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Bjarne Melgaard

b. 1967, Sydney
Lives and works in Oslo

Biography

Bjarne Melgaard was born in Sydney, Australia to Norwegian parents in 1967 and after several failed attempts to get in attended the Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo; the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam and the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. In 2017, after several decades living abroad, the artist relocated to Norway and currently resides in Oslo.

Through prolific output which encompasses drawing, painting, sculpture and large-scale installations Melgaard pushes the limits of social acceptance and forges a space where subcultures and parallel worlds can coexist. A frequent curator and collaborator, Melgaard has written 14 novels, produced a fashion line and a number of films.

His first solo exhibition outside of Norway was organized by legendary Belgian curator Jan Hoet. Since then, his work has been exhibited extensively in Europe and the United States. Solo presentations of his work have taken place at Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London; de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam; Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo; Bergen Kunstmuseum, Norway; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; MARTa Herford, Hannover; Red Bull Arts New York; Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin and commercial galleries including Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne; Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin; Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London; Greene Naftali Gallery, New York and Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York.

In 2011, Bjarne Melgaard represented Norway at the 54th Venice Biennial. His work has also been included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial, the 5th Lyon Biennale, 12th Lyon Biennale and group exhibitions at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Kunstmuseum Bonn; S.M.A.K., Gent; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Palais de Tokyo, Paris and White Columns, New York.

Melgaard’s work is in the permanent collections of major museums such as MoMA, New York; MOCA, Los Angeles; the Stedelijk Museum; Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain in Strasbourg, The Astrup Fearnley Museum and Moderna Museum in Stockholm.

Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

1993

  • Rijksacademie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1992

  • Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, The Netherlands

1991

  • Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo, Norway

1990

  • Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024

  • Barney Doest It All, Faurschou, New York, USA

2023

  • Stockholm Sluts, Anna Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Bjarne Melgaard / Antispective, cur. Lars Toft-Eriksen, Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway

2022

  • Fuck me safer, Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum, Tønsberg, Norway
  • Relapse, König Galerie, Berlin, Germany
  • Collaboration with Chris Korda and Steiff, Kunsthall Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
  • Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
  • Anna Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

2021

  • Pilevneli Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
  • HOME ALONE 2, Museum of Modern Art Tbilisi, Georgia
  • Scat Nite In Athens and Open Studio, The Breeder, Athens, Greece

2020

  • Elisabeth and Me, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
  • Bummed Out, Fineart and debut of Arts Restaurant, Oslo, Norway
  • Kunst i Bergstaden 2020, Bergstadens Hotel, Røros, Norway
  • My Trip, virtual reality experiential artwork, produced with Acute Art, Sundance Film Festival 2020, Park City, US

2019

  • My Trip, Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin, Germany (with Koo Jeong A and in collaboration with Acute Art)
  • No Fisting Tonight, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland
  • En ost på en sydhavsøy og Chill Out med Kristina Lugn, BGE Contemporary Art Projects, Stavanger, Norway

2018

  • Regionalt norsk maleri, Nanna og Frigg microdoserer og en ny roman, Galleri Brandstrup, Oslo, Norway
  • New Novel Paintings, CFA, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
  • Paintings, Bohman-Knäpper, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Bodyparty (Substance Painting)s and Life killed my chihuahua, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London, UK
  • Bjarne Melgaard / Sverre Bjertnæs: Noe Maa Gaa l Stykker, Rod Bianco, Oslo, Norway
  • Pop-Up Exhibition: A House to Die In, a collaboration between Selvaag, Snøhetta and Bjarne Melgaard,
  • Selvaag Art Collection, Oslo, Norway

2017

  • Bjarne Melgaard: Pain Poems and Other Drawings, Bohman-Knäpper, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Bjarne Melgaard: New Novel Paintings, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
  • Bjarne Melgaard: Sugar Amnesia, Rod Bianco, Oslo, Norway
  • The Casual Pleasure of Disappointment, Red Bull Arts New York, New York, US
  • The Casual Pleasure of Disappointment (Bjarne + Bjørg Jewelry Collaboration New York Launch), Gavin
  • Brown’s Enterprise, New York, US

