Born 1973 in Hobro, Denmark
Lives and works in Oslo, Norway

EDUCATION

1994-98 Academy of Fine Art, Bergen, Norway
1996-97 Academy of Fine Art, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany


 

FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS

2012 Documenta 13, Kassel, Germany


 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011 Matias Faldbakken, curated by Rob Teeters and Alden Pinnell, The Power Station, Dallas, US
2010 Matias Faldbakken, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin, Germany
You Think You Go But You Gon’t, Objectif, Antwerp, Belgium
The Hills, Standard, Oslo, Norway
Known to Few, Unknown to Fewer, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK
That Death of Which One Does Not Die, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
War After Peace (After War), Neue Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany
2009 Shocked Into Abstraction, IKON Gallery, Birmingham, UK (exh. cat). This exhibition travelled to the National Museum of Oslo, Norway.
Extreme Siesta, Kunst Halle Samkt Gallen, St Gallen, Switzerland
Annen Etage, KHiO, Oslo, Norway
Matias Faldbakken, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York, US
2008 The Way of the Bummer, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK
Empty Glass, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin, Germany
2007 Nothing Doing, Standard, Oslo, Norway
I Don't Think So, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, US
A Hideous Disease, Statements / Art Basel 38, Basel, Standard, Oslo, Norway
2006 I Missed the Part Where That's My Problem, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
II, Schnittraum, Cologne, Germany
2005 All That Fall, Standard, Oslo, Norway
Sharing Space. Dividing Time, The Nordic Pavillion at La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
New Works, Gallery Huuto, Helsinki, Finland
2004 Rank Xerox, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
2003 Getaway, Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway
2001 Osculum Infame, NIFCA - Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland


 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012 Remote Control, ICA, London, UK
The Devil’s Fidelity, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
2011 Rebus, curated by Mario Codognato, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK
Anonyme Skupturen, Video und Form in der zeitgenössichen Kunst, Galerie im Taxipalais, Innsbruck, Austria
Situation as Object (Framed), Galerie D.O.R, Brussels, Belgium
To The Arts, Citizens!, curated by Joao Fernandez and Oscar Faria, Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Abstract Possible, curated by Maria Lind, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico. This exhibition is travelling to Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Another World, Le Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France
Magical Consciousness, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
Secret Societies, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany. This exhibition travelled to CAPC – Musée d’art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
Nothing Beside Remains, LAND, Marfa, US
Politics is Personal, Stonescape, Napa Valley, US
Home of Metal, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK
2010 Group Show (Almost A4 Person Group Show), curated by Brian Kennon, 2nd Cannon Project Space, Los Angeles, US
Groupshow, Praz-Dellavalade, Paris, France
The Mass Ornament, Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
The Second Today's Documents, Beijing Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
The Moon is an Arrant Thief, curated by Oliver Martinez Kandt, The David Roberts Arts Foundation, London, UK
Destruction, Negation, Subtraction, Dissolution, curated by Rob Teeters, Kentor Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Fresh Hell, curated by Adam McEwen, Palais De Tokyo, Paris, France
Suppose it is true after all? WHAT THEN, curated by Asgeir Skotnes, Johan Berggren Gallery, Malmö, Sweden
An Alpha Disguised as a Beta, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin, Germany
The Secret Knows, curated by Shamim M. Momin/LAND, The Virgin Mobile Free House, Austin, US
Forms of Organization I, curated by Dessislava Dimova, Red House, Sofia, Bulgaria
Group show, curated by Gloria Picazo and Javier Peñafiel, Centre d’Art La Panera, Lleida, Spain
2009 The Malady of Writing: A project on text and speculative imagination, curated by Chus Martinez, MACBA -Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Black Hole, curated by Friedrike Nymphius, Kunsthalle Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
Minima Moralia, Marvelli Gallery, New York, US
Our Mirage, curated by Caroline Soyez-Petithomme, Art:Concept, Paris, France
A Completely Normal Exhibition, Overgaden - Institut for Samtidskunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
Lessons In The Art Of Falling: Norwegian Performance And Process Art 1966-2009, Preus Museum, Horten, Norway
Paintings by, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK
The Secret Life of Objects, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, US
FLOORS / WALLS, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin, Germany
2008 The Station, curated by Nate Lowman and Shamim M. Momin, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, US
Imaginary Thing, curated by Peter Eeley, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, US
The Reality Effect, curated by Tone Hansen, Henie Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden, Norway
Shifting Schisms, curated by Kristian Skylstad, Rekord, Oslo, Norway
Occupancy by more than 6 682 685 387 persons is dangerous and unlawful, curated by Pierre Bismuth, Cosmic Galerie, Paris, France
Possibilities of an Island, curated by Ruba Katrib, Museum of Contemporary Art Miami at Goldman Warehouse, Miami, US
ART TLV, at Helena Rubenstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
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, curated by Mikkel E. Astrup and Eivind Furnesvik, Standard, Oslo, Norway
Revolutions: Forms That Turn, Biennial of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
That’s Not How I Remember It, Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Records Played Backwards, curated by Daniel Baumann, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK
35% VRAI 60% FAUX, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK
Zuordningsprobleme, Johann König, Berlin, Germany
Norsk Hydro's Collection, The Henie Onstad Art Centre, Oslo, Norway
Lights On, The Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
The Soft Shields of Pleasure, Den Frie Udstilling, Copenhagen, Denmark
2007 Possibly Pushed Back Indefinitely – Paintings, Props and Problems (Still Unresolved), Standard, Oslo, Norway
Memorial to the Iraq War, curated by Mark Sladen, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
Beneath the Underdog, Gagosian Gallery, New York, US
Dislocations (Don't Try Popping Them Back Into Place), curated by Chus Martinez, Standard, Oslo, Norway
Dislocations (Don't Try Popping Them Back Into Place), curated by Chus Martinez, Arco, Madrid, Spain
Fade Away and Radiate, curated by Andrew Leslie, Cohan and Leslie, New York, US
Painting, props and Problems (Still Unresolved), Standard, Oslo, Norway
Depiction Perversion Repultion Obsession Subversion, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2006 Defamation of Character, curated by Neville Wakefield, PS1 MoMA, New York, US
Art, Life and Confusion, curated by René Block, ICA /Belgrade Culture Centre, Belgrade, Serbia
Deep Into That Darkness Peering, Galerie Joanna Kamm, Berlin, Germany
The Norwegian Sculpture Biennial, curated by Cecilia Widenheim, The Vigeland Museum, Oslo, Norway
The Metaphysics of Youth, curated by Luigi Fasso and Irina Zucca, Fuoriuso, Pescara, Italy (exh. cat)
A Forest, curated by Jocelyn Adele Gonzalez Junco and Gamaliel Herrera, Filter - The Project
Room for International Art, Hamburg. This exhibition travelled to Space Other, Boston, US
White Stains, Standard, Oslo, Norway
White Stains, Extra City, Antwerp, Belgium
Stages of Life: Rhetorics of Emotions, curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen, Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
Mafia (Or One Unopened Packet of Cigarettes), Standard, Oslo, Norway
Entgrenzung (De-Limitation), Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunste, Berlin, Germany
Cluster, curated by Katie Holten, The Participant, New York, US
Draft Deceit, curated by Marta Kuzma, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
Down by Law, curated by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
Down by Law, curated by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick, The Wrong Gallery, New York, US
47th October Salon, Oktobarski Salon/October Salon, Belgrade, Serbia
KAPITEL VII : Buhne des Leben – Rhetorik des Gefuhls”, Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus & Kunstbau, Munich, Germany
2005 Parallel Life, curated by Sun Won Kim, Vanessa Müller and Nicolaus Schafhausen, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (exh. cat)
Blast, curated by Paul Brewer, G Fine Arts, Washington D.C., US
15 Minutes Show, Stedelijk Museum Burau Amstedam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Start Kapital, Standard, Oslo, Norway
Populism, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. This exhibition travelled to Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; The National Museum, Oslo, Norway; CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania
E-Flux Video Rental, Portikus, Frankfurt/Main, Germany. This exhibition travelled to Arthouse, Austin, US (2006); Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris (2007); Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, US (2007); and Centro de Arte Moderna Jose de Azeredo Perdigao – Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal (2008)
Always a Little Further, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (exh. cat)
Social Democracy Revisited, Apexart, New York, US
2004 Now And Ten Years Ago, Kunst-Werke, Berlin, Germany
Standard Escape Routes, ISCP, New York, US
Criss Cross – Video/Film/Documentary Programme, NIFCA, Glasgow, UK
LISTE 04, Basel, Switzerland
On Reason and Emotion, Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
MOMENTUM, Nordic Festival of Contemporary Art, Moss
Emotion Eins, Frankfurter Kunstverein/Ursula Bickle Stiftung, Frankfurt am Main / Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim
New in Norwegian Photography, Preus Museum, Horten, Norway
2003 Art to the People, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway. This exhibition travelled to Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway; Tromsø Fine Arts, Arendal, Norway
Society, Tromsø Fine Arts, Arendal, Norway
Deathtime 27, Canal, New York, US
Total Motiviert, Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany
BEKMÖRK, CCAB, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Belgrade, Serbia
2002 A Jerky Flight Around a Desolate Bunker, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway (exh. cat)
Where Am I? 2, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
Touching from a distance, Germinations 13, Cork, Ireland
2001 Fanzine 1, Gallery Konstakuten, Stockholm, Sweden
The UKS-Biennial, Oslo, Norway
2000 Spring Exhibition, Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway
Group Exhibition, The City Theatre, Stockholm, Sweden
1998 All or Nothing (video screening), MAC - Museum of Contemporary Art, Marseille, France
Group Exhibition, The Society of Young Artists (UKS), Oslo, Norway
Group Exhibition, MK Ciurlionis National Museum of Art, Kaunas, Lithuania
1997 Kommunikationszentrale, Videoabend, Bockenheim, Frankfurt, Germany
1996 ELECTRA, Henie Onstad Art Center, Oslo, Norway


 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

FRANCE FRAC, Nord Pas de Calais, Dunkerque
GERMANY DekaBank, Frankfurt am Main
GREECE The Dmitris Daskalopoulos Collection, Athens
NORWAY The National Museum of Art, Design and Architecture, Oslo
Hydro Art Collection, Oslo
Telenor Art Collection, Oslo
SWEDEN Moderna Museet, Stockholm
USA The Speyer Family Collection, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles