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Alexander Tillegreen
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Born in 1991 in Taarbæk, Denmark
Lives and works in Copenhagen and Berlin

Education
2019-2021 Guest researcher at Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany
2011-2017 MFA HFBK Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Meisterschüler with Professor Willem de Rooij & Amy Silman 
2017          Cooper Union School of Art, New York, USA
2014-2018 Bachelor's degree in Art History and Sound Studies in Musicology, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark

Upcoming projects 2024/2025
Solo album release with raster-media
Album release: raster-media in collaboration with Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics 
Book publication with Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics
umanesimo.artificiale residency, Fano, Italy

Commissions
2023 Internationales Musikinstitut, Darmstädter Ferienkurse
2022 Museum FuturDome - ISISUF Internationale Institute of Futurist Studies 

Selected solo exhibitions 

2023 Fluktuationen at Kunsthalle Darmstadt in connection with the festival Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Darmstadt, Germany
2022 Shift at O-Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark 
         Upsweep Paradox at FuturDome - ISISUF International Institute of Futurist Studies, curated by Atto Belloli Ardessi (with selected works by Mary Vieira), Milan, Italy
         Aer Axis Hiss, performance with Ellen Martine Heuser, Kunstverein Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
2021 Phantom streams at Art Hub, Copenhagen, Denmark (with Signe Boe)
2020 Phantom Streams at Basis, Frankfurt, Germany
2019 Phantom Streams at Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany
2018 Grenzfrequenz at Galerie Jean Claude Maier, Franfurt, Germany
         About Certain Soups at fffriedrich, Frankfurt, Germany
2016 am apparat at Johan, Frankfurt, Germany
2015 Space in between at Agnes Maybach, curated by Jana Baumann, Cologne, Germany
2014 NEW PAINTINGS ON GREY WALLS at Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen, Denmark (with Morten Knudsen)
2008 Interference in C-major at Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark

Selected group exhibitions
2023 Á bruit secret - Hearing in Art at Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland
         Chorusing at fffriedrich, curated by Clara Maria Blasius & Vivien Kämpf, Frankfurt, Germany
2020 Basis, Frankfurt, Germany
         Spanien 19c performance with Signe Boe, Århus, Denmark
         SOLFEST at Sol, Nexø, Bornholm, Denmark
2019 Eufonia Festival 2019 - Sound, Art & Science at ACUUD MACHT NEU, Berlin, Germany
         I caught a glimpse of you on the escalator stairs at Basis, organized by Arthur Löwen & Béla Feldberg, Frankfurt, Germany
        Open Studios at Bikubenfonden, Copenhagen, Denmark
         Art Zone at Roskilde Festival, Roskilde, Denmark
2018 Supersimetrica, Madrid, Spain
2017 HOME OF THE BRAVE at MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
         Playlist at Erratum Galerie, Berlin, Germany
         Mixed reviews at Cooper Union, New York, USA
2016 Danmark at Code Art Fair, curated by Mikkel Carl, Copenhagen, Denmark
         Kitchen show at Städelschule, curated by Felix Broecher & Tomke Braun, Frankfurt, Germany
         CutCut at Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
2015 Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
         we're hopeful I think at hfbk galerie, Hamburg, Germany
         ALT_CPH, Copenhagen, Denmark
         Wolkenkuckkucksheim, Frankfurt, Germany
         What A b What A b What a Beauty, Frankfurt, Germany
         Kunst mit Zukunft at Museum Angewandte Künste, Frankfurt, Germany
2014 Danish Artist Videos at CPH:DOX International Film Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
         Junge Kunst mit Zukunft at Museum Angewandte Künste, Frankfurt, Germany
         KA-BOOM at Kunstverein Wiesen, Wiesen Germany
2013 Practicalities (la vie matérlielle) at Basis, Frankfurt, Germany
         Mild Mania at 68 Square Meters Art Space, Copenhagen, Denmark
         Transportation / Transformation at so+ba, Tokyo, Japan
         Influence at 1m3, Lausanne, Switzerland
         Fuck Younger Painters at Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen, Denmark
         Mille Feuillets III at ENSAPC YGREC, Paris, France
         Performance at MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
         Uni(psycho)acoustics at MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany (with Carsten Nicolai)
2011 Dockville Festival für Kunst & Musik, Hamburg, Germany
2010 Hip Hip Hurra at DASK Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2009 Ung Dansk Fotografi 09 at Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen, Denmark

Residencies
2024 umanesimo.artificiale, Fano, Italy (upcoming)
2023 I:Y Projects Beijing, China
2021 FuturDome - ISISUF International Institute of Futurist Studies, Milan, Italy
2020 Frans Masereel Centre, Kasterlee, Belgium
2019 Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany
2018 Bikuben Foundation Studio Program Stipendium, Copenhagen, Denmark

