• helene sommer

• variations of Max
• i was [t]here
• a tale of stone and wood
• viewfinder
• travelogue of an unknown city
• high over the borders
• the story of automatika
• das gelände
• cabin ecology
• the stolen cycas and other incidents
• c.mutica's hypothetical journey
• oasis
• a landscape with no horizon
• reel nature

• texts
• contact
• cv

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Helene Sommer
b. Oslo, 1978
lives and works in Oslo and Berlin

Education

99-03 National Academy of Finearts, Oslo, Norway 2002 UdK, Berlin 96-98 Einar Granum Kunstskole, Oslo.

Residency/Fellowship

2009Interspace, Sofia, Bulgaria (EMARE) 2007-09 Akademie Schloss Solitude, Germany [ Fellowship - video/film/new media] 2007 Platform Garanti, Istanbul (OCA) 2005 IASPIS, Stockholm (Nifca)

Exhibitions/screenings

2010IN-book OUT-book IF-book , Municipal Library in Palazzo Mauri, Spoleto, Italy/ Residency Culture, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia/ Variations of Max, Chert gallery, Berlin / Territorien des In/Humanen , Würtembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart / A Tale of Stone and Wood, Red House, Sofia 2009 Labyrint, Botkyrka Konsthall, Stockholm/ CCA, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw / .move, Werkleitz/EMARE, Halle, Germany / Nachspiel/Vorspiel, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Norway / Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart 2008 Stay, stay, stay, Bathhouse, Sofia / Vom Zentrum der Welt und anderswo, Kölnische Kunstverein / Mobile archive (The Israeli Center for Digital Art)/ Halle für Kunst, Lueneburg / Space off, Botnik Studios, Sweden / Natural Relations, Galerija Skuc, Ljubliana / Recontres Internationales, Madrid / Geschichtet, Projektraum Römerstrasse, Stuttgart 2007 Dealing with Fear, Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (symposium) / En vecka i solen Botnik Studios, Sweden / The story of Automatika, Culture center, Yerevan, Armenia. Collaboration w/ Vahram Aghasyan / Recontres Internationales, Madrid, Berlin and Paris 2006 Recontres Internationales, Paris / Screening, Latitude 53, Ca 2005 Oase, Rogaland Kunstsenter, Stavanger, Norway 2003 Statens Kunstakademis Avgangsutstilling, Stenersen Museet, Oslo 2002 Aurora Berlinalis, Münze, Berlin / Don’t Mention the War, Stiftung Starke, Berlin 2001 Doorviewer, Galleri 21-24, Oslo / 2000 Oslo Open, Seilduks fabrikken, Oslo

Grants
2010The Norwegian government’s one-year working grant 2009 OCA International support 2008 NBK, Project Support / Arts Council Norway, publication support 2007 International Support, OCA 2006 The Norwegian government’s one-year working grant 2005 Exhibition support for young artists / Arts Council Norway, Exhibition grant / The Norwegian Government one-year working grant 2004 Ingrid Lindback Langaard Foundation / Project support, Billedkunstnerenes Vederlagsfond 2003 The Norwegian government’s establishing grant / Kåre Martinsens foundation/ 2002 BKH Academy student grant