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Biography Per Hüttner
b.1967 in Oskarshamn, Sweden.
Lives and works in Paris, France

Education
1988-1993
Konsthögskolan, Stockholm, Sweden
1991-1992
Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, Germany

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007
Illuminating the Inside(out) - Andlighet och Avföring, Galleri Skarstedt, Stockholm, Sweden
Catharsis, RaidFC, Los Angeles, USA
Demonstrating, Totalbunkern, Copenhagen, Denmark

2006
Xiao Yao You, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Tundro, Contemporary Art Gallery, National Museum, Szczecin, Poland
Repetitive Time, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Gothenburg, Sweden
Democracia y Deseo, Vacio 9, Madrid, Spain
Raid FC, Slick Art Fair, Paris, France

2004-2005
New Work, Galleri Skarstedt, Stockholm, Sweden
Participate?, (collaborative project), Chinese-European Art Center, Xiamen, China and Basekamp, Philadelphia, USA
Per Hüttner, Xposeptember, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Meandering and Circling, NORD Kultur, Backfabrik, Berlin, Germany
Per Hüttner, Redux Project Space, London, UK

2002-2003
I Am a Curator, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK
Reality? Exactly Which Reality Are You Referring To?, Kontainer Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
Recycling the Rejects, Sub Bau, Göteborg, Sweden

1999-2002
About Weddings and Commodities, Raid Projects, Los Angeles, USA
Fadren, Platform, Vasa, Finland
Curatorial Market (collaborative project), Cuchifritos & Essex St. Market, New York City, USA
Från Guldheden till Lusaka, Galleri Mors Mössa, Göteborg, Sweden
Reading Matter, Artspace, Sydney, Australia
Knowledge and the Corporeal, Konstakuten, Stockholm, Sweden and Noass, Riga, Latvia

1989-1999
Begrepp – En Samling, Galleri Mejan, Stockholm, Sweden (in collaboration with E. Arnér)
320 Minutes, Kalmar Nattmuseum, Kalmar, Sweden
Arvidsson Antikhandel, Stockholm, Sweden (rearrangement of antique shop with M. Larson)

Selected Group Exhibitions
2007
Evolution de L’art, Evolution de L’art, Bratislava, Slovakia
Plausible Artworlds, ICA, Philadelphia, USA
RaidFC, Art LA, Los Angeles, USA
Privé och Publico, Galleri 54, Göteborg, Sweden
Parallel Universes Meet at Infinity, Springhill Institute, Birmingham, UK

2006
Art is always somewhere else, International Biennial of Young Artists, Bucharest, Romania
20 Years!, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Taking Inventory: TransformationThrough Compilation, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
LA Photo, Wetterling Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2005
Metropolis, Baltic Biennial of Contemporary Art, National Museum, Szczecin, Poland
Institute of Contemporary Agora II (with Zhang Wei), ICA, London, UK
La Cure II, Parc Saint Léger/Centre d’Art Contemporain, Pougues-les-Eaux, France
CopyFight, Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
Realitäten II, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, Austria
Curating Degree Zero, Spike Island, Bristol; International Project space, Birmingham; Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland; Artspace, Imperial College, London, UK; Sparwasser HQ, Berlin, Germany

2004
Copy-Art.net, ICA, London, UK
Connecting the Dots, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, USA
Copy-Art.net, IBID Projects, London, UK

2003
BIDA 2003, Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Spain
Aletheia, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden
La International, Cherry de los Reyes Gallery, Venice, USA
Re-inventing the La-La-Landscape, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

2002
Slowdive, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA
STRIKE, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK
Ego, Chinese-European Art Center, Xiamen, China
Foto, (with A. von Hausswolff and L. Antonsson), traveling exhibition, Sweden (2002-04)

2001
Group Show, Vilma Gold, London, UK
...all we need is a preacher and motel..., Galerie Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, France
3 in 1, Nylon Gallery, London, UK
Travelogue, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, USA
Odyssée, (curated by Frotté), traveling exhibition, Norway (2001-02)

2000
Knock Off, Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Where Did You Find Me?, Incubator, London; James Hockey Gallery, Farnham, UK
Körper I, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, Austria

