Erling T.V. Klingenberg
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Erling T.V. Klingenberg, born 21st of January 1970.
Erling T.V. Klingenberg studied at the Icelandic College of Art & Craft and graduated from there in 1994. He also studied at the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunst in Frankfurt am Main and in Kiel in Germany. From there he went to Halifax, Canada and graduated 1997 with a MFA degree from Nova Scotia College of Art & Design.
Erling T.V. Klingenberg has both exhibited in his native Iceland and abroad, f.ex. in Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Denmark, Sweden, Netherland, Ireland, Poland, USA, Canada and China. Beside his own practice, Erling is one of the founder of Kling & Bang gallery (2003) that also ran the artist base KlinK and BanK 2004 and 2005. He has, with his colleagues at Kling & Bang, organized and collaborated on various project with many other artists, such as Sheep Plug with Jason Rhoades and Paul McCarthy, the film Skipholt with John Bock, Two Hanks with David Askevold, Hugris with Gelitin and the Sirkus Bar at Frieze Project (Frieze Art Fair 2008) and many more.
VITA
1995 – 1997 Nova Scotia College of Art & Design
MFA degree, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
1994 – 1995 Hochschule für Bildende Kunste,
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
1992 – 1993 Fachhochschule fur Bildende Kunst Kiel
Kiel, Germany
1991 – 1994 Icelandic Academy of the Arts
Reykjavik, Iceland
Selcted solo-exhibitions:
2025 “Jolasyning“, Asmundarsalur, Reykjavik, Iceland.
2024 “Why is Iceland so poor?”, the Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland.
“Looking Inward, Looking Outward – “, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland
2023 “Atlas”, Corridor gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland.
“Magn Tímafars/Power of Passage II”, Íslenski bærinn– Turf House, Iceland.
“Our Art”, Reykjavik Art Museum, Kjarvalsstadir, Reykjavik, Iceland.
”Kaleidoscope: Icelandic 21st Century Art” (second part fall 23), Reykjavik Art Museum, Hafnarhus, Reykjavik, Iceland.
2022 “Magn Tímafars/Power Passage”, Íslenskibærinn-Turf House, East-Medalholt, Iceland. “Kunstlerstatements”, Travelling exhibition/many countries, Europe & South-America.
2021 ”Head2Head“, Eight/To ΟΧΤΩ gallery, Athens, Greece.
“Do you fear to hear”, Voices of Pythia/ Office of Emergency, performance w. Greta Jonsdottir, Copenhagen, Denmark.
“Ein fjol í einu” (#2), Artmuseum of Samuel Jonsson, Selardalur, Westfjords, Iceland.
“Kunstlerstatements”, Travelling exhibition/many countries, first part; Galerie Wolfstaedter, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
2020 “Ein fjol í einu” (#1), Artmuseum of SamuelJonsson, Selardalur, Westfjords, Iceland.
“SPLÆSA”, Art- & culture festival of Fjardarbyggd, the Old fishnet factory, Neskaupsstad, Iceland.
“Covers”, Sixty Eight Art Institute, Kaupmannahöfn, Danmörk.
2019 “Inside the Outside” CEAC, Xiamen, China.
2018 “Portrait of….” Wolfstædter galerie, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
2014 “FORM”, Artist gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland.
2012 “Make a mountain out of a molehill”, 68sqm gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark.
“Landmarken”, Dorothea Schlueter gallery, Hamburg, Germany
“Powerful pictures” Kling & Bang gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland.
2010 (not titled yet), Ut-Out gallery, (new gallery in Reykjavik, Iceland)
“It is hard to be an Artist in a Rockstar Body”, Hafnarborg, Hafnarfjordur, Iceland.
2009 “Changeling”, Torstrasse 111, Berlin, Germany
2008 “Klingenberg Case – Kunst am Main”, Galerie Wildwechsel, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
“Artists on the Verge of Something ll”, Kling & Bang gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland.
2005/6 “I Exhibit Nothing but in a New Context”, Kling & Bang gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland.
2004 “Are you looking at me?” Artmuseum ASI, Reykjavik, Iceland.
