KENNETH A. BALFELT


Saxogade 5, 3.th.
DK-1662 København V
Denmark

Phone +45 33 25 00 32
Mobile +45 26 52 66 00

e-mails:
kennethbalfelt@yahoo.com
kennethbalfelt@a-r-d.org (large files)

www.a-r-d.org

Born in Denmark in 1966, lives in Copenhagen.


Selected projects and exhibitions - Coming Up

2004
CCPC - Musee d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, France, group show

2004
Redesign of Project Room at NIFCA, Helsinki, with Fos

2004
Copenhagen-Berlin, part i Lichetenberg/Berlin curated by Judith Schwartzbart, Public Art Project

2004
Copenhagen-Berlin, Alexandra Platz, Berlin, curated by Hanne Lise Thomsen, public art project

2002-4
Radical Horisonality - Interior Design of Hostel for Homeless (Mændens Hjem), Copenhagen, with Fos, Steffen Nielsen, Charlott Karlsson, Lena Truelsen


Selected projects and exhibitions

2004
"No One Can Wake Up (with Lasse Lau)- House Wanted & We Need a Publisher". Advertising for initiatives by two self-organized alternative structures in Berlingroup show with Lasse Lau Part of the exhibition “Berlin North” at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin

2004
Interior design process project for the Libraries for kids in Santa Marta and Mangueira de Botafogo favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Rio-Copenhagen Context Exchange, public art project

2002-3
Radical Horisonality - Video Workshop for Homeless - Turn the camera around, NB - Lad os mødes (lets meet), Norrebro, Copenhagen, public art project with PeterR. Callesen

2002-3
Follow-up on "Beskyttelsesrum - Fixerum til narkomaner" (see below): meetings with right wing MP's and Ministry of Health to influence them about legalising Injection Rooms for drug addicts

2003
Permanent installation at Køge Skitse Samling (National Museum for Sketches and Models), documentation of The Injection Room Project as part of the permanent collection.

2002
Design of archive for "Contributions from The Venice Biennale" with Fos, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen

Design of FutureArchive with Fos at Rooseum, Malmo, Sweden

Beskyttelsesrum - Fixerum til narkomaner(a 1:1 model of an Injection Room for Drug Addicts with nurses), Contemplation Room, Copenhagen City/Overgaden Gallery,public art project

The ZDB Skills Archive, Life Policies, Ze Dos Bois Gallery, Lissabon, group show

2000-
The Corner Shop Project - Redesign of and arrange events in the shop, a community art project curated by Kenneth A. Balfelt with Stefan Saffer, Amy Plant, Jeppe Hein, Hester Oerlemans, Cecillie Gravesen/Julie L. Boserup/Rasmus Helles, Apolonia Sustersic, Jeremy Deller

2001
"Spetacular", Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre, public art show

Layout of Seminars with Fos: The seminar "Art's Potential" at Brandts Klædefabrik and the seminar "Art & Business" at Danish Contemporary Art Foundation

2000
"Vague but True", Arnolfini Gallery, U.K., and RealART Space, Ireland, video group shows

Research for 'The Corner Shop Project', Degree Show at Goldsmiths College

OfficeHours, Whitechapel, London, group show

The Future is Now!: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, as part of the exhibition 'Vision and Reality

Spain, Gallery Rum46, Aarhus, Denmark, group show

non stop opening, Ze Dos Bois Gallery, Lissabon, group show

ArtCinema 2000, Stalke Gallery, ArtFair Frankfurt, Germany, video program

"Vague but True", Gallery Asbaek, Denmark, video group show

Stockholm Art Fair, Artspace 1%, Sweden, video program

1999
Art Sem, www.artsem.org, group show on the internet

non stop opening, London, U.K., group show

Charlottenborgs Spring Exhibition 1999, group show

The New Beetle, Skive High Street in Denmark, performance

Cardiff Art in Time Festival, Wales, U.K.

Stockholm Art Fair, Artspace 1%, Sweden, The Danish Videoprogram

1998
Gallery FLAP, Berlin, group show

BonBon marketing presentation, Denmark, Kunstakademiets udstillingssted, solo show

Galleri 54, Gteborg, Sweden with Jeppe Hein

Confession Stand, Bug Em, London, group show

1997
Gallery "rum 46", Aarhus, Denmark, Memory and functionality with Jeppe Hein

Charlottenborgs Spring Exhibition 1997, Denmark, group show


Represented

Represented at Goteborgs Konstmuseum (art museum), Sweden

Køge Skitse Samling (National Museum for Skeches and Models), Køge, Denmark


Funds

LO's Kunstnerlegat (Injection Room Project)

Statens Kunstfonds rejselegat (Rio project).


Education

2000-01
MA Art History (Twentieth Century) at Goldsmiths College, London

1997-00
BA in Fine Art and Critical Theory at Goldsmiths College, London

1996
The Artschool of Aro (1/2 year)

Earned a degree in marketing and have worked 11 years with sales and marketing planning.

Member of the UKK Public Space board