Born in Oslo 25.08.82

Lives and works in Oslo and Villa Faraldi, Italy

Phone: 004799619610
Mail: kristianskylstad @ gmail.com
Homepage: www.idiopathicbipolarmaladaptations.com

Solo Shows

2009
Galleri MGM - Oslo - "Pandemonium" 2009
Undisclosed.no – Internett - "4U"

2005
Galleri 21.24 - Oslo - "Perhaps the sun, the rain on our graves, the wind and the frost. Will end all our pain"

2005
Galleri Fimbul - Oslo - "Hermans friends"

2004
Galleri Boa - Oslo - "Hermans friends"

 

Duo Shows

2010
Dortmund Bodega – Oslo - "No Future in Fame" - (With Stian Gabrielsen)
Galleri MGM – Oslo – "I Love Myself and Everyone Else / I Hate Myself and I Want to Die; Less Time Left to Live, Even More to Do; Bipolar-conceptualism - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Shut the Fuck Up, You Piece of Shit." (With Jan Christensen)

2007
Rekord - Oslo - "How To Disappear Completely/Lurking in The Darkness of Your Pussy" (With Ivan Galuzin)

 

Groupshows / Projects

2011
Kalmar Kunstmuseum – Kalmar - "Optimism" (Working title)

2010
MOMA – Moscow – Moscow biennale – "Is There Any Hope for an Optimistic Art?"
Institute of Social Hypocrisy – Paris - "The Sound of Dowloading Makes Me Want to Upload"
Rod Bianco – Oslo - "Salong 2010"
UKS – Oslo - "Baad Moon Rising 5" - (With Stian Gabrielsen)
Telemark Kunstnersenter - Skien - "Silence" (Videoscreening)

2009
MK II – London – "Hotch Potch"
Galleri MGM - Oslo – "New Works"
Galleri Boa - Oslo – "Vi Lever i Tiden"
C/O Gerner Gerhardsen – Berlin – "Funky Mental Rabbithole" (With Jan Christensen)
Die Fabrik – Eindhoven - "Cryptocrystalline"
Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo – "One hundred years"
LNM – Oslo - "Wall to Wall"
Stenersenmuseet, Oslo – "The Degree Show 2009"
Galleri 21.25, Oslo – "Believing is Seeing"
Vestlandsutstillingen 2009 – Curated by Tommy Olsson
New Museum - New York - "Younger Than Jesus" (katalog)

2008
TAC - Eindhoven - "Verstand van Smaak 2008"
Galleri MGM - Oslo - "Ten Raised to the Eighty-first Power"
Monkey Town - New York - "I am human and need to be loved
Kunstnerforbundet - Oslo - "Alone In The Dark"
REKORD - Oslo - "Shifting Schism"
Astrup Fearnley Museet (REKORD) – Oslo – "Lights On" (Performance)
0047 - Oslo - "Rykk Tilbake Til Start" –
UKS - Oslo - "All Apologies" –

2007
ISCP - New York - "Words To Come"
Galleri Smia - Kristiansand - "Alt Er Tomhet Og Jag Etter Vind"
Galleri Gathe - Bergen - "The Others" –
The Yeonhee-Dong 195 Residency Project - Seoul –
Area 53 - Wienna - "Old Bold Neuropa"
DOG A - Oslo - "A Crowd Is Untruth
Frogner Cinema - Oslo - med "Behind my eyes there is only black"
Galleri Fimbul - Oslo - "Blackout" -

2006
UKS - Oslo - "Kunstneren som overgriper" – with the documentary "Kerry Is Gay"
Norwegian Shortfilm Festival - Grimstad - "Kerry Is Gay" (Dokumentar programmet)
Stenersenmuseum - Oslo – Bachelor Show 2006
UKS - Oslo - "Academy in exile"

2005
Galleri Fimbul - Oslo - "Fimbul Winther"
Galleri Arena - Oslo - "We just wanted to destroy something beautiful" with Hanne Rivrud
Galleri Seilduken - Oslo - "Surreal adj."

2004
"Salong 100" Oslo – Groupshow in abandoned storageroom
Fabrikken - Oslo - "Aftermath", Video screening
Bergen Kunsthall - Bergen - Video 2004 - "In our darkest hour"
Galleri 21.25 - Oslo - "In our darkest hour" (With Hanne Rivrud)
Galleri 21.25 - Oslo - "Prosessen", Interview project with Hans E. Thorsen and Lars Kjemphol

Scolarships and Grants

2010
3-Years Artist Grant For Norwegian Artists

2009
Norwegian Governments Artist Grant
BKH Masterscholarship

2008
Morell Scholarship

2007
Norwegian Project support "Old Bold Neuropa", Wienna and "The Others" - Bergen

2007
Norwegian Project support for the exhbition "How to disappear completely/ lurking in the darkness of your pussy" - Galleri Rekord, Oslo.

2006
Norwegian Art Councils Project Support for the exhibition "How to disappear completely/ lurking in the darkness of your pussy" - Galleri Rekord, Oslo.

2005
Norwegian Art Councils Project Support for the project Galuzin Gallery.

2003
Morell Scholarship

Relevant experience

2008 – 2010: Nomination Committee for UKS (Young Artists Society)

2009: Curator Sørlandsutstillingen 2009 (with Lars Vilks and Ivan Galuzin)

2008 - 2009: Art Critic for Kunstkritikk.no

2008 - ∞: Managing Director Dollhouse, Oslo

2006 - 2009: Teacher in photography Prosjektskolen, Oslo

2007 - 2008: Managing Director, TAFKAG, Oslo

2005 - 2007: Founder and Managing Director, Galuzin Gallery, Oslo (with Ivan Galuzin)

2005 - 2006: Student Board President, National Academy of Arts - Oslo

2004 - 2005: Student Board Vice President, National Academy of Arts - Oslo