CHRISTIAN FALSNAES
COLLABORATION

Andersen’s, Copenhagen
08.11.23 - 16.12.23

Andersen’s is pleased to present Christian Falsnaes’ second solo exhibition in the gallery, titled COLLABORATION. The exhibition features 10 original drawings and a new performance piece exploring collaboration as an artistic strategy and performance as a means to initiate collective action. COLLABORATION is constructed as a workshop where the audience, through a series of exercises, builds an understanding of collaboration, allowing them, under guidance, to develop a performance based on their own desires and ideas. The artist further probes collaboration as an artistic strategy in a series of original graphite drawings titled WRITERS UNITED AGAINST THE GREY, all depicting graffiti in Berlin. Based on the idea of graffiti as a collective endeavor, the drawings show the accumulation of tags, throw-ups and pieces in urban public space.

info: https://www.andersenscontemporary.dk/christian-falsnaes-collaboration

Learning by Collecting
Strategies for Acquiring and Presenting Live Performances

Thursday 8 June

Adaptations and Negotiations Cori Olinghouse (independent archivist) and Autumn Knight (artist)

20-minute tours of the Ecart Archives will be offered by Elisabeth Jobin, curator at MAMCO

Friday 9 June

Decisions and Definitions Sabine Schmidt (director PSM Gallery Berlin) and Christian Falsnaes (artist)

Production and Care Cally Spooner (artist), Erin Brannigan (lecturer, theatre and performance studies) and Shelley Lasica (artist) Break

Documentation and Mediation Florence Jung (artist), Rui Silveira (founder and artistic director of Something Great Collection)

MAMCO | Musée d’art moderne et contemporain
10, rue des Vieux-Grenadiers, 1205 Genève
https://www.mamco.ch/en/1019/MAMCO

HIER UND JETZT 
Group exhibition
Skulpturtriennale Bingen, Bingen, DE

Artists: MICHAEL BEUTLER, FRITZ BORNSTÜCK, ANINA BRISOLLA, BOGOMIR ECKER, CHRISTIAN FALSNAES, STELLA HAMBERG, EMMA JÄÄSKELÄINEN, WILHELM KLOTZEK, KÄTHE KOLLWITZ, VERA KOX, RAINER MANG, GÜNTHER MEYER, CHRISTIANE MÖBUS, SIMON MULLAN, FINJA SANDER, HA SCHULT, LOTHAR SERUSET, DAGMAR VOGT, MIA FLORENTINE WEISS

More info: https://www.skulpturen-bingen.de/

MOVIMENT 
Group exhibition
Galerie 3, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR

more information: https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/programme/festivals-soirees/moviment

Battle Cry
Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin

Artists: Christian Falsnaes, Maksym Khodak, Zhenia Stepanenko, Bohdana Zaiats

The exhibition Battle Cry offers young Ukrainian curators, artists and their international colleagues an opportunity to raise their artistic voices beyond despair and the desire to cry out about the consequences of war.

curated by Valeria Schiller

CLOWNS’ KINGDOM
Le Bicolore
Maison du Danemark
142 Avenue des Champs-Elysées
75008 Paris

22.03.22 - 08.05.22

Through attention-grabbing media stunts, acts of provocation in public space and exaggerations of situations, clowns succeed in making reality teeter. In this group exhibition, two French curators take a look at a generation of Danish and French contemporary artists.

Christian Falsnaes will do a performance for the finissage, at 16h on May 8th.

More information: link

CHRISTIAN FALSNAES
FEAST

PSM Gallery, Berlin
2.11.2021 to 11.12.2021
Opening 30. October 7pm

Beyond parental watch is danger to the infant.
Beyond the threshold is darkness.
Beyond the security of social affirmation is the adventure of art.

WILHELM HALLEN
Kopenhagener Str 60-72 , 13407 Berlin

K60 is a collective of seven well-known galleries: alexander levy, BQ, ChertLüdde, Klemm's, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Plan B and PSM, who exhibit in Haus D.

Christian Falsnaes, represented by PSM, will participate with a large format screening of the film LOOK AT ME (2020).

More info: https://wilhelm-hallen.de/

VON ERDE SCHÖNER
The Collections of the MGKSiegen
28.05.21 - 13.02.22

The new presentation of the museum’s collection, “Von Erde schöner” (Prettier from Earth), continues the dialogue between the Lambrecht-Schadeberg Collection and the Contemporary Art Collection at MGKSiegen which began last year. The relations between natural and artificial landscapes, the relationships between people, architecture and places, and the construction of pictorial space play a role, as well as questions of distance, proximity and our personal perceptions of space. “Von Erde schöner” undertakes a cartography of the museum’s own collection.

