Ann-Sofi Siden Biography

ANN-SOFI SIDÉN
Born 1962 in Stockholm
Lives and works in Stockholm
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
Ann-Sofi Sidén, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
Curtain Callers, Göteborg Film Festival
Curtain Callers, The Royal Dramtic Theatre, Stockholm, Sweden
The Wigmakers Visit in the framework of A View from Outside - Reloaded, Sigmund Freud
Museum, Vienna
Same Unknown, Christian Larsen, Stockholm, Sweden
My country (Somewhere in Sweden), Galerie Barbara Thumm Schaulager, Berlin
Moderna Museets Vänners Skulpturpris - K.A. Linds hederspris, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Same unknown, Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia, Italy
After the Fact, Christian Larsen, Stockholm
In Passing, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm
After the Fact, BCP&P Beneviste Contemporary, Madrid
Into Me, Out of Me, MACRO - Museo d`Arte Contemporanea, Roma
In Passing, Galeria Pepe Cobo, Madrid
Wege zur Selbstverständlichkeit - Set 4 aus der Sammlung des Fotomuseum Winterthur,
Fotomuseum Winterthur
In Passing, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
Clinical Studies I, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
Melancholie. Genie und Wahnsinn in der Kunst, Neue Nationalgalerie / Black Box, Berlin
In Between the Best of Worlds, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
3MPH (Horse to Rocket), Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela
CODEX, 1993-2005, Christine König Galerie, Vienna
3 MPH, Horse to Rocket, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
Das Neue 2, Atelier Augarten - Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst der Österreichischen Galerie,
Vienna, Austria
In between the best of Worlds, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Warte Mal!, BAK, Utrecht, Netherlands
Warte Mal!, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln
Who is Queen of Mud? The Clocktower & QM I Think I Call her QM, CAAM Centro Atlantico de
Arte Moderno, Las Palmas Spain
3 MPH, Horse to Rocket, Galeria Pepe Cobo, Seville
QM, I Think I Call Her QM, Galerie Jirí Svestka, Prague
3 Miles per Hour, Art Pace, San Antonio
Warte Mal!: Prostitution After the Velvet Revolution, Hayward Gallery, London
Warte Mal! Moderna Museet c/o BAC, Baltic Art Center, Visby, Sweden
Fidei Commissum, Christine König Galerie, Vienna
Station 10 and Back Again, Norrköpings Konstmuseum
Ann-Sofi Sidén - The Panning Eye Revisited, Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
2000
1999
1998
1995
1993
1991
1988
2 DVD Installations: Eija-Liisa Ahtila & Ann-Sofi Sidén, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
Who is invading my privacy, not so quietly and not so friendly?, The South London Gallery,
London
Warte Mal! Wiener Secession, Vienna
Days Inn & The Preparation, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
QM, I Think I Call Her QM, Bergen Fine Art Society, Bergen
Who told the chambermaid? & The Preparation, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm
QM, I Think I Call Her QM, Biografen Zita, Stockholm, Sweden
Excerpt III, Gallery Lucas & Hoffman, Cologne
It is by confining one’s neighbour that one is convinced of one’s own sanity, Galerie Nordenhake,
Stockholm
CODEX, Riksutställningar
Sofi’s Room, Galleri Mejan, Stockholm
Inget Måleri/ No Painting, Galleri Rotor, Gothenburg
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
WATCHED!, Hasselbladstiftelsen, Göteborg, Sweden
Super-spreader : media virus, Nam June Paik Art Center, Giheung-gu, Korea
Framing Bodies, Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg
Travestie für Fortgeschrittene, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig
A Voice of One’s Own, Malmö Konstmuseum, Sweden
19th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
Eva International Biennial, Limerick, Ireland
Malmö Art Museum@Malmö Konsthall, Malmö Konsthall, Sweden
The Collection #4, 21er Haus, Vienna
Bienal International de Curitiba, Brazil
1.pers.sing., b-05, Montabaur, Germany
Curtain Callers (in collaboration with Johnatan Bepler), Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
Thrice Upon A Time, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm
Mutter - Neue Bilder in Kunst und Literatur, Minoriten Galerien, Graz, Austria
Moderna utställningen, Moderna Museet Stockholm
En AnnnVäg/ Another Way Wanås Foundation Knisslinge, Sweden
Erika Mustermann - Neue feministische Positionen, Der Strich, Berlin
Fear Society, Biennale Venezia, 53rd International Art Exhibition
Pabellón de la Urgencia, Murcia. The Fear Society, curated by Jota Castro
