Knut Åsdam
Works
CV
Born 28 of August 1968 in Trondheim, Norway. Lives in Oslo.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS (*Denotes catalogue available)
2007 The Care of the Self, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam.
International Film Festival of Rotterdam*, Artist in Focus. At Museum Boijmans van
Beuningen, NAI museum of architecture and in the festival cinemas.
2006 Kabuso, Hardanger Museum, Norway*
Objectif_Exhibitions, Antwerp
Galerie Cent 8, Serge Le Borgne, Paris
Galleri SE, Bergen, Norway
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern art, Oslo*
FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon*
2005 Musée des Beaux-Arts, Caen, France*
Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland*
Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc. New York City
2004 Objectif_Exhibitions, Antwerpen
2003 Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin*
Mercer Union, Toronto*
2002 Academy of Architecture, Oslo (permanent work)
2001 Tommy Lund, Copenhagen
Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert Inc., NYC
Galeria Sonia Rosso, Pordenone, Italy
Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland*
Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo*
2000 Knut Åsdam, Psychasthenia 10, ArtNow, Tate Britain*
Transmission, Glasgow
1999 Galleri Tommy Lund, Copenhagen
Nordic Pavillion*, Venice Biennial*
Norwegian Pavillion, Melbourne International Biennial, Melbourne*
1998 Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius*
1994 Galleri Riis, Oslo.
FILM FESTIVALS, SCREENING PROGRAMS AND AWARDS (*Denotes catalogue
available)
2008 Dangling by Their Mouths, Gallery TPW, Toronto.
2007 Locarno Film Festival*, Switzerland.
International Film Festival of Rotterdam*, Artist in Focus. Own screening program within
the film festival, and exhibitions at several sites within Rotterdam.
2006 MOCA Media, The Flemish Film Museum, Antwerp*
Cinemateket, Filmens Hus/The Norwegian Film Institute, Oslo
Locarno Film Festival, Locarno, Switzerland*
2004 Rencontres internationales Paris.*
Locarno Film Festival, Locarno, Switzerland*
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany*
Artimage International Film and Video Prize, Austria
2002 International Festival Of Short Film Of Bilbao, Spain*
Catastrophe, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany*
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (*Denotes catalogue available)
2008 Manifesta 7, Trento – Alto Adige, Italy*
TimeCode, Mambo, Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna*
2007 National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
La Rada, Locarno, Switzerland
Peer In/Peer Out, The Moore Space, Miami, Florida
Into me/out of me, MACRO (Museo d’Arte Contemporanea), Rome, Italy*
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona
2006 Into me/out of me, Kunstwerke, Berlin*
Kontracom, Mozart 2006, Salzburg
Into me/out of me, MOMA/P.S.1. Contemporary Art Center, NYC*
DADA’S BOYS, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh*
warum etwas zeigen, was man sehen kann?, Galerie für Zeitgenössiche Kunst Leipzig
2005 Endelig Hjemme, Riksutstillinger*
Capital (It fails us now), UKS, Oslo
Everybody is Talking About the Museum, The National Museum of Art, Oslo,
Off Key, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland*
Idyll, Middelheim Open Air Museum, Antwerp*
Godt for ...oss, Momentum, Moss, Norway*
COURTisane, festival for shortfilm, video and new media, Ghent, Belgium
Ars Baltica Triennial of Photographic Art, -touring exhibition- Malmö konsthall,*
2004 The 2004 Busan Biennial, Busan, South Korea*
White Spirit, Frac Lorraine, Metz, France
The Story of the Eye, Mead Gallery, Warwick*
In the Norwegian Forest, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warshaw
Ars Baltica Triennial of Photographic Art, -touring exhibition- Stadtgalerie Kiel,*
2003 International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul.*
De bortbjudna, Rooseum, Malmö. Sweden
Radioartemobile, The Venice Biennial.
