SORRY WE'RE CLOSED
 
 

Gardar EIDE EINARSSON
   
1976 born on 12 January in Oslo, Norway
  lives and works in New York
 

Education
2002- 2003 Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program/ Cooper Union
School of Architecture, Architecture and Urban Studies Program, New York
2001- 2002 Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, Studio
Program, New York
1999- 2000 Staatliche Hochschule fur Bildende Künste – Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main
1996- 2000 National Academy of Fine Art, Bergen
 

Solo Exhibitions
2007 SORRY WE'RE CLOSED, Brussel
Kunstverein Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany (forthcoming, with catalogue)
2006 STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo, Norway, Population One (forthcoming, October)
Nils Stærk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark, Tokyo Underworld
2005 Team Gallery, New York, NY, leashed or confined
Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris, France
2004 UKS Gallery, Oslo, Norway, Come and Take It
Nils Stærk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark, Enter to Start Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway, We’ll Make the World You Live (with catalogue)
Schnittraum, Cologne, Germany, 5 (words)
Marres centrum beeldende kunst, Maastricht, The Netherlands, Your Example Will Speak Louder Than Words
2003 Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin, Germany, o.u.t.l.a.w.
Norsk Form/ Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway, That’s Not Made for That
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, Violators Will be Fine
 

Two-Person Exhibitions
2006 gallery.sora, Tokyo (with Banks Violette)
2004

Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway, Rank Xerox (with Matias Faldbakken)
2003 Am Parlamentzplatz, Revolver, Frankfurt/ Main, Germany, Lösen Sie Ihren Bonus Ein
(with Hinrich Sachs)
2002 American Fine Arts, New York, New York, Lars Von Trier (with Gareth James)
White Box, New York, 6’ Under (with Carissa Rodriguez)
Oslo Kunsthall, Oslo, Norway, Mind the Space (with Jan Christensen)
2001 Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland, Osculum Infame (with Matias
Faldbakken, catalogue)
1999 Galleri 21:25, Oslo, Norway, Notes From the Underground (with Marius Engh)
 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006 P.S.1., New York, NY, Defamation of Character (curated by Neville Wakefield)
Vigelandsmuseet, Oslo, Norway, Norwegian Sculpture Biennial
Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Street: behind the Cliche (curated by Nicholas Schafhausen)
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway, Samle Sammen
Bortolami Dayan, New York, NY, War on 45/My Mirrors are Painted Black for You (curated
by Banks Violette)
Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany, Theater of Life – Rhetorics of
Emotions (curated by Nicholas Schafhausen)
Preus Museum, Horten, Norway, Skate Culture (curated by Jonas Ekeberg and Gardar Eide Einarsson, travelling)
Bortolami Dayan, New York, Survivor (curated by David Rimanelli)
STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo, Norway, Mafia: Or One Unopened Packet of Cigarettes
Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles (curated by Clarissa Dalrymple)
Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland, The Complex of Respect, (curated by Philipe Pirotte)
2005