1999
Organic Chauvinism, Purgatori, Valencia, Spain
Club-Europa, (organized by Unit), The Nunnery, London, UK
The Bible of Networking, Sali Gia Gallery, London, UK; P-House Gallery, Ebisu, Tokyo, Japan; Art Center, Art & Culture Foundation, Seoul, Korea (1998, 1999, 2001)
The Reflective Surface, Kaapelin Galeria, Hensinki, Finland; Färgafbriken, Stockholm, Sweden; and Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, Austria (1998-1999)

1997-98
Fasten Seatbelts, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
Take Off, Galerie Krinzinger, Benger Areal, Bregenz, Austria
Intalinka, disused airfield, Haapsalu, Estonia

1995-96
Maria Bonnier Dahlins stiftelse, special utställningen, Stockholm Art Fair, Sweden
Deadline, Uppsala Konstmuseum, Sweden
Shaking Patterns, W 139, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Standort und Auftrag, Dienstleistungszentrum, Bankgesellschaft AG, Berlin, Germany
När Katten är Borta…, Galleri Andreas Brändström, Stockholm, Sweden

Selected Public Collections
Göteborgs konstmuseum, Gothenburg, Sweden
Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Stockholms läns landsting, Stockholm, Sweden
Contemporary Art Gallery, National Museum, Szczecin, Poland

Published Books
Xiao Yao You: Per Hüttner, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China, 2006
Repetitive Time: Per Hüttner
, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden, 2006
I Am A Curator, edited by Per Hüttner, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK, 2005
Per Hüttner by Duncan McLaren, Curatorial Mutiny, Stockholm, Sweden, 2004
Curatorial Mutiny, edited by Per Hüttner Curatorial Mutiny, Stockholm, Sweden, 2003
Begrepp – En Samling, edited by Per Hüttner and Elias Arnér, Konsthögskolan, Stockholm, Sweden, 1992

Selected Magazine Articles (on the artist’s work)
"Tundro, znaczy wolnosc" Marta Eloy Cichocka, Fotograficzny Biuletyn 09/2006 (58), p.48-50, Poland
"Per Hüttner", Francesca Pagliuca, Tema Celeste 117, p. 102, 2006, Milano, Italy
"Le curating est le reponse...", Paul O'Neill, 02#35, p.14-16, 2005, Nantes, France
“I Am A Curator,” Paul O’Neill, Art Monthly 275, p.7-10, 2004, London UK.
“Per Hüttner,” Fergal Stapleton, c magazine 80, p.41, 2004, Toronto, Canada
“Med världen som arbetsplats,” Anders Olofsson, Konstperspektiv; cover, back cover, p.24-27; April 2002; Malmö, Sweden
“A Tasty Treat Curatorial Market,” James Westcott, Zingmagazine 18; p.270-272; 2003; New York, USA
“Nightmares of Reason,” Adbusters, p.108-109; May-June 2003, Vancouver, Canada
“A Western Runner,” Laurent Devèze, Mare Articum 1, p.58-63, 2002, Poland
Tank Book, Thames & Hudson; 2002; London, UK
“Artists on the Move,” Duncan McLaren, Contemporary, p.56-61; June-Aug 2002, London, UK
“3 in 1: Curatorial Mutiny, Part 4,” Neal Brown, Frieze 60, p.118-119, 2001, London, UK
“Curatorial Mutiny @ Nylon,” Lee Triming, Flash Art, p.79, May-June 2001, London, UK
“Dokumenterad 30 års kris,” Nils Forsberg, Spy, p.41-46, August 2000
“Running Project,” Claire Canning, Tank 9, p.232-241, London, UK
“Løpekonstnären,” Marit Paasche, Frotté 2, Oslo, Norway
“Virska dala ar Hegela Vestures filozofiju,” I. Buzinska, Neatkariga, 19/7/99, Riga, Latvia
“TalePiece,” Caroline Smith, Creative Camera, p.50-51, April-May 1999, London, UK
“Labyrinthen i Gdansk,” Daniel Birnbaum, MAMA, p.30-31, September 1994, Stockholm, Sweden
“Elias Arnér and Per Hüttner,” Tom Sandqvist, Siksi, January 1993, Helsinki, Finland