“Mass production of Individuality”, Windowspace, Copenhagen, Denmark.
“Pyramids”, Reykjavik Art Museum , Reykjavik, Iceland.
2001 “Tyggja-Tala”, Slunkariki, Isafjordur, Iceland.
1999 “Minnmattar-Meirihattar” Gallery Hlemmur, Reykjavik, Iceland.
1997 “Natural Born Artist”, Anna Leonowens gallery, Halifax, Canada.
1996 “Artists”, Ballroom Gallery, Halifax, Canada.
1994 “The Look of the Year”, the Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland.
1992“mmmmm”, Prima Kunst Gallery, Kiel, Germany
Selected group exhibitions:
2018 ”Rolling snowball”, Factory, Djupivogur, Iceland.
2016 “POGO”, Marie Kirkegaard gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark.
“A nervous breakdown”, 68 sqm gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark.
“On the Top“, Wolfstaedter gallery, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
2015 “DOMA ART FESTIVAL” various galleries & museums, Sofia, Bulgaria.
“Selected portraits from the collection of the National Gallery of Iceland – from the rustic to the selfie”, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland”
2014 “Icelandic contemporary portraits”, Artmuseum of Akureyri, Iceland.
“Due North”, Philagrafika Projects, Philadelphia, USA.
“Coctail at the port or port coctail”, gallery Portid, Kopavogur, Iceland.
2013 “Civilization-Monumental Materialism” (Colony (EXPO 1)), MoMA PS 1, New York, USA.
“Cypher”, Sphinx gallery, New York, USA.
“Motorcycle Cultures: fashioning bikes, building identities” ( International Journal of Motorcycle Studies exhibition & conference 2013), Triangle Space, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, UK.
“Face to Face” Artmuseum of ASI, Reykjavik, Iceland.
“6th Volume”, Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland.
2012 “DRA conference 2012”, Aarhus, Denmark.
“The Demented Diamond of Kling & Bang´s Confected Video Archive”, Reykjavik Art Museum, Harbourhouse, Reykjavik, Iceland.
“Panorama Bridget“, Hamburg art-week, Hamburg, Germany.
“MHR 40”, Sculpture Association of Iceland, Kling & Bang gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland.
2012 frh.: “Endemi”, magazine and exhibition, Sculpturegarden, Sculpture Association of Iceland. “EPAC – EUROPEAN PUBLIC ART CENTRE”, Iceland & Poland Jan.-mars 2012. (Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Portugal, Spain & UK 2012)
“Grabbing the void”, Reykjavik Art Museum-Kjarvalsstadir, Reykjavik, Iceland.
2011 “Trolley Presents TJ Boulting Presenting Kling & Bang” TJ Boulting gallery/Trolley books, London, UK.
“Alles Ganz Isi”, Torstrasse 111, Berlin, Germany.
“then & now”, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.
“The Big Picture”, Aceartinc. gallery, Winnipeg, Canada.
“Sound of the North”, Galtarviti-lighthouse, Westfjords, Iceland.
“The Confected Archive”, Dorothea Schlueter galerie, Hamburg, Germany.
“Koddu”, Living Art Museum and the Allianz house, Reykjavik, Iceland.
2010“Ad elta folk og drekka mjolk” (to follow people and drink milk), Hafnarborg, Hafnarfjordur, Iceland.
2009 “Safn(arar) – Collect(ors)”, Hafnarborg, Hafnarfjordur, Iceland.
“Alt_Cph”, Copenhagen, Denmark.
“Subvision”, Subvision-art-festival-off. Hamburg, Germany.
“No Soul for Sale”, (old DIA Center), New York, USA.
“Iceland meets Berlin”-4th Summer fest of international art, Emerson gallery, Berlin, Germany.
2009 “Lys over Lolland”, Rodbyhavn, Denmark.
“Portrait Now”, Frederiksborg Slot/Natural History Museum, Hillerod, Denmark.
2008 “Sirkus”, Frieze Project, Frieze Art fair, London, England.
“Out of Touch”, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria.
“Sundogs”, Truck gallery, Calgary, Canada.
