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Alexander Tillegreen
selected exhibitions
attempts to swallow the moon
music releases
paintings, prints & drawings
performances & concerts
listening sessions
about
vita
bibliography
contact

Born in 1991 in Taarbæk, Denmark

Lives and works in Copenhagen & Berlin

 

Education

2019-2021 Guest researcher at Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany

2011-2017 MFA HFBK Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main Germany. Meisterschuler with Professor Willem de Rooij & Amy Silman

2017         Cooper Union School of Art, New York, USA

2014-2018 Bachelor’ degree in Art History and Sound Studies in Musicology, Copenhagen University, Denmark


Music releases

2025 Publication and music release: raster-media in collaboration with Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (upcoming)

2023 Solo album In Words with raster-media

2022 Compilation album raster. transmissions with raster-media


Commissioned sound works

2026 ensemble mosaik, Berlin, Germany (upcoming)

2025 Riot Ensemble, London, UK (upcoming)

2024 Attempts To Swallow The Moon, Ensemble K!art + Manca Dornik at Vækst Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark

         umanesimo.artificiale, Fano Italy

2023 Internationales Musikinstitut, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Germany

        GL Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark (audio-visual performance with Magnus Pind)

2022 Museum FuturDome – ISISUF Internationale Institute of Futurist Studies, Milan, Italy

         O-Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark

2019 Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany

 

Selected solo exhibitions

2026 Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany (upcoming)

         Platform Bunker, Frederiksberg, Denmark (upcoming)

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 with works by Mary Vieira, curated by Atto Belloli Ardessi at FuturDome – Isisuf, International Institute of Futurist Studies, 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, Frankfurt, 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

2025 Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark (upcoming)

2024 Artificial Optimism, Den Frie, Copenhagen, Denmark

        CCA, Glasgow, Scotland

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 in exhibition by Signe Boe, Århus, Denmark

        SOLFEST at Sol, Nexø, Bornholm, Denmark (with Peter Voss-Knude, Marie Rafn, Ragnhild May, Majse Vilstrup, Signe Boe, and Sofie Amalie Andersen)

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 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 Kunste, Frankfurt, Germany

2014 Danish Artists Video/Film at CPH:DOX International Film Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark

        Junge Kunst mit Zukunft at Museum Angewandte Kunste, Frankfurt, Germany

        KA-BOOM at Kunstverein Wiesen, Wiesen, Germany

2013 Practicalities (la vie matérielle) 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 Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany

        Uni(psycho)acoustics at 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

2025-2026 Hessisches Kulturstiftung Residenzstipendium, London, United Kingdom (upcoming)

2024         Spæs - Lab for spatial aesthetics in sound, Berlin, Germany

                Umanesimo.artificiale, Fano, Italy

2023         I:Y Projects, Beijing, China

2021-2022 FuturDome– Isisuf, International Institute of Futurist Studies, Milan, Italy

2020         Frans Masereel Centre, Kasterlee, Belgium

2019-2020 Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany

2018-2019 Bikuben Foundation Studio Program Stipendium, Copenhagen, Denmark

 

Grants

2024 Hessisches Kulturstiftung Residenzstipendium

        Danish Art Foundation working grant for Visual art

        Danish Art Foundation working grant for Music

        Danish Art Foundation travel grant

        Danish Composer's Society working grant

2023 Danish Art Foundation working grant for Music

        Danish Art Foundation commission grant for music

        Danish Composer's Society working grant

        Beckett Foundation 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

        Bestles Foundation, grant

        Danish Art Foundation travel grant

        Danish Art Foundation production grant

        Danish Composer’s Society working grant

        Brücken Stipendium, Hessische Kultur Stiftung

2021 Danish Art Foundation working grant

        Brücken Stipendium, Hessische Kultur Stiftung

        Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn Neustart Kultur Stipendium

2020 Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn Neustart Kultur Stipendium

