CURRICULUM VITAE

SØREN MARTINSEN

Born 1966 in Lyngby, Denmark.
Adilsvej 9A, kld. th., 2000 Frederiksberg. Tel.: + 45 38 10 8641. E: soren-m@mail.tele.dk
Gallery: Asbæk, Bredgade 20, 1260 Copenhagen K. Telephone +45 33 14 40 04, fax: 33 13 16 10

Education:
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, l989 - l995.
MA in Fine Art, Goldsmiths' College, University of London , 1993- 1994.

Selected exhibitions:

2001:
SHOOT on tour, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin.
TAKE OFF 20:01, Aarhus Kunstmuseum
OVERGADEN, Shadows & Magic ( solo show)

2000:
"Shadows & Magic - Art Life in Copenhagen", DCA Gallery project space, New York. (solo show)
"THE BURN", Malmö Konstmuseum, F-Rummet (solo show)
NORDEN, Kunsthalle Wien
NIFCA project room, Sveaborg, Helsinki. "Shadows & Magic".
Wonderful Copenhagen, Stadtgalerie Kiel
FLASH '99,Patrick Fröhlich Galleri, Zürich.
SHOOT video, Malmö Konsthal.
The Burn, Malmö Konstmuseum (separatudstilling)
The Future is Now, Stockholm Art fair, Bangkok, Louisiana m.v.
Crossing boundaries, Cinemateket, Copenhagen.

1999:
"The Burn", Roebling Hall, New York (Solo show)
"FLASH 99" at Galerie Brigitte March, Stuttgart, Lisi Hämmerle Galerie, Bregenz, and Patrik Fröhlich Galerie, Zürich.
"Midnight Walkers, City Sleepers", Amsterdam
"The Burn" shown on national Danish TV and premiered at the Danish Film House.
Odense Video- and Performance Festival.
"Nordic Light" (video program from Nuits Blanche) travels to Soros Center in Bratislavia, Moldavia, Zagreb, Ljubiljana, Kiev, Museum Ludvig (Budapest), Montevideo(Amsterdam), Moderna Museet (Stockholm), Uppsala konstmuseum, Salon 3 (London), Kunsthalle Basel.
Videoshow, Voges + Diesen, Frankfurt.
Capital Art, KX, Hamburg
Stockholm Art Fair & ArtForum Berlin courtesy of Galerie Asbæk

1998:
"Utopia", Roebling Hall, New York.
"Nuits Blanche", Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
" Marketplace of Ideas:Cultural Jamming in the Visual Arts ", Wriston Arts Center, Appleton, Wisconsin.
Apex Art S.P., New York.
"New Work". Galerie Asbæk, Copenhagen. (Solo show).
ART FORUM (Berlin Art Fair) courtesy of Galerie Asbæk, Copenhagen.
"Spin-Off" video anthology. Kobolt Katode/State Film Central, Copenhagen.

1997:
L'Heure Exquise, video program,Lille.
Salon Det Døde Elsdyr, Copenhagen.
Excentrics, Vordingborg.
Odense Video - og Performance Festival, Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense.
Galleri Jan Sleichner-Borgsmidt, Skodsborg.

1996:
Campbells Occasionally, Copenhagen. (Solo show).
Traneudstillingen, Gentofte Kunstbibliotek, Copenhagen. (Solo show).
"Electronic Undercurrents", the State Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen.
"Brekt Bein". Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo.
YOUTH, Galleri Index, Stockholm. (w. Larry Clark, Collier Schorr).
"Disneyland After Dark", Kunstamt Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin.
"21 Days of Darkness", Transmission Gallery, Glasgow.
"I Beg To Differ" , Milch Gallery, London.
"BANK TV". DOG, London.
Frankfurt Art Fair presentation, Voges + Deisen, Frankfurt
"Mission Impossible", Bricks & Kicks, Vienna.
"Escape Attempts", Christiania Freetown, Copenhagen.
"When The Shit Hits The Fan", Overgaden, Copenhagen
Stockholm SMART Show ( Artsp@ce programme)
Julgransplundring, Galleri Index, Stockholm.
Multiple edition, Galleri Index, Stockholm.
Art Land, SAGA Basement, Copenhagen.
UPDATE, Copenhagen.
Multiples, LXX, Århus.
"Hvordan går det? Det går meget godt". Gallery Eat Me, Copenhagen.

