CV

Selected Solo

2024   Crazy Awake, KUNSTEN, Aalborg, Denmark
2023   Environmental Portraits, Keteleer Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2023   Water Running Results, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Schwitzerland
2023   Tongue Out, Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen, Denmark
2022  Cosmopolitan Super Fruits, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
2022   Liquids and Lights, Helsinki Contemporary, Helsinki, Finland
2021-22 Intercontinental Super Fruits, MOCAD -  Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, Michigan, USA
2021   Understanding the Impact of Architecture, DAC - Danish Architecture Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark
2020   Open the Door, Keteleer Gallery, Antwerpen, Belgium
2020   Crazy Watermelon Shipping, Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen, Denmark
2019   Graphic Works, Ekely, Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen, Denmark
2019   Running Box, Konsthall 16, Riksidrottsmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden
2019   Life in a Box, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
2018   Running Problems, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Belgium
2018   Space Train, Helsinki Contemporary, Finland
2018   Tripoli – Lampedusa, Espoo Museum of Modern Art (EMMA), Finland
2017   Altid Mange Problemer, Charlottenborg, Denmark
2016   Graphic Works 1996-2015, Munkeruphus, Dronningmølle, Denmark
2016   Life Attacks You, Brandts, Odense, Denmark
2016   Graphic Works 1996-2015, Vejle Kunstmuseum, Vejle, Denmark
2016   Apple Bombs, Victoria Miro Mayfair Gallery, London, England
2013   The Family, Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen, Denmark
2013   Caught, HEART, Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark
2006   2006 Problems, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
2006   AROS Bank, ARoS, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark
2005   The 1st at Moderna: 7 Problems, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
2005   Statements, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2004   The Problem of Performing, Kunstforeningen Gl. Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark

Selected Group

2021   Work it Out, KUNSTEN, Aalborg, Denmark
2021   The Sky was Blue, The Sea was Blue, The Boy was Blue, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
2018   BIG Art, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
2017   Cool, Calm And Collected, ARoS Kunstmuseum, Århus, Denmark
2014   HÄR/NU, Artipelag, Stockholm, Sweden
2013   CHICKEN OR BEEF, The Hole, New York, USA
2012   The Garden of Eden, Palais De Tokyo, Paris, France
2011   The Forgotten Years 2007-2011, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, German
2010   No Soul for Sale, Tate, London, England
2008   U-TURN Quadriennial for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
2008   Carnegie Art Award 2008, Scandinavia/ EU

 

Selected Public Art Commissions

2023   'Fugtig sti', Mural, Retspsykiatrisk Afdeling, Middelfart, Denmark
2023   Glas mosaic, window Odense Valgmenighed, Denmark
2022   'Dronning Louises Bro', Painting, Fondation Danoise, Paris, France
2018   Mural at University of Aarhus, HKH Kronprins Frederik Center for Public Leadership, Århus, Denmark
2018   Mural, Det Gamle Rådhus, Aabenraa, Denmark
2011   Altarpiece, Østerhåb Kirke, Horsens, Denmark
2011   Mural at Risskov upper secondary school, Århus, Denmark
2010   Afghanistan, painting for Fredrik VIII’s Royal Palace, Copenhagen, Denmark
2008   Kørner Lounge, installation at The Royal Danish Playhouse, Copenhagen, Denmark

 

Biography

John Kørner (b. 1967) is a visual artist working within a wide range of media: paintings, ceramics, installations, video, glass, theather, and book productions. In his work, he embraces a wide range of current situations: consumerism, climate changes, warfare, and human relations. At first sight, we are touched by a colourful palette which pleases our eyes and senses until the moment where we realize the actual focus of the work.
Problems are Kørner's main subject; they serve both as a physical object and as recurring questioning. We all have problems and if we did not have any problems, how would we then regard our surroundings?

 

Galleries

Galleri Bo Bjerggaard
Flæsketorvet 85A
1711 Copenhagen V
Denmark
www.bjerggaard.com

Victoria Miro Gallery
16 Wharf Road
London N1 7RW
England
www.victoria-miro.com

Keteleer Gallery
Pourbusstraat 3
2000 Antwerpen
Belgium
www.keteleer.com