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Person responsible for N55:

Ion Sørvin, founder of N55 in 1996.
Awarded the Danish Arts Foundation’s lifelong honorary grant (Statens Kunstfonds livsvarige hædersydelse), 2026.
Education: The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen 1991-1998. ( Equivalent to MFA)
Member of Kunstnersamfundet in Denmark
Member of BKF/ Danish Visual Artists
Married to the late co-founder of N55 Ingvil Aarbakke (1970-2005).
Living and working together with Anne Romme in Copenhagen, Denmark. and Føns, Denmark. Two sons: Frode Aarbakke and Sigfus Romme.

Current core collaborators:

Anne Romme:
Education: The Royal Danish Academy, School of Architecture, Copenhagen, Ph.D., 2016. Princeton University School of Architecture, M.Arch II (Post-professional Master Degree) 2008, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, The Cooper Union, New York, B.Arch 2005

SPACEPLATES is a collaboration between N55/ ion Sørvin and Anne Romme. The project was initiated in 2010. We developed SHELTER VILLAGE together in 2023.

Till Wolfer:
Education: Academy Of Fine Arts Hamburg (MFA/Design-Diploma), Hafencity University (Urban Design), China Academy Of Art (Fine Arts)

XYZ CARGO is an ongoing collaboration between N55 / ion Sørvin and Till Wolfer (originally called XYZ SPACEFRAME VEHICLES). Previously, we also developed PARKCYCLE SWARM and XYZ OPEN CITY, which are no longer active...

Table of contents:

Selected exhibitions 1996 - 2026
Selected bibliography
Selected lectures
Teaching and workshops, selection
TV / press, selection
Grants and stipends, selection
Artist in residence stipends:

