CV
Curriculum Vitae
Søren Dahlgaard
Born: Copenhagen, Denmark 1973.
Lives in Copenhagen.
www.sorendahlgaard.com:
Education:
1997-02 Slade School of Fine Arts, University College London, UK.
1996-97 The Royal Academy of Architecture, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Solo exhibitions:
2011
A Hedge is a Lance, Asbæk Gallery, Cph, Denmark.
The Beauty of Chaos ECCO – Contemporary Art Center, Brasilia, Brazil.
Growing Vegetables On a Coral Island Aarhus – Center for Contemporary Art.
Hibalhidhoo Galleri Image, Aarhus, Denmark.
2010
Dough portraits in Maldives, NAG – National Art Gallery, Malé, Maldives.
Søren Dahlgaard – The Dough Show. The National Art Gallery, Kosovo.
The Breathing Room, Rohde Contemporary, Cph, Denmark.
2009
The Breathing Corridor, The Corridor gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Dough portraits, Galerie Wolfsen, Aalborg, Denmark.
THE KABOOM! PROCESS Stalke Up North Gallery, Copenhagen.
2008
Søren Dahlgaard – 100 drawings challenging reality. Statens Museum for Kunst / The National Gallery Copenhagen, Denmark.
The Dough Warrior paints landscape performance, 50th anniversary, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark. (solo presentation).
Dough Portraits/Dej Portrætter. Statens Museum for Kunst / The National Gallery Copenhagen, Denmark.
Challenging Dough, Stalke galleri, Kirke Sonnerup, Denmark.
Søren Dahlgaard – The Dough Warrior painting show!. Gallery Poulsen Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2007
Over The Hedge – Inside The Dough – Into The Paint, Falkener Project, Cph, DK.
2002
Dirty Dessert, The Dennis Gallery, London, UK.
The Island, Ovengaden center for contemporary art, Cph, DK.
1998
New Work UK, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK.
Selected group exhibitions, video screenings & performances:
2012
KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art Helsinki, Finland.
Gwangju International Art Festival, South Korea.
Aeroplastics Gallery Brussels Belgium.
CCAT Contemporary Art Center Tbilisi, Georgia. Workshop + talk.
International Art Festival Tallinn, Estonia.
Museo National Brasilia, Brazil.
Andratx Contemporary Art Center Mallorca, Spain.
Humor, Seriously Esbjerg Art museum, Denmark.
2011
JCCAC Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, Hong Kong.
Hedge Warrior Øregaard Museum, Hellerup, Denmark.
Registered Nowhere, The Cartel Gallery London.
REGRESS-PROGRESS, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Urban Interventions CCBB – Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Brasilia.
THE KABOOM! PROCESS The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Israel.
Interakcje International Art Festival, Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland.
Fokus Video Festival, Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center.
Artstamp.dk + Guest Brænderigården Contemporary Art Center, Viborg, Denmark.
Backspace Stalke galleri, Denmark.
Terrain Video, Holsterbro Art Museum, Denmark.
Generous Gestures – Den Fri Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen.
An Exchange with Sol LeWitt Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art – MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
2010
Cracker#1 International Performance Festival, Dialekt Kunstverein, Stuttgart.
BE-HEAD, Andipa Gallery, London.
Live Action New York. Scandinavian House, New York.
Infr’Action International Performance Festival, Seté, France.
Vancouver biennale.
Copenhagen Photo festival.
Drawing biennale, The National Gallery, Kosovo.
BEST OF WONDERLAND, WAS – Wonderland Art Space, Cph.
The Danish Art Council Collection, The Nordic Council gallery, Cph.
On Paper, Stalke galleri, Kr. Sonnerup, Denmark.
2009
Blurrr 7 – The Seventh International Performance Art Biennial at The Center for Contemporary Art in Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Emergency Room,National Art Academy Hanoi, Vietnam.
On View 1, Stalke Collection, Kirke Sonnerup, Denmark.
Landscape – Foto Triennale, Brandts Foto Museum, Odense, Denmark.
10th OPEN International Performance Art Festival in Beijing, China.
Emergency Room, PAN, Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Italy.
Sequences 2009 Art festival, Reykjavik, Iceland.
THE KABOOM! PROCESS Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art, Cph.
Opening show, Galerie Ulf Saupe, Berlin.
ONE Copenhagen, Stalke Copenhagen. (incl. Carl André, Robert Barry, William Anastasi).
2008
THE KABOOM! PROCESS performance, Nikolaj Contemporary Copenhagen.
Wonder, Singapore Biennale 2008, Singapore.
The Schauwerk- Black Box Project, Cantonal Library of Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Trogen, Switzerland.
Dough Portraits at Interregnum. PSi – Performance Studies International, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Drømmerier/Dreams, Statens Museum for Kunst/ The National Gallery, Denmark.