2016

  • Bjarne Melgaard: New Work, Fineart, Oslo, Norway
  • Blood, Stones and Certain Beasts/ Bjarne Melgaard and Bob Recine, Uncontaminated Art and Fashion
  • Festival at Skur 13, Tjuvholmen, Oslo, Norway
  • Psychopathological Notebook, Karma, New York, US
  • Right Here, Right Now, Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

2015

  • The Casual Pleasure of Disappointment, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
  • Melgaard + Munch - The end of it all has already happened, Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway
  • Bjarne Melgaard: Daddies Like You Don’t Grow On Palm Trees, Sammlung Friedrichshof, Zurndorf/Vienna,
  • Austria
  • Skulptur, Formuesforvaltning AS, Oslo, Norway
  • This is what I do to make money, Galleri Fineart, Oslo, Norway
  • Puppy Orgy Acid Party, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
  • Bitter Angel, Faurschou Foundation, Beijing, China

2014

  • Bjarne Melgaard: Selected Works From The Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Sørlandets
  • Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway
  • Bjarne Melgaard, Studio Hugo Opdal (in collaboration with Rod Bianco Gallery, Oslo), Flø, Norway

2013

  • Bjarne Melgaard in the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway
  • Bjarne Melgaard: Ignorant Transparencies, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, US
  • Bjarne Melgaard New Drawings and Prints, Fineart, Oslo, Norway

2012

  • A New Novel by Bjarne Melgaard, Luxembourg & Dayan, New York, US
  • Bjarne Melgaard: A house to die in, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, UK
  • Bjarne Melgaard: No More Chinotto Forever, Again..., Karma, New York, US
  • Bjarne Melgaard, GaleriArtist, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Baton Sinister, Venezia-Installasjonen, Hauger Vestfold Kunstmuseum, Tønsburg, Norway
  • Laying the Ghost (Bjarne Melgaard & Sverre Bjernaeus), Rod Bianco, Oslo, Norway
  • Climate Confusion Assistance (Bjarne Melgaard & Sverre Bjernaeus), Galleri K, Oslo, Norway
  • Bjarne Melgaard, Karma, New York, US

2011

  • A House to Die In (ongoing), Villa Kikkut, Oslo, Norway
  • The Night Within Us, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin, Germany
  • Baton Sinister, 54th Biennale di Venezia, Palazzo Contarini Corfu, Venice, Italy
  • Bjarne Melgaard: The Sadistic Skater – Part II, Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Bjarne Melgaard: The Sadistic Skater – Part I, Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Bjarne Melgaard, Studio Hugo Opdal, Flø, Norway

2010

  • Inside Patricia, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland
  • Bjarne Melgaard: Silkscreens, Rod Bianco Gallery, Oslo, Norway
  • Neon Angel, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
  • Bjarne Melgaard/Rod Bianco ‘Super Normal’, de Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Bjarne Melgaard, Rod Bianco, Oslo, Norway
  • The Synthetic Slut: A Novel By Bjarne Melgaard, Greene Naftali, New York, US
  • Bjarne Melgaard – Jealous, Bergen Kunstmuseum, Bergen; Astrup Fernley Museum, Oslo, Norway

2008

  • Bjarne Melgaard: Chickenhawk, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
  • Miss Bjarne Melgaard, A Kidwhore In Manhattan – A Novel, Guido W. Baudach, Berlin, Germany
  • Greenland, Green Naftali, New York, US

2007

  • Bjarne Melgaard, Galerie Senda, Barcelona, Spain
  • Mommy’s Boy and Daddy’s Girl, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland
  • The Glamour Chase, Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Bjarne Melgaard, Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

2006

  • A Weekend of Painting: A Novel by Les Super, Leo Koenig, Inc., New York, US
  • Les Super, Guido W. Baudach, Berlin, Germany
  • Minipigs in Space, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria

2005

  • Not a Painting Show, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
  • Life is a Lonely Buffalo, Niels Borch Jensen Gallery, Berlin, Germany
  • Hello, Maybe (Book, Stage Set and Flags in collaboration with Halvor Bodin), Haugar Museum of Art,
  • Tønsburg, Norway
  • Fin de Copenhague, Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Bjarne Melgaard, Galleria Senda, Barcelona, Spain
  • Jasmin La Nuit, The Horse Hospital, London, UK
  • Part 1: Chihuahua Hunger All Words Destroy, Galerie Crone, Berlin, Germany

2004

  • A Concept of Rape, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York, US
  • Bjarne Melgaard, Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

2003

  • The End of the Professional Teenager, Pollack Fine Art at Sketch, London, United Kingdom
  • Skam, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway

2002

  • Beginnings, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
  • Nothing Special, Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Interface to God, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
  • Black Low: The Punk Movement Was Just Hippies with Short Hair, MARTa Herford Museum, Hannover,
  • Germany
  • Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy

2001

  • Kill Me Before I do it Myself, Galleria Laura Pecci, Milan, Italy
  • Bjarne Melgaard, Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria

2000

  • The Mutilation of the Apes, Alleged Gallery, New York, US
  • New Works, Nils Staerk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • The Myth Of A Young Washingmachine, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
  • The Only Weapon You Have In A Society Like This Is A Clear Mind..., Galleri Riis, Oslo, Norway
  • Victor Boullet featuring Bjarne Melgaard, Hot Rod Tea Room, Oslo, Norway

1999

  • The Conquest of Islam, Art Basel/Statements (Galleri Riis, Oslo), Basel, Switerland

1998

  • Bjarne Melgaard: Everything American Is Evil, the Return To Constantinople, Kiasma Museum of
  • Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
  • Bjarne Melgaard’s More Pricks than Kicks, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
  • Up Late, Galleri Riis, Oslo, Norway

1997

  • Bjarne Melgaard: Free From Content, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • New Love, Old Paint (Dedicated to Margaux Hemingway), Galleri Riis, Oslo, Norway

1996

  • Confessions of a Recovering Minimalist, Bjarne Melgaard – Guillaume Bijl, Galleri c/o Alte Gerhardsen, Oslo,
  • Norway

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

  • Inner Spaces, König Galerie, Seoul, South Korea

2023

  • Drawn into the Present: Portraits on Paper, Thaddeus Ropac, London, UK
  • Winter Show, Anna Bohman Gallery, Stockholm Sweden

2022

  • Kaleidoscope Eyes, Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
  • Summer Show, Anna Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Winter Show, Anna Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

2020

  • Keteleer Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
  • Donald Baechler and Bjarne Melgaard, Bohman-Knäpper, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Community Guidelines, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, US
  • The Sewers of Mars, Reena Spaulings, New York, US
  • Messe in St. Agnes, König Galerie, Berlin, Germany
  • Felix at the Hollywood Roosevelt, Los Angeles, US
  • Works on paper, Bohman-Knäpper, Stockholm, Sweden

2019

  • looking forward, Keteleer Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
  • Installations from 25 Years of the Falckenberg Collection, Deichtorhallen Hamburg – Sammlung Falckenberg,
  • Hamburg, Germany
  • Naturally Naked, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Inc., Moscow, Russia
  • A seed's a star, organised by Constance Tenvik, Loyal Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Summer Show (Erland Cullberg, Bjarne Melgaard and Jarl Ingvarsson), Bohman-Knäpper, Stockholm, Sweden
  • The Collection (I) Highlights for a Future, S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
  • Spring Show, Bohman-Knäpper, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Objects and Sculptures by Lena Cronqvist, Marie-Louise Ekman, Peter Frie, Bjarne Melgaard, Dan
  • Wolgers, Bohman-Knäpper, Stockholm, Sweden
  • CoBrA and some Consequences, COLLABORATIONS by Tania and Thomas Asbæk, Copenhagen, Denmark

2018

  • Impulse Control, Freedman Fitzpatrick, Paris, France
  • Den borgerlige byrde, Galleri Brandstrup, Oslo, Norway
  • Selv om du står stille har du lov, Galleri Fineart, Oslo
  • Belgrade Biennial – Marvellous Cacophony, 57th October Salon, Belgrade, Serbia
  • Mature Themes, Foxy Production, New York, US

