| 1979 |
Born in Stockholm, Sweden |
| 2000-04 |
KTH School of Architecture, Royal School of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 2003 |
Universität der Kunst, Berlin, Germany |
| 2004-07 |
University College of Arts Crafts and Design, Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden |
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Lives and works in Berlin, Germany and New York, USA |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2024 |
Square Moon, Sadie Coles HQ, Kingly Street, London, England |
| 2023 |
(0,0,0), Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany |
| 2022 |
BABARUE, OCTO Productions, Marseille, France, organised by Stefan Kalmar |
| 2020 |
Turn Me On, Sadie Coles HQ, Davies Street, London, England |
| 2019 |
Berlin Fall, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany Now Two Three, Weiss Falk, Basel, Switzerland Auf jeden Fall, Secession, Vienna, Austria |
| 2018 |
Grounding, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York NY, USA Warm-up, Piece Unique, Cologne, Germany |
| 2017 |
with Karl Holmqvist, LAVORO, INDEPENDENZA, Rome, Italy The Great Indoors, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, Los Angeles CA, USA |
| 2016 | with Karl Holmqvist, Werk, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
Tinker’s Damn, LambdaLambdaLambda, Prishtina, Kosovo, curated by Tobias Spichtig |
| 2015 | with Karl Holmqvist, ICHBRAUCHEMASSPACE, House of Gaga, Mexico City, Mexico
Umpumpen, Akkunstprojekte, Arbeiterkammer, Vienna, Austria Battement battu, WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany Le Consortium, Dijon, France |
| 2014 |
It’s Complicated, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York NY, USA POST, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark The Myth of Progress (Moonwalk), Lugar a dudas, Cali, Colombia |
| 2013 |
Invalidenstrasse, FONDAZIONE MUSEION. Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea Bolzano, Italy The Myth of Progress, IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland |
| 2012 |
Bodies of Society, New Museum, New York NY, USA Pretty Vacant, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York NY, USA |
| 2011 |
Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 2010 |
Rümpfflächen und Plündererbanden, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany Serpentine Gallery, London, England Artpace San Antonio, San Antonio TX, USA Toujours être ailleurs (Always Be Elsewhere), Jeu De Paume, Paris, France Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York NY, USA |
| 2009 |
Never Come Back, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany Projects 89, MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA The Teenage Room, Nordic Pavilion, 53rd International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy |
| 2008 | Elda för kråkorna, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York NY, USA |
| 2007 | The Hayward Gallery, London, England
Unheimlich Maneuver, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 2006 | Economy Class, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York NY, USA |
| 2004 | Dr. 3000, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York NY, USA |
Group Exhibitions
| 2025 |
GRAFFITI, MUSEION Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Piazza of Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy |
| 2024 |
Form Matters, Matter Forms, From Readymade to Product Fetish, Kunst Museum, Winterhur, Switzerland |
| 2023 |
Wild Grass: Our Lives, 8th Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan |
| 2022 |
Found Cities, Lost Objects: Women in the City, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham, England with Hanna Liden, Say Less, Herald St, London, England |
| 2021 |
Palai, Sadie Coles HQ off-site: Palazzo Tamborino Cezzi, Lecce, Italy "Carte blanche" to Anne Imhof, Natures Mortes, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France |
| 2020 |
Small World Real World, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands WALKING. Movements North of Bolzano” – The Collection of Erling Kagge, FONDAZIONE MUSEION. Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea, Bolzano, Italy STUDIO BERLIN, Boros Foundation x Berghain, Berlin, Germany (Un)endliche Ressourcen?, Städtische Galerie, Karlsruhe, Germany MY C ART OGRAPHY. THE ERLING KAGGE COLLECTION, Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid, Spain RISENTIMENTO / RESSENTIMENT, Kunst Meran, Merano, Italy |
| 2019 |
In the Spotlight of the Night – Cities never Sleep, KAI 10 | Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany Surface and Custom, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Maskulinitäten, Bonner Kunstverein, Kölnischer Kunstverein and Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfale, Düsseldorf, Germany Michael Jackson: On the Wall, EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland (touring) Letzte Lockerung, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland Straying from the Line, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany Michael Jackson: On the Wall, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany (touring) |
| 2018 |
