Artworks by Matias Faldbakken at Paula Cooper Gallery on artnet

Matias Faldbakken

(Norwegian, born 1973)

Matias Faldbakken

Pizza Box Tower #01, 2014

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Matias Faldbakken

Meat Grinder Screen (0 Days of Sodom), 2016

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Matias Faldbakken

Untitled (VHS), 2015

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Matias Faldbakken

FUEL SCULPTURE TURQUOISE, 2017

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Matias Faldbakken

FUEL SCULPTURE GREEN, 2017

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Matias Faldbakken

Untitled, 2016

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Biography

Timeline

1973: Born in Hobro, Denmark
1994 - 1998: The Academy of Fine Art, Bergen
1996 - 1997: Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main (Prof. Thomas Bayrle)
: Lives and works in Oslo

Exhibitions

2014: Elective Affinities, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK
: 20 Years Galerie Neu, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
: Gold Gab ich Für Eisen, Galleri 2, Stamsund, Norway
: The crime was almost perfect, curated by Cristina Ricupero, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands
: Walk the line, Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong, China
: Chez Perv, Matias Faldbakken, Oscar Tuazon, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Team Gallery, NY, USA
: Take Liberty, The National Museum of Art, Design and Architecture, Oslo, Norway
: J'ai Froid, Castillo / Corrales, Paris, France
: Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
: Standard, Oslo, Norway (solo)
: Chat Jet (Part 2) Sculpture in Reflection, Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz, Austria
: El Rey de Icod, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz, Tenerife, Spain
: Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK (solo)
: Le Consortium, Dijon, France (solo)
: Envy, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany (solo)
: Awaiting Immanence, Isbrytaren, Stockholm, Sweden
2013: Metropolis: Reflections on the Modern City, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK
: Fragile, Isola san Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy
: Documenta 13, Kassel, Germany
: Remote Control, ICA, London, UK
: Portrait Portrait of of a a Generation Generation, curated by Marta Kuzma, WIELS, Centre d'art contemporaine, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
: Maintenance, Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong, China (solo)
: The Devil’s Fidelity, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
: Portrait Portrait of of a a Generation Generation, curated by Marta Kuzma, Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Oslo, Norway (solo)
: Bit Rot, Standard (Oslo), Oslo, Norway (solo)
2012: Shall I Write It, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland (solo)
: Intervention #21 - Matias Faldbakken, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands (solo)
: Situation as Object (Framed), Galerie D.O.R, Brussels, Belgium
: Stonescape, Napa Valley, USA
: Show curated by Shamin Momin, LAND, Marfa, USA
: Secret Societies, curated by Christina Ricupero, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
: Show co-curated by Runa Islam and Arnolfini, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
: Le Printemps de Septembre, curated by Anne Pontegnie, Toulouse, France
: Anonyme Skupturen, Video und Form in der zeitgenössichen Kunst, Galerie im Taxipalais, Innsbruck, Austria
: Home of Metal, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK
: To the Arts, Citizens, curated by Joao Fernandez and Oscar Faria, Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal
: Matias Faldbakken, bbb, centre régional d'initiatives pour l'art contemporain, Toulouse, France (solo)
: Sculpture Now, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
: One Night Only, UKS, Oslo, Norway (solo)
: Television/Moonshine, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York, US (solo)
2011: Matias Faldbakken, The Power Station, Dallas, US (solo)
: Abstract Possible, curated by Maria Lind, Museu Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
: Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
: Forms of Organizations I, Red House, Sofia
: An Alpha Disguised as a Beta, Galerie Giti Noubakhsch, Berlin, Germany
: Suppose it is true after all? WHAT THEN?, Johan Berggren Gallery, Malmö
: To the Arts, Citizens!, Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal
: Fresh Hell, Palais De Tokyo, Paris, France
: Destruction, Negation, Subtraction, Dissolution, Kentor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
: The Moon is an Arrant Thief, The David Roberts Arts Foundation, London, UK
: The Second Today's Documents, Beijing Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
: The Secret Knows, The Virgin Mobile Free House, Austin, TX, USA
: The Death of Which One Does Not Die, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (solo)
: Known to Few, Unknown to Fewer, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK (solo)
: The Hills, Standard, Oslo (solo)
: You Think You Go But You Gon't, Objectif, Antwerp, Belgium (solo)
: Galerie Giti Noubakhsch, Berlin, Germany (solo)
: The Mass Ornament, (Curator: John Rasmussen), Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, USA
: Groupshow, Praz-Dellavalade, Paris, France
2010: Group Show (Almost A4 Person Group Show), (Curator: Brian Kennen), 2nd Cannon Project Space, Los Angeles, CA, USA
: War After Peace (After War), Neue Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen (solo)
: FLOORS / WALLS - Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin, Germany
: The Secret Life of Objects - Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, US
: Paintings by - Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK
: Lessons In The Art Of Falling - Norwegian Performance And Process Art 1966-2009 - Preus Museum, Horten, Norway
: A Completely Normal Exhibition - Overgaden - Institut for Samtidskunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
: Our Mirage, Art:Concept, curated by Caroline Soyez-Petithomme), Paris, France
: The Malady of Writing. A project on text and speculative imagination, (Curator: Chus Martinez), Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, (MACBA), Barcelona, Spain
: Reen Spaulings Fine Art, New York, NY, USA (solo)
: Annen Etage, the annex at the Faculty of Visual Arts, KHiO, Oslo (solo)
: Extreme Siesta, Kunsthalle St. Gallen, Switzerland (solo)
2009: Shocked Into Abstraction, IKON Gallery, Birmingham, UK (solo)
