Lars Laumann
B. 1975, Brønnøysund, Norway
Lives and works in Brønnøysund, Norway
Biography
Lars Laumann b. 1975, Brønnøysund, Norway. Lives and works in Brønnøysund, Norway and Marseille, France. Best known as an Norwegian artist working with video art, Laumann has also throughout been working with textiles and printmaking.
One of Norway’s most internationally acclaimed artists, and among the most highly esteemed Norwegian artists of his generation, Laumann is a gifted storyteller, drawing inspiration from the margins of pop culture and exploring people and phenomena on the outskirts of society.
For years his main medium has been video, composed from existing footage, though over time this has come to include sculpture.
Whether tracing internet conspiracy theories as in “Morrissey Foretelling the Death of Diana” (2006) a montage of existing film clips that evolves into an intricate and conspiratorial narrative of two pop culture icons—or taking a closer look at animism, object-related sexuality, and forbidden love, as in “Berlinmuren” (2008) Laumann casts a unique view on obsession, sexuality, and marginalized existence.
Lars Laumann’s work has been exhibited at MoMA, Tate Modern, Kunsthalle Basel and New York’s New Museum.
The artist’s work has also been included in notable group exhibitions such as “Free,” New Museum, New York, the 5th Berlin Biennial, curated by Adam Szymczyk and Elena Filipovic and “As Long As It Lasts,” Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, curated by Tom Eccles.
Laumann most recently participated in “Every Moment Counts — AIDS and its Feelings” at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Norway, “100 YEARS OF CONVIVIALITY: what you can see is what you can imagine ” at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo. In 2021 he was awarded Bodø 2024 grant for developing a new project for Lofoten International Art Festival (LIAF) 2022
Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
1995
- Norwegian State Academy, Oslo, Norway.
1993
- North Norwegian Art and Film School, Kabelvåg, Norway.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
- Untitled Wallpaper (Hercules, 38 years), In the Closet, Oslo, Norway
2016
- Lars Laumann, VI, VII, Oslo, Norway
2015
- Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway, (C). Buenos Tiempos, Int. Online
2013
- Grand Union, Birmingham, UK.
2012
- VI, VII, Oslo, Norway.
- Sør Helgeland, West, The Hague, The Netherlands.
2011
- I Wanna Dance With Somebody, West, The Hague, The Netherlands.
- The Anti-Social Majority—Lars Laumann invites Kjersti Andvig, Vela Arbutina, Benjamin A. Huseby, Jeanette Main, Stewart Uoo, Dan-Ola Persson and Rein Vollenga. Kunsthall Oslo, Oslo.
2010
- Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland.
- Maureen Paley, London.
- Foxy Production, New York, USA.
- Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland, (C).
2009
- Maureen Paley, London.
- Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Fort Worth, Texas.
- Galway Arts Centre, as part of the Galway Arts Festival, Galway, Ireland.
- Trænafestivalen, Træna, Norway.
2007
- Morrissey Foretelling the Death of Diana, White Columns, New York, curated by Matthew Higgs.
- Morrissey Foretelling the Death of Diana, Vox Populi/SCREENING, Philadelphia.
2006
- The Thick Plottens, Galuzin Gallery, Oslo.
- Entre Chienne et Louve, Le Commissariat, Paris.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
- Lofoten International Art Festival (LIAF), Lofoten, Norway
- Every Moment Counts – AIDS and its Feelings, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway
2021
- What you can see is what you can imagine, UKS (Unge Kunstneres Samfund / Young Artists’ Society), Oslo, Norway
2019
- A Seed’s A Star, Organized by Constance Tenvik, Loyal Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden.
- Migration: Traces in an Art Collection, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden, touring: Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden
- Artist’s Film International, The Whitechapel Gallery, London UK
2018
- The Value of Freedom, Belvedere 21, Vienna, Austria
2017
- Innland, Centre de Création Contemporain Olivier Debré, Tours, France
- Lorck Schive Art Prize 2017, Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Trondheim, Norway
2016
- ÷ / × [dividing by multiplying], Gdańska Galeria Miejska, Gdansk, Poland
- Artists’ Film Biennial 2016, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
2014
- Pictures Between the Lines, Salon Dahlmann, Berlin, Germany
- Project 35 – Volume 2 – The DeVos Art Museum at Northern Michigan University, Marquette, USA
- 1814 Revisited – The Past is Still Present, Akershus Kunstsenter, Lillestrøm and Eidsvoll, Norway
- Crime in Art, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow, Poland
- Like A Virgin, VIVII, Oslo, Norway
- The Positive Void, Kunsthall Oslo, Olso, Norway
2013
- 30th Council of Europe art exhibition – The Desire for Freedom. Art in Europe Since 1945, Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków (MOCAK), Krakow, Poland
- PROJECT 35 Volume 2 – Touring, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany: VCUarts Anderson Gallery, Richmond, USA: Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
- Kjersti G. Andvig and Lars Laumann: 999321, Grand Union, Birmingham, UK
- Nordic Art / Between Miracles, CCA – Center for Contemporary Art Tbilisi, Georgia.
