Monday Lectures: Gardar Eide Einarsson
Monday Lectures at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen, are pleased to invite you all to the public lecture by artist Gardar Eide Einarsson. This lecture is a collaboration with Kode and Einarsson’s upcoming exhibition “The Purpose of a System is What it Does”. It will be Einarsson’s most extensive museum exhibition to date, spanning 25 years of artistic production through more than 125 works. The exhibition is part of Kode’s ongoing series dedicated to mid-career artists with personal and professional connections to Bergen, where Einarsson studied in the late 1990s.
Gardar Eide Einarsson was born in 1976 in Oslo and currently lives and works in Tokyo. He received his education from the National Academy of Fine Art, Bergen; Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Kunste - Städelschule - Frankfurt and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New York City.
Einarsson works across media such as installation, painting, sculpture, printmaking, video and photography. His own archive, comprised of a variety of collected material, plays a part in his exploration of visual culture and societal issues.
Institutional solo shows include Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel; Frankfurter Kunstverein; ARoS Aarhus Art Museum; Bergen Kunsthall; Reykjavik Art Museum; Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art; Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva; Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
He has also exhibited in venues including Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna; Kunsthalle Wien; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; MoMA PS1; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo; MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Vigo; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto; Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Istanbul Museum of Modern Art; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Mori Art Museum Tokyo and Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art and has participated in the Whitney Biennial, the Istanbul Biennial and the Sydney Biennial among others.
Einarsson’s work is represented in a number of public collections including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (LA MoCA); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA); Berkeley Art Museum; The British Museum, London; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK) Frankfurt; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Malmö Art Museum; Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo and the Norwegian National Museum of Art, Oslo.
Gardar Eide Einarsson’s work has been covered in Artforum, Frieze, Flash Art, Modern Painters, Art Review, ArtUS, Texte Zur Kunst, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, ViIllage Voice, The Guardian, Interview, L’Officiel, Black Book, Vogue Hommes, Vogue Hommes Nippon, Details, Tokion, Purple Fashion and V Magazine among others.