With contributions by
Francis Bacon, Bernd und Hilla Becher, Katalin Deér, Götz Diergarten, Christian Falsnaes, Lucian Freud, Rupprecht Geiger, Andreas Gursky, Hans Hartung, Candida Höfer , Mischa Kuball, Maria Lassnig, Armin Linke, Giorgio Morandi, Simone Nieweg, Peter Piller, Sigmar Polke, Yvonne Rainer, Bridget Riley, Emil Schumacher, Thomas Struth, Antoni Tàpies, Wolfgang Tillmans, Niele Toroni, Cy Twombly, Fritz Winter.
Kuratorin: Ines Rüttinger

More information: link

Die ganze Wahrheit
8.5.2021 - 19.6.2021

A group exhibition with works of Louisa Clement - Christian Falsnaes - Šejla Kamerić - Mary-Audrey Ramirez + Max Kreis - Robert Sieg - Sophia Süßmilch
Curated by Johanna Adam

Galerie Petra Martinetz
Moltkestr. 81
50674 Cologne

More information: petramartinetz.de/time/current/

CORPUS EPISODES: HOME #2
This year’s edition of Corpus will feature a performative dance piece between choreographer Frédéric Gies and artist Christian Falsnaes, in collaboration with Roskilde Festival.
The piece will be performed in A-salen, then at Ofelia Plads (Copenhagen) and finally at Roskilde Festival in 2021. The collaboration strives to shed light on the need for interdisciplinary and interinstitutional collaboration and create sustainable performances, that can be experienced by different audiences in different formats and locations.

Corpus Episodes explores the significance of the home in an artistic context. What constitutes a home? How are questions and thoughts transferred to dance and choreography and what is the role of the audience in the final performance?

Location:
The Royal Theatre
August Bournonvilles Passage 2-8
Postboks 2185
1017 Koebenhavn K

Tickets
More info: link

CPH:DOX Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival 2021

We are very pleased to announce the official selection of LOOK AT ME (2020) for this year’s edition of the Festival. LOOK AT ME will be competing in the NEW:VISION category.

CPH:DOX is scheduled for April 21 to May 12.

Streaming and theatre premiere dates to be found here

Announcement and full line up to be found here

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS
Dansehallerne and Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art presents a choreographic exhibition. 
12.11.2020 - 15.11.2020

Christian Falsnaes will present the work STAGE (2017).

Participating artists:
Adèle Essle Zeiss (SE)
Andros Zins-Browne (US)
Christian Falsnaes (DK)
Erna Ómarsdóttir & Valdimar Jóhannsson (IS)
Sonja Jokiniemi (FI)
Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttirs (IS/DE)

+ info: https://denfrie.dk/en/exhibition/close-encounters-2/

Me, Family
28.10.2020 — 21.03.2021

Mudam Luxembourg

Please go to mefamily.mudam.com to access the online platform. You will be invited to become a real-time avatar, a virtual entity who can interact with both artworks and other visitors.

The platform is intended as a portrait of humanity at the beginning of the 21st century, reflecting on diverse subjects such as technological progress, digital innovation, pleasure, fun and individuality.

Artists:

Doug Aitken, Sophia Al Maria, Yuri Ancarani, Darren Bader, Lara Baladi, Clément Cogitore, Christian Falsnaes, Harun Farocki, Simon Fujiwara, Ga Ram Kim, Thomas Hirschhorn, Olia Lialina, Karolina Markiewicz & Pascal Piron, Eva & Franco Mattes, Li Ming, Mario Pfeifer, Wong Ping, Cheng Ran, Cindy Sherman, Marianna Simnett, Rudolf Stingel, Jordan Wolfson

CHRISTIAN FALSNAES
LOOK AT ME

Copenhagen Contemporary
26.08.20 - 21.02.21

Christian Falsnaes transforms CC’s exhibition space into an art fair, showing a six-part video performance work between the white walls. Falsnaes sets up a variety of situations acted out by himself and performer Minni Katina Mertens. The two interact with each other, with the audience, and with the camera in a series of performances that demonstrate what happens when people are used as living artistic material. Moreover, the exhibition explores the unreflective, automatic reactions and general behavior typical of a museum visit, as well as the power configurations that develop between artist and spectator.

+ info: https://copenhagencontemporary.org/en/christian-falsnaes/

STATE OF THE ARTS
Video Installation Performance

Bundeskunsthalle Bonn
16.06.2020 - 16.08.2020

The exhibition presents one of the most intriguing artistic phenomena of our time: the fusion of the visual and the performing arts. Today, more often than not, a visit to an exhibition does not merely offer new visual impressions. Instead, it is a more comprehensive experience that involves all the senses. Artists combine video, performance, dance, language and music, creating intermedia works. In some cases, this results in giving the visitors the opportunity to give up the distanced position of the viewer and become part of the work.

