insect media
ann lislegaard
20 january–11 march 2023
Insect Media
Ann Lislegaard
A spider appears at the surface of a mirror module. Effortlessly, it flickers and spins on the reflective skin of the glass forming an interface between her world and ours. The arachnid’s body is glowing green, signaling radioactivity, or a sudden acquisition of night vision on behalf of the viewer—our pupils turned into cameras allowing us to perceive spectral ranges below the capabilities of our naked eyes. In a delicate choreography arranged by Ann Lislegaard, numerous spiders move and weave, extend a leg here and pull a string there. Their work is quiet, we hear no sound. Spiders perceive largely through vibrations transmitted from their webs to their legs, giving away an ambushed insect, or from sound waves of an approaching or receding animal, like us. Yet in this space of science fiction crafted by Lislegaard, anything is possible.
I personally love spiders, not least for how mythology equates them with female transgressions of the established order. But even for the arachnophobes among us, Lislegaard’s dazzling installation Spinning and Weaving Ada (2016) must be a wondrous space. I find it gentle, dreamy indeed. In this web woven of three and more dimensions, both digitally animated and reflected as infinitely duplicated fragments of moving images, her spiders’ glow as vivid specters. Their silent dance is formed through a software-aided analysis of the ways spiders build their webs: from a first exploration of the space of interest, to the assembly of a prototype, then a frame, now the filaments that connect the center with the edge, and finally the sticky spirals connecting and stabilizing the construction. Borrowing from the spiders’ tactics, Lislegaard uses a meticulous composition of 3D animations following the same rules to build her web—however this one is woven in code. Dissatisfied with the axes of X, Y and Z, limiting this world of our perception, hers is an attempt to move beyond that which is towards that which could be, or that which is already here but not yet recognizable to us. And what better place is there to look for models than the elaborate weavings of insects and the promise of coding to construct what the rules of physics do not permit in digital space. Lislegaard’s future builds are not only concerned with physical worlds. Her spiders delicately weave three letters—A D A. A name. It was mathematician Ada Lovelace who in 1843 recognized the significance and beauty of the Jacquard loom to weave complex patterns through simple commands of hole or no-hole, zero or one. Her invention of code changed our world forever—technologically— and opened a fissure for women to exist in a previously withheld domain. Lislegaard’s insect media collide worlds—human and nonhuman, technological and organic—to explore spaces that do not exist just yet, not right here, and carefully craft them in the process. Spinning and Weaving Ada is a speculative grasp into dimensions yet to come, emerging from the reflective gaps of images splintered by mirrors, from human-camera eyes seeing the green glow of night vision, from the trembling of code as it touches a spider’s sticky web.
By Stefanie Hessler
education
1988–1993 The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, DK
upcoming
2026 Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, NO (solo)
2026 Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, NO (group)
2025 Almost Unreal – Munch Triennale, Munchmuseet, Oslo, NO
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 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 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, Germany 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, Switzerland; Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary; 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
SMK – National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, DK
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, USA
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 Livsvarig Statsydelse / Lifelong Stipendium, Kulturministeriet / Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Copenhagen, DK
2007 Statens Kunstfond/Danish Arts Foundation premiered the exhibition Crystal World at x-rummet, Statens Museum for Kunst/National Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
2006 Statens Kunstfond/Danish Arts Foundation premiered the work in the exhibition Det reale og det fantastiske, Den Frie, Copenhagen, DK
1998 Stipendium, Edstrandska Stiftelsen, Malmö, SE
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
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
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.