FrancoSoffiantino Artecontemporanea, Turin, Italy, L’Altro, Lo Stesso (curated by Irene
Calderoni)
CCA Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, In the Poem About Love You Don’t Write The Word Love, (curated by Tanya Leighton)
Nils Stærk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark, To Be Continued
Roberts and Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey (with catalogue, curated by Vasif Kortun and Charles
Esche)
G Fine Art, Washington D.C., Blast (curated by Paul Brewer)
Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA, Downstrokes and Feedback (curated by Lisa Schiff)
Kunstraum Deutsche Bank, Salzburg, Austria, Next Generation: no ordinary sanctity
(with catalogue, curated by Shamim M. Momin)
Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, Walls ‘n Things (curated by Clarissa Dalrymple)
UKS, Oslo, Norway, Opacity (curated by Nina Montmann and Trude Iversen)
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Populism, traveling to National Museum of Art, Oslo;
Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius; Frankfurter Kunsverein, Frankfurt (with catalogue,
curated by Lars Bang Larsen, Cristina Ricupero & Nicolaus Schaffhausen)
P.S.1, New York, Greater New York
Team Gallery, New York, Damien Deroubaix, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Jakob Kolding
2004 Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris, France, La Piste Noir (curated by Marc-Olivier Wahler, with
catalogue)
Kunstwerke, Berlin, Germany, Now And Ten Years Ago (with catalogue, curated by
Stephan Dillemuth)
Shedhalle, Zürich, Switzerland, The Spectacle and Pleasure Principle or the Carnivalesque
(with catalogue)
Malmo Art Museum, Malmo, Sweden, New Acquisitions
Magazin 4, Planet B: Das B-Movie in der zeitgenössichen Kunst, travelled to Palais Thurn
und Taxis, Bregenz (with catalogue)
Galerie Kamm, Berlin, Germany, Black Friday (curated by Christoph Keller)
Art Film Basel, Art 35 Basel/ Stadtkino Basel, Switzerland
Champion Fine Arts, New York, NY, Boys Keep Swinging (curated by Mai-thu Perret, with
catalogue)
Nils Staerk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark, No More Reality
Apex Art, New York/ Museum Friedericianum, Kassel, Adaptations (with catalogue)
2003 Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Bilbao, Electric Visions
Centre pour l’image Contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland, 10th Biennale de l’image en
mouvement (with catalogue, curated by Charles Esche)
Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania, 24/7: New York-Vilnius (with catalogue)
Sutton Lane, London,UK, Put Out More Flags
National Touring Exhibitions, Bergen Kunsthall, Kunstnernes Hus, Art For the People
(with catalogue)
Whitechapel Project Space, London, Definitively Provisional
Kunstverein München, Munich, Kunstladen (curated by Maria Lind)
Apex Art, New York, Between The Lines (curated by Rebecca Gordon Nesbitt)
2002 Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland, CMYK/Greyscale (with catalogue)
Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark, Esplanaden (with catalogue)
Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK, Strike (with catalogue)
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway, Where am I Now 2
2001 Casino Luxembourg Forum d' Art Contemporain, Luxembourg, Audit (with catalogue)
The Trade Apartment, London, UK, What's Wrong
Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmo, Sweden, Kosmos (curated by Charles
Esche)
Bergen Kunstforening/ Bergen Kunsthall/ Den Frie Udstilling, Copenhagen/ Bergen,
Schpaa (with catalogue)
Galleri OTTO, Copenhagen, Denmark, Reol (with catalogue)
2000 American Fine Arts. Coal by Any Other Name, New York
Galleri G.I/ Henie Onstad Artcenter, Propaganda Village, Oslo, Norway
Momentum- Nordic Festival for Contemporary Art, Moss (with catalogue)
 

Selected Bibliography

2007 Rosen, Misako, “Banks & Gardar,” Tokion, January, pp.32-7, 137 (with illustrations).
2006 Nickas, Bob, “Gardar Eide Einarsson: Remember Kids,” Purple, Fall/Winter, pp.138-45
(with illustrations).
Schwendener, Martha, “War on 45,” Time Out New York, Aug 31- September 6 (with
illustration).
Baker, R.C., “Best in Show: War On .45/My Mirrors Are Painted Black (For You), Village
Voice, August 2-8, p.58.
Taft, Catherine, “Group Show Organized by Clarissa Dalrymple,” Artforum.com, February
9.
2005 Moreno, Gean, “Gardar Eide Einarsson,” ArtUS, December, p.25 (with illustration).
Jacobsen, Louis, “Blasts,” Washington City Paper, October 14, p.60 (with illustration).
Wilson, Michael, “Gardar Eide Einarsson,” Artforum, December, p.279 (with illustration).
Honigman, Ana Finel, “Gardar Eide Einarsson,” Tema Celeste, September-October, pp.44-9
(with illustrations).
Sholis, Brian, “Critics’ Picks: Walls ‘n’ Things,” Artforum.com, July 20 (with illustration).
Cotter, Holland, “Fanciful to Figurative to Wryly Inscrutable: Walls ‘n’ Things,” The New
York Times, July 8, p.E31.
Scott, Andrea K., "Local Heroes," TimeOut, March 31-April 6, p.62
Ribas, Joao, "City Limits," ArtReview, March.
2004 Blom, Ina, “A Problem of Style: Art vs. Subculture. On the Work of Gardar Eide Einarsson”,
Kunstkritikk.no
Lind, Maria, “Soft and strict strands”, 00tal #17/18, Stockholm
Heier, Marianne, “Andre Helter”, Billedkunst, #1 2004
2003 Macel, Christine, “Dada et Moi”, Les Cahiers du Musée national d’art moderne/ Centre
Pompidou #85/ automne 2003
Koether, Jutta, “Was tun mi dem Schwung/ What to do with the Momentum”, BE Magazin,
#10, autumn 2003
Pethick, Emily, “Critics Picks”, Artforum.com, August
2002 Deliss, Clementine, Texte sur Kunst, December.
Clark, Robert, The Guardian, Oct 8., p.__
Griffin, Tim, Time Out New York, July 4-11, p.__
2001 Nesbitt, Rebecca Gordon, “Osculum Infame, the Dark Side of the White Cube”, NIFCA Info,
March 01.
Tannert, Christoph, Kunstzeitung, November 01.
2000 Andreassen, Soren, Bang Larssen, Lars, NU: The Nordic Art Review, March.
McDavid, Ralph, NU: The Nordic Art Review, February.
 

Public Collections
  Norwegian National Museum of Art
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art
Malmoe Art Museum

 

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