VI, VII

Bjarne Melgaard

b. 1967, Sydney
Lives and works in Oslo

News

Bjarne Melgaard enters the permanent collection of the Centre Pompidou, Paris

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Bjarne Melgaard in collection exhibition "Yet Another Morning – Drawing in the Moderna Museet Collection" at Moderna Museum, Stockholm

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Bjarne Melgaard enters the collection of Norway's National Museum

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Biography

Bjarne Melgaard was born in Sydney, Australia to Norwegian parents in 1967. The artist attended the Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo; Rijksakademie, Amsterdam and the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. Since 2017, after a period living in New York, The artist has lived and worked in Oslo.

Through prolific output which encompasses drawing, painting, sculpture and large-scale installations Melgaard pushes the limits of social acceptance and forges a space where subcultures and parallel worlds can coexist. A frequent curator and collaborator, Melgaard has written 14 novels, produced a fashion line and a number of films.

His first solo exhibition outside of Norway was organized by legendary Belgian curator Jan Hoet. Since then, his work has been exhibited extensively in Europe and the United States. Solo presentations of his work have taken place at Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London; de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam; Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo; Bergen Kunstmuseum, Norway; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; MARTa Herford, Hannover; Red Bull Arts New York; Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin and commercial galleries including Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne; Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin; Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London; Greene Naftali Gallery, New York and Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York.

In 2011, Bjarne Melgaard represented Norway at the 54th Venice Biennial. His work has also been included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial, the 5th Lyon Biennale, 12th Lyon Biennale and group exhibitions at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Kunstmuseum Bonn; S.M.A.K., Gent; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Palais de Tokyo, Paris and White Columns, New York.

Melgaard’s work is in the permanent collections of major museums such as MoMA, New York; MOCA, Los Angeles; the Stedelijk Museum; Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain in Strasbourg, The Astrup Fearnley Museum and Moderna Museum in Stockholm.

Forthcoming projects include solo exhibitions at Lomax Gallery, New York and a group show at the Museum Of Modern Art Kinhasa.

In 2026 his novel ‘De Etterlatte’ will be published by Oktober Forlag.

Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

1993

  • Rijksacademie, Amsterdam
1992
  • Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, The Netherlands
1991
  • Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo
1990
  • Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2026


  • Solo exhibition, Lomex, New York (Forthcoming)

  • Solo exhibition, Kønig Galerie, Berlin (Forthcoming)

  • Glass Candy, Kobbel Kunstbyrå (screening & artist talk at Kunstsilo), Kristiansand, Norway


2025

  • Dad and the Lions, Anna Bohman, Stockholm

  • Midnight Ride (Oribe Paintings), VI, VII, Oslo
  • Lion Sluts, Patricia Low, Gstaad


2024

  • 
Abuse is the Beauty of the Working Class, VI, VII, Oslo
  • Most actions is motivated by the pleasure principle and most consequences are bad, Triest, New York

2024

  • Barney Does It All, Faurschou, New York

2022

  • Collaboration with Chris Korda and Steiff, Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway 
Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia

2021

  • HOMO ALONE 2 Museum of Modern Art Tbilisi, Georgia
  • Scat Nite In Athens and Open Studio The Breeder, Athens, Greece

2020

  • Elisabeth and Me, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Marais, France
  • Bummed Out, Fineart and debut of Arts Restaurant, Oslo
  • Donald Baechler and Bjarne Melgaard Bohman-Knäpper Stockholm
  • Kunst i Bergstaden 2020, Bergstadens Hotel, Røros, Norway
  • My Trip, virtual reality experiential artwork, produced with Acute Art, Sundance Film Festival 2020, Park City, UT

2019

  • My Trip, virtual reality experiential artwork, produced by Acute Art, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin
  • No Fisting Tonight, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland
  • Bjarne Melgaard: En ost på en sydhavsøy og Chill Out med Kristina Lugn, BGE Contemperary Art Projects, Stavanger, Norway
  • Bjarne Melgaard: Let Your Mind Be Your Bed (screening), Kunsthall 3.14, Bergen, Norway
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2018
  • Bjarne Melgaard: Regionalt Norsk Maleri, Nanna og Frigg Microdoserer og En Ny Roman, Galleri Brandstrup, Oslo
  • Bjarne Melgaard: Let Your Mind Be Your Bed (screening), Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo
  • Bodyparty (Substance Paintings) and Life Killed My Chihuahua, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London
  • Pop-Up Exhibition: A House To Die In, a collaboration between Selvaag, Snøhetta and Bjarne Melgaard, Selvaag Art Collection, Oslo
  • Bjarne Melgaard / Sverre Bjertnæs: Noe må gå i stykker, Rod Bianco with Galleri Brandstrup, Oslo

