UNNI GJERTSEN
CURRENT PROJECT WORKS CONTACT CV

b. 1966 Sjøvegan Norway

on
October 2009 – April 2010
UKS Oslo Creative History (exterior wall) Curator: Linus Elmes

upcoming solo shows

2010 October 29th - November26th
Armenian Centre for Contemporary Experimental Art Yerevan Armenia Curator: David Kareyan

2011 (date not set)
Shandi Road 1 Bangalore India Curators: Suman Gopinath & Grant Watson

resent
November 2009 Residency in Bangalore, India, by invitation (OCA/Suman Gopinath/Grant Watson)
April-May 2009 Platform China Residency, Beijing, granted by OCA

education
1993-97 Trondheim Academy of Fine Arts/Norwegian University of Science and Technology
1995 Escuela de Bellas Artes Buenos Aires (September-October)
1992-93 Art History University of Oslo (not completed)
1989-91 Strykejernet Kunstskole Oslo/Barcelona
1988-89 Theatre Science University of Oslo
1988-90 Film studies Friundervisningen Oslo
1987 Examen Philosophicum University of Tromsø

solo shows
2007 Baltic Sea Cultural Centre Gdansk Curator: Agata Rogos
2005 Konsthall C Stockholm Curator: Per Hasselberg
No 9 c/o Galuzin Gallery Oslo Curator: Vilde von Krogh
2004 Blå Porten/Liljevalchs Stockholm Curator: Niclas Östlind
2003 Gallery S:t Gertrud Malmö
By the Way -Showroom for Contemporary Art Bergen Curator: Annette Kierulf
Båstadgatan Malmö

group shows
2008
Headlines & Footnotes Henie-Onstad Art Centre, Bærum, commission
including Lene Berg, Matthew Buckingham, Andrea Geyer, Ivan Grubanov, Viktor Rosdahl,
Allen Ruppersberg & Gunnar Wærnes
Curator: Caroline Ugelstad

The Last Marquise Kasteel van Gaasbeek, Gaasbeek/Brussels
including Dotty Attie, Veronique Branquinho, Leo Copers, John de Andrea, Berlinde De Bruyckere,
Anouk De Clercq, Wang Du, Tracey Emin, Sylvie Fleury, Tessa Lauwaert, Lawrence Malstaf,
Sofie Muller, Nadia Naveau, Erwin Olaf, Sara Maria Peeters, Cindy Sherman, Barbara Visser & Heidi Voet
Curator: Ann Geeraerts

Rauma Biennale Balticum Rauma Art Museum, Rauma
Curator: Henna Paunu

Strike Back [ON] Gallery and around Poznan
Including Thierry Boutonnier, Hubert Czerepok, Karolina Kowalska, Dominik Lejman,
Oliver Ressler, Tea Makipaa, Konrad Smolenski, Piotr Wyrzkowski & Ilya Chichkan
Work installed at Lawica Airport
by Obscurators

2007
If i can’t dance i will not be Part of your Revolution
Edition II Episode 4, MUCHA Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen
including Heather Allen, Monica Bonvicini, LiliDujourie, Jef Geys, Karl Holmqvist, Sanja Ivekovic,
Jutta Koether, Sarah Pierce, Falke Pisano, Erik Van Lieshout, Frances Stark, Hito Steyerl,
Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Cathy Wilkes, Haegue Yang & Katarina Zdjelar
Curators: Annie Fletcher and Frederique Bergholtz

Open House IASPIS Stockholm

Konstfeminism Göteborgs Konstmuseum

2006
What about her Side of History Charlotte Fogh Contemporary Århus
including Lisbeth Bank, Nanna Debois Buhl, Henriette Heise, Christine Melchior
Sofie Hesselholdt & Vibeke Mejlvang
Curator: Kathrine Bolt Rasmussen

Konstfeminism Helsinglands museum, Hudiksvall

Konstfeminism Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm

3x3, three artists touring three spaces: Folkets Hus Årstad, Varberg, Söråker
produced by Konstfrämjandet, Sweden

2005 Konstfeminism Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg
2002 To see and get to be seen Østfold Kunstnersenter, Fredrikstad

2001
ad lib. Trans-art Trondheim
Utflykt, happening, Gyllens trägård Malmö

2000 Ny i stan Signal Gallery Malmö

residencies
October 2006 – April 2007
IASPIS (International Artist Studio Program in Sweden) Stockholm

screenings
2008 Women Filmmakers European Social Forum, Malmö Curator: Torbjörn Limé*                     

2007
Art Kino Bastard Gallery Stockholm
Women Filmmakers Supermarket, Konstnärshuset Stockholm

2006
I don’t know what else to do with myself ak 28 Stockholm
Curators: Esther Lu and Adnan Ylditz
Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin *
Konstnärshuset Stockholm *
Skånes Konstförening Malmö *

2005
Malmö Konsthall*
ID:I Stockholm *
Dunkers Kulturhus Helsingborg*

1999 Breath-i Atalante Gothenburg

1997
Electronic undercurrents Henie-Onstad Art Centre Oslo
Electronic undercurrents Statens Museum for Kunst Copenhagen

festivals
2007 Women.inc festival Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam
2006 Pixel Dance Video Art Festival, Thessaloniki
2005 Trunk the nordic art video festival Östersund

lectures
2008
OCA Office for Contemporary Arts Norway
Mai Zetterling –off the beaten track, part of Whatever happened to Sex in Scandinavia

Museion, Bolzano/Italy
Mai Zetterling –off the beaten track

Oslo Academy of Fine Art Selfpresentation

2007
De Balie, Amsterdam
Respondent to Rosi Braidotti’s keynote lecture Affirmative Ethics and the Question of Pain
(if i can’t dance... Symposium)
Kunstskolen i Rogaland Selfpresentation

2005 Prosjektskolen, Oslo, Selfpresentation
2004 Malmö Högskola, Integration and Public Space
2000 Granum kunstfagskole (1) Surrealism (2) Pop Art
1999 Asker kunstfagskole, The Body in Arts in the 1990s
1998 Oslo Tegne og Maleskole, 20th century art –modern perspectives

guest teaching Trondheim Academy of Fine Art NTNU, February 2009

workshops
2007 Kunstskolen i Rogaland, The Artistic Process
2004 Folkeuniversitetet i Malmö, Site Spesific
2002 City of Malmö Department for Strategic Devbelopment, Integration and Public Space
2000 Granum kunstskole, Documentation

grants
2008/07/05 OCA (Office for Contemporary Art Norway) International Support
2005/2002 Norwegian Artist Society
2003 Arts Council Norway (debut support)
2004/2001 Arts Council Norway (exhibition support)
1997 Arts Council Norway (equipment support)
2004 Working grant, Swedish Arts Grants Committee
Ambrosius Egedius og hustrus legat, Norway
2000 Sleipnir NIFCA

project support grants
2008/2000 Arts Council Norway
2006 Swedish Arts Grants Committee
2008/04/00/98 Norwegian Artist Society

Presently working
as Associate Professor HIO (Oslo Univerity College)
diverse temporary contracts