Today, in 2020, the extension of artistic media into all conceivable fields has long become widely accepted. The exhibition brings together works that playfully move between different artistic disciplines – performative sculptures, sound works and multimedia installations as well as performance.

More information: www.stateofthearts.de/landingpage/

Comissioned and produced by ART2030, Christian Falsnaes’ new video GOALS is now online!
Available to view and share here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7Obp4KxVbE&feature=youtu.be
And on Art2030 Instagram feed: https://www.instagram.com/p/B3_wDG4lNbl/

WHITEOUT
Virtual Reality Ausstellung

NRW Forum Düsseldorf
19th July - 10th November 2019

Wie kann eine Performance in die virtuelle Realität überführt werden und was passiert, wenn der Mensch dort auf Performer*innen trifft? Mit WHITEOUT zeigen wir die weltweit erste Virtual-Reality-Gruppenausstellung zur zeitgenössischen Performancekunst. Das Kollektiv New Scenario hat für unseren digitalen Erweiterungsbau eine Ausstellung mit den Künstler*innen Maria Hassabi, Christian Falsnaes und Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi kuratiert, die eine singuläre und immersive Erfahrung mit Performance-Kunst im virtuellen Raum ermöglicht .

Artists:
Maria Hassabi
Christian Falsnaes 
Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi

Opening:
Thursday 18. July 2019, 19:30h

link: https://www.nrw-forum.de/ausstellungen/whiteout

Stance & Fall: A Wavering World
29.06.2019 – 06.10.2019

Marta Herford Museum for Art, Architecture, Design
Herford, Germany

Artists: Francis Alÿs, Charles Atlas, Alexandra Bachzetsis, Robert Barta, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Denis Darzacq, Marcel Dzama, Christian Falsnaes, Valérie Favre, Kendell Geers, Mona Hatoum, Judith Hopf, Wilhelm Klotzek, Eva Kot’átková, Henrik Olesen, Cheryl Pope, Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, Sarah & Charles, David Shrigley, Sebastian Stumpf, Aaron van Erp, Peter Welz

“Mind your stance!” – In a world that appears to be unravelling, this advice is more topical than ever. Particularly in moments of disorientation, a firm position can mean rescue – but it can also mean danger.

 The greater the tension, the greater the danger of at some stage losing control. Stance and fall, control and its loss, reason and madness, are all inter-related. With existential earnestness and fascinating playfulness, the artists focus on a contradiction in terms that represents the current Zeitgeist. The body torn back and forth, the pose and its dissolution become the medium of communication. The works focus in particular on the intermediate zones and border crossings.

Link: https://marta-herford.de/en/ausstellungen/haltung-fall/#

OpenART is Scandinavia’s largest biennial for contemporary art, taking place during 12 summer weeks in Örebro. It is a biennial that revolts against traditional urban spaces, encourages creativity, and gives us the opportunity to experience the city from completely new perspectives. OpenArt will feature 60 artists artists from across the globe.

OpenArt
OPENING 8th June, 13h

City of Örebro, Sweden

link: http://openart.se/2019/en/start/

THE STAGE IS YOURS
08.02.2019 - 18.08.2019
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art
Mannerheiminaukio 2, FIN-00100
Helsinki, Finland

This 6-month-long exhibition at Kiasma, Helsinki, will feature Christian Falsnaes’ work Stage, along with a special presentation of RISE on the opening day. The fourth-floor galleries will be filled with participatory and experiential artworks that underline the concepts of giving, hospitality and togetherness.

Exhibited artists: David Shrigley, Amalia Pica, Sasha Pirogova, Christian Falsnaes and Lee Mingwei.

More info: https://kiasma.fi/en/exhibitions/the-stage-is-yours/

On November 10th, Christian Falsnaes will be presenting a new performance in the context of the exhibition RESISTANCE at Centrale for Contemporary Art in Brussels.

Using a thematic approach, the exhibition studies how contestation and resistance fall within a body of artworks. Instigating a dialogue between historical works from 1968 and contemporary pieces by Belgian and international artists, the show reflects on the huge gateway that opened during that era and that remains connected to contemporary art.

From 1968 to 2018, some artists chose to resist the diktats of the art world and to point the flaws that jeopardize the very foundations of our media-hungry societies. Paradoxically, art drew all its strength from the many resistances and protests imprinted in these art works…

The exhibition sheds light on works stemming from a practice of relations broadened to the world, which use unconventional materials and media and that are all animated by a burning desire for action at the heart of the community. A practice founded on firm beliefs that converge with major collective issues such as personal freedom, feminism, globalisation, the environment.

