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SUPERFLEX

Biography

SUPERFLEX

  • Bjørnstjerne Reuter Christiansen, Born in 1969
    Jakob Fenger, Born in 1968
    Rasmus Nielsen, Born in 1969

    Formed in 1993
    Live and work in Copenhagen, Denmark

Selected Solo Exhibitions

  • 2021
    Like a Force of Nature, Nils Stærk, Copenhagen, Denmark

    SUPERFLEX - Western Rampart, Norrlandsoperan, Umeå, Sweden

    2020
    SUPERFLEX: Western Rampart, Turku Art Museum, Turku, Finland

    2019     
    It’s Not The End of the World, Cisternerne, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Flooded McDonald’s, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, US
    In Our Dreams We Have a Plan, Kukje Gallery, Busan, Korea
    There Are Other Fish In The Sea, Galería OMR, Mexico City, Mexico

    2018     
    We Are All In The Same Boat, MOAD MDC, Miami, US
    The more you know, the better decisions you make, Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalusia, Córdoba, Spain
    Connect With Us, von Bartha, Basel, Switzerland
    One, Two, Three, Swing!, Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Whatever Works, 1301PE, Los Angeles, US
    European Union Mayotte, CAM - Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, US

    2017     
    One, Two, Three, Swing!, Tate Modern, London, UK
    Euro, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
    C.R.E.A.M. - 5 year plan, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
    Hospital Equipment, von Bartha, Basel, Switzerland
    Den Grønne Ø i Det Røde Hav, DIAS - Digital Interactive Art Space, Vallensbæk, Denmark
    Tate Exchange, Tate Modern, London, UK

    2016     
    The Liquid State - one year project, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
    Superfake / The Parley, ASU - Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, US
    The Corrupt Show and The Speculative Machine, MAC, Santiago, Chile
    Superfake / The Parley, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden
    The Corrupt Show, Las Naves, Valencia, Spain

    2015     
    It’s Permitted to Permit, Museum of Tomorrow, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    Euphoria Now, von Bartha, Basel, Switzerland
    You can’t eat identity, Nils Stærk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Modern Times Forever, FRAC Normandie Caen, Caen, France

    2014     
    Rirkrit Tiravanija and SUPERFLEX, 1301PE, Los Angeles, US

    2013     
    Working Title: A Retrospective Curated by XXXXXXXXX, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
    The Corrupt Show and the Speculative Machine, Fundación Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
    SUPERFLEX: Mærsk - Operaen, Horsens Kunstmuseum, Horsens, Denmark
    SUPERFLEX, Jousse-Enterprise, Paris, France
    Flooded McDonald’s, De Moines Art Center, Des Moines, US
    Modern Times Forever, Highline, New York, US
    SUPERFLEX, Politikens Forhal, Copenhagen, Denmark

    2012    
    SUPERFLEX + Simon Starling: Reprototypes, Triangulations and Road Tests, TBA21, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
    Bent, Pressed, Compressed, Welded, and then Copied, Musée d’Art Moderne, St. Etienne, France
    Bankrupt Banks, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, US
    Palestinian Eurovision, Nils Stærk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Flooded McDonald’s, The Cube Project Space, Taipei, Taiwan
    Modern Times Forever, 1301PE, Los Angeles, US
    SUPERFLEX: Flooded McDonald’s, Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, New South Wales, Australia

    2011     
    Modern Times Forever, IHME Festival, Helsinki, Finland
    Flooded McDonald’s, Museum Kunst der Westküste, Alkersum, Germany
    Flooded McDonald’s, PILOT Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
    e.g. (in collaboration with Simon Starling), Universalmuseum Joanneum, Styria, Australia
    Modern Times Forever, Jousse-Enterprise, Paris, France
    Foreigners, please don’t leave us alone with the danes!, Nils Stærk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
    The Financial Crisis, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany

    2010     
    A Cockroach Tour of the Science Museum, Science Museum, London, UK
    Flooded McDonald’s, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, US
    Flooded McDonald’s, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, UK
    In-between Minimalism / Free Sol Lewitt, Van AbbeMuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
    Crimetime, Vitensfabrikken (Science Centre), Sandness, Norway
    2000 Watts Society, Bgz Baugenossen schafft Zurrenden Architecht - public art, Zurich, Switzerland
    Flooded McDonald’s & Burning Car, Fundação Nabuco, Recife, Brazil
    Flooded McDonald’s, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden - Smithsonian, Washington D.C., US
    SUPERFLEX: Hypnosis Group Session, Nils Stærk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

