SUPERFLEX
Flooded McDonald's
SUPERFLEX/ CV/
Bjørnstjerne Reuter Christiansen Born 1969
Jakob Fenger Born 1968
Rasmus Nielsen Born 1969
SUPERFLEX was formed in 1993.
Work & live in Copenhagen & Brazil
Education: The Royal Academy in Copenhagen.
Solo exhibitions (selected):
2010
Flooded McDonald's, Peter Blum Chelsea, New York, USA
In-between Minimalism / Free Sol Lewitt, Van AbbeMuseum, Eindhoven, Holland
Flooded McDonalds, Oriel Mostyn gallery, Wales
Flooded McDonalds/Burning Car, Videoart in the Gardens, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2009
SUPERFLEX, Nils Stærk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
SUPERLFEX, Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, Brazil
Porcelain Pirates, Zeeuws Museum, Middelburg, Holland
Flooded McDonalds, South London Gallery, London, UK
Blackout (in collaboration with Simon Starling) Brandts, Odense, Denmark
2008
If Value, then Copy, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand
New Project, Project broadway, Los Angeles, Free Sho, Art Festival Haugesund
New Project, CCA - The Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
FREE BEER & Counter-game strategies, Usina do Gasometro, Porto Alegre
WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE, WE BOUGHT OUR HOUSE, Prospect 1, New Orleans, USA
New Project, Dynamo-Haugesund, Stavanger, Cultural city, Norway
Burning Car, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, Netherlands
FREE BEER prints, Niels Borch Jensen Galerie und Verlag, Berlin, Germany
2007
LaBox, Bourges, France
FREE BEER & Counter-game strategies, Galeria Vermelho, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Copy Shop, Knoxville Art Gallery, Knoxville, USA
Copy Right, 1301PE, Los Angeles, USA
2006
FREE BEER & counter-game strategies, Jack Hanley gallery, San Francisco, USA
FREE SHOP, KBH Kunsthal, København, Denmark
XXXXXXX XXXXX, Gallery Vermelho, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2005
Supershow/I was paid to go there, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
Guaraná Power, Danish Design Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
2004
Supercopy/ Occasionally free/ Open market, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Self-organise/ Guaraná Power, Redcat gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Social pudding, Rirkrit Tirvanija & Superflex, gallery 1301PE, Los Angeles, USA
Free shop, gallery side 2, Tokyo, Japan
2003
Counter-strike/ Self-organise, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
Social pudding, Rirkrit Tirvanija & Superflex, GFZK, Leipzig, Germany
2002
Superflex tools + counter-strike, Rooseum Malmö, Sweden
Supergas, Kunstruimte Wagemanns, Grooningen, Holland
About TV, ARRA/About studio, Bangkok, Thailand
2001
The kitchen magazine station, with Rirkrit Tirvanija, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany
Supertool, Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden (1 year project)
Kanal 11, Galerie Für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany
Nuuk Beta, The Culture House, Nuuk, Greenland
2000
Superflex in company/economic potentials, CCS Bard college, New York, USA
1999
Karlskrona2/ Utrecht2, CASCO Projects, Utrecht, Holland
Superchannel, Artspace 1%, Copenhagen, Denmark
Superflex Biogas in Africa, Lombard Freid Gallery, New York, USA
Tools, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Superflex Biogas in Africa, Artspace, Sydney, Australia
Superflex Biogas in Africa, (New Life), Hillside Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1998
Superflex Biogas in Africa, Accès Local, Paris, France
1997
Superflex Biogas in Africa, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Group exhibitions (selected)
2010
Philagrafika 2010, Philadelphia, USA
Broken Fall (Geometric), Galleria Enrico Astuni, Bologna, Italy
Power Games, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Rethink / kakotopia, Tensta Kunsthall, Tensta, Sweden
Quebec Biennial, Quebec, Canada
Project Europa: Imagining the (Im)possible, Harn Museum of Art University of Florida, Florida, USA
2009
Winter Light, 1301PE, Los Angeles, USA
Frieze Films/ Channel 4, Frieze art fair, London, UK
Rethink/kakotopia, Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen, Denmark
Panorama, MAM, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Utopics, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
The World is Yours, The Louisiana Museum, Denmark
New Social Practice, The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada
Convention, MOCA Miami, USA
One day Sculpture, Auckland, New Zealand
2008
Project 1, New Orleans, USA
New Project, Shanghai Biennial 2008, China exhibition of Museum's collection
Free Beer Taiwan, Taipei Biennial 2008, Taiwan
Wouldn't it be nice… Wishful thinking in art and design, Somerset House, London
Terms of Use, Centro Cultural Montehermoso,Vitoria, Spain
Working Men, Analix Forever, Switzerland
Collect to win, 5th. Berlin Biennial, Germany
Radical Software, Den Fri, Copenhagen, Denmark
FREE BEER, Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich, Switzerland
Musée des Beaux Arts Tourcoing, France
2007
Existencias, Musac - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon, Spain
Forms of resistance, Vanabbe Museum, Eindhoven, Holland
Wouldn't it be nice, Centre d'Art Contemporain Geneva, Switzerland
Energy Room, Santralistanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Social Systems, Tate, St. Ives, UK
Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Switzerland
Deutsche Geschichten, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany
Cómo vivir juntos, MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile
Suitcase Illuminated#5 Parallel Economies, Center and Gallery , Ljubljana
Modelle für Morgen, Europäische Kunsthalle Köln, Cologne, Germany
2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
E-flux Video Rental, Centre culturel Suisse, Paris, France
2006
Radical Software, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA
EXPORTABLE GOODS - Danish art now, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, Austria
SID NED!, Norrebro, Copenhagen, Denmark
