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MILLE KALSMOSE

Born in Horsens, 1972, lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark & New York, USA

STUDIES:

2009
Master in Contemporary Art and Aesthetics, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain

2015
School of Visual Art’s (SVA’s) Bio Art Lab, New York, US

RESIDENCIES:

2024
Casa Wabi, Oaxaca, Mexico

2019
ALMA Space Observatory, Atacama, Chile
Danish Art Workshops (Statens Værksteder For Kunst / SVKF), Copenhagen, Denmark

2018
Danish Art Workshops (Statens Værksteder For Kunst / SVKF), Copenhagen, Denmark

2017
CCA Andraxt, Mallorca, Spain
MANA Residencies, NJ, New York, US

2016
Residency Unlimited, (RU), New York, US

SELECTED SOLO SHOWS:

2023
Magic Materialism, Martin Asbæk Galleri, Copenhagen, Denmark

2020
Politikens Forhal, JP/Politiken Mediahouse, Copenhagen, Denmark

2019
United Nations, New York Headquarters

2018
The Shape of Us, Horsens Kunstmuseum, Horsens, Denmark

2017
Re-Sounding Organs, Center of Contemporary Art, Andratx, Spain

2015
Ressurection/Opstandelse, (in cooperation with Rikke Topp), Kuben, Horsens, Denmark

2014
Searching for a Mother, (in cooperation with Alberto Garcia-Alix ), Horsens Kunstmuseum, Horsens, Denmark

2013
Searching for a Mother, (in cooperation with Alberto Garcia-Alix ), La Virreina, Centre de Imagen, Barcelona, Cataluña

2012
Siteseeing, Traneudstillingen, Copenhagen, Denmark

2009
Outrospective, WAS-Wonderland Art Space, Copenhagen, Denmark

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS:

2024
Cosmic Bonds, L'Space Gallery, New York, USA

2024
Market Art Fair 2024, Stockholm, Sweden

2024
Sketches, Arden Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2023
Chart Art Fair, Charlottenborg Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark

2022
Collective Memory at 59th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

2022
Ten Years Later - Highlights from the Mana Collection, New York, US

2022
New acquisitions, Horsens Art Museum, Horsens, Denmark

2021
Work It Out!, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, Denmark

Chart Art Fair, Charlottenborg Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark

2020
Sculpture Bienalle, Interdimensionale, Copenhagen, Denmark

Renderings/Synliggørelser, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark

Inherited Sentiment, Mana Contemporary, NJ, US

2019
14th Media Arts Biennial of Chile, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile

Cosmic Existence, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark

Drawing Show, Mana Contemporary, New Jersey, USA

Every Womans Biennale, New York, USA

Crazy Matter, Group show featuring contemporary sculpture with C. Overvad Hansen, M.

Kølbæk Iversen & A. Myntekær, Gether Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark

2018
Cool, Calm and Collected, Aros, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Århus, Denmark

2017
Yell, Nicolaj Bergmann, Tokyo, Japan

2016
Trust me if you can’t, Sabsay, Copenhagen, Denmark

Repeating Patterns, Fundacion MNAC Montenmedio, Spain

Fundacion Valentin de Madarigada, Andalusia, Spain

Afterimage, InCube Art Space, New York, US

2012
How am I, Kastrupgårdsamlingen, Copenhagen, Denmark

2011
Copenhagen Art Fair, Gallery Rohde Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark

Artist+Artist, Copenhagen Photo Festival, Gallery Rohde Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark

2010
Copenhagen Art Fair, Gallery Rohde Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark

2009
Reality on Fire, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA

Your Documents Please, Galeria Ajolote Arte Contemporaneo, Guadalajara, Mexico

Different Lives, La 20 Edición de la Biennal D’Eivissa, Museu D’Art Contemporani, Spain

Triangle Project, Different Lives, Danish Consulate, New York, US

Gershwin Hotel, New York, USA

2008
Fill in Blank Spaces, Gallery Karsi sanat Calismalari, Istanbul.

Your Documents Please, ITAMI, (Museum of Arts and Crafts) Hygo, Japan,

Zaim Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan,

2006
Kunstnernes Sommerudstilling, Janus Bygningen, The Art Museum of West Jutland (Juried Group Show), Tistrup, Denmark

DCFK, Filosofgangen, The exhibition Hall of Funen for art and design, (Juried Group Show), Odense, Denmark A-huset, Copenhagen Denmark

2003
BAC, Festival Internacional de Barcelona, Spain

FUNDINGS & GRANTS:

2022
Valby Lokaludvalg

2021
Statens Kunstfond
Bikubefonden
Fibertex
Egetæpper

2020
Danish Art Foundation
Augustinus Fondet
Beckett Fonden

2019
NASA
Championiron
Knud Højgårdsfond
Danish Art Foundation
Danish Embassy in Chile

2018
Hede-Nielsen Fonden
Tove og Carsten Løvbjergs Almene Fond
Beckett Fonden
Danish Art Foundation
Horsens Kulturudvalg, MærkByen

2017
Danish Arts Foundation Working Grant 2017
Danish Arts Foundation

2014
Horsens City Council for arts and culture

2013
Danish Art Council for Fine Arts
Ajuntament de Barcelona

2012
Danish Agency for Culture / International Coordination
Danish Art Council for fine arts
Danish Art Council for International Fine Arts, Denmark
Brødrene Hartmanns Fond
Knus Højgaards Fond
Koncul Georg Jorck & Hustru Emma Jorck’s Fond
Aage og Johanne Luise-Hansens Fond
Montana
Det Obelske Familiefond
Oticon Fonden
Overretssagfører L. Zeutens Mindelegat
(For the group show at Kastrupgårdsamlingen How Am I), Denmark

