolsky, Copenhagen, DK
1993 Galleri Ringsted, Ringsted, DK
public collections
ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus, DK
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, NO
British Museum, London, UK
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY, USA
Danish Arts Foundation, Copenhagen, DK
DASA, Dortmund, DE
Esbjerg Museum of Art, Esbjerg, DE
Frac Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier, FR
Fundació Sorigué, Lleida, ES
Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, NO
KØS – Museum of Art in Public Spaces, Køge, DK
Kunstmuseum Brandts, Odense, DK
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, DE
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, DK
Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, SE
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, USA
MONA – Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, AU
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, ES
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, DK
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, USA
SMK – National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, DK
Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, SE
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, IR
The National Collection of Photography, Copenhagen, DK
The Royal Collection of Graphic Art, National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, DK
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA
public commisions
2029–2023 Portalen til den nye by, Stationsforpladsen Nivå nye bymidte, DK
2026–2020 Livsvitenskapsbygget—Universitetet i Oslo, NO (winning competition)
2024–2023 Patterns, Fisksätre, Stockholm, SE
2024–2021 Westerlundska Gymnasium, Enköping, SE
2022–2020 Vasakronan, Stockholm, SE
2022–2019 Badriket, Kristianstad, SE (winning competition)
2021–2018 Horten, NO
2021–2018 Skovsnogen—Deep Forest Art Land, Kibaek, DK
2018–2016 Københavns Professionshøjskole Carlsberg, Copenhagen, DK
2018–2015 Humanistiska Teatern, Uppsala University, Uppsala, SE
2014–2012 KØS—Museum of Art in Public Spaces, Køge, DK
2009–2007 Christies Gate, Kirkeparken Videregående Skole, Moss, NO
2007–2007 Mariehamn, Åland, FI (winning competition, not executed)
2007–2006 Aarhus Idrætsuniversitet, Aarhus, DK
2005–2004 Håverud Akvadukt, Håverud, SE
1994–1994 Rødovre Gymnasium, Rødovre, DK
1990–1989 Energiministeriets Mødelokale / Danish Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities, Copenhagen, DK
awards & grants
2024 Thorvaldsen Medal, awarded by Akademiraadet, the council of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, DK
2019 Niels Wessel Bagges Kunstfonds hæderslegat, Copenhagen, DK
2018 ALUMINIUMPRISET 2018, Swedish Design Awards, The Swedish Society of Crafts and Design, Stockholm, SE
2018 Plåtpriset 2018, Plåt, SE (for the public commission Blomman från Weena, en tidsresa, Humanistiska Teatern, Uppsala University, SE)
2016 Ole Haslunds Kunstnerfond, Copenhagen, DK
2015 Kunst-, Design- og Arkitekturprisen 2015, Direktør Einar Hansen og hustru Vera Hansens fond, Copenhagen, DK
2015 Eckersberg Medal, Copenhagen, DK
2013 Sven Hols’ Legat, Akademiraadet, Copenhagen, DK
2013 Ruth og Finn Torjussens Fond, Akademiraadet, Copenhagen, DK
2013 Billedhugger Viggo Jarls legat, Den Frie, Copenhagen, DK
2012 Anne Marie Telmanyi født Carl-Nielsen Fond til støtte for kvindelige billedkunstnere over 40 år, Copenhagen, DK
2011- Kraks Blå Bog, Copenhagen: Gads Forlag
2011 Ny Carlsbergfondets Rejselegat, Copenhagen, DK
2011 Lifelong Stipendium, Kulturministeriet / Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Copenhagen, DK
2007 Danish Arts Foundation premiered the exhibition Crystal World at x-rummet, SMK – National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, DK
2006 Danish Arts Foundation premiered the work in the exhibition Det reale og det fantastiske, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK
1998 Stipendium, Edstrandska Stiftelsen, Malmö, SE
residencies
2013 Headlands Center of the Arts, San Francisco, CA, US
2005–2006 MIT Rubin Artist-in-Residence, Boston, MA, US
2003–2004 IASPIS – The International Studio Program, Stockholm, SE
1995–1996 P.S.1 – The International Studio Program, New York, NY, US
professorship & teaching
2004–2013 Professor and Head of School of Time-based Media, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, DK
2021 Mentor, Aarhus Architecture School & Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus, DK
2020 Censor, The Funen Art Academy, Odense, DK
2020 Mentor, FABRIKKEN for Kunst og Design, Copenhagen, DK
2018 Thesis mentor, MFA Photography, Video & Related Media, School of Visual Arts, New York City, NY, US
2017 Sagkyndig/Peer review, Lunds Universitet, Lund, SE
2016 Round Table, Co-Studio: Stemmen som lyd i Billedkunstnerisk Praksis, Det Jyske Kunstakademi, Aarhus, DK,
2012 Censor, 2nd year exhibition, The Funen Art Academy, Odense, DK, February 16
2012 Mentor for Masterclass International Artists, Center for Kunststøtte, Kulturstyrelsen, Copenhagen, DK,
2012 Censor, MFA Degree Show, Kunsthøgskolen Oslo, NO
2012 Sagkyndig/Peer review, The Norwegian Artistic Research Project Programme, Oslo, NO
2011 Workshop, Konstfack, Stockholm, SE
2011 Sagkyndig/Peer review, Kunsthøgskolen, Bergen, NO
2010 Sagkyndig/Peer review, appointment of professor in film/photo/video, Kunsthøgskolen, Oslo, NO
2006 Lecture and Studio Critic, MFA students, MIT, Boston, MA, US
bio
Born 1962, Norway
Lives and works in Copenhagen
In Ann Lislegaard’s work, experiences of simulated spheres are created by means of interdisciplinary hybrids and connections — between architecture and cinema, between fictional narratives, and between human beings, machines, and animals. In Lislegaard’s work, experiences of simulated spheres are created by means of interdisciplinary hybrids and connections — between architecture and cinema, between fictional narratives, and between human beings, machines, and animals. In this context, which draws on the historical residues of culture and technology while building on feminist gender theories, the boundaries between the real and the imagined are blurred. Concrete and simulated worlds interpenetrate and are reorganized within one another, a world within a world within a world. After decades in New York Lislegaard now lives and works in Copenhagen.
education
2009–2015 Städelschule, (Prof. Simon Starling and Prof. Peter Fischli), Frankfurt am Main, DE
2013–2016 The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Sculpture, Copenhagen, DE
2016–2018 Participant at De Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL
2006–2009 BA in Sociology, University of Copenhagen, DK
upcoming
2026 Gammel Strand, Copenhagen, DK (solo)
2026 Bonniers Konsthal, Stockholm, SE (group)
solo exhibitions
*catalog
2025 Memory, Viborg Kunsthal, Viborg, DK
2024 Frieze London, London, UK
2024 Is this tomorrow, Godsbanen, Rå Hal, Aarhus, DK
2023 Sex and the city, palace enterprise, Copenhagen, DK
2023 Vault, O-Overgaden Kunsthalle, Copenhagen, DK*
2023 David Dale Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
2022 Who delivers, Lullin + Ferrari, Zürich, CH
2022 LISTE art fair, solo presentation, Basel, CH
2021 let it go let it go, Kunstverein Göttingen, DE*
2021 Works, palace enterprise, Copenhagen, DK
2020 My dreams are longer than the night, Goeben, DE
2020 I did did I, Ringsted Galleriet, Ringsted, DK
2019 die kommende tage, C.C.C projects, Copenhagen, DK
2019 Desire for Passion (duo as EROS with Magnus Andersen), Issues Gallery, Stockholm, SE
2018 High Hopes, Good Morning Midnight, Offspring, De ateliers, Amsterdam, NL*
2018 Rio Bravo, Kunstscenen, Copenhagen, DK
2018 Long Haul, DU.AL, Kunsthal ved siden af, Svendborg, DK (duo)
2018 Harvester, Kantine, Bruxelles, BE (duo)
2018 Lullin + Ferrari, Art Cologne, DE (duo)
2018 YOMP, Saloon, Brussels, BE
2017 Wake-on-ring, Sheridan, The Bronx, New York, USA
2017 Lullin+Ferrari, Art Rotterdam, DE
2017 Point of sale, Vermillion Sands, Copenhagen, DK (duo)
2016 Trickortreater, Lullin+Ferrari, Zürich, CH
2016 Pitfalls, Salon Kennedy, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2016 Stock’n’flow, Bold Tendencies, London, UK Sharpe Practice, Traube, Ortisei, IT
2015 Aftermarket, Schleuse Stiftung Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim, DE
2014 Ostersee II, VESCH, Vienna, AU (duo)
2013 Kamelwagen, Die Neue Hafen2, Offenbach, DE
2013 Gegenstand 1822-Forum, Frankfurt am Main, DE*
2013 La Chambre, Platform Sarai, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2012 Happiness Revisited, Leonhardi Kulturprojekte, Frankfurt am Main, DE (duo)
group exhibitions
*catalog
2024 The Future of the Past, Maison du Danemark, Paris, FR
2024 Group Therapy, ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art, DK
2023 Høst – en kontrafaktisk udstilling, Carl Henning Pedersen & Else Alfelts Museum, Herning, DK
2023 Full of Days, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK
2023 Høst – en kontrafaktisk udstilling, Den Frie Centre for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK
2023 CHART in Tivoli, Tivoli, Copenhagen, DK
2023 Samlingen, Art Museum Brandts, Odense, DK
2022 Women and change, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, DK*
2022 SMK – The National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, DK permanent collection exhibition
2022 #empowerment, Planetary Feminisms, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, DE (group)*
2022 Surplus, Collega, Copenhagen, DK
2021 Theoretisch gehts’ mir gut, Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz, DE
2021 Berørt, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, DK
2021 Berørt, SMK the National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, DK
2021 Berørt, SMK Thy, Thy, DK
2021 Berørt, Brandts, Odense, DK
2020 New Danish Art, SMK the National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, DK
2020 Architecture now, Cucina, Copenhagen, DK
2020 Skulpturbiennalle: Interdimensionale II, Gammelgaard, Herlev, DK
2020 Himmelskibet, Christian Andersen, Copenhagen, DK
2020 Amaryllis in vase, Coyote, draken II, Stockholm, SE
2020 No condition is permanent, Lullin+Ferrari, Zürich, CH
2019 Samfundsprognoser, ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, DK
2019 Apposite sustainability II, Le cap, Saint-Fons, FR
2019 Especially Ordinary, 38CC, Delft, NL
2019 Skulptur Landsby Selde, Selde, DK
2019 Machines sans nom, Bonamatic, Copenhagen, DK
2019 INGRID, Skovsnogen, Kikbæk, DK
2019 Softcity, Chopsticks, Coyote, Stockholm, SE
2019 When facts change I change my mind, Lullin + Ferrrari, Zürich, CH
2019 Perspectives, Kunstfort, Vijhuizen, NL
2019 Pioneertown, HARD HAT CAFÉ, Stockholm, SE
2019 UTTRAN II, Uttran, Stockholm, SE
2019 Twelfth night, or what you will, Coyote, Stockholm, SE
2018 CLASSRELATIONS/KLASSEVERHÄLTNISSE, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, DE
2018 Last Xmas at the Harbour, Bådhavnen, Copenhagen, DK
2018 ROOTS ON WHEELS, Rootcanal, Amsterdam, NL
2018 Sobranie Cocktail, Dienstgebaude, Zurich, CH
2018 KRÄFTSKIVAN, Galleri Mejan, Stockholm, SE
2018 Action Paint, Eventhall, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, DK
2018 Søby Sommer Skulptur ’18, Søby, Ærø, DK*
2018 Neuer Norden Zürich, Zürich Arts Council in Schwamendingen, Zürich, CH*
2018 Low Motion, Amager Strandpark minigolf, Copenhagen, DK
2018 With other eyes, Lullin + Ferrari, Zürich, CH
2018 WET, Bar Barbette, Berlin, DE
2018 Remmen kunstpris, D’Angleterre, Copenhagen, DK
2018 15 windows, Gallery Delfi, Malmö, SE
2018 Så længe lager haves, Galleri SPECTA, Copenhagen, DK
2017 PRIMARY STRUCTURES – 1966 bis zur Gegenwart, MMK2 – Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2017 Let’s see, where were we? In the pit of despair., De Ateliers, Art Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL
2017 Eine Palme?, Billedhuggerhaven, Skovsnogen – deep forest artland, Kikbæk, DK
2017 Plant B, Komplot at Parc de la Fonderie 1080 Brussels, Brussels, BE
2017 Functional-Utility Program For Wschód Gallery, Wschód Gallery, Warsaw, PL
2017 The Power nap, Stedelijk museum, Amsterdam, NL*
2017 Simultan, Lullin + Ferrari, Zürich, CH
2017 Rumors of Glory, Basis Frankfurt E.V, Frankfurt, DE
2017 Why Is Everybody Being So Nice?, De Appel, Amsterdam, NL
2017 Belong Anywhere, Hate Magazine, Berlin, DE
2017 Chambers Chapter II, Villa Metzlerstrasse. 21, Frankfurt am, DE*
2017 LAST MINUTE BUSINESS – fast procedures in small amounts of time, Adult, Copenhagen, DK
2016 In-Between | Calendar, Lullin+Ferrari, Zürich, CH
2016 En slags penge, Piscine, Aarhus kunsthal, Aarhus, DK
2016 Whatman, The Shelter for Contemporary Art CCA, Tel-Aviv, ISR*
2016 Take me I am yours, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK*
2016 31 Women, PPC, Frankfurt aM, DE
2016 Afgang, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK*
2016 Soft Costs, Kunstverein Wiesen, Wiesen, DE
2015 Transfer, Kunsthalle Rathausgalerie, München, DE*
2015 Parked like Serious Oysters, Zollamt, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, DE*
2015 Stay, Horsens Kunstmuseum at Fængslet, Horsens, DK
2015 Mainzer Ansichten (collab J. Skoog), Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz, DE
2015 Olohuonenayttely, Helsinki, FI
2015 Beauty of indifference, Lullin+Ferrari, Zurich, CH
2015 Lemon Leafes/Zitronenblätter, Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, USA
