Joachim Koester
Born in Copenhagen in 1962
Graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1993
Lives and works in Copenhagen
Prizes and Awards
2013 The Camera Austria Award for Contemporary Photography
Solo exhibitions
2022
Joachim Koester, Jan Mot, International Galleries Alliance (online project)
2021
Altered States, Museum Dr Guislain, Ghent (BE)
The invisible index, Jan Mot, Brussels
2020
Joachim Koester, The way out is the way in, Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz (DE)
Photographic works (1994-2019), Galeri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
2019
Joachim Koester. Day for Night, Christiania, 1996 / Online Presentation, Chart Art Fair, Copenhagen
2018
Things That Shine And Things That Are Dark, Beirut Art Center, Beirut
Patterns, Shimmers, Scenes, The National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen
Bringing Something Back, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen (NO)
2017
Maybe this act, this work, this thing, Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid
Maybe this act, this work, this thing, STUK Kunstencentrum, Leuven (BE)
In the Face of Overwhelming Forces, Camden Arts Centre, London
2016
Sometimes when you blink you may see trees, Jan Mot, Brussels, (with Stefan A. Pedersen)
The Other Side of the Sky, Turner Contemporary, Margate (UK)
2015
Hacer cuerpo con la máquina, Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona (ES)
Departamento dos Futuros Abandonados, Fundação Eugénio de Almeida, Evora (PT)
Every muscular contraction contains the history and meaning of its origin, Gallery Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
Body Electric, Gallery Greene Naftali, New York City (US)
2014
The Place of Dead Roads, Jan Mot, Brussels
The Place of Dead Roads, Centre d'art contemporain, Geneva (CH)
The Ghost Shop, Camera Austria, Graz (AT)
2013
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (US)
Reptile Brain, or Reptile Body, it's Your Animal, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Reptile Brain, or Reptile Body, it's Your Animal, Jan Mot, Brussels
2012
Maybe One Must Begin with Some Particular Places, SMAK, Ghent (BE)
Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
Some Boarded Up Houses, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
To Navigate, in a Genuine Way, in the Unknown..., MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge (US)
2011
Of Spirits and Empty Spaces, L’Institut d’Art Contemporain - Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes (FR)
If One Thing Moves Everything Moves, Galería Elba Benítez, Madrid
I myself am only a receiving apparatus, Jan Mot, Brussels
Ich bin selbst nur ein Aufnahmeapparat, Kestner Gesellshaft, Hanover (DE)
2010
To navigate, in a genuine way, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
From The Secret Garden of Sleep, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
From The Secret Garden of Sleep, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City
The Hashish Club, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin
Joachim Koester: Hypnagogia, The Power Plant, Toronto
2009
Poison Protocols and Other Histories, Stills Centre for Photography, Edinburgh (UK)
Tarantism, Turku Art Museum, Turku (FI)
2008
Ghost Tracks, Overgaden, Copenhagen
Tarantism + Pit Music, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
2007
The Magic Mirror of John Dee and Other Works, Preus Photomuseum, Horten (NO)
Twelve (Former) Real Estate Opportunities, Jan Mot, Brussels
My Frontier is an Endless Wall of Points, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Numerous Incidents of Indefinite Outcome, Extra City, Antwerp (BE)
2006
Morning of the Magicians, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Message from the Unseen, Lund Konsthall, Lund (SE)
Histories, Jan Mot, Brussels
Morning of the Magicians, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
Fantasmal, CASM, Center d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona (ES)
2005
New Works, Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels
Sandra of the Tuliphouse or How to Live in a Free State, The Kitchen, New York (with Matthew Buckingham)
Morning of the Magicians, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
2004
Land(s) and the Tale of Captain Mission, De Verbeelding, Zeewolde (NL)
The Tools of my Trade, Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels
Sandra of the Tuliphouse (with Matthew Buckingham), Kunst-Werke, Berlin
Kunsthalle Nürnberg (DE)
Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
2001
Centre National de la Photographie, Paris
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
2000
Lawing Gallery, Houston, Texas (US)
Galerie Mot & Van den Boogaard, Brussels Arnolfini, Bristol (UK) (cat.)
ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas (US)
Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
1999
Row Housing, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo
Project Space, P.S.1 Contemporary Art, New York
Kunst-Werke, Berlin
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
1998
Galerie Mot & Van den Boogaard, Brussels
INOVA, Kunstmuseum UW, Milwaukee (US)
1997
Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
1996
Pit Music, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
1994
The Agency, London
Ynglingagatan, Stockholm
Traneudstilling, Gentofte Kunstbibliotek, Gentofte (DK)
Group exhibitions (Selected)
2024
20 Years Verbund Collection, Albertina, Vienna
The Strength of Sleep - The Cohabitations of All the Living, Manif d’art – the Québec City Biennale, Quebec (CA)
2023
Happily Ever After, Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö (SE)
Gothic Returns: Fuseli to Fomison, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland (NZ)
Arch of Hysteria. Between Madness and Ecstasy, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg (AT)
Oxymoron, Kindred Spirit Projects, Lisbon
The Night Watch, Lyl radio, Société d’Electricité, Brussels
The Barricaded Picture, Sorø Kunstmuseum, Sorø (DK)
Sex, Drugs, Rock ‘n Roll + a new video work by Peter Land, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
2022
La Beauté du Diable, Frac Franche-Comté, Besançon (FR)
Breathing, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg (DE)
Universo Emma Kunz. Una visionaria en diálogo con el arte, Tabakalera - Centro Internacional de Cultural Contemporánea, San Sebastián (ES)
2021
International Symposium Dances and Rituals, CN D Centre national de la danse, Pantin (FR)
Fotografisk Center 25 Years, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen
WITCHES, Taxis - palais Kunsthalle Tirol, Tyrol (AT)
Vampiros. La evolución del mito, CaixaForum Zaragoza; CaixaForum Sevilla (ES)
Kosmos Emma Kunz, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aargau (CH)
2020
Possessed, MO.CO., Montpellier (FR)
Danser Brut, BOZAR, Brussels
Local Choreographies, Contexts. Festival of Ephemeral Arts, Sokolowsko (PL)
The Botanical Mind: Art, Mysticism and the Cosmic Tree, Camden Arts Centre, London
Magic Lantern Film Festival, MAXXI - National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome (screening)
Humanimalismes –The animal that I am, Topographie de l’art, Paris
Vampiros. La evolución del mito, CaixaForum Madrid; CaixaForum Barcelona (ES)
2019
MODE, 5-6 Cork Street, Camden Arts Centre, London (performance)
The Collection (1): Highlights for a Future, S.M.A.K., Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent (BE)
Vampires, de Dracula à Buffy, La Cinémathèque française, Paris
Plant Revolution!, Centro Internacional das Artes José de Guimãraes – CIAJG, Guimarães (PT)
De l’immersion à l’osmose Chaosmose #2, FRAC île-de-France, Le Château, Rentilly (FR)
touché! (gesture, movement, action), Beirut Art Center, Beirut
ECSTASY, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
Summer Show, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
2018
The Third Person, MMAC, Juan Soriano Museum, Morelos (MX)
Camera Austria, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg (AT)
Wilderness, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (DE)
ECSTASY, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart (DE)
Superstition, Marres, Maastricht (NL)
Group Therapy, FRYE Foundation, Seattle (US)
Visitations, Videos From Colección Jumex, FUNDACIÓN JUMEX ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO, Mexico City
Ritual, The Aspen Art Museum, CO (USA)
Written in Light. Early Photography, Moderna Museet, Malmö (SE)
2017
Psychosculptural Aesthetics, Rianne Groen Gallery, Rotterdam (NL)
Folklore, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg (AT)
Dizziness, Navigating the Unknown, Centre of Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Dancers, Gyeongnam Art Museum & Pool, Seoul
Extratextual, Calgary Contemporary, Calgary (CAN)
Kolonihistorier - magt og afmagt, Gl Holtegaard, Holte (DK)
Sunset Décor, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York (US)
The Hierophant, Nicodim Gallery, Bucharest
Flower Pictures, FRAC, Jardin des Plantes de Rouen (FR)
Whither the Winds!, Lunds Konsthall, Lund (SE)
The Transported Man, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing (US)
