Kirstine Roepstorff
Born 1972 in Lyngby-Taarbæk, Denmark
Lives and works in Copenhagen and Berlin
Education
1994 – 2001 The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark
1999 – 2000 Rutgers University, Mason School of Fine Art (MFA), USA
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011
Dried Dew Drops. Wunderkammer of Formlessness, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway
The Art of This Century, curated by Dimitrios Antonitis, Museum Alex Mylona-Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, GR
2010
Dried Dew Drops. Wunderkammer of Formlessness, Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland, curated by Nikola Dietrich*
Illuminating Shadows, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany
Illuminating Shadows, Galerie im Taxispalais, with Stadtgalerie Schwaz, Innsbruck/Schwaz, Austria*
2009
Nuit: Sun. Forms of beneath, Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark, curated by Lars Grambye*
Rainbows, Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Inner Sound that Kills the Outer, MUSAC, Leon, Spain, curated by Agustin Perez Rubio*
2008
Rocks, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland
2007
It’s Not the Eye of the Needle that Changed – The Self, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA
It’s Not the Eye of the Needle that Changed – The Time, The Drawing Center, New York, NY*
It’s Not the Eye of the Needle that Changed – The Frame, Art Basel, Miami, FL
2006
Artissima 13, Turin, Italy
A Handfull of Once, Arnolfini, Bristol, United Kingdom
A Handfull of Once, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany
2004
King of Crash and the Untouchables, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, Canada, in conjunction with Harbourfront Centre’s SUPERDANISH – Newfangled Danish Culture
Queen of Diamonds, Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, Denmark
1½”, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA*
2003
Twist, (with Niels Erik Gjerdevig), Bohusläns Museum, Bohuslän, Sweden
The Flat, Milan, Italy (with Kristoffer Patau)
The Royal Danish Embassy, Berlin, Germany
2002
The Desolation of the Beast and the Tears of the Crocodile, Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, Denmark
Hidden Truth, (with Judith Ström) West Zealand Museum for Contemporary Art, Sorø, Denmark
2001
The Ambiguity of Letting Go, Nano Gallery, Paris, France
Sparwasser HQ, (with Kirsten Pieroth) Berlin, Germany
My World Does Not Exist, Esbjerg Museum of Contemporary Art, Esbjerg, Denmark
2000
My World Does Not Exist, Gallery Hallo, Copenhagen, Denmark
1999
Where are the straight lines?, Gallery Phonex, Copenhagen, Denmark
Laundromat – The Biennial – Street Sharks, Copenhagen, Denmark*
1998
Don’t change color while I’m talking to you, Saison, Hellerup, Denmark
1997
Guerrilla your dreams, Gallery Cambells Occasionally, Copenhagen, Denmark
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011
Berlin 2000 – 2011. Playing among the Ruins, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
You are free, Kunsthalle Exnergasse WUK, Vienna, Austria
The Eye is a lonely hunter. Images of Humankind, Fotofestival Mannheim Ludwigshafen Heidelberg, Germany*
Air de Paris; New works by gallery artists, Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, Denmark
2010
Connexions, Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, Esbjerg, Denmark
Scene Shifts, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
The Third Meaning, RH Gallery, New York, NY
De levende ord, Rønnebæksholm, Næstved, Denmark
Third Thought, Centro Cultural Andratx, CCA, Andratx, Spain
The Berlin Box, Centro Cultural Andratx, CCA, Andratx, Spain
The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place, Zabludowicz Collection London, United Kingdom
Madonna Psycho Slut, Grim Projects, Grimmuseum Berlin, Germany
Patching, Thomas Brambilla Contemporary Art, Bergamo, Italy
Germania, Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2009
Scorpio´s Garden, compiled by Kirstine Roepstorff, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, Berlin, Germany*
Berlin - Los Angeles. A Tale of Two Cities, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy
Minneapolis, Peres Projects Los Angeles, CA
The Map is Not the Territory, Esbjerg Museum, Esbjerg Denmark
Det Seneste NYE – Nyerhvervelser af samitdskunst, Vestasjaellands Kunstmuseum, Sorø, Denmark
2008
La Maison Jaune: Works on Paper, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzlerand
Andersen's Wohnung Revisited, Andersens Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Rooming In!, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland
Metal Postcard – Mittageisen, September, Berlin, Germany
The End Was Yesterday, Kunstraum Innsbruck + Galerie, Switzerland
The End Was Yesterday, Autocenter + Galerie im Regierungsviertel, Berlin, Germany
Socialdemocrazology/White Nights, Galerie Jones, Cologne, Germany
U-Turn, Copenhagen Quadrennial, Copenhagen, Denmark, curated by Solvej Helweg Ovesen, Judith Schwarzbart and Charlotte Bagger Brandt