Fluid Street - Alone, together, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Finland
Into Me, Out of Me, MACRO - Museo d`Arte Contemporanea, Roma
Wege zur Selbstverständlichkeit - Set 4 aus der Sammlung des Fotomuseum Winterthur,
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Pepe Cobo y sus máquinas, Palacio de Sástago, Diputación Provincial de Zaragoza,
Zaragoza, Spain
Speed II, Institut Valenciá d’Art Modern, Generalitat Valenciana, Valencia, Spain
Documentos. La memoria histórica del futuro, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastián,
España; MARCO, Vigo, Spain
Archaeology of Reality, Latvian Center for Contemporary Art – LCCA, Riga, Latvia
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
Anstoss Berlin, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
Into Me/Out of Me, P.S.1, Queens, New York; Kunstwerke, Berlin; Museo d’Arte Contemporáneo,
Rome
Locuras contemporáneas, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Konstfeminism/ Art Feminism, Liljevalch's Konsthall, Stockholm
Touch My Shadows, Centrum Sztuki, Warsaw, Poland
Speed, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
Melancholie. Genie und Wahnsinn in der Kunst, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Project Migration, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
Becoming Animal - Contemporary Art in the Animal Kingdom, MASS MoCA, Massachusetts
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, USA
Nach Rokytník - Die Sammlung der EVN, MUMOK, Vienna
Installationen und Skulpturen, Galerie Tanit, Munich
Biennale of Sydney, Australia
Volontary Memory, Barbican Center Art Galleries, London
Perspectives @ 25, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
Born to be a Star, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
3 MPH, Art Basel: Art Unlimited, Basel Switzerland
Berlin North, Nationalgalerie Berlin im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
Somewhere Better than this place: Alternative Social Experience in Spaces of Contemporary Art,
The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
Independence, South London Gallery, London
Micropolitics, EACC Espai d’art Contemporani de Castelló, Spain
Die Wohltat der Kunst. Post/Feministische Positionen der 90er Jahre aus der Sammlung Goetz,
Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden Baden
Fast Forward, ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe DE
Women 2003, Billboard project in Denmark & Sweden organized by HanneLise Thomsen
De bortbjudna – Malmö Art Museum is visiting Rooseum, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art,
Malmö (Sweden)
Biennale of Sydney 2002, Sydney
Acquisitions 2001, part 1 – Photographs, video-installations, videos, National Museum of
Contemporary Art, Athens
Elvis Has Just Left The Building, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Let’s talk about Sex - Sexualität und Körperlichkeit in der Gegenwart, Kunst Haus Dresden
CTRL (Space), ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
Trauma, Dundee Contemporary Arts; Firstsite, Colchester; MOMA, Oxford
Berlin Biennale für zeitgenössische Kunst, Kunst Werke, Berlin
QM, I think I call her QM, Hirschhorn Museum, Washington DC
Scène de la vie conjugale, Villa Arson, Nice
Through Melancholia and Charm - Four Installations, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin
Wanås 2000, The Wanas Foundation, Knislinge
Immodest Gazes, Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona
Kwangju Biennale 2000, Kwangju
Organising Freedom, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Kunstwegen, Public sculpture project comissioned by Stichting Kunstwegen Hardenberg,
Nordhorn
1999
1998
1997
1996
1995
1994
1993
1992
1991
1990
1989
1988
Carnegie International 1999/2000, Pittsburgh
Fireworks, De Appel, Amsterdam
Eröffnungsaustellung, Christine König & Franziska Lettner Galerie, Vienna
Composite, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo
Dial M for…, Kunstverein München
dAPERTutto, La Biennale di Venezia, (curated by Harald Szeemann)
Two Doors - True Value, Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich
Midnight Walkers & City Sleepers, Red Light District, Amsterdam
XXIV Bienal de São Paulo
In Visible Light, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Manifesta 2, Luxemburg
Arkipelag The King is not the Queen, Nordiska Museet, Stockholm
Nuits Blanches, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Faróis distantes: Distant Light Houses, Fabrica, Porto Brandão, Lissabon
ALMA the girl, The Alma Löv Museum, Smedsby, Östra Ämtervik
Art-Capsule, Göteborgspaviljongen, Konstakuten, Stockholm
Konspirationen. Conspiracy. E synomosia, The Soap Factory, Athens; FOKA Forum of Keen Art,
Thessaloniki; Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala; BildMuseet, Umeå
Zonen der ver-störung, Steirischer Herbst, Graz (curated by Silvia Eiblmayr)
Clean & Sane, Edsvik, Stockholm (curated by Maria Lind)
Invasion, Saaremaa Biennial, Kingisepp
Around Us, Inside Us, Borås Konstmuseum
Letter & Event, Apex, New York
Tidsanda, Malmö Museum, Malmö
See What it Feels Like, Rooseum, Malmö
False Notions, Beam Gallery, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Electronic Undercurrents, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
395’, Sandvikens Konsthall
Streets, Helsinki Art Hall, Helsinki
A Tribute to Ingmar Bergman, Nordanstad Gallery, New York
Strange Phenomena, National Museum, Helsinki
Hybrid No. 4, The Kitchen, New York
Who Has Enlarged This Hole?, Alice Fabian, 53W. 9th St., New York
Good Morning America, PS.1. Studio Artist Group Show at PS.1. Museum, New York
Revir, (Good Morning America), Kulturhuset, Stockholm
Brown Tableaux for Five Monitors, Sundsvalls Museum
Ad Hoc, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm
Prospect, Fotografiska Museet, Stockholm
Pimpinette: Ladies Wear & Accessories, Villa Val Lemme
The City Stones, videoinstallation, Stockholms Stads Stadsmuseum
AVE, Audio Visual Art Festival, Arnhem
Swedish Avantgarde Film Program 1990-1994, (organised by Anthology Film Archives), New York
Performance and Happenings
Directaction, Queen of Mud Inspects the Art Fair, Sollentuna
179 Kg, Come and Go, Act-90, Kulturhuset, Stockholm
Queen of Mud Visits the Perfume Counter, Varuhuset NK, Stockholm
TSSS, Greetings to the Swedish Farmers and their Asian Women, Geneva
PRIZES
2009 Friends of Moderna Museet Sculpture Prize, Stockholm, Sweden
2003 Atelier Augarten, Vienna
2002 ArtPace International Artist-in-Residence Program, San Antonio, Texas, US
2001/02 DAAD, Berlin, Germany
1998 First Prize in Statens Kunstrad Public Sculpture Contest, Stockholm
1993/94 PS.1 International Studioprogram, New York
1989 Skohegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine
OTHER ACTIVITIES
2012
2009
2007
2001
2000
1999
1998
1997
MAP – Mobile Art Production produced: Ann-Sofi Sidén & Jonathan Bepler: Curtain Callers, 2011
Screening and Talk
Screening of QM, I Think I Call Her QM at Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Films and Videos from the
Sammlung Goetz, curated by Susanne Touw
Puzzled, Public Sculpture at Campus Gärdet, Comissioned by Statens Konstråd and Akademiska
Hus Stockholm, Sweden
Warte Mal!, Wiener Secession, Vienna, with text by Erik van der Heeg,
XXIV Bienal de São Paulo, Text by Maria Lind, interview by Mats Stjernstedt,
Rotterdam Film festival
First prize in Statens Konstråd¹s public sculpture contest Platser (Places), Stockholm
Screening of QM, I Think I Call Her QM at the Movie Theatre Zita, Stockholm
Rum i Rum (Room Within the Room) a surveillance installation for an electro-acoustic concert at
SVR, the Radio House, Stockholm
Theatre set design for Henry IV, by Pirandello, Directed by Jonas Cornell at Stadtsteatern,
Stockholm
PERFORMANCE AND HAPPENINGS
1991
1990
1989
1988
Gretchens Monologue, Fylkingen Stockholm (also as radio theatre in collaboration with L.
Ericsson)
Queen of Mud Inspects the Art Fair, Sollentuna 179 Kg, Come and Go, Act-90, Kulturhuset,
Stockholm
Queen of Mud Visits the Perfume Counter, Varuhuset NK, Stockholm
TSSS, Greetings to the Swedish Farmers and their Asian Women, Geneva
RESIDENCIES
2003
2002
Atelier Augarten, Viena, Austria
Art Pace San Antonio, Texas, US
2001/2002 DAAD, Berlin, Germany
1993/1994 PS1 Studio program New York. US
1989 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Maine, US
COLLECTIONS
Borås Konstmuseum, Borås
Västerås Konstmuseum, Västerås, Sweden
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
CGAC Centro Galego de Arte Contemporaneo, in Santiago de Compostela,Spain
Dunkers Kulturhus Helsingborg,
EVN Sammlung, Wien
Kalmar Slott, Kalmar
Kiasma Helsinki
Magasin 3, Stockholm
Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
Norrköpings Museum, Norrrköping
Sammlung Goetz, München
Wanas Foundation, CG & Marika Wachtmeister samling, Knisslinge
FILM/VIDEO
2007
2001
2000
1999
1997
1995
1994
1993
1991
1990
1988
1987
1986
Reversed Evolution, 9 min
Prozim! Tschechischen Blumen, 8 min, 45 sec. video
Head Gallery Piss Up, 11.22min. video
Head Lake Piss Down, 7 min. video
The Preparation, 38 min. video
Room 1111, vídeo by Ann-Sofi Sidén and Paul Giangrossi
QM, I Think I Call Her QM, a film by Ann-Sofi Sidén and Tony Gerber. 28 min.
Who is Queen of Mud? video
Every Six Weeks, video
CODEX, video
Sofi’s Room, video
Love Story, video
Cookie Puss, 16 mm
Life of a Sailor’s Wife, 16 mm
I Still Got My Memory, video
CATALOGUES (SOLO EXHIBITIONS)
2009
Ann-Sofi Sidén Moderna Museets Vänners Skulpturpris (K. A. Linds Hederspris). (ISBN 978 – 9186243 -04-3).
2004
2003
2002
2000
1998
1995
1993
Ann-Sofi Sidén, In Between the Best of Worlds, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Ann-Sofi Sidén, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln, Germany
Warte Mal ! – Prostitution after the Velvet Revolution, Hayward Gallery, with texts by, Susan
Ferleger Brades, Robert Fleck and Ann-Sofi Sidén, London, GB
Ann-Sofi Sidén - The Panning Eye Revisited, Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, preface by
Laurence Bossé, texts by Gertrud Sandqvist, Julia Garimorth, Alain Didier-Weill and Gregory Volk
Warte Mal!, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria, with text by Erik van der Heeg,.
XXIV Bienal de São Paulo, Text by Maria Lind, interview by Mats Stjernstedt
No. 144. It’s by confining one’s neighbour, that one is convinced of one’s own sanity, UTICA
Publishing. excerpt from Alice Fabians diary. Text by Ann-Sofi Sidén
CODEX, Published by Riksutställningar. Excerpt from court verdicts, 1500- 1900 century. Text by
Maria Lind
CATALOGUES (GOUP EXHIBITIONS)
Wanås 2010, Wanås Foundation, Knisslinge Sweden, 2010
Umano troppo Umano, Fotografia Europea. Reggio Emilia, Italy 2008
Noteka katu/Fluid street, KIASMA, Museum of Contemorary Art, Helsinki 2008. Text by: Juan José
Santos
Pepe Cobo y sus máquinas, Diputación Provincial de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain, 2007
Documentos. La memoria histórica del futuro, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastián, España,
2007
Speed #2, IVAM Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, España, 2007
18: BECKET, Blackwood Gallery,Text by Séamus Kealy. Published by: University of Toronto at
Mississauga, 2006
Konsfeminism, Art Feminism Strategies and consequences in Sweden from the 1970s to the
present, Swedish Travelling Exhibitons, Essay by Griselda Pollock: Art Feminism in an international
frame, Published by Atlas, 2005
Berlin North, national galerie Staatliche Museen zu berlin im Hamburger Bahnhof; Museum für
Gegenwart, Berlin 2004
Becoming Animal, Mass MoCA Publications
Perspectives @25. A quarter of a century of new art in Houston. Contemporary Arts Museum,
Houston, EEUU
Micro politicas, EACC Espai d’art Contemporani de Castelló, Spain 2003
"CTRL (Space)," ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, 2001
Mirades Impúdiques, Fundació la Caixa, Barcelona, 2001
Organising Freedom, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 2000
Århundradenas konstverk, The National Museum, Stockholm, 2000
Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, 1999 /2000
Composite/Sammensatt, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, 1999
Dial M for…, Kunstverein München. Text by Sabine Russ and Ann-Sofi Sidén, 1999
La Biennale di Venezia 48, d’APERTutto. Text by Robert Fleck, 1999.
In Visible Light, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 1998
Manifesta 2, Luxemburg, 1998
Nuits Blanches, Scènes nordiques: les années 90, Paris, 1998
Conspiracy, Uppsala Konstmuseum, Text by Sabine Russ, 1997
Zoonen der Ver-störung, Steirscher Herbst, Graz, Austria Text Erik van der Heeg, 1997
Clean & Sane, Edsvik, Stockholm. Text by Maria Lind, 1997
Around Us, Inside Us, Borås Konstmuseum. 1997
Invasion, Saaremaa Biennial, Estonia. Text by Erik van der Heeg, 1997
Letter & Event, Apex Gallery, New York, Text by Maria Lind, 1997
Se What it Feels Like, Rooseum, Malmö. Text by Erik van der Heeg, 1996
Strange Phenomena, National Museum, Helsinki. Text by Maria Lind, 1995
Revir/Territory, Kulturhuset, Stockholm. Text by Maria Lind, 1994
PS.1 Museum’s studioprogram 1993/1994, New York, 1994
The Rules Of the Game, Stockholm. Text: quotations from 18th century court verdicts of the City of
Stockholm, 1993
Art Against AIDS, Royal Academy, Stockholm. Text by Ann-Sofi Sidén,
Swedish Avantgarde film 1924-1990, Anthology Film Archive, New York. Text: Ilmar Laaban, 1991
Articles/Texts
Dieter Buchhart, “Grenzen des Alltags”, Kunst Forum International June-July 2002
Ann-Sofi Sidén, “A rural incident...” Mutations, by Reem Koolhaas, Stefano Boeri Sanford, Kwinter,
Nadia Tazi HAns Ullrich Obrist.
Mats Stjernstedt, "Ann-Sofi Sidén, Norrköpings Konstmuseum, " Artforum, September 2001
Geneviève Breerette, Gillian Wearing et Ann-Sofi Sidén, deux vidéastes en quête de réalité, Le
Monde, April 5, 2001
Jan Estep, "Feral Children and the Queen of Mud," New Art Examiner, March 2001
Lars O. Ericsson, "Människor som du och jag," Dagens Nyheter, March 15, 2001
Jennifer Allen, "On Through Melancholia and Charm," NU: The Nordic Art Review No. 1, 2001
Gregory Volk, "On Ann-Sofi Sidén's 'Fideicommissum,'" Camera Austria, Nov 2000
Harald Fricke, interview with Ann-Sofi Sidén, Kunst-Bulletin Jan/Feb. 2000
Katy Siegel, "1999 Carnegie International," Artforum, January 2000
Roberta Smith, "Carnegie International: Safe Among the Seamless Shadows," The New York Times,
Nov 17, 1999
Daniel Birnbaum, "Shrink Rap," Artforum, Summer 1999
Maria Lind, "Peeping on the Chambermaid," Flash Art Summer 1999
Milou Allerholm, "Ann-Sofi Sidén’s installation is…," NU: The Nordic Art Review 1/1999
Daniel Birnbaum, "All Together Now," Frieze No. 42, 1998
Lars O. Ericsson, "The Queen of Mud Strikes Again," SIKSI No. 1, 1998
Justin Hoffman, "Zonen der Ver-störung," Kunstforum International No. 139, Dec 1997-March
1998
Daniel Birnbaum, "Cumulus," Parkett No. 50/51, 1997
Sabine Russ, Trans, 1997
Daniel Birnbaum, "Drömda landskap," Dagens Nyheter, May 21, 1997
Maria Lind, Svenska Dagbladet, 1996
Daniel Birnbaum Artforum, February, 1996
Sarah Arrenius, "A Mud Queen as TV-star," Index, No. 1, 1996
Margareta Rossholm-Lagerlöf, "Ann-Sofi Sidén," Index, No. 1, 1996
Erik van der Heeg, Daniel Birnbaum, "The Diary Of a Lady," Material, No. 27, 1995
Ingela Lind, "Som en Hitchcockfilm," Dagens Nyheter, Sep 6, 1995
Milou Allerholm, "Psykopatologens vardagsliv," Expressen, Sep 11, 1995
Maria Lind, "Med besatthet som råmaterial," Svenska Dagbladet, Sep 9, 1995
Sara Arrhenius, "Vem övervakar övervakarna?," Aftonbladet, Sep 15, 1995
Kim Levin, "Down the Rabbit Hole," The Village Voice, No. 27, 1994
David Lindsay, "Mad House: Art That Immitates an Eccentric Life," New York Post, 1994
Milou Allerholm, "The Violence Of Everyday Life," Index, No. 3/4, 1994
Ingamaj Beck, "Guds makt - och bödelns," Aftonbladet, 1993
Ingamaj Beck, "Metamorfoser," Aftonbladet Kultur, 1993
Magnus Bärtås, "90-tal presenterar Maria Lindberg och Ann-Sofi Sidén," 90-tal, No. 2/3, 1993
Susanne Skoglund, Bang, No. 1, 1991