LEA PORSAGER PERSONALIA Born , Frederikssund, Denmark. Lives and works in Copenhagen

LEA PORSAGER PERSONALIA Born 16.02.1981, Frederikssund, Denmark. Lives and works in Copenhagen CONTACT Lea Porsager Husumgade 15. st. tv. DK-2200 København N www.leaporsager.dk (+45) 41678730 [email protected] EDUCATION Phd. Candidate at Malmö Art Academy and Lund University, fall 2015– The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark (MFA) 2004-2010 Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (MFA) 2008-2009 European Film College, Denmark 2001-2002 Film/Teaterskolen Holberg, Denmark 2000-2001 solo EXHIBITIONS FOOD FOR THE MOON — Sluggish and Well-lubricated, Curated by Milena Hoegsberg. Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway 2013-2014 A Cosmic Mishap, Curated by Chiara Vecchiarelli, The Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, USA 2013 How to program and use T-F, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen, Denmark 2013 CELESTIAL BODY – Disrupted Nerve Fluid and Crossed Shock Waves, Henningsen Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark 2011 Magnetic Correspondence, Henningsen Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark 2008 NAGI - I is Another, Röda Sten, Gothenburg, Sweden 2006 upcoming EXHIBITIONS 2015 Believe not every spirit, but try the spirits, Curated by Lars Bang Larsen and Marco Pasi, Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA, Melbourne, Australia Spin Φ, Overgaden (solo), Curator Anna Holm. Copenhagen, Denmark 2015 Ring-Pass-Not, Kunstverein Göttingen (solo) Curator Kordula Fritze-Srbic , Göttingen, Germany 2015 selected group EXHIBITIONS Society Acts, Curator: Andreas Nilsson. Co-curator: Maija Rudovska. Kim?, Riga, Letvia 2015 I hear your voice reflected in a glass and it sounds like it is inside of me, curated by Emily Wardrill & Jesi Khadivi, Carlier | Gebauer, Berlin, Germay 2015 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany 2015 CARL NIELSEN OG ANNE MARIE CARL-NIELSENS LEGAT 2014, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark 2014 SYSTEMICS #4: Aarhus Rapport – Avantgarde as network (or, the politics of the ultralocal), The project has

been initiated by Lars Bang Larsen & Joasia Krysa, Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark 2014 The Moderna Exhibition, Society Acts, Curator: Andreas Nilsson. Co-curator: Maija Rudovska. Moderna Museet Malmö, Malmö, Sweden 2014 post-excavation, ELASTIC Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden, 2014 The Biennial Summer Sculpture, Curated by Susan Hinnum. Soeby, Denmark, 2014 Framework 1: Extrasensory Bonds - insitu, Curated by insitu, Berlin, Germany, 2014 Im-Materialitet (bevidsthed) no. 3, Curated by Birgitte Kirkhoff Eriksen . Sorø Kunstmuseum, Sorø, Denmark 2014 16th Tallinn Print Triennial LITERACY – ILLITERACY, Curated by Maria Kjær Themsen. Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia 2014 Shapes in the Making, Curated by Åsa Nacking & Emil Nilsson, Lunds konsthall, Lund, Sweden 2013 It is only a state of Mind, Heidelberg Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany 2013 Urschleim, Curated by Olga Nowotny & Rolf Nowotny, Fauna, Copenhagen, Denmark 2013 Interrelations, Curated by Henrik B. Andersen. Titanikas Exhibition Halls, Vilnius, Lithuania 2013 ROOM 1, Henningsen Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark 2013 ROOM 0, Curated by Maria Kjær Themsen, Henningsen Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark 2013 Inner/Outer Realms, Galleri Rotor, Gothenburg, Sweden 2013 UNTEN-AM-HAVN-FESTIVAL: COPENHAGEN MEETS HAMBURG, Hamburg, Germany 2013 24 Spaces, Koh-i-noor, Malmö Kunsthal, Malmö, Sweden 2013 Open Studio, ISCP, New York, USA 2013 Ritual Room, Curated by Ūla Tornau and Asta Vaičiulytė, Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius, Lithuania 2013 Distinguished from the melee of user comments and structurally misogynist chat rooms harbouring rapid-fire trolls, Curated by Mikkel Carl, Skt. Gertruds, Malmö, Sweden 2013 Female Power, Curated by Mirjam Westen, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, The Netherlands 2013 Believers, Curated by Frida Cornell, Varbergs Konsthall, Varberg, Sweden 2013 Encore! After the cathastrophy. Bonniers Konsthall/ Biografen Sture, Stockholm, Sweden 2013 It is only a state of Mind, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany 2013 Systemics #1 – Certain peculiar things and ideas, often failed, Curated by Joasia Krysa, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark 2013 dOCUMENTA(13), Artist Director: Carolyn Christiov-Bakargiev, Kassel, Germany 2012 BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL, Copenhagen Art Festival, Den Frie – Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark 2012 Spatium – Danish Contemporary Art, Curated by Maria Kjær Themsen. Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia 2012 Con Amore - Leif Djurhuus Samling, ARoS, Aarhus, Denmark 2011 Veninder, Beaver Project, Copenhagen, Denmark 2011 Thisted Biennalen, Thisted, Denmark 2011 KOH-I-NOOR, Den Frie – Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark 2011 Et Forsøgs Teater, Henningsen Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark 2010 Faint to Black, Henningsen Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark 2010 Sea and Space, Explorations, Los Angeles, USA 2010 AFGANG 2010, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark 2010

