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Henrik Håkansson

born in Helsingborg, Sweden

lives and works in Falkenberg, Sweden and Berlin, Germany

Education

1993 Konstfack, Stockholm

Exhibitions

2022
Beyond the Darkness, Ala Scaligera at the Rocca di Angera, Varese, Italy

2022
The Circle of a Square and the Effect of a Butterfly, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK (SOLO)
Trajabos de campo – Field Works, Centro Cultural La Mondena, Santiago, Chile
Woodland, NITTO ATP FINALS, Turin, Italy
Floating Cinema – Unknown Waters’, Giudecca, Venice, Italy

2021
Paintings of Trees for Birds, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy (SOLO)
A Painting of A Tree, Meyer Riegger, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)
In the Pupil of the Panther, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden

2020
– a breath? a name? – the ways of worldmaking, Biennale Gherdëina 7, Urtijëi, Italy

2019
BLINDED BY THE LIGHT, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy (SOLO)
One Hundred and One Pieces of a Tree (Norwegian Wood), Kode Art Museum Kode 4, Bergen, Norway (SOLO)
Come together, Meyer Riegger, Berlin, Germany
Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, Italy
Fragmented Realities, Göteborgs Konsthall, Sweden

2018
A Hundred Pieces of a Tree, Kode Art Museum - Kode 2, Bergen, Norway (SOLO)
The Beetle, Korjaamo, IHME Contemporary Art Festival, Helsinki, Finland (SOLO)
NATURvitenskap (Video screening), Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Norway (SOLO)
NATURvitenskap, Trondheim Kunstmuseum - TKM Gråmølna, Trondheim, Norway
L’ARTE INCONTRA I SOGNI (ART MEETS DREAMS), Cloister of Bramante, Rome, Italy
The Art of the Treasure Hunt, Contemporary Artists in Chianti Classico 2018, Italy
IHME Festival – 2018 IHME Projects, Helsinki, Finland
Journeys with 'The Waste Land', Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK

2017
And Then There Were None, Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe, Germany
Disruption – Remapping Nature, Lustwarande – Platform for Contemporary Sculpture, Tilburg, Netherlands
Karin Sander: ZEIGEN. An audio tour through the collection of the GfZK Leipzig, GfZK Leipzig, Germany

2016
A Tree Suspended, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany (SOLO)
The End, Auditorium Grimaldi III, “Nuit Blanche Monaco 2016” curated by Jorg Heiser, Monaco (SOLO)
Ecovention Europe: Current Art to Reimagine Ecologies, Museum Het Domeinen in Sittard, Netherlands
The End, Nuit Blance Monaco, Monaco, France
Emscherkunst 2016, Emscher, Germany

2015
Swedish Institute, Paris, France (SOLO)
SupraEnvironmental, Kantonah Museum of Art, Kantonah, USA
Terrapolis, NEON Foundation, French School Athens, Athens, Greece
D’après nature, Swedish institute, Paris, France
O.K. Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz, Austria
#Catcontent, Kunstpalais, Erlangen, Germany

2014
Indefinite Swarms, Selected Works 2009 – 2012, Meyer Riegger, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)
You Imagine What You Desire, Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia

2013
Internaturalism, PAV- Parco Arte Vivente, Turin, Italy

2012
AUG.11, 2012 The Symptoms of the Universe Studies, Meyer Riegger, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)
Art Parcours, Art Basel, Basel (Screening of Monarch - The Eternal), Switzerland (SOLO)
A Forest Divided, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden (SOLO)
A man is walking down the street. At a certain moment, he tries to recall something, but the recollection escapes him. Automatically, he slows down. (cur. by Luiza Teixeira de Freitas and Thom O’Nions), Cristina Guerra Contemporary Arts, Lisbone, Portugal
Magic Moments: The Screen and the Eye–9 Artists 9 Projections, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, USA
The Worldly House, DOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany

2011
The End, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK (SOLO)
Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan
La carte d’après Nature (cur. by Thomas Demand), Matthew Marks Gallery, New York City, USA
Raumsichten/spacespectives (sculpture project), Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Nordhorn, Germany

2010
Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, Italy (SOLO)
Carl Larsson & Co, En resa genom Helsingborgs museers samling, Dunkers Kulturhus Helsingborg, Helsingborg, Sweden
La Carte d’Apres Nature, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco, Framce
Che cosa sono le nuvole? Opere dalla Collezione Enea Righi, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
Rethink, Rogaland Art Museum, Stavanger, Norway
Doppler Effect. The nature of images in art and science, Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Résilience - Espace d’Art Contemporain La Tôlerie, Clermont Ferrand, France
Mutinity seemed a probability - Fondazione Giuliani, Roma, Italy