2017

  • The Casual Pleasure of Disappointment, Red Bull Arts New York
  • The Casual Pleasure of Disappointment (Bjarne + Bjørg Jewelry Collaboration New York Launch), Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York

2016

  • Bjarne Melgaard: New Work, Fineart, Oslo
  • Blood, Stones and Certain Beasts / Bjarne Melgaard and Bob Recine, Uncontaminated Art and Fashion Festival at Skur 13, Tjuvholmen, Oslo

2015

  • The Casual Pleasure of Disappointment, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
  • Melgaard + Munch – The end of it All has Already Happened, Munch Museum, Oslo
  • Bjarne Melgaard: Daddies Like You Don't Grow On Palm Trees, Sammlung Friedrichshof, Zurndorf/Vienna
  • Skulptur, Formuesforvaltning AS, Oslo
  • This is what I do to make money, Galleri Fineart, Oslo Puppy Orgy Acid Party, Galerie Forsblom, Oslo Bitter Angel, Faurschou Foundation, Beijing

2014

  • Bjarne Melgaard: Selected Works From The Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway
  • Bjarne Melgaard, Studio Hugo Opdal (in collaboration with Rod Bianco Gallery, Oslo), Flø, Norway

2013

  • Bjarne Melgaard in the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo Bjarne Melgaard: Ignorant Transparencies, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York Bjarne Melgaard New Drawings and Prints, Fineart, Oslo

2012

  • Bjarne Melgaard: A house to die in, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
  • Baton Sinister, Venezia-Installasjonen, Hauger Vestfold Kunstmuseum, Tønsburg, Norway

2011

  • A House to Die In (ongoing), Villa Kikkut, Oslo
  • The Night Within Us, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
  • Baton Sinister, 54th Venice Biennale, Palazzo Contarini Corfu, Venice
  • Bjarne Melgaard, Studio Hugo Opdal, Flø, Norway
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2010
  • Bjarne Melgaard/Rod Bianco 'Super Normal', de Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Bjarne Melgaard – Jealous, Astrup Fernley Museum, Oslo; Bergen Kunstmuseum, Norway

2007

  • Bjarne Melgaard, Galerie Senda, Barcelona, Spain
  • Mommy's Boy and Daddy's Girl, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland
  • The Glamour Chase, Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen
  • Bjarne Melgaard, Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm

2006

  • A Weekend of Painting: A Novel by Les Super, Leo Koenig, Inc., New York
  • Les Super, Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
  • Minipigs in Space, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna

2005

  • Not a Painting Show, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
  • Life is a Lonely Buffalo, Niels Borch Jensen Gallery, Berlin
  • Hello, Maybe (Book, Stage Set and Flags in collaboration with Halvor Bodin), Haugar Museum of Art, Tønsburg, Norway
  • Fin de Copenhague, Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen
  • Bjarne Melgaard, Galleria Senda, Barcelona, Spain
  • Jasmin La Nuit, The Horse Hospital, London
  • Part 1: Chihuahua Hunger All Words Destroy, Galerie Crone, Berlin

2004

  • A Concept of Rape, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York
  • Bjarne Melgaard, Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm

2003

  • The End of the Professional Teenager, Pollack Fine Art at Sketch, London
  • Skam, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway

2002

  • Beginnings, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany Nothing Special, Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen Interface to God, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
  • Black Low: The Punk Movement Was Just Hippies with Short Hair, MARTa Herford Museum, Hannover, Germany Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
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2001
  • Kill Me Before I do it Myself, Galleria Laura Pecci, Milan, Italy Bjarne Melgaard, Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna

2000

  • The Mutilation of the Apes, Alleged Gallery, New York
  • New Works, Nils Staerk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Sweden
  • The Myth Of A Young Washingmachine, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo The Only Weapon You Have In A Society Like This Is A Clear Mind..., Galleri Riis, Oslo Victor Boullet featuring Bjarne Melgaard, Hot Rod Tea Room, Oslo

1999

  • The Conquest of Islam, Art Basel/Statements (Galleri Riis, Oslo), Basel, Switzerland

1998

  • Bjarne Melgaard: Everything American Is Evil, the Return To Constantiople, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
  • Bjarne Melgaard’s More Pricks than Kicks, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
  • Up Late, Galleri Riis, Oslo

1997

  • Bjarne Melgaard: Free From Content, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • New Love, Old Paint (Dedicated to Margaux Hemingway), Galleri Riis, Oslo

