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VIVI CHRISTENSEN.

Visual artist working with painting and music.

Born 1962 in Skive, Denmark.
Lives and works in Odense, Denmark

Education: 1996-2001 The Academy of Visual Art Funen, Denmark www.detfynskekunstakademi.dk


Exhibitons/projects 1997 - 2010

2010
Måske bliver jeg lykkelig - Perhaps I will be happy.
Paintings and words
De levende ord - Rønnebæksholm http://www.roennebaeksholm.dk/

Jeg vil lade dig elske mig - I will let you love me
Collages in the vindow and words on the roof.
INTO THE BLUE - Odd Space Exhibition Place http://oddplaceexhibitionspace.dk

Emilie with computer
Paintings
Shared View 2 - Nordic Days in New Targ, Polen.

2009
Jeg er bange for det nye - I am afraid of Changes
Paintings, video and sound.
VITAVRAP - www.granaten.dk

Release of the Magazine VITAVRAP - about life style and life values.
Gallery DASK www.daskgallery.com

Fire forskellige malere - Four different painters
Paintings
Gallery Rasmus - Odense DK

2008
Lydild
Skibssmeden Odense DK
Eksperiment with sound, video, fire and poetry.
www.granaten.dk

Collage/assemble
Painting sewed with pearls
Paraphrase over the painting of Agnes Slott Møller ; Dronning Margrethe den I og Erik af Pommeren, 1884 [87]
Funen Artmuseum. DK http://museum.odense.dk/Fyens_Kunstmuseum.aspx

Art is not mute - Hit In
Vocalsound
The Ersta Arthall - Götenborg Sweden.

2007
Luder Tuder - Prostitute Weeps
Painting and words
SPEAK UP! - The Free Exhibitionplace in Copenhagen DK
Curator and participating artist. www.speakup-denfrie.dk

Porcelainsvagon.
Songperformance with Camilla Gaugler. 6 - 10 august Skanderborg Festival DK
www.smukfest.dk – happenings

2006
A Room of ones own.
Exhibitionsplace Time Out, Pantheon, Odense DK
Installation about sexualitet, with paintings and pearl skulptures and music.
Inspired by the Author Virginia Woolf.

Big Eyes World.
Premiere of tv-tv OPEN, København www.tv-tv.dk

Porcelainwagon.
Performances In co-operation with the artist Camilla Gaugler.
Festival of Culture Odense DK 2006 Art Parade Copenhagen 2006 http://www.kopenhagen.dk/billeder/reportage/kunstparade_2006/
PHONO Festival Odense 2006

RU HIMMEL
Creates a fusion between eksperimental music and performative art, based on lyrics by Vivi Christensen
www.ruhimmel.dk
www.myspace.com/ruhimmel

2005
Mobile Archive of Wonders
With United Network
Moderna Museum, Stockholm

Big Eyes World.
A music-video about two people having problems in their love life. ( 12 min. )
In co-operation with guitarist Hans Thygesen,.
Made for the projekt ”Eyecontact” www.daysofartandlove.dk

Kærlighedstrusler - Threats of love
About having both good and bad feelings for a lover.
Banner of cotton 150 x 300 centimetres. 17 canvas pieces with words made of pearls.
The Black Danish Encyklupklupædi - Toldboden Kerteminde DK 2005

2004
Knallertsange - Mopedsongs
Performance moped tour on Funen and Islands/DK - in cooperation with the artist Tine Kortermand
www.knallertsange.dk

Opposition
Drawing with different flowers 160 x 300 cm - With the art group Godt.
Kulturspinderiet Silkeborg DK.

Angst trusser - Trouses of fear
7 trouses in paper hanging in a shop with other paper clothes.
With the artist group Klup-Klup. Kongensgade Odense, DK

2003
Jeg synger en sang for dig - I sing a song for you
Performance with paintings and song.
The walking streets in Aarhus, Silkeborg, Odense, Svendborg, Koge og Copenhagen DK .

Jeg er her og du er der - I am here and you are there - Art Jazz and Playstation
Songperformance
Odense Habour DK

08.03.03
Paintings
The room between. Brandts Klædefabrik Odense DK

Hjemmefra - Away from home
Drawing. 150 x 300 cm. With the artist group GODT
Charlottenborgs Forårsudstilling, Copenhagen DK.

2002
Daddy is it hot in Hell, song
Fuck you Daddy, little book with words made of pearls
Exhibitions building Charlottenborg. Spring-exhibition. Copenhagen DK

GODT 2
Drawing and performance
With the artistgroup Godt
Hvidovre Hospital DK

ÅÅOKK
Paintings from the installation Family
Galleri Lyne - Vestjylland DK

Klip en lyd - Cut a sound
Experiment in a hairdresser salon
Salon Bellacci, Odense DK

Postcord hand out
With the artistgroup Godt
Storkespringvandet, Copenhagen DK

2001
If you want me.
Installation with paintings, papersculptures, toys and sound from a Pokemon playstation”Suhsi go round”.
Brandts Exhibtion Complex Odense DK.

Min mor fortæller om min far - My mother tell me about my father
Video 13 min. www.flattv.dk

Mother do you love me.
Music-videoinstallation with 3 videoscreens.
Closeup shootings of my mother, my daughter and I singing
Arthall Copenhagen DK

2000
2-Best-foto
Exhibitionplace Peblinc - Kopenhagen DK

Konnektor - Berlin
Painting
Hall in Christinenenstrasse, Berlin

Flocking
Painting and light
Exhibitionplace North - Kopenhagen DK

Family
Installation of paintings
Exhibitionplace DFKU Odense DK

1999
Intet klyt under kjolen - No mess under the dress
Videoinstallation with the artist Stine Frederiksen
Rum 46, Århus DK

1998
Hvem er det der har skambidt mine guldkorn
Installation. 4 appartments in Odense DK

Was weiss ein bauer uber agurgensalat
Video. Gallerie Prima Kunst,  Kiel. 

Min sidste tegning - My last drawing
Exhibitionplace DFKU Odense DK

1997
Made in  China
Photos of my family sleeping
541 km i timen - Randers Kunstmuseum

Mark.
Photos of my son at Grenen, Skagen
Exhibitionplace DFKU Odense DK

Glemte værker - Forgotten works
Exhibitionplace DFKU Odense DK

My mother slept with the thing
With the artistgroup BANK. Townprojct in Odense DK
Awards/grants:

2009

Nordic House www.nordichouse.pl Exchange program Krakow Polen. Outdoor Painting.

The Danish Arts Foundation State of Denmark, Odense Municipal, Culture, Millers Foundation, Danish Metal Support for the projekt; I am afraid - VITAVRAP -

www.granaten.dk

2008

Region South Denmark pool for eksperimental Art. Odense Counsil, Culture. Support for the projekt Lydild www.granaten.dk/lydild

2006/07   

The Danish Arts Foundation State of Denmark ( Committee for visual art and Committee for Litterature), Copenhagen Municipal Committee for visual art , OAK Foundation, Tuborg Foundation. Support for SPEAK UP!  The Free Exhibitionplace Copenhagen 2007 

2006    

Odense Municipal, Culture. Support for the Exhibition, A Room of ones own, and the performance, Porcelainsvagon.

2005   

The Danish Arts Foundation Committee for other artistic projects. Support for the music-video, Big Eyes World, made for the project,  Eyecontakt   www.daysofartandlove.dk

2004 

Odense County and Odense Municipal Culture. Support for Mopedsongs,  www.mopedsongs.dk

2003

The Danish Arts Foundation Support for creative work.

2002    

LO´s Culture pool, Copenhagen Municipal Committee for visual art . GODT group exhibition at Hvidovre Hospital.

The Danish Filminstitute.  Support for The videos, Mother do you love me and My mother tells me about my father.

Odense Municipal, Culture. Support for the experiment, Cut a sound.

2001    

The Faberske Fond.

1998    

New Carlsberg Foundation. Travel scholarship to Japan.

 

Represented:

DCA, Danish Center of Arts, archive+database www.kunstdk.dk

United net-work on the Road. Mobile projekt, collecting artist profiles in archives, from several countries 2003-05.

Art online www.kunstonline.dk

Artreview www.artreview.com

Co-organizer/Initiative:

SPEAK UP! The Free Exhibitionplace in  Copenhagen, 2007. Exhibition with 23 artists where words are the theme.  In every kind, in paint, poetry, sound.... 6 arrangements during the exhibition about theology, politics and litterature. In co-operation with Jane Løvschall Dolmer. Curator and participating artist. www.speakup-denfrie.dk

The Art Patrol. Contemporary Mobile art projects www.knallertsange.dk

Granat. Group of artists, musicians and poets www.granaten.dk

Member of :

UKK. Young artists and art curatorer www.ukk.dk

KODA Organisation for mucisians www.koda.dk

Sound and Music:

Text, lyrics, arrangements, and videoes in the band RU HIMMEL in co-operatin with the guitarist Hans Thygesen. www.ruhimmel.dk

Production of the demo-cd, 4 songs, used to the video, Big Eyes World.

Recording, mix. og mastering Kell Dalager 2005

Production of songs to the exhibition A ROOM OF ONES OWN

Recording, mix. og mastering Kell Dalager 2006

Music for the website www.myspace.com/ruhimmel

Recording, mix. og mastering Kell Dalager 2008 

Represented  in the nordic sound projekt www.larm-festival.se

Represented  in The Ersta Konsthall sound archive, Art is not mute www.erstakonsthall.se             

 

Publication

The Art Magazine, VITAVRAP, about life style and life values. With photos of paitings from the project; I am afraid of changes.
Published by www.granaten.dk release october 2009

The Artbook, Shared view. With photos of the paitings; Emilie with computer. Published by Galeria Labirynt, Krakow.

25 years Anniversary Book - The Academy of Visual Art Funen With the serie of drawings Friends. 2009

The Art Sound book and CD´s LARM, From mouth cavity to laptop-the sound of Nordic art. 2007

The Artbook Øjenkontakt, with the musicvideo Big Eyes World. North publishing house 2007

 
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