Emergency Room, Galerie Taïss, Paris, France.
Hello Summer, Gallery Poulsen Contemporary Art, Cph. Denmark.
Portrait painting by Dough Warrior performance, CAMP X – International Contemporary Theater, Copenhagen.
2007
International Prize for Performance, Galleria Civica Museum of contemporary art, Trento, Italy.
Emergency Room, Ileana Tounta contemporary arts center, Athens.
Emergency Room, P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Center MoMA, New York.
2006
The Emergency Room in Time exhibition, Nicolaj kunsthal, Cph, DK.
Stay inn, Cph, DK. (V1 gallery curated)
2005
1. Prize, DNA (Diesel-New-Art Award) Galleri Edition, Cph. DK. Architect & Design center Oslo, Norway.
Challenging dough AX12 gallery, Cph. DK.
Circular Alteration, Cosmic Zoom short film festival, Copenhagen, DK.
2004
Video screening and performance, ICA (Institute of Contemporary art), London, UK.
2002-04
Pilot project on hydroponic food-production on small coral islands, Maldives (Indian Ocean) a two-year project. Report for ADB (Asian Development Bank) in association with Rambøll consultancy, Denmark.
2002
4th Video Marathon, Art in General, New York.
MEDITATIONS, AB Gallery, Mexico City.
Billboard project Brixton, London.
BLICK – New Nordic Film & Video, NIFCA (Nordic Institute For Contemporary Art), Helsinki, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Pori Art Museum, Finland, ARKEN Art Museum, Ishøj, DK, München Kunstverein, Germany, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Baltic art center, Visby – touring to 15 other museums worldwide. (With Maria Friberg, Salla Tykkä, etc.)
2001
Nomad art film festival touring: Berkeley, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland.
TAKE OFF 20:01, ARoS Art Museum, Aarhus, DK. (Curator: Anders Kold).
(With John Kørner, Tal R, Jeppe Hein etc.)
Becks Futures2, Student Film and Video Prize touring to: ICA, London, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, Sotheby’s, New York, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle.
1999
PROMS 4, Brandts Kunsthal, Odense. DK. (with Tal R, Roepstorff etc.)
3rd prize, Canon Photography Competition, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK.
ArtLink/Sotheby’s international exhibition, Sotheby’s, Berlin, Germany.
Bank Side Browser Archive, Tate Modern, London. (Curator: Andrew Renton).
1998
Spring exhibition Charlottenborgs kunsthal, Cph, DK.
Boxing Poodle art video produced with Channel 4, UK.
Tube, Nicolaj kunsthal contemporary arts center, Cph, DK.
1996
Fall exhibition Den Fri kunsthal, Cph, DK.
Public Collections
The Danish Arts Foundation.
The Copenhagen City Council Collection.
ECCO Contemporary Art Center, Brasilia, Brazil.
Museo National Brasilia, Brazil.
The Schauwerk – Black Box, Cantonal Library of Appenzell, Trogen, Switzerland.
CCA – Contemporary Art Center Tel Aviv.
The Israeli Center for Digital Art.
Ursula Blickle Videoarchive, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria.
Public talks/presentations
2011
International Arts Festival Hong Kong.
Aarhus Art Building & Galleri Image with Rasheed Araeen.
Jessi Cohen project, Digital Art Center, Holon, Israel.
ECCO – Contemporary Art Center, Brasilia, Brazil.
2010
Dialekt Kunstverein, Stuttgart.
NAG – National Art Gallery, Malé, Maldives.
The National Art Gallery, Kosovo.
2009
CCA Contemporary Arts Center, Tel Aviv.
Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing.
UCLA, Department for Architecture & Urban Design. Los Angeles.
University of Copenhagen, Art history department.
2008
Singapore Biennale 08, Singapore.
NAG – National Art Gallery of Maldives.
Nikolaj Contemporary Arts Center, Copenhagen.
Press (selected)
Brasilian art journal March 2011 by Liege M. Gonzalez www.dasartes.com
Kulturgeist, DRK, 3rd March 2011. (Danish Broadcasting Television).
02.03.2011. Cover page Correio_Braziliense, Brasilia newspaper.
P1 Radio interview, DR, Danish Radio Broadcasting. 25th Jan. 2011.
AAP – ArtAsiaPacific 2011 Almanac Vol. VI. p 154 By Dyer Cushman.
Time Out, London. Review. Nov 25th. By Rebecca Geldard.
Channel 4 – SHAW (National television interview from Vancouver Biennale)
Broadcast 13. Sep. 2010, Vancouver BC, Canada.
Ms.Use Israeli art mag. Aug. 2010. Pages 1, 85 & 106. www.msuse.com
TVM – National TV of Maldives. July 29th 2010. The news interview.