2008
Danish Art Council, Denmark
New York State Council of the Arts, NYC, USA
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, NYC, USA
Kaj Houmann Nielsens Fond til almene formål, Denmark
Grosserer L.F.Foghts Fondstøtte, Denmark

2005
Traveling scholarship (with suvi Andrea Helminen), by Danish Film Instructors Committee, Denmark

2001
Grant by the Art School in Ærø

COLLECTIONS:

The Danish Arts Foundation, Denmark

MANA Contemporary, New York, USA

Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Denmark

Horsens Artmeseum, Denmark

MAVI, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Chile

SITE-SPECIFIC COMMISSIONS AND SPECIAL PROJECTS:

2024
Memorial Stones for Copenhahgn Municipality, Copenhagen, Denmark

2022
Kirsebærbæltet, Folehaven, Valby, Denmark

2019
Public installation at Horsens Town Hall, funded by Hede-Nielsen Fonden

2015
Lets Play, MPP, Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark 

2012
The Core, Gentofte Hospital, Gentofte, Denmark

Towards a whole Picture, IKL, Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg , Denmark

2009
Planes of Thought, LPF, Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark

PUBLICATIONS:

“The Shape of Us – New Materialism” with contributions by i.e.: Barbara Pollack, Maria Kappel Blegvad, Daniel Hjort, Natalia Gutman, Richard Vine and Emilia Van Hauen

Re-Sounding Organ, Natalie Gutmann, CCA Andratx, Spain

Mnemoric Archive, Barbara Pollack, Beijing

Tribe, Richard Vine, Beijing

Searching for a Mother, Claus Hagedorn-Olsen, Horsens Kunstmuseum

Ressurection, Julie Horne Møller, Kuben, Horsens Kunstmuseum

Searching for a Mother, Palau La Virreina Centre de Imagen, Barcelona

The Core, Angelika Dahl-Serritzlev, Gentofte Hospital

Site-Seeing, Aukje Lepoutre Ravn, Traneudstillingen

How Am I – Danish and Indian contemporary Art, Catalogue, Trine Ross, Else Marie Bukdahl & Anirudh Chari, Kastrupgårdsamlingen

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

2023

EN NÆRMEST SAKRAL OPLEVELSE, anmeldelse af Connie Boe Boss, Coboboblog

"Mille Kalsmose - En magisk materialisme" Interview & Portræt Af Matilde Lu Ettrup.
for Magasinet Kunst

2022

"Med 'Collected Memory' forener Mille Kalsmose det individuelle, det fælles og det universelle" af Iben Tendal, Bo Bedre

Mille Kalsmose: “Kunsten gør NFT’en håndgribelig og viser potentialet for at tage ejerskabet af data tilbage” Interview af Ole Bak Jakobsen, Kunsten.Nu

»Det er som OL i kunst«: Dansker udstiller sit bud på hypet kunsttrend i Venedig, Af Anne Thora Lykkegaard, Kultur Monitor

Radio 4 interview: Digital kunst bliver for første gang repræsenteret ved verdens ældste og mest prestigefylde kunstbegivenhed, Venedig Biennalen, Interview med Maja Hald fra KRÆS, Radio4

Go' Morgen Danmark interview om NFT-værket "Collected Memory - A Diary of the World" som udstilles på Venedig Biennalen i den camerounske pavillon, TV2

2021

MILLE KALSMOSE, Interview for My Magazine

Work It Out: New Art Exhibition Reflects on Modern Working Life, By Mette Frydensbjerg Jacobsen, Egecarpets

Fast arbejde er ikke altid, hvad vi tror, det er, viser omfattende udstilling på Kunsten i Aalborg, Jyllandsposten

2019
Supreme scale and sensuality – sculpture through the lens of Mille Kalsmose and Alicja Kwade, I DO ART

Mille Kalsmose overrasker med banebrydende udstilling BO BEDRE

Relations are Sensations about Cosmic Communities, POV International, Emilia van Hauen

2018
Ugens Kunstner, Kunsten Nu

A Conversation With Artist Mille Kalsmose, ARTLAND

Lyden af tid, stjernestøv og Milles kunst, Horsens Folkeblad, Christian Rimestad

Jeg har altid været draget af jern, Horsens Folkeblad, Christian Rimestad

Man er blot et redskab, Magasinet Kunst, af Anne Siggaard

Dansk kunstner har succes i New York, Berlingske Tidende af Torben Weirup

Cool, Calm and Collected, ARoS, Erlend G. Høyersten og Maria Kappel Blegvad

2017
Hun skabte en jernfamilie for at udfylde tomrummet i sin egen, Jyllands-Posten af Maria Juel Glasius

IDOART, Når Alger giver genlyd af Maria Grzywacz

CLOT Magazine, Mille Kalsmose Re-Sounding Organs

Min Kunst er en æstetisk måde at lære om verden på, Magasinet IN

2016
KunstenNU, Kunsten vender tilbage i Storestrandstræde af Jan Falk Borup

2014
Magasinet Kunst, Searching for a Mother, Helene Olesen

2013
Searching for a Mother, Anne Jerslev

About Mille Kalsmose, Ole Fogh Kirkeby

2012
Politiken, Alle mine selvmord har gjort mig til den, jeg er i dag, Michael Bo

Kristligt Dagblad, Kunstner udstiller egne selvmord, Heidi Højgård

All My Suicides,The Quest for a new identity, Trine Ross

TV-Interview, TV2-Lorry

TV-Interview, DR-Aftenshowet

2010
Personal Identity in Contemporary Art, Disturbis online Magazine, Barcelona

2009
At forvilde sig ind i en organisation, Ole Fogh Kirkeby, Copenhagen

2007
Girl with pram, Wonderland-mag, Copenhagen

Alice i eventyrland på speed, Lone Sønderby, Q-Magazine, Copenhagen