Biography
 
TOBIAS BERNSTRUP
 

Born 1970 in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Lives and works in Berlin and Stockholm.
 
 

EDUCATION 

1993-1998 Royal College University of Fine Arts, Stockholm.
 
 
 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

1999
Super Twins, Galleri Axel Mörner, Stockholm.
Museum Meltdown, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (with Palle Torsson). 

1998
Galleri Mejan, Stockholm.
Dancing Boulevard Café Symphony, Galleri FC, Malmö. 

1996
Galleri Moment, Ängelholm.

1995
Lovely Me, Station Skelderhus Magasinet, Munka Ljungby.
Electric Boogie Gallery TRE, Stockholm.
 
 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2001
Disco, Galapagos Art Space, New York, curated by Monique Meloche.
Tirana Biennale, Albania, organised by Giancarlo Politi.
Connivence, Biennale de Lyon, Musée d'art contemporain.
Monitor Vol. 1, Gagosian Gallery, New York.
Male, Galerija sodobne umetnosti / Likovni salon Celje, Slovenia, curated by Irena Cercnik & Nevenka Sivavec.
Berlin_London, ICA, London, curated by Rüdger Lange & Antje Weitzel.
Disco, Arena Gallery, Chicago, curated by Monique Meloche.
The Armory Show, Galleri Axel Mörner, New York City.

2000
Shivers, Cesare Manzo Gallery, Pescara, curated by Mauro Bianchini.
Home Wrecker, Monique Meloche, Chicago.
And She Will Have Your Eyes...  Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva.
The Standard Projection, The Standard Hotel, Los Angeles, curated by Yvonne Force Villareal.
Organising Freedom, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, curated by David Elliott.
Art 31 Basel Art Fair, Galerie Analix Forever.
i-ART, Contemporary Art in TIME, ArtNode, Stockholm.
Teleport Diner, In collaboration with Creative Time, Chelsea Active Worlds and Färgfabriken Stockholm.
Organising Freedom, Moderna Museet, Stockholm curated by David Elliott.
Shoot, Moving Images by Artists, Malmö Konsthall.

1999
A & E, Chicago Project Room, curated by Michael Hall.
Blick, Moderna Museet, Stockholm curated by Maria Lind/Cecilia Widenheim.
Motion Studies, Galleri Tommy Lund, Copenhagen/Odense.
Art Forum Berlin, Galleri Axel Mörner.
I Var Sitt Rum, Vikingsbergs Konstmuseum, Helsingborg.
Chelsea (Internet, Active Worlds) curated by Ginger Freeman.
The Armory Show, Galleri Axel Mörner, New York City.
Stockholm Art Fair, Galleri Axel Mörner, Stockholm.
Nuit Blanche Nordic Video Tour.

1998
7th Muestra international de performance Ex-Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City.
Swedish Mess Arkipelag, Nordiska Museet, Stockholm curated by Maria Lind/Sara Arrhenius.
Pakkhus, Momentum, Moss curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Atle Gerhardsen & Lars Bang Larsen.
Gekko, Munchen Bryggeriet, Stockholm.
Pleasure and Commitment Galleri Index, Stockholm.
Stockholm Art Fair, Galleri Axel Mörner.
Nuit Blanche Musée dÁrt Moderne de la Ville de Paris.

1997
Performance Festival, Odense.
The Male of The Species MUU Gallery, Helsinki (with Palle Torsson).
Liste-97 The Young Art Fair in Basel.
Perish Duende, Rotterdam.
Funny vs Bizarre, The Contemporary Art Centre of Vilnius
 - and Art Hall of  Riga (with Palle Torsson) curated by Kestutis Kuizinas.
Smart Show Goes To Sea, Gallery TRE, Stockholm-Helsinki.
Projekt III, Gallery TRE, Stockholm.

1996
The Scream Arken, Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen (with Palle Torsson) curated by Kim Levin.
Electronic Undercurrents Statens Museum For Kunst, Copenhagen.
Artgenda, Kulturhuset, Stockholm.
Love All Färgfabriken, Stockholm.
MUU Gallery, Helsinki.
Uthärda Kulturhuset, Stockholm.
Offside-Nordic Natives in Global Village Bergen.
Breaking Eyes Färgfabriken, Stockholm.
Artgenda, Oksnehallen, Copenhagen.
Stockholm Smart Show.
Otto Plonk, Bergen (with Lova Hamilton).

1995
Oslo-One Night Stand, Kunstnerernes Hus (with Lova Hamilton).
Stockholm ArtHotel (with Palle Torsson).
Re-View Gallery TRE, Stockholm.
Stockholm Art Fair.
 
 

PERFORMANCES

2001
SETS, performing surfaces, Magazzini del Sale, Venice Biennale, curated by Magdalena Malm.
Disco, Arena Gallery, Chicago, curated by Monique Meloche.