    2009     
    Flooded McDonald’s, South London Gallery, London, UK
    Porcelain Pirates, Zeeuws Museum, Middelburg, The Netherlands
    Blackout (collaboration with Simon Starling), Brandts, Odense, Denmark
    Burning Car, Jousse-Entreprise, Paris, France
    SUPERFLEX, Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, Brazil
    The Financial Crisis, Nils Stærk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Today We Don’t Use The Word Dollars, One Day Sculpture, Auckland, New Zealand

    2008     
    Burning Car, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, The Netherlands
    If value, then copy, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand

    2007     
    Copy Shop, Knoxville Art Gallery, Knoxville, US
    FREE BEER & Counter-game strategies, Galleria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil
    Copy Right, 1301PE, Los Angeles, US
    Free Beer, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    2006     
    FREE BEER & Counter-game strategies, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Fransisco, US
    FREE SHOP, KBH Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark

    2005     
    Supershow / I was paid to go there, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland

    2004     
    SUPERFLEX (Superdanish), The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
    Free Shop, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo, Japan
    Self-organize / Guaraná Power, REDCAT Gallery, Los Angeles, US
    Supercopy / Occasionally Free / Open Market, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany

    2003     
    Counter-strike / Self-organize, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
    Social Pudding (collaboration with Rirkrit Tiravanija), GfZK Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

    2002     
    Supergas, Kunstruimte Wagemanns, Grooningen, The Netherlands
    SUPERFLEX tools + counter-strike, Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden
    Foreigners, please don’t leave us alone with the danes!, public space Copenhagen, Denmark and Malmö, Sweden

    2001    
    Supertool, Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden (1 year project)
    The kitchen magazine station (collaboration with Rirkrit Tiravanija), Kunstverein Wolfburg, Wolfburg, Germany

    2000     
    Superchannel / Coronation Court, Blue Coat Gallery, Liverpool, UK

    1999     
    Karlskrona2 / Utrecht2, CASCO Projects, Utrecht, The Netherlands
    SUPERFLEX Biogas in Africa, Artspace, Sydney, Australia
    TOOLS, Kunstverein Wolfburg, Wolfburg, Germany
    SUPERFLEX Biogas in Africa, Hillside Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
    Superchannel, Artspace 1%, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Superchannel / Tenantspin, FACT - Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool, UK

    1998     
    SUPERFLEX Biogas in Africa, Accès Local, Paris, France
    Three public projects: www.karlskrona.org, Blekinge Museum, Karlskrona, Sweden

    1997
    SUPERFLEX Biogas in Africa, Atenum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland

    1996     
    Orange Ist Human, Service Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 2021
    Sharity - teilen, tauschen, verzichten, Kunst(Zeug)Haus, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland
    Aquaria, MAAT - Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal
    Amable desarme del yo, Centro de Arte La Regenta, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain
    Gravmonumenter, Aarhus Kunsthal, Aarhus, Denmark
    Work It Out, Kunsten, Aalborg, Denmark
    It Is Not The End Of The World, Kunsthalle Nairs, Scuol, Switzerland
    The Humming, KØS - Museet for kunst i det offentlige rum, Køge, Denmark

    2020 
    Desert X AlUla, AlUla, Saudi Arabia
    Living in the Present Future, The National Museum in Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland
    Object Love, Museum Morsbroich, LevenKusen, Germany
    Le Cours des Choses, CAPC - musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bourdeaux, France
    Living the City, Berlin-Tempelhoft Airport, Berlin, Germany
    Alien Nation, Coral Gables Museum, Miami, FL, USA
    Floating Utopias, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden
    Life During Wartime, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum (online)
    Als wir verschwanden. Vier Videoarbeiten, Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland

    2019     
    Dive-In, Desert X, Coachella Valley, US
    Vertiginous Data, MMCA, Seoul, Korea
    Undefined Territories. Reflections on Postcolonialism, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain
    Eco-Visionaries, Royal Academy of Art, London, UK
    Concrete Contemporary, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich, Switzerland
    CPH:DOX, Copenhagen, Denmark
    This Must Be True, Khoj International Artists’ Association, New Dehli, India
    Political Affairs. Language is not Innocent, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
    Migration: Traces in an Art Collection, Tensta Konsthall, Spånga, Sweden
    Eldorado, lille3000, Lille, France
    Being Human, Wellcome Collection, London, UK
    Groups, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
    Unquiet Harmony: The Subject of Displacement, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, US
    Condo Shanghai: Space / Reflection, A+ Contemporary, Shanghai, China
    Eco-Visionaries, Matadero Madrid, Madrid, Spain
    CIRKUS, gl. Holtegaard, Holte, Denmark
    7th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
    Art Strikes Back, Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, Denmark
    Living in the Present Future, Bornholms Kunstmuseum, Gudhjem, Denmark