Sodium Dreams, The Museum at CCS, Bard, New York
Ars Baltica Triennial of Photographic Art, -touring exhibition- Stadtgalerie Kiel,*
Mecklenburgisches Kuenstlerhaus Schloss Plueschow, Bergen Kunsthall mm..*
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, LAZNIA Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk.
Inside Outliners, a probable anthology, Kunsthalle Lophem Belgium
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, Migros Museum, Zürich.
Altered Spaces, Cheekwood Museum, Nashville, Tenessee
Todos somos pecadores, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Monterrey*
2002 International Festival Of Short Film Of Bilbao, Spain*
Malmø Konsthall. Sweden
Todos somos pecadores, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City*
Pontevedra Biennial, Spain*
Visible Invisible, AG Mettall Haus, Berlin*
Catastrophe, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany*
Frequenzen [Hz]/Frequencies [Hz], Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt*
VideoROM 4.0, VideoROM 3.0, VideoROM 2.0, MACRO, Ex-Mattatoio, Rome Galleria
d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, & at Galleria Gian Carla Zanutti, Milano,
Italy
Husesyn, Uppsala Konstmuseum, Sweden*
2001 Paesi Nordici, interferenze. Palazzo delle Papesse, Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena,
Italy*
Monitor, Gagosian Gallery, Chelsea, NYC
Scenes, Henry Urbach Gallery, NYC
VideoROM 1.0, VideoROM, Centre Multidiciplinaire Pour la Culture Actuelle, Swtizerland
& Valencia Biennial, Spain
Sous-Titrée X, Galerie Art & Essai, l’Université de Rennes, France*
Schpaa (2), Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway*
Treff, Bergen Kunstmuseum, Bergen, Norway*
2000 Waterfront, Helsingør, Denmark*
Schpaa, Den Frie Utstilling, Copenhagen*
Norden, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna*
Models of Resistance, Overgaden -the state center for contemporary art, Copenhagen
Organising Freedom, Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm*
1999 Hundstage, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen*
Samfunnsengasjement, Politikk og Hverdag 1970/90, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo.
Ideal*, Ms Waldstätter der Schiffahrtsgesellschaft des Vierwaldstättersees, Luzerner
Austellungsraums, Switzerland
1998-99 Nuit Blanche—Nordic Video Tour*. Soros Center, Bratislava; Soros Center Zagreb;
Moderna Galeria (Soros) Ljubljana; Soros Center, Kiev, Ukraina; Museum Ludwig,
Budapest; Motevideo, Amsterdam; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Salong 3, London;
Kunsthalle Basel.
1998 Nordic Nomads, White Columns, New York*
Momentum, Pakkhus, Nordic Art Biennial, Moss, Norway*
UKS Biennalen, The uks Biennial, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, The Henie Onstad Museum,
Oslo. *
Nuit Blanche, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris*
1997 DIY Mapping & Instruction, Bricks and Kicks, Wien.
DIY Webradio on http://www.thing.net.
Rum för Aktuell Konst presenterar samtida konst fra OSLO, Göteborg Konstmuseum*
Reality Check, Apex Art, New York City
1996 27.680.000 (contemporary art in massmedia), Stockholm and nationally in Sweden on
Swedish Radio.*
Compartments, Escape Attempts, GLOBE, Copenhagen.*
Video Faz), Museo Regional, Guadalajara, Jalisco and at Art & Idea, Mexico City.*
Departure Lounge, The Institute for Contemporary Art, P.S.1 Museum, Clocktower
Gallery, New York City
UKS Biennalen 1996, 'The uks Biennal 1996', Stenersenmuseet, Bergen Kunstforening &
Trondheim Kunstforening. Oslo, Bergen and Trondheim*
1995 One Night Stand, Nordic Video and Performance Art, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo. *
DIXI, Oslo.*
Whitney Museum I.S.P. Exhibition, New York.
1994 Prosjekt i Gamlebyen, Oslo.*
1993 And Justice For All, Maastricht.*