2009
Henrik Håkansson, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art – MIMA, Middlesbrough, UK (SOLO)
Rethink – The Implicit, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Life forms, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Radical Nature, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
Universal Code, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
The Eventual (cur. by Eva Gonzalez Sancho), Futura Projects, Prague, Czech Republic
Werke zeitgenössischer Kunst aus der Sammlung Hoffmann, Berlin, Galerie Neue Meister - Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany
Footprints, Wånas Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden
No Sound, Aspen Art Museum, USA
Paesaggi e natura dell’arte (cur. by Danilo Eccher), ARCOS Museo d’Arte Contemporanea del Sannio, Benevento, Italy
Green Platform: Art, Ecology and Sustainibility, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina (cur. by Lorenzi Giusti and Valentina Gensini), Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze, Italy

2008
Henrik Håkansson. Novelas de la selva, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico (SOLO)
Fare una scenata/Making a scene, (cur. by Jörg Heiser), Fondazione Morra Greco, Napoli, Italy

2007
Aug. 26, 2003 - Aug. 27, 2003 (Vespa vulgaris), CAG, Vancouver, Canada (SOLO)
Three days of the condor, Kettles Yard, Cambridge, UK (SOLO)
Silence. Listen to the show (cur. by Francesco Bonami), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy
Solo24Ore24Stunden, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
Timeout. Art and Sustainability, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Say it isn’t so, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
Romantic Conceptualism (cur. by Jorg Heiser), Kunsthalle Nuernberg, DE & Bawag Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Pensée Sauvage, Frankfurter Kunstverein & Ursula Blickle Foundation, Germany
The 8th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

2006
Cyanopsitta spixii Case Study #001, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, artist-in-residence exhibition, Boston, USA (SOLO)
A travers bois pour trouver la forêt (with Allora-Calzadilla and Sergio Vega), Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (SOLO)
Henrik Håkansson & Edward J. Muybridge, VOX, centre de l’image contemporaine, Montreal, Canada (SOLO)
The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK (SOLO)
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Niigata, Japan
Where the Wild Things are, Dundee Conteporary Arts, Scotland, UK
Lofoten Art Festival, Norway

2005
July 20, 2004 (pieris napi), Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, Italy (SOLO)
Frieze Art Fair Project, London, UK (SOLO)
Art Unlimited, Art36Basel, Galleria Franco Noero, Basel, Switzerland (SOLO)
Experiencing Duration, Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France
Feldversuche, Westwendischer Kunstverein, Gartow, Germany
Remagine: oeuvres du Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
The Order of Nature, Ok-Centrum für Gegenwartskunst Linz, Austria
Camera Fissa, Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, Italy
The Transgressed Landscape/El Paisatge Trasgredit, La Plataforma, Fundació Espais d’Art Contemporani, Girona, Spain

2004
Henrik Håkansson, The Dunker Culture Centre, Helsinborg, Sweden (SOLO)
Henrik Håkansson, The Breeder projects, Athens, Greece (SOLO)
An Introduction to the birds, Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany (SOLO)
São Paulo Bienal, São Paolo, Brasil
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany

2003
An Introduction to the birds, De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands (SOLO)
Moderna Museet c/o Riddarhuset, Stockholm, Sweden (SOLO)
Galleri Index, Stockholm, Sweden (SOLO)
Art Unlimited, Art34Basel, Galleria Franco Noero, Basel, Switzerland (SOLO)
An Introduction to the birds, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany (SOLO)
The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK (SOLO)
Sound Systems, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Germany
Beyond Paradise, Shanghai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
Ars Viva 02-03 Landschaft, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Städtische Museen Zwickau, Zwickau, Germany
Kunstsammlungen Zwickau, Zwickau, Germany

2002
Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, Italy (SOLO)
Secession, Wien, Austria (SOLO)
Beyond Paradise, National Gallery Bangkok/National Gallery Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Thailand, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Mystic Mountains, Assessorato dell’Istruzione e della Cultura Regione Autonoma Valle d’Aosta, Aosta, Italy
Frequencies.Radar, Tycho Brahe Planetarium, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Power of Art, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan
Beyond Peace and War, Umong Sippadhamma Gallery, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Full Contact, Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporanea, Siracusa, Italy
Ecovention, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA
Netzwerke, 40 jahre Fluxus, Wiesbaden, Germany
Ars Viva, Neue Galerie in Homan-haus, Augsburg, Germany

2001
The Tunnel, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France (SOLO)
Nightingale, Love Two Times, Pinksummer, Genova - in collaboration with Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, Italy (SOLO)
The Blackbird-Song for a New Breed, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)
Tirana Bienale, Tirana, Albania
Paesi Nordici: Interferenze, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy
Ars 01, Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
Artificial Neural networks, Zeewolde, Netherlands
Effetto Natura, Fondazione Trussardi, Milano, Italy
Wild Gliders, Aschenbach & Hofland Galleries, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Berlin Biennale, (cur. by Saskia Bos), Berlin, Germany
Zero Gravity, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
Making Nature, Edsvik Konst och Kultur, Sollentuna, SE/Nikolaj, Copenhagen, Denmark Absolut. LA, Burnett Miller, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2000
LightBlueLight, Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, Italy (SOLO)
Sweet Leaf, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany (SOLO)
Syndrome, IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden (SOLO)
Park (cur. by Jonas Ekeberg), Momentum 2000, Moss, Norway
Pyramids of Mars, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburg/ Barbican Centre, London, UK/Trapholt Museum, Denmark
The Greenhouse Effect, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Organising Freedom, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE/Charlottenburg, Copenhagen, Denmark