1995:
Stockholm SMART Show (the agency gallery).
ATOMIC. (Curator: H. Plenge Jacobsen) in Oslo and Oberwelt, Stuttgart.
"Timeslice", Museum of Modern art, Copenhagen.
"I Confess", Nikolaj, Copenhagen.
"Meningsdannelse 2", Nikolaj, Copenhagen.
"Disneyland After Dark", (co-curator and artist) Uppsala Art Museum.
Video programme, Freiburg Art Museum.
"VideoTherapie", Videonale-Intermezzo, Kunstmuseum Bonn.
"Cocaine Orgasm", Bank, London.
One Night Stand performance festival, Oslo.
Art Against AIDS, Galleri Mikael Andersen/Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen.
"RAM", Portalen, Hundige.
"Drawings", Campbell's Occasionally, Copenhagen.
LXX, Aarhus, Denmark.
Art Land, Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense.
Video programme, Malmö Konsthal.

1994:
The agency (w. Tom Sharpe), London.
Mixbild, gallery Esther Schipper & Michael Krome, Cologne.
Cologne Art Fair w. Galleri Nicolai Wallner.
"Videos", Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen.
Miniatures, the agency, London.
IAS (Independent Art Space), London.
ON LINE, Gent Art Fair. Galleri Nicolai Wallner.
New Reality Mix, Stockholm.
Europa '94, (video Section) München.
ATOMIC. Room for Contemporary Art, Gøteborg, Sweden.
Video Festival, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen.

1993:
GLOBE, Copenhagen (Solo show).
BLACK BOX, Copenhagen.
Galleri Nicolai Wallner, group exhibition, Copenhagen.
Campbell's Occasionally (catalogue).
Autoportrait for Danish Television (DR)
Curator of RULES OF PERCEPTION at GLOBE gallery, Copenhagen.

l992:
OVERGADEN, Exhibition Space of the Ministry of Culture, Copenhagen.
"At Peter Land's Place" (Solo show), Hjemme hos Peter Land, Copenhagen.

l991:
"Retrospective" (Solo show), Krasnaposky, Copenhagen.
"Showroom Refill", Gallery Huset, Copenhagen.

l990:
"Benefit Show", Gallery Baghuset, Copenhagen.
Trafiklyrik, public art project by BIZ-Art, Denmark.
Edition Benveniste, Gallery Baghuset, Copenhagen and Lunden Art Museum, Horsens.

l989:
Audio-Visueel Experimenteel Festival, Arnhem, Holland.
"HEART". Aktion, Grand/Wooster St., New York.

Represented in following collections a.o.:
The National Collection of Graphic Art (Kobberstiksamlingen), Århus Art Museum and The Kastrupgård Collection, Deadline Film& Media, Gyldendal, Uppsala Konstmuseum, Nykredit, Dansk Audio distribution, plus private collections.

Catalogues: EUROPA '94, "Videos" (Galleri Nicolai Wallner 1994), "Timeslice" (Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen 1995), "I Confess" (1995), "RAM" (1995), "Disneyland After Dark" (1995), "Meningsdannelse" (1995), "When the shit hits the fan" (1996). "Electronic Undercurrents"(State Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen1996), "Nuits Blanche", Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris."Spin-Off" video anthology catalogue."Nordic Light" catalogue, 1999.

Artist's writings:
" In the Garden of Desire". ("Disneyland After Dark" Catalogue . Uppsala Art Museum 1995).
"Dream On, Dreamer" . ( Art Land Oct. 1995.) Ikaros, din idiot...(Xerox, efterår 96) . "ElseWhere"
( Øjeblikket , summer 1997). Fantasy Spaces, Art Land, 1998.

Scholarships, stipends, m.m.:
DANIDAs rejsestipendiat.
Marie Månssons Legat.
Knud Højgaards Fond.
Irghens-Bergs Kunstnerlegat.
Statens Kunstfond, rejselegat.
Yngre Kunstneres Udstillingsvirksomhed.
APEX ART Studio Program (New York).
2-year stipend from the National Art foundation 1999 -2000.

Chairman of the board of "Fast Video" workshop 1999 - 2001.
Member of the editorial committee at the Danish Film Institute Workshop 1999.
Teaching freelance at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art 1999-2000.