Artist
Gardar Eide Einarsson
Norwegian, b. 1976
Gardar Eide Einarsson is a Norwegian artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art. Gardar Eide Einarsson was born in Norway.
Overview
Gardar Eide Einarsson (born January 12, 1976) is a Norwegian-born artist who lives and works in Tokyo and New York City. His work encompasses installation, printmaking, painting and sculpture.
Einarsson participated on a 2006 group show entitled, War on 45 / My Mirrors are Painted Black (For You), which included fellow heavy-metal nihilistic artists. The show included a black rhombus painting entitled For Steven Parrino / FTW (Dark Matter) made by Einarsson, in collaboration with Banks Violette, and dedicated to the influential dead artist Steven Parrino.
Education
Einar Granum School of Fine Art, Oslo, 1994–1996 National Academy of Fine Art, Bergen, 1996-2000 Staatliche Hochschule fur Fine Arts - Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, 1999–2000 Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, Studio Program, New York, 2001–2002 Cooper Union School of Architecture, Architecture and Urban Studies Program, New York, 2002–2003 Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, 2002–2003
Public collections
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley Los Angeles County Museum of Art Malmo Art Museum, Malmo Moderna Museet, Stockholm Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Museum of Modern Art, New York Norwegian National Museum of Art, Oslo, Norway Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany
Solo exhibitions
Flagwaste, TEAM, New York City, New York, 2018 Rawhide Down, Standard Oslo, Oslo, Norway, 2018 "SHTF", Team Gallery, Venice, CA, USA, 2016 "Distinct Functionation Layers Establish Hierarchy and Order", Galleri Nils Staerk, Copenhagen, DK, 2016 "FREEDOM, MOTHERFUCKER. DO YOU SPEAK IT?", Team Gallery, New York City, USA, 2015 "A Madman, a Patient, a Condemned Man, a Worker or a Schoolboy", ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus, Denmark, 2015 "Motivation: A Study of Action", Standard Oslo, Oslo, Norway, 2014 "He likes the fiestas. He likes the music. He likes to dance.", Maureen Paley gallery, London, UK, 2014 "Sorry If I Got It Wrong, But Something Definitely Isn't Right", Team Gallery, New York City, USA, 2012 "In The Dust of This Planet", Maureen Paley gallery, London, UK, 2012 "Art | 42 | Basel | Unlimited", June 2011, Basel, Switzerland, 2011 "Another Modern Moment Completed", Team Gallery, New York City, USA, 2010 "Judge", Team Gallery, New York City, USA, 2007 "Art | 37 | Basel | Statements", Basel, Switzerland, 2006 "leashed or confined", Team Gallery, New York City, USA, 2005
Special projects
Versuchsstation des Weltuntergangs, Bergen Kunsthall, 2013 Power Has a Fragrance, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, 2011 Power Has a Fragrance, Reykjavik Art Museum, 2011 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2008 South of Heaven, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (Germany), 2007
Residencies
IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden, 2004 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, 2002–03 NIFCA Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland, 2001
Solo publications
Conservator's Notes, At Last Books, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2018 The Mess, Karma, New York, USA, 2014 Stainless Steel/ Fluorescent Pink, Rathole Books, Tokyo, Japan, 2014 Gardar Eide Einarsson, Versuchsstation Des Weltuntergangs, Bergan Kunsthall, and Sternberg Press, Norway, 2013 Power Has a Fragrance, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Norway, 2011 South of Heaven, Revolver, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2007
Catalogues
Kvaran, Gunnar; Ueland, Hanne Beate and Årbu, Grete (ed.): Lights On!, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art / Skira, Oslo, 2008 Huldisch, Henriette and Momin, Shamim M.: The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA, 2008 Einarsson, Gardar Eide and Keller, Christoph: South of Heaven, Revolver Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2007 Einarsson, Gardar Eide and Keller, Christoph: Long Haired and Freaky People Need Not Apply, Revolver Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2004 Art For the People, Riksutstillinger, Bergen Kunsthall a.o, Norway, 2003 CMYK/Greyscale, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland, 2002 Strike, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK, 2002 Esplanaden, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2002 Audit, Casino Luxembourg Forum d’ Art Contemporain, Luxembourg, 2001 Kosmos, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden, 2001 Osculum Infame, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Iceland, 2001 Schpaa, Bergen Kunstforening/ Bergen Kunsthall/ Den Frie Udstilling, Copenhagen/ Bergen, Denmark/Norway, 2001 Festival Junge Talente, Offenbach am Main, Germany, 2000 Momentum- Nordic Festival for Contemporary Art, Moss, Norway, 2000
Published work
Bunch of Motherfuckers: Unfinished Individuation and Meshworks of Equivalence, The Vital Coincidence, Walther Koenig Verlag, Cologne, 2004 Lars Von Trier, Something is going to happen, Frotté Factory, Oslo, 2004 You Just Don’t Get it Dad, So Fuck Off, The Academy and the Corporate Public, Permanent Press Verlag, Cologne, 2004 Hardcore, Self-organization and Alternativity, We Are All Normal- Nordic Artist Writings, NIFCA, Copenhagen/ Helsinki, 2004 Oh My What A Dazzling Display, The Mock Commodity Fetishism of Klaus Thejl Jacobsen, Galleri Nicolai Wallner Notes on Asskissing & Corporate Strategies of the *RAF, Corporate Mentality, Lukas and Sternberg, New York, 2004 Total Revolution, True Lies, Pork Salad Press, Copenhagen, 2004 Rotation a NIFCA Project in Media Space, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art/Morgenbladet, Oslo/Helsinki, 2001 Terje Nicolaisen’s Deriving Practice, Terje Nicolaisen, Tegneforbundet, Oslo, 2001 Billedkunst Magazine, regular critic and member of editorial board Publication Series for Oslo Kunsthall, editor, 2001 Metronome, Frankfurt/Main a.o., 2000 UKS Forum For Samtidskunst 1/2 2000, guest editor, 2000
Collections represented
Museum