FOS

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FOS - Thomas Poulsen

Født i 1971, København. Bor og arbejder i København

Uddannelse 1993-1999 Kunstakademiet i København

Legater og udmærkelser

2012

Statens Kunstfond, Denmark

2010

Carl Nielsens og Anne Marie Carl-Nielsens Legat

2006

State 3-year work scholarship

2005

Henry Heerups Mindelegat, Copenhagen, Denmark

2003

Bisballes Kunstfond, Denmark
Niels Wessel Bagges Award, Denmark

Solo Udstillinger

2012

Watchmaker, Max Wigram Gallery, London, UK
Declaration of Unsolid Memories, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
Bageri, Andersen Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark

2011

One Language Traveller, Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark

2010

Osloo, Project at the Copenhagen Harbour, Copenhagen, Denmark
Another Place Yet A Place, Andersen-s Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Max Wigram Gallery, London, UK

2009

Social Design #15; Floating Platform, Osloo, Køs Museum, Denmark 2008
Memory Theatre Twig #14, GAK (Gesellschaft Fur Aktuelle Kunst), Bremen, Germany

2007

Art Basel 38, Statements (under the auspices of Max Wigram Gallery), Basel, Switzerland

2006

Present, Future, Artissima art fair, Turin, Italy
Mændenes hjem (in collaboration with med Kenneth Balfelt) - redesign of the men’s home in central Copenhagen, Denmark
Where There Is Pressure There Is Folk Dance, Danish Embassy, London UK

2005

Social Design #11: You refer to yourself to reduce the message to me, Christina Wilson Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Every man’s house, 22 brick murals in housing project, Ishøj, Danmark Ovenpå hinanden til du forsvinder, The Showroom, Copenhagen

2004

Social Design #10: You are Moving into me..., MWprojects, London, UK

2003

Liquid chain into the vapour wall, Christina Wilson Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
Where Scandinavians Health is Considered, Gustav Vigelands Museet, Oslo, Norway

2002

Sociality as the shell, the people as liquid, VTO Gallery, London, UK

2001

Inhaling human suffering exhaling well being, Mikael Andersen Gallery, Copenhagen, DK Between the black house, Gallery oneone, Reykjavik, Iceland

Udvalgte gruppeudstillinger

2012

A Disagreeable Object, SculptureCenter, New York, NY, USA
Bloomsbury Mystery Play, Brunwswick Square, London, UK
OSLOO—A COLLECTION OF CENTERS, Armory Performance, New York, NY, USA Living with Art, Galerie Reinhardt Hauff, Stuttgart

2011

Re:Constructed Landscapes, Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen, Denmark
Osloo, 54th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy With and Without Painting, Summer Show, Max Wigram Gallery, London, UK Speech Matters (curated by Katerina Gregos), Danish Pavillion, 54th Venice Biennale, Italy
Overlap, Den Frie Udstilllingsbygning (Centre of Contemporary Art) Copenhagen, Denmark

2010

Carl Nielsens og Anne Marie Carl-Nielsens Legat [The Grant of Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl Nielsen], Den Frie Centre for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark

2009

Kurs, Kunstmuseet Køge Skitesamling, KOS Søndre Havn i Koge, Koge, Danmark Sculpture by the Sea, Arros, Denmark
Remap 2, Kerameikos Metaxourgeio (KM), Athens, Greece

2008

"56 ̊N, 10 ̊E" (curated by Michael Bank Christoffersen), Museo Nacional de San Carlos, Mexico City, Mexico
ROOMING IN!, Claus Andersen visits Patricia Low, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland
U-TURN, Quadrennial for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark

2006

A Tale of Two Cities: Busan-Seoul/Seoul-Busan, the Contemporary Art Exhibition, Busa Biennale 2006, Busan, Korea (cat.)
Eigenheim, everything but the sink, Kunstverein Göttingen, Germany
1st Belgrade Triennial, The Center for Contemporary Arts, Belgrade, Serbia (cat.)
SOCIAL DESIGN – Matthew Brannon, FOS, Laura Horelli, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
REALITY, Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark
Auschwitz, Gallery Weinberger, Copenhagen, Denmark
Showrooom, Kulturfabrikken, Copenhagen, Denmark Regarding Denmark, Ileana
Tounta Contemporary Art Centre, Athens, Greece (cat.)

2005

Labyrint, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
Sculpture Park (curated by David Thorp), Frieze Art Fair, London, UK
Threshold, Max Wigram Gallery, London, UK
Framing the design of the future, Danish Design Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark

2004

Art of the Ice Cream Stand (under the auspices of MWprojects), Frieze Art Fair, London, UK Fruit stand for two vendors, Sculpture Biennale, Riga, Latvia

2002

The Fall, Christina Wilson Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
What is Design?, Danish Design Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
Gallery Lhumann, Niels Stærk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2001

KOM, Butter-sculpture, Copenhagen, DK (public art commission)

2000

Social Design vs. The Bitch of Accidents, Artprimur, The Netherlands Ambassade, Kørners Kontor, Copenhagen, DK
The vessel of paint, 16-bit color Gallery Newart, Copenhagen, Denmark

1999

Cities on the Move, Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark (cat.)
Dust Sculpture (Pars Electronic), Zürich, Switzerland
Hello I'm Your Son, Capital Art, Hamburg, Germany Pizza (Street sharks),
Kørner's Kontor, Magasin du Nord Warehouse, Copenhagen, Denmark
Big Red, Michael Andersen Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Opening Show, Nicolai Wallner Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Pizza with the Social Design, Gallery 1%, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Accomplished Consultants, Hallo Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

1998

Flora Forbi, Sophienholm, Lyngby, DK
Tûmbula Tûmbula (Pars Electronic), Aarhus Festival, DK

1997

The New Neighbourhood (Pars Electronic), Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK
Hurray Artist Party, Torbjørn Beckman Weekend Gallery, Copenhagen, DK

1996

Smile Now – Cry Later, The Turbine Halls, Copenhagen, DK
Update, The Turbine Halls, Copenhagen, DK
Dust Sculpture (Pars Electronic), Zurich, Switzerland
The Site of the Crime, The Police Yard, Copenhagen, DK
Pars Electronic is an artist group based in Copenhagen, consisting of Kaspar Bonnen, Tal R and FOS

Offentlige udsmykninger

2005

Vielea Parken, Ishoj, Denmark National School of Theatre, Copenhagen, Denmark

2002

Future Archive (in collaboration with Kenneth Balfelt), Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden Buttrunner, Vega Bar, Copenhagen, DK (interior design)
Social Design #8: Life Policies, ZDB, Lisbon, Portugal
Social Design #7: Lydeking - Advertising Office, Copenhagen, Denmark

2001

Meeting-room-design (in collaboration with Kenneth Balfelt), Communication design and conference interiors for DCA Foundation, Copenhagen and Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense

1999

Oslo – A Social Pavilion, Israel’s Square, Copenhagen, Denmark

1997

Social Design #2: Ideal Bar, Little VEGA, Copenhagen, Denmark (interior design)
Social Design #1: Stereo Bar, Copenhagen, Denmark (interior design)

Musik projekter

2012

Small White Man, conducted by FOS, Roskilde Festival, Denmark

2001

Nanny in the hip hop bucket, with Joachim Hamou, video/interior design/music, Copenhagen

2000

10 minutes later (in collaboration with video artist Joachim Hamou), video/interior design/music, Copenhagen

1997

Shop-ping by Pars Electronic* (CD)

1996

The New Neighbourhood by Pars Electronic* (CD) White Loop by Homelamps, Pars Electronic* (CD)

1995-99

Oslo Bar (in collaboration with musician Peter Leth). A social club on the theme of social nature, music style and design temporarily transforming the sites where it took place (Malmö, Sweden; Royal Park; Le Kitch; Danish National Broadcasting Corporation, Copenhagen)

1995

UNICEF’s 50th Year Anniversary Celebration, Copenhagen, DK

1997

Mindspray, Peter Laugesen (CD) Theatre Plays, Christian Schmidt Rasmussen (CD) Art Calls, Jacob Fabricius Gallery, Copenhagen, DK (CD)
EXIT, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, DK (exhibition catalogue)
Public Collections
State Museum of Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Arken Museum, Ishøj, Denmark

Udvalgte biografier

2013

Mark Sladen, Interview with FOS, ArtReview, May, pp. 72 – 75

2012

Christ Fite-Wassilak, Review: FOS, ArtReview, December, pp. 124 – 125 Weekly Artists – FOS, Kunsten.nu, 11th April
Sebastian Quedenbaum, The Smell in the Bakery, Kopenhagen Magazine, 3rd May Michael Jeppesen, The Great Art Patch, Information.dk, 12th April

2010

Martin Herbert, Fos: Clutch/Max Wigram, London Reviews Marathon, Art Review, April, p. 92 Martin Herbert, ‘Critics’ Choice’, TimeOut, London, Feb 4-10, pp.46

2007

Outset publication FOS: making a stand, Art Statements, The Art Newspaper, 14th June, p. 6

2006

Social Design, Busan Biennial Catalogue, pp. 164 -165 Sigrid Feeser, Social Design – Matthew Brannon, FOS, Laura Horelli, Kunstforum, Cologne, Issue 180, May/June, pp. 348-349 Katerina Gregos, Regarding Denmark, 2006, pp.18-19

2005

Kulturkampen kronik Politiken, Danmark hvad fanden har menneskesynet gang I, Cover #6

2004

Sarah Kent, MWprojects Time Out, 17-14 November, p. 71 Louisa Buck, London chooses John Kerry, The Art Newspaper, Issue 153, December, p. 3

2001

Inhaling human suffering exhaling well being, in occasion of Social Design #4, Copenhagen / Århus, Denmark
Dynamic in dough, on occasion of Ambassade, Copenhagen, Denmark

2000