Lampen, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zürich, Switzerland FCA Benefit Exhibition, Gladstone Gallery, New York NY, USA Michael Jackson: On the Wall, Grand Palais, Paris, France (touring) Strange Days: Memories of the Future, Store X, London, England “Deutschland ist keine Insel.” Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland., Ankäufe von 2012 bis 2016, Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland GmbH, Bonn, Germany Portfolio Berlin 03, Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock, Germany Germany is not an Island, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany Stories of Almost Everyone, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA, USA Optik Schroder II, MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria Sitting Bone, MAVRA, Berlin, Germany MOVE, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France The Present is Ancient, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA, USA BT13 Tallinn Baltic Biennial, Tallinn, Estonia Swiss Institute Annual Architecture and Design Series: 3rd Edition, READYMADES BELONG TO EVERYONE, SI Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, New York NY, USA Michael Jackson: On the Wall, NPGNational Portrait Gallery, London, England (touring) |
| 2017 |
In Search of Characters…, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany a good neighbour, 15th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey EUROVISIONS: Contemporary Art from the Goldberg Collection, National Art School Gallery, Sydney, Australia Wasser, MAK Projects, Los Angeles CA, USA, curated by Mandla Reuter Inside Intensity – The Anniversary Show, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany Readymade, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Vnà, Switzerland, curated by Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen Room, Sadie Coles HQ, Kingly Street, London, England |
| 2016 |
grabt tiefer, ihr Schönen, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany LA Collection Thea Westreich Wagner et Ethan Wagner, Centre Pompidou, Pairs, France For Pete’s Sake, Carl Kostyal, Stockholm, Sweden Behold the Man, Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, Netherlands Detail ist alles, Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz, Germany STOSUNKI PRACY, LABOR RELATIONS, MWW Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, Poland SWEDISH ART: NOW!, Sven-Harry’s Art Museum, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 2015 |
Powerful Babies: Keith Haring’s Impact on Artists Today, Spritmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden Playing Pool with Eggs, Galerie Bernhard, Zürich, Switzerland Complex Bodies, Alte Fabrik, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland Borrowed Alibis, Freymond-Guth Ltd. Fine Arts, Zürich, Switzerland Sammeln Für Morgen: neue Werke im Museion, FONDAZIONE MUSEION. Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea, Bolzano, Italy Adventures of the Black Square – Abstract Art and Society 1915-2015, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England Aggroculture, Taaffe Place, Brooklyn NY, USA Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, USA |
| 2014 |
Contemporary Collection, MoMA The Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA International Women’s Film Festival 2014, Dortmund/Cologne, Germany Bodø Kunstforening, Bodø, Norway Lugar a Dudas, São Paulo, Brasil KölnSkulptur #7, Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne, Germany High Performance. The Julia Stoschek Collection, ZKM Center for Arts and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany Galerie NEU á la Douane, Galerie Chantal Crousel La Douane, Paris, France Galerie NEU at Gladstone Gallery, Gladstone Gallery, New York NY, USA Forty and Forty…, Galerie NEU, Berlin, Germany Marie Høeg meets Klara Lidén, ONE Archives, Los Angeles CA, USA Manifesta 10, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia The Kitchen, Whitney Independent Study Program, New York NY, USA UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany AND LIFE GOES ON..., Between Bridges, Berlin, Germany Utopian days – Freedom, TMCA Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea Beauty Lies Inside Desire, MSUV Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia |
| 2013 |
8 Ways To Overcome Time and Space, Kunstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen, Germany (touring) 8 Ways To Overcome Time and Space, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia (touring) Entropy of a City, Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Standard, Oslo, Budapest, Hungary Der Feine Unterschied, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Langenhagen, Germany For the Time Being. Wall Paintings - Painted Walls, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany Silent, Avlskarl Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark KölnSkulptur #6, Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne, Gemany Expanding the Field of Painting, ICA Institute of Contemporary Art Collection, Boston MA, USA Les Nouvelles Babylones, Parc Saint Léger, Pougues-Les-Eaux, France Rhythm in it, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland AWAITING IMMANENCE, Carl Kostyal, Stockholm, Sweden In the Heard of the Country, The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland Virtuosity, Berliner Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany Lies about painting, Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden Possessions, Uks Galleri, Oslo, Norway re.act.feminism #2 – a performing archive, Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Germany, curated by Bettina Knaup & Beatrice E. Stammer, (touring) Standard Escape Routes, Oslo, Norway Freiheit! (Freedom!), Kunstpalais, Erlangen, Germany Marie Høeg meets Klara Lidén, SKMU Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway |
| 2012 |
Public Spaces Changes 2012, MoMA The Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA re.act.feminism #2 – a performing archive, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain, curated by Bettina Knaup & Beatrice E. Stammer, (touring) The New Public, FONDAZIONE MUSEION. Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea, Bolzano, Italy Hools, Zachęta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warsaw, Poland re.act.feminism #2 – a performing archive, Tallinna Kunstihoone, Tallinn, Estonia, curated by Bettina Knaup & Beatrice E. Stammer, (touring) re.act.feminism #2 – a performing archive, Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark, curated by Bettina Knaup & Beatrice E. Stammer, (touring) To the Moon via the Beach, Amphitheatre Arles, Arles, France Relocated, MD 72 GmbH, Berlin, Germany Heart to Hand, Swiss Institute, New York NY, USA, curated by Pati Hertling re.act.feminism #2 – a performing archive, Galerija Miroslav Kraljević, Zagreb, Croatia, curated by Bettina Knaup & Beatrice E. Stammer, (touring) re.act.feminism #2 – a performing archive, ISW Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk, Poland, curated by Bettina Knaup & Beatrice E. Stammer (touring) (closed) A Doll’s House, Liberia Isola Libri, Milan, Italy, curated by Fani Zguro |
| 2011 |
re.act.feminism #2 – a performing archive, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Victoria-Gastiez, Spain, curated by Bettina Knaup & Beatrice E. Stammer (touring) Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst 2011, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany 54th International Art Exhibition ILLUMInations, Venice Biennale 2011, Venice, Italy |
| 2010 |
BEFORE AND AFTER, Galerie Balice Hertling, Paris, France Light Camera Action, ABC Art Berlin Contemporary, Berlin, Germany (closed) Displaced Fractures. On the Break Lines of Architecture and its Bodies, Migros Museum, Zürich, Switzerland Home and Origin, Bukowskis, Stockholm, Sweden Barbaric Freedom, Simon Lee Gallery, London, England Fischgrätenmelkstand, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany (closed) ÜBER WUT / ON RAGE, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany |
| 2009 |
Non-Solo, Non-Group Show, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland Artists from Berlin and Los Angeles, Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy Political Minimal, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany The Fifth Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art, Momentum Kunsthall and Galleri F15, Moss, Norway |
| 2008 |
After Nature, New Museum, New York NY, USA Tarantula, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy Meet Me Around the Corner, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway The Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia |
| 2007 |
MD 72, Berlin, Germany UM-KERHUNGEN / INTERAKTION I, Kunstverein, Braunschweig, Germany Beneath the Underdog, Gagosian Gallery Madison Ave, New York NY, USA Uncertain States of America, Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland 2. Moscow Bienniale, Moscow, Russia Nothing Else Matters, De Hallen, Harleem, The Netherlands Massive Analogue Academy, Galerie Christian Nagel (now: Galerie Nagel Draxler), Cologne, Germany The Perfect Man Show, White Columns, New York NY, USA |
| 2006 |
Looking Back, White Columns, New York NY, USA MUSIC IS A BETTER NOISE, P.S.1, MoMA Museum of Modern Art, Long Island NY, USA Subito Sera, Galleria Zero, Milan, Italy Street Behind the Cliché, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany Nuevo Estocolmo, Södertälje Konsthall, Södertälje, Sweden Fight, various permormances with Malin Arnell, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 2005 |
Reena Spaulings – The One and Only, Haswellediger Gallery, New York NY, USA LTTR Screening, New York NY, USA Spring show, Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway When Humor Becomes Painful, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland MIX NYC and Anthology Film Archives, New York NY, USA Outfest, Los Angeles CA, USA Various performances in Stockholm, Sweden |
| 2004 |
Stockholm Art-Fair, Galleri Hjärnstorm, Stockholm, Sweden I/U/WE, Färgfabriken, Stockholm, Sweden LTTR Explosion, Art in General, New York NY, USA |
Public Collections
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Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands The Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA, USA Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden MoMAMuseum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA |
Awards
| 2013 | Prize for Sculpture Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 2012 | Carnegie Art Award |
| 2011 |
Special Mention for 54th International Art Exhibition ILLUMInations, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, Nominated for the Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst |
| 2010 | Blau Orange Kunstpreis |
| 2009 | Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York NY, USA Kategorie Visual Arts |
| 2008 | IASPIS International Artist Studio Program in Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden |