Thorbjørn Reuter Christiansen

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Thorbjørn Reuter Christiansen
1974 born in Naestved, Denmark
Lives in Kopenhagen Moen Berlin, Germany
Education

Education & Assistant worker:
2005-07 Art theory department, Royal Danish Academy, Copenhagen, Denmark
2006 Diploma as Master Student at the University of fine art Berlin, Prof. Katharina Sieverding.
2005 Tutor - The Free Class/Interflugs at the University of fine Art Berlin.
2004-05 Jimmie Durhams Assistant.
2003-04 Erasmus Student at Malmö Art Academy, Sweden.
2002-05 Tutor - Artist Talk/Interflugs at the University of fine Art Berlin.
2001-06 Student at the University of fine art Berlin, Prof. Katharina Sieverding.
1996-00 Assistant at the Art Club Project Schmaltzwald, Berlin, Germany.
1995-98 Assistant at the Gallery o - zwei, Berlin, Germany.
1994-95 Fatamorgana, The Danish Art photography school.

Grants

2006 Globalalien, Kunststyrelsen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
PM no 5, Stavanger Norway, Kunststyrelsen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Solo Exhibitions

2002 ABROAD, colour prints, colour print object’s, Video projection „border crossing“ DK/D, VHS (30 min.), Gallery Doris Day Dream, Chodowiekistr.12, Berlin

Group Exhibitions

2006 PM No 5 interactive participative streeet action Stavanger Norway
2006 PUBLIC ACTION MOVIES TV-TV Week 44 2006. 5 1/2 h filmprogram artist run tv station Copenhagen Denmark
2006 PUBLIC ACTION MOVIES Generatordriwen screening on Fragtmandshallerne Nørrebro Copenhagen Denmark
2006 “A tribute to George W. Bush “ Film screening in Raumerweiterungshalle Berlin.
2006 “This is way beyond politics” ALL ABOUT LIES
Exhibition in Apartment Project - Istanbul
2006 PARTICIPATIVE POLITICAL PERFORMANCE (PPP) with PM Emergency Room, Olaf Stüber Gallery, Max Beer Strasse 25, Mitte, Berlin.
2006 Museo de Ate y Diseno Contemporaneo. Costa Rica. E TESTER: Die Auflosung Der Vereinigten Staaten Von Amerika. The Dissolution Of The United States of America. Thorbjorn Reuter Christiansen. 7 ́30 ́ ́. 2001.
2006 Globalalien, re-construction of Asylum seekers isolation cell & The Asylum archive, Artist Talk organisation. Meinblau e.V. -Artist run Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
2006 The Participatory Circus, „The Hypnotic Show“, Exit Exhibition at The University of Fine Arts Berlin, Germany.
2006 No simple problem Interview with Martin Schwegmann and Thorbjørn Reuter Christiansen Monu magazine on urbanism #04, Kassel, Germany.
2006 E-Tester, Hito Steyrl and Thorbjørn Reuter Christiansen DVD project. San Sebastian, Spain.
2005 PM Organising the video activist workshop. One World Berlin - media festival on human rights. Video production and screening at the Casino Künstlerhaus Bethanien BAF GmbH, Berlin, Germany.
2005 PM Participation in the Art Space? Kunst amt Kreuzberg in Bethanien, Berlin, Germany.
2005 PM Comic City, Baltic RAW Hafencity Hamburg, Germany.
2005 PM Blackboard, Year Exhibition University of Fine Arts Berlin, Germany.
2005 Founding PM Praxis Mobility helper with Caroline Lund.
2005 Organising the Workshop Urban Intervention at the Helsinki Art Academy, with Martin Schwegmann, Helsinki, Finland.
2005-2006 Asylum, Emergency Biennale,
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France.
Grozny, Chechnya, Russia.
Brussels, Belgium.
Bolzano, Italy.
Milano, Italy.
Riga, Lettland.
Tallin,Estland
Vancouver, Canada.
2004 Urban Art Dialog Interflugs Exhibition at the Gallery Wuthering Heights, Malmö, Sweden.
2004 13th Space Warning Squadron, with Jimmie Durham, Minority Report, Århus, Denmark.
2004 Forum Medial Open Academy & Film Screening with Martin Schwegman & Verner Johnsen. The Schloß Platz, Berlin, Germany.
2004 Film Screening at the Gustav Eiffel Public School with Caroline Lund & Christine Woditzka. Berlin, Germany.
2004 Tobis Tiki Bar, Malmö Art Academy Year Exhibition, Malmö, Sweden.
2004 Asylum Box, Skåne social Art Forum – Utopia Station Lund, Sweden.
2003 Strassenfeger (street cleaner), Interflugs Student edition of Homeless news paper Berlin, with Martin Schwegmann & Andreas Schlaegel Berlin, Germany.
2003 OIL ARCHIVE, Class of Sieverding, House at Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany.
2002 ABROAD, colour prints, colour print object’s, Video projection „border crossing“ DK/D, VHS (30 min.), Gallery Doris Day Dream, Chodowiekistr.12, Berlin, Germany.
2001 Medial Dislocated, VHS (10 min.)
2001 Burning Flag, VHS (30 min.) www.superchannel.org/home/channels/bb2.
2001 The erasure of the United States of, Performance with Jason Liebert (Can) on Theramin, Gallery Doris Day Dream, Chodowiekistr.12, Berlin, Germany.
2001 Mr. Green Ear & The Burning Dollar bill, Performance with Jason Liebert
(Can) on Theramin, Gallery Doris Day Dream, Chodowiekistr.12, Berlin, Germany.
2001 Golden Arch Hotel, Photo + digital Video stills + VHS (30 min.)
2000 HORIZONTAL, Panorama photos + Signal lamp, HULRUM (32 artist from Northern Europe) Madsnedøfort, Vordingborg, DK.

Projects

Beam Squatting

-Take a Laptop, Video projector, Generator, Boom box, and Microphone & Cabals.
-Go to an empty warehouse, an empty wall, a square, a park, a highway bridge, and a parking house, on a roof, in a cellar, in an empty building, in a swimming pool, on a football field, on a farmer’s field. Etc...
Don’t forget a flashlight.

Car Beam Squatting

-Take a car put the generator next to it. Sit in the back of the car with open door. Place the Video projector on a box. Turn on your laptop. Turn on your boom box. Connect the Laptop with the Video projector, boom box to the generator. Install your projection screen ore project on a wall. Turn on the microphone. Make a speech.
Don’t forget a flashlight.

Public Podium Speaker

-Take a boom box with batteries, microphone, wooden black plates, wood pieces, screws, on a trolley. Go to a public space. Like a park, street, square, on a roof, in a supermarket, shopping mall. Etc...

Public speech bubbles

Make speech bubbles out of white PVC plates. Cut out speech bubbles with a saw. Tape the edges with black tape. Put a clip with a marker on an edge. Place the speech bubble on a fence, tree, bench, and staircase. Etc...with plastic clips.

Public Blackboard

-Take Blackboard paint and a paint roller on a stick. Go to a wooden fence, building, parking house, cellar, roof, under a bridge, advertisement billboard. Etc...
Put a string with chalk piece next to the Blackboard.



Links

www.minority-report.dk
www.emergencybiennale.org
http://www.emergency-biennale.org/artists/artist47.htm
http://www.centrea.org/ex_0607.asp
http://www.paris-art.com/expo_detail-2329-tiravanija.html

www.oneworld-fest.de

www.monu.org

www.lundchristiansen.org

http://www.urbanintervention.org/

www.meinblau.de
www.globalalien.net

http://www.berlintest.blogspot.com/
http://berlintest.blogspot.com/2006/09/friday-15-september-participating.html
http://www.artnet.de/magazine/reviews/mania/mania10-12-06_detail.asp?picnum=7

http://www.berlinerpool.de/lies/
http://www.apartmentproject.com/p_yalan.asp
http://www.apartmentproject.com/c_Christiansenlie.asp

http://www.madc.ac.cr/mambo452/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=167&Itemid=56
www.e-tester.net

http://www.balticraw.org/programm/august3.html#2508

Contact
Thorbjoern Reuter Christiansen
Chorinerstrasse 32
10435 Berlin
Phone: +49 30 44041036 mobil +49 160 92623760
Email: christiansentobi@hotmail.com
www.pm-participation.org