1962born in Stockholm
lives and works in Berlin

Education
1986-88  Hochschule der Künste (Meisterschülerin 1990), Berlin
1988-92  Royal University College of Fine Arts, Stockholm

Awards/Grants
2003Atelier Augarten, Vienna
2002ArtPace International Artist-in-Residence Program, San Antonio, Texas, US
2001/02DAAD, Berlin, Germany
1998     First Prize in Statens Kunstrad Public Sculpture Contest, Stockholm
1993/94PS.1 International Studioprogram, New York
1989Skohegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine

Solo Exhibitions
2008 "After the Fact", Christian Larsen, Stockholm
"In Passing", Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm
2007 BCP&P galeria, Madrid, Spain
"In Passing", Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
"In Passing", Galeria Pepe Cobo, Madrid
2005"3 MPH, Horse to Rocket", Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela Spain
"3 MPH, Horse to Rocket", Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
2004"InBetween the Best of Worlds", Moderna Museet, Stockholm
"Warte Mal!", BAK, Utrecht (NL)
"Warte Mal!", Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
"Who is Queen of Mud? The Clocktower & QM I Think I Call her QM", CAAM Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria (Spain)
2003"3 MPH (Horse to Rocket)" Galeria Pepe Cobo, Sevilla (Spain)
"QM, I Think I Call Her QM", Galerie Jirí Svestka, Prague
2002"3 MPH (Horse to Rocket)", ArtPace, San Antonio (Texas)
"Warte Mal!, Prostitution After the Velvet Revolution",Hayward Gallery, London
"Warte Mal!", Moderna Museet c/o BAC, Baltic Art Center, Visby (SE)
2001"Fidei Commissum", Christine König Galerie, Vienna
"Station 10 and Back Again", Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Norrköpings (SE)
"Ann-Sofi Sidén - Enquête. The Panning Eye Revisited", ARC Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
2000"2 DVD Installations: Eija-Liisa Ahtila & Ann-Sofi Sidén", Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (Texas)
"Who is invading my privacy, not so quietly and not so friendly?", The South London Gallery, London
"QM, I think I call her QM", Hirschhorn Museum, Washington (D.C.)
1999"Warte Mal!", Wiener Secession, Vienna
"Days Inn & The Preparation", Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
"QM, I Think I Call Her QM", Bergen Fine Art Society, Bergen
"Who told the chambermaid? & The Preparation", Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm
1998QM, I Think I Call Her QM, Biografen Zita, Stockholm SE
1997"Room Within the Room", Sveriges Radio/Swedish Radio, Stockholm
1995"Excerpt III", Gallery Lucas & Hoffman, Cologne "It is by confining one¹s neighbour that one is convinced of one¹s own sanity", Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm
1993CODEX: from the city stones to the seat of shame: a reconstruction by Ann-Sofi Sidén, touring exhibition, Riksutställningar
Brown Tableau for five monitors, Sundsvalls Museum, Sundsvall
1991"Sofi's Room", Galleri Mejan, Stockholm
1988"Inget Måleri", Galleri Rotor, Gothenburg

