- Danger Museum

Page 1 | Biography

Born: 1975 / 76
Lives: Tokyo, Singapore, Oslo

Education
Miho Shimizu
1998- 01 BA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London

Tien Wei Woon
1998- 01 BA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London

�yvind Renberg
1996-97 Foundation, Camberwell College of Arts, London
1997- 00 BA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London


Solo Exhibitions
2005, An Clar Glas, during the Locale Residency, Peacock, Aberdeen, Scotland
2004 � 05, Blow-In, curator Grant Watson, Cork Public Museum, for The Cork Midsummer Festival / Cork Capital of Culture, 2005, Cork, Ireland
2004, Thinking Archives. Archiving Thoughts, curator Heman Chong, Sparwasser HQ, Berlin, Germany
2004, Radio Hue, With Joo young Lee, Art Space Hue, Seoul, Korea
2002, The Danger Museum, curator Melanie Keen, Space@inIVA, Institute Of International Visual Arts (inIVA) London, England


Group Exhibitions
2006, Re-Shuffle: Notions of an Itinerant Museum, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Art in General, New York
2005, Opacity, curators Trude Iversen / Nina M�ntmann, UKS, Oslo, Norway
2005, Bound_Less, curator Henry Meyric Hughes, Stenersenmuseet / National Touring Exhibitions, Oslo, Norway
2004, Connect The Dots, Te LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, NY, USA
2004, Young Artist Network, Sum of the Contemporary Art, Daegu Culture and Arts Center, Daegu Korea
2004, SSamziespace Open Studio Residency Exhibition, SSamziespace, Seoul, Korea
2004, Old habits die hard : 50 videos selected by artist-run spaces and collectives, video festival organised by Sparwasser HQ, shown at: Sparwasser HQ Berlin, Hamburger Banhof Berlin, Norwich Gallery Norwich UK, Kunstnernes hus Oslo, Norway
2003, Peanut Circuit, with Arve R�d, Norwegian sculpture biennial 2003, curator Dorthe Abildgaard, Vigeland museum, Oslo, Norway
2003, How Latitudes Become Forms: Art In A Global Age (Internet streaming program), curator Steve Dietz, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
2002 � 03, united net-works mobile archive for contemporary artists, artists groups, curators and cultural workers, united net-works travelling archive, various locations in 2003 www.unitednet-works.org
2002, Contemplation Room, curated by Kristine Agergaard, Cecilie Gravesen, Lasse Johansson, Overgaden / public spaces, Copenhagen, Denmark
2002, The Show, Insa Art Space, curator Dusu Choi, Seoul, Korea
2001, Translation displacement, actualisation, Galerie 68elf, Cologne, Germany
1999, non stop opening, organised by Tiago Carneiro de Cunha and Eva Bensasson Central Point Gallery, London, England


Bibliography
Granite City makes front cover, John Robertson, Press and Journal, 22. October 2005
The Beatles Were Rotten to The Core, Moreen Simpson, Evening Express, 6. August 2005
It was 42 years ago today..., Lynn Kernan, Evening Express 4. August 2005
Danger Museum in Cork European Capital of Culture 2005, Raya Mudie, Etno Moi, Finland, June 2005
Blow-In, Evening Echo, Ireland, June 9. 2005
Cork 2005, Irish Times, Ireland, June 10. 2005
Blowing in on a bit fat cigar at Mardyke, Peter Lavy, Irish Examiner, Ireland, June 14. 2005
Midsummer Night�s Drama, Mary Leland, Irish Times, 30. Ireland, May 2005
Nye strategier, Hildegunn Gull�sen, Kunstkritikk, Norway, June 5. 2005
Gallerirunden, Aftenposten, April 15. 2005
Grensesprengende tendens, Harald Flor, Dagbladet, February 20. 2005,
Grensel�se kunstnere, Erle Mostue Bugge, Aftenposten 18. Norway, March 2005
Zu Gast Bei Sparwasser HQ, Petra Henninger, Artnet.com, Germany October 2004
Radio Hue: The Seoul Scene, Wolgan Misool, Korea April 2004
Making Art Fiction, Bridget O�brien, The Korea Times, Korea, 3. April 2004
Danger Museum, Eun Seok Yi, F1 The Style, Korea, March 2004
Old Habits Die Hard, Norfolk Going Out, www.bbc.co.uk, UK, January 2004
K-punkt, Marit Str�mmen, NRK Radio, Norway, 6. November 2003
Skulptur er ikke lenger skulptur, an article on Norwegian sculpture biennial 2003, Jan Kokkin, Morgenbladet, Norway, 7. - 13. November 2003
Til stedet, Ketil Nergaard, Morgenbladet, 1. - 7. Norway, August 2003
The Danger Museum at inIVA, Antonio Gianasi, Arty, p. 61-62, UK, November 2002
The Danger Museum, Toko Ito, Fogless, Japanese webpage, 2003
Box Museum 2000, So-young PARK, Art World, Korea, April 2000,


Grants/Awards
2005, EU Japan Fest
2005, Vederlagsfondet, Norway
2003, 2005 Norwegian Arts Council
2004, Korean Culture and Arts Foundation
2002, 2004: International Support, Office for Contemporary Art Norway
2002, Japan Foundation
2001, One Year State Work Grant, Norway


Publications
2006
Art and Its Institutions (Helsinki: Nina M�ntman / Nifca)
Re-Shuffle: Notions of an Itinerant Museum, (New York: Bard College)
2003 � 05
Happy Pappy #2 (London: Malin St�hl / Milch)
Blow-In, booklet of interviews / images (Cork: Danger Museum), 2005
Opacity, Saving the Ass of Institutional Critique, (Oslo: collective fanzine for the Opacity exhibition at UKS), 2005
Bound_Less / Grense_l�s, catalogue with essay by Henry Meyric Hughes (Oslo: Du store verden!), 2005
Calculated Risks, book, edited by Marianne Heier (Oslo: Heier), 2005
de-tour at uks, exhibition brochure for Alex Villar�s exhibition at UKS (Oslo: Villar / Danger Museum), 2005
Young Artist Network, Sum of the Contemporary Art, catalogue, text/image (Daegu: Young Artist Netweork), 2004
Radio Hue: Interviews, Booklet compiling interviews in Korean and English (Seoul: DM/Joo Young Lee), 2004
DM Newsletter #20: Office of Art Space Hue and Concept Drawing (Seoul: DM)
SSamziespace Studio Program #5 03/04, catalogue, text / image (Seoul: SSamziespace), 2004
Old Habits Die Hard, pamphlet (Berlin: Sparwasser HQ)
DM Diary #1: Arve R�d, Alex Villar and Danger Museum, A Conversation Around the Peanut Circuit (New York / Oslo: Danger Museum)
Text / image presentation, Heman Chong, Sparwasser HQ catalogue for Berlin North. Contemporary Artists from the Nordic Countries in Berlin, Germany 2004
2003
Danger Museum & Arve R�d, catalogue essay, Alex Villar, Norwegian sculpture biennial, Norway, (Oslo: Vigeland-museet/Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum/NBF) 2003
Minding the Gap, Moira Roth and Alex Villar, (distr. Online Printhouse)
Magazine project in Spore Magazine, July 03, (Tokyo: Spore)
DM Newsletter #18: Simon Sheikh and Alex Villar, A conversation, (co-production with Apexart New York)
DM Newsletter #17: Diego Ferrari, (Oslo / London: DM)
2002
inIVA Agenda #7, folder, text / image (London: inIVA)
DM Newsletter #16: Matze Schmidt / Sebastian Stegner (London: DM)
DM Newsletter #15: The Artists Village, Singapore, poster (Singapore: DM)
DM Newsletter #14: Kyong Fa Che / Nicola Meitzner (London: DM)
DM Newsletter #13: Alex Villar (London: DM)
DM Newsletter #12: Contemplation Room (Copenhagen: DM)
Contemplation Room, catalogue (Copenhagen: Johansson, Gravesen, Agergaard / Overgaden)
DM Newsletter #11: Unn Fahlstr�m poster (Oslo: DM)
DM Newsletter #10: Alex Villar poster (New York: DM)
DM Newsletter #09: Danger Museum poster (Singapore: DM)
Interview With Alex Villar by �yvind Renberg (Oslo: Renberg)
2001
Danger Museum (From Caf�s to Museum Shops), Mr. Lee�s New Holland Tourbooks (3rd Edition), Sze-Chin Lee, (London: Lee)