2000
Teleport Diner, Färgfabriken, Stockholm.
Bukowskis, Stockholm.

1999
The Armory Show, Galleri Axel Mörner, New York City.
Stockholm Art Fair, Galleri Axel Mörner, Stockholm.

1998
7th Muestra international de performance Ex-Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City.
Images of Love, Galleri Index, Stockholm.
Gekko, Munchen Bryggeriet, Stockholm.

1997
Liste-97 The Young Art Fair in Basel.
Perish Duende, Rotterdam.
One More Lonely Night Galleri Axel Mörner, Stockholm.
The Heat of The Night Smart Show Goes To Sea, Stockholm-Helsinki.

1996
Nancy Love All, Färgfabriken, Stockholm.

1995
Euro-Non-Stop-Dancing, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (with Lova Hamilton).
 
 

DISCOGRAPHY

1998
"Images of Love", Audio CD (edition of 20).

1997
"The Heat of the Night", Audio CD (edition of 25).
 
 

PROJECTS IN COLLABORATION WITH PALLE TORSSON

1999
Museum Meltdown, Moderna Museet, Stockholm www.artnode.se/meltdown

1997
Museum Meltdown, Contemporary Art Centre of Vilnius www.artnode.se/meltdown/old/vilnius.html

1996
Museum Meltdown, Arken Museum of Moderna Art, Copenhagen www.artnode.se/meltdown/old/arken.html
"Kunst für Alle", Featuring Peter Wahlbeck

1995
"Join Hands" (Internet)
"Nu lyfter vi Sverige", Art-project for the dailypaper Expressen
"The Gallery Project", Konstakademien, Stockholm
 
 

MAGAZINE INSERTS

2001
Material, Published by Migros Museum, Zürich.

1998
Ord ger Bild, Svenska Dagbladet (med Torbjörn Elensky).

1996
Permanent Food curated by Maurizio Cattelean.

1995
”Nu lyfter vi Sverige” Expressen (with Palle Torsson).
 
 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2001
Laurence Dreyfus, Connivence, Biennale de Lyon, cat.
Irena Cercnik & Nevenka Sivavec, Male, Galerija sodobne umetnosti / Likovni salon Celje, Slovenia, cat.

2000
Jan Hietala "Samtal 210600", Straight no 4, 2000.
Karl Erickson "A&E" Flash Art, International May-June 2000.

1999
Sören Engblom "Svensk Konst, ur tomma intet", book publ. by Swedish Institute.
Patric Moreau ”Kollegorna som väcker nyfikenhet” NST 11 September.
Sara Arrhenius ”Drömmen om den perfekta ytan” Dagens Nyheter 7 September.
Susanna Hellberg "Androgyna tvillingar provocerar" Dagens Nyheter 26 August.
Anna Valdes "Demolera Moderna" Dagens Nyheter.
Patric Moreau, ”Museum Meltdown” Smålands Posten.

1998
Maria Lind "Nordic Video Tour" (cat).
Caroline Ugelstad / Inger M. Halvorsen "Pakkhus" Momentum Moss (cat).
Bo Madestrand "Bill och Bull" Nöjes Guiden, 29 April 1998.
Håkan Nilsson "Recycling in th name of Love" Merge, no 0, 1998.
Maria Lind "Nuit Blanche" Musée dÁrt Moderne de la Ville de Paris (cat).

1997
Tapio Mäkelä "In Cyberspace" SIKSI, no 2 summer 1997.
Stefan Malmqvist "Tobias Bernstrup tar Eurodiscon på stort allvar" City, May 1997. 
Lars O Ericsson "Bakom lackad plast" Dagens Nyheter, 17 January 1997.
Kestutis Kuizinas "Funny vs Bizarre" Contemporary Art Centre of Vilnius (cat).

1996
Kim Levin "The Scream" Borealis 8, Arken, Museum of Modern Art (cat).
Håkan Nilsson "Jolt -Americas most powerful coke" Artgenda Stockholm (cat).

1995
Eva-Lotta Holm "Back in the Rock ´n Roll game" Material, no 27 autumn 1995.
Håkan Nilsson "The limits of stupidity" Material, no 27 autumn 1995.
 
 

TUTORING AND LECTURES

KTH, Architecture Students Stockholm (with Palle Torsson).
"Nya Rum" Seminar, Högskolan Visby, Gotland.
Interactive Institute, Lecture "Museum Meltdown" Stockholm (with Palle Torsson).
Skövde Unviersity, Lecture ”Museum Meltdown Part III” (with Palle Torsson).
New York University, Lectures for Miltos Manetas students.
KTH, Architecture Students Stockholm (with Palle Torsson).
Media and Ethics, Helsinki.
 
 

REPRESENTED AT

Moderna Museet Stockholm
Malmö Museer
Helsingborgs Konstmuseum
Ängelholms Kulturnämnd
 

UPCOMING SHOWS 2002

2002
Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, 2002.
Disco, (Space pending), Los Angeles, curated by Monique Meloche.
 

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