2017

  • Divided States of America, The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, New York, US
  • Selected Works / Bjarne Melgaard, Donald Baechler, Peter Frie, Lars Lerin, Maria Miesenberger, Patrik
  • Andiné, Bohman-Knäpper, Stockholm, Sweden

2016

  • Painters' Painters, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
  • Expanding Frontiers: La Fondation Hippocrène Invite La Kaviar Factory, La Fondation Hippocrène, Paris,
  • France
  • Baby I'm a Star, Romeo, New York, US
  • Golden Eggs, Team Gallery, New York, US
  • The Present in Drag, Ninth Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany

2015

  • Some Gallerist's, M/L Artspace at the Duck, Berlin, Germany
  • The Avant-Garde Won't Give Up: Cobra and Its Legacy, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, US
  • He Put a Hot Fish in Her Navel, EMBAJADA, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Summer Exhibition, Skarstedt, London, UK
  • A Walk, Tripoli Gallery, East Hampton, New York, US
  • Intimate Paintings, Half Gallery, New York, US
  • What's Wrong with We, Martos Gallery, Los Angeles, US
  • Alex Da Corte:Die Hexe, Luxembourg & Dayan, New York, US
  • Call and Response, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, US

2014

  • Early Man, The Hole, New York, US
  • Amerika, David Castillo Gallery, Miami Beach, US
  • Speak Through Art, Kaviar Factory, Henninsvaer, Lofoten, Norway
  • In The Bedroom, M/L Artpace, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, US
  • 9 Artists, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambrige, Massachusetts, US
  • Depression, François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, US

2014

  • Whitney Biennale, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, US
  • DISown – Not For Everyone, Red Bull Studios, New York, US
  • The Drawing Room, Magasin 3 Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden

2013

  • Empire State – Art from New York, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin/Paris, France
  • JULEUTSTILLINGEN, Galleri Dobloug, Oslo, Norway
  • 9 Artists, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US
  • 12th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France
  • PANORAMA, Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Momentum, The 7th Nordic Biennial for Contemporary Art, Moss, Norway
  • Munch by Others, Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum, Tønsberg, Norway
  • DSM-V at the Future Moynihan Station, New York, US
  • Empire State – Art from New York, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
  • Norsk 90 Tall, Kaare Berntsen, Oslo, Norway
  • Chicken or Beef?, The Hole, New York, US
  • Looking Back: The White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York, US
  • New Arrivals, Kaare Berntsen, Oslo, Norway

2012

  • Bulletin Boards, Venus Over Manhattan and White Columns, New York, US
  • Context Message, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, US
  • Undetectable, Visual AIDS at La MaMa Galleria, New York, US
  • Drawings, Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Face/OFF, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Berlin, Germany

2011

  • DRAWINGS, Rod Bianco, Oslo, Norway
  • Moment: Ynglingagatan 1, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
  • JUEUTSTILLINGEN, Galleri Dobloug, Oslo, Norway
  • Grisaille, Luxembourg & Dayan, New York, US
  • The Social Failure, Maccarone, New York, US
  • After Shelley Duvall ’72, Maccarone, New York, US
  • Scandinavian Rhapsody/Scandinavian Artists, Galerie Proarta, Zürich, Switzerland
  • Absolute Installation, Nasjonalmuseet for Kunst, Arkitektur og Design, Oslo, Norway

2010

  • Group Show, Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Sweat, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland
  • Forced Exposure, Team Gallery, New York, US
  • Norse Soul: the legacy of Edvard Munch, social democracy, old myths, anarchy and death longings, Katzen
  • Art Center, American University, Washington DC, US

2009

  • DAMASCUS, Rod Bianco, Oslo, Norway
  • Latte in Watte, Gallery Riis, Oslo, Norway
  • Sketches in Heaven and Hell, Trafo Kunsthall, Asker, Norway
  • Two Shows: Peeps/Pisoletto, The Amie & Tony James Gallery, The Graduate Center of The City University of
  • New York, New York, US
  • REALISME/REALISMER, Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger, Norway
  • Nachspiel/Vorspiel, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen, Norway

2008

  • Edvard Munch: Tribute And Inspiration, Faurschou, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Works on Paper by Gallery Artists and Ricci Albenda, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, USA
  • Works on Paper, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland
  • Jekyll Island, Honour Fraser, Los Angeles, USA
  • Accrochage, Faurschou, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • That’s the Way It Is, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin, Germany