E-Flux Video Rental, Arthouse at the Jones Center - Contemporary Art for Texas, Austin, TX, USA
Liminal Spaces / Grenzräume, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany
The Show will be open when the show... Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France
Art Link, Göteborgs Konsthall, Göteborg, Sweden
Group Therapy, MUSEION - Museo d’arte moderna e contemporanea, Bozen / Bolzano, Italy
ZOO logical garden, VZW Beeldend VZW, Oudenaarde, Belgium
Regarding Denmark, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Centre, Athens, Greece
30th annual, 6th biennial exhibition of visual+art 2006, ev+a - Limerick Biennial, Limerick, Ireland
The 27th Sao Paolo Biennial, Sao Paolo, Brazil
The 6th Gwangju Biennale, Korea
Global Grove, The Art Gallery of Knoxville, Knoxville USA
2005
Populisme, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
Populisme, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway
D.Day, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Populisme, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Nederland
Crosstown Traffic, Apeejay Media Gallery, New Delhi, India
Populisme, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
Utopia Station, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Zero Interest, Galleria Civica di Arte Contempotarea of Trento, Italy
Emergencias, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain
Collective Creativity, Kunst Halle Fridricianum, Kasel, Germany
ErzatzStadt, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin, Germany
Shrinking Cities, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany
The 9 th International Istanbul Biennial, Turkey
2004
Minority Report, Aarhus, Denmark
Open Borders - Droog Design, Lille, France
FREE SHOP, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw
Utopia Station II, Haus Der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Rigsudstillingerne, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway
Socle du monde 2, Herning art museum, Herning, Denmark
2003
Rethinking Marxism, Herter Art Gallery Massachusetts, USA
Happiness, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Arcadia, Govett - Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand
Utopia station, Venice Biennial, Italy
Nobody is an island, GAK, Bremen, Germany
2002
Gwangju Biennial, Gwangju, Korea
BIG, Torino Biennial, Torino, Italy
Hacking…New Museum, New York
The Global Complex, Grazer Kunstverein, Austria
Vollsmose public sculpture project, Odense, Denmark
We are all sinners, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico
Ecovention, CAC, Cincinnati, USA
Everything can be different, (2001-2002, ICI traveling exhibition ), USA.
2001
The Gift, collaboration with Rirkrit Tirvanija, Palazzo della Papesse, Siena, Italy
Germania, Collaboration with Rirkrit Tirvanija, Palazzo della Papesse, Siena, Italy
2nd Berlin Biennial, Berlin, Germany
Pyramids of Mars 3, Superteens, Trapholt, Kolding, Denmark
Pyramids of Mars 2, Barbican, London, UK
The Sharjah Biennial, The Moonchannel, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2000
The Tower Block Superchannel ( video positive, organized by FACT), Liverpool, UK
Cities on the move, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
Unhomely home, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany
Democracy, RCA/Royal College of Art, London, UK
Plan B, DeAppel, Amsterdam, Holland
What if-art on the verge of architecture and design, Moderna Museet, Sweden
Norden, Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria
Pyramids of Mars, The Fruitmarket (organizer The Modern Institute), Edinburgh
Echigo-Tsumari/art necklace, Echigo-Tsumari, Japan
More works about buildings & food (with Rirkrit Tirvanija & Tobias Rehberger), Lisbon, Portugal
Cities on the move, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Denmark, Denmark
3 public projects, Karlskrona, Sweden
1998
Something Rotten In…, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Bicycle Thieves, The Monk Parakeet (Dan Peterman), Chicago, USA
Copenhagen video, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
Never Been in a Riot, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
1997
New Art from Denmark and Scania, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
Selected commissions
The Tower Block Superchannel (video positive, organized by FACT), Liverpool, UK
Karlskrona2, 3 public projects, Karlskrona, Sweden
Superchannel, Galleria Civica di Arte, Trento, Italy
Heerhugowaard project, Heerhugowaard Nederland, Holland
Awards
2009
The George Maciunas prize
Teaching/Workshop
Student workshop, Prato, Italy
Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle Student workshop, Germany
IT-university, Artist in resident, Copenhagen Denmark
Academy of fine arts Helsinki, Finland
Calarts, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, USA
Maues, Guaraná Farmers, Amazon, Brazil
Research, DKDS (Denmarks Design School), Copenhagen, Denmark
Marks of Honor
International Association of Art Critics, Annual Prize Denmark 1997
Statens kunstfonds 3 årige arbejdslegat, Denmark 2000
Represented in following public institutions (selected)
Galerie fuer Zeitgenoessische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany
Arken Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
National Museum of Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Royal National Photo Collection, Copenhagen, Denmark
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain
Louisiana, Humlebaek, Denmark
Jumex Collection, Mexico
Malmö Kunstmuseum, Sweden
Frac Nord - Pas de Calais, France
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Holland
MUSEION, Bolzano, Italy
Publications
Black Out Simon Starling & Superflex, Brandts, 2010
Free Shop, Pork Salad press 2009
Self-organisation/Counter-economic, Will Bradley, Mika Hannula, Cristina Ricupero and Superflex 2006
Tools, published by Walther König, 2002
Supermanual - The complete guide to superchannel, Published by Fact, 2001
Remark on interventive tendencies, published by Borgen distributed by Walther König, 2001
Websites
www.superflex.net
www.freebeer.org
www.superchannel.org
www.guaranapower.org