    2018     
    The Artist is Present, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China
    Creators of European Digital Culture, The European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium
    Transit, KØS - Museet for kunst i det offentlige rum, Køge, Denmark
    The Playground Project - Outdoor, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
    Dismantling the Scaffold, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong
    Debt, Qalandiya International, Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre, Ramallah, Palestine
    Imagined Borders, 12th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
    Eco-Visionaries, MAAT - Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisboa, Portugal
    Object Love, Museum De Domijnen, Sittard, The Netherlands
    12th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
    Anthropocenic: Art About the Natural World in the Human Era, Bate College Museum of Art, Lewiston, US
    Art / Action: Artists’ Film, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK
    Big Art, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Constructing the World: Art and Economy 1919 - 1939 and 2008 - 2018, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
    Creative Infidelities. On Landscape Architecture of Topotek1, Galeriefür Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
    Furniture by Artists, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
    I SEE YOU, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, US
    Kunsthalle for Music, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    La Complainte du Progrès, MRAC - Musée regional d’art contemporain, Sérignan, France
    Labor and Materials, 21c Museum Hotels, Bentonville, US
    Modelos tradicionales, C3A - Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía, Córdoba, Spain
    Møenlight Sonata, Kunsthal 44 Møen, Møn, Denmark
    Nordic Impressions, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., US
    Northern Exposure: Contemporary Nordic Arts Revealed, Nordic Museum, Seattle, US
    République Géniale, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
    Rising Waters, Brussels Urban Landscape Biennial, Brussels, Belgium
    Tale of an Ocean, La Mar de Músicas, Cartagena, Spain
    The Museum Imagined, Centro Pecci, Prato, Italy
    There Will Come Soft Rains, Kunstverein Basis, Frankfurt, Germany
    The Value of Freedom, Belvedere 21, Vienna, Austria

    2017     
    ARoS Triennial - The Garden, ARoS, Aarhus, Denmark
    Elevation1049 - Avalanches, Gstaad, Switzerland
    Sharjah Biennial Art Biennial, Sharjah, UAE
    Infinite Blue, Brooklyn Museum, New York, US
    Kapitalströmung, Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
    Dizziness: Navigating the Unknown, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
    Show Me The Money, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark
    Eat Me: Mad i kunst og design, Trapholt, Kolding, Denmark
    Artprojects Metzingen, Metzingen, Germany
    24/7. Connected, CentroCentro, Madrid, Spain
    BFI London Film Festival, London, UK
    Anklaget - Design i Retten, Trapholt, Kolding, Denmark
    Berlin Short Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
    Botanical Garden Cualicán, Cualicán, Mexico
    Apocalypse: End Without End, Das Naturhistorische Museum, Bern, Switzerland
    Car Service II, Enterprise Projects Athens, Athens, Greece
    Cool, Calm and Collected, ARoS, Aarhus, Denmark
    Dizziness: Navigating the Unknown, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle,
    Warsaw, Poland and Kunsthaus Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria

    Energi(ética), Monumento a los Héroes, Bogotá, Colombia
    Everyday Life - Signs of Awareness, 21st Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
    Group Therapy: Mental Distress in a Digital Age, The Big Anxiety, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
    Hvad gør kunst på hospitaler?, KØS, Køge, Denmark
    Human Rights Art and Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia
    L’autre… De L’image à la Réalité, Maison Populaire, Montreuil, France
    Le travail à l’ouvre, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
    Les Objets Domestiquent, FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, Franc
    CPH:DOX, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Staying Power, ASU - Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, US
    Sunset Decor, Mariann Goodman Gallery, New York, US
    Water Was Here Before, Corridor Project Space, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    2016     
    Nanjing International Art Festival, Nanjing, China
    Emscherkunst, Emscher, The Netherlands
    6th Marrakech Biennial, Marrakech, Marocco
    11th Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai, China
    APAP5, Anyang Public Art Project, Anyang, Korea
    Betty and Edward Marcus Sculpture Park, Laguna Gloria, Contemporary Austin, Austin, US
    Cornucopia, Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, Australia
    Cycle Festival,  Kópavogur, Iceland
    Design and Violence, Trinity College, Science Gallery Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
    Fra Videokunst til Billedkunst, Nivaagaards Malerisamling, Nivaa, Denmark
    Human Rights in Film, Warsaw Watch Docs, Warsaw, Poland
    Money, Good and Evil, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden Museum, Baden-Baden, Germany
    Naturally Obscure, Passerelle Centre d’Art Contemporain, Brest, France
    No Man is an Island - The Satanic Verses, ARoS, Aarhus, Denmark
    On Repeat: The Disruptive Copy, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
    Flagship Shelters, Roskilde Festival, Roskilde, Denmark
    Send in the Clowns, Nils Stærk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Denmark
    The New Human, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
    Trans-Pacific Transmissions: Video Art Across the Pacific, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, Canada
    We TransForm: Design between Dystopia and Utopia, Neues Museum, Nürnberg, Germany
    What Next: The Crash, 38CC, Delft, The Netherlands

    2015     
    TOKYO - Sensing the Cultural Magma of the Metropolis, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
    Art Relay / Stafetteen, Gl. Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Beaufort 2015: Beyond Borders, De Haan, Belgium
    4th Dojima Biennale: Take Me To The River, Osaka, Japan
    The Way Things Go, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, US
    10th Baltic Contemporary Art Biennial, Szczecin, Poland
    Can You Hear Me? Music Labels by Visual Artists, Onomatopee project space, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
    Flowers for Poul, Galleri Bo Bjerregaard, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Group Therapy: Mental distress in a digital age, FACT - Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool, UK
    Les ruses de l’intelligence, Parc Saint Léger - Centre d’art contemporain, Pougues-les-Eaux, France
    Lige ved næsten: socialengageret samtidskunst, Museet for Religiøs Kunst, Lemvig, Denmark
    Jakarta Biennale, Jakarta, Indonesia
    Remember Lidice, Exhibition Block GmbH, Berlin, Germany
    Stafetten, Gl. Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark
    The Maldives Exodus Caravan Show, LAZNIA, Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Poland

    2014     
    Testigo Del Siglo, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Zapopan, Mexico
    In _ We Trust - Art and Money, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, US
    Grip friheten! Take Liberty!, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
    Insert 2014, IGNCA - Indira Gandhi Natiocal Centre for the Arts, New Delhi, India
    600 Mio. Freunde und Komplizen, Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna, Austria
    Anatomy of Anxieties, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong
    Art Basel Film Section, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
    Bloodflames Revisted, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, US
    Carl Nielsen og Anne Marie Carl-Nielsens Legat, Den Frie, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Damage Control: Art and Destruction since 1950, MUDAM, Luxembourg, Luxembourg and Hirshhorn Museum / Smithsonian, Washington D.C., US
    Day After Debt, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, US
    Disobedience Archive, SALT Beyoglu, Istanbul, Turkey
    Fields: patterns of social, scientific and technological transformations, RIXC - The Centre for New Media Culture, Riga, Latvia
    Don’t Embarrass the Bureau, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden
    New Ways of Doing Nothing, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
    Over and Over the Rainbow, Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Isreal
    Picture Ballot! Monolithic Water, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
    Re/Production, 1301PE, Los Angeles, US
    Reines Wasser: The Most Valuable Resource in the World, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria
    Still Waters Run Deep, Sculpture Odense14, Odense, Denmark
    Witness of the Century, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Zapopan, Mexico
    examples to follow! expeditions in aesthetics and sustainability, examples to follow!, Zollverein, Germany and Museo Metropolitano de Lima, Lima, Peru
    The Maldives Exodus Caravan Show, CCA Andratx, Andratx, Spain; Silent Barn, New York, US and Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Auckland, New Zealand
    The Talking Cure, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, US
    The Working Life, Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, Brisbane, Australia