2007

  • Euro-Centric, Part 1: New European Art from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, US
  • Off The Wall, Patricia Low Contemporary at RENTAL, New York, USA
  • Fall Exhibition, Kaare Berntsen, Oslo, Norway
  • 25 Jahre Galerie Crone – Jubiläumsausstellung, Galerie Crone, Berlin, Germany
  • Destroy Athens: 1st Athens Biennale 2007, Athens, Greece
  • Beneath the Underdog, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA
  • The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Late Picasso & Contemporary Painters, Faurschou, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Hardcore. Drawing, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway
  • ROCK ‚N‘ ROLL Volume I, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway
  • Daydreams and Nightmares, Works from the Collection of Tor Juul, The Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway
  • Aggression of Beauty II, Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany
  • Spring Exhibition, Kaare Berntsen, Oslo, Norway

7011

  • Vestfossen, ARENA Vestfossen, Vestfossen, Norway
  • Gallery Swap (Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin and Hotel, London), Hotel, London, UK

2006

  • Bjarne Melgaard, Sven’t Jolle, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Erik Van Lieshout, Angel Vergara, Stella Lohaus Gallery,
  • Antwerp, Belgium
  • Marie-Louise Ekman/Bjarne Melgaard, Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden
  • Helter/Helter, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
  • Reflections, Faurschou, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • After Munch: Norwegian Contemporary Art, Pollock Fine Art, London, UK

2005

  • Papier, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin, Germany
  • ROM for ROM – International Art, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway
  • Goetz meets Falckenberg, Sammlung Falckenberg/Phoneix Kulturstiftung, Hamburg, Germany
  • Superstars: The Celebrity Factor. From Warhol to Madonna, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
  • With Us against reality, or against us, Galleri S.E, Bergen, Norway
  • The Horse Hospital, London, UK
  • 30 Years – 30 Artists, Galleri Dobloug, Oslo, Norway

2004

  • Bjarne Melgaard, Galeria SENDA, Barcelona, Spain
  • Central Station, The Harald Falckenberg Collection, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
  • Diaries and Dreams, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim, Germany
  • Fall Show, Galleri Tonne, Oslo, Norway
  • Norwegian and International Art, Galleri Tonne, Oslon, Norway
  • The Black Album, Rock e dintorni, Antonio Colombo Arte Contempranea, Milan, Italy
  • BODY from Munch to Melgaard, Kisefos-Museet, Jevnaker, Norway
  • The Netherlands: Secrets from the 90’s, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, The Netherlands
  • Playlist, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
  • Scream: 10 artists x 10 writers x 10 scary movies, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
  • In a Norwegian Wood. Norwegian Art of the Last Decade, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland

2003

  • Expressive Nordic Painting, Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • TABOO! The Art of Exotica Entertainment, Galerie Roger Pailhas, Marseille, France
  • Tirol Transfer, Austrian Cultural Forum, Warsaw, Poland
  • Twilight, Gimpel Fils, London, UK
  • De bortbjudna – Malmö Art Museum, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden
  • Summer Exhibition, Galleri Tonne West, Oslo, Norway
  • Summer Exhibition, Galleri Tonne, Oslo, Norway
  • Models & Mavericks: Exceptional positions in the collection contemporary art, Museum Het Domein, Sittard,
  • The Netherlands
  • The Painting never dries... Reflections over paintings in the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Astrup Fearnley
  • Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
  • Phantom of Desire, Visions of Masochism in Art, Neue Falerie Graz, Graz, Austria
  • Bjarne Melgaard, Sven’t Jolle, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Erik Van Lieshout, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
  • Accrocharge, Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Moderna Museet c/o BAC, Baltic Art Center, Visby, Sweden
  • MARS: ART AND WAR, Neue Galerie Graz, Graz, Austria Tra Est e Ovest, Gas Art Gallery, Turin, Italy

2002

  • Black Low // The Punk Movement Was Just Hippies With Short Hair, MARTa Herford Museum, Herford,
  • Germany
  • Hommage an Rudolf Schwarzkogler, an exhibtion to mark the 30th anniversairy of Galerie Krinzinger, Galerie
  • Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
  • Extension: Works from the Collection, Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden

2001

  • Det Lille Galleri, Nasjonalmuseet – Nettverk Galleri, Oslo, Norway
  • New Heimat, Frankfurter Kunsterein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

2000

  • Sharing Exoticisms, 5th Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France
  • PHONEIX ART 2001: Arbeiten aus der Sammlung Gunlach, Lafrenz und Falckenberg, Sammlung
  • Falckenberg/Phoneix Kulturstiftung, Hamburg, Germany
  • Civil Disobedience, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hannover, Germany
  • Galeria Senda, Barcelona, Spain
  • Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Organizing Freedom: Nordic Art in the 1990’s, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Organizing Freedom: Nordic Art in the 1990’s, Modern Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
  • The myth of a young washing machine, Oslo Museum of Contempoary Art Galleri Riis, Oslo, Norway
  • Momentum: Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art, Moss, Norway

1999

  • Zeitwenden: Rückblick und Ausblick, Kunstmseum, Bonn, Germany
  • Cowboys Who Are Poets Know It (guest starring Raoul Bernard St Summierre and Rod Bo bel) / An Exhibition
  • of Drawings, Galerie Annette De Deyser, Antwerp, Belgium
  • Moon over Islam, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K), Gent, Belgium
  • Umfeld, Umwelt, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium

1998

  • Mainfesta II, European Biennale of Contemporary Art, Luxemburg
  • Reinterpretation of Crystal Meth II, XXIV Biennale de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brasil
  • White Nights, CODE, Bergen, Norway
  • Softcore (Arkipelag Festival), National Historial Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany

1997

  • Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1996

  • De Rode Poort (The Red Gate), S.M.A.K (Museum of Contemporary Art), Gent, Belgium

1995

  • JULEUTSTILLINGEN, Galleri Dobloug, Oslo, Norway
  • Dixi: a presentation of 34 emerging Norwegian artists, Oslo, Norway
  • SELECTED PROJECTS

2019

  • Toxteth Error Lad, exhibition with Victor Boullet at Anna Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden. Curated by
  • Bjarne Melgaard.
  • Dagen Etter, exhibition with Lasse Hieronymus Bo, Matias Kiil and Eirik Sæther at Anna Bohman Gallery,
  • Stockholm, Sweden. Curated by Bjarne Melgaard and Elise By Olsen

2015

  • The Casual Pleasure of Disappointment, ready-to-wear fashion collection, spring-summer 2015, designed by
  • Bjarne Melgaard, art direction and production by Babak Radboy, design direction by Gerlan Marcel

2014

  • Bjarne Melgaard for Spike No. 39 – Housewife, poster (signed edition of 25), supported by Galerie Krinzinger
  • Brice Dellsperger BODY DOUBLE, Red Bull Studios, New York, March 29, 2014; selection of work by Brice
  • Dellsperger presented by Bjarne Melgaard and DIS Magazine
  • Russian Kiss – The Project, Idea/concept: Annie & Bjarne Melgaard, Art Director: Bjarne Melgaard,
  • Curator/Project Manager: Nicholas Mollerhaug
  • Russian Kiss – The Short Movie, Release date: February 7, 2014; Director: Richard Kern, Production: DT Films
  • Russian Kiss – The Soundtrack, Release date: February 7, 2014; Melody: Annie, Lyrics: Annie & Richard X,
  • Production: Richard X, Additional Vocals: Bjarne Melgaard & Andy Baumecker, Label: Totally Records

2013

  • Dans Ma Chambre, featuring works by 137AC, New York; curated by Bjarne Melgaard in collaboration with
  • Annatina Miescher
  • Venus Over Manhattan, New York; Gang Bust, William Copley and Big Fat Black Cock, Inc., curated by Bjarne
  • Melgaard
  • Document No. 2, The Pleasure of Being Unwanted, cover art and feature, Spring 2013, photographs by
  • Cedric Buchet with Fashion Editor Sabina Schreder
  • White Columns, New York; Sverre Bjertnes: If you really loved me you would be able to admit that you’re
  • ashamed of me, A Projective Identification by Bjarne Melgaard

