BIO
Born in Oslo, Norway 1965
EDUCATION
1993-98 The Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts
1996 New York University, School of Continuing Education- Film School
1992 Apprenticed to Odd Nerdrum, the Norwegian figurative painter
1989-90 Oslo Tegne og Maleskole
1987-88 Einar Granum Kunstfagskole
1986 Master Certificate in Carpentry
1984 Certificate in Carpentry
LIVE PHOTO HISTORY
SITE-SPECIFIC INSTALLATIONS
2012 Paris, Live Photo # 23, Marais, Paris
2012 Havana, Live Photo # 22, 11th Havana Biennal, Cuba
2012 Lillehammer, Live Photo # 21, Lillehammer Art Museum
2011 Ekebergåsen, Live Photo # 20 Unplugged, Gallery RDR, Ekebergåsen, Oslo
2010 Stenersenmuseet, Live Photo # 19, Stenersen Museum Oslo
2009 Rom 120, Live Photo #18, Ullevål University Hospital/The Stenersen Museum, Oslo
2009 Darkroom, Haugar Vestfold Art Museum, Tønsberg
2008 Roma, Live Photo #17, Deviforme-Spazio Presente, Rome
2008 Vigeland-museet, Live Photo #16, The Vigeland Museum, Oslo
2007 7011 Trondheim, Live Photo #15, Galleri 7011, Trondheim
2007 Venezia, Live Photo #14, La Biennale di Venezia, Official Collateral Program
2007 Voyage Pittoresque, Live Photo #13, Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum, Tromsø
2006 Stand 120 Berlin, Live Photo #12, Art Forum Berlin, Berlin
2006 Stand 21 Copenhagen Live Photo #11, Art Copenhagen, Copenhagen
2006 Torpedo, Live Photo #10, Torpedo Bookstore, Oslo
2006 Vernissage, Live Photo #9, Galleri K, Oslo
2006 Høvikodden 09.03.06, Live Photo #8, Henie Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden
2004 Sunday 17.45, Live Photo #7, Private apartment, Bislet, Oslo
2003 March 1st, Live Photo #6, Colosseum Car Park, Oslo
2002 Working for the Limo, Live Photo #5, Tullinløkka Parking Lot, Oslo
2002 She Was on Time, Live Photo #3, Teatercafeen, Oslo
2002 Drive-by Shooting, Live Photo #4, Barber shop, Tollbugaten, Oslo
2001 Trivial Minutes, The Reason Why?
2001 (Cafe), Live Photo #2, Mocca Cafe, Oslo
2001 (Hairdresser), Live Photo #1, Grande Hairdresser, Oslo
2000 Backstage, Live Photo #0, Adam & Eva, Storefjell Hotel, Gol
SOLO SHOWS
VIDEO/EXHIBITION PRINTS
2012 Live Photo, Lillehammer Art Museum
2011 Live Photo, Hå Gamle Prestegård, Stavanger
2011 Live Photo, Velan Center of Contemporary Art. Torino, Italy. Curator Lorenzo Taiuti
2010 Live Photo , Art Cologne New Positions, Koln
2009 Live Photo, The Stenersen Museum, Oslo
2009 Live Photo, (Darkroom ), Haugar Vestfold Art Museum, Tønsberg
2006 Live Photo, Galleri K, Oslo
2006 Live Photo, Henie Onstad Art Center, Høvikodden
GROUP SHOWS
VIDEO/EXHIBITION PRINTS
2012 "After Munch", Arteco Gallery, London
2012 REALITY, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo
2012 11th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
2011 Rencontres Internationales, Centre Pompidou, Paris (video) Paris/Madrid/Berlin
2011 BANG! BANG! Art Foundation Mallorca, Mallorca, Curator Andréa Holtzerr. (exhibition prints)
2011 When a painting moves, Stenersenmuseet, Oslo, Curator Paco Barragan, (video)
2010 Time Reconsidered, Statoil art program, Oslo, Norway (exhibition prints)
2010 Rencontres Internationales, Centre Pompidou, Paris (video) Paris/Madrid/Berlin
2010 Rencontres Internationales, Paris/Madrid/Berlin, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (video)
2009 Høstutstillingen, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (exhibition prints)
2009 Rencontres Internationales, Centre Pompidou, Paris (video) Paris/Madrid/Berlin
2009 Kunstakademiet 100 år, Galleri K, Oslo (exhibition prints)
2009 Rencontres Internationales, Paris/Madrid/Berlin, Museo National Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (video)
2009 Rencontres Internationales, Paris/Madrid/Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (video)
2009 Playlist, Guest curator Lorenzo Taiuti, Galleria neon>campobase, Bologna (video)
2008 Høstutstillingen, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (exhibition prints)
2008 Rencontres Internationales, Paris/Madrid/Berlin, Centre Pompidou, Paris (video)