- PARADOX. Positions in Norwegian video art 1980–2010, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway.
- Black & Vases, Komplot contemporary art centre, Brussels
2012
- Friends, Countrymen, Gaudel de Stampa, Paris, France.
- The Gospel According to…, Holden Gallery, Manchester, UK
- Soundworks, ICA, London
- Spazi Aperti, Romanian Academy, Rome.
- Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear, Project space, Tate Modern, London, touring to Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo.
2011
- The Royal Family, Hayward Project Space, Hayward Gallery, London.
- Western Front Society, Vancouver.
2010
- Free, New Museum, New York.
- Jeu de Paume, Paris, France.
- Le Dernier Roman Du Monde, Supportico Lopez, Berlin, Germany.
- Touched: Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK, (C).
- Mediations Biennale, National Museum, Warsaw, Poland.
2009
- As Long As It Lasts, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, curated by Tom Eccles.
- Art in the Auditorium, organised by Whitechapel Gallery, London touring to Ballroom Marfa, Texas, Fundacion PROA, Buenos Aires, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, The Institute for the Re-adjustment of Clocks, Istanbul, City Gallery, Wellington, The Whitechapel Gallery, London.
- Back to the Future, COMA, Berlin, curated by Carson Chan.
- Goodbye To Romance, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada, curated by Elaine Gaito.
- Momentum 5th Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art, Moss, Norway, Curated by Lina Džuverović and Stina Högkvist, Momentum Kunsthall and Galleri F15, Moss, Norway.
- Open studio, ISCP International Studio and Curational Program, New York.
- Report on Probability, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland, curated by Adam Szymczyk.
- 1989. Ende der Geschichte oder Beginn der Zukunft?, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, curated by Gerald Matt and Cathérine Hug.
- The Reach of Realism, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida, curated by Ruba Katrib.
- Video Art: Replay, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
- Statoil art award 2009 nomination exhibition, Kunstnerforbundet Gallery of Contemporary Art, Oslo. (C)
2008
- 5th Berlin Biennial, Berlin, curated by Adam Szymczyk and Elena Filipovic.
- The Dulcet Clime of the Bedchamber, Goff & Rosenthal, Berlin, curated by Nicholas Weist.
- Update, White Columns, New York, curated by Matthew Higgs.
- The Hidden, Maureen Paley, London, curated by Maureen Paley.
- PopShop, MU Gallery, Eindhoven, curated by Angelique Spaninks.
- Medium Cool, Art in General, New York, curated by Hanne Mugaas.
- Soft Spot, Project 0047, Oslo, curated by Marianne Zamecznik.
- Monumeno Mori, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, curated by Anders Smebye.
- Nul, Foxy Production, New York, curated by Dick Evans.
- Faire et Defaire C’est Toujours Travailler, Galerie West, Amsterdam, curated by Le Commissariat.
- Vårutstillingen 2008, Fotogalleriet, Oslo, curated by Line Halvordsen.
2007
- There Is Always A Machine Between Us, SF Cameraworks, San Francisco, curated by Kate Fowle, Karla Milsovech, Chuck Mobley and Dan Orendorff.
- Love Me Or I’ll Kill You!, Norwegische Britische Freundschaft, Berlin, curated by Benjamin A. Huseby.
- Pastiche, Sølyst Slot/SAIR, Jyderup.
- EAST International, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, curated by Matthew Higgs and Marc Camille Chaimowicz.
- The Backroom/Société Anonyme, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, curated by Kate Fowle.
- Peer In Peer Out, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona, and The Moore Space, Miami.
- Robert Smithson/ Vårutstillingen, Fotogalleriet, Oslo, curated by Lina Viste Grønli and Anders Smeby.
- The Corny Show, Karma International, Zurich.
2006
- Cross My Heart, Torpedo Kunstbokhandel, Oslo.
- Giving People What They Want, The Glass Box, Paris, curated by Hanne Mugaas.
- Bokaktig, Fotogalleriet, Oslo, curated by Marianne Zamecznik and Halvor Haugen.
2005
- The Atlantic, Kling & Bang, Reykjavik.
- Høstutstillingen, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo.
- Everything I do, I do it for you, Prosjekt 0047, Berlin, curated by Hanne Mugaas.
AWARDS
2009
- Statoil Art Award
RESIDENCIES
2005
- Civitella Ranieri, Umbria, Italy
SCREENINGS
2019
- Architecture on Film: Berlinmuren + Rabbit à la Berlin, Borders and Boundaries, Barbican Cinema, London, UK
2018
- Lars Laumann Film Programme, Arctic Moving Image and Film Festival, Harstad Cinema and Harstad Library, Harstad, Norway, Small Projects, Tromsø, Norway
- Art Night × DRAF, London, United Kingdom
2017
- Season of Migration to the North, Untitled, San Francisco
2015
- DOMA International Art Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria
- Oslo Open videoprogramme, Atelier Nord ANX, Oslo, Norway
2014
- Project 35 Volume 2, Independent Curators International, Sri Lanka Archive of Contemporary Art, Architecture & Design, Jaffna, Sri Lanka
- Locomotion Artists’ Moving Image Festival, London
2013
- Flatpack Festival, Birmingham.
- Project 35 Volume 2, Independent Curators International, Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA
2012
- MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK.
- Oslo Kunstakademiet / KHIO, Oslo.
- Summer Crossings, Salt, Istanbul, Turkey.
- Treffpunkt: Berlin, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
2011
- Golden Days Festival, Ordrupgaard, Copenhagen
- West, The Haag, The Netherlands.
2010
- MoMA, New York, USA.
2009
- 23rd London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, London.
- Artists’ Film Club: Lars Laumann, ICA, London.
- An Object of the Attack; Five Storey Projects, The David Roberts Art Foundation, London.
- Dark Fair, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne.
- Stadtkino Basel, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel.
- Gets Under the Skin – contemporary videos and films on modernist architecture, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York.
- Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland.
- Goethe-Institut Portugal, Lisbon.
- Filmhuis den Haag, The Hague.
2008
- Gracelands Festival, Dromahair, Co. Leitrim.
- Spector, CRG Gallery, New York.
- monkey town, New York.
2007
- The Artist and the Computer, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Karma International, Zürich
- Basso, Berlin; Lost & Found, Amsterdam
- Åpent forum, Statens Kunstakademi, Oslo
- East goes West, Mandrake Bar, Los Angeles.
Lars Laumann, E.T. Hylle, 2017
E.T dolls and wood
170 × 130 × 10 cm (66 ⅞ × 51 ⅛ × 3 ⅞ inches)
E.T dolls and wood
170 × 130 × 10 cm (66 ⅞ × 51 ⅛ × 3 ⅞ inches)
Lars Laumann, hatful of cocteau, 2008
Silkscreen
95 × 69.5 × 2 cm (37 ⅜ × 27 ⅜ × ¾ inches)
Silkscreen
95 × 69.5 × 2 cm (37 ⅜ × 27 ⅜ × ¾ inches)
Benjamin J. Huseby and Lars Laumann, You Can't Pretend to be Somebody Else, You Already Are, 2011
Video
Video
Lars Laumann, Mini-Europe (Berlin Wall) No. 2, 2016
Silkscreen on Mirror
59 × 42 × 0.25 cm (23 ¼ × 16 ½ × ⅛ inches)
Silkscreen on Mirror
59 × 42 × 0.25 cm (23 ¼ × 16 ½ × ⅛ inches)
Lars Laumann, Mini-Europe (Berlin Wall) No.1, 2016
Silkscreen on Mirror
59 × 42 × 0.25 cm (23 ¼ × 16 ½ × ⅛ inches)
Silkscreen on Mirror
59 × 42 × 0.25 cm (23 ¼ × 16 ½ × ⅛ inches)
Lars Laumann, E.T. No. 2, 2016
Olive wood trimmings
18.5 × 9.5 × 9 cm (7 ¼ × 3 ¾ × 3 ½ inches) (7 ¼ × 3 ¾ × 3 ½ inches)
Olive wood trimmings
18.5 × 9.5 × 9 cm (7 ¼ × 3 ¾ × 3 ½ inches) (7 ¼ × 3 ¾ × 3 ½ inches)
Lars Laumann, E.T. No. 2, 2016
Olive wood trimmings
18.5 × 9.5 × 9 cm (7 ¼ × 3 ¾ × 3 ½ inches)
Olive wood trimmings
18.5 × 9.5 × 9 cm (7 ¼ × 3 ¾ × 3 ½ inches)
Lars Laumann, E.T. No. 1, 2016
Olive wood trimmings
33.5 × 21.5 × 23 cm (13 ¼ × 8 ½ × 9 inches)
Olive wood trimmings
33.5 × 21.5 × 23 cm (13 ¼ × 8 ½ × 9 inches)
Lars Laumann, Helen Keller (and the great purging bonfire of books and unpublished manuscripts illuminating the dark), 2011
Video
Video
Lars Laumann, Season of Migration to the North, 2015
Video
Video
Lars Laumann, Halland, 2010
Video for projection
Video for projection
Lars Laumann, Morrissey Foretelling the Death of Diana, 2006
Video
Video
Lars Laumann, Morrissey Foretelling the Death of Diana, 2006
Video
Video
Lars Laumann, Morrissey Foretelling the Death of Diana, 2006
Video
Video
Lars Laumann, What Would Olof Palme Do? (WWOPD), 2017, 2022
Marker and pen on fur
125 × 105 × 5 cm (49 ¼ × 41 ⅜ × 2 inches)
Marker and pen on fur
125 × 105 × 5 cm (49 ¼ × 41 ⅜ × 2 inches)
Lars Laumann, E.T. Hylle, 2017
E.T dolls and wood
170 × 130 × 10 cm (66 ⅞ × 51 ⅛ × 3 ⅞ inches)
E.T dolls and wood
170 × 130 × 10 cm (66 ⅞ × 51 ⅛ × 3 ⅞ inches)
Lars Laumann, hatful of cocteau, 2008
Silkscreen
95 × 69.5 × 2 cm (37 ⅜ × 27 ⅜ × ¾ inches)
Silkscreen
95 × 69.5 × 2 cm (37 ⅜ × 27 ⅜ × ¾ inches)
Benjamin J. Huseby and Lars Laumann, You Can't Pretend to be Somebody Else, You Already Are, 2011
Video
Video
Lars Laumann, Mini-Europe (Berlin Wall) No. 2, 2016
Silkscreen on Mirror
59 × 42 × 0.25 cm (23 ¼ × 16 ½ × ⅛ inches)
Silkscreen on Mirror
59 × 42 × 0.25 cm (23 ¼ × 16 ½ × ⅛ inches)
Lars Laumann, Mini-Europe (Berlin Wall) No.1, 2016
Silkscreen on Mirror
59 × 42 × 0.25 cm (23 ¼ × 16 ½ × ⅛ inches)
Silkscreen on Mirror
59 × 42 × 0.25 cm (23 ¼ × 16 ½ × ⅛ inches)
Lars Laumann, E.T. No. 2, 2016
Olive wood trimmings
18.5 × 9.5 × 9 cm (7 ¼ × 3 ¾ × 3 ½ inches) (7 ¼ × 3 ¾ × 3 ½ inches)
Olive wood trimmings
18.5 × 9.5 × 9 cm (7 ¼ × 3 ¾ × 3 ½ inches) (7 ¼ × 3 ¾ × 3 ½ inches)
Lars Laumann, E.T. No. 2, 2016
Olive wood trimmings
18.5 × 9.5 × 9 cm (7 ¼ × 3 ¾ × 3 ½ inches)
Olive wood trimmings
18.5 × 9.5 × 9 cm (7 ¼ × 3 ¾ × 3 ½ inches)
Lars Laumann, E.T. No. 1, 2016
Olive wood trimmings
33.5 × 21.5 × 23 cm (13 ¼ × 8 ½ × 9 inches)
Olive wood trimmings
33.5 × 21.5 × 23 cm (13 ¼ × 8 ½ × 9 inches)
Lars Laumann, Helen Keller (and the great purging bonfire of books and unpublished manuscripts illuminating the dark), 2011
Video
Video
Lars Laumann, Season of Migration to the North, 2015
Video
Video
Lars Laumann, Halland, 2010
Video for projection
Video for projection
Lars Laumann, Morrissey Foretelling the Death of Diana, 2006
Video
Video
Lars Laumann, Morrissey Foretelling the Death of Diana, 2006
Video
Video
Lars Laumann, Morrissey Foretelling the Death of Diana, 2006
Video
Video
Lars Laumann, What Would Olof Palme Do? (WWOPD), 2017, 2022
Marker and pen on fur
125 × 105 × 5 cm (49 ¼ × 41 ⅜ × 2 inches)
Marker and pen on fur
125 × 105 × 5 cm (49 ¼ × 41 ⅜ × 2 inches)