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Most exhibitions in: |
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| Denmark | 40 |
| USA | 24 |
| France | 21 |
| Belgium | 21 |
| Germany | 21 |
Most exhibitions held at: |
| Institution |
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Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Denmark |
13 |
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Galerie Jan Mot, Belgium |
11 |
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Palais de Tokyo, France |
5 |
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The Greene Naftali Gallery, USA |
4 |
Biography: 
1964 Born in København (DK)
Lives and works in New York City, NY (US) and Stockholm (SE)
External links: | | Public exhibitions (Selection) 218
from 23.8.
until 2.6.
until 2.6.
Solo shows 37
2013
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| Joachim Koester - Reptile Brain Or Reptile Body, It's Your Animal - Palais de Tokyo, Paris |
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| Reptile brain, or reptile body, it's your animal - Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels |
2012
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| Joachim Koester - Maybe One Must Begin with Some Particular Places - SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent |
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| Joachim Koester - Some Boarded Up Houses - Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen |
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| Joachim Koester - Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen |
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| Joachim Koester - To navigate, in a genuine way, in the unknown... - MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA |
2011
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| Joachim Koester Of Spirits And Empty Spaces - IAC - Institut d'art contemporain Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne |
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| If Something Moves Everything Moves - Galería Elba Benítez, Madrid |
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| I myself am only a receiving apparatus - Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels |
2010
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| Joachim Koester - kestnergesellschaft, Hannover |
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| Joachim Koester - Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen |
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| Del jardín secreto del sueño - Museo Tamayo, Mexico City |
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| Joachim Koester - The Greene Naftali Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Joachim Koester : Hypnagogia - The Power Plant, Toronto, ON |
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| Joachim Koester - The Hashish Club - - Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin (closed, 2012) |
2009
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| Joachim Koester - Poison Protocols and Other Histories - Stills, Edinburgh (Scotland) |
2008
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| Joachim Koester - Tarantarism - Stuk Kunstcentrum, Leuven |
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| Joachim Koester: Ghost Tracks - Overgaden - Institut for Samtidskunst, Copenhagen |
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| Joachim Koester - Tarantism + Pit Music - Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen |
2007
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| Joachim Koester - Twelve (Former) Real Estate Opportunities - Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels |
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| Joachim Koester: The Magic Mirror of - Preus Museum, Horten |
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| Joachim Koester - Numerous Incidents Of Indefinite Outcome - Extra City - Kunsthal Antwerpen, Antwerp |
2006
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| Joachim Koester - Palais de Tokyo, Paris |
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| Joachim Koester - Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona |
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| Joachim Koester - Histories - Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels |
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| Joachim Koester - Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen |
2005
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| Joachim Koester - The Greene Naftali Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Joachim Koester - New Works - Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels |
2002
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| Joachim Koester - The Tools of My Trade - Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels |
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| Joachim Koester - bialowieza forest - Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen |
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| Joachim Koester - Different stories, different places - Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg |
2000
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| Joachim Koester - Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels |
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| Joachim Koester - The Greene Naftali Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Joachim Koester - Row housing - Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen |
1999
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| Joachim Koester - Tomio Koyama Gallery - Tokyo, Tokyo |
1998
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| Joachim Koester - Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels |
1997
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| Joachim Koester - The Greene Naftali Gallery, New York City, NY |
Group shows 178
2013
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| Paint it blck - FRAC - Ile-de-France Le Plateau, Paris |
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| It is only a state of mind - Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin |
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| Cold Sun / Soleil Froid - Palais de Tokyo, Paris |
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| A World of Wild Doubt - Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg |
2012
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| Open Spaces / Secret Places - Werke aus der Sammlung Verbund - Museum der Moderne - MdM Mönchsberg, Salzburg |
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| Taipei Biennial 2012 - Modern Monsters / Death and Life of Fiction - Taipei Biennial, Taipei |
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| Les DÉrives De L'imaginaire - Palais de Tokyo, Paris |
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| A Blind Spot - Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin |
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| Steel Life - Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Fremde Überall – Foreigners Everywhere - Zeitgenössische Kunst aus der Pomeranz Collection - Jüdisches Museum Wien, Vienna |
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| The Crystal Chain - Invisible-Exports, New York City, NY |
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| Ritual without Myth - Royal College of Art Galleries, London (England) |
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| A Corral around Your Idea - Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels |
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| open spaces - secret places Werke aus der Sammlung Verbund - Museum der Moderne - MdM Mönchsberg, Salzburg |
2011
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| Erschaute Bauten - Architektur Im Spiegel Zeitgenössischer Kunstfotografie - Museum für angewandte Kunst (MAK), Vienna |
