Works
CV
Born 1962 Oslo
Education
1981-83 Oslo University (Phil,/Law)
1983-85 National College of Art and Design Oslo
1986-88 National Art Academy Oslo
1988-90 Düsseldorf Art Academy (DAAD-Scholarship)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1990 Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo
1991 Lequeu, Stadshil Gallery, Copenhagen
1992 Zaun, Borbeck Castle, Essen
1993 Double, Kunst-Werke, Berlin
1994 Spalt, Gelsenkirchen Art Museum
1997 Sinthome, Bott Gallery, Cologne
1998 Abendzeichnungen, Brüning+Zischke, Duesseldorf
1999 Sinthome, Soelvberget Gallery, Stavanger
2001 Sinthome, Bruening+Zischke, Duesseldorf
2002 Vocabulary, Soelvberget Gallery, Stavanger
2003 Foliage, MGM Gallery, Oslo
2004 Cabinet, Soelvberget Gallery, Stavanger
2006 Amor Vacui, Opdahl Gallery, Stavanger
2006 figure, MGM Gallery, Oslo
2007 Eternally vanishing bodies, Opdahl Gallery, Berlin
Selected Group Exhibitions
1990 Treibhaus 5, Duesseldorf Art Museum
Status 1990, UKS, Oslo
1991 Kunst, Europa, Bayreuth Museum of Fine Art
Billed-Rom, Oslo Art Assosciation
1992 Makroville, Duesseldorf Art Museum
1994 Double, Heer Gallery, Oslo
Library, UKS, Oslo
1995 Neher Gallery, Essen
In the League, Heer Gallery, Oslo
Library, Otto Plonk Gallery, Bergen
1996 Space for Contemporary Art, Rotor Gallery, Gothenburg
Norwegian Profiles,Folkwang Museum/Zollverein, Essen
1997 Birkás-Elgin-Maning, Albertinum, Gemaeldegalerie neuer Meister, Dresden
Roger Bjorkholmen Gallery, Stockholm
1998 Norwegian Profiles, Rostock Art Hall
1999 Brüning+Zischke, Duesseldorf
Munch-Haus, Warnemuende
..not quite minimal, Bott Gallery, Cologne
2000 Illuminations, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo
The Flux of Painting, Sørlandets Artmuseum, Kristiansand
Imperfect, Rogaland Art Museum, Stavanger
Project for the Autumn Exhibition, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
2001 F15 Gallery, Moss
Carnegie Art Award, ARKEN Museum for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen/
Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
Imperfect, Bomuldsfabriken Art Hall, Arendal/ Trondheim Art Assosciation/
54 Gallery, Gothenburg
Lines, Kai Hilgemann Gallery, Berlin
2002 Carnegie Art Award, Victoria Miro Gallery, London/
Kópavogur Art Museum/Art Academy, Stockholm/ Helsinki Art Hall
Bomuldsfabriken Art Hall, Arendal
Painting as a Place to be, nifca, Gaevle Art Centre
Cabinet with Outfit, Andreas Bruening Gallery, Duesseldorf
2003 sic! –so far, Sic Collection, Stavanger
Tromsø Art Assosciation
Art Forum Berlin, Andreas Bruening Gallery, Duesseldorf
In Residence, Nordic Embassies, Berlin
2004 Berlin North, The National Gallery in Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Art Chicago, Andreas Bruening Gallery, Chicago
Art Forum Berlin, Soelvberget Gallery
2005 Art Chicago, Andreas Bruening Gallery, Duesseldorf
Art Forum Berlin, Opdahl Gallery
2006 Art Chicago, Andreas Bruening Gallery, Chicago
Art Copenhagen, Opdahl Gallery, Copenhagen
2007 Obergeschoss, dritter Finger rechts, Ballhaus Ost, Berlin