    2013     
    Without Reality There Is No Utopia, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Fransisco, US
    9th Gwangju 
    Biennale Folly Project, Gwangju, Korea
    Imagine Employment, MoMA PS1, New York, US
    The Spirit of Utopia, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
    Yes Naturally: How art saves the world, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands
    Sharjah Art Biennial, Sharjah, UAE
    Turn off the Sun: Selections from la Colecciön Jumex, ASU Art Museum, Tempe, US
    Workplace, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, UK
    The Desire for Freedon: Art in Europa since 1945, Palazzo Reale, Milan Italy; Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia and MOCAK - Muzeum Sztuki Wspólczenej, Krakow, Poland
    (Im)material Labour, Art Exchange, Colchester, Essex, UK
    (Un)natural Limits, Austrian Cultural Forum New York, New York, US
    Bezine. The energies of your mind, La Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy and Palazzo Re Enzo, Bologna, Italy
    Farmacias de Similares, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
    It’s a Political Economy, Stupid, Gallery 400, Chicago, US and Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland
    In Deed: Certifications of Authenticity in Art, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania and Wetherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, US
    Les Nouvelles Babylones, Parc Saint Léger - Centre d’art contemporain, Pougues-les-Eaux, France
    Nordic Outbreak, Scandinacia House, New York, US
    People Have the Power, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
    near. closer, together, Sofia Contemporary, Sofia, Bulgaria
    The Unanswered Question - Iskele2, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
    Ways of working: the incidental object, Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy
    Workplace, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, UK and Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, UK
    examples to follow! expeditions in aesthetics and sustainability, Galeria Marta Traba, São Paulo, Brazil

    2012     
    Print/Out, MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
    TRACK, S.M.A.C.K., Ghent, Belgium
    Creative Destruction, The Kitchen, New York, US
    7th Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
    Primer Acto / First Act, Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, Mexico
    Utopie Gesamtkunstwerk, Augarten Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
    Show Off, Malmö Konsthall, Sweden and The Point Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus
    4 Films, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, US
    Enacting populism in its mediæscape, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France
    Around Every Corner, Elastic Gallery, Malmö, Sweden
    Car Culture. The Car as a Sculpture, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria
    Cartographies of Hope: Change Narratives, DOX - Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic
    Collaborations & Interventions, CCA Andratx, Andratx, Spain and Nymphius Projekte, Berlin, Germany
    Matter of Choices, CCA Andratx, Andratx, Spain
    How Much Fascism?, BAK - Basis voor Actuele Kunst, Utrecht, The Netherlands
    Roesler hotel #20: The Good and the Bad, Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil
    Show Off, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden and The Point Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus
    The Desire for Freedon: Art in Europa since 1945, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
    Touch, Futura Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic
    Underværker, KUNSTEN, Aalborg, Denmark
    Utopia Gesamtkunstwerk, 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria
    Independent People: Collaborations and Artist Initiatives, Reykjavik Arts Festival, Reykjavik, Iceland
    In Deed: Certifications of Authenticity in Art, The Drawing Center, New York, US; SALT Beyoglu, Istanbul, Turkey; Mumbai Art Room, Mumbai, India; Nero HQ, Rome, Italy  and John M. Flaxman Library Special Collections, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, US
    examples to follow! expeditions in aesthetics and sustainability, Iberia Art Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China and Gallery Maskara, Mumbai, India

    2011     
    Daydream Believer!!, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
    3rd Singapore Biennale, Singapore, Singapore
    Living as Form, Creative Time, New York, US
    Without Reality There is no Utopia, CAAC, Sevilla, Spain
    Details, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
    4th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
    6th Momentum Biennial, Moss, Norway
    5th Jakarta International Video Festival, Jakarta, Indonesia
    Absentee Landlord, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US
    2112: Imagining the Future, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
    Car Fetish. I drive therefore I am, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland
    In Deed: Certifications of Authenticity in Art, Kabinetten van de Vleeshal, Middelsburg, The Netherlands; LA Galleria di Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy and Khoj International Artists’ Association, New Dehli, India
    Involuntary, fordPROJECT, New York, US
    It’s the Political Economy, Stupid, Open Space, Vienna, Austria
    Living as Form, Creative Time, New York, US
    Out of Storage, Marres - Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, The Netherlands
    Regress/Progress: Laboratory of the Future, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
    Without Reality There Is No Utopia, CAAC - Centro Andaluz Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, Spain
    Temporal Anomalies, 5x6x9, Berlin, Germany
    Terms of Belonging, Overgaden - Institut for Samtidskunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
    The Global Contemporary. Art World After 1969, ZKM - Centrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
    On the Metaphor of Growth, Kunstverein Hannover, Germany
    Vermessung der Welt. Heterotopien und Wissensure in der Kunst, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
    examples to follow! expeditions in aesthetics and sustainability, Zulturhalle Pfaffenhofen, Pfaffenhofen, Germany and Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Dessau, Germany

