MATTS LEIDERSTAM [ARTIST]

Born 1956 in Gothenburg, Sweden
Lives and works in Stockholm,
Sweden

Websites:
www.mattsleiderstam.com
www.magasin3.com/exhibitions/grandtour


Education:
1974-77 Pottery apprentice, Rörstrands AB, Lidköping                
1977-81 B.A of Art Education, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm               
1984-89 M.A, Valand, University of Gothenburg College of Art
1986 Royal College of Art, The Printmaking Department, London
2002-06 Ph.D, Malmö Art Academy, Lund University


Solo shows:
2011 Seen from Here, Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa, Finland.
After Image, Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam, Holland.
2010 Matts Leiderstam – Grand Tour, Grazer Kunstverein, Germany. 
Seen from Here, Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden.
Seen from Here, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Seen from Here, Turku Art Museum, Turku, Finland.
2008 Blick, Gallery Kalhama & Piipo, Helsinki, Finland.
Seen from Here, Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam, Holland.
Belgrade Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia.
Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
2007 Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden.
Verkligheten, Umeå, Sweden.
Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
2006 Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
2005 Göteborgs Konsthall, Gothenburg
DCA – Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee
Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm
2004 Minetta Brook at Cedar Grove, The Thomas Cole, National Historic Site, Catskill
2002 Rooseum – Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, (with Joao Penalva)
2001 Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm
Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert Inc, New York
CRAC – Centre Régional d´Art Contemporain, Languedoc-Roussillon, Séte
2000 INOVA – Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
1999 Moderna Museet Project at Centre Culturel Suédois, Paris
1998 Andréhn-Schiptjenko,  Stockholm
Arkepilag, The Royal Coin Cabinett, Stockholm
Optica – Centre for Contemporary Art, Montréal
1997 CRG Gallery, New York
1996 Nordic Art Centre, Helsinki
White Columns, New York   
1995 Malmö Konstmuseum
Forumgalleriet, Malmö
1994 Sandvikens Konsthall, Sandviken
Olle Olsson-Huset Hagalund, Stockholm
Mölndals Konsthall, Gothenburg 
1993 Galleri Ahnlund, Umeå
1992 Galleri Krister Fahl, Stockholm
Skövde Konsthall, Skövde   
1990 Galleri Krister Fahl, Stockholm
1989 Galleri Wallner, Malmö
1987 Subbau, Gothenburg
Bio – Mellangatan 5, Gothenburg
Galleri Ets Ets Ets, Umeå  
1985 Galleri Rotor, Gothenburg
1985 Lidköpings Konsthall, Lidköping, (with Eva Brodin)
               
