Christian Falsnaes
Work inquiryAbout the artist
Christian Falsnaes (b. 1980, Copenhagen, Denmark) lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Christian Falsnaes’ practice centers on performance, often involving exhibition visitors whose participation—guided by instructions—becomes integral to the work. Over the past two decades, Christian Falsnaes has worked with performance and participation. By implementing group dynamics and rituals, he has examined how a defined group like an art audience can conform to a framework or a set of established rules. In his confrontation with authority, hierarchies, group dynamics and collective compulsion, Falsnaes situates himself outside the group and manipulates its actions. Thus, voluntary participation in a collective process ultimately becomes the participation in a directed energy aimed at provoking certain social behaviors in contexts where it is less at home.
His work has been widely covered in international by such as Elephant Magazine, Frieze, Artsy and Art Matter.
Education
2005 - 2011
Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
Solo exhibitions
2025
I, Randers Kunstmuseum, Randers, DK
2024
ARBEJDSTID, Golden Days Festival, Copenhagen, DK
I, Le Bicolore, Paris, FR
2023
VIELE, Spaced Out, Kerkow, DE
2021
FEAST, PSM, Berlin, DE
2020
LOOK AT ME, Copenhagen Contemporary, DK
2018
ICON, Andersen's Contemporary, Copenhagen, DK
SELF, PSM, Berlin, DE
Video Artist, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, DE
FORCE, Kunstmuseen Krefeld - Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, DE
2017
STAGE, U-Turn, arteBA, Buenos Aires, AR
PORTRAITS, viennacontemporary, Vienna, AT
MOVING IMAGES, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, AR
RISE, Berlinische Galerie - Museum of Modern Art, Berlin, DE
2016
FIRST, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK
FIRST, 1646, The Hague, NL
Thousand Faces, SMK - National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, DK
FRONT, Yarat Contemporary Art Space, Baku, AZ
2015
The title is your name, Bielefelder Kunstverein, DE
FRONT (Kareth Schaffer), KIOSK, Ghent, BE
AVAILABLE, Kunstverein Braunschweig, DE
MANY, Juan & Patricia Vergez Collection, Buenos Aires, AR
2014
JUSTIFIED BELIEFS, Art Basel Statements, Basel, CH
Performance Works, PSM, Berlin, DE
2013
OPENING, KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE
ONE, DREI, Cologne, DE
2011
ELIXIR, PSM, Berlin, DE
2010
THERE AND BACK, Skånes Konstförening, Malmö, Sweden, SE
2008
RATIONAL ANIMAL, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna, AT
Performances
2025
COLLABORATION, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, AT
BREACH (with Søren Berner), SMK - National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, DK
2024
COLLABORATION, Bolzano Art Weeks, Bolzano, IT
GLITCH, Art Basel Paris, Paris, FR
2021
Home #2 (with Frederic Gies), Roskilde Festival, DK
Home (with Frederic Gies), The Royal Theater, Copenhagen, DK
2018
Fall (with Martin Forsberg), The Royal Theater, Copenhagen, DK
2017
No title no work (with Søren Berner), Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, CH
2015
RISE, Per4m, Artissima, Torino, IT
2014
RISE, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, DE
2012
HE FEAR OF DARKNESS, Belvedere 21, Vienna, AT
Group exhibitions
2025
Performissima, Paris, FR
Tentare una Ribellione, Museo Civico, Vipiteno, IT
Parallel, Vienna, AT
494h 29m 53s, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, DE
Freischwimmen, head first into art, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, DE
2024
Spaced out at K60, Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin, DE
Monumental Graffiti, Camden Art Centre, London, UK
Look, the eyes, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen, DE
2023
Skulpurtriennale Bingen, Bingen, DE
Moviment, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
Kill the light, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, DE
2022
Art & Audience, Heartland Festival, Egeskov, DK
Clown’s kingdom, Le Bicolore, Paris, FR
Battle Cry, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin, DE
2021
Die ganze Wahrheit, Petra Martinetz, Cologne, DE
CPH:DOX, Copenhagen, DK
Von Erde schöner, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen, DE
Sustainable Societies for the Future, Malmö Konstmuseum, SE
2020
Close encounters, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK
Highlights der Sammlung 21. Jahrhundert, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, DE
Danish Art Now, SMK – The National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, DK
State of the arts, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, DE
