KLARA LIDEN Born 1979 in Stockholm, Sweden Lives and works in Berlin EDUCATION 2004-2007 University College of Arts Crafts and Design, Konstfack, Stockholm 2003 Universität der Kunst, Berlin 2000-2004 School of Architecture, Royal School of Technology, Stockholm SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2019 Berlin Fall, Galerie Neu, Berlin Now Two Three, Weiss Falk, Basel, Switzerland Auf jeden Fall, Secession, Vienna, Austria 2018 Grounding, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York Strange Days: Memories of the Future, Store X, London Warm-up, Piece Unique, Cologne, Germany 2017 LAVORO, with Karl Holmqvist, Indipendenza, Rome The Great Indoors, Reena Spaulings Fine Arts, Los Angeles 2016 Werk, with Karl Holmqvist, Kunstverein Braunschweig, 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, Brussels Galerie Neu, Berlin Le Consortium, Dijon, France 2014 POST, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen It's Complicated, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York 2013 Invalidenstrasse, Museion, Bolzano The Myth of Progress, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 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, Bonn Serpentine Gallery, London Art Pace, San Antonio Toujours Etre Ailleurs, Jeu De Paume, Paris 2009 Never Come Back, Kunsthalle Friedricanum, Kassel 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, Tokyo 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, Finland The Present is Ancient, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US BT13 Tallinn Baltic Biennial, Tallinn, Estonia 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 Istanbul Biennial, a good neighbor EUROVISIONS: Contemporary art from the Goldberg collection, National Art School Gallery, Sydney, Australia 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, Netherlands Detail ist alles, Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz, Germany STOSUNKI PRACY, LABOR RELATIONS, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum SWEDISH ART:NOW!, Sven-Harry’s Art Museum, 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, Italy 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 Film Festival 2014, Dortmund/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, Karlsruhe 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, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia 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, Seoul Beauty Lies Inside Desire, Museum of Contemporary Art Voivodina, Novi Sad/Serbia Lugar a dudas, Barrio Granada, Colombia 2013 8 Ways To Overcome Time and Space, Künstlerhaus Bremen / Museum of Modern Art Belgrade Der Feine Unterschied, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Langenhagen, Germany For the Time Being. Wall Paintings - Painted Walls, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany KölnSkulptur #6, Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne Les Nouvelles Babylones, Parc Saint Léger, Pougues-Les-Eaux, France Rhythm in it, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland AWAITING IMMANENCE, Carl Kostyal, Stockholm Freiheit, Kunstpalais, Erlangen, 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, Warsaw 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, Zagreb, Instytut Sztuki Wyspa, Gdansk Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde Tallinna Kunstihoone, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, 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, Zürich 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, Oslo 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. Moscow 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, Rotterdam Berlin Biennale, 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 Clara 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,