Gardar Eide Einarsson
Gardar Eide Einarsson (born January 12, 1976) is a Norwegian-born artist who lives and works in Tokyo and New York City. His work encompasses installation, printmaking, painting and sculpture. Einarsson participated on a 2006 group show entitled, War on 45 / My Mirrors are Painted Black (For You), which included fellow heavy-metal nihilistic artists.
Gardar Eide Einarsson
- Name
- Gardar Eide Einarsson
- Born
- 1976
- Field
- Painting Gardar Eide Einarsson (born January 12, 1976) is a Norwegian-born artist who lives and works in Tokyo and New York City.
- Nationality
- Norway
- Occupation
- artist · printmaker · painter · sculptor
- Fields
- painting
- Languages
- English · Norwegian
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Gardar Eide Einarsson (born January 12, 1976) is a Norwegian-born artist who lives and works in Tokyo and New York City. His work encompasses installation, printmaking, painting and sculpture. Einarsson participated on a 2006 group show entitled, War on 45 / My Mirrors are Painted Black (For You), which included fellow heavy-metal nihilistic artists.
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Gardar Eide Einarsson (born 1976) is an artist, painter and printmaker, among other activities, of Norwegian nationality. The artist was born in Norway. Activity centred on painting.
Languages used include English and Norwegian. Works are held at Museum of Modern Art, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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The show included a black rhombus painting entitled For Steven Parrino / FTW (Dark Matter) made by Einarsson, in collaboration with Banks Violette, and dedicated to the influential dead artist Steven Parrino. • Illustration — For Steven Parrino / FTW (Dark Matter), 2006, oil enamel on canvas, 59 x 134 inches (149.86 x 340.36 cm)
The recorded working language is English and Norwegian. The field of work recorded is painting. Work by Gardar Eide Einarsson is recorded in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
• Name — Gardar Eide Einarsson • Born — 1976 • Field — Painting Gardar Eide Einarsson (born January 12, 1976) is a Norwegian-born artist who lives and works in Tokyo and New York City. His work encompasses installation, printmaking, painting and sculpture. Einarsson participated on a 2006 group show entitled, War on 45 / My Mirrors are Painted Black (For You), which included fellow heavy-metal nihilistic artists. The show included a black rhombus painting entitled For Steven Parrino / FTW (Dark Matter) made by Einarsson, in collaboration with Banks Violette, and dedicated to the influential dead artist Steven Parrino. • Illustration — For Steven Parrino / FTW (Dark Matter), 2006, oil enamel on canvas, 59 x 134 inches (149.86 x 340.36 cm)
Education
Education
• Einar Granum School of Fine Art, Oslo, 1994–1996 • National Academy of Fine Art, Bergen, 1996-2000 • Staatliche Hochschule fur Fine Arts - Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, 1999–2000 • Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, Studio Program, New York, 2001–2002 • Cooper Union School of Architecture, Architecture and Urban Studies Program, New York, 2002–2003 • Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, 2002–2003
Solo exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
• Flagwaste, TEAM, New York City, New York, 2018 • Rawhide Down, Standard Oslo, Oslo, Norway, 2018 • "SHTF", Team Gallery, Venice, CA, USA, 2016 • "Distinct Functionation Layers Establish Hierarchy and Order", Galleri Nils Staerk, Copenhagen, DK, 2016 • "FREEDOM, MOTHERFUCKER. DO YOU SPEAK IT?", Team Gallery, New York City, USA, 2015 • "A Madman, a Patient, a Condemned Man, a Worker or a Schoolboy", ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus, Denmark, 2015 • "Motivation: A Study of Action", Standard Oslo, Oslo, Norway, 2014 • "He likes the fiestas. He likes the music. He likes to dance.", Maureen Paley gallery, London, UK, 2014 • "Sorry If I Got It Wrong, But Something Definitely Isn't Right", Team Gallery, New York City, USA, 2012 • "In The Dust of This Planet", Maureen Paley gallery, London, UK, 2012 • "Art | 42 | Basel | Unlimited", June 2011, Basel, Switzerland, 2011 • "Another Modern Moment Completed", Team Gallery, New York City, USA, 2010 • "Judge", Team Gallery, New York City, USA, 2007 • "Art | 37 | Basel | Statements", Basel, Switzerland, 2006 • "leashed or confined", Team Gallery, New York City, USA, 2005
Special projects
Special projects
• Versuchsstation des Weltuntergangs, Bergen Kunsthall, 2013 • Power Has a Fragrance, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, 2011 • Power Has a Fragrance, Reykjavik Art Museum, 2011 • Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2008 • South of Heaven, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (Germany), 2007
Residencies
Residencies
• IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden, 2004 • Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, 2002–03 • NIFCA Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland, 2001
Catalogues
Catalogues
• Kvaran, Gunnar; Ueland, Hanne Beate and Årbu, Grete (ed.): Lights On!, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art / Skira, Oslo, 2008 • Huldisch, Henriette and Momin, Shamim M.: The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA, 2008 • Einarsson, Gardar Eide and Keller, Christoph: South of Heaven, Revolver Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2007 • Einarsson, Gardar Eide and Keller, Christoph: Long Haired and Freaky People Need Not Apply, Revolver Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2004 • Art For the People, Riksutstillinger, Bergen Kunsthall a.o, Norway, 2003 • CMYK/Greyscale, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland, 2002 • Strike, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK, 2002 • Esplanaden, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2002 • Audit, Casino Luxembourg Forum d’ Art Contemporain, Luxembourg, 2001 • Kosmos, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden, 2001 • Osculum Infame, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Iceland, 2001 • Schpaa, Bergen Kunstforening/ Bergen Kunsthall/ Den Frie Udstilling, Copenhagen/ • Bergen, Denmark/Norway, 2001 • Festival Junge Talente, Offenbach am Main, Germany, 2000 • Momentum- Nordic Festival for Contemporary Art, Moss, Norway, 2000
Solo publications
Solo publications
• Conservator's Notes, At Last Books, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2018 • The Mess, Karma, New York, USA, 2014 • Stainless Steel/ Fluorescent Pink, Rathole Books, Tokyo, Japan, 2014 • Gardar Eide Einarsson, Versuchsstation Des Weltuntergangs, Bergan Kunsthall, and Sternberg Press, Norway, 2013 • Power Has a Fragrance, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Norway, 2011 • South of Heaven, Revolver, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2007
Published work
Published work
• Bunch of Motherfuckers: Unfinished Individuation and Meshworks of Equivalence, The Vital Coincidence, Walther Koenig Verlag, Cologne, 2004 • Lars Von Trier, Something is going to happen, Frotté Factory, Oslo, 2004 • You Just Don’t Get it Dad, So Fuck Off, The Academy and the Corporate Public, Permanent Press Verlag, Cologne, 2004 • Hardcore, Self-organization and Alternativity, We Are All Normal- Nordic Artist Writings, NIFCA, Copenhagen/ Helsinki, 2004 • Oh My What A Dazzling Display, The Mock Commodity Fetishism of Klaus Thejl Jacobsen, Galleri Nicolai Wallner Notes on Asskissing & Corporate Strategies of the *RAF, Corporate Mentality, Lukas and Sternberg, New York, 2004 • Total Revolution, True Lies, Pork Salad Press, Copenhagen, 2004 • Rotation a NIFCA Project in Media Space, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art/Morgenbladet, Oslo/Helsinki, 2001 • Terje Nicolaisen’s Deriving Practice, Terje Nicolaisen, Tegneforbundet, Oslo, 2001 • Billedkunst Magazine, regular critic and member of editorial board Publication Series for Oslo Kunsthall, editor, 2001 • Metronome, Frankfurt/Main a.o., 2000 • UKS Forum For Samtidskunst 1/2 2000, guest editor, 2000
Public collections
• Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway • Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley • Los Angeles County Museum of Art • Malmo Art Museum, Malmo • Moderna Museet, Stockholm • Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles • Museum of Modern Art, New York • Norwegian National Museum of Art, Oslo, Norway • Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany
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These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1."Witte de With Contemporary Art, The Crime Was Almost Perfect, Cristina Ricupero (January 2014)".
- 2."GARDAR EIDE EINARSSON"He likes the fiestas. He likes the music. He likes to dance.", Maureen Paley (June 2014)".
- 3.War on 45 / My Mirrors are Painted Black (For You), Bortolami Dayan Gallery, New York NY, June 29 – September 2, 2006. Retrieved February 7, 2025.
- 4.Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany. Works from the collection of MMK. mmk.art.
- 5.Archived copy.
- 6.Team Gallery. SHTF.
- 7.Galleri Nils Staerk. Distinct Functionation Layers Establish Hierarchy and Order.
- 8.Team Gallery. FREEDOM, MOTHERFUCKER. DO YOU SPEAK IT?.
- 9.ARoS Aarhus Art Museum. A Madman, a Patient, a Condemned Man, a Worker or a Schoolboy. 2015.
- 10.Standard Oslo. Motivation: A Study of Action.
- 11.Maureen Paley gallery. He likes the fiestas. He likes the music. He likes to dance.
- 12.Team Gallery. Sorry If I Got It Wrong, But Something Definitely Isn't Right.
- 13.Maureen Paley gallery. In The Dust of This Planet.
- 14.Team Gallery. Art 42 Basel Unlimited.
- 15.Team Gallery. Another Modern Moment Completed.
- 16.TEAM Gallery. Judge.
- 17.Team Gallery. Art 37 Basel Statements.
- 18.Team Gallery. leased or confined.
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