Me, Family,, MUDAM - Musée d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg, LU, Luxembourg, LU
2019
Protests, Proclamations and Celebrations, UCONN Contemporary Art Galleries, Connecticut, US
The Stage is Yours, Kiasma Museum for Contemporary Art, Helsinki, FI
Stance & Fall - A Wavering World, Marta Herford, Herford, DE
2018
Doing Things with Words, Kunstverein Braunschweig, DE
Dislexia, El Gran Vidrio, Córdoba, AR
Fake it Till You Make it, MeetFactory, Praque, CZ
Perfuch, UVeStudios, Buenos Aires, AR
I follow you to the sun, Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer, Vienna, AT
Resistance, Centrale for Contemporary Art, Brussels, BE
Prospectif Cinéma, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
2017
News at last, Andersen's Contemporary, Copenhagen, DK
Dejima - concepts of in- and exclusion, GAK, Bremen, DE
Duet with artist, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, DE
Instructions for happiness, Belvedere 21 - Museum of Contemporary Art, Vienna, AT
Sæt pris på kunsten, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, DK
Conditions of Political Choreography, n.b.k. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, DE
Portfolio Berlin 03, Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock, DE
Cool, Calm and collected, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, DK
Bienal de Performance BP.17, Buenos Aires, AR
Future Generation Art Prize, 57th Venice Biennale, Venice, IT
Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kyiv, UA
2016
Stellung nehmen, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, DE
Im Raum mit, BNKR, Munich, DE
Take Up Your Space, KAI10 / Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf, DE
Today's Art Festival, The Hague, NL
Conditions of Political Choreography, CCA, Tel Aviv, ISR
The gestural, Belvedere 21 - Museum of Contemporary Art, Vienna, AT
20 Years, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, CH
Manifesta 11, Zurich, CH
2015
Preis der Nationalgalerie 2015, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, DE
2014
Now and again – Performance for video, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen, DK
Is it Y(ours)?, Museum Bärengasse, Zurich, CH
Vor Ort, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, DE
Vertigo of reality, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, DE
Performance proletarians, MAGASIN - Centre National d’art Contemporain, Grenoble, FR
Public, Art Basel Miami Beach, US
Reykjavik Dance Festival, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, ISL
2013
Entweder/oder, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, DE
Enten/Eller, Nikolaj Contemporary Art Centre, Copenhagen, DK
Regionalismus, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, AT
Grundfrage (Question Fondamentale), Crac Alsace, Altkirch, FR
Gelatin - Stop - Anna Ly Sing - Stop, Schinkel Pavillion, Berlin, DE
Ihre Geschichte(n), Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, DE
2012
Regionale12, Festival for contemporary art, Austria, AT
Catch a glimpse of me, W139, Amsterdam, NL
Realness Respect, Kunstverein Medienturn, Graz, AT
Immer Bunter – Aktuelle Malerei aus Österreich, Galerie im Taxis Palais, Innsbruck, AT
2011
Sequences Real time Art Festival, Reykjavik, ISL
Performance as lecture, Kunsthalle Wien project space, Vienna, AT
ACTS, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, DK
REGRESS-PROGRESS, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL
2010
Speak & Spell - curated by Spike Art Quarterly, COCO, Vienna, AT
2008
International Prize for Performance, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, IT
Awards and grants
2022
Arbeitstipendium, Stiftung Kunstfonds, DE
2017
Working grant, Danish Arts Foundation, DK
Future Generation Art Prize (shortlist), UA
2016
ISCP residency, New York, US
2015
Prix K-Way Per4m, IT
Preis der Nationalgalerie (shortlist), DE
2012
BmuKK Startstipendium für Bildende Kunst, AT
2008
H13 Prize for Performance, AT International Prize for Performance (shortlist), IT
Selected collections
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, FI
Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, SE
The Danish National Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
Musée d’art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne, Rochechouart, FR
Belvedere 21 - Museum of Contemporary Art, Vienna, AT
Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Krefeld, DE
n.b.k. Video-Forum, Berlin, DE
Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, DE
Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen, DE
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, DE
Fluentum, Berlin, DE
Juan & Patricia Vergez Collection, Buenos Aires, AR
Wed-Fri: 10:00 – 17:00
Sat: 11:00 – 15:00
Sun-Tue: Closed