“Pisland 1”, Jurewicz-Arnardottir Art Foundation, Nikisialka, Poland.
“Artists on the Verge of Something II”, Kling & Bang gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland.
2007 “Kling & Bang vs.111”, Torstrasse 111, Berlín, Germany
“Islandia”, Gallery Skolska 28 og gallery NoD, Prague, Czech Republic.
Volta-show, Kling & Bang, Basel, Switzerland.
2006 Berlin Art Fair-Kunstsalon, Asim Chugtai gallery, Berlin, Germany
“Project Patterson”, Sudsudvestur gallery and other locations at Keflavik, Iceland.
“Gods chosen people”, Kling & Bang gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland.
“Glocal”, Ground-One Festival Expo, Quartair Contemporary, Den Hague, Netherland.
“Klingenberg Academy”, Gulangyu Institute (Dieter Roth akademy), Xiamen, China.
“Two Rocks-Two Stars”, Galerie Wildwechsel, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
“Idea of North”, SMU gallery, Halifax, Canada
2005 “Me, myself and I”, travelling exhibition; Berlin, Düsseldorf, München, Amsterdam, Frankfurt am Main,
Budapest…..(2005-6)
“Father murder-witch time” the Nordic House, Reykjavik, Iceland.
“Berlinvasion”, Berliner Liste, Berlin, Germany
“KlinK og BanK project”, Sukkerfabrikken, Saxkjöbing, Denmark
“Sense in Place” – Site-ations, Model and Nilland gallery, Sligo, Ireland.
2004 ” New Icelandic Art, Reality, the human being and the image”, the National Gallery of Iceland, Rvk. Iceland.
“Are you looking at me?” Artmuseum ASI, two mans show w. David Diviney, Reykjavik, Iceland.
2003 “Mökuleki”, Skaftfell, Cultural Center of East-Iceland (with Sirra Sigrun Sigurdardottir)
Seyðisfjördur, Iceland.
“Rambelta”, Hafnarborg Art Center, Hafnarfjördur, Iceland.
“25 years of Nylo”, the Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland.
2002 “Gallery Hlemmur”, Gerdarsafn-Kopavogur Art Museum, Kopavogur, Iceland.
“DON”, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas, USA.
“Gallery Klingenberg Mobile” – 3 works/ Lejre Camp, Lejre, Denmark.
“The Head is round so thoughts can change direction”, Ringsted Galleri, Ringsted, Denmark.
2000 “Reykjavik, the oasis”. Performance; Instant Coffee-Workspace, Toronto, Canada.
“Instead of going to my studio…”, Gerduberg-culture center Reykjavik, Iceland.
“They Left as quickly as they Came “, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, Canada.
“Gardens and beyond”, Galleri Mauri Knuuti, Säve og Gothenburg, Sweden.
1999 “Picture”, Museum Egilsstadir, Iceland
“Breathe”, Glashuset, Gothenburg, Sweden.
“Hot Spot”, Kulturbahnhof Eller-8 Icelandic Artists, Düsseldorf, Germany
“Icelandic Bone in a Swedish Sock”, Galleri 54, Gothenburg, Sweden.
1998 “The Igloo has landed”, Villa Minimo, with Roman Signer, Asmundur Asmundsson., Magnus Sigurdarson and Morten Tillitz, Hannover, Germany
“Riesenalk-oholiker”, OFKunstraum, Icelandic and Danish artists, Offenbach am Main, Germany
“-30/60+”, Kjarvalsstadir, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland.
“Artists on the Verge of Something”, Living Art Museum w. Roman Signer, Asmundur Asmundsson., Magnus Sigurdarson, Reykjavik, Iceland.
1997 OFKunstraum. Icelandic and Canadian artists, Offenbach am Main, Germany
“8 Canadian artists”, Halifax Metro Centre, Halifax, Canada.
“Cold-Collegiate”, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Canada.
“Membership”, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, Canada.
1996 “Fondu”, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Canada.
1995 “The Big Brother”, Mokka, joint installation/work of four artists, Reykjavik, Iceland.
“Forest Flora”, Hallormstaðir-forest, East-Iceland.