| GITTE VILLESEN | |
| Born 1965, Lives and works in Copenhagen and Berlin | |
| e-mail: gittevillesen@kabelnettet.dk | |
| Education: | |
| 1987-90 | Literature, University of Copenhagen |
| 1991-92 | Det Fynske Kunstakademi, Odense |
| 1992-96 | The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Copenhagen |
| 1998-99 | The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Copenhagen |
| Solo shows: | |
| 2003 | Box, Göthenburg |
| Kunsthalle St. Gallen, Schweiz | |
| Iaspis galleriet, Stockholm | |
| 2002 | "Two guided tours at the The Creative Reuse Warehouse", Langenhagen Kunstverein, Langenhagnen |
| 2001 | Kunsthalle Lophem, Brugge |
| Gallerie Mehdi Chourakri, Berlin | |
| Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen | |
| 1999 | "Ingeborg the Busker Queen"and "Søren Vellings Small Towns Museum", Institute of Visual Art, Milwaukee |
| "Ingeborg, Søren, Kathrien and Bent" Secession, Vienna | |
| 1998 | "Kathrine makes them and Bent collects them", Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen |
| 1997 | Project room at Aarhus Museum of Art, Århus |
| 1995 | "Three Times Ludo", Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen |
| "Willy as DJ", Galleri LXX, Århus | |
| 1994 | "It was a Wonderful period full of Happiness and a loss of a lot of money" a work with Willy Bøtker shown in Peter Lands flat, Copenhagen |
| Selected group shows: | |
| 2002 | Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Österreich |
| "Touch: Relational Art from the 1990s to Now", San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco | |
| Geschichte(n), Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg | |
| Samisk Kunstfestival, Kirkenes, Norway | |
| "Esplanaden", Charlottenborgs udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen | |
| "Eventyrhaven i Voldsmose", Odense, Denmark | |
| Gwangju Biennale 2002, Gwangju, Korea | |
| Video Works, Kunstners Hus, Oslo, Norway | |
| ESAP, Perpigna, France | |
| "Attachment+", arranged by Kunsthalle Lophem, Brugge, Belgium | |
| 2001 | "LocalMotion", Gallerie für Zeitgenössiche Kunst, Leipzig |
| "Milan Europe 2000", Milan | |
| "Du er helt ny du er retro", Danske Grafikernes Hus, Copenhagen | |
| "Organising Freedom", Charlottenborgs Udstillingsbygning, Copehagen | |
| "Esplanaden", Kunsthallen, Copenhagen | |
| 2000 | "Still or: My eyes can only look at you", Gallerie Enja Wonneberger, Kiel |
| "Wonderful Copenhagen", Stadtgallerie, Kiel | |
| "Naust", Øygården/Bergen | |
| "Contacts", Centre D'Art contemporain, Fribourg | |
| "Organising Freedom", Moderna Museet, Stockholm | |
| 1999 | Melbourne International Biennial, Melbourne |
| Télé[o], Ecran Total c/o Erban, Nantes | |
| "Videos by Gitte Villesen", Moderna Musset, Stockholm | |
| "Videos by Gitte Villesen", Salon 3, London | |
| "Come in and find out", vol. 1", Art club Berlin, Berlin | |
| 1998 | "Fleeting Portraits - Flüchtige portraits", Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin |
| "Jonge Deense kunst", Sint-Lukasgalerij, Brussel | |
| "Out
of the North: Contemporary Art from Denmark and Sweden",
Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart |
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| "Manifesta 2", Luxembourg | |
| "Bicycles Thieves" Gallery 400, Chicago | |
| "La sphere de l'intime - Le printemps de Cahors", Cahors | |
| "det extra", Riksutställningar, RIX, Linköbing; Uppsala Konstmuseet, Uppsala; Gävle | |
