Kasper Akhøj’s often essayistic works are characterised by what might be called conceptual storytelling. They are based on his consistent documenting of objects from forgotten art, design and architecture histories, and also the institutions that harbour them. Akhøj’s investigations cover long periods of time. He borrows the anthropologists’ and historians’ tools but his commentary targets today’s conditions. To be able to recreate and analyse historical situations, he must gain access to as much adequate information as possible. Yet in the finished works he allows elements of fiction to penetrate the documentary. He emphasises the specific and the personal – concrete lived history – and avoids geopolitical simplification. The works become subjective statements, relying on but also challenging historical occurrences.
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Faena Prize for the Arts 2018
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Copenhagen, 1976
Solo shows
2017
Welcome (To the Teknival), NMNM - Villa Sauber, Monaco, FR
Black Box: Tamar Guimarães & Kasper Akhøj, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, US
2016
Béton, Kunsthalle Wien Museumsquartier, Vienna, A
NMNM Nouveau Musee Nationale de Monaco, MC
Welcome (to the Teknival), Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, NL
Kunsthallen Nikolaj Kirke, Copenhagen, DK
KJUBH Kunstverein, Cologne, DE
Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, US
2015
Art Basel Statements, Basel, Swiss (Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS, Amsterdam, NL)
2012
Galeria Fortes Vilaça, Sao Paulo, BR (in collaboration with Tamar Guimaraes) The Last Days of Watteau, Jeu de Paume, Paris, FR (in collaboration with Tamar Guimaraes)
2010
After the Fair, Wiels Center for Contemporary Art, Brussels, BE
Welcome (to the Teknival), Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, DE
Welcome (to the Teknival), Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS/Dolores, Amsterdam, NL
Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK
2006
Experiments In Levitation, Ritter & Staiff, Frankfurt am Main, DE
Group shows
2017
A Universal History of Infamy, LACMA, Los Angeles, US
Studies for A Minor History of Trembling Matter, Albright-Knox Art Gallert, Buffalo, NY, US
2016
As Told, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, SE
Anthology Film Archives, Flaherty Series, New York, US
2015
56th Venice Biennale, Belgian National Pavillion, Giardini, IT
Believe not every spirit, but try the spirits, MUMA, Melbourne, AU
Séance fiction, Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre, CA
Rainbow In The Dark, Malmö Art Museum, SE
I See, So I See So, Temporary Gallery, Cologne, DE
The Documentary, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, NL
2014
How to (…) things that don exist, 31st Sao Paulo Biennale, BR
A Transatlantic Affair, MAR-Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, BR
Welcome (to the Teknival), Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, DE
Les Recontres Internationales, Film Festival, Paris, FR
Courtisane Film festival, Ghent, BE
2013
55th Venice Biennale, Il Palazzo Enciclopedico, IT (in collaboration with Tamar Guimaraes)
Sharjah Biennial 11, AE (in collaboration with Tamar Guimaraes)
CPH:DOX International Film Festival, Film in Competition Copenhagen, DK
Host and Guest, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, IS
Abstract Myths, NEST, The Hague, NL
South London Gallery, Film screening and Artist talk, London, UK (in collaboration with Tamar Guimaraes)
Abstracta, artist book published by Christoph Keller Editions, JRP Ringier, PAMI, London, UK
2012
Sunday Performance Series, Performance Slide Lecture, MoMA PS1, New York, US
Spatium, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, EE
KIM? Center for Contemporary Art, Riga, LV
2011
Everything Must Go, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, US
MAP-Martin Ambach Projechte, Düsseldorf, DE
Do You Remember the Future?, Etagi, St. Petersburg, RU
Exposition Internationale…, Meessendeclercq, Brussels, BE (Curated by Latitudes)
Artist in Residence, ISCP, New York, US
2010
Abstract Derive, Ludlow 38, Goethe-Institut NY, New York, US
Performance Slide Lecture, Teatro Arena, 29th Sao Paulo Biennial, BR
Research Artist in Residence, 29th São Paulo Biennial, BR
Artist in Residence, Platform Garanti, Istanbul, TR
2009
ISCP, Miguel Amado curator in residence exhibition, New York, US