2019 Max Planck Institute working grant research stipendium

        Danish Art Foundation production grant

        Danish Art Foundation working grant

        Danish Art Foundation Sound Art grant

2018 Bikubenfonden ARTISTIC PRACTICE

 

Conference lectures, public talks & workshops

2024 Lecture at Nordic Music Days Conference in collaboration with Advanced Research Center, University of Glasgow, Scotland

        Workshop at Nordic Music Days, Glasgow, Scotland

        Visiting lecturer at The Advanced Postgraduate Diploma Programme at Rhythmic Music Conservatory, Copenhagen, Denmark

        Project supervisor in spatialized sound at The Master Programme at Rhythmic Music Conservatory, Copenhagen, Denmark

2023 Visiting lecturer for the master students at the Sound Art Course in Musicology at Copenhagen University, Denmark

        Project supervisor in artistic research at The Advanced Postgraduate Diploma Programme at Rhythmic Music Conservatory, Copenhagen, Denmark

        Workshop and lecture at Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Darmstadt, Germany

        Visiting lecturer at The Advanced Postgraduate Diploma Programme 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, 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 and the Sonic with Professor Holger Schulze at Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt

        Lecture at Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany

2019 Performance lecture at Eufonia Festival Berlin, Berlin, Germany

2017 Lecture at Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany

2009 Lecture as visiting artist at Fatamorgana School of Photography, Copenhagen, Denmark

 

Selected sound performances and concerts

2024 CCA, Nordic Music Days 2024, Glasgow, Scotland

        Kulturnatten, Platform Bunker, Frederiksberg, Denmark

        Attempts To Swallow The Moon, Ensemble K!art + Manca Dornik at Vækst Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark

        Artificial Optimism, Den Frie, Copenhagen, Denmark

        Representing Denmark at ISCM World New Music Days 2024, Faroe Islands

        Damien & The Love Guru, Zürich Art Weekend, Zürich, Switzerland

        Kantine am Berghain, Berlin, Germany

        Fictitious Registers organized by Ensemble K!ART at Koncert Kirken, Copenhagen, Denmark

2023 raster-media Showcase, Berlin, Germany

        Kulturnatten, GL Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark (with Magnus Pind)

        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, International 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 & Berlin

 

Education

2019-2021 Guest researcher at Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany

2011-2017 MFA HFBK Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main Germany. Meisterschuler with Professor Willem de Rooij & Amy Silman

2017         Cooper Union School of Art, New York, USA

2014-2018 Bachelor’ degree in Art History and Sound Studies in Musicology, Copenhagen University, Denmark


Music releases

2025 Publication and music release: raster-media in collaboration with Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (upcoming)

2023 Solo album In Words with raster-media

2022 Compilation album raster. transmissions with raster-media


Commissioned sound works

2026 ensemble mosaik, Berlin, Germany (upcoming)

2025 Riot Ensemble, London, UK (upcoming)

2024 Attempts To Swallow The Moon, Ensemble K!art + Manca Dornik at Vækst Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark

         umanesimo.artificiale, Fano Italy

2023 Internationales Musikinstitut, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Germany

        GL Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark (audio-visual performance with Magnus Pind)

2022 Museum FuturDome – ISISUF Internationale Institute of Futurist Studies, Milan, Italy

         O-Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark

2019 Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany

 

Selected solo exhibitions

2026 Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany (upcoming)

         Platform Bunker, Frederiksberg, Denmark (upcoming)

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 with works by Mary Vieira, curated by Atto Belloli Ardessi at FuturDome – Isisuf, International Institute of Futurist Studies, 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, Frankfurt, 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

2025 Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark (upcoming)

2024 Artificial Optimism, Den Frie, Copenhagen, Denmark

        CCA, Glasgow, Scotland

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 in exhibition by Signe Boe, Århus, Denmark

        SOLFEST at Sol, Nexø, Bornholm, Denmark (with Peter Voss-Knude, Marie Rafn, Ragnhild May, Majse Vilstrup, Signe Boe, and Sofie Amalie Andersen)

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 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 Kunste, Frankfurt, Germany

