Artists
Gitte Villesen
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Curriculum ‘vitae
Gitte Villesen
Born 1965, Lives and works in Copenhagen and Berlin
Education:
1987-90 Literature, University of Copenhagen
1991-92 Fuen Art Academi Odense
1992-96,98-99 The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Copenhagen
Selected solo shows:
2008
“Yes No Other Options”, Sheffield Biennale, Sheffeild
“Neighbourhood Secrets”, Stavanger
2007
“A Silent Movie”, Kiserem, Budapest
“48 Western Magazines”, Kunsthalle Mûcsarnok, Budapest
2003
"Video works", Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona
“Solveig” in cooporation with Lars Erik Frank, Overgaden – Institute of Contemporay Art, Copenhagen
Box, Göthenburg
“Two Movies by Jessie” Kunsthalle St. Gallen
“Two works” Iaspis galleriet, Stockholm
2002
“Two guided tours at the The Creative Reuse Warehouse”, Langenhagen Kunstverein, Langenhagnen
2001
Kunsthalle Lophem, Brugge
Gallerie Mehdi Chourakri, Berlin
Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
1999
"Ingeborg the Busker Queen"and "Søren Vellings Small Towns Museum", Institute of Visual Art, Milwaukee
"Ingeborg, Søren, Kathrien and Bent" Secession, Vienna
1998
"Kathrine makes them and Bent collects them", Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
1997
Project room at Aarhus Museum of Art, Århus
1995
"Three Times Ludo", Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
"Willy as DJ", Galleri LXX, Århus
1994
"It was a Wonderful period full of Happiness and a loss of a lot of money" a work with Willy Bøtker shown in Peter Lands flat, Copenhagen
Selected group shows:
2007
“How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later”, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco
“Shrinking Cities”, Museum of Contemporay Art, Detroit
“Shrinking Cities”, Urban Design Center of Northeast Ohio, Cleveland
“Ich bin keine Küche”, The University of Applied Arts, Vienna
“100 videos 100 days”, Kunstforeningen Gammel Strand, Copenhagen
“Silly adults”, Gallery Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
2006
“Dramland Burn”, Kunsthalle Mûcsarnok, Budapest
The Eighth Square Gender, Life, and Desire in Art since 1960, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
“Archaeology of Reality”, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art - LCCA, Riga
Political realities, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberger
“Women of Europe” i St. Tropez
“Archaelogy of Reality”, Latvian Center for Contemporary Art, Riga
Mission : Reality, Museet for Samtidskunst i Roskilde
2005
Second Present, Trafo Gallery, Budapest
The Danish Pavillion, 51. th Venice Biennalen, Venice
“Emotion Pictures”, Muhka, Antwerpen
“Auschwitz-Proceß 4 Ks 2/63 Frankfurt am Main”, Grobius Bau, Berlin
“SALTUNA – The Baltic Sea Experience”, Rosseum, Malmö
2004
“Auschwitz-Proceß 4 Ks 2/63 Frankfurt am Main”, Fritz Bauer Institut, Frankfurt and Grobius Bau, Berlin
“Emotions Eins” Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
“Sparwasser”, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul
“Berlin North”, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
2003
"Breaking the Law", Sparwasser HQ, Berlin
2002
“Enactments of the self”, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria
“Touch: Relational Art from the 1990s to Now”, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
Geschichte(n), Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg
Samisk Kunstfestival, Kirkenes, Norway
“Esplanaden”, Charlottenborgs udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen
“Eventyrhaven i Voldsmose”, Odense, Denmark
Gwangju Biennale 2002, Gwangju, Korea
Video Works, Kunstners Hus, Oslo, Norway
ESAP, Perpigna, France
“Attachment+”, arranged by Kunsthalle Lophem, Brugge, Belgium
2001
”LocalMotion”, Gallerie für Zeitgenössiche Kunst, Leipzig
“Milan Europe 2000”, Milan
"Du er helt ny – du er retro", Danske Grafikernes Hus, Copenhagen
"Organising Freedom", Charlottenborgs Udstillingsbygning, Copehagen
“Esplanaden”, Kunsthallen, Copenhagen
2000
"Still or: "My eyes can only look at you", Gallerie Enja Wonneberger, Kiel
"Wonderful Copenhagen", Stadtgallerie, Kiel
"Naust", Øygården/Bergen
"Contacts", Centre D’Art contemporain, Fribourg