1996

  • Confessions of a Recovering Minimalist, Bjarne Melgaard – Guillaume Bijl, Galleri c/o Alte Gerhardsen, Oslo

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025

  • Énormément bizarre, Permanent Collection Exhibition, The Centre Pompidou, Paris 

  • Yet Another Morning, Permanent Collection Exhibition, Moderna Museum, Stockholm 
  • Through the Years, Christen Sveeas Art Collection, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikkoden, Norway

  • Telepathy Curating presents: Teases and Synthesis; Empty Threats, Vienna Love and Anxiety Reality Paradoxes, curated by Kristoffer Cezinando Karlsen and Josef Strau, City Galerie/Emanuel Layr

2023

  • Drawn into the Present: Portraits on Paper, Thaddaeus Ropac, London

2022

  • Kaleidoscope Eyes, Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea

2020

  • Keteleer Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
  • Community Guidelines, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
  • The Sewers of Mars, Reena Spaulings, New York
  • Messe in St. Agnes, König Galerie, Berlin Felix at the Hollywood Roosevelt, Los Angeles Works on Paper Bohman-Knäpper, Stockholm

2019

  • looking forward, Keteleer Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
  • Installations from 25 Years of the Falckenberg Collection, Deichtorhallen Hamburg – Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany
  • Naturally Naked, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Inc.,Moscow, Russia
  • A seed's a star, organised by Constance Tenvik, Loyal Gallery, Stockholm
  • Opening x 2 | Summer Show (Erland Cullberg, Bjarne Melgaard and Jarl Ingvarsson), Bohman-Knäpper, Stockholm
  • The Collection (I) Highlights for a Future, S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
  • Spring Show 2019, Bohman-Knäpper, Stockholm
  • Objects and Sculptures by Lena Cronqvist, Marie-Louise Ekman, Peter Frie, Bjarne Melgaard, Dan Wolgers, Bohman-Knäpper, Stockholm
  • CoBrA and some Consequences, COLLABORATIONS by Tania and Thomas Asbæk, Copenhagen

2018

  • Impulse Control, Freedman Fitzpatrick, Paris Den borgerlige byrde, Galleri Brandstrup, Oslo Selv om du står stille har du lov, Galleri Fineart, Oslo
  • Belgrade Biennial – Marvellous Cacophony, 57th October Salon, Belgrade, Serbia
  • Mature Themes, Foxy Production, New York

2017

  • Divided States of America, The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, New York
  • Selected Works / Bjarne Melgaard, Donald Baechler, Peter Frie, Lars Lerin, Maria Miesenberger, Patrik Andiné, Bohman-Knäpper, Stockholm

2016

  • Painters' Painters, Saatchi Gallery, London
  • Expanding Frontiers: La Fondation Hippocrène Invite La Kaviar Factory, La Fondation Hippocrène, Paris
  • Baby I'm a Star, Romeo, New York Golden Eggs, Team Gallery, New York The Present in Drag, Ninth Berlin Biennale, Berlin

2015

  • Some Gallerist's, M/L Artspace at the Duck, Berlin
  • The Avant-Garde Won't Give Up: Cobra and Its Legacy, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
  • He Put a Hot Fish in Her Navel, EMBAJADA, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Summer Exhibition, Skarstedt, London
  • A Walk, Tripoli Gallery, East Hampton, New York
  • Intimate Paintings, Half Gallery, New York
  • What's Wrong with We, Martos Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Alex Da Corte:Die Hexe, Luxembourg & Dayan, New York
  • Call and Response, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York

2014

  • Early Man, The Hole, New York
  • Amerika, David Castillo Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
  • Speak Through Art, Kaviar Factory, Henninsvaer, Lofoten, Norway
  • In The Bedroom, M/L Artpace, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York 9 Artists, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambrige, MA Depression, François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles 
2014 Whitney Biennale, Whitney Museum of Art, New York DISown – Not For Everyone, Red Bull Studios, New York The Drawing Room, Magasin 3 Konsthall, Stockholm

2013

  • Empire State – Art from New York, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin/Paris
  • JULEUTSTILLINGEN, Galleri Dobloug, Oslo 9 Artists, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN 12th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France
  • PANORAMA, Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm
  • Momentum, The 7th Nordic Biennial for Contemporary Art, Moss, Norway Munch by Others, Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum, Tønsberg, Norway DSM-V at the Future Moynihan Station, New York
  • Empire State – Art from New York, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
  • Norsk 90 Tall, Kaare Berntsen, Oslo
  • Chicken or Beef?, The Hole, New York
  • Looking Back: The White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York
  • New Arrivals, Kaare Berntsen, Oslo

