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
  "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
   
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
   
 

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