Selected exhibitions 1996 - 2025

Verborgene Potenziales, City of Hamburg, Germany, 2025
La plus petite chambre d'hôtel du monde, Le Transfo,, Aulon, France, 2025
SPACEPLATES permanent installation in collaboration with Njord: Den Bemandede Børnehave, Hulgårdsvej, Nørrebro, Denmark, 2025
SPACEPLATES, permanent installation in collaboration with Njord: Familiehuset Vejle, 2025
SPACEPLATES, permanent installation, Greenland, in collaboration with Njord, 2025
(re) connecting.earth- Kiel Nomadic, Art and Urban Nature exhibition, Germany, 2024
Auto Fiction,part of permanent collection, HC-Centre d'Innovation et de Design au Grand Hornu, Belgium.
SPACEPLATES, permanent installation, Nørrebroparkens Legeplads, Denmark in collaboration with Njord, 2024
SPACEPLATES, permanent installation, Middelfart Byfornyelse, Denmark in collaboration with Njord, 2024
SPACEPLATES, permanent installation, Vejle Kommune, Denmark in collaboration with Njord, 2024
SPACEPLATES, permanent installation, Børnehuset Søbæk, Helsingør, Denmark in collaboration with Njord, 2024
SPACEPLATES, permanent installation, Fyns Almene Boligforening Thors Have i Odense, Denmark in collaboration with Njord, 2024
SPACEPLATES, permanent installation, Erhvervshuset SAMSPILLET i Musicon. Roskilde, Denmark in collaboration with Njord, 2024
Designmuseum Denmark, Cirkular event, 3daysofdesign, SPACEPLATES GREENHOUSE in the garden, in collaboration with Njord, 2024
SHELTERLANDSBYEN/ SHELTER VILLAGE, permanet public artwork, Fyn, Denmark 2023
CLIMATE ART - ALTERNATIVE VISIONS reimagining human - art -nature relationship, Albert de Chapelles museum, Helsinki, Finland, 2023
"L'Odyssee - Une etape d'Horizons d'Eaux", Les Abattoirs, Musee - Frac Occitanie, Toulouse, France 2023
XYZ CARGO MOBILE WORKSHOPS, Chernihiv, Ukraine 2023 Radical Technology, Proevestenen, H-vej, Denmark, 2023
DOCUMENTA 15, official contribution to the "Citizenship" for documenta 15 by german collective ZK/U, Berlin/ Kassel, Germany, 2022
V-A-C Non-Extractive Architecture, at Palazzo delle Zattere in Venice, during the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2021, curated by Space Caviar, Italy, 2021
OPEN HOUSE, EXHIBITION ON TEMPORARY HOUSING, Geneva, Switzerland, 2022
Fahrende Mobilitaetswerkstatt, Futurium Museum, Berlin, Germany, 2021
N55 PEACE MONUMENT, permanent installation at the headquarters for the Danish Defense. Airbase Karup, Denmark, 2019
A School of Schools, Design as learning, Luma Arles, Mécanique Générale, Parc des Ateliers, Arles, France, 2019
A School of Schools, Z33, House of contemporary art, Z33 – House for Contemporary Art, Hasselt, Belgium, 2019
XYZ CARGO, Volkswagen Autostadt Wolfsburg, Germany 2019
Bonamatic Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2018
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, Russia, 2018
4th Istanbul Design Biennial, Staying Alive, Istanbul, Turkey, 2018
Spannungsfelder, Futurium, Berlin, Germany, 2018
11ª Bienal de Arquitetura de São Paulo, Brazil, 2017
Ecovention Europe, Museum De Domijnen, the Netherlands, 2017
Gwangju Design Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
State of DESIGN, Berlin, Germany 2017
2017 SEOUL BIENNAL OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM, Seoul, South Korea, 2017
Museet Koldinghus- Beyond Icons, Denmark, 2017
Das Muellproject, Circular Living System, Hamburg, Germany, 2017
bike | design | city, Gewerbemuseum Winterthur, Schweiz, 2017
Triennale der Moderne, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, Germany, 2016
Do It Yourself Design Broehan-Museum, Berlin, Germany, 2016
B_tour Festival, The Practice of Everyday Life, Denmark, 2016
XYZ OPEN CITY, Urbani7e Festival, Hamburg, Germany, 2016
Self-Propelled - Or How the Bicycle Moves Us, Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden, Germany, 2016
Bikeology, Museum of Applied Arts Budapest, Hungary, 2016
Bike to the Future, Design Museum Gent, Belgium, 2016
Making Use, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland 2016
SHOP, Laznia Center for Contemporary Art in Gdansk, Poland, 2015
POC21, ECO HACKING THE FUTURE, CHÂTEAU DE MILLEMONT, Paris, France, 2015
CITY CAMPING, Berges des Seines, Paris, France, 2015
URBAN ORGANISMS, CITY FARMING PLANT MODULES, The Newbridge Project, Newcastle, UK, 2015
XYZ Churro Music Cycle, Kampnagel Sommerfestival, Hamburg, 2015
Sailing Stones , Street Road Artist Space, Pennsylvania, USA, 2015
EXTREME SHARING, Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark, 2015
N55 at Braucher Gallery, Carleton, Northfield, USA, 2015
Mobile Home Project, Songwon Art Center, Seoul, South Korea, 2014
XYZ OPEN CITY, Ökomäss Tallinn, site: "Kultuurikatla Aias, Estonia, 2014
COMING SOON: real imaginary futures, Bureau Europa, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 2014
SWEET HOME - HOMELESS (CPH photo festival), Gallopperiet, Stadens Museum for Kunst, Freetown Christiania , Denmark, 2014
Nomadism, MOA, Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea, 2014
Fahrrad, Museum der Arbeit, Hamburg, Berlin, Vienna, 2014
Urban Nature, Copenhagen Museum, 2014
XYZ CARGO at the nternational Cargo Bike Festival, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2014
XYZ CARGO at Berliner Fahrradschau, Berlin, Germany, 2014
XYZ OPEN CITY, Groningen Holland, 2013
Bike Art at the Dairy, Boulder Colorada, USA, 2013
ACTION, exhibition by The Canadian Centre for Architecture at Centro Cultural Sao Paulo (CCSP), The 10th São Paulo Architecture Biennale, Brazil, October 2013
Special Material Zone, Material Matters, Droog, The Shenzhen Biennale, China, 2013
Urban Self Sufficiency, fight the filth with flowers and design, Etage Projects Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2013.
Copenhagen Art Week, Dobbel Illums Bolighus, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2013
Zone2Source, XYZ FACTORY, Amstel Park, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2013
Participate, Baku Arts Festival, PARKCYCLE SWARM, in collaboration with Rebar, Azerbaijan, 2013
PARKCYCLE SWARM, in collaboration with Rebar, public space, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2013
ARTIST´S PLANS FOR SUSTAINABILITY, Mead Gallery UK, 2013
Emissionsfreie Logistik, 34. DEKT, Messe Hamburg, Germany, 2013
XYZ CARGO, VELOBerlin 2013, Berlin, Germany, 2013
XYZ SPACEFRAME VEHICLES, 5th of June event, National Museum of Science and Technology, Denmark, 2013
DESIGN RENEGADE, DETOUR 2012, Hong Kong, December 2012
Get it Louder, Beijing, China, november 2012
Material Matters, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 2012
New Economies for Creative Communities, LAND, Begovich gallery, California, USA, 2012
Green Acres, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA, 2012
The Base, COMMUNAL BAKERY, NY, USA, 2012
Exposition N55, PUBLIC THINGS, Ecole d´architecture Toulouse, France, 2012
XYZ FACTORY, Kutscherhäuser/ClubMeta, Gängeviertel, Hamburg, Germany, 2012
MIKSER festival, Belgrade, Serbia, 2012
XYZ SPACEFRAME VEHICLES, 5th of June event, National Museum of Science and Technology, Denmark, 2012
We are all astronauts, Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen, Germany, 2012
XYZ SPACEFRAME VEHICLES, Cuxhavener Kunstverein, Germany, 2012
SPACEPLATES GREENHOUSE, permanent structure, Bristol, UK, 2012
Ecologías Correlativas, 319 Scholes. Brooklyn, New York, USA, 2011
Neon Digital Arts Festival, Hannah Centre, Dundee. Scotland, 2011
ONE CITY CAMPAIGN, Copenhagen, 2011
Specters of the nineties, Marres, Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, Netherlands, 2011
Alt Cph11, Copenhagen, 2011
We are all astronauts, Marta Herford museum, Germany, 2011
Uncommon ground, 516 arts, USA, 2011
Z-OUT, Belgium, 2011
EFIMERAS. ALTERNATIVAS HABITABLES, Madrid, 2011
(Re)Designing Nature, Künstlerhaus Vienna, Austria, 2010
Biennial of Young Artists, Bucharest, Hungary, 2010
Instant Herlev, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2010
European Capital of Culture, Emscherkunst, Ruhr, Germany, 2010
Ars Electronica festival, New Work, New Culture, Linz, Austria, 2010
Green Summer, Verbeke Foundation, Belgium, 2010
Klimakapseln, Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany, 2010
Contemplating the Void, Guggenheim, New York, USA, 2010
Proposal for a Socialist Colony, COMMUNAL BAKERY, Houston, USA, 2010
Lean-To, Commonplace, Dublin, Ireland 2010
Showhov, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2009
Subvision, Hamburg, Germany, 2009
FREE URBAN HABITAT SYSTEM, Antwerpen, Belgium, 2009
FACT, SHOP, Liverpool, England, 2009
Radiator festival, England 2009
Actions: What You Can Do With the City, CCA, Montreal Canada, 2008
WALKING HOUSE, Wysing Arts centre, Cambridge, England. 2008
FREE URBAN HABITAT SYSTEM, Metropolis laboratory, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2008
LOVE MODULE, MD submerged, Halfmachine, Copenhagen Denmark, 2008 AUX, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2008
Communities Under Construction, Wysing Arts Center, Cambridge, England, 2008
One Mile Project, Collective gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2007
NO BORDERS CAMPAIGN, Reg Vardy Gallery, university of
Sunderland, England, 2007
HABITAT/ VARIATIONS, Bac - Bâtiment d’art contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland, 2007
WILD, Waino Altosen Museum, Turku, Finland, 2007
WALKING HOUSE, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, , 2007
Use, Edinburg/ foster 2007
Land, Dublin, Irland, 2007
Ferry tales, NKD, Norway, 2006
SPACE SOON, Roundhouse, Arts Catalysts, London, UK, 2006
Talking Cities, Urban drift, Essen, Germany, 2006
Enjoyable house, Aichi Museum of art, Nagoya, Japan, 2006
Zaragoza arts festival, Zaragoza, Spain, 2006
Wiesbaden Kunstsommer, Germany, 2006
ROOMS, Takt projektraum, Berlin, Germany, 2006
Less- alternative living strategies, PAC, Milano, Italy, 2006
Airplay, street gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2006
ROOMS, Cultural Center Magaza, Macedonia, 2005
TRADE, Ireland, 2005
No Man Is An Island, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway, 2005
PUBLIC THINGS, La collection des Abatoirs, Art museum of Chongqin, district of Sichuan, Chongqin, China, 2005
We Could Have Invited Everyone, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, 2005
Danish- Framing The Future Of Design, DDC Danish Design center, Copenhagen 2005, Berlin, 2006
Cloverfield, Cell Project Space, London 2005
Potential Energy, Dynamite, Chicago 2005
Changing Habitats, Bremen, Germany 2005 (catalog)
Today in Paradise – Genetics and Art, Gothenburg 2005
Mira Como se Mueven / Watch them move, Madrid 2005 (catalog)
What are we doing? Msdm Protest Academy, London 2005
FREMTIDENS KONTOR/, Copenhagen 2004
Open Borders, Lille, France 2004 (catalog)
Lieux d’etre, Cajarc, France 2004
Copy-art.net, copyright-free internet site, London 2004
