The Modern Institute

The Modern Institute

Henrik Håkansson

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Born 1968, Helsinborg; Lives in Berlin and Falkenberg

Forthcoming and Current Exhibitions

2012

Lunds Konsthall, Lund (Solo, 09/06—02/09/2012)

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2011

'The End', The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow

2010

'A Tree with Roots', Franco Noero, Turin

2009

'Mima Sound Space', Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough

2008

'Novelas de la selva', Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City

2007

'AUG. 26, 2003 - AUG. 27, 2003 (Vespa vulgaris)', Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver

'Three Days of the Condor', Kettles Yard, Cambridge

2006

'AUG. 6, 2004 (Bembix rostrata)', The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow

'CYANOPSITTA SPIXII CASE STUDY #001', Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

'Through the Woods to Find the Forest, in Tropico-Vegétal (LOST IN PARADISE)', Palais de Tokyo, Paris

2005

'July 20, 2004 (Pieris napi)', Galleria Franco Noero, Turin

'The Birdconcert part 1( Carduelis carduelis)', Frieze Art Fair, London

2004

'An Introduction to the Birds', Villa Merkel, Esslingen

'Henrik Håkansson', The Breeder, Athens

'Henrik Håkansson', The Dunker Culture Centre, Helsinborg

2003

'Tales From A Forest Without A Name', The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow (Pitta gurneyi)

'An Introduction to the Birds', De Appel, Amsterdam

'An Introduction to the Birds', Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn

'Art Unlimited', Art|34|Basel, Basel (with Galleria Franco Noero)

'Henrik Håkansson', Moderna Museet c/o Riddarhuset/House of Nobility, Stockholm

'Henrik Håkansson', Index Gallery, Stockholm

2002

'Orchid (Instrumental)', Galleria Franco Noero, Turin

'Skylark – The Optimal Flight to Nowhere and Somewhere', Secession, Vienna

2001

'Nightingale Love Two Times', PinkSummer, Genova

'The BlackBird Song For A new Breed', Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

'The Tunnel', Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris

2000

'LightBlueLight', Galleria Franco Noero, Turin

'Sleep', IASPIS, Syndrome, Stockholm

'Sweet Leaf', Galerie fur Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig

1999

'Birdland', Canberra School of Art Gallery (Métis), Canberra

'Evol Gardens', 1%, Copenhagen

'Tomorrow and Tonight', Kunsthalle Basel, Basel

1998

'After Forever (ever all)', Galleri Andreas Brändström, Stockholm

1996

'The Monsters of Rock', Thomas Nordanstad Gallery, New York

1995

'Frogfor.e.s.t.', TRE, Stockholm

1994

'Growing up in Public', Olle Olsson Museum, Stockholm

1993

'The Explanation (Stairway to heaven)', TRE, Stockholm

'the good, the bad, the ugly ones (UfO’s welcome)', Galleri Rotor, Gothenburg

Selected Group Exhibitions

2011

Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama

'La carte d’après Nature', Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (curated by Thomas Demand)

'Raumsichten/spacespectives', Staedtische Galerie, Nordhorn (sculpture project)

Missionen, Gagnef

2010

'Nature', Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin

'La carte d’après Nature’ (curated by Thomas Demand)', Nouveau Musee National de Monaco, Monaco

'‘Rethink’', Rogaland Art Museum, Stavanger

'‘Languages and Experimentations', MART - Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Trento

'Raumsichten', Staedtische Galerie, Nordhorn

'Che cosa sono le nuvole?', Museion, Bolzano

'Re Think', Cinema Planeta film festival, Cuernavaca, Mexico

'Doppler Effect. The nature of images in art and science', Kunsthalle, Kiel

'Zur Nachahmung empfolen!', Uferhalle, Berlin (Curated by Adrienne Goehler)

2009

'ABC/def', Akademi der Kunste, Berlin

'Botanic Sounds', Gothenburg Botanical Garden, Gothenberg

'Footprints', Wanas Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden

'Green Platform: Art, Ecology and Sustainibility', Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze, Italy