2014 SIC, Ehemalige Oberfinanzdirektion, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2014 „I multiplied myself to feel myself.”, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna, AU
2014 Ostersee I, Büro Der Ministerpräsident des Landes Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, DE
2014 Dresden Public Art View, Dresden, DE
2014 Show Beauty Hot, Asa Studios, Hamburg, DE
2014 Waren und Wissen, Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt am Main, DE*
2013 Apollo Weltkulturen Museum, Green Room, Frankfurt am Main, DE*
2013 Cinema-Teatro Apollo Villa Trina Bellaria Igea Marina, IT*
2013 Eröffnung, Neue Hafen2, Offenbach, DE
2013 Mobile art School, Goethe-Institut, Hanoi, VN*
2012 Zauderberg (collab with J. Skoog), Zollamt, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, DE*
2012 11th Havanna Biennale (as a part of collective Museo Aero Solar), Havanna, CU*
2011 The Museum Show part 1 (as a part of collective Museo Aero Solar), Arnolfini, Bristol UK
2011 When in Rome, Malta Contemporary Arts, Valletta, MT
public collections
ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art, Ishøj, DK
Art Museum Brandts, Odense, DK
Collection of the Danish Arts Foundation, DK
Horsens Art Museum, Horsens, DK
KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Aalborg, DK
Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, DE
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, DE
Malmø Kunstmuseum, SE
MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, DE
The New Carlsberg Foundation, Copenhagen, DK
Novo Nordisk Foundation, Copenhagen, DK
Schweizerishe Mobiliar Genossenschaft, Urdorf, CH
SMK – National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, DK
public commissions
2025 Marmormolen, Copenhagen, DK (upcoming)
2024 Flyvestation Skrydstrup, Haderslev, DK
2023 Gießen, Hessen, DE
2021 Østre Skole Holbæk, Bygningsstyrelsen, Holbæk, DK
2019 Neckarvillen, Ameron Group, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2017 Eine Palme?, Billedhuggerhaven, Skovsnogen – deep forest artland, Kikbæk, DK
2013 Osthafen, (w. John Skoog), Neue Hafen2, Offenbach, DE
awards & grants
2023 Læge Inger Goldmanns Fond, DK
2023 Working grant, The Danish Arts Foundation, DK
2022 Astrid Noacks Hæderslegat, DK
2022 Minister Erna Hamiltons Legat for videnskab og kunst
2020 Working grant, The Danish Arts Foundation, DK
2019 Working grant, The Danish Arts Foundation, DK
2018 Working grant, The Danish Arts Foundation, DK
2017 Working grant, The Danish Arts Foundation, DK
2017 Niels Wessel Bagges Art Foundation Art Grant (NWB Kunstfonds Hæderslegat), DK
2016 Talent Prize (Talentprisen), Carl Nielsen og Anne Marie Carl-Nilsens Legat, DK
2016 Blix Foundation Graduation Prize (Ragnvald & Ida Blix’ Fond, Blixprisen), DK/NO
2016 ZAC, ZONTA Contemporary Art Award, Frankfurt, DE
2015 Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, DE 2011-2015
2012 Stylepark Rundgang Prize, DE
professorship & teaching
2019–2023 Professor, The Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus, DK
2021 The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, DK
2019 Kunsthochschule Mainz, Mainz, DE
2019 Fatamorgana – the Danish School of Art Photography, Copenhagen, DK
2019 Johan Borups Højskole, København, DK
2019 BGK Roskilde, Roskilde, DK
2018 Ærø Kunsthøjskole, Ærø, DK
2017 The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, DK
2014–2015 Konstskolan Munka på Munka folkhögskola, Munka-Ljungby, SE
residencies
2018 De Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL 2016-2018
2015 Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, USA
2014 Klitgaarden, Skagen, DK
2012 Botnik Studios, Gerlesborg, Hamborgsund, SE
bio
Born 1987, Copenhagen, Denmark
Lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark
Benedikte Bjerre works conceptually with sociological phenomena in a versatile practice focusing on sculpture and installation which reflect on the current state of society. She consistently examines sculptural qualities in relation to the architecture of a given space. The artist continually uses observations from her everyday life, as she engages in how the beholders experience their surroundings.
education
2001–2004 BA in Philosophy, The University of Sussex, School of Social and Political Science, UK
2005–2006 PgDip in Contemporary Art Theory, Goldsmith University of London, UK
2006–2008 BMFA Curating, Department of Art, Goldsmith University of London, UK
2018–2018 Posthuman Ethics. Pain, and Endurance, Prof. Rosi Bradotti’s Summer School at Utrecht, NL
2021–2024 PhD in practice based art, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, University of Copenhagen, DK
upcoming
2026 Slow Dance, curated by Jadine Collingwood, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US (group)
2026 The Gesture and the non-visible, curated by Abril Zales, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, MX (group)
2026 Performing Conditions: Artistic Labor and Dependency as Form, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts, US (group)
2026 Museum of Contemporary Art Roskilde, Roskilde, DK
solo exhibitions
2025 Frieze London, London, UK
2024 Deadtime, an anatomy study, Graham Foundation, Chicago, US
2024 —active because it leaks, OTO Sound Museum, Zurich, CH
2024 Deadtime, A Hypothesis of Resistance, O—Overgaden, Copenhagen, DK
2023 Dancing Still Life on a Single Breath, Cukrarna, Ljubljana, SLO
2023 Still Life, palace enterprise, Copenhagen, DK
2023 Duration, O—Overgaden, Copenhagen, DK
2022 Two Thousand Six Hundred and Seventy Four Seconds Wide, ZERO…Milan, IT
2021 Fifty Billion Hectares of Time, gb agency, Paris, FR
2021 DEAD TIME, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Sint-Martens-Latem, BE
2020 DEAD TIME, Parrhesiades, London, UK
2019 DEAD TIME, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, US
2018 SWEAT SHAME ETC., Swiss Institute, New York, US
2018 Everything Might Spill, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, IT
2018 DRAG DRAG SOLO, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva, CH
2018 DEAD TIME, ZERO.., Milan, IT
2017 Soundtrack For A Troubled Time and Notes On Humiliation, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2016 On False Tears and Outsourcing, New Museum, New York, US
2016 And you were wonderful, on stage, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
2016 He wins everytime, on time, and under budget, gbagency, Paris, FR
2016 Bookclub 2.0, ZERO…, Milan, IT
2015 On False Tears and Outsourcing, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, NL
2015 POST PRODUCTION, Spike Island, Bristol, UK
2015 THE ANTI-CLIMAX CLIMAX, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, DE
2015 About a Work #2, ZERO…, Milan, IT
2014 The Overall OOOOH, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Hannover, DE
2014 Regardless, it’s still her voice, gb agency, Paris, FR
2013 Carol, I think my place in history is assured, MOTInternational, Brussels, BE
2012 Collapsing in Parts, International Project Space, Birmingham, UK
2012 Seven Thirty Till Nine, Shanaynay, Paris, FR
2011 It’s 1957, and the press release still isn’t written, Hermes und der Pfau, Hamburg, DE
2010 At Five to Ten, Neue Alte Bruecke, Frankfurt, DE
group exhibitions
2025 Biennale Son, 2nd edition, Sion, CH
2025 The Cynics Republic – Plac Defilad, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, curated by Pierre Bal Blanc, Warsaw, PL
2025 La Pista 500, Pinacoteca Agnelli, Torino, IT
2025 Screen Test for the Psoas Muscle, cited in Ima-Abassi Okon’s solo exhibition, Incorporeal hereditaments like Love [can] Set(s) You Free, according to Kelly, Case, Dru Hill, Kandice, LovHer, Montel and Playa with 50 – 60g of –D,)e,l,a,y,e,d1;—O,)n,s,e,t2;— ;[heart];M,)u,s,c,l,e3;[heart];—s,)o,r,e,n,e,s,s, Van Abbesmuseum, Eindhoven, NL
2025 Steady State, ZERO…, Milano, IT
2024 AMONG THE INVISIBLE JOINS, Works from the Enea Righi Collection, Museion, Bolzano, IT
2024 The Cynics Republic, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
2024 Air de repos (Breathwork), CAPC, Bordeaux, FR
2023 I suoni del mondo, Castello di Rivoli, Torino, IT
2023 The Cargo Cult and other certanities, ZERO, Milan, IT
2023 Relations of Care, La Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, Torino, IT
2023 40 ans du Frac ! Gunaikîon, Frac Île-de-France, Romainville, FR
2023 Piége […], Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA, Bordeaux, FR
2022 MOVE Festival, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
2022 La Pista 500, Pinacoteca Agnelli, Torino, IT
2022 Red Light Green Light (In the Realm of the Senses), curated by Charlotte Sprogøe, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK
2022 Une musique intérieure, curated by Pierre Bal Blanc, Tabakalera, San Sebastian, ES
2022 Tout dans le cabinet mental, Centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry-le Crédac, Paris, FR
2022 Aller contre le vent. Performances, actions et autres rituels, Frac Franche-Comté, Besançon, FR
2022 reboot : responsiveness, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf and Ludwig Forum, Aachen, DE
2021 A Show About Nothing, BY ART MATTERS, Hangzhou, CN
2021 I got up, curated by Pierre Baal Blanc, gb agency, Paris, FR
2021 The Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object, and Performance, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US
2021 Jahresgaben, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, and Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, DE
2021 Statements, The Blank, Bergamo, IT
2021 Emotions at Work, Musée d’art de Joliette, Joilette, CA
2021 Arcimboldo Face to Face, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, FR
2021 Dance?, CAAM, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, ES
2021 Deux Scénarios pour une collection, Frac Normandie Rouen, FR
2021 In the Open – series II, The Common Guild, Glasgow, UK
2020 Espressioni, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Turin, IT
2020 Parrhesiades Volume 1, with Jesper List Thomsen and Quinn Latimer, Radio Athènes, Athens, GR
2020 All Criteria This Position Any Moment, curated by Pierre Bal-Blanc, Haus N, Athens, GR
2020 NOT MADE, NOT CHOSEN, NOT PRESENTED, ML Fine Art, London, curated by Studio for Propositional Cinema, UK
2020 The Full Moon Sleeps at Night, Musée d’art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne – Château de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, FR
2020 AGAINandAGAINandAGAINand, MAMbo, Bologna, IT
2020 La Plage, ZERO… Milano, IT
2019 Dall’argilla all’algoritmo, Arte e tecnologia, works from the Castello di Rivoli collection, Gallerie d’Italia, Milan, IT
2019 A Talk In Three Parts With Painting, Grüner Salon, Volksbühne, Berlin, DE
2019 Beyond Performance, curated by Alberto Salvadori, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, IT
2019 Geste, CNEAI, Paris, FR
2019 Speculative Possibilities, curated by Sepake Angiama, Center for Contemporary Arts, Tallin, EST
2019 IMMATERIAL, curated by Michelangelo Miccolis, Material Art Fair, Mexico City, MX
2019 Survivre ne suffit pas, Frac Franche-Comté, Besancon, FR
2018 Strange Days—Memories of the Future, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Strand, London, UK
2018 General Rehearsal, V-A-C / Kadist / MMOMA, Moscow FRONT, Cleveland Triennial, Cleveland, US
2018 Stagings, Soundings, Readings—Free Jazz II, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, Singapore
2018 Scripts, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Bielefeld, DE
2018 Performance TV, curated by Mathilde Roman
2018 Making Oddkin – for joy, for trouble, for volcano love, curated by Nadja Argyropoulou, Nisyros, GR
2017 Speak, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
2017 Action!, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, CH
2017 Better Self, Zach!ta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL
2017 The Critic as Artist, curated by Michael Bracewell and Andrew Hunt, Reading International, Reading, UK
2017 The Forecast, curated by Laura McLean-Ferris, Croy Nielsen, Vienna, AU
2017 Parcours, Art Basel, Basel, CH
2017 IMMATERIAL, curated by Michelangelo Miccolis, Material Art Fair, Mexico City, MX
2017 On The Wall In Chalk Is Written, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, curated by Studio for Propositional Cinema, DE
2017 From Concrete to Liquid to Spoken, Centre for Contemporary Art Geneva, Geneva, CH
2017 On Affection, Cally Spooner and Bruce Nauman, NoguerasBlanchard, Barcelona, ES
2017 The act of drinking a Coke by yourself is the lowest form of art, ZERO…, Milan, IT
2017 A Rehearsal for What?, Bel Ami, Los Angeles, UK
2016 Biennale of Moving Image, Centre for Contemporary Art Geneva, Geneva, CH
2016 British Art Show 8, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK
2016 Joining Forces with the Unknown, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, FR
2016 And she will say: hi her, ailleurs, to higher grounds…, curated by Laure Prouvost, Kunstmuseum Luzerne, Luzerne, CH
2016 Middle Grays, Color Bars, and the comma in between, curated by Public Fiction, Seattle Art Fair, Seattle, US
2016 Susy Culinski & Friends, curated by Beatriz Marchi, Fanta Spazio, Milan, IT
2016 Art Basel Film, Art Basel, Basel, CH
2016 Time-Lines, Independent Régence, Brussels, BE
2016 Alfred Jarry Archipelago, La Ferme du Buisson, Centre for Contemporary Art, Noisiel, FR