2012

  • Wallpaper, December 2012, Limited Edition cover
  • DnB NOR Bank Headquarters, Oslo, public commission for the lobby of the DnB NOR’s new headquarters
  • building. The commission also includes an animation video and the design and branding for the DnB NOR
  • credit cards issued worldwide.
  • Ramiken Crucibe, New York, IDEAL POLE: A Repetition Compulsion By Bjarne Melgaard, Part One: Undoing
  • (what has been done): Tigers by the Pool; Part Two: All Words Destroy; Part Three: Guy Bourdin, Styled to
  • Death
  • Studio Collaboration with patients of Annatina Meischer, Bjarne Melgaard Studio, Brooklyn; Bjarne Melgaard
  • collaborated in a studio progam with Dr. Annatina Meischer for a diverse group of her artist patients who are
  • emotionally, mentally and/or physcially challenged or in long-term recovery from substance abuse.

2011

  • Maccarone, New York; The Social Failure, curated by Bjarne Melgaard
  • Maccarone, New York; After Shelley Duvall ’72, curated by Bjarne Melgaard
  • La Biennale Di Venezia, 54th International Art Exhibition, Venice; Beyond Death: Viral Discontents And
  • Contemporary Notions About AIDS. Guest Professor for the Graduate Program of Visual Arts at the Faculty of
  • Design and Arts, Università IUAV di Venezia.

2010

  • Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm; Don Juan in the Village, curated by Bjarne Melgaard

2008

  • Greene Naftali Gallery, New York; Gay Zoo, video in collaboration with Halvor Bodin

2007

  • Leo Koenig, Inc., New York; You Always Move In Reverse, curated Bjarne Melgaard

2006

  • Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin; My Catalan Whore: A Novel by Bjarne Melgaard, released in connection
  • with the exhibition Les Super at Galerie Guido W. Baudach. ISBN 978-3-00-019282-1
  • FILMOGRAPHY

2019

  • My Trip, Acute Art

2017

  • Goodbye to Love, Directed by Babak Radboy, Duration: 0:08:51
  • Dogs are the Best (Poodle Video), Directed by Babak Radboy, Duration: 0:06:59

2016

  • Liberation (Flag Video), Directed by Babak Radboy, Duration: 0:02:21
  • Untitled (Smartphone Video), Directed by Babak Radboy, Duration: 0:04:01

2015

  • Lucy, A Film by David Oramas and Bjarne Melgaard, Duration: 0:04:05
  • Crystal, A Film by David Oramas and Bjarne Melgaard, Duration: 0:03:08

2014

  • Untitled (Whitney Biennial), A Film By Bjarne Melgaard, directed by Sebastian Mlynarski, prouduced by Adam
  • Dugas, Duration 0:11:45

2013

  • Pepto Abysmal, produced and directed by Gabe Bartalos for Bjarne Melgaard, Duration 0:06:23
  • The awakening and consumption of Heidi Fleiss as she talks to a brioche named Austin, A film by Bjarne
  • Melgaard, produced and directed by Johannes Worsøe Berg, Duration 0:09:44
  • If you really loved me you would be able to admit that you’re ashamed of me, A film by Bjarne Melgaard and
  • Sverre Bjertnes, directed by Micah Perta and Ana Sanchez, Duration 0:07:16

2012

  • Antwerp, written by Bjarne Melgaard, produced and directed by Gabe Bartalos/Atlantic West Effects, Duration
  • 0:04:50

2011

  • After Shelley Duval ’72 (Frogs on the High Line), directed by Sebastian Mlynarski, Duration 1:09:35
  • Untitled (Bjarne Melgaard Interviews Leo Bersani), directed by Sebastian Mlynarski, Duration 0:98:19