2012

  • Bulletin Boards, Venus Over Manhattan and White Columns, New York Context Message, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York Undetectable, Visual AIDS at La MaMa Galleria, New York Drawings, Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm
  • Face/OFF, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Berlin

2011

  • DRAWINGS, Rod Bianco, Oslo
  • Moment: Ynglingagatan 1, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
  • JUEUTSTILLINGEN, Galleri Dobloug, Oslo Grisaille, Luxembourg & Dayan, New York The Social Failure, Maccarone, New York After Shelley Duvall ’72, Maccarone, New York
  • Scandinavian Rhapsody/Scandinavian Artists, Galerie Proarta, Zürich, Switzerland
  • Absolute Installation, Nasjonalmuseet for Kunst, Arkitektur og Design, Oslo

2010

  • Group Show, Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm Sweat, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland Forced Exposure, Team Gallery, New York
  • Norse Soul: the legacy of Edvard Munch, social demorcracy, old myths, anarchy and death longings, Katzen Art Center, American University, Washington DC, WA D.C.

2009

  • DAMASCUS, Rod Bianco, Oslo
  • Latte in Watte, Gallery Riis, Oslo
  • Sketches in Heaven and Hell, Trafo Kunsthall, Asker, Norway
  • Two Shows: Peeps/Pisoletto, The Amie & Tony James Gallery, The Graduate Center of The City University of New York, New York
  • REALISME/REALISMER, Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger, Norway
  • Nachspiel/Vorspiel, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen, Norway

2008

  • Edvard Munch: Tribute And Inspiration, Faurschou, Copenhagen
  • Works on Paper by Gallery Artists and Ricci Albenda, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
  • Works on Paper, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland
  • Jekyll Island, Honour Fraser, Los Angeles, CA
  • Accrochage, Faurschou, Copenhagen
  • That’s the Way It Is, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin

2007

  • Euro-Centric, Part 1: New European Art from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
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Off The Wall, Patricia Low Contemporary at RENTAL, New York
  • Fall Exhibition, Kaare Berntsen, Oslo
  • 25 Jahre Galerie Crone – Jubiläumsausstellung, Galerie Crone, Berlin Destroy Athens: 1st Athens Biennale 2007, Athens, Greece
  • Beneath the Underdog, Gagosian Gallery, New York
  • The Socerer’s Apprentice: Late Picasso & Contemporary Painters, Faurschou, Copenhagen
  • Hardcore. Drawing, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway
  • ROCK ‚N‘ ROLL Volume I, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway
  • Daydreams and Nightmares, Works from the Collection of Tor Juul, The Stenersen Museum, Oslo
  • Aggression of Beauty II, Arndt & Partner, Berlin Spring Exhibition, Kaare Berntsen, Oslo 7011 Vestfossen, ARENA Vestfossen, Vestfossen, Norway
  • Gallery Swap (Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin and Hotel, London), Hotel, London
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2006
  • Bjarne Melgaard, Sven’t Jolle, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Erik Van Lieshout, Angel Vergara, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
  • Marie-Louise Ekman/Bjarne Melgaard, Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden
  • Helter/Helter, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris
  • Reflections, Faurschou, Copenhagen
  • After Munch: Norweigian Contemporary Art, Pollock Fine Art, London

2005

  • Papier, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
  • ROM for ROM – International Art, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway
  • Goetz meets Falckenberg, Sammlung Falckenberg/Phoneix Kulturstiftung, Hamburg, Germany Superstars: The Celebrity Factor. From Warhol to Madonna, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna 
With Us against reality, or against us, Galleri S.E, Bergen, Norway
  • The Horse Hospital, London
  • 30 Years – 30 Artists, Galleri Dobloug, Oslo

2004

  • Bjarne Melgaard, Galeria SENDA, Barcelona, Spain
  • Central Station, The Harald Falckenberg Collection, la maison rouge, Paris Diaries and Dreams, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim, Germany Fall Show, Galleri Tonne, Oslo
  • Norwegian and International Art, Galleri Tonne, Oslon, Norway
  • The Black Album, Rock e dintorni, Antonio Colombo Arte Contempranea, Milan, Italy
  • BODY from Munch to Melgaard, Kisefos-Museet, Jevnaker, Norway
  • The Netherlands: Secrets from the 90’s, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, Netherlands
  • Playlist, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
  • Scream: 10 artists x 10 writers x 10 scary movies, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
  • In a Norwegian Wood. Norwegian Art of the Last Decade, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland

2003

  • Expressive Nordic Painting, Galleri Faurschou Copenhagen
  • TABOO! The Art of Exotica Entertainment, Galerie Roger Pailhas, Marseille, France
  • Tirol Transfer, Austrian Cultural Forum, Warsaw, Poland
  • Twilight, Gimpel Fils, London
  • De bortbjudna – Malmö Art Museum, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden
  • Summer Exhibition, Galleri Tonne West, Oslo
  • Summer Exhibition, Galleri Tonne, Oslo
  • Models & Mavericks: Exceptional positions in the collection contemporary art, Museum Het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands
  • The Painting never dries... Reflections over paintings in the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
  • Phantom of Desire, Visions of Masochism in Art, Neue Falerie Graz, Graz, Austria
  • Bjarne Melgaard, Sven’t Jolle, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Erik Van Lieshout, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
  • Accrocharge, Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen Moderna Museet c/o BAC, Baltic Art Center, Visby, Sweden M_ARS: ART AND WAR, Neue Galerie Graz, Graz, Austria Tra Est e Ovest, Gas Art Gallery, Turin, Italy

2002

  • Black Low // The Punk Movement Was Just Hippies With Short Hair, MARTa Herford Museum, Herford, Germany
  • Hommage an Rudolf Schwarzkogler, an exhibtion to mark the 30th anniversairy of Galerie Krinzinger, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
  • Extension: Works from the Collection, Magasin 3 Konsthall, Stockholm

2001

  • Det Lille Galleri, Nasjonalmuseet – Nettverk Galleri, Oslo
  • New Heimat, Frankfurter Kunsterein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

2000

  • Sharing Exoticisms, 5th Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France
  • PHONEIX ART 2001: Arbeiten aus der Sammlung Gunlach, Lafrenz und Falckenberg, Sammlung Falckenberg/Phoneix Kulturstiftung, Hamburg, Germany
  • Civil Disobedience, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hannover, Germany Galeria Senda, Barcelona, Spain
  • Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm
  • Organizing Freedom: Nordic Art in the 1990’s, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
  • Organizing Freedom: Nordic Art in the 1990’s, Modern Museum, Stockholm
  • The myth of a young washing machine, Oslo Museum of Contempoary Art Galleri Riis, Oslo Momentum: Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art, Moss, Norway

1999

  • Zeitwenden: Rückblick und Ausblick, Kunstmseum, Bonn, Germany
  • Cowboys Who Are Poets Know It (guest starring Raoul Bernard St Summierre and Rod Bo bel / An Exhibition of Drawings, Galerie Annette De Deyser, Antwerp, Belgium
  • Moon over Islam, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K), Gent, Belgium
  • Umfeld, Umwelt, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium

1998

  • Mainfesta II, European Biennale of Contemporary Art, Luxemburg, Luxemburg Reinterpretation of Crystal Meth II, XXIV Biennale de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brasil White Nights, CODE, Bergen, Norway
  • Softcore (Arkipelag Festival), National Historial Museum, Stockholm Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin
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1997
  • Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

1996

  • De Rode Poort (The Red Gate), S.M.A.K (Museum of Contemporary Art), Gent, Belgium

1995

  • JULEUTSTILLINGEN, Galleri Dobloug, Oslo
  • Dixi: a presentation of 34 emerging Norwegian artists, Oslo
  • Selected Screenings

2026 
Bjarney Does it All, Kunstsilo, Kristiansand 

Selected Publications

2026 De Etterlatte, Novel, Oktober Forlag (Forthcoming)
  • PUBLIC & PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
  • Belgium
  • S.M.A.K, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent
  • Finland
  • Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
  • France
  • Musée national d'Art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Musées de Strasbourg, Strasbourg
  • Germany
  • MARTa Herford Museum, Herford
  • Netherlands
  • Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
  • Norway
  • Arts Council Norway, Oslo Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo
  • Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum, Tønsberg Malmö Konstmuseum, Bergen
  • Museet for samtidskunst – Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo Munch Museum, Oslo
  • Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo Sparebankstiftelsen DNB, Oslo
  • Sweden
  • Magasin III – Museum for Contemporary Art, Stockholm Moderna Museet, Stockholm
  • UK
  • Acute Art, London Saatchi Gallery, London
  • USA
  • High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles The Museum of Modern Art, New York Rubell Museum, Miami, FL
  • University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI

Press

Bjarne Melgaard in Conversation with Nicole Eisenman, Interview Magazine

Problem Child, by Steph Eckardt, W Magazine