| Konstcentrum, Gävle; Musett, Kristinehamn and Tensta Konsthall, Tensta | |
| "Here Now - New Art from Denmark", Art Space, Sidney | |
| "Come Closer", Liechtensteinische Staatliche Kunstsamlung, Liechtenstein, Nikolaj-Contemporary | |
| Art Center, Copenhagen and The Ludwig Museum Budapest-Museum for Contemporary Art, Budapest | |
| "Boomerang", Nikolaj-Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen | |
| 1997 | "Artcalls" telephone numbers in Copenhagen |
| "10" Nordic Female Art, Lunds Kunsthal, Lund | |
| "Letter and Event", Apex Art, NY | |
| Gallery Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin | |
| "Human Conditions", Center of Contemporary Arts, Helsinki | |
| "A Scenic DeTour Through Commodity", Maastricht, NL | |
| "JOY JOY", Transmission Gallery, Glasgow | |
| SMart Project space, ALMANAC, Art on Television, Amsterdam | |
| 1996 | "27.680.000" a media project shown on the two national TV-channels in Sweden |
| "Electronic Undercurrents", The National Museum of Fine Arts, Copenhagen | |
| "Out of Shape", Arken, Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj | |
| "Monstrosities 1/2", Video festival, Berlin | |
| "Up-date", Turbinehallerne, Copenhagen | |
| "The Scream - Borealis 8", Arken, Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj | |
| 1995 | "Varje gång jag ser dig" ("Every time I see you") a space rented for the occasion, Malmö and Index Galleri, Stockholm |
| "Atomic" Oberwelt, Stuttgart and Titanic, Helsinki | |
| "Timeslice", The National Museum of Fine Arts, Copenhagen | |
| "Ram" Portalen, Køge Bugt Culture House, Hundige | |
| Videofestival, Freidburg Kunsthal, Freidburg | |
| "Exotic", Gallerie Peter Kilschmann, Zurich | |
| "2 dimensional teori", Nikolaj Church, Copenhagen | |
| 1994 | Opening Show, Galleri Struds, Oslo |
| Gitte
Villesen and Annika Lundgren, Saga Basement, Copenhagen Galleri med balkong, Trondheim |
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| 1993 | "Fribillet" with Maria Karlson, Nansensgade, Copenhagen, |
| Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Opening show, Copenhagen | |
| Selected Festivals: | |
| 2003 | "es ist schwer das reale zu berühren", Kunstverein München, München |
| 2002 | "Documentary Fortnight", Museum of Modern Art, NY |
| 2000 | Crossing boundaries, Filmhuset, København |
| 1997 | A video program arranged by MoMA, Mitsui Fudasan's lobby, NY |
| "New Documentaries", MoMA, NY | |
| 1996 | "Monstrosities 1/2", Video festival, Berlin |
| 1995 | Videofestival, Freidburg Kunsthal, Freidburg |
| Selected Publications: | |
| 2003 | "Echte Persönlichkeiten" af Raimer Stange, Kunst Bulletin, nr. Jan/Feb 2003 |
| 2001 | "DJ - Håvard", Plesure Prison 2001, Blækflax, Copenhagen |
| 2000 | "Ingborg the ..."+"Busstops and P...", Make, no. 99, London |
| 1999 | Solo catalogue, Secession, Wienna |
| "Make it Funky", crossover zwischen Musik, Pop, Avantgrade und Kunst by Ulrike Groos and Markus Müller, Oktagon | |
| 1998 | "Addicted to Stories" by Luise Bæhrenz, Katalog, fall 98, Odense |
| 1996 | "Nudity and Small Talk" by Lars Bang Larsen, Index, no 1,96, Stockholm |
| "Willy as DJ" project pages, Index, no 1,96, Stockholm | |
| Represented at: | |
| Moderna Musseet, Stockholm | |
| Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki | |
| Samtidsmuseet, Oslo | |
| Århus Kunst Museum, Århus | |
| The National Museum of Art, Copenhagen | |
| Arken, Museum for Contemporary Art, Ishøj | |
| Centre George Pompidou, Paris | |