    2010     
    Ecologica, MAM, São Paulo, Brazil
    8th Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai, China
    10th Taipei Biennial, Taipei, Taiwan
    Destøy Design: Contemporary art and design from the Collection of FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, MUDAC - Musée de design et d’arts appliqués contemporains, Lausanne, France
    The Graphic Unconscious, Philagrafika, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, US
    PowerGames, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
    Fair Use: Information Piracy and Creative Commons in Art and Design, Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, US
    Five easy pieces, Gallery Franco Noero, Turin, Italy
    21st Century: Art in the First Decade, QAGOMA - Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
    8th Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai, China
    Broken Fall, Galleria Enrico Astuni, Bologna, Italy
    La Manif d’Art 5, The Québec City Biennial, Quebec, Canada
    Manufacturing Today, Kulturbunker Dora, Trondheim, Norway
    Midsummer Festival, Cork, Ireland
    One Room, One Work, 1301PE, Los Angeles, US
    Powergames, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
    Project Europa: Imagining the (Im)possible, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, US and Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, US
    Résilience, Espace d’Art Contemporain La Tôlerie, Clemont Ferrand, France
    Rethink Kakotopia, Tensta Konsthall, Spånga, Sweden
    Starter, ARTER - space for art, Istanbul, Turkey
    Survival Kit, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia
    Traversing The Fantasy, pt.2, The Cube Project Space, Taipei, Taiwan
    Uncertain Spector, EMPAC - Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Troy, US
    examples to follow! expeditions in aesthetics and sustainability, Uferhallen, KunstAktien, Berlin, Germany and Westindischer Kunstverein e.V., Gartow, Germany

    2009     
    The World is Yours, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
    One day sculpture, Auckland, New Zealand
    Frieze Films / Channel 4, Frieze Art Fair, London, UK
    Assume Nothing: New Social Practice, The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    Conventions, MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Miami, US
    11th Swiss Sculpture Exhibition, Biel, Switzerland
    2nd Athens Biennale, Athens, Greece
    Black Hole, CCA Andratx, Andratx, Spain and Nymphius Projekte Berlin, Berlin, Germany
    Green Platform: Art Ecology Sustainability, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
    RETHINK Contemporary Art and Climate Change, Kunsthal Nikolaj, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Schönes Wetter heute, n’est-ce pas, Henning?, Kunsthal 44 Møen, Møn, Denmark
    Who is betting on 47?, Nassauische Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany
    Winter Light, 1301PE, Los Angeles, US

    2008     
    5th Berlin Biennial, Berlin, Germany
    Terms of Use, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria, Spain
    6th Taipei Biennial, Taipei, Taiwan
    Collections: Permanent / Provisoire2, MUba - Musee des Beaux Arts, Tourcoing, France
    Dynamo08, Haugesund, Norway
    Food for Thought, U-TURN, Møn, Denmark
    Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, Glasgow, Scotland
    I Love Malmö Kumu Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
    Magazine08: Positive Critical Imagination, Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland
    Manual CC. Instructions for Beginners and Advanced Players, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
    Nomad Academy Goes Public, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, UAE
    Who killed the painting?, Neves Museum - Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design, Nürnberg, Germany
    Working Men, Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
    Prospect1, Prospect New Orleans, New Orleans, US

    2007     
    Wouldn’t it be nice, Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
    Social Systems, Tate St. Ives, St. Ives, UK
    Cómo vivir juntos, MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile
    2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
    Modelle für Morgen, Europäische Kunsthalle Köln, Cologne, Germany
    27a Bienal de São Paulo: Cómo vivir juntos, MAC - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile
    Achtung! Kunst!, Det Nationale Fotomuseum, Det Kgl. Bibliotek, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Existencias, MUSAC - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain
    Modelle für Morgen, Deutschen Bank, Europäische Kunsthalle Köln, Cologne, Germany
    Wouldn’t it be nice… Wishful thinking in art and design, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland; The Somerset House, London, UK and Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich, Switzerland