2016 Night Transmissions: Electronic Intimacies, curated by Margot Norton, aired Icelandic National Television
2015 A Fragile But Marvelous Life, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, US
2015 Hotel Theory, REDCAT Gallery, Los Angeles, US
2015 The Grantchester Pottery paints the stage, curated by Grantchester Pottery, Jerwood Visual Arts, London
2015 British Art Show 8, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, UK
2015 Till the Stars Turn Cold, curated by Laura Mclean Ferris and Kyla McDonald, Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Glasgow, UK
2015 The boys the girls and the political, curated by Hana Noorali and Lynton Talbot, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
2014 La Voix Humaine, Kunstverein Munich, Munich, DE
2014 Frieze Film, Frieze Projects, London, UK
2014 Frieze Sounds, Frieze Projects, New York, US
2014 The Preparation of the Novel, Fabra i Coats – Centre d’Art Contermporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, ES
2014 Pool, Kestnergesellschaft Museum Hannover, Hannover, DE
2014 Till the Stars Turn Cold, curated by Laura Mclean Ferris and Kyla McDonald, S1 Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
2014 The Influence of Furniture on Love, Wysing Art Centre, Cambridge, UK
2014 Till youth and genial years are flown, ZERO…, Milan, IT
2014 Significant Others (I am small, it’s the pictures that got big), High Art, Paris, FR
2013 Performa 13, The National Academy New York, US
2013 POST show, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK
2013 Relaunch, KW Institute, Berlin, DE
2013 A Spoken Word Exhibition, curated by Mathieu Copeland, Jeu de Paume, Paris, FR
2013 Provisional Information, Camberwell Space, London, UK
2012 Memory Marathon, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
2012 And Yet There They Still Are, with Sidsel Meineche Hansen, LUX, London, UK
2012 I Proclaim You Proclaim We Proclaim, curated by Capucine Perrot Stroom, The Hague, NL
2012 In the Belly of the Whale (Act II), Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, ES
2011 Outrageous Fortune, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea Summer Fair, with Am Nuden Da, Outpost, Norwich, UK
2011 The Department of Wrong Answers, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK
2011 Summer Show, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London, UK
2010 Une Exposition (du) Sensible, Synagogue de Delme, Delme Perform A Lecture!, curated by Ellen Blumenstein and Dieter Roelstraete, The Office, Berlin, DE
2010 Session_10_Untitled + Words, curated by Am Nuden Da, Four Boxes Gallery, Krabbesholm, Skive, DK
2010 With Words Like Smoke, Chelsea Space and Resonance FM, London, UK
2010 Cally Spooner + Seth Pick, MOT International, London, UK
2009 Session_7_Words, Am Nuden Da, London
2009 Session_6_Lecture, Am Nuden Da, London, UK
2008 Two Lectures, Neue Alte Bruecke Gallery, Frankfurt, DE
live (solo)
2025 Warm Up, Melody’s Warm Up & A Lecture on Stagnation, Trajectoires, Le Festival de danse, in collaboration with Le Frac des Pays de la Loire, performed by Sonia Garcia, Marie De Brugerolle and Severine Lefevre, FR
2024 Extract from Deadtime, an anatomy study, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, NO
2022 On stagnation, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
2021 DEAD TIME (Maggie’s Solo live), Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, DE
2021 DEAD TIME (lecture), with Will Holder and Hendrik Folkerts, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, DE
2021 DEAD TIME (talks), with Jesper List Thomsen and Will Holder, Overgaden, Copenhagen, DK
2021 WHY WORDS NOW, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, the School of Sculpture in collaboration with Art Hub Copenhagen, DK
2019 A Talk In Three Parts With Painting, with Jesper List Thomsen, Grüner Salon, Volksbühne, Berlin, DE
2019 OFFSHORE IN NEW YORK, Swiss Institute, New York, US
2018 Failed British Silver, Centre National de la Danse, Paris, FR
2018 OFFSHORE IN KINGSTON, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston, UK
2017 OFFSHORE IN BELGIUM, Playground Festival, Museum M, Leuven, BE
2017 OFFSHORE IN BILBAO, Bulegoa, Bilbao, ES
2017 United in Stomach Flu, London Weeps, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
2017 On False Tears and Outsourcing (musicians in Iceland audition to become a manufactured band), Sequences Festival, live casting, Mengi, Reykjavik, IS
2016 On False Tears and Outsourcing (musicians respond to emails and manufacture a pop song, just in time, daily), curated by Charles Aubin, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, FR
2014 And you were wonderful, on stage, Tate Britain, London, UK
2014 He’s In A Great Place!, BMW Live Performance Room commission, Tate Modern, London, UK
2014 Baby I got better things to be doing with my time, Frieze Film, London, UK
2014 IT’S ABOUT YOU, The High Line, public art commission, New York, US
2013 And you were wonderful, on stage, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
2013 And you were wonderful, on stage, Performa 13, The National Academy New York, US
2012 A Six Stage Manifesto On Action, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
curating & programming
2024 A Thesis on Spillage, a Symposium-like Gathering Assembled by Cally Spooner and Hendrik Folkerts. With Nuar Alsadir, Marquis Bey, Wendy Brown, Joshhua Chambers-Letson, Tony Cokes, Hendrik Folkerts, Melody Giron, Irena Haiduk, Sarah Herda, Darrell Jones, Sanford Kwinter, Ralph Lemon, Maggie Segale, Cally Spooner, and Fraces Stark, Graham Foundation, Chicago.
2022–2023 Dead Time Talks organized by Cally Spooner with Will Holder, Andreas Führer, Irena Haiduk, Jesper List Thomsen, Marie Lund, Rhea Dall and Lola, O–Overgaden, Copenhagen.
2022 Asynchronicity (a symposium-like-gathering), organised by Cally Spooner in the context of the project reboot: responsiveness, a collaborative, multi-cycle, anti-racist, and queer-feminist dialogue initiated by the Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne and Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf.
2019 OFFSHORE IN NEW YORK: Practical Philosophy, organised by Cally Spooner with James Bridle, Evan Calder Willams, Yael Davids, Hendrik Folkerts, Irena Haiduk, Dotan Lesham, Dana Luciano, Joshua Simon, Jackie Wang and Alex Waterman, Swiss Institute, New York.
2018 Several lectures on Display (false tears, unscripted skin, riots), organised by Cally Spooner, with Federico Campagna, Naomi Segal, Isabel Valli and OFFSHORE, Kings College Anatomy Theatre, London
2017 MICRO COMPOSITION, curated by Cally Spooner, with Am Nuden Da, Alex Cecchetti, Tyler Coburn, Angelo Custódio, Roberto Fassone, Ghislaine Leung, Danae Papazymouri, Public Fiction, Jesper List Thomsen, Viola Yeşiltaç, David Cunningham, Jean-Pascal Flavien, San Serif, Amsterdam
2017 A social body event, organised by Cally Spooner, Bellamy, Earle Brown (performed by William Crosby, Andrew Morgan, Lucy Railton, Joe Zeitlin), Tania Bruguera / Hannah Arendt International Institute for Artivism (INSTAR), Evan Calder Williams, Tyler Coburn, Akwugo Emejulu in conversation with Victoria Lidchi, Anna Halprin, Jesper List Thomsen, Nina Power / The London Student Assembly, the Artist Placement Group (APG) and Yugoexport / Irena Haiduk / Central Saint Martins, London, Serpentine Gallery
2017 A public workshop on Use: Human resources and irksome tools, organised by Cally Spooner, with Simon Ascencio / Jessica, Marie de Brugerolles, Tyler Coburn, Maria Dada, Michelangelo Miccolis, STUK, Leuven
2017 An Intimate Symposium on Maintenance, organised by Cally Spooner, with Lisa Baraitser, Kate Coyne, Marina Vishmidt, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2015 Violent Incident, curated by Cally Spooner, with Rosa Aiello, Bernadette Corporation, Andrea Fraser, Jef Geys, Gil Leung, Bruce Nauman, Danh Vo, Vleeshal, Middelburg
publications (solo)
2024 A Hypothesis of Resistance, edited in conversation with Will Holder, published by Mousse, Milan
2024 SWEAT SHAME ETC., published by Lenz Press, Milan, and Swiss Institute, New York
2021 A Lecture On Stagnation, published by uh books
2020 On False Tears, published by Hatje Canz and Edizioni Madre
2018 And You Were Wonderful, On Stage, published by Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, and Mousse Publishing, Milan
2017 Cally Spooner: Scripts, edited by Andrew Hunt and Cally Spooner, with an introduction by Will Holder, Slimvolume
2016 Cally Spooner, Peep-Hole Sheet #28 – On False Tears and Outsourcing, published by Mousse Publishing
2013 Collapsing in Parts, novella, edited by Cally Spooner and Andrew Bonacina, Mousse Publishing, Milan and International Project Space, Birmingham
writing / publishing
2023 A Hypothesis of Resistance, five essays on performance (“Asynchronicity,” “Rehearsal,” “The Present Tense,” “Undetectability,” and “Duration,”) published in Mousse #81 (Fall 2022) to #85 (Fall 23), edited by Will Holder
2020 DEAD TIME in Parrhesiades, Volume I, 2019-2020, edited by Lynton Talbot
2020 (Contribution to) The Paradox of Stillness, edited by Vincenzo de Bellis, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
2018 United in Stomach Flu, London Weep (script)s, Obieg, published by Ujazdowski Castle, Centre for Contemporary Art, issue 8
2017 A Lecture on False Tears and Outsourcing, contribution to Hotel Theory Reader, co-published by Fillip and REDCAT, Los Angeles
2017 Dance: Roundtable Discussion (with Maria Hassabi and Charles Aubin), Kaleidoscope, 29
2016 The Architectures of Management, Cally Spooner interviews Dan Graham, in On False Tears and Outsourcing, exhibition catalogue, New Museum, New York
2016 A not so sad September: (Cally Spooner on Umberto Eco’s Open Work today.), essay, Flash Art International, issue 308
2016 On False Tears and Outsourcing, Peep Hole Sheet, issue 28 Chapter from Collapsing in Parts, republished in Social Medium: Artists Writing 2000-2015 by Paper Monument, New York
2015 Synopsis, text, published by The Grantchester Pottery paints the stage, exhibition catalogue, Jerwood Visual Arts, London
2015 The New Elvis, essay, published by S1 Sheffield and Glasgow Sculpture Studios
2015 About a Work No2, published by YiWAB and ZERO…, Milan
2014 Indirect Language (Act 1), An exhibition to hear read: Volume 4, radio play, Jeu de Paume
2014 A Solo Event for Thinking (Version Two), E.R.O.S #3, EROS Publishing
2014 Losing My Body To Time, score published in, Mousse Magazine, Mousse Publishing
2012 The Erotics of Public Possibility, essay and poster distributed by post, International Project Space
2011 Indirect Language (Act 8), An exhibition to hear read: Volume 3, radio play, David Roberts Art Foundation Indirect Language (Act 5), FR DAVID: “Spin Cycle”, radio play, De Appel arts centre
2011 Indirect Language, An exhibition to hear read: Volume 1, radio play, Synagogue de Delme
2011 The Observer’s guide to the Serpentine Gallery Garden Marathon – Compiled in One Voice by Will Holder, Serpentine Garden, Marathon, Serpentine Gallery, London
2010 Notes for a pending Performance, Session_12_Words +Untitled, Krabbesholm Højskole
2010 The Erotics of Public Possibility, Something Blue; A Curiosa of Contemporary Erotica, compiled by Neue Alte Bruecke (launch at Pilot, Landings, Oslo)
public collections
Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, IT
Capc Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, FR
Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, MON
Fondation Lafayette, Paris, FR
FRAC Franche Comté, Besançon, FR
FRAC Ile de France, Paris, FR
Kadist Foundation, Paris, FR
British Council Collection, London, UK
CNAP, Paris, FR
awards & grants
Graham Foundation Fellow, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Fine Arts
Novo Nordisk Foundation’s Mads Øvlisen Scholarship for Practice-Based Art
Utrecht University Summer School, Posthuman Ethics, Pain and Endurance, with Rosi Braidotti
Illy Present Future Prize
Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award
Stanley Picker Fellowship, Kingston University, in collaboration The Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP)
residencies
Writer in Residence, Whitechapel Gallery, London
EMPAC (Experimental Media and Performing Arts Centre), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, International Artist in Residence
Art Pace, San Antonio
Wysing Arts Centre Residency
Fondation Lafayette, Paris production residency
Cite Des Arts residency, Paris, in collaboration with the French Cultural Institute and the British Council
bio
Born 1983, Ascot, UK
Lives and works in London, UK & Turin, IT
Cally Spooner is a British-Italian artist and a writer, whose choreographies, rooted in her training in philosophy, unfold across media—through sound, on film, in text, as objects, and illustrated in drawings. Her series of five essays on “performance”, A Hypothesis of Resistance, was published as a monographic text book by Mousse, Milano in 2024. In each essay Spooner holds and examines temporalities which defy and eclipse the standardizations that drive individual and societal bodies to perform toward an entirely metric-oriented future. Beginning with “Asynchronicity” then extending to “Rehearsal,” “The Present Tense,” “Undetectability,” and “Duration”, A Hypothesis of Resistance was edited in conversation with Will Holder.