2009

  • Untitled (Kelley Walker), Duration 0:10:10

2008

  • Gay Zoo

2000

  • All Gym Queens Deserve to Die, Duration 0:33:30

1998

  • Artist In Search Of God Within His Own Limitations, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, shown in
  • connection with Bjarne Melgaard, curated by Bart De Baere
  • WRITINGS
  • Color Pulse, Bjarne Melgaard, Muse, Art in America, November 2012, pp.76-77
  • A New Novel, Bjarne Melgaard, Oslo: Aschehoug & Co, Autumn 2012, First Edition, English
  • Alarma! Boyfriends: A Story by Bjarne, Bjarne Melgaard, New York: Karma, January 2012, English
  • The Synthetic Slut, A Novel, 2010, English Harry Bleak, A Novel by Rod Bianco, 2010, English
  • Jealous. A Novel by Bjarne Melgaard, New York: 2030, Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, 2010,
  • English
  • The Best of Nothing, A Novel, 2009, English
  • Mr. Flower, A Novel in Five Parts, 2009, English
  • Greenland, A Novel, 2008, English
  • Recovery, A Novel, 2008, English
  • Miss Bjarne Melgaard: A Kidwhore in Manhattan, A Novel, Germany: Galerie Guido W. Baudach, 2008
  • Daddy, A Novel, 2007, English
  • Gstaad Life, A Novel, 2007, English
  • My Catalan Whore, A Novel, 2006, English
  • The Only Weapon You Have In A Society Like This Is A Clear Mind..., Bjarne Melgaard, Oslo: Galleri Riis,

2000,

  • pp.192, English, Limited Edition of 1000
  • Casanova in the South Pacific, A Novel, Sydney: South Pacific Publishing Company, 1995, English
  • CATALOGUES, ESSAYS AND INTERVIEWS
  • The Art Album: Exploring the Connection Between Hip-hop Music and Visual Art, interviews by Danny
  • Simmons and Russel Simmons, Dawud Knuckles, Art on Dekz, 2013
  • Sverre Bjertnes: If you really loved me you would be able to admit that you’re ashamed of me. A Projective
  • Identification by Bjarne Melgaard, afterword by Matthew Higgs, New York: White Columns, 2013, Edition of

1000

  • Bjarne Melgaard A House to Die In, Essay, “Houses to Die In„, Ina Bloom, London: The Institute of
  • Contemporary Arts, 2012
  • Baton Sinister, Essay by Alissa Bennet, Tønsberg: Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum, 2012
  • Alissa Bennett Laying The Ghost, Sverre Bjarne, Climate Confusion Assistance, Essay by Alissa Bennett, Oslo:
  • Galleri K and Rod Bianco Gallery, February 2012
  • Grisaille, Alison Gingeras, Luxembourg & Dayan, London and New York, 2012
  • --05, --On my gravestone it’s gonna say: I am never coming back, Bjarne Melgaard & The Institute of Social
  • Hypocrisy, Lauren Monchar, 2011, Edition of 1000
  • Rod Bianco, Bjarne Melgaard & Ann Demester, Appel Arts Centre, 2010, English
  • Bjarne Melgaard: Jealous, Gunnar B. Kvaran, Hanne Beate Ueland and Grete Arbu, Oslo: Astrup Fearnley
  • Museum of Modern Art, 2010
  • SKAM: Bjarne Melgaard, Bjarne Melgaard, Festspill ut Utstilling, Bergen Kunsthall, 2003
  • Societé Anonyme, Bjarne Melgaard & Halvor Bodin, Kiel: Kunsthalle zu Kiel, 2002
  • Black Low, Bjarne Melgaard, Herford: MARTa Herford Museum, 2002
  • COLLECTIONS
  • Collection S.M.A.K, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belgium
  • KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
  • Musée de Strasbourg, France
  • Marta Herford Museum, Herford, Germany
  • Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
  • Billedgalleri, Norwegian Art Council, Oslo, Norway
  • Haugar Art Museum, Tønsberg, Norway
  • Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo, Norway
  • Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway
  • The National Gallery, Oslo, Norway
  • National Museum, Oslo, Norway
  • Sparebankstiftelsen DNB NOR, Oslo, Norway
  • Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden
  • Saatchi Gallery Collection, London, United Kingdom
  • High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA
  • The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, USA
  • The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
  • The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USAq

Press

Bjarne Melgaard in Conversation with Nicole Eisenman, Interview Magazine

Problem Child, by Steph Eckardt, W Magazine