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| Sociétés secrètes - Savoir, oser, vouloir, garder le silence - CAPC - Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux |
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| Terre transformée / Transformed Land - photographies - Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris |
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| Animismus. Moderne hinter den Spiegeln - Generali Foundation, Vienna |
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| Arctic - Moscow House of Photography, Moscow |
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| Contour 2011 - 5th Biennial of Moving Image - Contour - Biennial for Video Art, Mechelen |
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| Yokohama Triennale 2011 - Yokohama Triennale, Tokyo |
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| Exhibition Group - Murray Guy, New York City, NY |
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| Geheimgesellschaften - Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main |
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| Tomorrow is the Question - SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent |
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| Second Lives : Jeux masqués et autres Je - Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg |
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| eins plus eins - Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung M.1 Hohenlockstedt, Hohenlockstedt |
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| Dance with Camera - Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art - SMoCA, Scottsdale, AZ |
2010
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| The Unknown Group - FRAC - Bourgogne, Dijon |
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| all we ever wanted was everything - EFA Project Space - The Elizabeth Foundation for the Art, New York City, NY |
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| Entretiempos / Nel Frattempo - Istanti, intervalli, durate - MAN - Museo d`Arte di Nuoro, Nuoro |
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| Dying In Spite of The Miraculous - Gertrude contemporary art spaces, Melbourne, VIC |
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| 29° Bienal de São Paulo - Bienal de Sao Paulo, São Paulo |
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| You can't get there from here but you can get here from there - Apexart, New York City, NY |
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| La Disparation - New Galerie, Paris |
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| Athens in Catania: Away and Boil your Head selected works from the 1st / 2nd Athens Biennale - Fondazione Puglisi Cosentino - Palazzo Valle, Catania, CT |
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| Forum 65: Jones, Koester, Nashashibi/Skaer: Reanimation - Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA |
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| The Storyteller - Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON |
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| Animism - Kunsthalle Bern, Bern |
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| It’s a Set-up - Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki |
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| Make the Most of Now - WUK - Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna |
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| 2 1/2 Dimensional - Film Featuring Architecture - deSingel, Antwerp |
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| DOUBLE BIND / Arrêtez d’essayer de me comprendre ! - Villa Arson, Nice |
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| Animism - Extra City - Kunsthal Antwerpen, Antwerp |
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| Animism - MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp |
2009
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| Not Created By A Human Hand - Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam |
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| Dépaysage - FRAC - Basse-Normandie, Caen |
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| The Storyteller - Salina Art Center, Salina, KS |
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| Esthétique des pôles. Le testament des glaces - 49 NORD 6 EST – Frac Lorraine, Metz |
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| Morality - Act II: From Love to Legal - Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam |
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| Dance with Camera - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA |
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| 2nd Athens Biennial 2009 - Heaven - Athens Biennial, Athens |
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| CICLO KENNETH ANGER - Estrela Brilhante da Manhã - Bright Morning Star - ZDB - Galeria Zé dos Bois, Lisbon |
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| If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution - Project Arts Centre, Dublin |
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| På Tværs. Nyerhvervelser 2007 – 09 / Across. Acquisitions 2007 – 09 - Statens museum for kunst, Copenhagen |
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| Then the work takes place - Camera Austria, Graz |
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| Great Expectations - Contemporary Photography Looks At Today'S Bitter Years - Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg |
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| On second reading - Galería Estrany - De La Mota, Barcelona |
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| Det Exotiske - Group Exhibition - - Galleri Rebecca Kormind, Copenhagen (closed) |
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| Aspect Ratio - Tent - Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Rotterdam |
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| Size Matters - Tent - Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Rotterdam |
2008
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| If I Can´t Dance I Don´t To Be Part Of Your Revolution - Sala Rekalde, Bilbao |
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| Rosângela Rennó - Questioning History - The Past in the Present - Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam |
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| Transes - Musée Départemental d'Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart |
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| DET SENESTE NYE - Nyerhvervelser af samtidskunst - Sorø Kunstmuseum, Sorø |
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| T2 Torino Triennale - Torino Trienniale, Turin |
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| The Map is not the Territory - Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, Esbjerg |
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| The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art - Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY |
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| If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution Edition III - Masquerade - de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam |
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| Try again. Fail again. Fail better. - Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest |
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| La gran transformacion - Arte y magia tactica - MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo |
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| Wild Signals - Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart |
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| 8 Bienal de Arte Panama 2008 - - Bienal de Arte Panama, Panama City (closed) |
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| U-TURN Quadrennial for Contemporary Art - U-TURN Quadrennial for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen |
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| Anniversary Exhibition - Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen |
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| NONKNOWLEDGE - Project Arts Centre, Dublin |
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| Overdragelse - Overgaden - Institut for Samtidskunst, Copenhagen |
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| Die Wahrnehmung von Ideen führt zu neuen Ideen - Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf |
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| Manifesta 7 - Comitato Manifesta 7, Bolzano |
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| The Great Transformation - Kunst und taktische Magie - Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/Main |
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| Estratos - Espacio AV, Murcia |
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| Danskjävlar - en svensk kærlighedserklæring - Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen |
2007
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| In The Poem About Love You Don't Write The Word Love - Overgaden - Institut for Samtidskunst, Copenhagen |
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| Against Time - Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm |
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| Black is Black - SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent |
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| Elsewhere - University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL |
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| Château de Tokyo / Tokyo Redux - Centre international d´art et du paysage de l´île de Vassivière, Ile de Vassivière |
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| Blind Date – Basel aftermath in Rome - Magazzino d'Arte Moderna, Rome |
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| Mystic truths - Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland |
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| Forschen unf Erfinden - Die Recherche mit Bildern in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie - Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur |
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| 1st Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art - Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki |
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| 8th Sharjah Biennial - Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah |
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| Silly Adults - Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen |
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| Expéditions - La Galerie - Centre d'art contemporain, Noisy le Sec |
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| Prophets of Deceit - Canzani Center Gallery/Bureau for Open Culture at Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH |
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| The V Effect - Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen |
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| les temps modernes - Domaine de Kerguéhennec - Centre d'Art Contemporain, Bignan |
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| A Secret Service - Art, Compulsion, Concealment - De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea (England) |
2006
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| Dreamlands Burn - Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest |
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| Planting the tele - Mary Mary Gallery, Glasgow (Scotland) |
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| Fiction - La Box - École Nationale Superieure d´Art de Bourges, Bourges |
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| Messages from the Unseen - Lunds konsthall, Lund |
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| Busan Biennale 2006 - The Busan Biennale, Busan |
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| 5'000'000'000 d'années - Palais de Tokyo, Paris |
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| Prophets of Deceit - CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA |
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| MOMENTUM – Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art 2006 - Momentum Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art , Moss |
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| First the artist defines meaning - Camera Austria, Graz |
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| The Known and the Unknown - Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen |
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| Unsichtbae Welten - Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg |
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| again for tomorow - Royal College of Art Galleries, London (England) |
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| Dark Places - Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA |
2005
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| Some Trees - Galerie Neue Meister - Albertinum, Dresden |
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| BMW - Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius |
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| The IX Baltic Triennial of International Art - BMW - The Baltic Triennial of International Art, Vilnius |
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| Reality - Stalke Galleri / Stalke Out Of Space / Artstamp.dk, Kirke Saaby |
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| 51st International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia - Always a little further - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
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| skyggen /the shadow - Sorø Kunstmuseum, Sorø |
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| The Need to Document - Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel |
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| Highlights - Statens museum for kunst, Copenhagen |
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| 3rd Ars Baltica Triennial of Photographic Art - What is Important? - Malmö Konsthall, Malmö |
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| Today is just a copy of yesterday - Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels |
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| Baby Shower - Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen |
2004
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| 3rd Ars Baltica Triennial of Photographic Art - What is Important? - Pori Taidemuseo / Pori Art Museum, Pori |
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| Rear View Mirror - historical memory and contemporary culture - Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (England) |
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| Posters, videoes and other stuff - Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona |
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| Territories - The Frontiers of Utopia and Other Facts on the Ground - Malmö Konsthall, Malmö |
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| Tusenfryd - Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen |
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| "The Big Nothing" - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA |
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| Home Extension - University Art Museum University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY |
2003
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| Territories - Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam |
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| Fra Objektiv Til Objekt - Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen |
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| Ten years anniversary exhibition - Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen |
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| Sound Systems - Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg |
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| De bortbjudna – Malmö Art Museum is visiting Rooseum - - Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö (closed, 2006) |
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| Prophetic Remix - National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest |
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| Territories - Kunst-Werke Berlin - KW Institute for Contemporary Art , Berlin |
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| Periferic 6 - Periferic Biennial, Iasi |
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| Le Beau Corps de la Mémoire - MAC's Grand Hornu - Musée des Arts Contemporains, Hornu |
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| L´artiste portatif - Institut du Mexique à Paris, Paris |
2002
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| New Space Opening Show - Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels |
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| Todos somos pecadores. Arte nórdico contemporáneo - Museo Tamayo, Mexico City |
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| Ocho relatos nórdicos - CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela |
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| Out of Place: Contemporary Art and the Architectural Uncanny - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago, IL |
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| Lewis Caroll - ... confiture demain et confiture hier. Mais jamais confiture auj - CRAC - Centre Régional d'Art Contemporain de Sète, Sète |
2001
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| group show - Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen |
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| x-rummet- Sandra of the Tuliphouse or How to Live in a Free State af Matthew Buckingham og Joachim Koester - Statens museum for kunst, Copenhagen |
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| Du er helt ny - du er retro - Trapholt, Kolding |
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| The Waste Land - Wüste und Eis. Ödlandschaften in der Fotografie. - - Augarten Contemporary, Vienna (closed, 2011) |
2000
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| Organising Freedom - Nordic art in the 90s - Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen |
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| Gallery Collections - Tomio Koyama Gallery - Tokyo, Tokyo |
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| Another Place - Tramway, Glasgow (Scotland) |
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| Norden - Kunsthalle wien project space karlsplatz, Vienna |
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| Greater New York: New Art in New York Now - MoMA PS1, New York City, NY |
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| Organising freedom - nordic art of the 90's - Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
1999
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| Close-ups - Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen |
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| h:min:sec - Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck |
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| The Edstrand Foundation Art Prize 1999 - - Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö (closed, 2006) |
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| Cinéma Cinéma - Contemporary Art and the Cinematic Experience - Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven |
1998
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| Lost Paradise - Galeria Presença - Porto, Porto |
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| Out of the north - Contemporary Art from Denmark and Sweden - Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart |
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| Come Closer - Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art - Budapest, Budapest |
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| Something is rotten in the State of Denmark - Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel |
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| Come Closer - Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen |
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| Leer/Räume [Nothing But Space] - HMKV - Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund |
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| Collier, Frank, Isermann, Koester, Parreno, Quinones, And Rainey - INOVA - Institute of Visual Arts, Milwaukee, WI |
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| Twilight - Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius |
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| 10 YEARS CELEBRATION PART 2 - Stalke Galleri / Stalke Out Of Space / Artstamp.dk, Kirke Saaby |
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| The Louisiana Exhibition. New Art from Denmark and Scania - Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk |
1997
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| The Hidden Pictures - ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishoj |
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| documenta X - Documenta, Kassel |
1996
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| Disneyland After Dark - Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin |
1995
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| 1st Gwangju Biennal - Beyond The Borders - Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju |
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| Status - Stalke Galleri / Stalke Out Of Space / Artstamp.dk, Kirke Saaby |
1993
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| Openingshow - Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen |
1992
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| Baghuset - ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus |
| Dealer Directory 3 |
Belgium
| | Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels
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Denmark
| | Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
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USA
| | The Greene Naftali Gallery, New York City, NY
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Belgium
| | SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent
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| | MAC's Grand Hornu - Musée des Arts Contemporains, Hornu
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Denmark
| | Det Nationale Fotomuseum, Copenhagen
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| | Statens museum for kunst, Copenhagen
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Finland
| | Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
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Sweden
| | Moderna Museet, Stockholm
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USA
| | MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
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| | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY
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| | MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
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| | The West Collection, Oaks, PA
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