Mai Hofstad Gunnes

Born 1977 in Lørenskog, Norway

Lives and works in Oslo, Norway

Education

2003-2004 Research Program, CCA (Center for Contemporary Art), Kitakyushu, Japan

1999-2004 MFA, Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Norway

2000-2001 Universität der Künste, Prof. Katharina Sieverding, Berlin, Germany

1997-1999 Einar Granum Kunstskole, Oslo, Norway


Residencies

2015 HIGH-NORTH, Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromsø Academy of Contemporary Art, CCA Glasgow, GSS, BALTIC Centre for

Contemporary Art, NABROAD

2012/2013 W17, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo

2011 OCA Office for Contemporary Art Norway / WIELS Contemporary Art Centre,

Brussels, Belgium

2010 La Cite International, Ingrid Lindbäck Langaard Stiftelse, Paris

2004 IASPIS, International Artist Studio Program in Sweden, Stockholm


Solo Exhibitions (selection)

2019 Films by Mai Hofstad Gunnes, Entrée, Bergen

2019 Whim of Selflessness, Grand Piano, Oslo

2018 Wave. Whip. Fan, She Will, Ski

2016 B. The Second Letter, Baltic 39, Gateshead/Newcastle, United Kingdom

2015 Proverbs for Ouroboros, Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Trondheim

2012 Baby Snakes Hatching. Ruins. Ruins, UKS, Young Artists Associations, Oslo

2012 Bike and Bolex, WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium

2012 Bike and Bolex, Souterrain, Berlin

2009 A shape of love you can never imagine, Oslo Fine Art Society, Oslo

2006 Stolen Recorder, (with Lieko Shiga), Areal 28, Berlin

2005 When Pigs Fly, (with Christine Rebet), Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo

2004 What do you Mean? XpoSeptember, Stockholm, Photo Festival,Fylkingen, Stockholm


Group Exhibitions (selection)

2020

Signalfeil på Olaf Ryes plass, Atelier Nord, Oslo

2019

Ecologies Lost Found and Continued, Screen City Biennial, Stavanger

2018

Celluloid Brushes, Establissement d´en face, Brussels

Artroskopi, Ringnes Kunsthall, Skotbu, Norway

2017

Hamskifte, Dokumentasjonsprosjektet E6, Oppland Kunstsenter, Lillehammer, Norway

When We Dead Awaken, Munchmuseet on the Move, Kunsthall Oslo, Oslo

2015

Facts, Stories and Anecdotes, Kunsthall Stavanger, Stavanger

Imagining Commons, Galleri Volt, Bergen

Words aren´t the thing, CAC, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania

Walk Like a Giant, QBG, Oslo

2014

Museum of Contemporary Art, Banja Luka, Bosnia

2013

Momentum 7, Nordic Biennial for Contemporary Art, Moss

PARADOKS, Posisjoner innen norsk videokunst 1980 - 2010, Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo

In Case We Don´t Die, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles

In the House of Mr & Mrs X, Temporary Gallery, Cologne, Germany

Black & Vases, Komplot, Brussel

Passage pas sage, Passage des Gravilliers, Paris

Open studio, W17, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo

2012

If you want it you can get it for the rest of your life, ISCP, New York

All in all, Ruth Phaneuf Fine Arts, New York

Celluloid Brushes, Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie, Berlin

Fragile, Hôtel de Gallifet, Aix-en-Provence, France

MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK

Lo Spacio, Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris, France

2011

Oh how time flies, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway

Neuwegen, Galerie am Koernerpark, Berlin

A Sounder Of (Wild) Boas, Sils Project Space, Rotterdam

Le choix du titre est un faux problème, Cneai de Paris, Paris

Metrospective 1.0, Program, Berlin

2010

Goddesses, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway

Cities re-imagined, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia

Pyrrhic Fortune, Sils, Rotterdam

What will the future bring, Grimm Museum, Berlin

Filmform presents, 56th International Short Film festival Oberhausen 2010, Oberhausen, Germany

2009

20 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Lettre International, Berlin (magazine)

Exotica, Forgotten Bar Project, Berlin

Bunnies, It Must Be Bunnies, Lautom Contemporary, Oslo

Take me out to the wonder forest, Mercian Karuizawa Art Museum, Karuizawa, Japan

Gerichtstrasse 52a, Berlin, Germany

Sparebankstiftelsen DnB Nor Stipendutstilling, Oslo Fine Art Society, Oslo

2008

Ghost in the Machine, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway

The intimate and extraordinary life of rocks, Program, Berlin

Magical Systems, Tromsø Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tromsø, Norway

Holiday in Arcadia, Lydgalleriet, Bergen, Norway

2007

I have a suitcase in Berlin, The National Library, Oslo, Norway

Inter-Faces, SOROS Center for Contemporary Art, Almaty, Kazakhstan

AniMotion, Galleri F15, Moss, Norway

Summer Sushi, Gallery Yujiro, London, Great Britain

2006

Rio, Artnews projectspace, Berlin, Germany

A to Z, (curated by Yoshitomo Nara), Hirosaki, Japan

Domestic Affairs, Momentum, Moss, NorwayTemporary Art Museum Soi Sabai, Bangkok, Thailand

2005

On time, Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway

Talking Music, Flicker!, Projekt 0047, Berlin, Germany

Stilleben, Projekt0047, Berlin, Germany

Past/Present/Forever, Buia Gallery, New York City

2004

All Moveable Wonders, IASPIS Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

Open Studio, IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden

VideoZone2, International Video Art Bienniale, Tel Aviv, Israel

Pictures came and broke my heart, Uppsala Int.Short Film Festival, Sweden

Scandinavian Sparks, 798 Space, Beijing, China

Blick 04, New Nordic Film & Video, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

2003

Good Foot, Trondheim Kunstmuseum and Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway

Dissonanze, Festival di Musica Elettronica e Arte Digitale, Rome, Italy

2002

Cmyk/Greyscale, Tramway, Glasgow, Great Britain

Falling on You, 38 Langham Street, London, Great Britain

Videoworks, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway

Memory Project, Rantakasarmi, NIFCA, Helsinki, Finland

Film Fylkingen, Fylkingen, Stockholm

2001

Blick, New Nordic Film & Video, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden


Represented in Collections (selection)

The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway

DnB Sparebank Foundation, Oslo, Norway

Statens Vegvesen, Lillehammer, Norway

Hordaland Fylkeskommune, Norway

Arts Council Norway

Trondheim Municipality, Norway