Meeting Points 8, Beirut Art Center, Beirut
Maybe this act, this work, this thing, CPH: DOX 2017, Copenhagen (screening)
Dizziness. Navigating the Unknown, Kunsthaus Graz (AU)
2016 Open
Spaces. Secret Places, Bozar, Brussels
Illumination, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk (DK)
Uchronies, BPS22 - Musée d'art de la Province de Hainaut, Charleroi (BE)
2015
Francis Alÿs, Pierre Bismuth, Mario Garcia Torres, Joachim Koester, Tris Vonna-Michell, Jan Mot, Brussels
The Place of Dead Roads, STUK Kunstencentrum, Leuven (BE) (screening)
See (re) watch. Uses and representations of the inexplicable, MUSAC, León (ES)
Fire and Forget. On Violence, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Psychic Lighthouse, The Model, Home of the Niland Collection The Mall, Sligo (IRL)
Manon de Boer - Joachim Koester - Ian Wilson, Jan Mot, Brussels
Walking Sculpture 1967–2015, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln (US)
La La La Human Steps, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (NL)
Tongue Stones, Pioneer Works, New York City (US)
Welcome to America. Œuvres de la collection du Frac Bretagne, Imagerie Lannion, Lannion (FR)
2014
Music palace. The power of music seen by visual artists, Boghossian Foundation – Villa Empain, Brussels (BE)
Phantoms in the Dirt, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago (US)
Habitar el tiempo, Museo Jumex, Mexico City
L'image suivante..., Musée des Arts Contemporains de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Hornu (BE)
The Invisible Hand. Curating as Gesture, 2nd CAFAM Biennale, Beijing
Prospectif Cinema, Centre Pompidou, Paris (screening)
Le Nouveau festival, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Artefact Festival, STUK Kunstencentrum, Leuven (BE)
The Crime Was Almost Perfect, Witte de With, Rotterdam (NL)
2013
Animism, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul
It Is Only a State of Mind, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg (DE)
Haim Steinbach, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
Alien & Familiar, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck (AT)
The Way of the Shovel. Art as Archaeology, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago (US)
Arktis, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk (DK)
Against Method, Generali Foundation, Vienna
Copenhagen 93, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
Ed Ruscha. Books & Co, Museum Brandhorst, Munich (DE)
For No Apparent Reason, CA2M, Madrid
It Is Only A State Of Mind, NGBK, Berlin
Channelled, Lunds Kunsthal, Lund (SE)
2012
A World of Wild Doubt, Der Kunstverein, seit 1817, Hamburg (DE)
Tapis Magique, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse (FR)
Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable (UK)
Sehnsucht, Kasteel van Gaasbeek, Gaasbeek (BE)
Taipei Biennial 2012, Taipei
The Human Board, Centre Photographique d'Ile de France, Pontault-Combault (FR)
Sound + Vision, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg (CA)
A Blind Spot, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Sehnsucht, Kasteel van Gaasbeek, Gaasbeek (BE)
Spring Exhibitions and Projects, Bard College, Annandale (US)
A Corral around Your Idea, Jan Mot, Brussels
Ritual without Myth, Royal College of Art Galleries, London
2011
The Sweet Burnt Smell of History. 8th Panama Art Biennial, Panama
Second Lives: Jeux masqués et autres Je, Casino Luxembourg (LU)
Eins plus Eins, Arthur Boskamp Stiftung, Hohenlockstedt (DE)
Secret Societies, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (DE)
Jan Mot, Art 42 Basel, Basel (CH)
Moment: Ynglingagaten 1, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (SE)
Dance with Camera, SMoCA Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale (US)
Our Magic Hour, Yokahama Triennial 2011, Yokohama (JP)
Contour, 5th Biennial of Moving Image, Mechelen (BE)
Animismus, Generali Foundation, Vienna (AT)
2010
At Home is where the Heart Is, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin
The Unknown Group, FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon (FR)
Playground Festival, STUK Kunstencentrum, Leuven (BE)
Nuit Blanche, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris
Habiter poétiquement, Musée d’art moderne Lille Métropole, Lille (FR)
There is Always a Cup of Sea to Sail In, The 29th Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo (BR)
You can't get there from here but you can get here from there, Apexart, New York
Forum 65, Jones, Koester, Nashashibi/Skaer: Reanimation, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg (US)
Between Times. Instants, Intervals, Durations, PhotoEspaña, Madrid
Art Film, Art 41 Basel, Basel (CH)
Della Biennali di Atene, Istambul e Marrakech, Riso Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia, Palermo (IT)
Dance With Camera, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (US)
Hymn to Pan, Karl Holmqvist and Joachim Koester, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (DE)
Berlin Documentary Forum #1, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Animism, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern
It’s a Set-Up, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
CLIMAX REDVX, Bac - Bâtiment d'art contemporain, Geneva (CH)
Animism, Extra City, Antwerp (BE)
If I Can’t Dance I don’t want to be Part of your Revolution, Episode 4, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven (NL)
2 ½ Dimensional: Film Featuring Architecture, De Singel, Antwerp (BE)
Make the Most of Now!, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
2009
Not Created by a Human Hand, Wilfried Lentz Gallery, Rotterdam (NL)
Dépaysage, Frac Basse-Normandie, Caen (FR)
Esthétique des pôles. Le testament des glaces, Frac Lorraine, Metz (FR)
Morality, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (NL)
Dance with Camera, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (US)
Mise á l’échelle, Musée des arts contemporains, Hornu (BE)
Jan Mot, Art 40 Basel, Basel (CH)
While We Are Waiting, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
The Kenneth Anger Cycle, Zé dos Bois Gallery, Lisboa
Heaven, 2nd Athens Biennale, Athens
On Second Reading, Galeria Estrany - De La Mota, Barcelona (ES)
If I Can't Dance I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, Project Arts Centre, Dublin (IE)
Then The Work Takes Place, Camera Austria, Graz (AT)
Great Expectations, Contemporary Photography Looks At Today’s Bitter Years, Le Casino, Luxembourg (LU)
Tate Triennial: Altermodern, Tate Britain, London
My Frontier is an Endless Wall of Points (after the mescaline drawings of Henri Michaux), International Film Festival, Rotterdam (NL) (screening)
2008
Playground Festival, STUK, Leuven (BE)
Trances, Musée départemental d’art contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart (FR)
Questioning History, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam (NL)
The Return of Religion and Other Myths, BAK Utrecht (NL)
Calcutta Art Research, European Kunsthalle c/o Eberplatz #3, Cologne (DE)
The Sweet Burnt Smell of History, Museum of Contemporary Art, (PA)
T2, Turin Triennale, Turin (IT)
The Map Is Not The Territory, Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, Esbjerg (DK)
The Greenroom. Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art, Bard College, New York
Try again. Fail again. Fail better, Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest
If I Can’t Dance I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution. Edition #3, The Masquerade, De Appel, Amsterdam
The Great Transformation. Art and Tactical Magic, MARCO, Vigo (ES)
Library, UOVO Open Office, Berlin
Reality Check, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
Non-Knowledge, Project Arts Centre, Dublin
U-Turn Quadrennial for Contemporary Art, Nicolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen
The Perception of Ideas leads to New Ideas, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf (DE)
Manifesta 7, Trento (IT)
The Great Transformation. Art and Tactical Magic, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (DE)
Photo Espana, Museo Colecciones ICO, Madrid
Art 39 Basel, Jan Mot, Basel (CH)
Art Unlimited, Art 39 Basel, Basel (CH)
Here, 210 Front Street, New York
Hypnotic Show, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco (US)
Danskjävlar – a Swedish Declaration of Love, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
Soigneurs de gravité, MAC’s, Grand-Hornu (BE)
Ghost in the Machine, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
Estratos, PAC Murcia, Murcia (ES)
2007
Mask, James Cohan Gallery, New York
8th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah International Art Biennial, Sharjah (AE)
In A Poem About Love You Don’t Write The Word Love, Overgaden, Copenhagen
Le Jardin de Cyrus, Galerie Edouard Manet – Ecole Municipale des Beaux-Arts, Gennevilliers (FR)
Anakronismer / Against Time, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm
Black Is Black, HISK and SMAK, Ghent (BE)
Der Droste Effekt, Esther Schipper, Berlin
Blind Date. Basel Aftermath in Rome, Magazzino d’Arte Moderna, Rome
Château de Tokyo sur l’Île de Vassivière, Beaumont du Lac (FR)
Art 38 Basel, Jan Mot, Basel (CH)
Den första på moderna. Moderna Museet, Stockholm
52nd International Art Exhibition, Slovenian Pavilion, Biennale di Venezia, Venice (IT)
Elsewhere, USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa (US)
Silly Adults, Galleri Nicolaï Wallner, Copenhagen
Private / Public, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (NL)
The Moscow Biennale, Moscow
The V Effect, Nicolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen
A Secret Service: Art, Compulsion, Concealment, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea (UK)
Expéditions, La Galerie, Noisy-le-Sec (FR)
The Importance of Not Being Seen, curated by Luca Cerizza, Berlin
Les Temps Modernes, Collection Frac Bretagne, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Bignan (FR)
Research and Invention. Investigations with Images in Contemporary Forschen and Erfinden, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zurich (CH)
Thessaloniki Biennial, Thessaloniki (GR)
Programme, Jan Mot, Brussels
2006
Hysteria Siberiana, CristinaGuerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon
Dreamlands burn, Kunsthalle Budapest, Budapest
Fiction, La Box_Bourges, Bourges (FR)
Frieze Film and Video Programme, Frieze Art Fair, London
A Secret Service, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle (UK)
5 Milliards d’Années, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
The Known and the Unknown, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
Again for Tomorrow, Royal College of Art, London
Invisible Worlds, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg (DE)
Jan Mot, Art 37 Basel, Basel (CH)
Les Rencontres d'Arles, Arles (FR)
The Known and the Unknown, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
First the Artist Defines Meaning, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz (AT)
Keeping Secrets, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle (UK)
Momentum. Nordic Festival of Contemporary Art, Moss (NO)
Prophets of Deceit, The Wattis Institute, San Francisco (US)
Busan Biennale (KR)
Planting the Tele, Mary Mary, Glasgow (UK)
A Secret Service: Art, Compulsion, Concealment, Hayward Gallery, London; Hatton Gallery, Newcastle; De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhillon Sea; Whitworth Gallery, Manchester (UK)
Mission: Reality, Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde (DK)
Strange Powers, 64 East 4th Street, New York
2005
Baby Shower, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
The Need to Document, Kunsthaus Baselland (CH)
Woods, Kunsthaus Muerzzuschlag (AT)
The Shadow / Skyggen, Vestsjællands Kunstmuseum, Sorø (DK)
La Biennale di Venezia, Danish Pavilion, Venice (IT)
Some Trees, Neue Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen (DE)
Some Trees, Staatlicher Kunstsammlungen Dresden (DE)
Today is just a copy of yesterday, Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels
Highlights, The National Museum of Art, Copenhagen
Message from Andrée, Andrée Museet, Granna (SE)
Black Market Worlds (BMW), The 9th Baltic Triennial, CAC, Vilnius
3rd Ars Baltica Triennial of Photographic Art, Malmø Konsthal, Malmø (SE)
Dark Places, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica (US)
Frieze Art Fair, Jan Mot, London
Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
2004
Rear View Mirror, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (UK)
The Big Nothing, Institute of Contemporary Art, Pennsylvania (US)
3rd Ars Baltica Triennial of Photographic Art, CAC, Villnius, Lithuania
To Find a Home, SeArch, Amsterdam
Home Extensions, Art Museum, University of Albany, New York
Describtions, Laspis Gallery, Stockholm
The Past Recaptured, CCS Museum, Bard College (US)
Territories, Witte de With, Rotterdam (NL)
2003
We Are All Sinners, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Monterrey (MX)
Ars Baltica, Stadtgallerie Kiel (DE)