"Organising Freedom", Moderna Museet, Stockholm
1999
Melbourne International Biennial, Melbourne
Télé[o], Ecran Total c/o Erban, Nantes
“Videos by Gitte Villesen”, Moderna Musset, Stockholm
“Videos by Gitte Villesen”, Salon 3, London
"Come in and find out", vol. 1", Art club Berlin, Berlin
1998
"Fleeting Portraits - Flüchtige portraits", Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin
"Jonge Deense kunst", Sint-Lukasgalerij, Brussel
"Out of the North: Contemporary Art from Denmark and Sweden",
Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
"Manifesta 2", Luxembourg
"Bicycles Thieves" Gallery 400, Chicago
"La sphere de l’intime - Le printemps de Cahors", Cahors
"det extra", Riksutställningar, RIX, Linköbing; Uppsala Konstmuseet, Uppsala; Gävle Konstcentrum, Gävle; Musett, Kristinehamn and Tensta Konsthall, Tensta
"Here Now - New Art from Denmark", Art Space, Sidney
"Come Closer", Liechtensteinische Staatliche Kunstsamlung, Liechtenstein, Nikolaj-Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen and The Ludwig Museum Budapest-Museum for Contemporary Art, Budapest
"Boomerang", Nikolaj-Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen
1997
"Artcalls" telephone numbers in Copenhagen
"10" Nordic Female Art, Lunds Kunsthal, Lund
"Letter and Event", Apex Art, NY
Gallery Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin
"Human Conditions", Center of Contemporary Arts, Helsinki
"A Scenic DeTour Through Commodity", Maastricht, NL
"JOY JOY", Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
SMart Project space, ALMANAC, Art on Television, Amsterdam
1996
"27.680.000" a media project shown on the two national TV-channels in Sweden
"Electronic Undercurrents", The National Museum of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
"Out of Shape", Arken, Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj
"Monstrosities 1/2", Video festival, Berlin
"Up-date", Turbinehallerne, Copenhagen
"The Scream - Borealis 8", Arken, Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj
1994
"Varje gång jag ser dig" ("Every time I see you") a space rented for the occasion, Malmö and Index Galleri, Stockholm
"Atomic" Oberwelt, Stuttgart and Titanic, Helsinki
"Timeslice", The National Museum of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
"Ram" Portalen, Køge Bugt Culture House, Hundige
Videofestival, Freidburg Kunsthal, Freidburg
"Exotic", Gallerie Peter Kilschmann, Zurich
"2 dimensional teori", Nikolaj Church, Copenhagen
1994
Opening Show, Galleri Struds, Oslo
Gitte Villesen and Annika Lundgren, Saga Basement, Copenhagen
Galleri med balkong, Trondheim
1993
"Fribillet" with Maria Karlson, Nansensgade, Copenhagen,
Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Opening show, Copenhagen
Selected Festivals
2003 DAE, Arteleku, San Sebastian
"es ist schwer das reale zu berühren", Kunstverein München, Munich
2002 "Documentary Fortnight", Museum of Modern Art, NY
2000 Crossing boundaries, Danish Film Institute, Copenhagen
1996 "Monstrosities 1/2", Video festival, Berlin
1997 A video program arranged by MoMA, Mitsui Fudasan’s lobby, NY
"New Documentaries", MoMA, NY
1995 Videofestival, Freidburg Kunsthal, Freidburg
Selected Publications:
2004 “Bühnen und Wissens” by Daniel Pies, Springerin Sommer 2004
“What's the Difference?” dicussion: Jörg Heiser and Jan Verwoert, Frieze, Issue 84
Interview by Lotte Møller, Neue Review, Art in Berlin, Ausgabe 8, December 2004
2003 “Echte Persönlichkeiten” by Raimer Stange, Kunst Bulletin, no. Jan/Feb 2003
2001 “DJ - Håvard”, Plesure Prison 2001, Blækflax, Copenhagen
2000 “Ingborg the ...”+”Busstops and P...”, Make, no. 99, London
1999 Solo catalogue, Secession, Wienna
"Make it Funky", crossover zwischen Musik, Pop, Avantgrade und Kunst by Ulrike Groos and Markus Müller, Oktagon
1998 "Addicted to Stories" by Luise Bæhrenz, Katalog, fall 98, Odense
1996 "Nudity and Small Talk" by Lars Bang Larsen, Index, no 1,96, Stockholm
"Willy as DJ" project pages, Index, no 1,96, Stockholm
Reprecented at:
Moderna Musseet, Stockholm
Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki
Samtidsmuseet, Oslo
Århus Kunst Museum, Århus
The National Museum of Art, Copenhagen
Arken, Museum for Contemporary Art, Ishøj
Centre George Pompidou, Paris