1999
Tomorrow and Tonight, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (SOLO)
Evol Gardens, 1%, Copenhagen, Denmark (SOLO)
Birdland, Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra, Austria (SOLO)
Mirror’s Edge (cur. by Okwui Enwezor), BildMuseet, Umeå, SE/Vancouver Art, Vancouver, Canada
Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Castello di Rivoli, Torino, IT/Tramway, Glasgow, UK, Charlottenborg, Denmark
Natural reality, Ludwigforum, Aachen, Germany
Skulptur Biennale, Münster, Germany
Hiroshima, Art Document, Hiroshima, Japan
A Window, Kwangju City Art Museum, Kwangju, Croatia
Live in Tokyo, The Deluxe, New Life project Tokyo, Japan
The Edge of Awereness, Gent, BE/New York City, US/São Paolo, Brasil

1998
After Forever (ever all), Galleri Andreas Brändström, Stockholm, Sweden (SOLO)
Nuit Blanche, Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, France
Crossings, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Roundabout, Ujazdowski castle, Warsaw, Poland
Come Closer, Liechtenstein, LI/Budapest, HU/Copenhagen, Denmark
Last House on the left, Archipelag, Stockholm, Sweden
Art Grandeur Nature, Seine-Saint-Denis, Paris, France

1997
Heaven, PS 1, New York City, USA
Waves in, Particles out, Center of Contemporary Art, Glasgow, UK
Letter and event, Apex, New York City, USA
Preservations, Museum Hasselt, Old Bonnefanten, Maastricht, Netherlands
Art in crushing force of Nature, Double Pleasure, New York City, USA
You can’t get there from here, Thomas Nordanstad gallery, New York City, USA
The Summer of Love, Foutohai Cramer gallery, New York City, USA
Work in progress and or finished (cur. by Toby Webster & Jonathan Monk), Übermain, Los Angeles, USA

1996
The Monsters of Rock, Tour, Thomas Nordsanstad Gallery, New York City, USA (SOLO)
Nowhere, Louisiana, Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
I’m curious, Transmission, Glasgow, Hales Gallery, London, UK
I’m curious, Hales Gallery, London, UK
9 Dimensional Theory, Nikolaj, Center for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
See what it feels like, Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden
Borealis;The Scream, Arken, Copenhagen, Denmark
Videoportraits VIII: Henrik Håkansson, Café Rooseum Espresso, Malmö, Sweden
Shot, Roger Smith Gallery, New York City, USA
Open House, Headlands Center for the Arts, San Fransisco, USA
Re-view II,TRE, Stockholm, Sweden
Alone Together, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Inner and Outer Space (Living Texture) Ars Futura, Zurich, Switzerland

1995
Frog For.e.s.t, TRE, Stockholm, Sweden (SOLO)
RAM, Portalen, Hundinge, Copenhagen, Denmark
A night at the show, Fields, Zurich, Switzerland
Art Attack, Gallery Struts/Tre, Oslo, Sweden
Oslo One night stand, Oslo, Sweden
I rörelse, Uddevalla konsthall/Borås Konstmuseum, Sweden

1994
Saga Basement, Copenhagen, Denmark
Apartment/Lägenhet, Malmö/Göteborg, Sweden
Hemma hos, Linderoth & Fornander,Göteborg, Sweden
Monitor 94 (video screening), Frölunda Kulturhus, Göteborg, Sweden
Video nights (video screening), Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
Das Boot M/S Stubnitz (performance), Malmö hamn, Malmö, Sweden
Multiple show, TRE, Stockholm, Sweden
Pluralis, Galleri 1+1, Helsingborg, Sweden
Opening, Rum för aktuell konst, Göteborg, Sweden
Index Christmas edition, Galleri Index, Stockholm, Sweden
Re-view, TRE, Stockholm, Sweden

1993
Overground, Konsthallen Göteborg, Sweden
Prospekt, Moderna Muséet, Stockholm, Sweden
Monitor-93 (video screening), Frölunda Kulturhus, Göteborg, Sweden
Nordfotoart, Ujazdowski Castle Centre of Contemporary Art, Warszaw, Poland

1992
SEX, TRE, Stockholm, Sweden
Bastard, Nordic house, Reykjavik, Island
4, (Antonsson, Givell, Håkansson, Zimmerman), Forumgalleriet, Malmö, Sweden
Group Show, Galleri Index, Stockholm, Sweden
Visual movements (video screening), Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden
Salongen III, Lido, Stockholm, Sweden
Natursyn, Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden

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