2008 En samling blir til, Nordnorsk Art Museum, Tromsø (video and exhibition prints)
2008 Byliv, Haugar Vestfold Art Museum, Tønsberg, (exhibition prints)
2007 Romkontoll, Galleri 7011, Vestfossen kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen, Curator Anders Eiebakke,(exhibition prints)
2007 Arena Vestfossen, Galleri 7011, Vestfossen kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen (exhibition prints)
2007 Bak vinduet, The Kistefos Museum, Kistefoss, Curator Arnt Fredheim, (exhibition prints)
FILM FESTIVALS
VIDEO
2009 L'Etrange Festival, Paris
2009 FIFA, 27e Festival International du Film sur l'Art, Montreal
2008 5 Cities Film Festival, 19th Nordisk Panorama, Malmø, MIR festival, Athens
AWARDS
2009 French Award, The Annual State Exhibition (Høstutstillingen) 2009
2007 Silver Award in the category Photo Book: Art Book, The National Book Design Awards (Årets vakreste bøker), Norway, for the book Crispin Gurholt, Live Photo Volume I, designed by Claudia C. Sandor and Halvor Bodin
PUBLICATIONS
2009 Crispin Gurholt, Live Photo Volume II, Selene Wendt (ed.), published by Skira Editore, Milan
2006 Crispin Gurholt, Live Photo Volume I, Anders Eiebakke (ed.), published by Transparent Productions
BIO
The Norwegian artist Crispin Gurholt has developed his unique expression Live Photo since 2000. Live Photos are site-specific installations where the artist stages models in real environments. It creates a concrete, social space where the interpersonal relationship, interaction and presence are the work's meaning and endless potential. In addition to being a live performance, the installations are documented as photography and film. These frozen expanded moments are carefully directed and appears to be concentrated and complex narratives, where the past, present and future merge. As a spectator, one is caught in the same extended moment, while simultaneously being present in real time. This creates both a distance and proximity to the event, and in a brechtian way creating a space for reflection and critical thinking. Art is not primarily political or critical through the message it transmits, but through its ability to redefine time and space and thus contributing to new divisions of the symbolic and the material.
Live Photo can also be seen in the context of the historical tableux vivant (French for motion pictures) that were staging of people in a thematic environment often based on famous paintings, historical or biblical events or erotic tableaux of naked models. Gurholt`s Live Photos are always culturally, socially or politically commenting pointing at gender roles, class differences, social roles or power relations. His complex installations are strongly influenced by art historical, philosophical and sociological references. Subtle storytelling unfolds slowly, balancing on a fine line between fantasy and reality.
Gurholt is fully aware that reality is a social construction, carefully created by our impressions of the various cultural codes that we understand and interpret based on our own perspective and understanding of shared cultural codes. Paradoxically, the events are not so much about what we see; they concern the underlying invisible social constructions that define our lives. It is about discloser and revealing of various aspects of our existence through a collision between art and our reality, between subject and viewer.
Crispin Gurholt (f.1965 in Oslo) is a graduate of the National Art Academy in Oslo (1993-98) and New York University Film School (1996). He has had exhibitions in Venice, Rome, Turin, Madrid and Paris, the Henie Onstad Art Centre, Art Copenhagen, Stenersen Museum, Vigeland Museum, the North Norwegian Art Museum, Lillehammer Art Museum and Haugar Art Museum. Gurholt is participating in the 11th Havana Biennial. He has also been a set designer for several films and stage productions, and produced and directed numerous music videos, including videos for the Norwegian band Turbonegro.
