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MATIAS FALDBAKKEN
CURRICULUM VITAE
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Born 1973, Hobro in Denmark
Lives and works in Oslo
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EDUCATION
1994-98
The Academy of Fine Art, Bergen
1996-97
Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main (prof. Thomas Bayrle)
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
“The HHills”, STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo
“You Think You Go But You Gon’t”, Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp
“An Alpha Disguised as a Beta”, Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin
“Known to Few, Unknown to Fewer”, Simon Lee Gallery, London
“That Death of Which One Does Not Die”, Kunsthalle Friedricianum, Kassel (upcoming, August)
“War After Peace (After War)”, Neue Achener Kunstverein, Achen (upcoming, September)
Schinkel Pavillion, Berlin (upcoming, October)
2009
“Shocked Into Abstraction”, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
“Extreme Siesta”, Kunst Halle St Gallen, St Gallen
“Shocked Into Abstraction”, The National Museum of Art, Design and Architecture, Oslo
Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York
2008
“The Way of the Bummer”, Simon Lee Gallery, London
"Empty Glass", Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin
2007
"Nothing Doing", STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo
"I Don't Think So", Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis
"A Hideous Disease", Statements / Art Basel 38, Basel, under the auspices of STANDARD
(OSLO), Oslo
2006
“I Missed the Part Where That's My Problem”, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam
"II", Schnittraum, Cologne
2005
"All That Fall", STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo
"Sharing Space, Dividing Time (The Nordic Pavillion)” (Curator: Åsa Nacking), La Biennale de Venezia, Venice
“New Works”, Gallery Huuto, Helsinki
2004
"Rank Xerox" (with Gardar Eide Einarsson), Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen
2003
"Getaway", Fotogalleriet, Oslo
2001
"Osculum Infame" (with Gardar Eide Einarsson), NIFCA Gallery, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Helsinki, FI
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
“I like the work, but my wife is still concern. Please keep me inform about new works.”,
STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo
“Group Show (Almost A4 Person Group Show)”, (Curator: Brian Kennon), 2nd Cannon Project Space, LA
“The Mass Ornament”, (Curator: John Rasmussen), Gladstone Gallery, New York
“Today Art Museum Beijing”, (Curator: Jonathan Watkins).
“The Moon is an Arrant Thief”, (Curator: Oliver Martinez Kandt), The David Roberts Arts
Foundation, London
“Destruction, Negation, Subtraction, Dissolution” (Curator: Rob Teeters), Kantor Gallery, LA
Palais De Tokyo, (Curator: Adam McEwen), Paris
Groupshow, Praz-Dellavalade, Paris
“The Secret Knows”, (Curator: Shamim M. Momin/LAND), The Virgin Mobile Free House, Austin Texas
“Barbaric Freedom”, (Curator: Anne Pontegnie), Simon Lee Gallery, London
“Forms of Organization I”, (Curator: Dessislava Dimova), Red House, Sofia
“To The Arts, Citizens!” (Curators: Joao Fernandes and Óscar Faria), SERRALVES, Porto
“Suppose it is true after all? WHAT THEN?” (Curator: Asgeir Skotnes), Johan Berggren Gallery,
Malmö
2009
“Rotations #2”, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
“The Malady of Writing. A project on text and speculative imagination”, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA)
“Black Hole”, (Curator: Friedrike Nymphius), Kunsthalle Andratx, Mallorca
“Minima Moralia”, Marvelli Gallery, New York
“Our Mirage”, Art:Concept, (Curator: Caroline Soyez-Petithomme), Paris
“Floors / Walls”, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin
2008
“Possibilities of an Island”, (Curator: Ruba Katrib) Museum of Contemporary Art Miami, Florida
“We have never met before, but it's with great anticipation of your understanding that I'm
writing you and I hope you will in good faith give a deep consideration to my proposal below”,
(Curators: Mikkel E. Astrup and Eivind Furnesvik) STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo
“After October”, (Curator: Tim Saltarelli), Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York
“The Soft Shields Of Pleasure”, (Curator: Søren Andreasen) Den Frie Udstilling, Copenhagen
“Art TLV”, (Curator: Andrew Renton), Tel Aviv Museum Of Art / Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for
Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
“ABC – Art Berlin Contemporary”, under the auspices of Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin
"Revolutions – Forms That Turn", The Biennial of Sydney, Sydney
"Records Played Backwards", (Curator: Daniel Baumann) The Modern Institute, Glasgow
"35% VRAI 60% FAUX", Simon Lee Gallery, London
"Zuordningsprobleme", Johann König, Berlin
“Norsk Hydro's Collection”, The Henie Onstad Art Centre, Oslo
"Lights On", The Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
2007
"Paintings, Props and Problems (Still Unresolved)", STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo
"Memorial to the Iraq War", (Curators: Mark Sladen), Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA),
London
"Dislocations (Don't Try Popping Them Back Into Place)", (Curator: Chus Martinez), STANDARD
(OSLO) / Arco, Madrid
"Fade Away and Radiate", (Curator: Andrew Leslie), Cohan and Leslie, New York
2006
"Defamation of Character", (Curator Neville Wakefield), PS1 MoMA, New York (upcoming October)