sic!, transit Art Space, Stavanger
2008 Rykk tilbake til start, 0047 Gallery, Oslo
2008 Evening of a Duesseldorf Faun, Andreas Brüning Gallery, Duesseldorf
Selected Public Comissions/ *Projects
2001 Moss Public School
2002 *Curator for Oslo Central Airport, Gardermoen
2002-2004 *Curator for the International Art Collection in the Norwegian Parliament
2004 Statoil Solastrand Guest House, Stavanger
2005 Statoil Boardroom, Stavanger
Public Collections
Albertinum. Gemaeldegalerie neue Meister, Dresden
Royal Norwegian Embassy, Copenhagen
The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo
Norwegian Arts Council, Oslo
Oslo Muncipal Art Collection
Soerlandets Art Museum, Kristiansand
Nordnorsk Art Museum, Tromsoe
sic! Stavanger International Collection, Stavanger
The Corporate Collection of the National Bank of Norway
Statoil Art Collection
Provinzial Art Collection, Hamburg
Hypo Bank Art Collection, Frankfurt
O.M. Ungers Collection, Cologne
Selected Bibliography
(c)= Catalogue (a)= Article
Tayfun Belgin: Art, Europe,
Neher Gallery, Essen 1991 (c)
Ina Blom: ”Vår evige streben etter orden”,
Aftenposten 20.11.1994 (a)
Eugen Blume/Gabriele Knapstein/Franciska Zölyom ed.
”berlin north”, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, 2004 (c)
Jan Brockmann: ”Dag Erik Elgin: Sinthome”,
Illuminations, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo 2000 (c)
Jan Brockmann: ”Abendzeichnungen”,
Imperfektum, Riksutstillinger, Oslo 2000 (c)
Jan Brockmann/Dag Erik Elgin, ”Amor Vacui”, 2006 (c)
Trond Borgen: ”Sinthome”, Stavanger Aftenblad 12.9.1999 (a)/
published Norwegian Art Yearbook 1999 (c)
Trond Borgen: ”Et billedsug”, Stavanger Aftenblad 10.11.2002 (a)
Trond Bogen: ”Den blinde flekken”, Stavanger Aftenblad, 31.10.2006 (a)
Einar Børresen: ”Dag Erik Elgin”,
www.sicart.net, Stavanger 2003 (c)
”Abendzeichnungen”
Rogalandsposten, 20.2.2004
Michaela Cecchinato; ”Berlin North”, Exibart, 31.1.2004 (a)
Fricke, Harald: ”Vom Himmel und Boden”, taz, Tageszeitung, Berlin 10.8.1994 (a)
Kari Immonen: ”Interview Dag Erik Elgin”
Stop for a moment-Painting as a place to be, nifca publication 11,
nordic institute of contemporary art, Helsinki 2002 (c)
Heinz-Norbert Jocks: ”Stille Zeichen eines Künstlerlebens”,
Westdeutsche Zeitung, 6.5.1998 (a)
Maria Kreutzer: ”Abendzeichnungen – Morgen der Malerei”
Aktuelle Kunst aus Norwegen, Museum Folkwang,
DuMont, Köln 1997 (c)
Maria Kreutzer: Double, Kunst-Werke, Berlin 1993/
Billedkunstneren 3/4, 1994 (a)
Maria Kreutzer:”Treibhaus 5”, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf,
Kunstforum International, Bd. 89, 1990 (a)
Jørgen Lund: ”The Gaze Beyond”, Amor Vacui, 2006 (c)
Petra Schmidt: ”Dag Erik Elgin”, Edvard-Munch-Haus e.V,
Warnemünde, 2003 (c)
Frank Scholz: ”Abendzeichnungen und Sinthome-
Stationen auf der Suche nach dem EINEN Bild”
Auf offenem Gelände, norröna Sonderband 3,
Edition Kirchhof & Franke, Leipzig und Berlin, 2003 (c)
Tan, Fiona: ”Open House”, a Conversation between F.Tan and D.E. Elgin,
Mirror Maker, 2006