: Black Hole, (Curator: Friedrike Nymphius), Kunsthalle Andratx, Mallorca, Minima Moralia, Marvelli Gallery, New York, US
: Zuordningsprobleme, Johann König, Berlin, Germany
: Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin (solo)
: Simon Lee Gallery, London (solo)
: Empty Glass, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin, Germany (solo)
: The Way of the Bummer, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK (solo)
: E-Flux Video Rental, Centro de Arte Moderna Jose de Azeredo Perdigao – Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
: The Soft Shields of Pleasure, Den Frie Udstilling, Copenhagen, Denmark
: Lights On, The Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
: Norsk Hydro's Collection, The Henie Onstad Art Centre, Oslo, Norway
: Records Played Backwards, curated by Daniel Baumann, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland
: 35% VRAI 60% FAUX, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK
: Revolutions – Forms That Turn, Biennial of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2008: The Station, curated by: Nate Lowman and Shamim M. Momin, Miami, US
: Imaginary Thing, curated by Peter Eeley, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, US
: 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
: The Reality Effect, curated by Tone Hansen, Henie Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden, Norway
: The Station, curated by Shamim M.Momin and Nate Lowman, Art Basel Miami Beach, 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, curators: Mikkel E. Astrup and Eivind Furnesvik, STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo, Norway
: That’s Not How I Remember It, Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, US
: Possibilities of an Island, curated by Ruba Katrib, Museum of Contemporary Art Miami, MOCA at Goldman Warehouse, Miami, US
: Fade Away and Radiate, Cohan and Leslie, New York
: Painting, props and Problems (Still Unresolved), STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo, Norway
: Depiction Perversion Repultion Obsession Subversion, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands
: I Don't Think So, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, USA (solo)
: Nothing Doing, Standard (OSLO), Oslo, Norway (solo)
: Dislocations (Don't Try Popping Them Back Into Place), STANDARD / Arco, Madrid
: Beneath the Underdog, Gagosian Gallery, New York
: Memorial to the Iraq War, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London
: Possibly Pushed Back Indefinitely – Paintings, Props and Problems (Still Unresolved), STANDARD, Oslo
: A Hideous Disease, Statements , Art Basel 38, Basel, under the auspices of STANDARD, Oslo (solo)
: Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis (solo)
2007: STANDARD, Oslo (solo)
: E-flux Video Rental, Centre culturel Suisse, Paris and Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA
: The Norwegian Sculpture Biennial, The Vigeland Museum, Oslo
: Down by Law, Whitney Museum of American Art / Whitney Biennial 2006 / The Wrong Gallery, New York, curators: Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick
: Cluster, The Participant, New York
: Entgrenzung (De-Limitation), Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunste, Berlin
: Mafia (Or One Unopened Packet of Cigarettes), STANDARD, Oslo
: Theater of Life - Rhetorics of Emotions, Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
: White Stains, STANDARD (OSLO) / Extra City, Antwerpen
: A Forest, Filter - the Project Room for International Art, Hamburg, and Space Other, Boston
: The Metaphysics of Youth, Fuoriuso, Pescara
: Deep Into That Darkness Peering, Galerie Joanna Kamm, Berlin
: Draft Deceit, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
: II, Schnittraum, Cologne (solo)
: Art, Life and Confusion – The 47th October Salon, ICA / Belgrade Culture Centre
: Room for International Art, Hamburg, and Space Other, Boston, US
: Stages of Life - Rhetorics of Emotions, curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen, Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
: E-Flux Video Rental, Arthouse at the Jones Center – Contemporary Art for Texas, Austin, US
2006: Belgrade Culture Centre, Serbia
: KAPITEL VII : Buhne des Leben – Rhetorik des Gefuhls”, Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus & Kunstbau, Munich, Germany
: Defamation of Character, PS1 MoMA, New York
: I Missed the Part Where That's My Problem, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam (solo)
: 47th October Salon, Oktobarski Salon/October Salon, Belgrade, Germany
: All That Fall, STANDARD, Oslo (solo)
: La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (solo)
: E-Flux Video Rental, Portikus, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
: Social Democracy Revisited, Apexart, New York, US
: New Works, Gallery Huuto, Helsinki (solo)
: Sharing Space. Dividing Time, The Nordic Pavillion, La Biennale de Venezia, Venice (solo)
: Populism, CAC, Vilnius
: Start Kapital, STANDARD, Oslo
: Populism, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main
: Populism, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
: 15 Minutes Show, Stedelijk Museum Burau Amstedam, Amsterdam
: Blast, G Fine Arts, Washington DC
2005: Parallel Life, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main
: Populism, The National Museum, Oslo
: 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
: LISTE 04, Basel
: Rank Xerox, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen (solo)
: Standard Escape Routes, ISCP, New York
: Now And Ten Years Ago, Kunst-Werke, Berlin
2004: New in Norwegian Photography, Preus Museum, Horten, Norway
: Criss Cross – Video/Film/Documentary Programme, NIFCA (Touring Exhibition)
2003: Art to the People, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen; Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo; Tromsø Fine Arts
: Society, Tromsø; Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall, Arenda
: Deathtime, 27. Canal, New York
: Getaway, Fotogalleriet, Oslo (solo)
: Total Motiviert, Kunstverein München, München
: BEKMÖRK, CCAB; Centre for Contemporary Arts, Belgrade
: Touching from a distance, Germinations 13, Cork
2002: Where Am I? 2, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bjørvika, Oslo
2001: Gallery Konstakuten, Fanzine 1, Stockholm
: The UKS-biennial, Oslo
: Osculum Infame, NIFCA Gallery, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Helsinki (solo)
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
: Bockenheim, Frankfurt
1997: Kommunikationszentrale, Videoabend
1996: Henie Onstad Artcenter, ELECTRA – video room, Oslo

Public Collections

: The Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
: DekaBank, Franfurt am Main, Germany
: The National Museum of Art, Design and Architecture, Oslo, Norway
: Hydro Art Collection, Oslo, Norway
: Telenor Art Collection, Oslo, Norway
: The Speyer Family Collection, New York, NY, USA

Literature

2006: "Destination Art - Oslo", BBC World, September 2nd Røed, Kjetil: "Matias Faldbakken", Contemporary Magazine, London, No 85, September 2006, pp 32-35
: Faldbakken, Matias: "Matias Faldbakken – Top Ten List", ARTFORUM, New York, September, 2006
: Dünser, Severin; Heidmann, Patrick and others (editors): " Upping The Anti", mono.kultur #07, Berlin
: Woznicki, Krystian: "Comeback der Anarchie", Telepolis, April 23, 2006
: Anders, Friedrikke; Hoffmann, Anke, and Lahr Christian: "Auflösung", RealismusStudio / Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunste, Berlin, 2006, pp. 86-87
: Around Photography, January issue
: Fassi, Luigi and Zucca, Irina: "The Metaphysics of Youth", Pescara, catalogue
: Gaenshaiemer, Susanne; Höner, Julia; Mühling, Matthias, and Schafhausen, Nicolaus: "Theatre of Life - Rhetorics of Emotions", 2006, Munich, pp. 138-139
: Parallel Life, catalogue
: Draft Deceit, exhibition pamphlet
: Kunstforum 172, p 356, Emotion Eins; Christian Huther
2005: Allen, Jennifer: "MF+MF" from Sharing Space Dividing Time (Catalogue for Nordic Pavillion, Venice Biennial)
2004: Flash Art, No.237 July-September 2004, p 47 (Biennale of Sydney); Simon Rees
: Flash Art, No.237 July-September 2004, p 55 (Momentum); Arve Rød
: Biennale of Sydney 2004, catalogue; Mainstreams/White Terror/Coming Communities; Carissa Rodriguez, MOMENTUM, catalogue; Matias Faldbakken; Ika Kaminka
2003: Kunstverein München, Drucksache fall 2003
: Office for Contemporary Art Norway, New Institutionalism; Harnessing the Means of Production, Rebecca Gordon Nesbitt
: Art to the People (catalogue), Art to the People, Jonas Ekeberg
: Kunstverein München; Drucksache spring 2003
2002: Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo; A Jerky Flight Around a Desolate Bunker; Andrea Kroksnes
: Germinations 13 (catalogue); Inside the 36 Chambers of Communication; Krystian Woznicki
2001: NIFCA-info 3/01; Osculum Infame: The Dark Side of the White Cube, Rebecca Gordon Nesbitt
2000: NU: the Nordic Art Review vol III # 3/00; Søren Andreassen and Lars Bang Larsen
: NU: the Nordic Art Review vol II # 2/00; Condensation Points, interview by Ralph McDavid

Matias Faldbakken

(Norwegian, born 1973)

Matias Faldbakken

Matias Faldbakken

Matias Faldbakken

Matias Faldbakken

Matias Faldbakken

Matias Faldbakken

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

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