"Art, Life and Confusion – The 47th October Salon" (Curator: René Block), ICA / Belgrade Culture Centre (Upcoming, October)
"Deep Into That Darkness Peering", Galerie Joanna Kamm, Berlin (Upcoming, October)
"The Norwegian Sculpture Biennial", (curator: Cecilia Widenheim), The Vigeland Museum, Oslo
"The Metaphysics of Youth", (Curator: Luigi Fasso and Irina Zucca), Fuoriuso, Pescara
"White Stains", STANDARD (OSLO) / Extra City, Antwerpen
"Theater of Life - Rhetorics of Emotions", (Curator: Nicolaus Schafhausen), Stadtische Galerie
im Lenbachhaus, Munich
"Mafia (Or One Unopened Packet of Cigarettes)", STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo
"Entgrenzung (De-Limitation)", Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunste, Berlin
"Cluster", (Curator: Katie Holten), The Participant, New York
"Draft Deceit" (Curator: Marta Kuzma), Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo,
"Down by Law", (Curators: Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick), Whitney Museum of American Art / Whitney Biennial 2006 / The Wrong Gallery, New York,
2005
“Parallell Life”, (Curators: Sun Won Kim, Vanessa Müller, Nicolaus Schafhausen), Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main
“Performance Festival”, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
“Start Kapital”, Standard (Oslo), Oslo
“Populism”, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
“Populism”, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main
“Populism”, The National Museum, Oslo
“Populism”, CAC, Vilnius
2004
“Now And Ten Years Ago”, Kunst-Werke, Berlin
“Standard Escape Routes”, ISCP, New York
“Criss Cross – Video/Film/Documentary Programme”, “NIFCA” (Touring Exhibition)
“LISTE 04”, Basel
“On Reason and Emotion”, Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
“MOMENTUM – Nordic Festival of Contemporary Art”, Moss
“Emotion Eins”, Frankfurter Kunstverein/Ursula Bickle Stiftung, Frankfurt/Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim
2003
“Art to the People”, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen; “Kunstnernes Hus”, Oslo; Tromsø Fine Arts Society,
Tromsø; Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall, Arendal
“Deathtime”, 27. Canal, New York
“Total Motiviert”, Kunstverein München, München
“BEKMÖRK”, CCAB; Centre for Contemporary Arts – Belgrade, Belgrade
2002
“Where Am I? 2”, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bjørvika, Oslo
“Touching from a distance”, Germinations 13, Cork
2001
“Fanzine 1”, Gallery Konstakuten, Stockholm
The UKS Biennial, Oslo
2000
“Spring exhibition”, Fotogalleriet, Oslo
The City Theatre, Stockholm
1998
“All or Nothing (videoscreening)”, MAC - Museum of Contemporary Art, Marseilles
The Society of Young Artists (UKS), Oslo
MK Ciurlionis National Museum of Art, Kaunas
1997
“Kommunikationszentrale”, Videoabend, Bockenheim, Frankfurt am Main
1996
“ELECTRA – video room”, Henie Onstad Artcenter, Oslo
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NOVELS
2008
“Unfun”
J.W. Cappelen Publishing House
2006
“Kaldt Produkt”
Kagge Forlag
2005
“Snort Stories”
J.W. Cappelen Publishing House
2002
"Macht und Rebel"
J.W. Cappelen Publishing House / translated into Danish (Lindhardt&Ringhof) and Finnish (Johnny Kniga)
2001
“The Cocka Hola Company”
J.W. Cappelen Publishing House / translated into German (Blumenbar Verlag/and Heine [paperback]) and Russian (Baltrus)
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PUBLISHED WRITINGS / PUBLISHED PROJECTS (international)
2007
North Drive Press #4, "History (Beginning of August 2007)", Los Angeles
Adelantando, Olga and Momin, Shamim (editor): The Impossibility of Translation, Artist's book /
independent publication
2005
Lettre International, “Scandinavian Issue”, Copenhagen
Frankfurter Allgemeine, Special Book Issue during Frankfurter Book Fair, October, Frankfurt
am Main
Catalogue for Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset: “Welfare Show”, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen
Schafhausen, Nicolaus a.o.:“Populism”, catalogue, Lucas and Sternberg, Berlin / New York
2004
Lettre International, “America”
Fabrik #01.04
Adbusters magazine Norway #01
Dagbladet Information, January 3rd (i2), DK
2003
Den Blå Port, Copenhagen, DK
PACEMAKER 2, Paris, FRA
Corporate Mentality, Alexandra Mir (ed.), Lukas & Sternberg Inc, New York, US
Journal for NorthEast Issues, #2 2003, GER
Kunstverein München, Drucksache Fall 03, München, GER
BLM – Bonniers Litterära Magasin, SWE
O.K. Centre for Contemporary Art, Linz, AU
2002
NIFCA-info; Vapour Ware, FIN
MANIFESTA 4; catalogue, GER
MARS; fanzine, Stockholm, SE
2001
NIFCA info 3/01; Reluctant Revolutionary; interview with J.O. Mallander, FIN
2000
MOMENTUM prospectus PARK; Mediation of a specialized art to a fragmented public, NOR
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OTHER
2007
Theatre adaptation / performance of “Kaldt Produkt”
Teatret på Torshov / Nationaltheatret
2006
Theatre adaptation / performance of “The Cocka Hola Company”
Münchner Kammerspiele / Stuttgarter Staatstheater
2002-2005
Editor of UKS-forum for Samtidskunst
2000-2002
Oslo Kunsthall; editor of Publication 00, 01, 02
2000
Oslo Kunsthall; co-curator
UKS-Forum for Samtidskunst; guest editor of issue 1/2/00
1998-
Bergen Museum for Samtidskunst; founder and owner
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PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
The National Museum of Art, Design and Architecture, Oslo
DekaBank, Frankfurt am Main
Hydro Art Collection, Oslo
Telenor Art Collection, Oslo
The Speyer Family Collection, New York
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