Selected Group Shows:
2012 Platens själ, Artipelag, Värmdö, Sweden.
2011
 Pandemonium - Art in the Time of Creativity Fever, the Gothenburg International Biennal of Contemporary Art, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Screaming from the Mountain, Sörlandets Art Museum, Kristianstad, Sweden.
Lust och Last, Nationalmuseumm, Stockholm, Sweden.
The End of Money, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Holland.
2010 Foreign Studies, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden.  
Parkliv, Marabouparken, Stockholm, Sweden.
Thrice upon a time, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden.
Modernautställningen, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Canon and Attitude, x_hibit, exhibition rooms of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Italy.
Calling Beauty, Collumbus College of Art and Design, OH, USA.
14 Vilnius Painting Triennal: False Recognicion, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania. 
2009 Konsthall SE, Konsthall C, Hökarängen, Stockholm.
Seen, Unseen, Scene, Centre d'Art Passerelle, Brest, France.
The Mountain Show, Wilfried Lentz gallery, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Romantikens kraft - På spaning efter romantiken, Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö , Sweden.
2008 The Guangzhou Triennial 2008, Guangdong, China.
Nameless Science, Apex Art, New York, USA.
How to build the Mississippi River in your own backyard by RAKETA & friends, Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden.
2007 Residents, EDF Foundation Espace Electa, Paris, France.
Who’s on First, Royal Academy Schools Gallery,  Hornsey, London
Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel
Contemporary Scandinavian Art, The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (co-organized with The Moore Space, Miami), Scottsdale
2006 Malmö Art Academy – Sopawan Boonnimitra: Lak-ka-pid-lak-ka-perd, Matts Leiderstam: See and Seen, Miya Yoshida:
Invisible Landscapes, Lunds Konsthall, Lund
VAC Colección Valencia Arte Conteporáneo, IVAM, Institute Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia
Icónica, Patio Herrerianeo Museo de Arte Contemporáneao Espanol, Valladolid
Again for Tomorrow, CCA Royal College of Art, London
Russia: Significant Other, Anna Achmatova Museum, St. Petersburg
2005 No Painting, Kunstihoone, Tallinn
2004 Falskt & Äkta, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
2003 Periferic 6 – Prophetic Corners, Iasi, Romania
Watershed – Hudson River Art Project, North Dock, Bear Mountain State Park and 2003 Boscobel Restoration, Garrison, produced by Minetta Brook, New York
Le Songe d’une nuit d’ete, Magasin 3 at CCS, Paris
Influence, Anxiety & Gratitude, MIT-List 2003 Visual Art Center, Cambridge, USA
Nostalgic Real, Müllerdechiara, Berlin
2002 Ochos relatos nórdicos, Centro Galegoi de Arte Contemporaánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Collected Contemporaries, Moderna Museet C/O Klarabergsviadukten 61, Stockholm
View Finder, Arnolfini, Bristol
Regarding Landscape, The Koffler Gallery, Toronto
Exchange and Transform (Arbeits Titel), Kunstverein München
2001 Paradise In Search of a Future, Cepa Gallery, Buffalo; The Contemporary - Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta
The Path of Resistance - MoMA meets Moderna 1960-2000, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
The Society for Contemporary Art, Acquisition Finalists The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago   
Skifte, Malmö Konstmuseum
Enduring Love, Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert Inc, New York
2000 This Boy Could Be Me, Teater Replica, Stockholm
The Folly, La Ville, le Jardin, la Mémoire, Villa Medici, Rome
Edstrandska, Rooseum - Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö
Carnegie Art Award 2000, Konstakademien, Stockholm; Göteborgs Konstmuseum; Listsafn Kópavogs, Kópavogur, Reyjkjavik; Helsingfors Konsthall, Helsinki; Henie Onstad Art Center, Oslo; Sophienholm, Copenhagen
Drömmen om ett landskap, Norrköpings Konstmuseum
Painterly, 11th Vilnius Painting Triennial, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius
Looking Back, Bard College - Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale on Hudson, NY
Organising Freedom, Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
1999 The Family Show, Uddevalla Konsthall; Passagen Linköpings Konsthall; Uppsala Konstmuseum
Carnegie Art Award 1999, Konstakademien, Stockholm; Listsafn, Kópavogs, Reyjkjavik; Amos Andersson Konstmuseum, Helsinki; Kunstnerernas Hus, Oslo; Sophienholm, Copenhagen; Barbican Art Gallery London
By the Way, IASPIS, Stockholm
1998 Touch, Museum Narodna, Poznan
From The Corner of The Eye, Stedejlik Museum, Amsterdam   
Spatio temporal, Magasin 3, Stockholm
Transpositions, South African National Gallery, Cape Town
Come Closer, Liechtensteinische Staatliche Kunstsammlung, Vaduz; Nikolai Kirke, Copenhagen; Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Studio Visit, Duende and Boijmans van Beuninger, Rotterdam
A Visit from Stockholm, James van Damme Gallery, Brussels
1997 Summer Collection 1997, South London Gallery, London
Deposition, The Venice Biennale
Letter and Event, Apex Art, New York
1996 I am Curious - These Days, Cubitt Gallery, London   
Conceal / Reveal, Site Santa Fe
Jurassic Technologies Revenant, 10th Biennale of Sydney
See How it Feels Like!, Rooseum, Malmö
1995 Disneyland After Dark, Uppsala 1995 Konstmuseum, Uppsala; Kunstamt Kreuzberg, Bethanien, Berlin   
The Hotel, Hotell Gustav Vasa, Stockholm                   
Hello!, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm
1994 Blind Love, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Park, Doktor Glas, Stockholm
Rum för aktuell konst, Gothenburg
1991 Art Against Aids, Galleri Krister Fahl, Stockholm
Galleri Ahnlund, Umeå

