Artist
Mikkel Carl
1976, Kalundborg, Denmark · Copenhagen, Denmark
Mikkel Carl holds a BA in History of Ideas from Aarhus University (2002) and an MFA in Visual Art from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2009). His practice centres on installation and the reorganisation of visual and physical phenomena drawn from everyday culture, with a particular interest in materiality, signs and scale.
Since 2018 he has been a professor of visual art and exhibition practice at the Funen Art Academy in Odense. His work is held in the collections of ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, HEART – Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Randers Art Museum and Arken, among others, and he has created permanent public works across Denmark.
Selected solo exhibitions
- 2024Second Skin, Gammelgaard, Herlev
- 2023Like a Pop Song on the Last Night on Earth, Jacob Bjørn Gallery, Aarhus
- 2021Looking Is Not Seeing, Jacob Bjørn Gallery, Aarhus
- 2021Nothing Lasts, but Nothing Dies, HUSET for Kunst og Design, Holstebro
- 2019Everything but the Sun, Viborg Kunsthal, Viborg
- 2019Hippies Don't Own the Sun, Les Gens Heureux, Copenhagen
- 2019Haters Will Say it's Photoshop (part II), Galleri Jacob Bjørn, Aarhus
- 2018Terrified of Society and Its Unclean Bite, M23, New York
- 2017Bad Moon Rising, GL STRAND, Copenhagen
- 2017Flex on You Haters, Ellis King, Dublin
- 2016Smart Landscapes, Caves Art Center, Taipei
- 2016Truth Is Like Poetry, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen
- 2015We Are All Workers, Kunsthal NORD, Aalborg
- 2015We Are All Original, Andersen's Contemporary, Copenhagen
- 2014Mikkel Carl, ANNAELLEGALLERY, Stockholm
- 2012The Inverted Tree, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen
- 2010New New Sculpture, Henningsen Contemporary, Copenhagen
Selected group exhibitions
- 2021100 Sculptures, NYC, Anonymous gallery, New York
- 2020You Are Right Here Right Now, Kunsthal Rønnebæksholm, Næstved
- 2018Cool, Calm, Collected, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus
- 2017The Museum of the Unwanted, Kunstmuseum Olten, Olten
- 2017The Garden, End of Times; Beginning of Times, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus
- 2015TRUST, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
- 2013Nordic Cool: Hot Art, Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle
- 2012New Nordic, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk
- 2011For Real, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
- 2011On the Metaphor of Growth, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover
- 2009Afgang 09, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
- 2008Match Race, Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg
Education
- 2009MFA in Visual Art, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
- 2002BA in History of Ideas, Aarhus University
Public collections
- ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus
- HEART, Herning Museum of Contemporary Art
- Randers Art Museum, Randers
- ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art, Ishøj
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