Artist Biography

Born in Sweden, 1963.
Lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden

Education
2002-2004
Electroacoustic Music / EMS (Elektronmusikstudion) / Stockholm

1995-1996
Royal Academy of Fine Arts / Video Department / Stockholm

1992-1995
Academy of Photography / Konstfack, University of Arts, Craft and Design / Stockholm

Solo Exhibitions
2019
Music for Resurrected Atoms, MLF | Marie-Laure Fleisch, Brussels, Belgium
The Psychic Riddles of Unknown Life, duo show with Fredrik Söderberg, Kristianstads Konsthall, Kristianstad, Sweden

2018
Ionosphere * Plant * Metal * Aura, Galleri Riis, Oslo, Norway

2016
The Great Solar Eclipse, 1868, Galleri Riis, Stockholm; Dagmörker, Guntur, India
Aether & Einstein, Magasin III Museum & Foundation for Contemporary Art, Stockholm, Sweden

2014
Musikk for Eukaryoter, Trondheim Museum of Art, Trondheim, Norway

2013
Music for Eukaryotes, Galleri Riis, Stockholm, Sweden
Market Art Fair, Galleri Riis, Stockholm, Sweden

2011
The Armory Show, Thought-Form Materializing, Milliken Gallery, New York, United States

2009
The Armory Show, Thought-Forms, Christian Larsen, Stockholm, Sweden

Group Exhibitions
2019
Modern Nature, Drawing Room, London, UK
Pangea United, Pangea Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi, Łódź, Poland
Sensing Nature From Within, curated by Joa Ljungberg, Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden

2018
The Beautiful Escape, CFHILL, Stockholm, Sweden
With The Future Behind Us, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Traces Ecrites, MLF | MARIE-LAURE FLEISCH, Brussels, Belgium

2017
Survival Kit 9, International Contemporary Arts Festival, Riga, Latvia
Alpha & Omega, Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavik, Iceland
Utopins Arkeologi, CFHILL, Stockholm, Sweden

2016
Konstnären/The Artist,  Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Life Itself, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden

2015
Tunnel Vision, The 8th Momentum Nordic Biennial, Moss, Norway

2014
The Drawing Room, Magasin III Museum & Foundation for Contemporary Art, Stockholm, Sweden
Restaurering av inre rum, Charlottenburgs gård, Solna, Sweden
5th Marrakech Biennale, freq_out 10, Marrakech, Morocco

2013
Channelled, Lunds konsthall, Lund, Sweden
Restaurering av inre rum, Charlottenburgs gård, Solna, Sweden
Sonic Acts Festival, freq_out 9, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2012
Art and Music - Search for New Synesthesia, MOT - Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Restaurering av inre rum, Charlottenburgs gård, Solna, Sweden
Sonic Acts Festival, freq_out 9, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2011
freq_out 8, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Ynglingagatan 1, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Nordic Darkness, Kristinehamns Konstmuseum, Kristinehamn 
Music in Art, Milliken Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

2010
The Moderna Exhibition 2010, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Thrice upon a time, Magasin III, Stockholm, Sweden
Park Life, Marabouparken, Sundbyberg, Sweden
Worshipping the Sun, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, (Curator: Sandra Weil)
Ocus Pokus, Visualization Center C, Norrköping, Stockholm, Sweden
Swedish Art & Culture, The US Ambassador's Residence, Stockholm, Sweden

2009
Botanic Sounds, The Botanical Garden, Gothenburg, Sweden
A Metaphysical Deal You Can't Resist, CFF, Stockholm, Sweden

2008
Creating Spaces, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Sonic Voices, Rocking Hard, Neederlands Instituut voor de Mediakunst, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2007
Ordinary Fantastic, Milliken Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
How Imitations Get Cornered By The Real, UKS, Oslo, Norway

2006
Linnés Natur, Linnés Hammarby, Uppsala, Sweden
Dwell, Galleri 54, Stockholm, Sweden
Man Machine, Tekniska museet, Stockholm, Sweden

Screenings and Performances
2018
Conjuring Creativity – Art & the Esoteric, Stockholm, Sweden
SuperDeluxe Edition, SuperDeluxe, Tokyo, Japan

2017
Norbergfestival, Sweden 2017
Cryptogami, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden

2016
freq_out 12, Wien Kanal, Sewer system, Girardi Park, Vienna, Austria

2015
Stress Call of the Stinging Nettle, Nordic Music Days, Kongernes Lapidarium, Copenhagen, Denmark

2014
Contemporary Resonances: The Art and Music of Christine Odlund, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Utah, USA

2012
Swedish Energies, The Issue Project Room, New York, USA

2011
Phonofemme, Brunnenpassage, Vienna, Austria

2010
Sharing Art, Gothenburg International Film Festival, Gothenburg, Sweden

2009
Collapse, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
It's a Small World, International Filmfestival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2008
ICA / Swedish Outsiders, Festival of experimental sounds & films, London, England
iDEAL 10, Uppsala Konserthall, Uppsala, Sweden

Commissions and Public Works
2017
Cryptogami, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway, Commissioned by Koro

2016
Musikaliska Konstruktioner, för metall och vatten, Karlstad, Germany, Commissioned by Karlstad municipality

2015
Livets träd, Kungshult Hospice, Helsingborg, Sweden

2014
FREQ_OUT 1.2 (skandion), Skandionkliniken, Uppsala, Sweden. Skandionkliniken

2013
Lindarnas Anatomi, Kista Gårds Park, Kista, Sweden. Commissioned by Stockholm Konst
Atlantis No. 2 / 2012, Statoil Oslo offices, Fornebu building, Norway

2011
Water Sample, Visualization Center C, Norrkoping, Sweden. Commissioned by the National Public Art Council Sweden

2008
Atlantis, animation commissioned by Animate Projects and RSA Arts & Ecology in association with Arts Council & Channel 4

In the collections of:
Magasin III Museum & Foundation for Contemporary Art, Stockholm, Sweden
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
The Museum of Sketches, Archives of public art, Lund, Sweden
Trondheim Museum of Art, Trondheim, Norway
Public Art Agency Sweden / Statens Konstråd, Stockholm, Sweden

Selected Bibliography
2019
Notes on Other Music: In conversation, Christine Ödlund & Leif Elggren / Edition Festival for Other Music

2016
Aether & Einstein, Christine Ödlund, Magasin III, SKIRA / Magasin III
Artforum, Jacquelyn Davis
Hilma af Klint, The Art of Seeing the Invisible, Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation

2015
Momentum 8: Tunnelvision - The Viewer, Mousse Publishing
Momentum 8: Tunnelvision - The Reader, Mousse Publishing
Music for Eukaryotes, Christine Ödlund, Trondheim Kunstmuseum

2013
Fukt Magazine, for contemporary drawing, No 12 2013
Abraxas, international journal of esoteric studies, # 4, Sarah Victoria Turner
The Legacy of Hilma af Klint: Nine Contemporary Responses / Moderna Museet, Koenig Books, London

2012
Art & Music - Search for New Synesthesia, catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

2010
Frieze, Spirited Away, Ronald Jones & Liv Stoltz, Issue 135 Nov-Dec 2010 Artforum, Ronald Jones, March 2010 Artlover, Sanna Samuelsson, #4, 2010

2009
The Wire, Bruce Russell, issue 306 August 2009

Prizes
2015
The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts Art Prize 2015 / Axel Theofron Sandbergs fond 2015 / Stockholm

2010
Edstrand Foundation Art Prize 2010 / Edstrandska Stiftelsens stipendium 2010 / Malmö Filmform Honorary Award 2010 / Stockholm

Other
External tutor at Malmö Art Academy, Sweden
1997-1999 Member of the artist group Swe.De (Swedish Department at Gallery Ynglingagatan 1, Stockholm)