At the core of the show, the role of artists unfurls as the key player of a revolutionary thought, somewhere between resistance and protest.

Curator: Maïté Vissault

Presented artists include L'Atelier populaire (mai 68), Joseph Beuys, Marcel Broodthaers, Luc Deleu & T.O.P. Office, Roland Denaeyer, Valie Export, Christian Falsnaes, Ant Farm, Robert Filliou, Jochen Gerz, Helga Goetze, Douglas Gordon, Guerrilla Girls, Hans Haacke, Asger Jorn, Marie-Fleur Lefebvre, Emilio López-Menchero, Cécile Massart, Gustav Metzger, Navid Nuur, Dan Perjovschi, Dieter Roth, Hito Steyerl, Nathalie Talec, David Tartakover, The Yes Men, Wolfgang Tillmans, Cléo Totti, Fréderic Vaësen, Emmanuel Van der Auwera, Lawrence Weiner, among others.

http://www.centrale.brussels/en/expos/resistance/

The Title is Your Name
CHRISTIAN FALSNAES
18. September - 10. October
ДINAMIKA
3 Malyy Kisel'nyy pereulok
Moscow

We are pleased to announce Christian Falsnaes’ inaugural solo exhibition at the cultural space ДINAMIKA presenting, for the first time in Russia, the artist’s performative work THE TITLE IS YOUR NAME, 2015 accompanied by the presentation of the artist’s latest performative work ICON which, in March 2018, premiered at Kunstmuseen Krefeld in Germany. (…) The juxtaposition of both video works of a different character in adjacent spaces of ДINAMIKA echoes the contrasts of individual solo experiences and the dynamics of social communication and group interactions.
Curated by Yulia Belousova.

ACTION PAINT MMXVIII

KRISTOFFER AKSELBO

MAIKEN BENT

BENEDIKTE BJERRE

PETER BONDE/CLAUS CARSTENSEN

MAGNUS FREDERIK CLAUSEN

TORBEN RIBE

MAYA STEFANIA WIBLING

PERNILLE KAPPER WILLIAMS

CHRISTIAN FALSNAES

Action Paint MMXVIII is an innovative art project by Kunsthal Aarhus and Aarhus Festuge. 10 artists create artworks which the participants shoot at with paintballs. The works are completed during the paintball fights. The artworks will be exhibited in Aarhus during Aarhus Festuge, 31 August – 9 September and videos from the action-packed games will be shown at Aarhus Kunsthal. 

CHRISTIAN FALSNAES ICON
29 August - 6 October 2018
Andersen’s
Amaliegade 40, Copenhagen

Andersen’s is pleased to announce Christian Falsnaes’ inaugural solo exhibition at the gallery presenting, for the first time in Denmark, the artist’s latest performative work ICON which, in March 2018, premiered at Kunstmuseen Krefeld in Germany.
In his immersive performances, Christian Falsnaes creates liminal situations that bring together formal art mediums with the intangible and unexpected dynamics of collective identities. Video works, paintings, installations and spaces become a moment to channel and reflect upon the concepts of expectation and reaction, favouring, with unanticipated outcomes, communicative processes between groups' and individuals’ behaviours.
The participatory nature of his practice targets the problematics inherent in social structures through highlighting their power dynamics. By directing participants to relinquish their control, the artist creates unique testimonies of moments where the highly codified rituals of society are targeted. Falsnaes employs directives to underscore the significance of individual will, turning the reactions of his audiences into material for there own self- reflection.
In ICON, the artist further probes collective frictions by breaking the habitual patterns of interaction with the social norms of the art-world. Inspired by the collection of Kunstmuseen Krefeld, replica works of Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, Imi Knoebel, Bruce Nauman, Blinky Palermo, Reiner Ruthenbeck and Franz Erhard Walther (the icons of the male-dominated post-war modernism) are disruptively destroyed, rearranged and reinvented by a throng of visitors that are directed by the artist. ICON results in a selection of works that mirroring the sacral image of an exhibition, abruptly claims the status of exhibition itself. 
The transience of this performative act ultimately questions the autonomy of art itself by conveying collective emotions, desires and instincts in an equally aesthetic outcome. As the final work gains social and aesthetic momentum, ICON triggers further considerations on the role of the current viewer, who, confronted with the tumultuous and layered journey of creation, finds himself in a state of reflection. The juxtaposition of the video work and of the installation, which are displayed in adjacent spaces in the gallery, echoes the feeling of these displaced dynamics.