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c/ Enrique Granados, 49, SP. 08008 Barcelona T. (+34) 93 451 0064, [email protected] http://www.adngaleria.com Tobias Bernstrup c/ Enrique Granados, 49, SP. 08008 Barcelona T. (+34) 93 451 0064, [email protected] http://www.adngaleria.com Obras selección /Worksselection Biografía /Biography Publicac iones /Publications Textos selección /Texts selection Prensa selección /Press selection c/ Enrique Granados, 49, SP. 08008 Barcelona T. (+34) 93 451 0064, [email protected] http://www.adngaleria.com Obras/ Works Performances c/ Enrique Granados, 49, SP. 08008 Barcelona T. (+34) 93 451 0064, [email protected] http://www.adngaleria.com Friktioner Performance at Uppsala Konsert Kongress, June 2. 2012 Organized by SU‐EN Butoh Company & Uppsala konstmuseum c/ Enrique Granados, 49, SP. 08008 Barcelona T. (+34) 93 451 0064, [email protected] http://www.adngaleria.com Performance at Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, 2012 c/ Enrique Granados, 49, SP. 08008 Barcelona T. (+34) 93 451 0064, [email protected] http://www.adngaleria.com Body 5 Arrives Performance at Galería Roca, Barcelona, 2010 Organized by ADN Galería c/ Enrique Granados, 49, SP. 08008 Barcelona T. (+34) 93 451 0064, [email protected] http://www.adngaleria.com No Soul For Sale Performance at Tate Modern, London May 15th 2010 Curated by Maurizio Cattelan c/ Enrique Granados, 49, SP. 08008 Barcelona T. (+34) 93 451 0064, [email protected] http://www.adngaleria.com Midnight Blue Performance at Wierd New York Dec 2008 c/ Enrique Granados, 49, SP. 08008 Barcelona T. (+34) 93 451 0064, [email protected] http://www.adngaleria.com Pop! Goes The Weasel Perform Badischer Kunstverein,Karlsruhe Feb. 2008 Curated by Anja Casser c/ Enrique Granados, 49, SP. 08008 Barcelona T. (+34) 93 451 0064, [email protected] http://www.adngaleria.com A Night With K48 Performance at The Kitchen, New York May 24. 2007 Organized by Scott Hug/K48 c/ Enrique Granados, 49, SP. 08008 Barcelona T. (+34) 93 451 0064, [email protected] http://www.adngaleria.com Shanghai Cosplay Performance at Shanghai Duolun MoMA, Nov 27. 2006 During Tobias Bernstrup's Solo Exhibition Mantis City, Curated by Biljana Ciric c/ Enrique Granados, 49, SP. 08008 Barcelona T. (+34) 93 451 0064, [email protected] http://www.adngaleria.com Killing Spree Performance at Debaser Stockholm,January 24th 2006 Organized by Andréhn‐Schiptjenko c/ Enrique Granados, 49, SP. 08008 Barcelona T. (+34) 93 451 0064, [email protected] http://www.adngaleria.com Performance at Rothko, New York April 20. 2005 c/ Enrique Granados, 49, SP. 08008 Barcelona T. (+34) 93 451 0064, [email protected] http://www.adngaleria.com Performance at Erlkönig , Art Basel 2003 Organized by Museum Für Gegenwartskunst & Andréhn‐Schiptjenko c/ Enrique Granados, 49, SP. 08008 Barcelona T. (+34) 93 451 0064, [email protected] http://www.adngaleria.com On Top Of The World Performance at Gio Marconi, Milan, March 15. 2002 curated by Caroline Corbetta c/ Enrique Granados, 49, SP. 08008 Barcelona T. (+34) 93 451 0064, [email protected] http://www.adngaleria.com Performance during Sets ‐ Performative Surfaces, Venice Biennale 2001 organized by IASPIS c/ Enrique Granados, 49, SP. 08008 Barcelona T. (+34) 93 451 0064, [email protected] http://www.adngaleria.com Obras/ Works Videos c/ Enrique Granados, 49, SP. 08008 Barcelona T. (+34) 93 451 0064, [email protected] http://www.adngaleria.com Walking Ego (Body 5) 2010 In 'Walking Ego (Body 5)', we see Bernstrup's digital alter ego, dressed in a robotic costume, with exposed breasts, walking endlessly towards the viewer. The animation is made by modifying the famous video game Half‐Life2 and using its tools for character animation in order to create an avatar textured with the artist's face and performance outfit. Bernstrup's musical performances and animations have since many years addressed issues on gender, sexuality, reality, fiction, the production of desire and the sexual fetishisation of dreams through drag and melancholic synth‐disco. 'Walking Ego (Body 5)' extends the artist's previous work as the body that appears has further transformed away from clear gender categories and become more queer. Bernstrup's art/drag performances have also reached a more abstracted, symbolic stage, and drifted away from addressing trans‐gender and 'real' life to more fictive, hybrid references. CtlCatalogue tttext by Jesper NdhlNordahl from the exhibition New GitGravity at NCCA, Moscow Walking Ego (Body 5), 2010 Format: DVD 16:9 or 4:3, Endless loop. Ed. 5+1AP c/ Enrique Granados, 49, SP. 08008 Barcelona T. (+34) 93 451 0064, [email protected] http://www.adngaleria.com A.S.F.R 2009 Filmed during Tobias Bernstrup's performance at Madre Museum, Naples June 26th 2009. In the performance Bernstrup is dressed in a shiny robotic costume and high heels while posing