Karl Holmqvist

Born:
1961
Residence:
Berlin, Germany
Nationality:
German
Trust:
APT Berlin
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  • Documenta 14 is so vast, dispersed, and enigmatic, that it is literally impossible to experience all of it (not to mention that the other half of the quinquennial exhibition has yet to take place, in Kassel, Germany). Yet the earnest visitor should make the effort, while in Athens, not only to take in what he or she can of the international offerings of documenta, but to wander off the beaten path of the biennial map, and sample what the local art scene of Athens has to offer.

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  • 10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

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  • Well, we’re here. With 2016 finally coming to a close, the art world has landed in Miami for another Art Basel bacchanal. But along with the carefree glamour of the galas and the private parties, trepidation hangs in the air—whether it’s acknowledged or not. With rising tides, both symbolic and real, increasingly threatening the art world’s private paradise, we are caught between anxiety and blissful disbelief, ruefully letting the champagne flow every December, until, one year, we might be waiting on Collins Avenue for our Ubers in waist-high water. Here is some art to see in Miami that reflects our anxious times, and the promise that we may overcome them.

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  • The Latin inscription ‘Salve Hospes’ glimmers above the entrance of the Kunstverein Braunschweig.

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  • Even though just about everyone has come back to the city from their upstate country homes, some extremely awesome stuff is continuing to go down in H

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  • Forget standing in a gallery – today’s artists, from AA Bronson to Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, want you to turn on, tune in and drop all your inhibitions.

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  • An exciting new series of immersive performances that will add to the Serpentine’s growing programme of experimental live events, are set for the 2016 calendar at the gallery.

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  • Karl Holmqvist has managed, over the course of twenty-odd years of career, to win both significant critical approval and the admiration of his peers.

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  • On the last Thursday of the humid and wet month of June, Chelsea offered quite a few interesting and unique new exhibitions that were crowded with a generous amount of art aficionados and spectators.

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  • The exhibition revolves around what could be called ‘the materiality of communication‘ as well as the fluid and unstable meanings of communicated signs. The five artists all make use of graphic and printed

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  • If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution proudly presents its second publication in the field of performative art practices entitled Conversation Pieces.

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  • If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution proudly presents its second publication in the field of performative art practices entitled Conversation Pieces.

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  • Hacienda is a new exhibition space located in Zurich’s Seefeld neighborhood. Co-organized by Arthur Fink, Fabian Marti, and Oskar Weiss

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  • The death of print media is a favorite topic of people in the media business. Readers and reporters turn online in ever-greater numbers

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  • Karl Holmqvist is firmly established on the international art scene, and is undoubtedly one of Sweden’s most prominent artists. Following exhibitions at MoMA

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  • In an effort to start the new year with a note of promise, ARTINFO Canada presents a roundup of those Canadians, 30 years or younger, who we consider to be showing great industry and promise in the art world.

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  • Man has always been fascinated with secret societies and their clandestine rites, their covert knowledge, and exclusive circle of members.

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BIOGRAPHY
Karl Holmqvist (b. Vasteras, Sweden, 1964), is known for his text based works, poetry and readings. 
 
Recent solo exhibitions include SHAMAN/SHOWMAN, (with Oscar Tuazon) Chantal Crousel La Douane, Paris (2012); WORDS ARE PEOPLE, Alex Zachary Peter Currie, New York (2012); The Visit, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen (cat.) (2012); The Hours Of This Watch Is Numbered, Gaga ARTE CONTEMPORANEO, Mexico City (2012); HEducation Is a Right at Hollybush Gardens, London (2011) Hymn to Pan at the Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe, Germany (2010); Entrevista con el Vampiro at Gaga Arte Contemporanea in Mexico City (2009); I'm with You in Rockland at the Argos Centre in Brussels (2009); I'll Make the World Explode at the Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch in Berlin (2009); BOOMTOWN, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik (2008); Nausea, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin; and FREE PRESS, Namdee Publishing Station, Bangkok (2002).
 
Select group exhibits include: Arcane of Patterns, Mindpirates, Berlin (2012);  Kunstpreis der Böttcherstrasse, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen (2012); If There Would Be a Face, this would Be a Cat, Dependance, Brussels (2012); Forte Piano: Le Forme Del Suono, Auditorium Parco Della Musica, Rome (2012); Bulletin Board, Venus Over Manhattan, New York (2012); Celluloid Brushes, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin (2012); Ecstatic Alphabets, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2012); Things, Words and Consequences, Moscow Museum Of Modern Art, Moscow (2012); AUP–Agency of Unrealized Projects, Daad Galerie, Berlin (2012); Les Séparés, CEAAC, Strasbourg (2012); Donde el Lenguaje es el Material, UNAM, Mexico City (2012);  The Sun Shines for Everyone, Zürick Kunsthalle, Zürich (2011) ILLUMINations–the 54th Venice Biennial (2011) Moderna Utställningen, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2010) The Malady of Writing at MACBA in Barcelona (2009); Sphinxx at Stuart Shave/Modern Art in London(2008); That social space between speaking and meaning at White Columns in New York (2008); and The Soul, Or Much Trouble in the Transportation of Souls at Manifesta 7 in Trento, Italy (2008).
 
He is represented by the Galerie Neu in Berlin. He currently lives and works in Berlin.

For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art