ROOMS, Clubsproject, Melbourne, Australia 2004
Xtreme Houses, Lothringer Dreizehn, Munich, Germany 2004
The Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere, Massachussetts Museum of Contemporary Art, USA, 2004 (catalog)
Transmediale, Berlin, Germany, 2004
CountrySite, Denmark, 2004
Inset, Blaffer Gallery, Houston, USA 2004
N55 at the Ojo Atomio, Ojo Atomico, Madrid 2003
acces(s) Pau, Pau, France 2003
Niemand Ist Eine Insel, Bremen, Germany 2003 (catalog)
Brand New Letchworth, Letchworth, England 2003
Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France 2003
LAND Terwijde, Leidsche Rijn, Holland 2003
LAND, SHOP, ROOMS and BARMOBILE, Les Arques, France 2003 (catalog)
The Project, Tallin, Estonia 2003
Prophetic Corners, the 6th Periferic Biennial, Iasi, Romania 2003
Spheres of Valency, Slovakia 2003
Boligutstillingen i Bergen 2003, Bergen, Norway 2003 (catalog)
Another World Museum, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo, Japan 2003
Between the Lines, Apexart, New York, USA 2003
Living Inside the Grid, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA 2003 (catalog)
AIE The International Arts Group Exposition, Portland, USA 2003
Info Table, Otis + Atlanta Colleges of Art, USA 2003
Home Sweet Home, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark 2003 (catalog)
Affinity Archive, Dublin, Ireland 2003
Rent-a-Bench, Los Angeles, USA 2002
SHOP, CCA, Glasgow, Scotland 2002 (catalog)
Fundamentalisms of the new order, Charlottenborg exhibition hall, Copenhagen Denmark 2002 (catalog)
Enactments of the self, Steirischer herbst, Graz, Austria 2002
Radar - electronic integration, electronic music and art festival. Copenhagen 2002
We are all sinners, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico 2002 and MARCO, Monterrey, Mexico 2003 (catalog)
N55, Kunsthalle Skt. Gallen, Switzerland 2002 (catalog)
Greyscale/CMYK, Tramway, Glasgow, UK, + Dublin, Ireland 2002 (catalog)
Critical Mass, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, USA 2002
STRIKE, Wolverhampton Art Gallery 2002
Science Fair, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK 2002
To Actuality, Bolzano, Italy 2002
Big Torino, Turin, Italy 2002 (catalog)
SNAIL SHELL SYSTEM, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK 2002
Ideal Avalanche, The Pond, Chicago, USA 2002
Making Nature, Nikolaj Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark 2002 (catalog)
Utopien Heute? Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany 2001 (catalog)
Mobile Architecture, Werk Spoor, Amsterdam, Holland 2001
funktional/fiktional, Kunsthalle Zu Kiel. 2001 (catalog)
LAND/Suspended Platform - Artificial Natural Networks, Art Landscape Nature/De Verbeelding, Zeewolde, Holland 2001. Exhibition and permanent installation (catalog)
3 Acres on the Lake: DuSable Park Proposal Project, Gallery 312, Chicago, 2001
Days of Hope, 49th Venice Biennale, Italy 2001 (separate catalog)
Public Things, Fukuroi City, Japan 2001. Permanent public installation (catalog)
Terra, Gerhard Marcks Haus, Bremen 2001 (catalog)
Waterproof, Fort Asperen, Nederland 2001 (catalog)
LAND is expanded, The Suburban, Chicago 2001
Floating Platform, Copenhagen Harbour 2001
More Works About Buildings And Food, Lisboa, Portugal nov. 2000 (catalog)
PUBLIC THINGS, Canterbury, UK 2000 (part of Three, Kent, org. smith+fowle) (catalog)
LKW (Leben, Kunst und Werk), Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria 2000 (catalog)
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Japan, 2000 (catalog)
Collective Art Works, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France 2000
What If/Tänk Om, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden 2000 (catalog)
N55, Casco Projects, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2000
Mirror's Edge, Bild Museet, Umeä, Sweden, Vancouver Art Gallery, Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland
1999/2001 (catalog)
Solar Power Station/Comfort Module, Baltic art center, Visby, Gotland
N55 Spaceframe, Copenhagen, Denmark 1999
I never promised you a rosegarden, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland 1999 (catalog)
LKW. Things between Life, Art (Kunst) & Work (Lebenskunstwerke), OK Center of contemporary Art, Linz, Austria 1999 (catalog & CD)
Next Stop, Lofoten Arts festival, Norway 1999 (catalog)
Producing, transmitting and receiving radio at Svalbard, N55, Norway 1999
New Life, P-House, Tokyo, Japan 1999 (catalog)
Hvis N55 er en olieboreplatform, er der helt klart tale om et udslip, N55, Denmark 1999
IInfo Centre, London, UK 1998
COOL PLACES, Baltic Young Artist Triennial, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lituania. 1998 (catalog)
Dispensing With Formalities, Chicago, USA,.1998
Acces Local, Paris, France 1998
Bicycle Thieves, TOUGH gallery, Chicago, USA 1998 (catalog)
Pakkhus, Momentum-1. Nordic Art Biennial, Moss, Norway, 1998 (catalog)
The Campaign Against Living Miserably, RCA, London, UK 1998 (catalog)
Come Closer-90's art from Scandinavia and itspredecessors, Liechtensteinische Staatliche Kunstsammlung, Liechtenstein, Udstillingsbygningen Nikolaj Kirke, Copenhagen, Denmark, Museum Ludwig, Budapest, Hungaria 1998 (catalog)
We go on with the work, N55, Denmark 1997
N55, Søren Andreasen and Anders Remmer will find themselves in this world´s new world, N55, Denmark 1996
NowHere, Work in Progress, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark. 1996 (catalog)