    2006     
    Radical Software, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Fransisco, US and Den Frie, Copenhagen, Denmark
    SID NED! (public project), Nørrebro, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Group Therapy, MUSEION - Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bolzano, Italy
    27th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil
    Shiftscale - Sculpture at the Extended Field, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
    6th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
    Art Link, Göteborgs Konsthall, Gothenburg, Sweden
    EVA Internation Biennial, Limerick, Ireland
    Exportable Good: Danish Art Now, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, Austria
    Global Groove, Te Art Gallery of Knoxville, Knoxville, US
    Glocalization, The Berezdivin Collection, Santurce, Puerto Rico
    Regarding Denmark, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Centre, Athens, Greece
    The show will be open when the show will be closed, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France

    2005     
    9th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
    D.Day, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
    Populism, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania; National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
    Emergencias, MUSAC - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon, Spain
    Collective Creativity, Kunsthalle Fridricianum, Kassel, Germany
    Shrinking Cities, Galeries für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany
    9th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
    Crosstown Traffic: Cutting edge video art from FACT, Apeejay Media Gallery, New Delhi, India
    ErsatzStadt, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin, Germany
    Zero Interest!, Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporarea of Trento, Trento, Italy
    Utopia Station, World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, Brazil

    2004     
    Utopia Station II, Haus Der Kunst, Munich, Germany
    Socle du Monde 2, Herning Kunstmuseum, Herning, Denmark
    Controlled Democracy, White Space Gallery, London, UK
    Minority Report: Challenging Intolerance in Contemporary Denmark, Århus Kunstbygning, Aarhus, Denmark
    Monument - Samtidskunst i byrummet (public space), Copenhagen, Denmark

    2003     
    Happiness, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
    Utopia Station, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
    Nobody is an Island, GAK - Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany
    Arcadia: the other life of video games, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
    Global Priority, Herter Art Gallery - University of Massachusetts, Amherst, US

    2002     
    IG, Torino Biennial, Turin, Italy
    Everything can be different, ICI traveling exhibition, US
    Open_Source_Art_Hack, New Museum, New York, US
    The Global Complex, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria
    Ecovention, CAC, Cincinnati, US
    Vollsmose public sculpture project, Odense, Denmark
    4th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
    We are all sinners, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico and MARCO - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico

    2001     
    2nd Berlin Biennial, Berlin, Germany
    Pyramids of Mars 2, Barbican Centre, London, UK
    4FREE, BüroFriedrich, Berlin, Germany
    5th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, UAE
    Everything can be different, ICI - Independent Curators, traveling exhibition, US
    The Gift, Palazzo della Papesse, Siena, Italy and Centro Culturale Candiani, Mestre, Italy
    Art and Digital Media, Transmediale.01, Berliner Kulturveranstaltung, Berlin, Germany
    Utopia Now!, CCAC Watts Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Fransisco, US
    Visionsindustri, Vestsjællands Kunstmuseum, Sorø, Denmark

    2000     
    Democracy, RCA - Royal College of Art, London, UK
    Plan B, DeAppel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Unhomely Home, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany
    1st Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Nigata, Japan
    NORTH Contemporary Art from Northern Europe, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
    What If. Art on the verge of architecture and design, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
    More works about building & food (collaboration with Rirkrit Tiravanija and Tobias Rehberger), Fundição de Oeiras, Oeiras, Portugal

    1999     
    Cities on the move, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
    H99, Helsingør Værft, Helsingør, Denmark

    1998
    Something is Rotten in the State of Denmark, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
    Copenhagen Video, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, US
    Bicycle Thieves, Monk Parakeet, Chicago, US
    Never Been in a Riot, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
    Transatlántico. Diseminación, Cruce y Desterritorialización, CAAM - Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Mallorca, Spain

    1997     
    New Art from Denmark and Scandia, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
    Cruising, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Politisk Kunst, Kørners Kontor, Copenhagen, Denmark

    1996     
    Dimensional Theory, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark
    ArGenda96, Øksnehallen, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Cocktail Party, SAGA Basement, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Proms III, Brandts, Odense, Denmark

    1995     
    D, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Container95, Brandts, Odense, Denmark
    Kunst på spritten, De Danske Spritfabrikker, Roskilde, Denmark
    Maleri efter Maleri, Kastrupgårdsamlingen, Copenhagen, Denmark
    RAM, Portalen - Køge Bugt Kulturhus, Køge, Denmark
    Skulpturpark Billund, Billund, Denmark

    1994     
    Åbningsudstilling, SAGA Basement, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Årsudstillingen, Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi, Copenhagen, Denmark

    1993     
    Forårsudstillingen, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Openingshow, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark

Selected Projects

  • 2021
    There Are Other Fish In The Sea, RUC, Roskilde, Denmark
    All That We Know, Herlev Hospital, Herlev, Denmark

    2020
    Like A Force Of Nature, Grupo ARCA, Miami, FL, USA
    One Two Three Swing!, Vordingborg Vandhus, Vordingborg, Denmark

    2019     
    One Two Three Swing!, Dora Observatory, Paju, Korea
    Strawberry, Carrot, Garlic, Potato, Pear, Brocoli, Herlev Hospital, Herlev, Denmark

    Après Vous, Le Déluge, Galeries Lafayette, Paris, France

    2018     
    Listen To Us, Tunaskolan, Lund, Sweden

    2017     
    Jardin La Nurserie / The Nursery Garden, Saint-Denis, Saint-Pierre, Momoudzou, France

    2016     
    Alice, Grand Paris Express, Paris, France

    2013     
    The Bank, Sharjah, UAE

    2011
    Superkilen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Selected Awards

  • 2017     
    TBA21 Expeditions Leaders of The Current
    Wild Dreamer Award, Subversive Film Festival, Croatia

    2016     
    Aga Khan Award for Architecture (Superkilen)

    2015     
    Grand Prix, T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival, Poland (Kwassa Kwassa)

    2014     
    Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Art Grant, Denmark

    2013     
    Mies van der Rohe Prize - Finalist
    Civic Trust Award, UK
    Institute Honor Awards for Regional and Urban Design, US
    Architect Magazine - Design Review
    Citation - Category: Play
    German Landscape Architecture Prize
    Red dot: Best of the Best award

    2012     
    IEDC - International Economic Development Council, Promotional awards

    2011     
    The Great Indoors Award, Frame Magazine

    2009     
    George Macuinas Award

    2000     
    Statens Kunstfonds 3-årige arbejdslegat (3-year work Artist Fund)

    1997     
    International Association of Art Critics, Annual Prize Denmark

Selected Public and Private Collections

  • Tate Modern, London, Denmark
    GfZK - Galeries für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany
    Arken - Modern Museum of Art, Ishøj, Denmark
    Frac du Nord - Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France
    GfZK - Galeries für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany
    Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico
    KUNSTEN, Aalborg, Denmark
    Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
    Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
    Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden
    MUSAC - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain
    MUSEION, Bolzano, Italy
    Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    National Museum of Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
    Royal National Photo Collection, Copenhagen, Denmark
    The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
    Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Publications

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Selected Press

2019-11-20 KNN
2019-09-00 The Neighbor
2019-09-00 Art In Culture
2019-08-26 The Korea Times
2019-08-21 Korea JoongAng Daily
핫이슈 클릭   pdf KNN
SUPER, SUPERFLEX   pdf The Neighbor
하나보다 둘, 둘보다는 셋!   pdf Art In Culture
“예술로 세상을 바꾼다”… 그들 꿈은 실현될까   pdf 세계일보
Superflex turns financial crisis into art   pdf The Korea Times
Superflex uses art to figure out a changing world   pdf Korea JoongAng Daily
금융 위기는 어떻게 귀여운 미술 작품이 되었나?   pdf 디자인프레스
금융위기 때 망한 은행들 이름이 예술이 되다   pdf 한국일보
파산한 은행 로고 회화로…금융위기가 남긴 것들   pdf 대구신문
권력·허구성·약탈… ‘휴화산’처럼 불안정한 세계 자본주의 시스템에 ‘경고’   pdf 부산일보
금융위기를 미술로 꿰뚫다…수퍼플렉스 개인전   pdf 연합뉴스TV
금융 위기·기후 변화, 설치미술로 꿰뚫다   pdf 한국경제
수퍼플렉스(SUPERFLEX) 개인전   pdf 부산KBS
인류의 주기적 재앙, 경제위기는 이렇게 표현…위기의 예술화   pdf news1
"금융위기·기후변화...병든 세상을 고발한다"    pdf 매일경제
권력과 자본 비판 설치미술…수퍼플렉스 개인전   pdf 연합뉴스
덴마크 출신 3인조 작가그룹 수퍼플렉스, 국제갤러리 부산점서 개인전   pdf CNB저널
우리도 꿈속에서는 계획이 있다   pdf INTERIORS
'우리도 꿈속에서는 계획이 있다', 권력과 자본의 상징성에 대한 서사   pdf 아시아아츠