© Julian Opie 1998
BIOGRAPHY - SUNE GREGER NORDGREN
Born 1948 in Lund, Sweden
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1969 - 1974
Forum School for Graphic Art, Malmö and studied Economic
History and Art History at Lund University.
1975 - 1990
Editor of Kalejdoskop Review for Contemporary Art and publisher of art
books and artists’ books. Illustrator and graphic designer of books on
Art, Poetry and Politics.
1980 - 1986
Art critic at Dagens Nyheter (daily paper) Stockholm,
Swedish Radio and several art magazines.
1986 - 1989
Editor/producer of weekly arts programmes for Swedish
television (SVT).
1990 - 1996
Director of Malmö Konsthall in Malmö, Sweden
1996 - 1998
Founding Director of IASPIS - International Artists Studio
Programme in Stockholm, Sweden.
1998 - 2003
Founding Director of BALTIC, the Centre for Contemporary
Art in Gateshead, England.
2003 - 2006
Founding Director of the National Museum of Art,
Architecture and Design in Oslo, Norway.
2007 -
Project Manager for Kivik Art Centre, Sweden
2007 -
Project Manager for Vandalorum - Centre for Art and
Design, Värnamo, Sweden
Other information
Honorary member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm, Sweden
Member of IKT (International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art)
Member of CIMAM (International Association of Museum Directors)
Member of AICA (International Association of Art Critics)
Jury member for the Hasselblad Photo Award 2002 and 2003 (chair),
Gothenburg.
Board member of the Astrup-Fearnley Museum, Oslo (1998-2003)
Member of the International Advisory board of OCA, Oslo and AIT in Tokyo.
Chair of the Visual Arts Fund (Bildkonstnärsfonden) and Iaspis, Stockholm
(2003-2009).
Chair of CLAS / International Cultural Leadership Award in Sweden, Gothenburg
Exhibitions for Malmö Konsthall 1990-96
1990
Olli Lyytikäinen / Arvid Pettersen
Klaus vom Bruch / Toshikatsu Endo
Jetzt Berlin! (Year 1 after the Wall).
Barbro Bäckström / Håkan Rehnberg
1991
Arnulf Rainer
Richard Serra
Outsider Art / Art Brut
Fluxus á la Carte
Paul Klee
1992
Sigurdur Gudmundsson
A Cabinet of Signs (Contemporary Art from Japan)
Claes Eklundh
The Schyl Collection
Leon Tarasewicz
Bertil Lundberg / Med eftertryck
Leon Golub
1993
Georg Baselitz
Dorothea Tanning
Susana Solano
Work & Turn - Artists' Books
Milan Kunc / Jiri Kolar
Antony Gormley
Joan Miró
1994
Barbara Kruger
To Brancusi:
Carl André, Miroslaw Bałka, Richard Deacon,
Ellsworth Kelly
Nancy Spero / Christian Boltanski
Alberto Giacometti
1995
Francis Bacon - Marlene Dumas
Lars Kleen
Anders Österlin
Cindy Sherman
Max Ernst
1996
Andres Serrano
Bård Breivik
Betong: Miroslaw Bałka, Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor
Exhibitions for IASPIS
Ulf Rollof, 7C’s, 49th Venice Biennial, Cinema Arsenale, Venice 1999
Exhibitions as Freelance curator
Richard Long, Malmö Konsthall, 1985
Joan Miró. Collected Original Posters from the Dr. Nils Tryding collection,
Stadtgalerie Klagenfurt 1995, National Museum, Warszawa 1996 and Tensta
Konsthall, Stockholm 1998
Edvard Ottosson – ett livsverk, Aoseum (i museet vid Torget), Åhus 1990
Rear Window, Xposeptember, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm 1998
Max Ernst, Sculptures, Fundação Arpad Szenes-Viera da Silva, Lisbon 1999
Exhibition for BALTIC
Pre-opening 1998 - 2002
Jaume Plensa, Blake in Gateshead, 1996
Kurt Schwitters, No Socks, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle 1999
Anish Kapoor, Taratantara, BALTIC Site, Quayside Gateshead 1999
Flash DVD (Coll. Bifrons Stichting), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1999-2000
Martin Weber, Side Gallery, Newcastle 2000
Jenny Holzer, Xenon Projections, Newcastle/Gateshead 2000
Marijke van Warmerdam, Weather Forecast, Newcastle 2000 and
Venice Biennial 2001
Opening
B.OPEN (opening exhibition Summer 2002)
Chris Burden, Carsten Höller, Julian Opie, Jaume Plensa, Jane & Louise Wilson,
Los Carpinteros, The Breadman () and Alec Finlay
Post-opening from 2002
Öyvind Fahlström (collaboration with MACBA, Barcelona)
Pedro Cabrita Reis, A Place Like That
Olav Christopher Jenssen, Both
2003
Sigurdur Gudmundsson
COBRA (coll. NTE, Hayward Gallery)
Chad McCail
Antony Gormley, Domain Field, Expansion Works
Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, The Coal Coast
Jane & Louise Wilson
Martin Puryear
Outside of a Dog, Artists’ Books
Exhibitions for the National Museum, Oslo
Alle snakker om museet… New display of the collections, 2005
Kyss Frosken! (Kiss the Frog!) , Tullinløkka 2005
Bård Breivik Vortex – works in progress, Nasjonalgalleriet 2005
Exhibitions for Kivik Art Centre
Kivik Start, Snøhetta + Tom Sandberg, Bergdala, Kivik 2007
Kivik Art ‘08, David Chipperfield + Antony Gormley, Bergdala, Kivik 2008
Kivik Art ’09, Julian Opie - Dancing in Kivik + Matti Suuronen – Venturo House,
Bergdala, Kivik 2009
Exhibitions for Vandalorum, Värnamo
Yngve Ekström – inte bara Lamino, Knäppfabriken/Smålands Konstarkiv, 2008
Vi prøver at lave en udstilling, Uglycute + students, Knäppfabriken/Smålands
Konstarkiv, 2009
Apokalys Labotek – illgrön design, Knäppfabriken/Smålands Konstarkiv, 2010
Commissions / uppdrag
Richard Long, River Avon Mud Circles and Magpie Line for Malmö Konsthall,
September 1985
Antony Gormley, Expansion Works and The European Field for Malmö
Konsthall, 1993
Barbara Kruger, Tänk som vi / Tala som vi / Älska som vi / Hata som vi / Se ut
som vi, billboard-projekt för Malmö Konsthall, februari 1994
Miroslaw Bałka, 30x60x10, 250x1958x795, 30x60x10, 30x60x10, 250x521x174
for Malmö Konsthall (Betong/Concrete), November 1996.
Antony Gormley, Allotment / Koloni for Malmö Konsthall (Betong/Concrete),
November 1996.
Anish Kapoor, 10m x 10m and 10m x 10 m for Malmö Konsthall,
(Betong/Concrete), November 1996
Jaume Plensa, Blake in Gateshead for BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art,
Gateshead, November 1996
Etienne Clément Portrait of BALTIC for BALTIC CCA, Gateshead September
1998 - July 2002 (ongoing).
Anish Kapoor, Taratantara for BALTIC CCA, Gateshead, July 1999
Marijke van Warmerdam, Weather forecast for BALTIC CCA, Grey Street,
Newcastle upon Tyne, December 2000 and Venice Biennale, Campo Santa
Margherita, June 2001.
Grennan & Sperandio, The Hand and the Word for BALTIC CCA, The Little
Theatre, Gateshead, April 2001
Julian Opie, Escaped animals for BALTIC CCA (B.Open), Baltic Square,
Gateshead, July 2002 (and for Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in
Edinburgh, Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Arnolfini in Bristol and Tate
Modern in London).
Jaume Plensa, Blake Baltic Blue 1-8 for BALTIC CCA (B.Open), Gateshead, July
2002.
Chris Burden, Tyne Bridge (Meccano) for BALTIC CCA (B.Open), Gateshead,
July 2002
Pedro Cabrita Reis, A Place Like That for BALTIC CCA, Gateshead, October
2003
Antony Gormley, Domain Field for BALTIC CCA, Gateshead, May-September
2003
Magne Wiggen, Kyss Frosken!/Kiss the Frog!, Nasjonalmuseet, Tullinløkka,
Oslo, May-September 2005
Snöhetta Architects & Tom Sandberg, Mothership, Viewfinders and Photo Boxes
for Kivik Start, Kivik Art Centre, July-September 2007
Sign - Nordic Black-and-white Photography – Åke Hedström, Gerry Johansson,
Tuija Lindström, Georg Oddner, Tom Sandberg and Gunnar Smoliansky Clarion Hotel Sign, Stockholm, February 2008
David Chipperfield & Antony Gormley, A Sculpture for the Subjective Experience
of Architecture (the Kivik Pavillion), Kivik July-September 2008
Antony Gormley, Standing Matter IX, sculpture installation, Kivik Art Centre
2008.
Julian Opie, Dancing in Kivik, sculpture project (diabas) for Kivik Art Centre 2009
Publications/ Publikationer
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