Selected bibliography:

AFTER SPACESHIP EARTH by Eva Diaz, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2025
OPEN HOUSE, 2022
Digital Dynamics in Nordic Contemporary Art, Chicago University Press, 2019
Mobiture- Architecture on the Move, Phaiodon, 2018
Arte Transgenica- La Vita E Il Medium, Pisa University Press, 2018
Nomadic Homes, Taschen, 2017
Ecovention Europe, Art to Transform Ecologies, 1957-2017
Primitive Future Office, Parasite 2, 2016
Public Action, social design art as urban innovation, Die angewandte / Birkhauser, 2015
Boundaries, tiny architecture on the move, 2015
VELOCITY, Gavin Blyth, Prestel, 2014
Public Art Review, issue 2013, Toward a liveable planet, 2013/ 2014
Housewear 2, Many-Many Publications, 2014
AD-Architectural design, The architecture of transgression, 2013
Slum Lab, Sustainable Living Urban Model/ issue 8, collaboration between ETH, Columbia University, Die Angewandte, 2013
Weil Design die Welt verandert..., Gestalten, 2013
Structure and architecture, scientific paper on SPACEPLATES, CRC press, 2013
Outer views, MoTa, 2013
MARK, magazine, February, 2013
500x Art in Public Space, Braun publishing, 2012
Green Acres, Sue Spaid, CAC, 2012
MAP- Mapping the Design World, 2012
Architectures Journal, UK, 2012
Utopia and Contemporary Art, Hatje Cantz, 2012
Byen bliver til – en urban håndbog, 2012
We are all astronauts, Marta Herford, 2012
Metropolis 2. 2012
TATE ETC. magazine, 2011
How to sleep faster, 2011
Grey Room, MIT Press, 2011
Blueprint Magazine, august, 2009 Big ideas, small buildings, Thames and Hudson, 2009
The New architectural generation, Laurence king, 2009
More mobile, portable architecture for today, Princeton architectural Press, New York, 2009
Maisons sur léau, Collection architecture, 2008
Building material no.17, Dec 2007, Architectural Association of Ireland
MICRO, Laurence King publishers, 2007
Design and art, Whitechapel London, MIT press,Massachusetts, 2007
LAB MAG, 2007
Habitats/ Variations, Centre dÁrt Contemporain Geneve 2007
Wild, Maahenki, 2007
Nybrud, Dansk kunst i halfemserne, 2006
Style-Led Science, UK, 2006
Manual til dansk samtidskunst, Gyldendal, 2006
Blueprint Magazine, issue 247, 2006
Absoluut Architectuur, edite 03, 2006
Less- Alternative living strategies, PAC, 2006
Talking Cities, francesca Ferguson, Birkhauser, 2006
Arte Contemporanea 007, 2006
Living environments, issue 02 2006
Art Journal, winter 2005 vol 64
Make Magazine 05
Art and Law: The copyright debate, edited by Morten Rosenmeier and Stina Teilmann, 2005
Critical Space, Andrea Zittel, 2005
Rear, no. 9, 2005
Changing Habitats, Gesellschaft fur actuelle kunst, Bremen 2005
Water Houses, Prestel Verlag Munchen, Berlin, London, New York 2005, red. Felix Flesche
Transversal # 23, Barcelona, Spain 2004
5 acres on the lake- Du Sable Park Proposal project, Chicago USA 2004
Cakewalk Magazine # 6, Los Angeles, USA 2004
The Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere, 2004
N55 BOOK, 2003
Whitewalls # 45, Chicago, USA 2003
Artforum, February 2003 review Enactments of the Self
Fundamentalisms of the new order, NIFCA publication #23
From Work to Word, red. Doris Frohnapfel, Kunsthøgskolen i Bergen 2002
Publikation ( ) Malmø, Sweden 2002
Xtreme Houses, Prestel Verlag Munchen, Berlin, New York 2002
Arkitektur DK #1, 2002, Copenhagen
UNTITLED #26, Autumn/winter 2001, UK (interview by Craig Martin)
Archis #5, Holland 2001
LAND, page in Swedish daily newspaper Expressen 2001
Remarks on Interventive Tendencies - meetings between different economies in contemporary art, Borgen, Copenhagen 2001
Artforum International, December 2000,
Review "What if", Kunstforum international, #152, 2000
social+ minimal, New Art Examiner, October 2000, Chicago, pg. 18
Ten by Ten Vol. 1 #1, Spring 2000, Chicago pg. 28
Bijutsu Techno, Tokyo jan. 2000
NU: Nordic art review, no. 2 2000 "The alternative scene"
Frieze #49, nov.-dec. 1999 Loving the Alien .review
in vitro landscape, b&k+, Stuttgart 1999
LKW-Life, Work and Art, 1999 OK Linz Centrum fur gegenwartskunst
After All, Glasgow, sommer 1999
Kunstforum #146, Juli-August 1999 Das Archiv als Weltgarten
Like Virginity, Once Lost - Five Views on Nordic Art Now, Prospexus, Sweden 1999.
UKS forum, #3/4, 1998, Oslo. Interview: "It is an illusion that we live in time and space"
Paletten, #4, 1998, Gøteborg
Cream-Contemporary Art in Culture, Phaidon Press, London, 1998
Siksi, The Nordic Art Review, #2, summer 1998 "Manual for N55",
Flash Art International #201, summer 1998 "Aperto: Copenhagen",
UKS Forum, 3/4 1997, Oslo. Review
Frieze, #35, London, june 1997 "Home Hydroponic Unit".
NowHere, Louisiana Revy, #3,ex.cat., Humlebæk, Denmark, 1996
Monthly periodical for art and art related material, #14, 1995, #19, 1996,Cph.
N55, periodical #1-#92, Cph 1996- 2008

Selected lectures:

"Critical Ecologies”, (ZHdK Zurich) and HfBK Dresden, 2024
Designmuseum Denmark, Cirkular event, 3daysofdesign, talk in the garden, 2024
University of Bolzano FabLab, Bolzano, Italy 2024
Kunsthochschule HfK Bremen, Germany, 2023
BAUTOPIA 3 KEYNOTE: RECLAIM PRODUCTION- CARGO BIKES AS AN ARTISTIC MEDIUM , Timisoara, Romania, 2023
Gerrit Rietveld, Sandberg Institut, Amsterdam, 2021
Commons and Communities: How can art and architecture shape our common spaces and resources? Danish Architecture Center, DAC, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2019
Studio Talk, visiting students from Konstfack Stockholm, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2019
Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany, 2018
Talk at "Reimagining the Harbor", Dansk Arkitekturcenter, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2018
Amos lab, Life on a leaf2, Turku, Finland, 2018
The 4th Cross-Disciplinary Research Workshop 2017, KADK, Copenhagen Denmark
Platform Cooperativism and Redistributed Manufacturing, roundtable discussion, Royal College of Art, RCA, London, 2017
Talk at Statens Værksteder, Denmark, 2016
Talk at the Copenhagen University Summerschool, Denmark, 2016
Talk at the Copenhagen University Summerschool, Denmark, 2015
Talk at Laznia Center for Contemporary Art in Gdansk, Poland, 2015
Talk at Artweekend Aarhus, Denmark, 2015
Talk as part of URBAN ORGANISMS, Newbridge Project, Newcastle, UK, 2015
Talk at Aarhus kunsthal, Denmark, 2015
Talk at Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, USA
Talk and critique at the Greenhouse workshop – AEDES, Berlin, Germany, 2014
Talk at Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln, 2014
Berkeley University, Adaptive Metropolis Symposium, USA, 2013
University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Social Design, Public Action, Austria, 2013
Museum für Völkerkunde, N55 - art as a part of everyday life, Hamburg, 2014
HFBK Hamburg, DIE POLITIK DER MAKER - Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Designtheorie und Forschung, 2013
Academy Minerva, School for Fine Art, Design and Pop Culture, The Netherlands, 2013
Volkswagen factories, Autostadt, Wolfsburg, Germany, on the future of design etc. 2013
PB43, Introduction of competition for DAC and Innosite, 2013
The University of Copenhagen, Archive building, 2013
The University of Hong Kong / Faculty of Architecture (lecture series The Raw and the Cooked'), Hong Kong, 2012
PB43, On urban Planning and creative environtments, Hamburg-Copenhagen exchange, Copenhagen 2012
Detour Hong Kong,Design Renegade, Hong Kong, 2012
Peoples Architecture Office, Beijing China, 2012
Dutch Design Week, Material matters,, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 2012
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts- School of architecture, SIDEWAYS, 2011
Cooper Union, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, final thesis critique and lecture, 2010
UDK, University of arts, Berlin, Germany, 2010
Arnolfino, Bristol, 2009
HFBK, KlimaDesign, Hamburg, 2009
Oslo Architects Association, 2008
Metropolis laboratory, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2008
Danish School of Design, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2008
RACA, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2008
BRE, Cambridge, England, 2008
Edinburg College of Art, Edinburgh University, lecture, 2007
Edinburgh Public Library, lecture, 2007
DAC, Dansk Arkitektur Center, Talk, 2007
NKD, talk, Norway, 2007
MIT, USA 2006
PAC, Milano, 2006
Zaragoza Arts Festival, 2006
TRADE, conference, Ireland 2005
Daghøjskolen Vera, Copenhagen 2005
Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, Germany 2005
CAA (the College Art Association) conference, Seattle, USA 2004
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA 2004
Skolen for Fotografi, Copenhagen Denmark 2004
Daghøjskolen Vera, Copenhagen 2003
Les Arques Town Hall, France 2003
Copenhagen City Planners office, Denmark 2002
The Labor Union culture conference, Denmark 2002
Tramway, Glasgow 2002
CCA, Center for Contemporary Art, Glasgow 2002
Mexico City University, Mexico City 2002
Copenhagen University, ’Legal Frameworks’ Copenhagen University, seminar on
copyright/art 2002
Denmark College of Design 2001, 2002, 2003
Bergen Association of Architects, Bergen, Norway 2002,
Calarts, Los Angeles, USA 2002,
Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, USA 2002,
CCAC - California College of Art and Crafts, San Fransisco, USA 2002,
Art Academy of Bergen 2001, Norway
Valand Art Academy, Gøteborg, Sweden 2001,
Architectural School of Aarhus, Denmark 2001,
Architectural Institute of America, Washington DC 2001,
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA 2001,
University of Wisconsin, Madison 2001,
Northwestern University, Evanston, USA 2001,
Kingston University, London 2000,
Southwark College, London 2001,
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden 2000
Kent Institute of Art and Design, Canterbury 2000,
Gallery Hoet & Van de Boegaard, Bruxelles 2000. Casco, Holland 2000,
Umeå University, 1999 (seminar rel. to the exhibition "Mirror´s Edge"),
Sweden
Gotlands Art College, 1999, Sweden
School of the Art Insitute of Chicago, USA 1998,
Cranbrook Academy, USA 1998,
Seminar "Remarks on Interventive Tendencies", København 1998
Fyns Kunstakademi 1998,
Århus University "Kunstnerisk Praksis", 1997
"Interplace Access", Milano 1996, Italy

