Claus Carstensen (b.1957 , Denmark)

Education
1977-1983 Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, DK

Select Solo Exhibitions
2007 Collaborative Works, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2004 A.M.E.R.I.C.A. A.T. W.O.R.K., Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2001 Roda Rummet (drawings), Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2001 Works on paper from Roda, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2000 Piss Notes, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Århus, Denmark, DK
1999 Meditation over bogstavet Z, Untitled Room for Björk, Röda rummet, Museumsbygningen, Copenhagen, DK
1999 Röda Rummet, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
1998 Kunstmuseet Brundlund Slot, Åbenrå, DK
1997 Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
1997 Crossover, Arken – Museum for moderne kunst, Ishøj, DK
1995 The Sao Paulo Project, Vestsjællands Kunstmuseu, Sorø, DK
1995 Sao Paulo projektet og nye værker 1994-95, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Århus, DK
1995 Clausholm Slot, Hadsten, DK
1995 Neue Bilder, Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne, DE
1993 Bonde – Frandsen – Carstensen, Borås Kunstmuseum, Borås, SE
1993 Gimpel Fils, London, UK
1993 Strawdogs, Fils, London, SE
1993 Strawdogs, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, DK
1992 F.A.I.T., Paszti/Bott, Cologne, DE
1992 Membrane, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, DE
1992 Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, DE
1992 Untitled room for Zoe, Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne, DE
1992 Bonde – Carstensen – Frandsen, Nordic Arts Centre, Helsinki, FI
1992 Roslyn Oxley Gallery, Sydney, AU
1991 Art Cologne with Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne, DE
1990 Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne, DE
1990 Convict, Ric Urmel Gallery, Gent, BE
1989 Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne, Germany, DE
1989 Bonde – Carstensen – Frandsen, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Århus, DK
1989 Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne, DE
1987 Tegninger, Vestsjællands Kunstmuseum, Sorø, DK

 

Select Group Exhibitions
2011 Christmas Group Show, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2005 Morrow Complex Summer Party, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
1999 Cities on the move 4, Louisiana – Museum for moderne kunst, Humlebæk, DK
1999 The Reykjavik Tea Party, Reykjavik, IS
1999 O.M. Ungers – Zwischenräume, NRW-Forum Kultur und Wissenschaft, Düsseldorf, DE
1999 O.M. Ungers: Zeiträume, Architektur, Kontext, Joseph Haubrich Kunsthalle, Cologne, DE
1998 Broken music, Daadgalerie, Berlin, DE, Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, XLVII La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, IT
1998 Louisiana 40 år – samlingen i dag, Louisiana – Museum for moderne kunst, Humlebæk, DK
1998 Time in jazz, Berchidda, IT
1997 Mikkel, Arken – Museum for moderne kunst, Ishøj, DK
1997 Mikkel Bogh: After obstruction follows production – Dialectics of the Counterpictures, in: Claus Carstensen – Crossover, Arken – Museum usammenhänger, in: Claus Carstensen, Kunstmuseet Brus Andersons Konstmuseum, Helsinki, FI, and Sophienholm, Lyngby, DK
1997 Simon Sheik: Caught in the crossfire, in: Claus Carstensen – Crossover, Arken – Museum for moderne kunst, Ishøj, DK
1996 Contemporary Danish art, The South African National Gallery, Cape Town, ZA
1996 Claus Carstensen – A.D.S. Donaldson – Peter Bonde – John Nixon, Artspace, Sydney, AU
1996 Brekt bein – ny dansk kunst, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO
1995 Welfare, Galerie du Temple, Paris, FR
1995 Pittura Immedia, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, AT
1995 The image of Europe, public spaces, Nicosia, CY
1994 Dorthe Aagesen: Crossover – an introduction, in: Claus Carstensen – Crossover, Arken – Museum for moderne kunst, Ishøj, DK
1994 Borta, men hemma, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE
1994 Punishment + decoration, Hohenthal und Bergen, Cologne, DE
1994 22nd Bienal Internacional Sao Pauloenal Internacional Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, BR
1993 Changing I, dense cities, Shedhalle, Zürich, CH
1993 Hellbound, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Martigny, CH
1994-1992 KIKU, Vestsjællands Kunstmuseum, Sorø and Aarhus Kunstmuseu, Århus, DK
1992 Potsdamer Platz Projekt-Entwürfe, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, and Galerie Philomene Magers, Bonn, DE
1992 The Anonymous Museum, Chicago, US
1992 Daniel Buchholz’ greatest hits, Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, DE
1992 Mind the gap, Gimpel Fils, London, UK
1992 Boundary Rider, 9th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, AU
1991 Stillstand, switches, Shedhalle, Zürich, CH
1990 The Köln show, organized by nine galleries, Cologne, DE

Art Fairs
2004 Scope LA, Los Angeles, US

Awards
2000 Carnegie Art Award, Konstakademien, Stockholm, SE, Listasafn Reykjavikur, Reykjavik, IS and The Curve, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
1999 Carnegie Art Award, Amos Andersons Konstmuseum

 

Bibliography
2001 Judith Mastai, Claus Carstensen: Roda Rummet, Christopher Cutts Gallery, 2001 ISBN 0-9696548-9-8
1999 Judith Mastai: Red Read, in: Canadian Art, Winter 1999, Volume 16 Number 4
Diedrich Diederichsen: Zusammenhänger, in: Claus Carstensen, Kunstmuseet Brundlund 1998 Slot, Åbenrå
1998 Friedemann Malsch: Transparent, reversibel, Katapult – Zum
1997 Motiv der Membrane im Werk von Claus Carstensen, in: Claus Carstensen – Membrane, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, German moderne kunst, Ishøj, DK
1992 Conversation in Sao Paulo – an interview with Claus Carstensen by Vibeke Petersen, in: Claus Carstensen – The Sao Paulo Project And Related Work