2014 Danish Artists Video/Film at CPH:DOX International Film Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark

        Junge Kunst mit Zukunft at Museum Angewandte Kunste, Frankfurt, Germany

        KA-BOOM at Kunstverein Wiesen, Wiesen, Germany

2013 Practicalities (la vie matérielle) 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 Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany

        Uni(psycho)acoustics at 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

2025-2026 Hessisches Kulturstiftung Residenzstipendium, London, United Kingdom (upcoming)

2024         Spæs - Lab for spatial aesthetics in sound, Berlin, Germany

                Umanesimo.artificiale, Fano, Italy

2023         I:Y Projects, Beijing, China

2021-2022 FuturDome– Isisuf, International Institute of Futurist Studies, Milan, Italy

2020         Frans Masereel Centre, Kasterlee, Belgium

2019-2020 Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany

2018-2019 Bikuben Foundation Studio Program Stipendium, Copenhagen, Denmark

 

Grants

2024 Hessisches Kulturstiftung Residenzstipendium

        Danish Art Foundation working grant for Visual art

        Danish Art Foundation working grant for Music

        Danish Art Foundation travel grant

        Danish Composer's Society working grant

2023 Danish Art Foundation working grant for Music

        Danish Art Foundation commission grant for music

        Danish Composer's Society working grant

        Beckett Foundation 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

        Bestles Foundation, grant

        Danish Art Foundation travel grant

        Danish Art Foundation production grant

        Danish Composer’s Society working grant

        Brücken Stipendium, Hessische Kultur Stiftung

2021 Danish Art Foundation working grant

        Brücken Stipendium, Hessische Kultur Stiftung

        Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn Neustart Kultur Stipendium

2020 Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn Neustart Kultur Stipendium

2019 Max Planck Institute working grant research stipendium

        Danish Art Foundation production grant

        Danish Art Foundation working grant

        Danish Art Foundation Sound Art grant

2018 Bikubenfonden ARTISTIC PRACTICE

 

Conference lectures, public talks & workshops

2024 Lecture at Nordic Music Days Conference in collaboration with Advanced Research Center, University of Glasgow, Scotland

        Workshop at Nordic Music Days, Glasgow, Scotland

        Visiting lecturer at The Advanced Postgraduate Diploma Programme at Rhythmic Music Conservatory, Copenhagen, Denmark

        Project supervisor in spatialized sound at The Master Programme at Rhythmic Music Conservatory, Copenhagen, Denmark

2023 Visiting lecturer for the master students at the Sound Art Course in Musicology at Copenhagen University, Denmark

        Project supervisor in artistic research at The Advanced Postgraduate Diploma Programme at Rhythmic Music Conservatory, Copenhagen, Denmark

        Workshop and lecture at Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Darmstadt, Germany

        Visiting lecturer at The Advanced Postgraduate Diploma Programme 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, 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 and the Sonic with Professor Holger Schulze at Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt

        Lecture at Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany

2019 Performance lecture at Eufonia Festival Berlin, Berlin, Germany

2017 Lecture at Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany

2009 Lecture as visiting artist at Fatamorgana School of Photography, Copenhagen, Denmark

 

Selected sound performances and concerts

2024 CCA, Nordic Music Days 2024, Glasgow, Scotland

        Kulturnatten, Platform Bunker, Frederiksberg, Denmark

        Attempts To Swallow The Moon, Ensemble K!art + Manca Dornik at Vækst Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark

        Artificial Optimism, Den Frie, Copenhagen, Denmark

        Representing Denmark at ISCM World New Music Days 2024, Faroe Islands

        Damien & The Love Guru, Zürich Art Weekend, Zürich, Switzerland

        Kantine am Berghain, Berlin, Germany

        Fictitious Registers organized by Ensemble K!ART at Koncert Kirken, Copenhagen, Denmark

2023 raster-media Showcase, Berlin, Germany

        Kulturnatten, GL Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark (with Magnus Pind)

        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, International 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