Art in General, Whitney ISP Studio Exhibition, New York, US
Sculpting Time, Phillip Johnson Art Gallery, Allentown, Pennsylvania, US
2008
28th São Paulo Biennial, BR
3rd Guangzhou Triennial, CN
We Know The Taste But Not The Smell, Galerie Baer, Dresden, DE
Artist in Residence, Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, BR
2007
Lost Highway Exhibition, Skuc Galerija, Lubljana, SI
HELLo, Flux Factory, Long Island City, New York, US
Parlour Room, co-organizer of temporary project space, Copenhagen, DK
Artist in Residence, Press 2 Exit Gallery, Skopje, MK
2006
Tulca, National University of Ireland, Galway, IE
Skopje Museum of Contemporary Art and Press to Exit Gallery, Skopje, MK. Screening and artist talk
Centrala – Foundation for Future Cities’ Lost Highway Expedition, an interdisciplinary urban research project following the path of the highway network built to connect the ex-communiststates and capitals of the West Balkans. A project by the School of Missing Studies, [STEALTH], Kyong Park and Marjetica Potrc
Esplanaden, Den Frie Center for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK
Tokyo Homebase Gallery, Tokyo, JP
Rundgang, Staedelschule, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2005
Academy Remix, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, DE
Moscow Research Project, With Multiplicity and The School for Walls and Space, Milan, IT
Art Frankfurt, Projects with Portikus and Staedelschule, DE
Utopia Station Poster Project/Oleanna, in Porto Alegre, BR
2004
Utopia Station Poster Project/Oleanna, at Kunstverein München, DE
INK, Institut for Nutidskunst, Art Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DK
Fristad København, INK Institute for Contemporary Arts, Copenhagen, DK
2003
Utopia Station Poster Project/Oleanna, Kunstmuseum Sindelfingen, DE
Recycling the Future, The 50th Venice Biennale, IT
Utopia Station, The 50th Venice Biennale, With Martha Rosler/Skolen for Mur og Rum, IT
3rd Istanbul Triennial, International Student Triennial of Istanbul, TR
2002
SIAB Biennial, Skopje, MK
Publications/ Press
E.1027, Maison en Bord de Mer. Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, April 2009 + October 2010. Two artist books.
Conversation with Kasper on Domusweb (Interview by Angelique Campens)
Artforum Picks
Article on Information.dk
28th Bienal de São Paulo, catalogue, 2008
Exit Zine, publication, Ed. Kasper Akhøj and Lars Bang Larsen
Education
2008 – 2009 Whitney Independent Study Program, New York
2004 – 2006 Staedelschule, Frankfurt am Main
2000 – 2006 The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
1999 – 2000 Goldsmiths College, University of London
1998 Film/Video Arts. New York
1996 – 1998 The Czech National Filmschool, FAMU. Prague
Solo shows
2017
Welcome (To the Teknival), NMNM - Villa Sauber, Monaco, FR
Black Box: Tamar Guimarães & Kasper Akhøj, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, US
2016
Béton, Kunsthalle Wien Museumsquartier, Vienna, A
NMNM Nouveau Musee Nationale de Monaco, MC
Welcome (to the Teknival), Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, NL
Kunsthallen Nikolaj Kirke, Copenhagen, DK
KJUBH Kunstverein, Cologne, DE
Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, US
2015
Art Basel Statements, Basel, Swiss (Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS, Amsterdam, NL)
2012
Galeria Fortes Vilaça, Sao Paulo, BR (in collaboration with Tamar Guimaraes) The Last Days of Watteau, Jeu de Paume, Paris, FR (in collaboration with Tamar Guimaraes)
2010
After the Fair, Wiels Center for Contemporary Art, Brussels, BE
Welcome (to the Teknival), Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, DE
Welcome (to the Teknival), Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS/Dolores, Amsterdam, NL
Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK
2006
Experiments In Levitation, Ritter & Staiff, Frankfurt am Main, DE
Group shows
2017
A Universal History of Infamy, LACMA, Los Angeles, US
Studies for A Minor History of Trembling Matter, Albright-Knox Art Gallert, Buffalo, NY, US
2016
As Told, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, SE
Anthology Film Archives, Flaherty Series, New York, US
2015
56th Venice Biennale, Belgian National Pavillion, Giardini, IT
Believe not every spirit, but try the spirits, MUMA, Melbourne, AU
Séance fiction, Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre, CA
Rainbow In The Dark, Malmö Art Museum, SE
I See, So I See So, Temporary Gallery, Cologne, DE
The Documentary, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, NL
2014
How to (…) things that don exist, 31st Sao Paulo Biennale, BR
A Transatlantic Affair, MAR-Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, BR
Welcome (to the Teknival), Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, DE
Les Recontres Internationales, Film Festival, Paris, FR
Courtisane Film festival, Ghent, BE
2013
55th Venice Biennale, Il Palazzo Enciclopedico, IT (in collaboration with Tamar Guimaraes)
Sharjah Biennial 11, AE (in collaboration with Tamar Guimaraes)
CPH:DOX International Film Festival, Film in Competition Copenhagen, DK
Host and Guest, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, IS
Abstract Myths, NEST, The Hague, NL
South London Gallery, Film screening and Artist talk, London, UK (in collaboration with Tamar Guimaraes)
Abstracta, artist book published by Christoph Keller Editions, JRP Ringier, PAMI, London, UK
2012
Sunday Performance Series, Performance Slide Lecture, MoMA PS1, New York, US
Spatium, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, EE
KIM? Center for Contemporary Art, Riga, LV
2011
Everything Must Go, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, US
MAP-Martin Ambach Projechte, Düsseldorf, DE
Do You Remember the Future?, Etagi, St. Petersburg, RU
Exposition Internationale…, Meessendeclercq, Brussels, BE (Curated by Latitudes)
Artist in Residence, ISCP, New York, US
2010
Abstract Derive, Ludlow 38, Goethe-Institut NY, New York, US
Performance Slide Lecture, Teatro Arena, 29th Sao Paulo Biennial, BR
Research Artist in Residence, 29th São Paulo Biennial, BR
Artist in Residence, Platform Garanti, Istanbul, TR
2009
ISCP, Miguel Amado curator in residence exhibition, New York, US
Art in General, Whitney ISP Studio Exhibition, New York, US
Sculpting Time, Phillip Johnson Art Gallery, Allentown, Pennsylvania, US
2008
28th São Paulo Biennial, BR
3rd Guangzhou Triennial, CN
We Know The Taste But Not The Smell, Galerie Baer, Dresden, DE
Artist in Residence, Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, BR
2007
Lost Highway Exhibition, Skuc Galerija, Lubljana, SI
HELLo, Flux Factory, Long Island City, New York, US
Parlour Room, co-organizer of temporary project space, Copenhagen, DK
Artist in Residence, Press 2 Exit Gallery, Skopje, MK
2006
Tulca, National University of Ireland, Galway, IE
Skopje Museum of Contemporary Art and Press to Exit Gallery, Skopje, MK. Screening and artist talk
Centrala – Foundation for Future Cities’ Lost Highway Expedition, an interdisciplinary urban research project following the path of the highway network built to connect the ex-communiststates and capitals of the West Balkans. A project by the School of Missing Studies, [STEALTH], Kyong Park and Marjetica Potrc
Esplanaden, Den Frie Center for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK
Tokyo Homebase Gallery, Tokyo, JP
Rundgang, Staedelschule, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2005
Academy Remix, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, DE
Moscow Research Project, With Multiplicity and The School for Walls and Space, Milan, IT
Art Frankfurt, Projects with Portikus and Staedelschule, DE
Utopia Station Poster Project/Oleanna, in Porto Alegre, BR
2004
Utopia Station Poster Project/Oleanna, at Kunstverein München, DE
INK, Institut for Nutidskunst, Art Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DK
Fristad København, INK Institute for Contemporary Arts, Copenhagen, DK
2003
Utopia Station Poster Project/Oleanna, Kunstmuseum Sindelfingen, DE
Recycling the Future, The 50th Venice Biennale, IT
Utopia Station, The 50th Venice Biennale, With Martha Rosler/Skolen for Mur og Rum, IT
3rd Istanbul Triennial, International Student Triennial of Istanbul, TR
2002
SIAB Biennial, Skopje, MK
Publications/ Press
E.1027, Maison en Bord de Mer. Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, April 2009 + October 2010. Two artist books.
Conversation with Kasper on Domusweb (Interview by Angelique Campens)
Artforum Picks
Article on Information.dk
28th Bienal de São Paulo, catalogue, 2008
Exit Zine, publication, Ed. Kasper Akhøj and Lars Bang Larsen
Education
2008 – 2009 Whitney Independent Study Program, New York
2004 – 2006 Staedelschule, Frankfurt am Main
2000 – 2006 The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
1999 – 2000 Goldsmiths College, University of London
1998 Film/Video Arts. New York
1996 – 1998 The Czech National Filmschool, FAMU. Prague
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