TAUBA AUERBACH
JOHANNA BILLING
Simon Denny
Gardar Eide Einarsson
Marius Engh
Matias Faldbakken
Ane Graff
Kim Hiorthøy
Alex Hubbard
DAVID LIESKE
MICHAELA MEISE
Torbjørn Rødland
JOSH SMITH
OSCAR TUAZON
EMILY WARDILL

Matias Faldbakken

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Born 1973, Hobro in Denmark
Lives and works in Oslo




EDUCATION
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1994-98
The Academy of Fine Art, Bergen

1996-97
Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main (prof. Thomas Bayrle)


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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2008
Simon Lee Gallery, London (upcoming, April)
"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
Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam (upcoming, December)
"II", Schnittraum, Cologne (upcoming, November)

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", Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen

2003
"Getaway", Fotogalleriet, Oslo

2001
"Osculum Infame", NIFCA Gallery, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Helsinki, FI



SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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2008
"Revolutions – Forms That Turn", The Biennial of Sydney, Sydney (Upcoming, June)
"Records Played Backwards", (Curator: Daniel Baumann) The Modern Institute, Glasgow (Upcoming, April)
"35% VRAI 60% FAUX", Simon Lee Gallery, London
"Zuordningsprobleme", Johann König, Berlin
Norsk Hydro's Collection, The Henie Onstad Art Centre, Oslo (Upcoming, April)
"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
Gallery Konstakuten, Fanzine 1, Stockholm
The UKS Biennial, Oslo

2000
Fotogalleriet, Spring exhibition, Oslo
The City Theatre, Stockholm

1998
MAC - Museum of Contemporary Art, All or Nothing (videoscreening), Marseilles
The Society of Young Artists (UKS), Oslo
MK Ciurlionis National Museum of Art, Kaunas

1997
Kommunikationszentrale, Videoabend, Bockenheim, Frankfurt am Main

1996
Henie Onstad Artcenter, ELECTRA – video room, Oslo


NOVELS
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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)


PUBLISHED WRITINGS/PUBLISHED PROJECTS (international)
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2004
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
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


ACTIVITY
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2002-
Editor of UKS-forum for Samtidskunst

2000-01
Oslo Kunsthall; editor of Publication 00, 01 and 2002

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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