Born 1973, Hobro in Denmark
Lives and works in Oslo

EDUCATION

1994-98
The Academy of Fine Art, Bergen 1996-97
Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main Prof. Thomas Bayrle)

AWARDS

2004
Morgenbladet; Norway's top 10 authors under 35 2002
The Bjørnson Prize for Literature

FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS

2009
Solo show at Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland (June) Solo show at National Museum of Oslo, Norway (end 2009). Will travel to IKON Gallery, Birmingham, UK

2008
ART TLV at Helena Rubenstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel curated by Andrew Renton (September); 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 at STANDARD (OSLO), (November); Possibilities of an Island, curated by Ruba Katrib, Museum of Contemporary Art Miami, Florida (December).

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

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)

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, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen

2003
Getaway, Fotogalleriet, Oslo

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

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008
Revolutions – Forms That Turn, The Biennial of Sydney, Sydney That’s Not How I Remember It, Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles 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
Possibly Pushed Back Indefinitely – Paintings, Props and Problems (Still Unresolved), STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo Memorial to the Iraq War, (Curators: Mark Sladen), Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London Beneath the Underdog, Gagosian Gallery - New York, New York E-flux Video Rental, Centre culturel Suisse, Paris and Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA 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 Art, Life and Confusion – The 47th October Salon, (Curator: René Block), ICA / Belgrade Culture Centre Deep Into That Darkness Peering, Galerie Joanna Kamm, Berlin The Norwegian Sculpture Biennial, (curator: Cecilia Widenheim), The Vigeland Museum, Oslo The Metaphysics of Youth, (curator: Luigi Fasso and Irina Zucca), Fuoriuso, Pescara A Forest, (curators: Jocelyn Adele Gonzalez Junco and Gamaliel Herrera), Filter - the Project Room for International Art, Hamburg, and Space Other, Boston 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
Parallel Life,(curator: Sun Won Kim, Vanessa Müller, Nicolaus Schafhausen), Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main Blast, (curator: Paul Brewer), G Fine Arts, Washington DC 15 Minutes Show, Stedelijk Museum Burau Amstedam, 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 am Main / Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim

2003
Art to the People, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen; Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo; Tromsø Fine Arts Society, Tromsø; Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall, Arenda 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
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/M

1996
Henie Onstad Artcenter, ELECTRA – video room, Oslo

NOVELS / PROSE

2006
Kagge Forlag; Kaldt Produkt

2005
J.W. Cappelen Publishing House; Snort Stories

2002
J.W. Cappelen Publishing House; Macht undRebel-translated into Danish (Lindhardt&Ringhof) and Finnish (Johnny Kniga)

2001
J.W. Cappelen Publishing House; The Cocka Hola Company -translated into German (Blumenbar Verlag/and Heine [paperback]) and Russian (Baltrus)

PUBLISHED WRITINGS/PUBLISHED PROJECTS (international)

2005
Lettre Internationale, “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 Internationale, “America” Fabrik #01.04 Adbusters magazine Norway #01 Dagbladet Information, January 3rd (i2)

2003
Den Blå Port, Copenhagen PACEMAKER 2, Paris Corporate Mentality, Alexandra Mir (ed.), Lukas & Sternberg Inc, New York, US Journal for NorthEast Issues, #2 2003 Kunstverein München, Drucksache Fall 03 München BLM – Bonniers Litterära Magasin O.K. Centre for Contemporary Art, Linz

2002
NIFCA-info; Vapour Ware MANIFESTA 4; catalogue MARS; fanzine, Stockholm

2001
NIFCA info 3/01; Reluctant Revolutionary; interview with J.O. Mallander

2000
MOMENTUM prospectus PARK; Mediation of a specialized art to a fragmented public