BIOGRAPHY
Born 1969 in Copenhagen, DenmarkEDUCATION
2007 Combat training at the Swedish Air Force Fighter School, Linköping, Sweden
2000 Competition Aerobatics
1999 – 00 Aerobatics training Chandler Air Service and Boggan
1993 – 98 The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Denmark
1995 – 97 Goldsmith's College of Fine Arts, London, England
1996 PPL Clacton Aero Club, Clacton on Sea
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 AROS Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
Fly-performance, Aarhus, Denmark
Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland
2007 Solo Show, Art Brussels, Martin Asbæk Projects, Brussels, Belgium
Symposium C6: The Artworld is Flat: Globalism – Crisis and Opportunity, Jay Pritzker Pavilion,
Chicago, USA
2006 VOLTAShow, Martin Asbæk Projects, Basel, Switzerland
OPEN SKY, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden
Stafet i frit rum, Airplay, Copenhagen
2003 Crossing Line. Fragments from a micro global performance, Galerie Asbæk, Copenhagen,
Denmark
2001 Up in the Air, Schnitt Austellungsraum, Köln, Germany
Second to none, Skive Kunstmuseum, Denmark
Downed by Weather, Ronneby Sweden
2000 Sisters in the Sky, Project room, ARCO, Madrid, Spain
1998 Simone Aaberg Kærn, Jyllands Postens exhibition room, Copenhagen, Denmark
1995 Wanna fly, Saga basement, Colbjornsensgade, Copenhagen, Denmark
Air, Kunstakademiets kunstforening, Copenhagen, Denmark
1992 Diftong, Artist space Katharsis, Nansensgade, Copenhagen, Denmark
Pause, Bunkeren pa Frederik den V's vej, Copenhagen, Denmark
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Lys over Lolland, Rødby, Denmark
Farvel til industrisamfundet, Nationalmuseet Brede
Paint Space, Rundetårn, Copenhagen
2007 We love Asbæk, Gallery Dyrkøb, Copenhagen, Denmark
IS THIS FICTION? Istanbul Modern 5th Videoprogramme, curated by Rosa Martinez, Istanbul,
Turkey
2006 Sonoric Perspectives – Ostsee Biennale der Klangkunst, Germany, Sweden, Denmark
ArtForum Berlin
2005 Helden Heute, CentrePasquArt, Biel Bienne, Switzerland
Baby Shower, Wilders, Copenhagen, Denmark
2004 Med kærlig hilsen, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
Mois de la Photo, Chromosome, Berlin, Germany
2003 Defying Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight, North Carolina Museum of Art, U.S.A.
Göteborg International Art Biennale, Gothenborg, Sweden
Europe Exists, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art (curated by Rosa Martinez and Harald
Szeemann)
Up & Coming (curated by Rosa Martinez), ARCO, Madrid, Spain
M.ars and War, Graz, Austria
2002 Clocwise, Vejle Kunstmuseum, Denmark
TERROR-ISME, Christian DamGallery, Copenhagen
2001 Get that Balance, K2 Hamburg
2000 Pusan International Contemporary Art Festival, curated by Rosa Martinez, Pusan, Korea
1999 48th international Venice Biennale, dAPERTutto, Venice, Italy
Zeitwenden, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, and Stiftung für Kunst
und Kultur, Bonn, Germany
Looking for a PLACE, The Third International Biennual, SITE Santa Fe, NM USA
1998 Nordic Normads, White Columns, NY
Something is rotten, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Come Closer, Liechtensteinische Staatliche Kunstsammlung
Nuit Blanche, Musée d'Art Moderne Ville de Paris, Paris, France
1997 10, Lunds Kunsthall, Lund , Sweden
New Art from Denmark and Scania, Louisiana Museum of Contemporary Art, DK
SELECTED VIDEOS AND FILMS
"Smiling in a War Zone" 78 min. movie for cinema, together with Magnus Bejmar, 2005.
"1001 nights 2002" 10 min. video documentaion of performance, with or without installation.
"Terror... Pressurised could you, would you?" 3 min. video installation
"Taraneh heading for the Stars" 10 min. video documentary and dual screen 10 min. DVD projection 2002
"Show me with your hands CPH" 3 min. Single channel video with sound. 2001
"Second to none" 8 min. 2 channel video installation with sound. 2001
"Show me with your hands Korea "3 min. 1 or 3 channel video installation with sound, Korea 2000.
" Breaking Ground" 3 min. 3 channel DVD video installation with surround sound. 2000.
" Show me with your hands USA" 1999-2000.
Sisters in the Sky, documentary DR tv/ Zentropa 1998-1999 4 x 29 min. with Stine Kirstein
" Camping in the clouds" 3 min. single channel video with sound. Los Alamos 1999.
"White" Bird eye Turf - San Diego. 30 min. video no sound. 1998.
"Sisters in the sky" the Russians, 3 min. single channel video with sound. 1997
"15 in 15 minutes" 15 min. single channel video no sound. 1996
"Royal Greenland" 10 min. single channel video installation with sound.
"Drop Zone" 10 min. 2 channel video installation with sound. 1995-96
"wanna fly" 5 channel video installation 1995
"Air" 5 min. video installation with sound 1994-1995.
"Dromostol" 2 channel video installation with sound. 1994
"Dromobil" 2 min. single channel video with sound. 1994
"Safety control" single channel video installation 30 min. 1994.
"Fit for Life" 2 min. single channel video with sound. 1994.
"Scorpio montage" single channel video installation no sound. 1993
"The blue light" 2 channel video installation 1993.
" Pause" No cannel video installation 4 monitors. 1992.
PRIZES & GRANTS
2007 Ellehammer Prisen – honourable achievement in the service of flying
International Emmy nomination for ”Best Documentary Film”
2006 First Camera Award, Montreal Film Festival
The White House Project ”women in leadership award”
Grand Prix, Odense film festival
2004 Danish Art Critics’ Award, for Crossing Line, Galerie Asbæk (best exhibition 2003)
2003 Danish Art Foundation, Working Grant
2002 Haslunds Legat
2000 Artist in residence, Lannan Foundation, NM, USA
99-00 Danish Art Foundation, Working Grant
1999 Akademirådet, Grant of Honour for project at the Venice Biennale
COMMISSIONS
2009 Swedish Air Force, Linköping, Sweden
CATALOGUES
2006 OPEN SKY, Malmö Konsthall with texts by e.g. Lars Bang Larsen