Teaching and workshops, selection:

University of Bolzano FabLab, Bolzano, Italy 2024
WORKSHOP Gerrit Rietveld Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, 2021
Workshop at Volkswagen Autostadt Wolfsburg, Germany 2019
Copenhagen University Summerschool, Denmark, 2019
Making Of, Zentrale Pratteln, Basel, Switzerland, 2018
Otto-von-Guericke-Universität, Magdeburg, Germany, 2018
Copenhagen University Summerschool, Denmark, 2018
Copenhagen University Summerschool, Denmark, 2017
Copenhagen University Summerschool, Denmark, 2016
Copenhagen University Summerschool, Denmark, 2015
XYZ CARGO Workshop, Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin, 2015
XYZ CARGO Workshop, Gängeviertel Hamburg, 2015
Workshop as part of URBAN ORGANISMS, Newbridge Project, Newcastle, UK, 2015
Workshop at Carleton College, Northfield Minnesota, USA, 2015
Workshop at Projekthaus Potsdam, Germany , 2014
Guest teacher at the Minerva Art Academy, Holland 2013
Workshop at Initiative für zeitgenössische Stadtentwicklung, XYZ , Leipzig, Germany, 2013
Workshop at Gängeviertel/Kutscherhaus, Hamburg / Germany, 2013
Workshop, XYZ CARGO at PB43, Denmark , 2013
Workshop XYZ CARGO for " Giv Rum", Copenhagen Denmark, 2013
Workshop, XYZ CARGO at Den "Økologiske produktionsskole" Denmark, 2013
Guest professor at Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, Germany, 2010
Workshop at The Danish School of Design in Kolding, Denmark, 2010
Workshop in Rotterdam invited by Nia, Netherlands Institute of Architecture and Alex Adriaanse, director of V2_ Institute for Unstable Media, Netherlands, 2010
Workshop at Metropolis laboratory, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2008
Workshop at 22 percent Sweden, Malmø, Sweden, 2008
Workshop at Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh University, 2007
Workshop, Edinburgh, Public Library, 2007
Workshop at MIT, USA, 2006
Workshop at Trade Talk, Ireland, 2006
Workshop at Colegio de arquitectos, Zaragossa, 2006
Workshop and Think Thank and on the subject on Cultural Utilisation of the International Space Station, ESA/ESTEC, the Netherlands, Invited by ESA and Arts Catalyst. 2005
Workshop at ‘Legal Space/Public Space’, Hangar, Barcelona 2004
Workshop at University of Tennessee, Sculpture dept., Knoxville, USA 2004
Workshop at Eindhoven Design Academy, Eindhoven, Holland 2003
Workshop at Denmark Design College, Copenhagen 2003
Workshop at Denmark Design College, Copenhagen 2002
Workshop at CCAC - California College of Art and Crafts, San Fransisco USA 2002
Workshop at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles USA 2002
Workshop at Valand College of Art, Gothenburg, Sweden 2001
Workshop at University of Wisconsin, Madison USA 2001
Workshop at Northwestern University, Evanston, USA 2001
Workshop at Royal Danish Academy of Art, 1999
Workshop at Royal Danish Academy of Art, 2000
Workshop at Århus Academy of Art 1999
Workshop at Krabbesholm Højskole 1999, Denmark
Workshop at Kunsthøjskolen på Ærø 1999, Denmark
Workshop at Gotlands Konstskola 1999, Sverige
Workshop at Cranbrook Academy of Fine Arts, USA 1998

TV / press (selected):

