Tarje Eikanger Gullaksen
Born 1973 in Norway
Lives and works in Berlin
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Gullaksen is interested in situations in which things lose their usual functions and point to other contexts of meaning. In his choice of artistic media, he makes clear that every form of representation is in principle doomed to failure, due to the fact that artistic language plays a crucial role in determining its the content from its first articulation. In his work, Gullaksen traces the places in which one representation model transitions into another. It is exactly through these junctures, transitions, jumps and translation mechanisms that he is able to reveal sensibilities that expand our perceptions of reality and imbue them with new qualities. He works in a wide range of artistic media including text, installation, sculpture and drawing.
(taken from the website of Philipp Otto Runge Foundation)
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EDUCATION
2003-2005
The Royal Danish Art Academy, Department of Theory
1999-2003
The Royal Danish Art Academy, Department of Wall & Space
1997-1998
Oslo Drawing and Painting School
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS (all group shows if not mentioned otherwise)
2014
Archiving Voices and Expressions; Gurusaday Dutta Museum, Joka (India)
2013
item perspectiva: Von flüssigen Stammbäumen im Geröll der Vernetzung:ein Familienporträt; Beaumont Public invites KROME, Espace Beaumont, Luxemburg
The Epiphenoumenon of the Phenoumenon; Sørenga, Oslo (S)
Kolkata, Last Ship; Mumbai (S)
Fremtidsruiner w/Marius Engh; Harpefoss Hotel, Harpefoss, curated by Eivind Slettemeås
Act Zero; Krome Gallery, Berlin (S)
2012
Friends; Countrymen w/ Marius Engh, Gaudel de Stampa, Paris
Made in Germany; Sprengel Museum, Hannover
A Nuthing in a Nutshell w/Marius Engh; Suportico Lopez Gallery, Berlin
2011
Wilhelm Reich/Ayn Rand; Essay and Observations, Berlin
2010
Unfinished Symphony; Krome Gallery, Berlin (S)
2009
Underground Man; Artspeak, Vancouver (screening)
Gjengangere; Bastard, Oslo
6 degrees of separation; Gallery Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin
2008
Grand Opening; Nationalmuseum, Berlin
Merzbau; Gallery Montana, Berlin
Shifting Nature; Seitenfluegel, Berlin
2007
kul shee maku; Bastard, Oslo (S)
Match Race; Nord Jylland Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, Denmark (also curation)
Mia at home at the office; with Mia Rosasco, Le bureau and Kadis Art Foundation, Paris
Glow of Darkness; Kunstklub, Berlin
2006
Berlin biennale 5 part 2; Brix, Berlin
Berlin biennale 5 part 1; Brix, Berlin
2005
behind/hinten Neu Berlin; The Museum Of The Void, Berlin
Found; The Museum Of The Void, Copenhagen
Beyond Document; Rum 46, Copenhagen (screening)
EXIT 05; GL STRAND, Copenhagen (also curation)
Cum Taedio In Infininitum; with Marius Engh, Q-gallery, Copenhagen
2004
Marihuana gir slap banana; Christiania, Copenhagen (performance)
10 graduates; Randers Arts Association, Copenhagen
Sculpture Park Vækerø; with Johanna Domke, Vækerø, Norway
2003
Tarje at Pio Diaz; Gallery Pio Diaz, Copenhagen
Oslo open; Das Rathaus, Oslo
2002
Site of Situation; with Rirkrit Tirivanija, The Museum of the Void, Copenhagen
Copkop; Asbæk Undergrunden, Copenhagen
2001
UKS-biennale; UKS (The Young Artists Society), Oslo
GRANTS
2010
OCA residency Beijing
2009
Billedkunstnernes vederlagsfonds stipend, one year work grant
Untitled (Schwarzenberg)
2013
leather
variable dimensions
Untitled (Beehive)
2013
4 paintings, oil on canvas
each 100 x 50 cm
Act Zero
2012
video, 720 p
9’00” loop
A Nuthing in a Nutshell
w/Marius Engh
2012
Concrete
60 x 20 ø cm
A Nuthing in a Nutshell w/ Marius Engh
Publication
Archival box, 4 Inkjets on 308 g photo rag paper, Pamphlet, DVD, 11
Woodcuts,
5 b/w Photographs, 8 color Photographs and Text
Variable dimentions
Installation view Supportico Lopez, Berlin, 2012
The object is that which is objected against me (prologue)
2010
Slide projection
80 slides
Variable size
The object is that which is objected against me (prologue)
2010
Slide projection
80 slides
Variable size
Two Trees
2010
Film installation
Two 16mm projectors with loopers
Variable size
Unfinished Symphony
2009
Video
19:04, Super 35 digital
Variable size
Dead-wall Reveries
Sculpture
Wood panels, hinges and alkyd paint
Installation view Gallery Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, 2009
Untitled (page 8/41/161/219/273)
Prints (each a unicum)
Ink-jet on Epson fine art paper
61 x 85.5 cm framed
Installation view, Bastard, Oslo, 2007
Untitled (page 8/41/161/219/273)
2007
Prints (each a unicum)
Ink-jet on Epson fine art paper
61 x 85.5 cm framed
Untitled (It’s always kul shee maku, said Sgt. Rob Hammer,
a 32-year-old squad leader from Kansas, reciting the Arabic
phrase for “there is nothing”, which the entire platoon
knows.)
Window work
Foil with perforated sentence
Variable size
Installation view, Bastard, Oslo, 2007
Unknown unknowns
Site specific installation at the Museum of Modern Art Aalborg (Denmark), 2007