Solo and group exhibitions by Spooner count institutions including Palais de Tokyo (Paris), New Museum (New York), Graham Foundation (Chicago), Whitechapel Gallery (London), Castello di Rivoli (Turin), and Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam). Her works are found in public collections including the British Council Collection (UK) Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea (IT), Centre Pompidou (FR), CAPC Bordeaux (FR), Fondation Lafayette (FR), FRAC Franche Comté (FR), FRAC Ile de France (FR), Kadist Foundation (FR), and Stedelijk Museum (NL).
education
2013–2016 Städelschule, (Prof. Judith Hopf), Frankfurt am Main, DE
2010–2016 Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, DK
upcoming
2026 Gammel Strand, Copenhagen, DK (group)
solo exhibitions
2025 Damdramaer, Rønnebæksholm, Næstved, DK
2024 L’Atlantique, profil_paris, Paris, FR
2024 Whisk d’or, palace enterprise, Copenhagen, DK
2024 LISTE art fair, Basel, CH
2023 Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt, DE
2022 Copenhagen, page (NYC), New York, US
2022 Mogens and Other Stories, palace enterprise, Copenhagen, DK
2022 Readers Remedy, Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels, BE
2022 Royaume Des Clowns, Le Bicolore, Maison du Danemark, Paris, FR
2021 Vocals and Lyrics, Huset For Kunst og Design, Holstebro, DK
2021 Agrication, Tranen, Gentofte, DK
2020 NIGHT CALL, Bizarro, Copenhagen, DK
2020 Stockholm Syndrome, Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt, DE
2019 Orchard of Sensibilities, Éclair, Berlin, DE
2018 Danzanti Militanti, Gio Marconi Gallery, Milan, IT
2017 L’éducation régionale, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, DE
2016 Seedless_Grapes <3, Shoot The Lobster, New York, US
2015 Agrimundo, Bianca D’Alessandro, Copenhagen, DK
2015 Spazzacamini, Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt, DE
2014 Magnus Andersen, VeSch, Vienna, AU
2012 Commerz Transsaharian, Peinture et Sculpture, Copenhagen, DK
group exhibitions
2025 Syndens Blomster, Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen, DK
2024 Koloristerne, Den Frie Centre for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK
2024 Milky Ways, The Nivågaard Collection, Nivå, DK
2024 Two Weekends, YEAH, Brussels, BE
2023 ANOTHER SURREALISM, Museum Sønderjylland, DK
2023 Downtown Issues II, Issues, Stockholm, SE
2022 ANOTHER SURRELIASM, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK
2022 Royaume Des Clowns, Le Bicolore, Maison du Danemark, Paris, FR
2021 Page at Petzel, Petzel Gallery, New York, US
2019 Metamorphosos. Art in Europe Now, Foundation Cartier, Paris, FR
2019 Salon de Peinture Muhka, Antwerpen, BE
2019 Ford Every Stream, Museo Apprente, Naples, IT
2018 Painting: Now & Forever, Part III. Greene Naftali, Matthew Marks, New York, US
2018 Helvedet opløser sig, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, DK
2018 Weeping, Dreaming, Fucking, Laughing, Wschod, Warsaw, PL
2017 Mystification of the Everyday, Delmes and Sander, Cologne, DE
2016 The Squatter, Gaudel de Stampa, Paris, FR
2016 To Lie in the Cheese, to Smile in the Butter, Kunstsaele, Berlin, DE
2016 Croissant, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/Main, DE
2016 Afgang, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK
2016 Hüttendasein, 15 Orient Ave., New York, US
2016 Cold Society No. 2, Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, AU
2015 Natural Instincts, Foundation Les Urbaines, Lausanne, CH
2015 Ajolly, Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt/Main, DE
2015 Ancient Carriers, Galerie Markus Lüttgen, Cologne, DE
2015 Times, Gallery Christian Andersen, Copenhagen, DK
2015 Six possibilities in painting, Galerie Bernhard, Zürich, CH
2014 Late European Decadence, Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt/Main, DE
2014 Im Frühling, Darling, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, DE
2013 Crema di Mente, Sala del Lazzaretto, Naples, IT
2013 Ligegyldigt hvorhen blot udenfor denne verden, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, DK
public collections
Collection European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, DE
Danish Arts Foundation, Copenhagen, DK
Fuglsang Art Museum, Toreby, DK
Lab’Bel, Suresnes, FR
Museum Sønderjylland, Tønder, DK
The New Carlsberg Foundation, Copenhagen, DK
SMK – National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, DK
bio
Born Elsinore, Denmark 1987
Lives and works in Copenhagen
Magnus Andersen draws abundantly from a wide range of art historical and popular cultural references, spanning Flemish still lifes,17th-century baroque and classical music, to color field painting and advertising aesthetics. Andersen renegotiates mundane and easily recognizable signifiers of contemporary visual culture and deliberately exaggerates them to a point of uncanniness. Cultivating humor and seriousness equally, his work engages with an accelerated nostalgia emblematic of post-industrial consumerism.
education
2002–2004 Royal College of Art, London, UK
1999–2002 Royal Danish Academy, School of Architecture, Copenhagen, DK
upcoming
2026 Le Syndrome de Bonnard, Frac Île-de-France, Paris, FR
solo exhibitions
2025 She said Rain, palace enterprise, Copenhagen, DK
2024 O Rose, Marie Lund and Rosalind Nashashibi, Den Frie Centre for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK (duo)
2023 b l d n g s, Palm House, Botanical Garden, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, DK
2021 The Falling, Kunstmuseum St Gallen, St Gallen, CH
2021 Pavillion, Holstebro Kunstmuseum, Holstebro, DK
2020 The Apartment, Croy Nielsen, Vienna, AU
2019 The Thirst, Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, DK
2019 Løbende Kontakt, with Jesper List Thomsen, Kunstscenen, Copenhagen, DK (duo)
2018 Grip, Jose Garcia, Mx, Mexico City, MX
2018 Face to Back, Croy Nielsen, Vienna, AU
2018 One Hour Long Exhibition, (w. Bob Kil), Le Plateau, Paris, FR
2017 Legumes, Holstebro Kunstmuseum, Holstebro, DK
2016 Scout, Jose Garcia, Mx, Merida, Mexico, MX
2015 Pit, Croy Nielsen, Berlin, DE
2015 Flush, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, DE
2015 One Hour Long Exhibition, (w. Bob Kil, Jesper List Thomsen and Johs Lund), South London Gallery, UK
2014 Dip, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London, UK
2014 Drums, Museo Marino Marini, Florence, IT
2014 One Hour Long Exhibition, (w. Bob Kil), Artsonje, Seoul, KR
2013 Back Pack, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, MX
2013 Handstand, IMO Projects, Copenhagen, DK
2013 Worksited, (w. Benjamin Hirte), Central Library of LAPL, Los Angeles, US
2013 One Hour Long Exhibition, (w. Bob Kil), Round House, Vilnius, LT
2013 One Hour Long Exhibition, (w. Bob Kil and Francesco Pedraglio), New York Gallery, New York, US
2012 Clickety Click, Croy Nielsen Gallery, Berlin, DE
2012 End On, Christian Andersen Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
2012 One Hour Long Exhibition, (w. Bob Kil and Francesco Pedraglio), Shananay, Paris, FR
2011 Two Ways to Fall, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, MX
2011 Turtles, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London, UK
2011 One Hour Long Exhibition, (w. Bob Kil), Supplement, London, UK
2011 Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan, Boba Dylana, (w. Jiri Kovanda and Nina Beier), DOX, Prague, CZ
2010 The Object Lessons, with Nina Beier, MUDAM, Luxembourg, LU (duo)
2010 The Testimony, with Nina Beier, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, US (duo)
2009 The Object Lessons, with Nina Beier, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, NL (duo)
2009 The Testimony, with Nina Beier, Nomas Foundation, Rome, IT (duo)
2009 Permanent Collection, (w. Nina Beier) Croy Nielsen, Berlin, DE
2009 Loss and Cause, (w. Nina Beier) Projectos Monclova, Mexico City, MX
2008 A Circular Play, with Nina Beier, Braunschweig Kunstverein, Braunschweig, DE (duo)
2008 Two Women, (w. Nina Beier) , Laura Bartlett Gallery, London, UK
2008 All The Best, (w. Nina Beier), The Roberts Institute of Art, London, UK
2008 A Circular Play (A Play in Circles), (w. Nina Beier) Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, JP
2007 Dance Like I Do, (w. Nina Beier), Århus Kunsthal, Århus, DK
2007 Dance Like I Do, (w. Nina Beier), Overgaden, Copenhagen, DK
group exhibitions
2025 A trip to the moon, Centro Federico García Lorca, Granada, ES
2025 We Grown-Ups Can Also Be Afraid: Creativity in Times of Crisis (with Nina Beier), Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester, UK
2024 Sur tes lèvres, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Nantes, FR
2023 Billedbarrikader, Sorø Kunstmuseum, Sorø, DK
2022 Routes and Routines, Martina Simeti, Milan, IT
2022 Form Follows Energy, LAGO / ALGO, OMR, Mexico City, MX
2021 Arven, Den Frie Centre for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK
2021 New Acquisitions, SMK – National Gallery of Art, Copenhagen, DK
2021 At the End of the Rainbow, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, DK
2021 Transitive Objects, COSAR HMT, Düsseldorf, DE
2020 Transparent Things, Goldsmith’s CCA, London, UK
2020 So wie wir sind, Wesserburg Musum für Moderne Kunst, Wesserburg, DE
2019 Foncteur d’oubli, Plateau, Frac Île-de-France, Paris, FR
2019 Atypical Curated Project (Chinese Whispers), Meessen De Clerq, Brussels, BE
2018 What do you dream of? Galerie Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, BR
2018 One Hour Long Exhibition, Le Plateau, Paris, FR
2017 Sous le Regard de Machines Pleines D’amour et de Grace, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
2017 Casa Miller, Galerie Allen, Paris, FR
2016 The Lasting. L’intervallo e la durata, GNAM, Rome, IT
2016 Concealment and Revelation, Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, DE
2016 Naïve Set Theory, P420, Bologna, IT
2016 La Camera, Palazzo De Toschi, Bologna, IT
2016 A Faraway Rendez-vous, SixtyEight Art Institute, Copenhagen, DK
2016 Acquisitions Récentes, Frac Franche – Comté, FR
2015 Art Now, Tate Britain, London, UK
2015 wow! Woven?, Kunstlerhaus Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz, AU
2015 One Hour Long Exhibition, South London Gallery, London, UK
2015 Airbnb-pavillion, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, IT
2015 The Camera’s Blind Spot II, Extra City Antwerp, NL
2015 Dealing with surfaces, GAK Gesellschaft für aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, DE
2015 L’usage des formes, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
2014 Living in a Material World, Museum Krefeld and Galerie om Taxispalais, Innsbruck, AU
2014 One Hour Long Exhibition, Artsonje, Seoul, KR
2014 Nouveau Festival, Centre Pompidou, Paris, DR
2014 A Picture is no Substitute, Seventeen Gallery, London, UK
2014 Stone, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK
2014 Frieze Sculpture Park, London, UK
2013 Grundlag. Materialitet #2 (jord), Sorø Kunstmuseum, Sorø, DK
2013 When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, MOCAD, Detroit, UK
2013 Motor: Bettina Buck invites Marie Lund, Spacex, London, UK
2013 One Hour Long Exhibition, Round House, Vilnius, LT
2013 Chaque chose en son temps, Frac Franche-Comté, Besancon, FR
2013 Flat Bed (with Benjamin Hirte and Rolf Nowotny), Joe Sheftel Gallery, New York, US
2013 Worksited (with Benjamin Hirte), Central Library of LAPL, Los Angeles, US
2013 It’s Over There, Simone Subal Gallery, New York, US
2012 When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, CCA Wattis, San Francisco, US
2012 A wavy line is drawn across the middle of the original plans, Cologne Kunstverein, DE
2012 L’Entre-deux: des savoirs bouleversés, Kunsthalle Mulhouse, Mulhouse, CH
2012 Beyond Words, GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, DE
2012 Who Am I? What Am I Doing Here?, Shanaynay, Paris, FR
2012 Formes Bréves, Autres, Frac Lorraine, MARCO, Vigo, ES
2011 Under Destruction, The Swiss Institute, New York, US
2011 One Hour Long Exhibition, Supplement, London, UK
2011 Paysages avec Objets Absents, Kunsthalle Freiburg, Freiburg, DE
2011 No Day without a Temperament, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna
2011 Les Statues Meurent Aussi, Galleria Suzy Shammah, Milan, IT
2011 Inauguration Show, Croy Nielsen, Berlin, DE
2011 The 29th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, SI
2011 Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan, Boba Dylana, (with Jiri Kovanda and Nina Beier), DOX, Prague
2010 Best Laid Plans, Drawing Room / Tate Modern, London, UK
2010 Under Destruction, Museum Tinguely, Basel, CH
2010 À l’ombré d’un Doute, Frac Lorraine, Metz, FR
2010 Frieze Sculpture Park, London, UK
2010 In Which the Wind is Also a Protagonist, La Generale, Sevres, FR
2010 Der ideale Ort, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen, DE
