Exhibitions

2012

Henrik Olesen – Wolfgang Hahn Preis, Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany (solo)

2011

Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland (solo)

Henrik Olesen / Danh Vo, Fondazione Morragreco, Neapel, Italy

Museum der Wünsche, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien, Austria

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (solo)

2010

Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden (solo)

Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea

Von Realer Gegenwart, Kunstverein Düsseldorf / Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Modernologies, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

Moby Dick, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA

Studio Voltaire, London (solo)

2009

Modernologies, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain

The Collectors, curated by Elmgreen & Dragset, The Nordic and Danish Pavilions, 53rd Biennale Venice

A trip down (false) memory lane, The Lexington Club, San Francisco

Selective Knowledge, The National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation – Eynard Mansion, Athens, Greece

Collage: The Unmonumental Picture, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA

Kritisk form, Skulpturi.dk, Sydhavn, Denmark

Konzepte der Liebe, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany

Italia italie italien italy wlochy, ARCOS – Museo di Arte Contemporanea del Sannio, Benevento, Italy

Visite – Von Gerhard Richter bis Rebecca Horn, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany

Sergej Jensen – Henrik Olesen, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany

Collection, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland

Sex brennt, Magnus Hirschfelds Institut f. Sexualwissenschaft u. d. Bücherverbrennung, Medizinhist. Museum der Charité, Berlin

Kritisk Form, Skulpturi.dk, Copenhagen

Kunstverein München at Ludlow 38, New York (solo)

2008

How do I make myself a body?, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin (solo)

Seinesgleichen geschieht/ The like of it now happens, Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, USA

Made in Germany - Aktuelle Kunst aus Deutschland, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover

2007

Doors, Portikus, Frankfurt/Main (solo)

SOME GAY-LESBIAN ARTISTS AND/OR ARTISTS RELEVANT TO HOMO-SOCIAL CULTURE BORN BETWEEN c. 1300-1870 / SEX-MUSEUM 2005-2007, Migros (solo)

Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich (solo)

Cabinet, London

2006

Information is content. Content is Fiction. Content is Messy, Andersen_S Contemporary, Copenhagen (solo)

The Opening, Andersen_S, Copenhagen

2005

Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne (solo)

2004

Secession, Vienna, Austria (solo)

2003

Hosni Mubarak, Aaron McKinney, Richmond, Belgrad, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany (solo)

6 oder 7 neue Arbeiten, Klosterfelde, Berlin (solo)

Kunstverein Salzburg (solo)

Global postitioning system, Palais de Tokio, Paris

Utopia Station, 50th Venice Biennial, Italy, with Kirsten Pieroth

Influence, Anxiety, and Gratitude (Toward an Understanding of Trans-generational Dialogue as a Gift Economy), MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, USA

The collective unconsciousness, Migros Museum, Zurich

Centre of Attraction, 8th Baltic Triennial of International Art, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania

D/Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland

Ökonomien der Zeit, Museum Ludwig, Köln/Akademie der Künste, Berlin

Zusammenhänge herstellen, Kunstverein Hamburg

Werkleitz-Biennale, Werkleitz, Germany

Rent-a-bench, Street Project, LosAngeles

Hossa, Centro Cultural Andracx Mallorca

There are two temperatures: one outside, one inside, Kirsten Pieroth/Henrik Olesen (collaboration), Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, Italy (solo)

2002

Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne (solo)

Strike, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, UK

Studiogalerie, Kunstverein Braunschweig (solo)

Inside space/Experiments in redefining rooms, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA

Neue Welt, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/Main

New Settlements, Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen

Arbeit, Essen, Angst, Kokerei Zollverein, Essen

2001

Pedigree Pal – Neudefinition von Familie, Shedhalle, Zurich

Frankfurter Kreuz, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main

2000

Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY, with Marcel Odenbach (solo)

Klosterfelde, Berlin (solo)

rraum, Frankfurt/Main (solo)

H.M. Klosterfelde, Hamburg (solo)

OTTO, Copenhagen (solo)

1999

Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, Italy (solo)

1998

Klosterfelde, Berlin (solo)

1997

Henrik Olesen/Sean Snyder (collaboration), Galleri Campbells (solo)

Occasionally, Copenhagen (solo)