Personal Protocols and Other Preferences, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, curated by Maria Lind
Ausländer in Berlin, Citric Gallery, Brescia, Italy, curated by Margherita Belaief
The Triumph of Painting: Germania, Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Eurasia. Geographic Cross-Overs in Art, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea die Trento e Rovereto, Trento, Italy
Home is the Place you Left, Trondheim Museum of Arts, Trondheim, Norway, curated by Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset
Botanisk forvandling, Vejle Museum, Vejle, Denmark
2007
Fit to Print, Gagosian Gallery, New York
Star of Africa, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland
Cosmic Dreams, CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain, curated by Friederike Nymphius
The Subject of the West: Between Two Deaths, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Fuck Off Macho Painter Scum, Prague Biennale 3, Prague, Czech Republic
The Lost Moment, Kunstfabrik, Berlin, Germany
Poker, Monica De Cardenas Gallery, Milan, Italy
What Glue Do You Use?, Atelier Cardenas-Bellanger, Paris, France, curated by Yves Brochard
2006
Ortsbegehung 12 – Reality in general is almost unavoidable, Kunstverein Göttingen, Germany, curated by Bernd Milla
Fantastic Politics, Museum of Contemporary Art at the National Museum, Oslo, Norway
Panic Room, works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation Centre For Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Bjerge, Herning Kunst Museum, Herning, Denmark
Normalization, Rooseum, Malmø, Sweden
Werkleitz Biennial, Halle, Germany
The Cluster, Participant Gallery, New York, NY
The Fantastic and the Real, den frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark*
Undo Redo, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Regarding Denmark, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens, Greece
2005
Fairy Tales Forever, ARoS, Århus Kunstmuseum, Denmark, curated by Mona Jensen*
Hanging by a Thread, The Moore Space, Florida, curated by Nina Arias & Jose Diaz*
Populism, NIFCA – Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland; Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania; National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, curated by Lars Bang Larsen, Cristina Ricupero and Nicolaus Schafhausen*
Critical Societies: Art, Criticism and the Promises of Capitalism, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany*
2004
Change in the Nordic Region, Momentum, Moss, Norway, curated by Caroline Corbetta and Per Gunnar Tverbakk*
My world does not exist, Den Permanente, Esbjerg Kunst Museum, Esbjerg, Denmark
I feel Mysterious today, The Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, Florida and Aqua Gallery, Miami, FL, curated by Dominic Molon*
Black Friday, Gallerie Johanna Kamm, Berlin, Germany
Som modlys og andre overvindelige forhindringer, Bornholms KunstHal, Nexø, Denmark
2003
Retreat, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Playschool, Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, Denmark*
2002
Somewhere in between good and evil, Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY
Small, Nano Gallery, Paris, France
Private living, ZDF, Exhibition for Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
2001
Nordisk Bienniale, Göteborg, Sweden
Take Off 20:01, Århus Kunst Museum, Århus, Denmark*
Standard RUM, Randers Museum, Randers, Denmark
Der dritte Sector, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Bastard, Lawoffice, Chicago, IL
2000
Efterårsudstillingen – women at the pub, Charlottenborg exhibition space for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark*
På sporet af..., Nikolaj Exhibition Space for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Infinito Botanica – a project by Franco Mondini-Ruiz, New York, NY
PIX, Lance Fung Gallery, New York, NY
Ambassaden, Ambassaden, Copenhagen, Denmark
Efterårsudstillingen, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark*
EXIT, Kunstforeningen Gammel Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark*
1999
Vaskeri, Street Sharks Biennial of young Danish site-specific art, Copenhagen, Denmark*
PROMS IV, Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, Denmark*
1998
Boomerang, Nikolaj Exhibition Space for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark*
Jukebox Project, Nikolaj Exhibition Space for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark*
Art Genda, Biennial of Young Artists Around the Baltic Sea, Stockholm, Sweden*
Pakhus, Momentum, Nordic Festival of Contemporary Art, Moss, Norway*
Wrapped, Art Museum of West Zealand, Sorø, Denmark*
* Catalogue
Collections
Saatchi collection, England
The Judith Rothschild Foundation Collection of Contemporary Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens, Greece
The National Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Vestsjællands Kunstmuseum, Sorø, Denmark
Esbjergs Kunstmuseum, Esbjerg, Denmark
The Royal Museum of Fine Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
The National Art Foundation, Denmark