Selected Published Texts in Exhibition Catalogues (by the artist)
"The Pain of Realising a Dream", Reflejos culturales de Europa en España, The Embassy of Germany in Madrid, Madrid, 2007.
"Giacometti, Hjort and Hüttner", Fondation Alberto et Anette Giacometti, Paris, 2006.
"Med Akuten i Backspegeln", Konstakuten 1996-2006, Konstakuten, Stockholm, 2006, p. 25-6.
“It is Good to Be an Artist Again,” The Yugoslav Biennal of Young Artists Vrsac 2004, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Belgrade, Yugoslavia 2004, p 209-212
“Pleasure and Pain all Rolled into One,” BIDA 2003, Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Spain, p.110-113
“Re-inventing Romanticism,” Aletheia, The Real of Concealment, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden, 2003, p.32-35.
“..all we need is a preacher and motel...,” (editor and writer of introduction) Galerie Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, France 2002
“How do we Keep on Meeting?,” 9-10 Ottobre 1999, Oreste at The Venice Biennale, Italy, 1999
“Changes,” Ihop, Lunds Konsthall, Sweden, 2000, p.46-47
“Offshore: A Three-Step Guide to Fame and Fortune” (with Gavin Wade), Offshore, Kunsthallen Bergen, Norway, 2000

Selected Published Articles in Magazines (by the artist)
"Democracy and Desire", Slashseconds, issue 004, London, 2006
"It is Good to Be an Artist Again", Slashseconds, issue 003, London, 2006
"The Topography of Experimentation", Semaine no 73, Pougues-les-Eaux, 2005, p. 16-19.
"Meandering and Circling", Nord Magazin, Berlin, 2005, p.32.
"The Diary", TANK, Five year issue, London 2003.
“The Artist as Curator,” Mare Articum 1, Poland, p.72-82,
“The Artist as Curator,” Raid Projects Journal, Los Angeles, USA, 1/2002, p.12-17
“On: For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign by Jean Baudrillard,” TANK, London, UK 2/2001
“Interview with Ali Maher, Darat al Funun,” D-Pict, London, UK, 2/2000, p.56
“Cecilia Parsberg,” Creative Camera, London, UK, 3/1999, p.45
“Report from Riga,” Creative Camera, London, UK, 2/1999, p.10
“Get Together. Art as Teamwork,” Creative Camera, London, UK, 4/1999, p.45
“Artist Curator,” AN-Magazine, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK, 03/00

Selected Teaching
Campus Norrköping, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden, 2003-
École nationale supérieure d'art de Mulhouse, France 2007
École nationale supérieure d’art de Nancy, France 2004-2005
Goldsmiths College, London, UK, 2003
Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada, 2003
Valand School of Arts, Göteborg, Sweden, 1998-1999, 2002-2003
Kunstakademiet, Bergen, Norway, 1999-2000
Forsbergs International School of Design, Stockholm, Sweden, 1997-2001
University of Northumbria, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK, 1997

Selected Lectures and Seminars
Topology of Transgression, Storrady, Szczecin, Poland, 2006
Repetitive Time
, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden, 2006
Copy-Art.net, ICA, London, UK, 2005
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA, 2005
After Curation, Vrsac Biennial, Students Cultural Centre, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 2004
Arts Administration and Management Diploma, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, 2004
Aletheia: The Real of Concealment, Göteborgs konstmuseum, Sweden, 2003
Konsthögskolan, Stockholm, Sweden, 2003
School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA, 2001
Visual Art Council of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia, 2000
Exhibitions a Practical Matter, NIFCA/Helsinki City Museum, Helsinki, Finland, 1999
Oreste, 48th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, 1999
Moderator, First European Seminar for Artist-Run Spaces, Konstakuten, Stockholm, Sweden, 1999
Red Arte, Museo De Bellas Artes San Pio V, Valencia, Spain, 1999
North Meets South, Latvian National Museum, Riga, Latvia, 1998
Synergetics Institute, Hiroshima, Japan, 1992
Tsukuba University, Departement of Fine Arts, Tsukuba, Japan, 1992

Selected Grants and Residencies
Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China, 2006
Springhill Institute, residency, Birmingham, UK, 2004
Raid Projects, residency, Los Angeles, USA, 2002
Triangle-La Friche Belle de Mai, residency, Marseille, France, 2001
IASPIS, residency, 18th Street Art Complex, Santa Monica, USA, 2000-2001
Nifca, residency, Riga, Latvia, 1999
Karl Hofer Gesellschaft, residency, Berlin, Germany, 1991
Maria Bonnier Dahlins Stiftelse, 1989