Bjarne Melgaard
Born 1967, Australia
Education
1992-93 Jan van Eyck Academie, Maarstricht, Holland
1991-92 Rijksacademie, Amsterdam, Holland
Solo Exhibitions
2008 Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York
Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
Guido W. Baudach, Berlin, Germany
Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
2007
Mommy’s Boy & Daddy’s Girl, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland
The Glamour Chase, Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen, Denmark
2006
A Weekend of Painting; A Novel by Les Super, Leo Koenig INC, New York, USA
Les Super, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin, Germany
Minipigs in Space, Galerie Krinzinger,Vienna, Austria
2005
Jasmine La Nuit, The Horse Hospital, London, England
Galerie Senda, Barcelona, Spain
Fin de Copenhague, Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen, Denmark
Hallo Maybe, Haugar Vestfold Museum, Oslo, Norway
Part 1: Chihuahua Hunger All Words Destroy, Galerie Crone, Berlin; Germany
Life is a Lonely Buffalo, Niels Borch Jensen Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Not a Painting Show, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2004
Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden
2003
Skam, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
The End of The Professional Teenager, Sketch, London, England
2002
Black Low, MARTa Herford Museum, Hannover, Germany
Nothing Special, Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen, Demark
Interface to God, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Beginnings, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
2001
Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
2000
Myth of a Young Washing Machine, Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo, Norway
New Works, Nils Staerk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
1998
More Pricks than Kicks, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway
Everything American is Evil, The Return to Constantinople, Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
Group exhibitions
2008
Jekyll Island, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, USA
Hardcore, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway
Euro-Centric, Part 1: New European Art from the Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA
2007
Destroy Athens, 1st Athens Biennial 2007, Athens, Greece
Beneath the Underdog, Gagosian Gallery, Madison Avenue, New York
2006
With Marie-Louise Ekman, Malmo Art Museum, Sweden
Helter Helter, Galerie Anne De Villepoix, Paris, France
2005
Willy Wonka Inc., Galleri SE, Bergen, Norway
Superstars The Celebrity Factor. From Warhol to Madonna Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria.
Bjarne Melgaard introducing Andy Warhol TV June at The Horse Hospital, London, UK
2004
Expressive Nordic Painting, Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen, Denmark
Tirol Transfer,Österreichisches Kulturforum, Warsaw, Poland
Secrets of the '90s, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Arnhem, Netherlands
In a Norwegian Wood. Norwegian Art of the Last Decade, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Diarys & Dreams, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany
The Black Album, Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea, Milano, Italy.
Central Station - the Harald Falckenberg collection, Maison Rouge, Paris, France
PLAYLIST , Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2003
Tra Est e Ovest, Gas Art Gallery, Torino, Italy
TABOO ! The Art of Exotica Entertainment, Roger Pailhas, Marseille, France
Twilight, Gimpel Fils, London, UK
De bortbjudna – Malmö Art Museum is visiting Rooseum, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden
Models & Mavericks : Exceptional Positions in the Collection Contemporary Art, Museum het Domain, Sittard, Nertherlands.
The Painting never dries..., Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
Phantom of Desire. Visions of Masochism in Art, Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen, Denmark
Moderna Museet c/o BAC, Baltic Art Center, Visby, Sweden
M_ARS - Art and War, Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
Bjarne Melgaard, Svent Jolle, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Erik van Lieshout, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerpen, Belgium
Group Show, Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen, Denmark
2002
Hommage an Rudolf Schwarzkogler,Galerie Krinzinger,Wienna, Austria
Extension:Works from the Collection, Magasin 3, Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
2001
New Heimat, Kunstverein Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
2000
Sharing Exoticisms, 5th Biennale de Lyon, France
Civil disobedience, Sammlung Falckenberg, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
Galería Senda, Barcelona
Sammlung Falkenberg, Hamburg, Germany
Galleri Lars Bohman, Estocolmo
The myth of a young washing machine, Oslo Museum of Contemporary Art Galleri Riis, Oslo
Rückblick und Ausblick, Kunstmuseum Bonn
Momentum 2000, Momentum - Nordic Festival of Contemporary Art, Moss, Norway
Organising Freedom - Nordic art in the 90s, Charlottenborg udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark
1999
Zeitwenden - Retrospect and Outlook, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Moon over Islam, Stedelijk Museum for Aktuelle Kunst, Gent. Smak, Belgium
Umfeld, Umwelt, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium (mit Joseph Beuys, Stan Douglas, Panamarenko)
Biennale São Paulo
1998
Manifesta II, European Biennale of Contemporary Art, Luxemburg
XXIV Biennale de Sao Paulo, curated by Bart de Bare and Maretta Jaukurii
Soft Core Arkipelag TV, curated by Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Historical Museum Stockholm
Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin
1997
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam
1996
Museum van hedendaagse Kunst, Gent
Public Collections
Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Stedelijk Museum Het Domaine, Sittard, Holland
S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent
KIASMA Museum of Contemprary Art, Helsinki
Malmö Konstmuseum
Bergen Billedgalleri
Norwegian Art Council
Musée de Strasbourg, Strasbourg
Magasin 3, Stockholm
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
The National Gallery, Oslo
The Rubell Family Collection