Grants
2023 Danish Art Foundation working grant for Music
         Beckett Foundation grant 
         Danish Art Foundation commission grant
         Danish Art Foundation production grant 
         Danish Composer's Society commission grant 
         The Danish Art Workshops
         Sound Art Lab Struer
2022 Knud Højgaard Foundation grant 
         The Danish Art Workshops
         Beatles Foundation grant 
         Danish Art Foundation residency grant
         Danish Art Foundation production grant 
         Danish Composer's Society working grant 
         Brücken Stipendium, Hessische Kulturstiftung
2021 Danish Art Foundation working grant 
         Brücken Stipendium, Hessische Kulturstiftung
         Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn Neustart Kulturstipendium
2020 Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn Neustart Kulturstipendium 
2019 Max Planck Institute working grant research stipendium
         Danish Art Foundation production grant 
         Danish Art Foundation working grant 
         Danish Art Foundation Sound Art grant 
2019 Bikuben Foundation Artistic Practice 

Conferences, public talks & workshops
2023 Workshop and lecture at Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Darmstadt, Germany
         Lecture for the students of The Advanced Postgraduate Diploma Program at Rhythmic Music Conservatory, Copenhagen, Denmark
         Open workshop Hearing condition as audio-filter at Rhythmic Music Conservatory, Copenhagen, Denmark (with Kornelia Bloch)
2022 Presentation at the conference MINU Festival for Expanded Music, Copenhagen, Denmark
         Artist talk with Stina Hasse Jørgensen at O-Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
2021 Artist talk with Vanessa Joan Müller at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
2020 Presentation at the conference Artistic Knowledge at the Sonic with Professor Holger Schulze hosted by Max Planck Institute, Frankfurt, Germany
         Lecture at Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany
2019 Performance lecture at Eufonia Festival Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2017 Lecture at MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
2009 Lecture as visiting artist at Fatamorgana School of Photography, Copenhagen, Denmark

Selected sound performances & concerts
2023 raster-media Showcase, Berlin, Germany (upcoming)
         Kulturnatten, GL Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark (with Magnus Pind) (upcoming)
         Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland
2022 raster-media Campfire Showcase facilitated by umanesimo.artificiale, Fano, Italy
         In Situ - Festival for Explorative Sound and Performance, Simian, Copenhagen, Denmark
         Resonate, Copenhagen, Denmark (with Magnus Pind)
         O-Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
         FuturDome - ISISUF Internationale Institute of Futurist Studies, Milan, Italy
2020 Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany
2019 MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
2018 KoncertKirken curated by Mads Emil Nielsen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2016 STRØM Festival - Vor Frelsers Kirke, Copenhagen, Denmark
2015 hfbk galerie, Hamburg, Germany
2013 CTM Transmediale Festival, Berlin, Germany
2010 Dockville Festival, Hamburg, Germany
2008 Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
Born in 1991 in Taarbæk, Denmark
Lives and works in Copenhagen and Berlin

Education
2019-2021 Guest researcher at Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany
2011-2017 MFA HFBK Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Meisterschüler with Professor Willem de Rooij & Amy Silman 
2017          Cooper Union School of Art, New York, USA
2014-2018 Bachelor's degree in Art History and Sound Studies in Musicology, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark

Upcoming projects 2024/2025
Solo album release with raster-media
Album release: raster-media in collaboration with Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics 
Book publication with Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics
umanesimo.artificiale residency, Fano, Italy

Commissions
2023 Internationales Musikinstitut, Darmstädter Ferienkurse
2022 Museum FuturDome - ISISUF Internationale Institute of Futurist Studies 

Selected solo exhibitions 

2023 Fluktuationen at Kunsthalle Darmstadt in connection with the festival Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Darmstadt, Germany
2022 Shift at O-Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark 
         Upsweep Paradox at FuturDome - ISISUF International Institute of Futurist Studies, curated by Atto Belloli Ardessi (with selected works by Mary Vieira), Milan, Italy
         Aer Axis Hiss, performance with Ellen Martine Heuser, Kunstverein Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
2021 Phantom streams at Art Hub, Copenhagen, Denmark (with Signe Boe)
2020 Phantom Streams at Basis, Frankfurt, Germany
2019 Phantom Streams at Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany
2018 Grenzfrequenz at Galerie Jean Claude Maier, Franfurt, Germany
         About Certain Soups at fffriedrich, Frankfurt, Germany
2016 am apparat at Johan, Frankfurt, Germany
2015 Space in between at Agnes Maybach, curated by Jana Baumann, Cologne, Germany
2014 NEW PAINTINGS ON GREY WALLS at Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen, Denmark (with Morten Knudsen)
2008 Interference in C-major at Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark

Selected group exhibitions
2023 Á bruit secret - Hearing in Art at Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland
         Chorusing at fffriedrich, curated by Clara Maria Blasius & Vivien Kämpf, Frankfurt, Germany
2020 Basis, Frankfurt, Germany
         Spanien 19c performance with Signe Boe, Århus, Denmark
         SOLFEST at Sol, Nexø, Bornholm, Denmark
2019 Eufonia Festival 2019 - Sound, Art & Science at ACUUD MACHT NEU, Berlin, Germany
         I caught a glimpse of you on the escalator stairs at Basis, organized by Arthur Löwen & Béla Feldberg, Frankfurt, Germany
        Open Studios at Bikubenfonden, Copenhagen, Denmark
         Art Zone at Roskilde Festival, Roskilde, Denmark
2018 Supersimetrica, Madrid, Spain
2017 HOME OF THE BRAVE at MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
         Playlist at Erratum Galerie, Berlin, Germany
         Mixed reviews at Cooper Union, New York, USA
2016 Danmark at Code Art Fair, curated by Mikkel Carl, Copenhagen, Denmark
         Kitchen show at Städelschule, curated by Felix Broecher & Tomke Braun, Frankfurt, Germany
         CutCut at Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
2015 Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
         we're hopeful I think at hfbk galerie, Hamburg, Germany
         ALT_CPH, Copenhagen, Denmark
         Wolkenkuckkucksheim, Frankfurt, Germany
         What A b What A b What a Beauty, Frankfurt, Germany
         Kunst mit Zukunft at Museum Angewandte Künste, Frankfurt, Germany
2014 Danish Artist Videos at CPH:DOX International Film Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
         Junge Kunst mit Zukunft at Museum Angewandte Künste, Frankfurt, Germany
         KA-BOOM at Kunstverein Wiesen, Wiesen Germany
2013 Practicalities (la vie matérlielle) at Basis, Frankfurt, Germany
         Mild Mania at 68 Square Meters Art Space, Copenhagen, Denmark
         Transportation / Transformation at so+ba, Tokyo, Japan
         Influence at 1m3, Lausanne, Switzerland
         Fuck Younger Painters at Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen, Denmark
         Mille Feuillets III at ENSAPC YGREC, Paris, France
         Performance at MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
         Uni(psycho)acoustics at MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany (with Carsten Nicolai)
2011 Dockville Festival für Kunst & Musik, Hamburg, Germany
2010 Hip Hip Hurra at DASK Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2009 Ung Dansk Fotografi 09 at Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen, Denmark

Residencies
2024 umanesimo.artificiale, Fano, Italy (upcoming)
2023 I:Y Projects Beijing, China
2021 FuturDome - ISISUF International Institute of Futurist Studies, Milan, Italy
2020 Frans Masereel Centre, Kasterlee, Belgium
2019 Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany
2018 Bikuben Foundation Studio Program Stipendium, Copenhagen, Denmark

Grants
2023 Danish Art Foundation working grant for Music
         Beckett Foundation grant 
         Danish Art Foundation commission grant
         Danish Art Foundation production grant 
         Danish Composer's Society commission grant 
         The Danish Art Workshops
         Sound Art Lab Struer
2022 Knud Højgaard Foundation grant 
         The Danish Art Workshops
         Beatles Foundation grant 
         Danish Art Foundation residency grant
         Danish Art Foundation production grant 
         Danish Composer's Society working grant 
         Brücken Stipendium, Hessische Kulturstiftung
2021 Danish Art Foundation working grant 
         Brücken Stipendium, Hessische Kulturstiftung
         Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn Neustart Kulturstipendium
2020 Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn Neustart Kulturstipendium 
2019 Max Planck Institute working grant research stipendium
         Danish Art Foundation production grant 
         Danish Art Foundation working grant 
         Danish Art Foundation Sound Art grant 
2019 Bikuben Foundation Artistic Practice 

Conferences, public talks & workshops
2023 Workshop and lecture at Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Darmstadt, Germany
         Lecture for the students of The Advanced Postgraduate Diploma Program at Rhythmic Music Conservatory, Copenhagen, Denmark
         Open workshop Hearing condition as audio-filter at Rhythmic Music Conservatory, Copenhagen, Denmark (with Kornelia Bloch)
2022 Presentation at the conference MINU Festival for Expanded Music, Copenhagen, Denmark
         Artist talk with Stina Hasse Jørgensen at O-Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
2021 Artist talk with Vanessa Joan Müller at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
2020 Presentation at the conference Artistic Knowledge at the Sonic with Professor Holger Schulze hosted by Max Planck Institute, Frankfurt, Germany
         Lecture at Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany
2019 Performance lecture at Eufonia Festival Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2017 Lecture at MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
2009 Lecture as visiting artist at Fatamorgana School of Photography, Copenhagen, Denmark

Selected sound performances & concerts
2023 raster-media Showcase, Berlin, Germany (upcoming)
         Kulturnatten, GL Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark (with Magnus Pind) (upcoming)
         Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland
2022 raster-media Campfire Showcase facilitated by umanesimo.artificiale, Fano, Italy
         In Situ - Festival for Explorative Sound and Performance, Simian, Copenhagen, Denmark
         Resonate, Copenhagen, Denmark (with Magnus Pind)
         O-Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
         FuturDome - ISISUF Internationale Institute of Futurist Studies, Milan, Italy
2020 Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany
2019 MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
2018 KoncertKirken curated by Mads Emil Nielsen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2016 STRØM Festival - Vor Frelsers Kirke, Copenhagen, Denmark
2015 hfbk galerie, Hamburg, Germany
2013 CTM Transmediale Festival, Berlin, Germany
2010 Dockville Festival, Hamburg, Germany
2008 Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark