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KLARA LIDEN

Born 1979 in , Lives and works in

EDUCATION

2004-2007 University College of Arts Crafts and Design, Konstfack, Stockholm 2003 Universität der Kunst, Berlin 2000-2004 School of , Royal School of Technology, Stockholm

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019 Berlin Fall, Galerie Neu, Berlin Now Two Three, Weiss Falk, , Switzerland Auf jeden Fall, Secession, , 2018 Grounding, Reena Spaulings , New Strange Days: Memories of the Future, Store X, Warm-, Piece Unique, , 2017 LAVORO, with Karl Holmqvist, Indipendenza, The Great Indoors, Reena Spaulings Fine Arts, 2016 Werk, with Karl Holmqvist, Kunstverein , Braunschweig Tinker’s Damn, curated by Tobias Spichtig, LambdaLambdaLambda, Prishtina, Kosovo 2015 ICHBRAUCHEMASSPACE, with Karl Holmqvist, House of Gaga, Mexico Umpumpen, Akkunstprojekte, Arbeiterkammer, Vienna Battement battu, WIELS, Contemporary Art Centre, Galerie Neu, Berlin Le Consortium, Dijon, 2014 POST, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, It's Complicated, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York 2013 Invalidenstrasse, Museion, Bolzano The Myth of Progress, Irish of , 2012 Bodies of Society, New Museum, New York Pretty Vacant, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York 2011 Galerie Neu, Berlin Moderna Museet, Stockholm 2010 Rumpfflächen und Plündererbanden, Bonner Kunstverein, Serpentine Gallery, London Art Pace, San Antonio Toujours Etre Ailleurs, Jeu De Paume, 2009 Never Come Back, Kunsthalle Friedricanum, Projects 89, Museum of Modern Art, New York The Teenage Room, Nordic Pavillion, Biennale of Venice 2008 Elda för kråkorna, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York 2007 Klara Liden, The Hayward Gallery, London Unheimlich Maneuver, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden 2006 Economy Class, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York 2004-2005 Dr. 3000, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019 Surface and Custom, Shiseido Gallery, 2018 Lampen, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich, Switzerland FCA Benefit Exhibition, Gladstone Gallery, New York Strange Days: Memories of the Future, Store X, London “Deutschland ist keine Insel.” Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland., Ankäufe von 2012 bis 2016, Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland GmbH, Bonn, Germany Stories of Almost Everyone, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US Optik Schroder II, mumok, Vienna, Austria Sitting Bone, MAVRA, Berlin, Germany MOVE, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Michael Jackson: On the Wall, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK, touring to The Grand Palais, Paris; Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn; Espoo Museum of Modern Art, The Present is Ancient, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US BT13 Baltic Biennial, Tallinn, Readymades Belong To Everyone, Swiss Institute Architecture and Design Series: 3rd Edition, Swiss Institute, New York, NY 2017 in search of characters..., Galerie Neu, Berlin 15th Biennial, a good neighbor EUROVISIONS: Contemporary art from the Goldberg collection, National Art School Gallery, , Wasser, curated by Mandla Reuter, MAK Projects, Los Angeles, California Inside Intensity – The Anniversary Show, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany Readymade, curated by Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen, House Eva Presenhuber, Vnà, Switzerland Room, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK 2016 grabt tiefer, ihr Schönen, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany For Pete's Sake, Carl Kostyál, Stockholm, Sweden Behold the Man, Museum de Fundatie, Detail ist alles, Kunsthalle , Mainz, Germany STOSUNKI PRACY, LABOR RELATIONS, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum SWEDISH ART:NOW!, Sven-Harry’s , Stockholm 2015 Powerful Babies: Keith Haring‘s Impact on Artists Today, Spritmuseum, Stockholm Playing Pool with Eggs, Galerie Bernhard, Zurich Complex Bodies, Alte Fabrik, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland Borrowed Alibis, Freymond-Guth Ltd. Fine Arts, Zurich, Switzerland Sammeln für Morgen: neue Werke im Museion, Museion, Bozen, Adventures of the Black Square- Abstract Art and Society 1915-2015, Whitechapel Gallery, London Aggroculture, Taaffe Place, Brooklyn, New York Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 2014 Contemporary Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York International Women’s Festival 2014, /Cologne Bodø Kunstforening, Bodø, Norway Lugar a Dudas, Sao Paulo, Brasil KölnSkulptur #7, Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne High Performance. The Julia Stoschek Collection, ZKM Center for Arts and Media, Galerie NEU á la Douane, Galerie Chantal Crousel La Douane, Paris Galerie NEU at Gladstone Gallery, Gladstone Gallery, New York Forty and Forty…, Galerie NEU, Berlin Marie Høeg meets Klara Lidén, ONE Archives, Los Angeles Manifesta 10, , St. Petersburg, The Kitchen, Whitney Independent Study Program, New York UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS, Galerie Neu, Berlin AND LIFE GOES ON..., Between Bridges, Berlin Utopian days – Freedom, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Beauty Lies Inside Desire, Museum of Contemporary Art Voivodina, / Lugar a dudas, Barrio Granada, Colombia 2013 8 Ways To Overcome Time and Space, Künstlerhaus / Museum of Modern Art Der Feine Unterschied, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Langenhagen, Germany For the Time Being. Wall - Painted Walls, Kunsthalle , Germany KölnSkulptur #6, Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne Les Nouvelles Babylones, Parc Saint Léger, Pougues-Les-Eaux, France Rhythm in it, Aargauer Kunsthaus, , Switzerland AWAITING IMMANENCE, Carl Kostyal, Stockholm Freiheit, Kunstpalais, , Germany Marie Høeg meets Klara Lidén, SKMU Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway 2012 Public Spaces Chages 2012, The Museum of Modern Art, New York The New Public, Museion Bolzano Hools, Zachęta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, To the Moon via the Beach, Amphitheatre Arles, France Relocated, MD72, Berlin Heart to Hand, curated by Pati Hertling, Swiss Institute, New York A Doll’s House, curated by Fani Zguro, Liberia Isola Libri, Milan 2011 re.act.feminism #2 – a performing archive, curated by Bettina Knaup & Beatrice E. Stammer (Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz Public Spaces Chages 2011, The Museum of Modern Art, New York Galerija Miroslav Kraljevi, , Instytut Sztuki Wyspa, Gdansk Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde Tallinna Kunstihoone, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, , Akademie der Künste, Berlin) Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst 2011, Nationalgalerie, Berlin Based in Berlin, Berlin 54th International Art Exhibition ILLUMInations, Venice Biennale 2011 2010 BEFORE AND AFTER, Balicehertling, Paris Light Camera Action, ABC (Art Berlin Contemporary), Berlin Displaced Fractures. On the Break Lines of Architecture and its Bodies, Migros Museum, Home and Origin, Bukowskis, Stockholm Barbaric Freedom, Simon Lee Gallery, London Fischgrätenmelkstand, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin ÜBER WUT / ON RAGE, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin 2009 Non-Solo, Non-Group Show, Kunsthalle Zurich Artists from Berlin and Los Angeles, Massimo de Carlo, Milano Political Minimal, KW, Berlin Momentum 2009 The Fifth Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art, Moss, Norway 2008 After Nature, New Museum, New York Tarantula, Trussardi Foundation, Milan Meet Me Around the Corner, Astrup Fearnley Museum, The Sydney Biennale, Sydney 2007 MD 72, Berlin UM-KERHUNGEN / INTERAKTION I, Kunstverein, Braunschweig Beneath the Underdog, Gagosian Gallery Madison Ave, New York Uncertain States of America, Center for Contemporary Art, Warschau 2. Bienniale. 2007, Moscow Nothing Else Matters, De Hallen, Harleem Massive Analogue Academy, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne The Perfect Man Show, White Columns, New York 2006 Looking Back, White Columns, New York MUSIC IS A BETTER NOISE, P.S.1, MOMA, Long Island Subito Sera, Galleria Zero, Milan Street Behind the Cliché, Witte de With, , Berlin Nuevo Estocolmo, Södertälje Konsthall, Södertälje Various performances with Malin Arnell in Stockholm 2005 Reena Spaulings – The One and Only, Haswellediger Gallery, New York LTTR Screening, New York Spring show, Fotogalleriet, Oslo When Humor Becomes Painful, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich MIX NYC, Anthology Film Archives Outfest, Los Angeles Various performances in Stockholm 2004 Stockholm Art-Fair, Hjärnstorm gallery I/U/WE Färgfabriken, Stockholm LTTR Explosion, Art In General, New York

PERFORMANCE

2003 Hår och Systerskap, Wicked games, Konstakuten, Stockholm Concrete and Imagination, Urban Art Gallery, Berlin

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2019 Armstrong, Annie. What’s the Craziest Experience You’ve Ever Had at an Art Opening? We Asked Partygoers at Pace’s New HQ,Sept 2019 Goldstein, Caroline. 13 Must-See Museum and Gallery Exhibitions in Basel to Catch When You’re Done With the Fairs, Artnet, June 2019 Rittenbach, Kari, Artist Linden Inverts the Relationship Between Private Spaces and the Street, Frieze, Febru 11, 2019 Smith, Roberta, White Cube? These 3 Art Shows Buck Convention, New York Times, January 3, 2019 2018 Russeth, Andrew, Open Secrets: The Hidden Passages of Klara Lidén and Bruce Nauman, Artnews, November 29, 2018 Scott, Andrea, At the Galleries: Klara Liden, New Yorker, December 3, 2018 Kovel, Sophie, Klara Liden: Reena Spaulings Fine Art, Artforum Critic's Picks, November 2018 2017 Mizota, Sharon. “Near downtown L.A., an oddly entrancing art installation, at beautiful and troubling,” Los Angeles Times, May 2017. 2015 Powerful Babies: Keith Haring‘s Impact on Artists Today (exh. cat.), Stockholm: Spritmuseum & Absolut Art Collection 2014 Eler, Alicia. “An Androgynous Suffragette Portrait, Rediscovered,” Hyperallergic, April 2014. Smith, Roberta. “Klara Liden Unveils ‘It’s Complicated,’” , November 2014 Invalidenstrasse (exh. cat.), Museion Bozen, Mousse Publishing, 2014. Freiheit (exh. cat), Kunstpalais Erlangen, Snoeck, Cologne, 2014. 2013 Prize for (exh. cat.), Moderna Museet: Stockholm, 2013. Bria, Ginevra. “A long way home. Klara Lidén a Museion,” Artribute, September 2013. 2012 Klara Lidén Bodies of Society (exh. cat.), ed. by Massimiliamo Gioni, Jenny Moore, New Museum, New York: New Museum, 2012. The New Public (cat.), ed. by Rein Wolfs and Museion Bozen-Bolzano, Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König, 2012. 2011 “Die Angesagten”, in: Art, Nedo, Kito, p. 70 – 75, September 2011. Über Wut – On Rage (exh. cat.), ed. by Valerie Smith, Susanne Stemmler und Cordula Hamschmidt, Berlin: Haus der Kulturen der Welt 2011. Klara Líden Rumpfflächen und Plündererbanden (cat.), ed.by Bundesverband der Deutschen Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken (BVR), Bonn: Bonner Kunstverein 2011. “In Memory of Static,” Molesworth, Helen, in: Artforum, Vol. 49., No. 7, p. 214 –223, Cover, March 2011. Displaced Fractures. On the Break Lines of Architecture and its Bodies (cat.), ed. by Heike Munder and Thomas Trummer, Zurich: Migros Museum and Kulturstiftung, 2011. 2010 Klara Lidén (cat.), ed. by Sophie O‘ Brien, Teresa Hahr and Melissa Larner, Serpentine Gallery, Moderna Musset, London: Koenig Books, 2010. “Moonwalk über die Bühne des Augenblicks”, in: Zeizung, Nedo, Kito, December 30,2010. “Aktion frisst Stadtraum”, in: monopol-magazin.de, Wach, Alexandra, November 23, 2010. “Klara Liden”, in: art-magazin.de, Wolfs, Rein, May 17 2010. “Strip-Tanz in der U-Bahn” in KulturSPIEGEL, Ingeborg Wiensowski, November 2010. “Klara Liden” in Artforum, Camblin, October 28, 2010. Klara, Arakawa, Ei, Nikolas Gambaroff, Nick Mauss, Nora Schultz (Hrsg.), Kunsthalle Zürich und Galerie Neu, Berlin, 2010. 2009 “The Best of 2009 – Klara Liden: Never Come Back”, Christov-Bakargiev, Carolyn, Artforum, December 2009. “A Spectre of Death in Venice”, Rachel Campbell Johnson, The Times, June 9, 2009. “A More Serene Biennale”, Carol Vogel, The New York Times, June 8, 2009. “500 Words”, Elmgren and Dragset, Artforum, June 2009. “Unheimliche Manover”, Elke Buhr, Monopol Magazine, March 2009. “Cutting Modernism’s Big Cube Down to Size”, Holland Cotter, The New York Times, March 20, 2009. 2008 “Let’s Get Serious for a Moment”, Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine, pp 65, September 22, 2008. “Klara Liden, Anarchic Urbanism..”, Sam Thorne, Frieze Magazine, Issue 116 Summer 2008. “Klara Liden”, Andrea Scott, , March 2, 2008. “Klara Liden”, Roberta Smith, New York Times, Feb 22, 2008. 2007 “Klara Liden, Moderna Museet”, Ronald Jones, Artforum, September 2007. 2006 “The Sublime is Us”, Jerry Saltz, Village Voice, June 29, 2006. “Repetition and Difference, on LTTR”, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Artforum, Summer 2006. Catalogue, Berlin Bienniale, Feb 2006. “Best Of The Year”, New York Magazine, Jan 2006. 2005 “Strategie Der Taktik”, Sarina Basta, Texte Zur Kunst, March 2005. “Klara Liden”, Matt Wolf, Flash Art, March/April 2005. “Klara Liden”, Broklyn Rail, February 2005. “Klara Liden”, Roberta Smith, New York Times, Jan 14 2005. “Reena Spaulings”, Holland Cotter, New York Times, Jan 12 2005. 2004 “The Year This Could Have Had,” Holland Cotter, New York Times, 04.12.26 “Stockholm at Large,” Färgfabriken, 2004. “LTTR Explosion,” Holland Cotter, Art in Review, New York Times, 04.08.06. 2002 Fabrik, 2002. Dagens Nyheter, DN på Stan April 2002. “Situation Stockholm,” September 2002.

AWARDS AND GRANTS

2013 Prize for Sculpture Moderna Museet, Stockholm 2012 Carnegie Art Award 2011 Special Mention for 54th International Art Exhibition ILLUMInations, Venice Biennale Nominated for the Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst 2010 Blau Orange Kunstpreis 2009 Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, Kategorie Visual Arts 2008 International Artist Studio Program in Stockholm (IASPIS) PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; the Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles