Barbara Wien gallery & art bookshop

born 1983 in Denmark
lives and works in Møn, Denmark

2005 - 06 Aarhus Art Academy/ Aarhus Kunstakademi, Denmark
2006 - 07 Aarhus Art School/ Byhøjskolen Aarhus, Denmark
2010 - 11 Goldsmiths University of London, MA in Gender and Culture, England
2007 - 13 The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, MFA, Copenhagen, Denmark

Awards & Grants

2022
Nominee for the Queen Sonja Print Award

2020
The Danish Arts Foundation, work grant

2020
Grosserer L.F. Foghts Fond, production grant

2019
The Danish Arts Foundation, work grant

2017
The Danish Arts Foundation, work grant

2016
Aage and Yelva Nimbs Fond, artist honorary grant
Den Hielmstierne-Rosencroneske Stiftelse, awarded work grant
The Danish Arts Foundation, work grant
Art Brussels SOLO Prize

2015
Ole Halsunds Kunstnerfond, awarded travel grant
The Danish Arts Foundation, work grant

2014
The Danish Arts Foundation, work grant

2013
Fr. Gerda Jensens Kunstnerlegat, travel grant

2010
Knud Højgaards Fond, scholarship
Nordea Fonden, scholarship
Grosserer L.F. Foghts Fond, scholarship

Collections

SMK, National Gallery of Denmark
Kupferstichkabinett – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany
Malmö Konstmuseum, Sweden
The Danish Arts Foundation, Denmark

Solo Exhibitions

2023
Slow Tools, Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany (September)

2022
Bedfellows, M100, Odense, Denmark

2021
Woodbeds, brimming, Kunstplass contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway

2019
Woodbeds, brimming, Avlskarl Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2017
Pressure/imprint, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden
All models are wrong, some are useful, Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin, Germany

2016
A closet does not connect under the bed, Overgaden Institute of Art, Copenhagen, Denmark

2015
How to spell a sound that is physical, Avlskarl Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2014
Jeg navigerer I kollisioner (I navigate in collisions), C4 Projects, Copenhagen, Denmark

Group Exhibitions

2023
Happily Ever After, Malmö Konstmuseum, Sweden (October)
Painting is Dead, Kunstpakhuset, Ikast, Denmark (August)
HOLEY, Santa Monica Arts Centre, Barcelona, Spain
spelling slipping ellipsis, Lunds konsthal, Lund, Sweden

2022
P for Perspective, Simian, Copenhagen, Denmark
Den Frie Udstilling 2022, Atmospheres – Action, Euphoria, Melancholy, Spirituality,
Den Frie – Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Woodcut – From 1400 to the present, Kupferstichkabinett – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany

2021
De Te Fabula Narrature, The Museum of Cultural History & Kunstplass Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
(in)visible, Malmö Konstmuseum, Sweden
Soil. Sickness. Society, Rønnebæksholm, Denmark

2020
Zwischen Körpern (Between Bodies), Tieranatomisches Theater, Berlin, Germany
Synliggørelser (Renderings), Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark

2019
Folded Veil, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong
Willumsen og den kvindelige model – fra klassisk til queer, J.F. Willumsens Museum, Frederikssund, Denmark
Taletid, Rønnebæksholm, Næstved, Denmark

2018
der grosse Anspruch des kleinen Bildes, Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin, Germany
Facing Concrete, Gallery Kant, Copenhagen, Denmark
Caressing History, Shrine Empire Gallery, New Delhi, India
FLESH, RØM, Copenhagen, Denmark
Now it is Light, Galeria Municipal da Boavista, Lisbon, Portugal

2017
Extended Family, C4 Projects, Copenhagen, Denmark
BEERS 5 – 100 Kvinder på Kro part 3, Carlsberg Byens Galleri & Kunstsalon, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Collectors Home, Avlskarl Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2016
Seeable | Sayable, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
Homosexuality_ies, LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, Germany
Art Brussels, solo presentation, Avlskarl Gallery, Belgium
Identity. Behind the Curtain of Uncertainty, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
Survival K(n)it 7, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia
100 Kvinder på Kro, Huset for Kunst & Design, Holstebro, Denmark

2015
A Feminist Culture Reader, Grafikernes Hus, Copenhagen, Denmark
BEERS 5 – 100 Kvinder på Kro, Byens Kro, Copenhagen, Denmark
abc – art berlin contemporary, solo presentation at Avlskarl Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Å PARADIS – HELSINKI, Kunstplass [10], Art Fair Suomi, Helsinki, Finland
Survival K(n)it 7, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia
Just Frustration, SixtyEight, Copenhagen, Denmark
Homosexuality_ies, Schwules Museum, Berlin, Germany

2014
Vi tager intet ansvar 3, Q Space, Copenhagen, Denmark
Time Prints, Dalian Art Museum, China
Å PARADIS – Strategies on The Nordic Queer, Kunstplass 5, Oslo, Norway
BarHvaViHar#9, Warehouse 9, Copenhagen, Denmark
Literacy / Illiteracy, The 16th Tallinn Print Triennial, Kumu Art Museum, Estonia
Time Prints, Art College of Xiamen University, China

2013
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog III, Baghuset, Copenhagen, Denmark
Afgang 2013 (MFA Degree Show 2013), Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
24 Spaces – A Cacophony, Malmö Kunsthal, Sweden

2012
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog II, Baghuset, Copenhagen, Denmark
International Performance Art Festival, BarHvaViHar#5 art lounge, W9, Copenhagen, Denmark
Rundgang, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark
BarHvaViHar#1, Warehouse 9, Copenhagen, Denmark

2010
Rundgang, The Royal Academy of Fine Arts/ private home Frederiksberg, Denmark

2009
Contemporary past: New Art Forms in Memorial Building, Vilnius, Lithuania

2007
Chinese Smorgasbord, Udstillingsstedet Q, Copenhagen, Denmark

Selected Collaborative Work

2012
- Founding of BarHvaViHar - a queer feminist art bar with exhibitions, readings and performances. Initiated by Maja Moesgaard, Mette Clausen, Line Hvidbjerg and Ester Fleckner. Conducted on a regular basis in 2012-2014 in Warehouse 9, Copenhagen, Denmark

Jeg prøver at kigge ind men får gardiner i øjnene, exhibition and performative work, Q Space, Copenhagen, Denmark

Selected Bibliography

2015
Cruising horizontal lines, special edition woodcut print for Pist Protta 77, www.spacepetry.dk

2014
Kollision: fordi anus, min krop er botanisk; om tabertrang, clit-dicks og fejlende fællesskaber, text published in Trappe Tusind#10 magazine, trappetusind.dk

2013
Arguments for desire, publication of graphic print, Den Danske Radeerforening