Anstrøg, Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, Denmark 2010 I KNOW WHAT EVERYBODY DID... Henningsen Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark 2010 AM I, Møstings Hus, Copenhagen, Denmark 2009 Real/Fiction, Galleri Clifford, Vejle, Denmark 2009 KÅT, Galleri Box, Gothenburg, Sweden 2009 Rundgang, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark 2009 Ung Dansk Fotografi ‘09, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen, Denmark 2009 Rundgang, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 2009 Springtime 2, Henningsen Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark 2009 50 x 50 x 5, Henningsen Gallery, Copenhagen, Denamrk 2008 ENTER, Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark 2008 They have overcome death and return to share our life, Koh-i-noor, Copenhagen, Denmark 2008 Rundgang, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark 2008 Spring Exhibition, Henningsen Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark 2008 Invited to Invite, Henningsen Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark 2007 Karriere, Karriere Bar, Copenhagen, Denmark 2007 Maskinkraft, Roskilde Museum, Roskilde, Denmark 2007 Maskinkraft, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark 2007 Rundgang, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark 2007 Åbnings Udstilling, Henningsen Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark 2006 Dynamo-Kunstakademiet, Kultorvet, Copenhagen, Denmark 2006 Futureshorts, Gloria, Copenhagen, Denmark 2006 Rundgang, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark 2006 FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER, Gallery Q, Copenhagen, Denmark 2006 artist BOOKS Porsager, Lea, & Brøgger, Synnøve B. (Eds.). Lea Porsager: Cut-Splice Supercluster. Officin, 2014 Porsager, Lea, & Brøgger, Synnøve B. (Eds.). Lea Porsager: /FOOD FOR THE MOON/ — Sluggish and Welllubricated. Aarhus: Antipyrine, 2014. * Brøgger, Synnøve B. (Ed.). Lea Porsager: Ablaze With the Fires of Matter. Copenhagen: Officin, 2013. ** Porsager, Lea, & Brøgger, Synnøve B. (Eds.). Lea Porsager: Anatta Experiment. Aarhus: Edition After Hand, 2012. *** Porsager, Lea, & Brøgger, Synnøve B. (Eds.). Lea Porsager: NERVE FLUID. Aarhus: Edition After Hand, 2012. * /FOOD FOR THE MOON/ — Sluggish and Well-lubricated features essays by Milena Hoegsberg and Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev ** Ablaze with the Fires of Matter features a conversation between Lea Porsager and Marco Pasi, Professor of Hermetic Sciences and Related Currents, University of Amsterdam *** Anatta Experiment features essays by Lars Bang Larsen and Marco Pasi

other books & PUBLICATIONS Nilsson, Andreas & Björnberg, Julia (Eds.). Society Acts – Modernautställningen 2014, Moderna Museet, 2014 Larsen, Lars Bang (Ed.) Networks, Whitechapel: Documents of Comtemporary Art, The MIT Press, 2014 Eriksen, Birgitte Kirkhoff (Ed.). No. 3: Im-Materialitet (bevidsthed). Sorø: Sorø Kunstmuseum, 2014. Themsen, Maria Kær (Ed.). Kumu Art Museum: LITERACY – ILLITERACY. The 16th Tallinn Print Triennial. Tallinn: Kumu Art Museum, 2014.

Kronmann, T. H., Sidenius, L. H., Themsen, M. K., & Vierø, M. (Eds.). Danish Artists’ Books. Berlin: Møller & Verlag Der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2013. Jeppesen, Michael. Best of – 67 x Kunst. Copenhagen: Strandberg Publishing, 2013. Zenth, Torben (Ed.). NEW DANISH ART. Copenhagen: Kopenhagen Publishing, 2013. Gali, André. “Portrettet: Lea Porsager.” KUNSTforum, no. 4 (2013): 24–29. Hoegsberg, Milena (Ed.). “Lea Porsager: Food for the Moon — Sluggish and Well-lubricated.” Kunstgaven, no 7 (2013). Høvikodden: Henie Onstad Kunstsenter. Larsen, Lars Bang. “The Festival to Come: A Comment on Reality Principles of Art.” In Copenhagen Art Festival. Edited by Lene Crone Jensen, Elisabeth Delin Hansen, Anna Holm, Kirse Junge Stevnsborg & Hilde Østergaard. Copenhagen: Copenhagen Art Festival, 2013. “Død.” Kulturo – Tidsskrift for Kunst, Kultur og Politik, no. 35 (2013). Hempel, S., Richter, M. & Weiss, S. (Eds.). It is only a state of Mind. Berlin: Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst/ Heidelberg Kunstverein, 2013. Westen, Mirjam (Ed.). Female Power. Arnhem: Museum voor Moderne Kunst, 2013. Kern, Kristine & Vilslev, Birgitte (Eds.). Lea Porsager: How to Program and Use T-F. Copenhagen: Fotografisk Center, 2013. Carl, Mikkel (Ed.). This Title is an Artwork of Mine. Copenhagen: Revolver Publishing & Space Poetry, 2012. Tovborg, Alexander (Ed.). Ritualer. Ribe: Ribe Domkirke, 2012. Zenth, Torben (Ed.). NEW DANISH ART. Copenhagen: Kopenhagen Publishing, 2012. dOCUMENTA(13). Catalog I: The Book of Books. Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2012. Christov-Bakargiev, Carolyn (Ed.). dOCUMENTA(13) Catalog II: The Logbook. Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2012. dOCUMENTA(13). Catalog III: The Guidebook. Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2012. Themsen, Maria Kær (Ed.). Spatium. Tallinn: Kumu Art Museum, 2012. Zenth, Torben (Ed.). NEW DANISH ART. Copenhagen: Kopenhagen Publishing, 2011. Bukdahl, Lars, & Vind, Christian (Eds.). Hvedekorn, no. 1 (2011). Zenth, Torben (Ed.). NEW DANISH ART. Copenhagen: Kopenhagen Publishing, 2010. Worm, Lars, & Emig, Troels (Eds.). Ir/rationel. Copenhagen: Limbo Library, 2010. Afgang 2010. Copenhagen: Det Kgl. Danske Kunstakademi / Billedkunstskolerne, 2010. Zenth, Torben (Ed.). NEW DANISH ART. Copenhagen: Kopenhagen Publishing, 2009. Schwander, Lars (Ed.). UNG DANSK FOTOGRAFI. Copenhagen: Fotografisk Center, 2009. Hauge, Iselin Linstad, & Hansen, Christina Leithe (Eds.). Mystery. Oslo: Spesial Nord, 2009. Zenth, Torben (Ed.). NEW DANISH ART. Copenhagen: Kopenhagen Publishing, 2008. Krogh, Anna (Ed.). ENTER. Odense: Kunsthallen Brandts, 2008. prizes & GRANTS CARL NIELSEN OG ANNE MARIE CARL-NIELSENS LEGAT 2014 Danish Arts Foundation's three-year work-grant (2014-2016) Danish Arts Foundation (production + work-grant) 2010, 2012, 2013 Aage og Yelva Nimbs Fond 2012 Malerne Else og Henning Jensens Legat 2012 The Danish International Arts Council 2010 Awarded the Montana ENTER Prize for the work LEAP – The Awakening of the Dark Muses, Brandts, Odense,

Denmark 2008* Idella Foundation 2008/2009 Carlsberg Idélegat 2005 *Jury: Iwona Blazwick, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev & Anselm Franke