Territories, Kunstwerke, Berlin
Cloudless, Bard College, New York
Prophetic Corners, Bucharest
Le beau corps de la mémoire, Musée des arts contemporains de la Communauté Française de Belgique, Grand-Hornu (BE)
Territories, Witte de With, Rotterdam (NL)
Ars Baltica, Kunsthal, Bergen (NL)
Home Extensions, Art Museum, University of Albany, New York
The Big Nothing, Institute of Contemporary Art, Pennsylvania (US)
Describtions, Iaspis Gallery, Stockholm
The Past Recaptured, CCS Museum, Bard College, New York
Out of Place, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (US)
Todos somos pecadores, Museo Tamayo. Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City (MX)
Eight Nordic Stories, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago de Compostela (ES)
Confiture demain, confiture hier mais jamais confiture aujourd'hui, Centre d'art, Sète (FR)
2001
New Acquisitions, Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö (SE)
The Waste Land, Atelier Augarten, Vienna
Festival de Rio, with Matthew Buckingham, Rio de Janeiro (BR)
Group Show, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
2000
In Another Place, Tramway, Glasgow (UK)
Organising Freedom: Nordic Art in the '90s, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Greater New York: New Art in New York Now, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
Norden, Kunsthalle Vienna
Dirty Realism, Robert Pearre Fine Art, Tucson, Arizona (US)
Trailer, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
1999
Group Show, Nordiske Klassikere, Bergen Kunstforening (NO)
Le Grand première, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen H:MIN:SEC, Kunstraum Innsbruck (AT)
Close-Up, Nikolai Kike, Copenhagen
L.A. International, Blum & Poe Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
You Assume Certain Places Exist, Galerie Mot & Van den Boogaard, Brussels
Edstrandska Stiftelsens Konstnarsstipendiater, Rooseum, Malmö (SE)
Public-Private, Montevideo/TBA, Amsterdam
1998
Something is Rotten in the State of Denmark, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel (DE)
In Visible Light, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Out of the North, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (DE)
Narrative Urge, Konstmuseum, Uppsala (SE)
Exterminating Angel, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
Sutemos/Twilight, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania
Come closer, Liechtensteinische Staatliche Kunstsammlung, Vaduz (LI)
Nuit blanche, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Cinema Cinema, Contemporary Art and the Cinematic Experience, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
Nordic Nomads, White Columns, New York
1997
Heaven, PS1 Museum, New York
Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg
Assorted Confabulations: Fiction and Interference, Consonni cent pratiques artistiques contemporaines, Bilbao (ES)
Louisiana Exhibition, Humlebaek (DK)
Documenta X, Kassel (cat.) (DE)
One Minute Scenario, Printemps de Cahors (FR)
Double Bind, Enkehuset, Stockholm
Narrative Urge, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York
Mapping and Instructions, Bricks and Kicks, Vienna
Alikeness, Center for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne (AU)
Human Conditions, Kunsthallen, Helsinki
In Synch, Crossing boundaries between film and photography, Spot Gallery, New York (US)
1996
Brekt Bein, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
Disneyland After Dark, Kunstamt Bethanien, Berlin
Escape Attempts, curated by Globe, Stockholm
1995
Song Lines, Gwangju Biennial (KR)
D.A.D., Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala (SE)
Galleri Struts, Oslo
Three New Multiples, Galleri Campbells Occasionally, Copenhagen
RAM, Portalen, Greve (DK)
I Confess, Nikolaj Kirke, Copenhagen
1994
Glassbox, Malmö Konstmuseum (KM2), Malmö (SE)
Konsten och Virkeligheten, Riksudstallningar, Stockholm
Miniatures, The Agency, London
Proms 2, Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense (DK)
Stain in Reality, with Stan Douglas & Douglas Gordon, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
1993
17:00 cet, Stalke out of Space, Copenhagen
Blackbox, Globe, Copenhagen
Opening show, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
1992
Baghuset, Arhus Kunstmuseum, Arhus, Denmark
90' ernes fotografiske billede, Kunstforeningen Gl. Strand, Copenhagen