Minivan news Maldives: minivannews.com/travelandarts/dough-head-exhibition-rises-to-occasion-10073
Kulturo art mag. No. 30 2010. pp 50-51. www.kulturo.dk
Kosovo national television interview. May 2010.
Israel National television interview. November 2009.
DR P3 (Danish National Radio) Go’ morgen P3, interview, nov.09.
kopenhagen.dk 19. January 2009. Interview with THE KABOOM! PROCESS by Vibeke Sandby.
Singapore Biennale 08 art review October 08, p 26. By Charmain Oon.
www.artnet.fr november 08. By: Cyril Thomas.
Søren Dahlgaard – 100 drawings challenging reality, Statens Museum for Kunst/ The National Art Gallery, Copenhagen. kunsten.nu
THE KABOOM! PROCESS kunsten.nu
DR2 (Danish National Television) Smagsdommerne, 21.08.2008. www.dr.dk
kopenhagen.dk interview: Dough Portraits 25.3.08 by: Malene Jorck Heide-Jørgensen.
DR2 (Danish National Television) Den 11. Time (art program) 10.03.08.
DR1 (Danish National Television) Aftenshowet (The Evening Show) 10.03.08.
DR1 (Danish National Television) TV-Avisen (The National News) 150 kilo dej omsat til kunst på Statens Museum at 6:30 p.m. 08.03.08.
DR P3 (Danish National Radio) Go’ morgen P3, interview, 07.03.08.
Politiken, 01.03.08. Vild med dej. Culture section, p.2.
Bolig Eksklusiv magazine, feature article. Koldhævede besjælinger. March 08 issue #62, p. 150-156, by: Cecilie Marie Meyer.
DR P3 (Danish National Radio) Go’ morgen P3, interview, 07.02.08.
DR 1 TV (Danish National Television) 27.01.08. Landsindsamlingen, interview & performance.
Work – ART IN PROGRESS, Trento Italy/Quarterly magazine, winter 2007-08, International Prize for Performance, Galleria Civica Museum of contemporary art, Trento, Oct. 2007, Italy. p. 32-43, by: Daniela Zangrando.
Magasinet Kunst, nr. 5/2007, Kunsten at starte et galleri, p. 48-49.
Ekstra Bladet, 22.09.2007, Brian i spådomsteltet, backpage, by Michael Jeppesen.
Politiken web, 21.09.2007, Kunstner maler indbagt i brød. article & video.
Politiken, 21.09.2007, Djævlens advokat: Dejkrigeren kunne blive vor tids Charlie Chaplin, IBYEN, p. 1 & 10, by Joakim Grundahl.
Berlingske, 21.09.2007, En messe værd?, AOK, p.13, by Torben Weirup.
Urban, 21.09.2007, Årets mest kunst-ige weekend, p. 30, by Karina Edlund Jensen.
Kunstavisen, 22.08.2007, Art Copenhagen 2007_.
ARENA, June 2007, Agenda 0607 – Kunstscenen på fem minutter, p. 32.
Weekendavisen, no.13 – 30.03.2007, Kultur, ART = RETARD, p.1, by Nikolaj M. Lassen.
New York Magazine, www.nymag.com, March 2007, Emergency Room, P.S.1, MoMA.
ABC TV-NEWS, USA, 08.03. 2007, Ever-changing exhibit: Emergency Room, Eyewitness News reporter Lauren Glassberg.
www.wnyc.org, (New York Public Radio), The Brian Lehrer Show, 06.03.2007, Where Art and Journalism Collide.
Time Out New York, Radio, March 2007, Thierry Geoffroy/Colonel: Emergency Room.
Reuters TV, The Art of News, USA, 27.02.2007, Artists respond to news on deadline.‘’The Emergency Room’’ opens in New York, where artists produce works based on news under tight deadlines.
Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
Børsen, 01.03.2007, Dansk nyhedskunst vælter New York, p. 39, by Kirsten Bødker.
Berlingske, 22.12.2006, Kunstnerisk projektrum i Fredericiagade, p. 1, 13, by Lars Rix.
Wonderland, Issue 2, 2006, Dough Warrior – Søren Dahlgaard, p.36.
Politiken, 09.12.2005, Gallerier skyder op i hele byen_, 3. Sektion, p. 1, 11, by Camilla Stockmann.
COVER, October 2005, kunst DIESEL NEW ART – Performance kunst er selvhøjtideligt_, p. 48-49.
Politiken, 30.09.2005,_ Diesel belønner ung dansk kunst_, 3. Sektion, Kunst, p. 14.
Urban, 29.05.2002, AOK, Den menneskelige pensel, p. 21, by Jo Brand.
Information, 29.11.2001, _ …som at barbere sig med en motorsav_, frontpage & lastpage, by Jonas Lautrop.
NU: Art Magazin, TAKE OFF 2001.
GuardianUnlimited, 23.04.2001, International shortlist announced.