Apropos, Danish National Radio, 2015
MICROTOPIA, Documentary, Solaris Filmproduction, 2013, Copenhagen Architecture filmfestival and Danish National Television, 2014
Daily planet, Discovery channel, 2012
The WALKING HOUSE , Launched in the UK in late 2008/early 2009, hit the national media like BBC news and the newspapers and then the global media.The first steps by WALKING HOUSE , video was featured video on youtube.com and has been seen 1 nov 2008 by 190000 people.2 weeks after being published. It was on television stations in Japan, China, india, USA etc. We lost track of the press stuff between 2009 and 2012…
BBC radio, interview, 2007
Channel Arte, as part of the "tracks" magazine. 2006
Sky television. 2006
BBC radio, 2006
Dagbladet, November 2005
TV2, Huset, 4 October, 2005
DR, P2, Kulturnyt, 28 June
The Guardian, 24 June 2005
Kristeligt Dagblad, 27 May 2005
Dagens Nyheter, 9 April 2005
Politiken, 22 October 2004
TV2 Lorry, I Byen, 2004
BBC3, “Guerilla Homes”, 2004
LIVA, Danmark Radios Kulturprogram nov. 2002 (den ny avantgarde)
TV2 Lorry, 2002
DR2: “Videnom”, om N55 Spaceframe, januar 2000
CNN: “Artclub”, April 1998
NRK Norge: Interview i forb. med Den Nordiske Kunstfestival, juni
1998
Politiken, Danmark: “Kunst kan være at hoppe på ét ben” interview 19. september 1999
Dagens Nyheter, Sverige: “Social design”, review of solo exhibition in Visby, 28. August 1999
Dagens Nyheter, Sverige: “ Skärvor af framtiden”, article about N55
16. August 1998

Grants and stipends, selection:

Ny Carlsbergfonden, støtte til publikation om SPACEPLATES, 2024
Carlsbergfondet i samarbejde med Anne Romme, støtte til realisation af film om SPACEPLATES, 2024
Dreyers fond i samarbejde med Anne Romme, støtte til publikation, 2024
Politikens fond i samarbejde med Anne Romme, støtte til publikation, 2024
Statens Kunstfond, Visual Arts, Denmark: Grant 2024
Statens Kunstfond, Visual Arts, Denmark: Grant 2023
Statens Kunstfond, Visual Arts, Denmark: Grant 2020
Statens Kunstfond, Visual Arts, Denmark: Grant 2019
Artwork bought by Statens Kunstfond, Visual Arts, 2018
Statens Kunstfond, Visual Arts, Denmark: Grant 2018
Statens Kunstfond, Visual Arts, Denmark: Grant 2016
Statens Kunstfond, Visual Arts, Denmark: Grant 2015
Statens Kunstfond, Architecture, Travel grant with Anne Romme and SPACEPLATES, 2014
Statens kunstfond,Visual Arts, Denmark, 2011
Gammel Dok, Statens værksteder, 2 months grant, Denmark, 2010
Statens Kunstfond, architecture, Denmark, 2009
Statens Kunstfond, Visual Arts, Denmark: grant 2008
Gammel Dok, Statens værksteder, 6 months grant, Denmark, 2009
Danish Council of Visual Art, Denmark 2003, 2004 and 2005
Ny Carlsberg Foundation, Denmark 2003
Politiken Foundation, Denmark 2003
Statens Kunstfond, Visual Arts, Denmark: work stipend 1999, 2002
Center for Dansk Billedkunst 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002. 2003,
Knud Højgaards Fond, 2002
Designfonden, Det Danske Kulturministerie 1999
Ole Haslunds legat 2001
Akademiraadets bevilling til anerkendte, yngre kunstneres udstillingsaktiviteter (YKU) 1996, 1997, 1999
Kulturministeriets tidsskriftstøtte 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
Kulturfonden, Det Danske Kulturministerium, 1998
Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond, Norge 1998 , 2000, 2005
SLEIPNIR reisestipend, NIFCA1998, 1999 (Svalbard), 2000 (LAND), 2001(Greenland)
“The Elephant Award”, award at the Nordic biennial “Momentum” i Moss, Norway 1998
Danmarks Nationalbanks Jubilæumsfond af 1968, 1998
Udviklingsfonden, Det Danske Kulturministerium, 1999
Konstnärsnämnden, Sverige 1999
Ingrid Lindgaard Langbäcks fond, Norge 1999.

Artist in residence stipends:

The Ward Lucas Lectures series, artist in residence at Carleton, Northfield, USA, 2015
The Danish Institute In Damaskus, Syria, 2010
Recidency Wysing arts centre, Cambridge, England, 2007
Residency NKD, Norway, 2006
Kunstlerhaus Hamburg, 2003
Les Ateliers des Arques, France 2003
DCA/Otis College of Art and Design, artist- in- residence program 2002
IASPIS 11. street , Artist in residence program, Los Angeles, USA 2002
NIFCA (Nordisk Institut for Samtidskunst),Stipendophold i Quaqortoq, Grønland april-Maj 2001

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