against a crashed BMW and singing his romantic pop songs about cars, neon and robots. The initials AASFR.S.F.R. means 'Alt Sex Fetish Robot' and derives from the now defunct Newsgroup on the web dedicated to Robot Fetishism. The performance was produced in collaboration with MADRE and Scabec as part of the program 'Corpus. Art in Action' curated by Adriana Rispoli & Eugenio Viola. A.S.F.R. 2009 Format: DV‐Cam/DVD 16:9, Dur. 6:18 min. Music by T. Bernstrup Ed. 5+1AP c/ Enrique Granados, 49, SP. 08008 Barcelona T. (+34) 93 451 0064, [email protected] http://www.adngaleria.com Performance at Badischer Kunstverein 2007‐2008 Filmed during Tobias Bernstrup's performance at Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe February 15th 2008. In the video Bernstrup is performing his song 'Enemies Of The Earth' dressed shiny latex and makeup accompagnied by theatrical smoke and animated stage visuals inspired by early computer animation effects as seen in the classical sci‐fi movie TRON. The video was produced in collaboration with Badischer Kunstverein. The performance took place during the opening night of the exhibition 'Pop! Goes The Weasel' curated by Anja Casser. Performance at Badischer Kunstverein, 2007‐2008 Format: DV‐Cam/DVD 16:9, Dur. 4:35 min. Music by T. Bernstrup Ed. 5+1AP c/ Enrique Granados, 49, SP. 08008 Barcelona T. (+34) 93 451 0064, [email protected] http://www.adngaleria.com Neon Love 2007‐2008 Neon Love was filmed during Tobias Bernstrup's performance at The Hall in Istanbul November 16th 2007. The Hall is a former Armenian church that has been transformed into a night club. In the video Bernstrup is performing his song 'Neon Love' dressed shiny latex and makeup accompagnied by theatrical smoke and animated stage visuals inspired by Kraftwerks classical video 'Neon Lights'. Bernstrups video projections shows old neon signs filmed in Berlin. Neon Love is also the title of the 12" vinyl singel that was released on the artists own label Tonight Records 2007. The performance and exhibition at The Hall was part of 'Art on Stage' curated by Derya Demir at Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center. The project was made with generous support from The Consulate General of Sweden. Neon Love 2007‐2008 Format: DV‐Cam/DVD 16:9, Dur. 6:18 min. Music by T. Bernstrup Edition. 5 +1AP c/ Enrique Granados, 49, SP. 08008 Barcelona T. (+34) 93 451 0064, [email protected] http://www.adngaleria.com Shanghai Cosplay 2006‐2007 Filmed during Tobias Bernstrup's performance at Shanghai Duolun MoMA, October 27th 2006. In the video Bernstrup is performing his song 'The Sniper' dressed as a praying mantis and flanked by the local Cosplay group SkyWaterTown. The performance took place during the opening night of Bernstrup' s solo exhibition 'Mantis City' at the museum curated by Biljana Ciric. CosPlay (from Costume Play) started as a Japanese subculture where participants dressed up as manga, anime or video game characters. It is nowadays a world wide spread cultural phenonema. Shanghai Cosplay 2006‐2007 Format: DV‐Cam/DVD 4:3, Dur. 6:15 min. Music by T. Bernstrup Ed. 5+1AP c/ Enrique Granados, 49, SP. 08008 Barcelona T. (+34) 93 451 0064, [email protected] http://www.adngaleria.com Mantis City 2006 In the new work 'Mantis City',Tobias Bernstrup adopts the language and low‐tech special FX techniques of early science fiction movies such as; Godzilla, Mothra and King Kong. Set in a 1:1000 scale model over Shanghai's futuristic skyline we see two giant praying mantids fighting each other and climbing the Oriental Pearl and Jin Mao towers. The dramatic lighting of the video recalls an atmosphere from Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927) and Carol Reed's 'The Third Man' (1949). Like in several of Bernstrup's earlier works, he raises questions about physical representation, how reality mimics fiction and vice versa in a world where the border between fiction and reality is getting more and more blurred. Mantis City 2006 Format: HDV/DVD 16:9, Dur. 12:58 min. Music by T. Bernstrup Ed. 5+1AP c/ Enrique Granados, 49, SP. 08008 Barcelona T. (+34) 93 451 0064, [email protected] http://www.adngaleria.com Killing Spree 2006 Killing Spree 2006 Format: DVD 16:9, Dur. 14:36 min. Music by T. Bernstrup Ed. 5+1AP c/ Enrique Granados, 49, SP. 08008 Barcelona T. (+34) 93 451 0064, [email protected] http://www.adngaleria.com La Paloma (1903) 2006 La Paloma (1903) 2006 Format: DVD 4:3, Dur. 4:44 min. Music by T. Bernstrup Ed. 5+1AP c/ Enrique Granados, 49, SP. 08008 Barcelona T. (+34) 93 451 0064, [email protected] http://www.adngaleria.com Walking Ego 2003 Walking Ego 2003 Format: DVD Vertical Screen 9:16, Endless loop. Ed. 5+1AP c/ Enrique Granados, 49, SP. 08008 Barcelona T. (+34) 93 451 0064, [email protected] http://www.adngaleria.com Penthouse Idle 2000 Penthouse Idle 2000 Format: DVD 4:3, Dur.