Independent.co.uk, 23.04.2001, Back to the future as avantgarde arts prize goes to oil painter and his nuclear families, by Louise Jury.
BBC NEWS, 11.04.2001, Painter is toast of Beck’s prize.
www.frieze.com, 11.04.2001, Becks Futures 2 winner announced.
Time Out London, 21.03.2001, Shorts list, by Sharon Lougher.
Børsen, 22.03.2001, Virkeligheden set med humor og sagelighed, by Bente Scavenius.
Jyllands-Posten, 06.03.2001, Kunsten byder velkommen, by Line Helena Bak.
Flensborg avis, 30.06.2000, Dansk og tysk kunst smelter sammen, p. 1, 8, by Jens Nygaard.
L’echo Republicain, 11.03.2000, Les musées fêteront le printemps.
Fyns Stiftstidende, 21.12.1999, Ung kunst som show, Kultur p. 11, by Mogens Damgaard.
Jyllands-Posten, 27.11.1999, Vilje til det visuelle_, by Line Helena Bak.
Norddeutsche Neueste Nachrichten, 09.08.1999, Rostock und der Rest der Welt steigerten für junge Kunst um die Wette_, Nr. 183/47, by Christian Lüsch.
Los Angeles Times, 07.08.1999, Arts & entertainment, Shauna Snow.
The Wall Street Journal Europe, 06-07.08.1999, Art Auctions_, by Sarah Ellison.
Reuter, London – Online, 06.08.1999, Bidders Gather Live European Art Auction On Web_, by Eva Sohlman.
Frankfurter Allgemeine, nr. 174, 1999, C.B.
Norddeutsche Neueste Nachrichten, 05.08.1999, Sotheby’s im Barocksaal, p. 25, Katja Bülow.
Berliner Morgenpost, Berliner Allgemaine, 30.07.1999, Kunst für den Babysitter.
Tip Berlin magazin, 22.07-04.08.1999, Junge baltische Kunst.
EURO am Sonntag, 18.07.1999, haber tz, p. 71.
Die Welt, 10.07.1999, Träume, die aus dem Gehirn wachsen, p. 15, by Carmen Stephan.
The Times, July 18-24 1998, Metro p. 5.
Politiken, 2. section, 22. 03.1998, Nåleøjet til fremtiden, p. 4. By Peter M. Hornung.
Ekstra Bladet, 21.03.98, Trist forår_, p. 16, by Jørgen Sperling.
Politiken, 10.06.1997, Hovedsageligt_, 3. Sektion, IBYEN.
Weekendavisen, 31.01-06.02.1997, Forbandede ungdum, Bøger, p. 9, by Poul Pilgaard Johnsen.
Information, 25.10.1996, Gammel tante får blodtransfusion, kultur, frontpage & p. 9, by Lisbeth Bonde.
Aktuelt, 19.10.1996, Det er uhyggeligt, 2. Sektion p. 1, by Elisa Nielsen.
Politiken, 18.10.1996, Kvinderne i overtal, 3. Sektion, p. 24, by Jens Kerte.
Catalogues/books
Weizmann Institute of Science Israel Annual Report 2011.Søren Dahlgaard – Growing Vegetables on a Coral Island Hibalhidhoo, 100 pages. Texts by Rasheed Araeen, Eliza Tan and more. 2011.
Dough Portraits – National Art Gallery of Maldives 2010. (40 pages).
Vancouver biennale 2009-2011.
THE KABOOM PROCESS DVD special edition containing 7 videos. www.thekaboomprocess.com
Drawing biennale, Kosovo National Art Gallery. 72 pages.
Foto Triennale.dk Brandts Photo Museum, Odense, Denmark. 2009.
10th OPEN International Performance Art Festival in Beijing, China. 2009.
ONE – online catalogue. 28 pages. Published by Stalke.dk
New Danish Art 08 – p. 178-181, kopenhagen publishing
Wonder – Singapore Biennale 08 book + short guide book.
Søren Dahlgaard – The Dough Warrior project! 56 pages, incl DVD & text by Anders Kold, curator, Louisiana museum of Modern Art, Denmark. 2008.
Interregnum 08. PSi – Performances Studies International. www.interregnum.dk
Dough Portraits news paper 12 pages, Statens Museum for Kunst (The National Gallery, Denmark). 2008.
DNA diesel new art, 2005, Copenhagen, Stockholm & Oslo,
Slade journal 2002.
TAKE OFF 20:01, ARoS, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark. (Text by Anders Kold).
BLICK: New Nordic Film & Video 2001.
Melting Pot, 2000, Glückburg Castle, Germany.
PROMS4, 1999, Brandt kunsthal, Odense, Denmark.
Bankside Browser, 1999, Tate Modern, London.
International Young Baltic Art 1999, Berlin & Rostock, Germany.