'Life Forms', Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm

'Nature Strikes Back', Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

'No Sound', Aspen Art Museum, Aspen

'Paesaggi e natura dell’arte', ARCOS Museo d’Arte Contemporanea del Sannio, Benevento, Italy

'Radical Nature', Barbican Art Gallery, London

'Rethink - The Implicit', Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen

'Skankaloss', Gagnef 2009, Sweden

'The Eventual', Futura projects, Prague

'To the Milky Way by Bicycle', Contemporary Art from the Hoffmann Collection, Berlin

'Universal Code', The Power Plant, Toronto (Knislinge, SwedenUniversal Code)

'Werke zeitgenössischer Kunst aus der Sammlung Hoffmann', Galerie Neu, Berlin

2008

'Fare una Scenata', Morra Greco Foundation, Naples

2007

'Been Up So Long It Looks Like Down To Me', Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver

'Pensée Sauvage-On freedom', Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt

'Romantic Conceptualism', Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg

'Say It Isn’t So', Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen

'Silence. Listen to the show', Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l’Arte, Torino

'Solo24Ore24Stunden', Museion, Bolzano

'Still Life: Art, Ecology and the Politics of Change', Sharjah Biennale 8, Sharjah

'Timeout. Art and Sustainability', KunstMuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz

2006

'Echigo - Tsumari Art Triennial', Echigo - Tsumari, Japan

'Henrik Hakansson and Eadweard J. Muybridge', VOX, Centre de l’Image Contemporaine

'Where The Wild Things Are', DCA, Dundee

2005

'Camera Fissa', Galleria Franco Noero, Turin

'Experiencing Duration', Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon

'Feldversuche', Westwendischer Kunstverein, Gartow

'Remagine: oeuvres du Fonds', National d’Art Contemporain, Musée d’Art Contemporain

'The Order of Nature', OK-Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz

'The Transgressed Landscape/El Paisatge Trasgredit', La Plataforma, Fundació Espais d’Art Contemporani

2004

Sao Paolo Biennale, Sao Paolo

'Berlin North', Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin

2003

'Sound Systems', Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg

'Utopia Station', Arsenale, Venice Biennalle

2002

Radar, Copenhagen

'Ars viva', Agusburg, Neue Galerie im Höhmann

'Beyond Paradise', Shanghai Museum of Modern Art

'Beyond Paradise', National Gallery Bangkok, National Gallery Kuala Lumpur

'Beyond Peace and War', Umong Sippadhamma Gallery, Chiang Mai

'Ecovention', The Contemporary Arts Center Cincinatti

'Frequencies Radar', Tycho Brahe Planetarium, Copenhagen

'Full contact', galleria civica d’a contemporanea di Siracusa, Syrakus

'Mystic Mountains', Assessorato dell’Istruzione e della Cultura Regione Autonoma Valle d’Aosta, Aosta

'Netzwerke', 40 jahre Fluxus, Stadt Wiesbaden

'The power of Art', Hygo prefectural museum of Modern Art, Kobe

2001

Berlin Biennale, Berlin

Tirana Biennale, Tirana

'Absolut LA', Burnett Miller, Los Angeles

'Ars 01', Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki

'Artificialnatural networks', Zeewolde

'Effeto Natura', Fondazione Trussardi, Milano

'Gravita Zero', Sala Essposissioni, Rome

'Making Nature', Edsvik Konsthall, Edsvik

'Paesi Nordici: Interferenze', Palazzo Palpesse, Siena

'Wild gliders', Amsterdam, Dresden

2000

'Circus Circus', Norrtälje Konsthall

'Greenhouse Effect', Serpentine Gallery, Natural history Museum

'Momentum', Nordic Festival of contemporary Art II, Moss

'Organising Freedom', Moderna Muséet, Stockholm

'Pyramids of Mars', Modern Institute/Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh

'Under the Same Sky', Helsinki city

1999

Skulptur-Biennale, Münster

'A Window, Inside and Outside', Kwangju City Art Museum, Kwangju

'Air', Arcitecture International Rotterdam 98-99, Rotterdam

'Exit', Chisenhale gallery, London

'Free Coke', Greene Naftali, New York

'Hiroshima Art Document', Hiroshima Army clothes Factory, Hiroshima

'Live in Tokyo at the Deluxe', New Life Projects, Tokyo

'Mirror’s Edge', Bildmuseet Ume (curated by Okwui Enwezor, BildMuseet, Sweden; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver; Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Cast)

'Natural Reality', Ludwigforum Aachen

1998

'After Eden', Middelbury College Museum of Art, Vermont

'Art Grandeur Nature', St Seine Denis, Paris

'Beelden Builden', Tielt

'Come Closer', Liechtensteinische Staatliche Kunstsammlung

'Crossings', Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna

'Last House on the left/Arkipelag', New Rooms, Stockholm

'Nuit Blanche', Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris

'Out Of The North - Wurttembergischer', Kunstverein Stuttgart

'Pets', Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York

'Roundabout', Ujazdowski Castle Centre of Contemporary Art, Warszaw

'The Edge of Awareness', WHO 50. Geneva, New York

1997

'Art in crushing force of Nature', Double Pleasure, New York

'Heaven', PS 1 Contemporary Arts Center, New York

'Letter and event', Apexart, New York

'Naturally Artificial', The Nordic Pavillion, XLVII Biennale di Venezia

'Preservations', Museum Hasselt, Old Bonnefanten

'The Summer of Love', Foutohai Cramer gallery, New York

'Waves In, Particles Out', CCA, Glasgow

'Work in progress and or finished', Übermain, Los Angeles (by Toby Webster & Jonathan Monk)

'You can’t get there from here', Thomas Nordanstad Gallery, New York

1996

'9 Dimensional Theory', Nikolaj, Center for Contemporary Art

'Alone Together', Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm

'Borealis; The Scream', Arken, Copenhagen

'I’m Curious', Hales Gallery, London

'I’m Curious: Stay on your own slightly longer', Transmission, Glasgow

'Inner and Outer Space', Ars Futura, Zurich

'NowHere', Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark

'Open House', Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco

'Re-view II', TRE, Stockholm

'See what it feels like', Rooseum, Malmö

'Shot', Roger Smith Gallery, New York

'Videoportraits VIII: Henrik Håkansson', Café Rooseum Espresso

1995

'A night at the show', Fields, Zürich

'Art Attack', Gallery Struts/Tre, Oslo

'I rörelse', Uddevalla konsthall

'Oslo One night stand', Oslo

'RAM', Portalen, Hundinge Köpenhamn

1994

Saga Basement, Copenhagen

'Apartment/Lägenhet', Malmö

'Das Boot M/S Stubnitz', Malmö hamn (performance)

'Hemma hos', Linderoth & Fornander, Göteborg

'Index Christmas edition', Galleri Index, Stockholm

'Monitor 94', Frölunda Kulturhus, Göteborg (Video screening)

'Multiple show', TRE, Stockholm

'New reality mix', Högbergsgatan 18, Stockholm (Performance and Video weekend)

'Opening', Rum för aktuell konst, Göteborg

'Pluralis', Galleri 1

'Re-view', TRE, Stockholm

'Video nights', Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen (Video screening)

1993

'Monitor-93', Frölunda Kulturhus, Göteborg (Video screening)

'Nordfotoart', Ujazdowski Castle Centre of Contemporary Art, Warszaw

'Overground', Konsthallen Göteborg, Sweden

'Prospekt', Moderna Muséet, Stockholm

1992

'4', Forumgalleriet, Malmö (Antonsson, Givell, Håkansson, Zimmerman)

'Bastard', Nordic house, Reykjavik

'Group Show', Galleri Index, Stockholm

'Natursyn', Konstfack, Stockholm

'Salongen III', Lido

'SEX', TRE, Stockholm

'Visual Movements', Fylkingen, Stockholm (Video screening)