2010 Gestures, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, DK
2010 Tumult, Public art festival, Lolland Falster, Denmark, DK
2010 No Day without a Temperament, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna, AU
2010 Nomad-ness, Frac Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, FR
2010 À l’ombré d’un Doute, Frac Lorraine, Metz, FR
2010 Young London, V22, London, UK
2010 Gallery, Gallerie, Galleria, Norma Mangoine Gallery, Turin, It
2010 We Have as Much Time as it Takes, CCA Wattis, San Francisco, US
2010 Performative Strategies, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, CH
2010 History of Art, The, DRAF, London
2010 In Which the Wind is Also a Protagonist, La Generale, Sevres
2010 Collection 02, De Vleeshal Kabinetten, Middelburg
2010 A Very Very Long Cat, Wallspace, New York, Us
2009 Momentum: Nordic Biennial, Moss, NO
2009 Suns Neither Rise Nor Set, Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2009 Audio, Video, Disco, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, CH
2009 La Notte, Kunsthalle Mulhouse, Mulhouse, CH
2009 Reduction & Suspense, Kunstverien Bregenz, AU
2009 A Sensed Perturbation, Murray Guy, New York, US
2009 Don’t Expect Anything, Francesca Minini, Milan, IT
2009 Collective Spirits, Four Boxes Gallery, Krabbesholm, DK
2009 The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye, About Change Collection, Berlin, DE
2008 Nought To Sixty, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
2008 Oh, A Show, Showroom Platform, Basel, CH
2008 Insoluables Solides, Betonsalon, Paris, FR
2008 I have nothing to say and I am saying it, Platform Seoul, Seoul, KR
2008 U-Turn, Quadrennial, Copenhagen, DK
2008 Eurasia, MART, Rovereto, IT
2008 When I Was A Little Boy…, guest in solo show by Jiri Kovanda, Klatovy, CZ
2008 Laughing In A Foreign Language, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
2008 What is my name, Hisk, Gent, BE
2008 Nordic Art and Experimental Film, Malmo Konsthall, Malmø, SE
2008 Playtime, Betonsalon, Paris, FR
2008 Participation, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna, AT
2008 This Way, Brandts Museum for Photography, Odense, DK
2008 From a Distance, Wallspace, New York, US
2007 Actions & Interruptions, Tate Modern, London, UK
2007 Collectivity, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, US
2007 The Difference Between Humans & Walls, Tate Britain, London, UK
2007 The Parralax Crew, Museo Internazionale della Musica, Bologne, FR
2007 The Play Me Series, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, NO
2007 The Play Me Series, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, US
2007 Abstract Things, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London, UK
public collections
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, CH
SMK – National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, DK
ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art, Ishøj, DK
FRAC Île-de-France, Paris, FR
Frac Franche-Comté, Besançon, FR
Holstebro Kunstmuseum, Holstebro, DK
Lismore Castle, Waterford, IR
Danish Arts Council, Copenhagen, DK
Ny Carlsberg Foundation, Copenhagen, DK
public commissions
2024 Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark
2022 Eastern Court House, Copenhagen, Denmark
2022 Kunstmuseum St Gallen, St Gallen, Switzerland
2021 Holstebro Kunstmuseum, Holstebro, Denmark
2019 Panum Instituttet, Copenhagen Medical University, Copenhagen, Denmark
publications
2022 The Falling, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, photography by Frederik Worm, design by Åbäke, published by After 8 Books, Paris, FR
2021 Arven, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, DK
2017 Scout, text by Jesper List Thomsen, design by Åbäke, published by MIDI/Mousse Publishing, Milan, IT
2016 Hinter dem Vorhang, Museum Kunspalast, Hirmer, Düsseldorf, DE
2016 The Lasting, Catalogue, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Roma, IT
2014 Drums, text by Pieternel Vermoortel, , design by Åbäke, published by MIDI/Mousse Publishing, Milan, IT
2013 Ground. Materiality #2 (earth), Sorø Kunstmuseum, Sorø, DK
2012 The Object Lessons, (w. Nina Beier), text by Francesco Pedraglio, design by Åbäke, published by DeVleeshal and MUDAM
2011 Under Destruction, Museum Tinguely, Basel and the Swiss Institute, NYC
2011 Turtles, text by Pieternel Vermoortel, design by Åbäke, published by MIDI/Mousse Publishing, Milan IT
2011 History of Art, The, DRAF, London, UK
2011 We Have as Much Time as it Takes, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, US
2011 Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan, Boba Dylana, Dox, Prague, CZ
2010 Best Laid Plans, Drawing Room, London, UK
2009 Momentum Nordic Biennial, Norway, NO
2009 The Points #02, (w. Nina Beier), Croy Nielsen, Berlin, Germany, DE
2009 The Points #01, (w. Nina Beier), Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, MX
2009 Nought to Sixty, ICA, London, UK
2009 Platform Seoul, Artsonje, KR
2008 Eurasia, MART Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, IT
2007 This Way, Brandts Museum for Fotokunst, DK
2007 Ny Dansk Kunst 2007, Copenhagen, DK
2007 Actions & Interruptions, Tate Modern, London, UK
bio
Born, 1976, Copenhagen, Denmark
Lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark
Marie Lund’s artistic practice arrives from a contemplation on the interdependencies between architecture, space, objects, and bodies. Her sculptural works hold references to existing, functional objects, which she releases from their original use and transforms through tensile material processes into abstract sculptural structures. Often situated in relation to liminal positions, in resistance to sculpture as autonomous object, they activate their environment, encompassing encounters between body and space, and exchange with artworks by other artists. In turning to ideas of hosting and openness, space is given rather than merely occupied. Accordingly, Lund’s sculptures resonate as social as well as spatial frameworks, fostering mutual forms of dependency within exhibition formats.
education
1999–2001 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, DE
2001–2005 Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, DE
professorship
Since 2019 Professor and head of the Sculpture School, The Royal Danish Academy of Arts, DK
Since 2020 Founder and organizer of the performance series Why Words Now
Since 2021 Runs the exhibition space AYE-AYE with Nina Beier, DK
upcoming
2026 Gammel Strand, Copenhagen, DK (group)
2025 solo exhibition, curated by Benoît Lamy de La Chapelle, La Salle de Bains, Lyon, France (solo)
2025 14th Taipei Biennial curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
solo exhibitons
2025 Sjæl/Seele/Soul, palace enterprise, Copenhagen, DK
2024 Thick and Thin, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK
2024 Museum, CAN, Vienna, AT
2024 Life, Disneyland Paris, Perth, AU
2024 Animate V, Videodrame CAPC, Bordeaux, FR
2023 All the time in the world, palace enterprise, Copenhagen, DK
2023 Hypnic Jerk, Aarhus Kunsthal, Aarhus, DK
2023 Protein (w. Nina Beier), Ses12Naus, Ibiza, ES
2022 What Do People Do All Day, Francesca Minini, Milan, IT
2022 Boulevard of Crime, Francesca Minini, Milan, IT
2020 What Do People Do All Day, dis.art
2019 Mercury, Tallinn Art Hall, EE
2019 Filmclub Lifeblood, Christian Andersen, Copenhagen, DK
2018 The Middle Ages, CAC, Vilnius, LT
2017 &, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London, UK
2016 Cormorous, Kunsthalle Sao Paulo, BR
2015 The Plumber & The Cook, Kunsfenster, BDI, Berlin, DE
2015 Buongiorno Signor Courbet, Francesca Minini Gallery, Milan, IT
2015 Simon Dybbroe Møller, 83 Pitt Street, New York, US
2015 Lettuce, 21er Haus, Vienna, AU
2014 @ The Shrink, Shanaynay, Paris, FR
2014 Aperture & Orifice, Galerie Kamm, Berlin, DE
2013 Swallow Swallow Spit, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London, UK
2013 Stewism, curated by Chris Sharp, Lulu, Mexico City, MX
2013 Männer und Moral, Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, NL
2013 2002, Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenhagen, DK
2012 The Roman Two, Hyundai Gallery, Seoul, Korea, KR
2011 Hello, cur. by Adrienne Drake, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, IT
2011 O, Francesca Minini, Milan, IT
2011 The Nightmare of Reason, C1, Kunsthalle Göppingen, Germany, DE
2011 Rest On Your Belly In The Mud, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London, UK
2011 Flotsam and Jetsam, (with Jacob Dahl Jürgensen), Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, DE
2010 BRAIN, UMMA projects, Ann Arbor, Michigan, US
2010 The Whole of it, Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenhagen, DK
2010 Fast Flickering Black Bug On A Cool White Background, Galerie Kamm, Berlin, DE
2010 The Demon of Noontide, Harris Liebermann, New York, US
2009 Flotsam and Jetsam (with Jacob Dahl Jürgensen), Nicolas Krupp, Basel, CH
2009 Kompendium, Kunstverein Hannover, DE
2009 Appendix, Frankfurter Kunstverein, DE
2009 Untitled, Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenhagen, DK
2008 Not Nature Near, Francesca Minini, Milan, IT
2008 Here We Stand, Lost In Wonder, Harris Lieberman (with Bernd Ribbeck), New York, US
2007 Real decent golden jumper, (with Lisa Jugert), Dependance, Brussels, BE
2007 Like Origami Gone Wrong, Kunstmuseum Thun, CH
2007 On ill winds and loss of sanity, part II, Galerie Kamm, Berlin, DE
2007 Like Origami Gone Wrong, Aarhus Kunstbygning, Aarhus, DK
2007 On ill winds and loss of sanity, part I, westlondonprojects, London, UK
2006 Letter from the new world to the old world, cur. by Susanne Pfeffer, Künstlerhaus Bremen, DE
2006 All yesterday’s parties, Art Basel Statements, Galerie Kamm, CH
2006 The view, the show, the word and the architect, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, DE
2005 A journey from black to white through the vast desert of entropic grey, Kunstverein Braunschweig, DE
2005 Double Vision, FLACA, London, UK
2005 Ufarlige Historier, Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf, DE
2004 ABABCB, Galerie Kamm, Berlin Incomplete Tales , Schnittraum, Cologne, DE
2003 Fresh and Upcoming, Frankfurter Kunstverein, DE
group exhibitions
2025 1st Klaipėda Biennial curated by Valentinas Klimasauskas, Klaipėda, LT
2025 SUPERGAMES, dummy, Copenhagen, DK
2025 retrospective screening at Babylon Cinema curated by Olaf Stüber, Berlin, DE
2025 Sol Nexø, Bornholm, DK (group w/ Kirsten Ortwed & Nina Beier)
2025 THIN PLACES: God Human Animal Machine, curated by South Into North, Kunsthal 44, Møn, DK
2025 ARoS COLLECTION: 1960 – NOW, ARoS, Aarhus, DK
2025 9-5, 5-9, Room Room, Copenhagen, DK
2024 Artificial Optimism, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK
2023 X. A CAPITAL DESIRE, Bicolore, Paris, FR
2023 Full Days, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK
2022 Through The Lens, SMK Thy, DK
2022 Ny Dansk Kunst, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, DK
2022 The Curse of Smooth Operations, Impakt, Utrecht, Utrecht, NL
2021 The Exit, cur. by DIS, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Medellín, CO
2021 To Do Without So Much Mythology, cur. by F. Pedraglio, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna, AT
2021 Cut a rug a round square, cur. by Jessica Stockholder, OGR Torino, IT
2021 Grave Monuments, cur. by Jacob Fabricius, Art Sonje, Seoul, KR
2021 DIS.ART y La Casa Encendida, cur. by DIS, La Casa Encendida, ES
2021 Gravmonumenter, curator Jacob Fabricius, Aarhus Kunsthal, DK
2020 What Do People Do All Day, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK
2020 Metamorphosis Overdrive, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Gallen, CH
2020 What Do People Do All Day, Tranen Space for Contemporary Art, Hellerup, DK
2020 Real Time, Seventeen Gallery, London, UK
2020 Back to the Present, Städelmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2020 Sammlungs Ausstellung, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, DE
2019 D, Le Château Rentilly, Paris, FR
2019 FONCTEUR D’OUBLI, cur. by Benoît Maire, Frac Île-de-France, Paris, FR
2019 Lulu at CITY PRICE/SSES, curated by Hugo Vitrani, Paris, FR
2019 Oversharing, Friends in Deed Gallery, San Francisco, US
2019 Werethings, Galeria Plan B, Berlin, DE
2019 Editions, Peles Empire, Berlin, DE
2018 Superstition, MAARES, Maastricht, NL
2018 Die Wert der Freiheit, 21er Haus, Wien, AT
2018 In Addition, Mostyn, Wales, UK
2018 Exhibiting the Exhibition, Kunsthalle Baden, Baden, DE
2018 NRW Forum Düsseldorf, DE
2018 Supergood, cur. By Hugo Canoilas, MAAT, Lisbon, PT
2018 Beaufort Triennial, cur. By Heidi Ballet, BE
2017 Original Fake, cur by Adam Carr, Maisterravalbuena, Madrid, ES
2017 Cool, Calm and Collected, ARoS, Aarhus, DK
2017 A Rock That Keeps Tigers Away, cur by Post Brothers, Kunstverein München, DE
2017 Dying Well, Museum Für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, DE
2017 Greed, cur. By Chosil Kil, Art Sonje, Seoul, KR
2017 Instructions for Happiness, cur. by: Severin Dünser, Olympia Tzortzi, 21er Haus, Vienna, AT
2017 Welcome Too Late, cur. By Toke Lykkeberg, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK
2017 Tilting at windmills, Roberta, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2017 Remastered – die Kunst der Aneignung, Kunsthalle Krems, AT
2016 Instructions for Happiness, cur. by: Severin Dünser, Olympia Tzortzi, KUP, Athens, GR
2016 9th Berlin Biennal, cur. by Dis, Berlin, DE
2016 De Toi a la Surface, cur. by Francois Aubart, Le Plateau, Frac Île-de-France, Paris, FR
2016 Stranger, cur. by Rose Bouthellier, MOCA Cleveland, US
2016 This is your replacement, cur. by Adam Carr, Sies & Höke, Düsseldorf, DE
2016 Presently, cur. by Tobias Rehberger, Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, DE
2016 Das Gespenst der Freiheit – 15 Einreichungen, cur. by Alex Wissel, WDR, Cologne, DE
2015 Hands off!, cur. by Francesca Gavin, Room of Requirement, Berlin, DE
2015 Natural Flavor, curated by Vivien Trommer, Ludlow 38, New York, US
2015 Eggplant, cur. By Jackie Im. Et. Al, San Francisco, US
2015 CO-WORKERS – Network as Artist, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, FR
2015 War II, Cur by Adam Carr, Mostyn, Llandudno, UK
2015 FIT FOR PURPOSE, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, CH
2015 EXTENSION DU DOMAINE DU JEU, Espace 315 – Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
2015 You Will Find Me If You Want Me In The Garden, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, FR
2015 To Blow Smoke in Order to Heal, Albert Baronian, Brussels, BE
2014 Bikuben, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Utah, US
2014 Superficial Hygiene, De Hallen Haarlem, NL
2014 Le Nouveau Festival, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
2014 Apples & Pears, Cur. by James Clarkson, Drei, Cologne, DE
2013 0 Performance – The Fragile Beauty of Crisis, 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, RU
2013 Nur was nicht ist ist möglich, Museum Folkwang, Essen, DE
2013 Amsterdamer Schützengilde, Kunstsaele Berlin, Berlin, DE
2013 I knOw yoU, IMMA – Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, UK
2013 Contemplating Death, Goethe Institute, Moscow, RU
2013 six memos for the next …, Magazin4 – Bregenzer Kunstverein, AT
2013 When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, MOCA Detroit, US
2013 Nur Hier, Sammlung Zeitgenössischer Kunst Der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, DE
2012 East, Vier Räume aus der Sammlung Schürrmann, Kunstsaele, Berlin, DE
2012 Castle in the Air, Zamek Castle, Poznan, PO
2012 Coquilles Mécaniques, cur. by Joanna Fiduccia, CRAC Alsace, FR
2012 BUSY: Exhausted self/ unlimited ability, 21er Haus, Belvedere, Vienna, AT
2012 Re-Opening, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, BE
2012 I Wish This Was a Song, The National Museum of Art, Oslo, NO
2012 Treffpunkt Berlin, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, DK
2012 An Incomplete History of Incomplete Works of Art, cur. by A. Carr, Francesca Minini, Milan, IT
2012 When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, CCA Wattis, San Francisco, US
2012 Prospectif Cinéma, cur. By Christine Macel, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
2012 Wir sind alle Astronauten, Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen, DE
2011 Danser sa vie – Dance your life, cur. By Christine Macel, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
2011 Berlin 2000 – 2011, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, JP
2011 All around zero – a small celebration of loss, cur. by Stefan Burger, ReMap 3, Athens, GE
2011 Up North, Art Gallery of Alberta, CA
2011 A Slowdown at the Museum, Extra City, Antwerp, BE
2011 Momentum 2011 – 6th Nordic Biennial for Contemporary Art, Moss, NO
2011 MMK 1991-2011: 20 Years of Presence, MMK, Frankfurt, DE
2011 Rudolf Steiner and Contemporary Art, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, CZ
2011 Wir sind alle Astronauten, MARTa Herford, Herford, DE
2011 Based in Berlin, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, DE
2011 a painting show, curated by Aaron Moulton, Auto Center, Berlin, DE
2011 Radical Autonomy 2, Netwerk, Aalst, BE
2011 Anima, Linguaggio, Malinconia, Informazione, GAM, Turin, IT
2011 The Activity of Sound, curated by Florian C Seedorf, Grieder Contemporary, Berlin, DE
2011 The Cosmos of Rudolf Steiner, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, DE
2011 January White Sale, Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, US
2010 A Never Ending Tory, cur. by Chris Sharp, Edmonton, CA
2010 Transatlantische Impulse, cur. by S. v. d. Ley and M. Richter, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, DE
2010 Double Take, SMK – National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark, DK
2010 Prendre la porte et faire le mur, cur. by Florence Ostende, FRAC Provence, Marseille, FR
2010 Gesehen und Geliebt # 4: Besser leben mit…, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, DE
2010 Yesterday will be better, Aargauer Kunsthaus, DE
2010 Mutiny seemed a probability, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, IT
2010 Ce n’est pas une image juste, c’est juste une image, IMO Projects, Copenhagen, DK
2010 Rudolf Steiner und die Kunst der Gegenwart, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, DE
2010 Untitled (In Which the Wind is a Protagonist), cur. by Chris Sharp, La Générale, Paris, FR
2010 Düsseldorf, cur by Shila Katami, the forgotten bar, Berlin, DE
2010 The Zero Budget Biennial, cur. by Joanna Fiduccia and Chris Sharp, Rockeby, London, UK
2010 The Zero Budget Biennial, cur. by Joanna Fiduccia and Chris Sharp, Klemm’s, Berlin, DE
2010 The Zero Budget Biennial, cur. by Joanna Fiduccia and Chris Sharp, Pianissimo, Milan, IT
2010 Bilder in Bewegung – Künstler & Video / Film 1958 – 2010, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, DE
2010 Tracing the Invisible, Schloss Ringenberg, cur. by Nadine Zeidler, Hamminkeln, DE
2010 The Berlin Box, Kunsthalle Andratx / CCA, Mallorca, ES
2010 And so on, and so on, and so on…, cur. by M.S. Smith, Harris Lieberman, New York, US
2009 Radical Autonomy, Le Grand Café, Saint Nazaire, FR
2009 The World is Yours, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, DK
2009 The Zero Budget Biennial, cur. by J. Fiduccia and C. Sharp, Carlos Cardenas Galerie, Paris, Fr
2009 ars viva 08/09 – Inszenierung / Mise en scène, Augarten Contemporary, Vienna, AT
2009 The young people who visit our ruins see nothing but a style, GAM, Torino, IT
2009 My Summer Group Show, Gallery Lelong, New York, US
2009 ars viva 08/09 – Inszenierung / Mise en scène, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, DE
2009 A Twilight Art, Harris Lieberman, New York, US
2009 Still Moving Still, Cultuurcentrum Knokke-Heist, BE
2008 ‘Are you alright? You look so Orange?, Galerie Erik Steen, Oslo, NO
2008 50 Moons of Saturn, curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Torino Triennial, Torino, IT
2008 Enter, Brandts Kunsthallen, Odense, DK
2008 ars viva 08/09 – Inszenierung / Mise en scène | Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg, DE
2008 All the Best, cur by Nina Beier and Marie Lund, Gallery one one one, London, UK
2008 Megastructure Reloaded, cur. by Sabrina v. d. Ley & M. Richter, Staatliche Münze, Berlin, DE
2008 Videoprogramm, cur. by Astrid Mania, Brandenburgischer Kunstverein Potsdam, DE
2008 Grabbing at Straws, Studio Guenzani, Milan, IT
2008 Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, cur by F. Manacorda and Lydia Yee, Barbican, London, UK
2008 Fusion//Confusion, Museum Folkwang, Essen, DE
2008 Been Up So Long It Looks Like Down To Me, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, CA
2008 In the Stream of Life, Betonsalon, Paris, FR
2008 Into It, Kunstverein Hildesheim, Hildesheim, DE
2008 The Dark Side of the Moon, Karma International, Zurich, CH
2008 Neuer Konstruktivismus, Bielefelder Kunstverein, DE
2008 Reinterpretation of Modern Art, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, IR
2008 Made in Germany, Kunstverein Hannover, DE
2008 Kirkhoff Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK
2007 The new domestic landscape, kjubh Kunstverein e.V., Köln, DE
2007 9 or 10 works I used to like, in no order, cur. by Luca Lo Pinto, Monitor, Rome, IT
2007 Our affects fly out of the field of human reality, Galerie Sandra Bürgel, Berlin, DE
2007 Das Kapital – Blue Chips & Masterpieces, MMK, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2006 Deep into that darkness peering, Galerie Kamm, Berlin, DE
2006 Was Wäre Wenn #6 – Für die Ewigkeit, Jet, Berlin, DE
2006 I’m Yours Now, Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York, US
2006 The known and the unknown, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, DK
2006 Irrational thoughts should be followed logically, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, US
2006 Problems on the way to the modern world, Galerie Kamm, Berlin, DE
2006 The World State, Erik Steen Gallery, Oslo, NO
2006 Fantom, cur. by Søren Andreasen and Jesper Rasmussen, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK
2005 Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht, ZKM, Karlsruhe, DE
2005 John Taylor: Imagination of Things Imaginable, cur. by S. Prinz, Galerie Nagel, Berlin, DE
2005 Not a drop but the fall, cur. by Elmgreen and Dragsett, Künstlerhaus Bremen, DE
2005 Celebration, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, DE
2005 Post Notes, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, US
2005 Shadow Play, Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, DE
2005 Irrational thoughts should be followed logically, cur. by P. Ziegler, Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, DE
2005 Shadow Play, Kunsthallen zu Kiel,DE
2005 The Imaginary Number, cur. by Anselm Franke, KW – Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE
2005 Kunstverein Marburg, Marburg, DE
2004 Kurzdavordanach , Sammlung Schürmann, SK-Stiftung, Cologne, DE
2004 Welt national, Trienale für zeitgenössische Kunst Oberschwaben, Kloster Weingarten, DE
2004 Portal III, curated by Birgit Eusterschulte, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, DE
2004 Black Friday, org. by Christoph Keller/Revolver, Galerie Kamm, Berlin, DE
2004 Things to come, curated by Jacob Dahl Jürgensen, Flaca Gallery, London, UK
2003 Make It New, cur. By Jochen Volz, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2003 State of the upper floor: Panorama, cur. by Michael Beutler, Kunstverein München, DE
2003 Western, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK
public collections
ARoS, Aarhus, Denmark
Belvedere 21, Wien, Austria
FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, France
FRAC Île-de-France, France
GAM, Turin, Italy
KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Denmark
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
MMK, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany
SMK – National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
Städelmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
The Federal Collection of Contemporary Art, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Germany
awards & grants
2009 Villa Aurora, Los Angeles
2008—2009 Ars Viva Preis des Kulturkreises der deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI
2007—2008 Scholarship by order of the government of Hessen for New York
2006 Villa Romana, Florence
2005 Absolventenpreis Städelschule
2005 Förderpreis für Bildende Kunst der Bundesministerin für Bildung und Forschung
2004 Best Freestyle Stand, Art Forum Berlin
bio
1976 Born in Aarhus, Denmark
Lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark
As a prominent exponent of an art that emphasises connection, juxtaposition and relationality, Simon Dybbroe Møller’s works engage with the relationship between the weighty materiality of sculpture, and their photographic representation and mediation. Dybbroe Møller explores what sculpture is or can be, in a world that is dictated by the photographic; a world where our economy and attention has shifted from the object to the image. Rather than settling into one medium or style, he continuously probes new territories, moving between film, photography, found objects, sculpture, writing, curating and teaching. Simon Dybbroe Møller was born in Aarhus, DK in 1976 and has been Professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Sculpture in Copenhagen since 2019. He co-runs the exhibition space AYE-AYE and curates the performance series Why Words Now.
education
2015–2021 MA Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, SE
upcoming
2026 Permanent installation ’The Shelter’, at Deep Forest Art Land, Kibæk, DK
2026 Opening Night, Copenhagen, DK
2026 COI, Copenhagen, DK (solo)
2026 Performance, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, DK
2026 Gammel Strand, Copenhagen, DK (group)
solo exhibitions
2025 tie, palace enterprise, Copenhagen, DK
2025 highlight, Viborg Kunsthal, Viborg, DK
2025 FILES, Aarhus Kunsthal, Aarhus, DK
2024 FILE, palace enterprise, Copenhagen, DK
2023 LISTE art fair, Basel, CH
2022 Bitch on Wheels, O-Overgaden Kunsthalle, Copenhagen, DK
2022 Dirty, palace enterprise, Copenhagen, DK
2021 STAND HARD, Bizarro, Copenhagen, DK
2021 Split Screen, SKF/Konstnärshuset, Stockholm, SE (Duo)
2021 Stranger Inside, Galleri Mejan, Stockholm, SE
group exhibitions
2025 Grønningen, Den Frie, Copenhagen, DK
2025 European Renovation, Stockholm, SE
2025 The Art of Collecting, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE
2025 SUPERGAMES, dummy, Copenhagen, DK
2025 smittet af bacillen, HEART Museum, Herning, DK
2024 Do it, Socle Du Monde, HEART Museum, Herning, DK
2024 Group Therapy, ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art, Ishøj, DK
2023 X. A CAPITAL DESIRE, Bicolore, Paris, FR
2023 Issues Gallery, Stockholm, SE
2022 Another Surrealism, Den Frie – Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK
2022 Another Surrealism, Kunstmuseum Sønderjylland, DK
2022 P for Perspective, Simian, Copenhagen, DK
2022 Clown Kingdom, Le Bicolore, Paris, FR
2021 Downtown, Issues Gallery, Stockholm, SE
2021 Frusen Glädje, TreKronor Culture, Stockholm, SE
2020 MMXX, Konstakademien, Stockholm, SE
2019 A Play A Tale, Rundetårn, Copenhagen, DK
2019 World Bone, Arcway, Copenhagen, DK
2019 Cloak of Mercy, Horse and Pony Gallery, Berlin, DE
2019 Feed them with the pages, W:I:P Konsthall, Stockholm, SE
2019 UTTRAN II, Rönninge, Stockholm, SE
2018 It’s about time, Skulpturlandsby Selde, Selde, DK
2018 Souvenirs of affairs, Galerie A.M. 180, Prague, CZ
2018 Like a chicken with its head cut off, DELFI, Malmö, SE
public collections
ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art, Ishøj, Denmark
Kunstmuseum Brandts, Odense, Denmark
KUNSTEN, Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, DK
Museum Sønderjylland, The Art Museum in Tønder, Denmark
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
New Carlsberg Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark
Novo Nordisk Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark
public comissions
2026 Permanent installation ’The Shelter’, at Deep Forest Art Land, Kibæk, DK
awards & grants
2025 Astrid Noack Prize
2025 Aage & Yelva Nimb Honorary Grant
2024 Aarhus Art Prize
2024 Working grant, The Danish Arts Foundation
2023 Læge Inger Goldmanns Fond
2023 Working grant, The Danish Arts Foundation
2022 Carl Nielsen og Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Talent Grant
2022 Sigrid Fridman legat för unga skulptörer
2021 Niels Wessel Bagges Kunstfond Honorary Grant
residencies
2025 ISCP, New York, 4 mdr. Studio Grant, International Studio & Curatorial Program, The Danish Arts Foundation, US
2024 IASPIS, New York 12 mdr. Studio Grant, International Studio & Curatorial Program, US
2023 Art Hub Residency Fall, 5 mdr. Studio Grant, Copenhagen, DK
2023 IASPIS, Stockholm 6 mdr. Studio Grant, Konstnärsnämnden, SE (w/ coyote)
2017 AZ-WEST, Institute of Investigative Living – Andrea Zittel, US
2016 Abisko Scientific Research Station, Abisko, SE
bio
Born in 1991, Aarhus, Denmark
Lives and works in New York, US
Tora Schultz is a Danish sculptor. Her affinity for existing objects is profound as is her way of going about them. Operating in the opaque intersection between producing and preserving, her methods include shaping, bending, burning, disclosing. A preoccupation with meticulous treatments of hard materials is often seen in her work, with an equal devotion to bare their internal qualities while exposing functional assets and shortcomings. Tora Schultz applies a discrete insistence on the handmade and the wordless.
education
2008–2015 Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul
BA, English Language and Literature
BA, Cross-Cultural Studies
upcoming
2025 8th Singapore Biennale, opening October 2025, curated by Singapore Art Museum
2025 14th Taipei Biennale, opening November 2025, curated by Co-Directors of Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, DE
solo exhibitions
2025 Galerie Nordenhake—Salon Kant., Berlin, DE
2025 Twelve, Twelve, Twelve, CFAlive (Conceptual Fine Arts), Milan, IT
2025 love your clean feet on thursday, palace enterprise, Copenhagen, DK
2025 Raise, Luis Adelantado, Valencia, ES
2024 Pain Is Left After the Bite, Philipp Zollinger, Zurich, CH
2024 I need to switch myself, COMA, AUS
2023 Love Your Clean Feet on Thursday, Atelier Hermés, Seoul, KOR
2023 Double Feature: Young-jun Tak, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Dusseldorf and Berlin, DE
2023 street religion, palace enterprise, Copenhagen, DK
2023 Wish You a Lovely Sunday, Wanås Konst, Knislinge, SE
2023 Doubt, Overgaden, Copenhagen, DK
2022 Wohin?, Efremidis, Berlin, DE
2022 Der Garten, Sox, Berlin, DE
2021 Wish You a Lovely Sunday, Fragment, Moscow, RU
group exhibitions
2025 Open Air Filmscreening, KINDL—Center for Contemporary Art, Berlin
2025 The Unruly Dance of Form, Fragment, New York
2025 Dance Now Think Later, Kalmar konstmuseum, Kalmar
2025 Form & Impact, Engadin Art Talks, Zuoz, CH
2024 24th SONGEUN Art Award, SONGEUN, Seoul
2024 Nurture Gaia, Bangkok Art Biennale, Bangkok, TH
2024 Rencontres Internationales Amsterdam, LOODS6, Amsterdam, NL
2024 Thinking About the Future: At the edge of Utopia, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, IT
2024 History will say we were best friends, Podium, Hong Kong, CN
2024 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin 2024, Cinéma Pathé Les Fauvettes, Paris, FR
2024 A soft edge to break a sword, ChertLüdde, Berlin, DE
2024 4th Bangkok Art Biennale, Bangkok Art and Culture Center (BACC), Bangkok, TH
2024 3rd St. Moritz Art Film Festival, Kino Scala, St. Moritz, CH
2024 This is the end of the world, but it always started with you, Skånes konstforening, Malmø, SE
2024 Hovering, Capsule Venice, IT
2024 Laboratorium for Flet, Sophienholm, Lyngby, DK
2024 Unsentimental Education, BB&M, Seoul, KOR
2023 This is a Rehearsal, 5th Chicago Architecture Biennial, Chicago Cultural Center, US
2023 Dancing About Architecture, High Line, New York, US
2023 Boobs in the Arts—Fe:male Bodies in Pictorial History, Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Berlin , DE
2023 Paperworks, Kunstmuseum Heidenheim / Museum Schloss Hellenstein, Heidenheim , DE
2022 CLUBS 2, Sala Apolo, Barcelona, ES
2022 16th Lyon Biennale, Guimet Museum, FR
2022 Finger Bang, Perrotin, Paris, FR
2022 Forming Communities: Berliner Wege, KINDL – Center for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE
2022 Megan Dominescu, Lea Draeger, Nika Fontaine, Aviva Silverman,Young-jun Tak, Mauer, Cologne, DE
2021 It’s Just a Phase, Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst, Trondheim, NO
2021 9th Berlin Masters, Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin Masters Foundation, Berlin, DE
2021 Erschreckend aktuell / Frighteningly topical, Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna, AT
2021 LETTER (to us), a billboard project at Elsenbrücke, Diskurs, Berlin, DE
2021 Round 4, Art for Black Lives, Online
2020 11th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, DE
2020 Szene Berlin, Hall Art Foundation / Schloss Derneburg Museum, Derneburg, DE
2020 Locked in, BKV (Brandenburgischer Kunstverein) Potsdam, DE
2019 Show Me Your Selfie, Diskurs, Berlin, DE
2019 PRO-TEST, Seoul Museum of Art, SeMA Bunker, Seoul, KOR
2019 Show Me Your Selfie, Aram Art Museum, Goyang, KOR
2018 Schrein der Freundschaft, BKV Potsdam, DE
2018 A Strong Desire, PS120, Berlin, DE
2017 15th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul Modern, TR
2016 The Others, König Galerie, Berlin, DE
public collections
Burger Collection, Hong Kong, CN
Copenhagen City Council, Copenhagen, DK
Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin, DE
SONGEUN Art and Cultural Foundation, Seoul, KOR
Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, KOR
awards & grants
2025 “Experimental Filmförderung”, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam
2024 The 24th SONGEUN Art Award, SONGEUN Art And Cultural Foundation ad Seoul Museum of Art, supported by Fondation Cartier
2024 13th VISIO European Programme on Visual Artists’ Moving Images, Florence
2024 Love at First Sight prize at St.Moritz Art Film Festival
2024 Short Film Co-Production, Norwegian Film Insitute, Oslo
2024 “Co-Production Documentary”, Ostnorsk Filmsenter, Lillehammer
2023 Support for Emerging Artist, Seoul Museum of Art
2023 Experimental Film Funding, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
2023 NEUSTARTplus-Stipendium der Stiftung Kunstfonds, NEUSTART KULTUR der BKM
2021 TOY Berlin Masters Award, Berlin Masters Foundation, Burger Collection
2021 International Exchange Program for Young Artists, Arts Council Korea
2020 International Exchange Program, Arts Council Korea
2016–2017 International Exchange Program, Arts Council Korea
bio
Born in 1989 in Seoul, South Korea
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
Young-jun Tak’s practice examines socio-political, cultural and psychological mechanisms that shape belief systems and often exposes the human body in the context of polarizing norms and conventions. The work unfolds as sculpture, installation and video work. Tak studied English Language and Literature, and Cross-Cultural Studies in Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, South Korea.
education
1972–1975 The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, DK
upcoming
2025 Sol Nexø, Bornholm, DK (group)
solo exhibitions
2025 back up, palace enterprise, Copenhagen, DK (solo)
2024 presents, palace enterprise, Copenhagen, DK
2022 GOGO, with Rosemarie Trockel and Lawrence Weiner, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK (trio)
2021 Galerie Jahn und Jahn, München, DE
2020 Head Turned, Galerie Jahn und Jahn, Munich, DE
2017 Turning Time, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, DK
2016 West Dealer, Galerie Nordenhake Berlin, Berlin, DE
2014 Skulpturen | Bozzetti | Arbeiten auf Papier, Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, DE
2013 Run Time, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, SE
2009 Kirsten Ortwed – Bozetti und Zeichnungen, Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, DE
2008 Favoritter, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, DK
2008 Full Length, SMK – National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, DK
2006 Heavymetalopenspace, Kewenig Galerie, Cologne, DE
2002 DCA Gallery, New York, US
2002 En samling en kunstner, KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, DK
2002 Cinque Terre, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, DK
2000 The Sculpture’s Palette, Horsens Art Museum, Horsens, DK
2000 The Sculpture’s Palette, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, DK
2000 Stop Over, Overgaden, Copenhagen, DK
1999 Zeichnungen, Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, DE
1999 Kirsten Ortwed, with Lawrence Weiner and Barry Le Va, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, SE (trio)
1999 Ghosts Among Others, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, DK
1998 Rzeźby, Centre for Comtemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL
1997 The Danish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Venice, IT
1996 Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, SE
1996 Galerie Jule Kewenig, Cologne, DE
1995 DCA Gallery, New York, US
1995 Kunstforeningen Gammel Strand, Copenhagen, DK
1994 Museé Des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Nantes, FR
1993 Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, DE
1993 Städtische Museen, Heilbronn, DE
1993 Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, DK
1992 Nordic Arts Centre, Sveaborg, Helsinki, FI
1992 Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, SE
1992 The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, IS
1991 Miller Nordenhake, Cologne, DE
1991 Galerie Riis, Oslo, NO
1990 Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, SE
1990 Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE
1989 Galerie Maria Wilkens, Cologne, DE
1988 Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, DK
1988 Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, DE
1998 Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck, DE
1998 Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, DE
1987 Galerie Lång, Malmö, Se
1986 Skulpturen, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, DE
1986 Galerie Tilly Haderek, Stuttgart, DE
1986 Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, DK
1986 Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, DE
1985 Galerie Jurka, Amsterdam, NL
1984 Galerie Olsson, Stockholm, SE
1985 Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, DE
1983 Galerie Anders Tornberg, Lund, SE
1982 Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, DE
1981 Galerie Nemo, Eckernförde, DE
1981 Galleri Arnesen, Copenhagen, DK
1981 I.e. grafik, with Troels Wörsel, Copenhagen, DK (duo)
1980 Galerie Nordenhake, Malmö, SE
1979 Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, DK
1976 Galleri 38, Copenhagen, DK
group exhibitions
2025 Major Works, Den Frie Udstilling, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK (curator and exhibiting artist)
2024 Den Frie Udstilling, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK
2024 ARoS Collection: 1960 – now, ARoS, Aarhus, DK
2023 Butterfly, ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK
2022 Marble, KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, DK
2021 New Acquisitions, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, DK
2019 Nordkystens Kunsttriennale, DK
2018 Youtoo, Kunstnergruppe, Cologne, Germany
2016 Poor Art – Rich Legacy. Arte Povera and Parallel Practices 1968–2015, Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo, NO
2016 The Snoring Princess, Kunstgruppe, Cologne, DE
2015 Embracing Modernism: Ten Years of Drawings Acquisitions, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY, US
2014 100 x Forår, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK
2014 Museumsbygningen/Skulpturi.dk, Copenhagen, DK
2014 Køge Kunstforening, Richters Gård, Køge, DK
2013 lost for words, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, DK
2013 Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, SE
2012 WAX – Sensation in Contemporary Sculpture, Gammel Strand, Copenhagen, DK
2012 KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, DK
2010 Skulpturudstilling, Veksølund, Veksø, DK
2010 Den Frie Udstilling, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK
2010 Tilløb Til Rum – Billedhuggertegninger, Clausens Kunsthandel, Copenhagen, DK
2009 Den Frie Udstilling, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK
2008 Förlust, Wanås, Knislinge, SE
2008 Den Frie Udstilling, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK
2008 Op i limningen, Skulpturi.dk, Copenhagen, DK
2008 Kunsten bag tremmer – En udstilling om kunsten i Danmarks bedst sikrede fængsel, Kunstmuseet Køge Skitsesamling, Køge, DK
2007 10 Jahre, Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne, DE
2006 Et skridt i den rigtige retning, Gl. Holtegaard, Gl. Holte, DK
2006 Den Frie Udstilling, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK
2006 Trapperummet, Den Danske Radeerforeing 2005, Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen, DK
2005 højde, bredde, dybde, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, DK
2004 Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, DK
2004 Galleri Nørby, Copenhagen, DK
2004 Den Frie Udstilling, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK
2004 Beyond Posters: a visual history of Galleri Susanne Ottesen, DCA Gallery, New York, US
2002 Eventyrhaven, Odense, DK
2002 Umedalen Skulptur, Umeå, SE
2001 Vor-Sicht Rück-Sicht, 8. Triennale Kleinplastik, Fellbach, DE
2000 Veksølund, Veksølund, DK
1999 Raoul Wallenberg Minnesmärke in Stockholm, Skissernas Museum, Lund, SE
1999 Malmö Konstmuseum besöker Wanås, Wanås Slot, SE
1999 Hvid, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK
1999 Colour Phenomena, Painted Sculptures in Danish Art 1947-1998, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK
1999 Les Adieux, Galerie Jule Kewenig, Haus Bitz, Frechen-Bachen, DE
1998 Platser Statens Konstråd, Riksarkivet, Stockholm, SE
1998 Ordet (Nedbruten), Storkyrkan, Stockholm, SE
1998 Something is rotten in the State of Denmark, Fredricianum, Kassel, DE
1998 Skulpturen, Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, DE
1997 Graphit auf Papier, Galerie Thomas von Lintal, Munich, DE
1997 Højt skum, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, DK
1996 Dansk Skulptur i 125 år, SMK – National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, DK
1996 Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, DK
1996 Fyns Kunstmuseum, Odense, DK
1996 Horsens Kunstmuseum, Horsens, DK
1996 Broken Leg – Contemporary Danish Art, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO
1995 Referencer, Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo, NO
1995 Lillehammer Kunstmuseum, Lillehammer, NO
1995 Bergen Kunstforening, Bergen, NO
1995 Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne, DE
1995 The Hour Of The North, Centro Culturale del Duque, Madrid, ES
1995 Pia Almoina, Barcelona, ES
1995 Gravity’s Angel, The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
1995 4th International Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, TR
1994 Dialogue With The Other, Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, DK
1994 Dialogue With The Other, Norrköping Konstmuseum, Norrköping, SE
1994 Dialogue With The Other, Galleri Tommy Lund, Odense, DK
1994 Seven Galleries, Seven Artists, DCA Gallery, New York, US
1993 Juxta-position, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK
1993 Udsyn – Med Moderna Museet ind i 90’erne, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, DK
1992 Mnemosyne, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, SE
1992 Wanås Slot, Wanås SE
1991 Questions du sens, Credac, Centre d’Art d’Ivry, Paris, FR
1991 Abject, The Nordic Art Centre, Helsinki, FI
1991 Gulliver’s Reisen, Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne, DE
1990 Parcours privés, Paris, FR
1990 Nye Arbejder (w/ Rosemarie Trockel), Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, DK
1990 Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, DE
1989 Skulls, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, DK
1988 Made in Cologne, Dumont Kunsthalle, Cologne, DE
1988 Själen omfattar kroppen, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, SE
1987 Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, DE
1987 Drawings, Galerie Jurka, Amsterdam, NL
1987 Grafik Biennale, Baden-Baden, DE
1986 Säulen, Galerie Jule Kewenig, Cologne, DE
1986 Köpfe, Galerie Biedermann, Munich, DE
1985 Dänische Skulptur im 20 Jh., Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, DE
1985 Trigon 85 – Synonyme für Skulptur (w/ Trockel and Genzken), Neue Galerie Graz, AT
1984 Kunstlandschaft Bundesrepublik Region Cologne, Bremen, DE
1984 Treppen, Galerie Gugu Ernesto, Cologne, DE
1984 Grønningen, Charlottenborg Kunsthal, Copenhagen, DK
1983 Grønningen, Charlottenborg Kunsthal, Copenhagen, DK
1983 KUNSTEN, Aalborg, DK
1983 Perspective, Göteborg Konstmuseum, SE
1981 Skulpturudstilling, Odense, DK
1980 XI Biennale de Paris. Paris, FR
1980 Sara Hilden Museum, Helsinki, FI
1980 Den Frie Udstilling, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK
1980 Ung dansk kunst, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK
1979 Den Frie Udstilling, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK
1978 Fysisk Poesi, Kunstforeningen Gammel Strand, Copenhagen, DK
1978 11 unge kunstnere, Sophienholm, Copenhagen, DK
1978 Den Frie Udstilling, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK
1975 Ny dansk kunst, Vikingsberg Museum, Hälsingborg, SE
1975 Exposition Internationale d’art Contemporain, Allones, FR
1974 Septemberudstillingen, Sophienholm, Copenhagen, DK
1972 Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling, Copenhagen, DK
1971 Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling, Copenhagen, DK
1970 Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling, Copenhagen, DK
public collections
ARKEN Museum for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Ishøj, DK
ARoS Museum of Modern Art, Aarhus, DK
Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, MX
Danish Arts Foundation, Copenhagen, DK
FRAC Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain, Orleans, FR
Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Göteborg, SE
Horsens Kunstmuseum, Horsens, DK
KIASMA Museum for Contemporary Art, Helsinki, FI
KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, DK
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, DK
Magasin 3, Stockholm, SE
Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, SE
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE
Morgan Museum, New York, US
Museé des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Nantes, FR
Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, NO
Neue Pinakothek Graphisische Sammlung, Munich, DE
Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, DE
New Carlsberg Foundation, Copenhagen, DK
Novo Nordisk Foundation, Copenhagen, DK
Skizzernes Museum, Lund, SE
SMK – The National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, DK
Sorø Art Museum, Sorø, DK
Städtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim, DE
Städtische Museen, Heilbronn, DE
Statens Konstråd, Stockholm, SE
public commissions
2020 Reflektor (2019-2020), Rigshospitalets Nordfløj, Copenhagen, DK
2018 Ferdinand, Hjorthagsparken, Stockholm, SE
2017 The Gate, Main entrance, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, DK
2016 14-7-2006, Nesparken Moss, NO
2015 Full Length (2008), Havnegade, Copenhagen, DK
2006 Platform (2004-2006), East Jutland State Prison, Horsens, DK
2005 Memorial stone for King Håkon, on the occasion of the Nordic Royal house’s centenary, Charlottenlund Slot, Charlottenlund, DK
2004 Syntax & Section (2002-2004), Lund University, Centre for Language and Literature, Lund, SE
2004 Stones for Courtyards (2002-2004), Frederiksberg High School, Copenhagen, DK
2002 Bering Island (2000-2002), Kirketorvet, Horsens, DK
2001 Monument to Raoul Wallenberg (1998-2001), Raoul Wallenberg Torget, Stockholm, SE
1996 Precious Tower (1995-1996), Kirketorvet, Aars, DK
1996 Well (1995-1996), Anlægstorvet, Aars, DK
awards & grants
2017 Niels Wessel Bagges Art Foundation Art Grant
2009 Vilhelm Pacht’s Artist Award
2002 Thorvaldsen Medal
1998 Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen’s Award of Honour
1997 Painter Niels Larsen Stevns and Wife Annas Award
1997 Ruth and Finn Torjussens Foundation’s Award
1996 Sculptor Viggo Jaris Award
1995 Eckersberg Medaillen (The Eckersberg Medal)
1994 Tagea Brandt’s Award
1993 The Danish Art Foundation’s Working Scholarship
1993 Edstranska Stiftelsen Nordic Price
1993 Eina og C.T. Hollesen’s Artist Award
1987 The Danish Art Foundation’s three-years Scholarship
1983 Silkeborg Artist Award
1981 Bendix
1975 Handelsbankens Scholarship
bio
Born 1948, Copenhagen, Denmark
Lives and works in Denmark
Kirsten Ortwed’s painting, object art and sculpture originate in the early 70’s when she actively participated in the various post-minimalist and conceptualist movements. Her work creates a direct interaction with their surrounding space, often without the need for pedestals or frames. They disrupt and transform the space they occupy, shaping it through actions like perforating, folding, and compressing. This manipulation of space is inseparable from a manipulation of time. Her works are marked not only by the physical space they inhabit, but also by traces of time—whether through the process of creation or the idea that presence always carries a shadow or past. Ortwed’s sculptures are thus more than objects in space; they serve as signs, reflecting the temporal nature of the experience and the layers of meaning hidden beneath the visible form. Combination and relationship between form and material is essential to Ortwed’s artistic practice, just as she examines the relationship between form and space with special attention to process and transformation.