Projects:
2005 View Finder, a project for a newspaper, in collaboration with Borga Kanturk and Serkan Uzkaya, Radikal September 16, Istanbul
2004 Reflections of Space – a “sputnik project” for Kunstverein München, November 12-13 at Kunstverein, in the Hofgarten and at The Residence Museum, Munich
Mirrored (look at the painting and the painting looks back), a project made at Retretti Art Centre, Finland in collaboration with Anders Kreuger.
View - a dinner event in collaboration with the chef Dan Barber, made at Blue Hill, Stone Barn, Pocantino Hills, New York. Produced by Minetta Brook within the series of dinners Watershed Tastemakers
2002 Selbstbildnis, a project made with Kunstverein München in Collaboration with Schack Galerie; Munich and Philipe Metz
2001 The Artist Is at Niagara Falls, A project made with CEPA Gallery in collaboration with Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo NY
1997-99 Returned, a project were the artist is leaving copies made after Nicolas Poussin’s ”Spring or The Earthly Paradis” in cruising parks: Hampstead Heath London,The Rambles, Central Park New York, Parc Mont Royal, Montréal, Park K. Marcinkowiego, Poznan, Frescati, Stockholm , Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, Paris and Galoppatoio, Villa Borghese, Rome
1995 Kärlekstörst, a project for the newspaper Expressen, Stockholm
1994 The Arrows of Cupid, Ynglingagatan, Stockholm, were the artist painted arrows on the sidewalk between the gallery and the blue movie Hagabion at Hagagatan, Stockholm
Blind Love, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, were the artist make portraits of two students from Rinkebyskolan.

Projects in the studio at Gullmarsvägen 50, Stockholm:
1995 Under tiden, an exhibition by Stefan Uhlinder
Every Morning I Feel different - Every Night I Feel the Same,an installation by Mikael Elmgreen
1994 Smak, an exhibition made by Eva Larsson
Via Karin, Vanja, Staffan, Cilla, Lotta, Annika, Hans, Arne, Malin, Anders och Susanna, a projekt by Elin Wikström, Stockholm Public Library and in the studio
1993 In the Garden of Eden..an Installation in my Studio

Projects in the Studion at Bjurholmsplan 21, Stockholm:
2002 Whiteout & F for Fake, Kajsa Dahlberg and Christian Andersson.
           
Public Art Works:
2012 Periskop, Häckbergaskola, Genarp, Lund.
2003-06
View, made for Watershed – Hudson River Art Project, North Dock, Bear Mountain State Park and Boscobel Restoration, Garrison, produced by Minetta Brook, New York *
2001  View, produced by National Public Art Council and The City of Malmö, Västra Hamnen, Scaniaplatsen, Malmö*

Curatorial work:
2007 Reflektioner av rum, Mateuz Herczka, Mako Ishizuka and Martin Jacobson, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm

Residencies:
2006 International Residence at Couvents des Recollets, Paris, France
2005 Cove Park, Scotland
2004-05 IASPIS’s studio, Stockholm, Sweden
2001 CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, USA
1999 Villa Saint Clair, Sète, France
1996-97 IASPIS’s studio, London, UK
1992 The Swedish Art Grants Committee’s Studio Residency in Montréal, Canada

Represented in public collections:
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Eskiltuna Konstmuseum
Bonnier Foundation, Stockholm
Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg
Göteborgs Konstmuseum
Iziko – South African National Gallery, Cape Town
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
Lidköping, Umeå and Solna Local Council Collections
Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall
Malmö Konstmuseum
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Norrköpings Konstmuseum
Seattle Art Museum
Statens Konstråd, Sweden
Stockholms Landsting
Sundsvalls Konstmuseum
Uppsala Art Museum, Uppsala, Sweden

Teaching and Lectures:
Positions: Supervisor at Gothenburg Art Academy, spring 1997; professor at Malmö Art Academy, 1997-2001: external tutor at Malmö Art Academy, 2007.
Lectures: Oslo Art Academy, 1995; Helsinki Art Academy, 2004 and 2006; University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm, 2005; The Royal Academy of Stockholm, 2000, 2003 and 2005; Gothenburg Art Academy, 2001; Yale University, New Haven, 2003; University of North Western, Chicago, 2000; University of Illinois in Chicago, 2000; “Tuesday Talk”, Cornerhouse, Manchester, 2007, Symposium “The Construction of an Identity in Artistic Practice”, Royal Academy of Arts, Kuva and Goldsmiths University of London,  at Royal Academy School, London, 2007; Kunstverein Hannover, 2007; Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe 2007

Opponent for graduate student master show: Gothenburg Art Academy, 1998 and 2001.

Miscellaneous doings:
“Sputnik” at München Kunstverein, 2002-2004
Expert opinions: professor position in art, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm, 2005; professor position in art pedagogic, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm, 2005; professor position in art, at Gothenburg Art Academy, 2004, two professor positions in art, The Royal Academy in Stockholm, 2003.
Adviser for visual art, The Foundation of the Culture of the Future, Uppsala, 2004-05

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