Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae
Jens Axel Beck
1976 Haderslev, Denmark

Education
2002-2008 The Funen Academy of Fine Arts, Odense, DK
2005-2006 The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, department of media art, Copenhagen, DK

Selected exhibitions
2011 Contrariety In Symmetry, Din Nye Ven, Copenhagen, DK
2011 Local Global Plan, exhibition on public street, Copenhagen, DK
2011 Standing on a Surface, in collaboration with Ulrike Mohr, Danske Grafikeres Hus, Copenhagen, DK
2010 KOH-I-NOOR, Den Frie Center of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK
2010 Koh-i-noor in Sea & Space Explorations, Sea & Space Explorations, Los Angeles, California, USA
2010 2 -1/4-n/2 × 2 1/4-n/2 – Artists in Dialog, in collaboration with Heidi Hove, Art Laboratory Berlin, Berlin, DE
2010 Frederiksberg, A Exhibition by Koh-i-noor, Den Gule Villa, Copenhagen, DK
2010 Six Minutes, The SIM House, Reykjavik, Iceland
2010 Astronomical Frontiers, Hennigsen Contemporary, Copenhagen, DK
2009 Berlin, poor but sexy, Pool Art Center Gallery, Drury University, Springfield, Missouri, USA
2009 Friends, Comrades, Colleagues, Galleri Gl. Lejre, Lejre, DK
2009 S/M/L/XL/XXL, solo exhibition, Galleri Image – Demoroom, Århus, DK
2009 S/M/L/XL, solo exhibition, Koh-i-noor, Copenhagen, DK
2008 Site Specific, Odense harbor, Odense, DK
2008 Urban Pedestal, exibition in public space, Helsinki, FI
2008 In Case We Die – The 08 Graduate Exhibition Of The Funen Art Academy, Brandts, Odense, DK
2008 Oblivion, X-bunker, Sønderborg, DK
2008 Deadpan Exchange III, The Lab, San Francisco, USA
2008 Space Convention, Köpenicker Strasse 10, Berlin, DE
2007 From Sculpture Through Painting To Object, Galleri Aegidius, Randers, DK
2007 Deadpan Exchange II, Super Bien, Berlin, DE
2006 Blinded By Words, exhibition in connection to a theatre play, Plex, Copenhagen, DK
2006 Blind Spots, in collaboration with Morten Ernlund Jorgensen, Koh-i-noor, Copenhagen, DK
2006 Entry phone, sound art project, Gudrun Hasles flat on Sjællandsgade, Copenhagen, DK
2006 60 Seconds, short film festival in the Copenhagen Metro, DK
2005 Buffet, Førstetilvenstre, Copenhagen, DK
2005 The Folkelighed – A Danish Word That Cannot Be Translated, Sparwasser HQ, Berlin, DE
2005 Crossing Now!, Masteskurene, Copenhagen, DK
2005 Selected Videos, Pixel, Copenhagen, DK
2005 Pro-art, Randers Museum of Art, Randers, DK
2005 Changing, in collaboration with Morten Espersen, Trapholt, Kolding, DK
2004 6 In 60, Koh-i-noor, Copenhagen, DK
2004 5000 C, Filosofgangen, Odense, DK
2004 Spaces, solo exhibition, DFKU, Odense, DK
2004 Fetish Collection, Tidens Samling, Odense, DK
2003 Spring Exhibition, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK
2002 KP, The Artists Easter Exhibition, Kunstbygningen, Århus, DK

Selected curatorial work
2011 THEM, Koh-i-noor´s stand ved alt_cph11 Encounters, in collaboration with Heidi Hove, The Factory of Art & Design, Copenhagen, DK
2011 LOCAL GLOBAL PLAN, exhibition on public street, in collaboration with Heidi Hove, Stine Hebert, Louise Trier og Marie Bruun Yde, Copenhagen, DK
2008 Flexible Identities, in collaboration with Heidi Hove and Mille Winther, Koh-i-noor, Copenhagen, Denmark
2008 Flexible Identities, video competition (in collaboration with Heidi Hove), Botnik Space Off 08, Hamburgsund, Sweden

Grants
2011 The Danish Arts Foundation, Working Grant
2010 The Danish Art Council, Committee for Visual Arts (Frederiksberg, Exhibition by Koh-i-noor)
2010 The Danish Art Council, Committee for International Visual Art, (2-1/4-n/2 × 21/4-n/2 – Artists in Dialog)
2009 The Danish Art Council, Committee for International Visual Art, (Berlin, Poor But Sexy)
2009 The Danish Arts Foundation, Art in the public space, in collaboration with Anne Bennike and Heidi Hove
2008 The Danish Art Council, Committee for Visual Arts, (S/M/L/XL)

Publication
2009 Vitavrap – Lifestyle 2009, Granat
2009 Temporary Urban Structures, * Asterisk, ISBN 978-87-991703-0-2

Sponsorships
2008 Stokke
2008 Mads Nørdaard Copenhagen
2005 Stark – Kalk & Mortelvaerkerne

Other
2011 Sold to The Danish Arts Foundation
2010 SIMRES, residency program, stipend from Kulturkontakt Nord, Reykjavik, Island
2004 Co-founder of Koh-i-noor, an exhibition site in Copenhagen