Group Exhibitions (selected)
2009 Biennale Venezia 53rd International Art Exhibition
Pabellón de la Urgencia, Murcia. The Fear Society, curated by Jota Castro
2008 "Fluid Street - Alone, Together", Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki
"Human too human" - Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia, Italy
2007Into Me / Out of Me, MACRO - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Roma Pepe Cobo y sus máquinas, Palacio de Sástago, Diputación Provincial de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain.
Speed II Institut Valenciá d'Art Modern, Generalitat Valenciana, Valencia, Spain.
Wege zur Selbstverständlichkeit - Set 4 aus der Sammlung des Fotomuseum Winterthur Fotomuseum Winterthur, CH
2006 Documents, the Memory of the Future, KM kulturunea, San Sebastian, Spain
travelling to MARCO, Vigo, Spain
Archaeology of Reality, Latvian Center for Contemporary Art- LCCA, Riga, Latvia
Touch My Shadows, Centrum Sztuki, Warsaw, Poland
Speed, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
Konstfeminism/ Art Feminism, Liljevalch's Konsthall, Stockholm
Into Me / Out of Me, PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; Kunstwerke, Berlin; Museo d'Arte Contemporáneo, Rome
Anstoss Berlin - Kunst macht Welt, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
Locuras contemporáneas, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Melancholie. Genie und Wahnsinn in der Kunst, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
2005 Project Migration, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
Nach Rokytník - Die Sammlung der EVN, MUMOK, Vienna
Konstfeminism/ Art Feminism, Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg Sweden
Installationen und Skulpturen, Galerie Tanit, München
"Becoming Animal", MASS MoCA, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams (MA)
2004Biennale of Sydney 2004, Sydney (AU)
"Born to be a Star - Sound Video, Installations and Performances, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
"Volontary Memory, " Barbican Center Art Galleries, London
"Perspectives @ 25", Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
"3 MPH", Art Basel: Art Unlimited, Basel
"Berlin North ­ Zeitgenössische Künstler aus den nordischen Ländern in Berlin", Nationalgalerie Berlin im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
2003"Somewhere Better than this place: Alternative Social Experience in Spaces of Contemporary Art, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
"Independence, " South London Gallery, London
"Micropolitics", Part I, EACC Espai d¹art Contemporani de Castelló (Spain)
"Die Wohltat der Kunst. Post/Feministische Positionen der 90er Jahre aus der Sammlung Goetz", Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden Baden
"Fast Forward", ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe
"Women 2003", Billboard project in Denmark & Sweden, organized by HanneLise Thomsen
Micropolitics, Part III, EACC Espai de¹Art Contemporani de Castelló, Castellón (Spain)
Fast Forward, ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe DE
De bortbjudna - Malmö Art Museum is visiting Rooseum, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö (Sweden)
2002"Biennale of Sydney 2002", Sydney
"Acquisitions 2001, part 1 ­ Photographs, video-installations, video National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
Eight Nordic Tales, CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
Elvis Has Just Left the Building, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2001"Let¹s talk about Sex ­ Sexualitet und Körperlichkeit in der Gegenwart", Kunst Haus Dresden
"CTRL (Space)", ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
"Trauma", Dundee Contemporary Arts; Firstsite, Colchester; MOMA, Oxford
"Berlin Biennale für zeitgenössische Kunst", Kunst Werke, Berlin
2000QM, I think I call her QM, Hirschhorn Museum, Washington DC, US
"Scène de la vie conjugale", Villa Arson, Nice
"Through Melancholia and Charm - Four Installations", Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin
"Wanås 2000", The Wanås Foundation, Knislinge (Sweden)
"Immodest Gazes", Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona
"Kwangju Biennale 2000", Kwangju
"Organising Freedom", Moderna Museet, Stockholm
"Kunstwegen, " Public sculpture project comissioned by Stichting Kunstwegen Hardenberg, Nordhorn
1999"Carnegie International 1999/2000", Pittsburgh
Århundradenas konstverk: fem sekler, fem konstnärer, fem val, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
"Fireworks", De Appel, Amsterdam
"Eröffnungsausstellung", Christine König & Franziska Lettner Galerie, Vienna
"Composite", The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo
"Dial M for ...", Kunstverein München
"dAPERTutto, La Biennale di Venezia", Venice (curated by Harald Szeemann)
"Two Doors ­ True Value", Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich
"Midnight Walkers & City Sleepers", Red Light District, Amsterdam
IFFR International Film Festival, Rotterdam (NL)
1998"XXIV Bienal de São Paulo", Sao Paulo, Brazil
"In Visible Light", Moderna Museet, Stockholm
"Manifesta 2", Luxemburg
Arkipelag; The King is not the Queen, Nordiska Museet, Stockholm
"Nuits Blanches", ARC Musée d¹Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Faróis distantes: Distant Lighthouses, Fabrica, Porto Brandão, Lissabon
ALMA the girl, The Alma Löv Museum, Smedsby, Östra Ämtervik
Art-Capsule, Göteborgspaviljongen, Konstakuten, Stockholm
1997Konspirationen. Conspiracy. E synomosia, The Soap Factory, Athens; FOKA Forum of Keen Art, Thessaloniki; Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala; BildMuseet, Umeå
"Zonen der ver-störung", Steiricher Herbst, Graz (curated by Silvia Eiblmayr)
"Clean & Sane", Edsvik Konst och Kultur, Sollentuna , Stockholm (curated by Maria Lind)
"Invasion", Saaremaa Biennial, Kingisepp
"Around Us, Inside Us", Borås Konstmuseum
"Letter & Event", Apex Art Curatorial Program, New York
"Tidsanda", Malmö Museum, Malmö
1996"See What it Feels Like", Rooseum, Malmö
"False Notions", Beam Gallery, Nijmegen, Netherlands
"Electronic Undercurrents: Art and Video in Europe", Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
1995"395¹, Sandvikens Konsthall
"Streets", Helsinki Art Hall, Helsinki
"A Tribute to Ingmar Bergman", Nordanstad Gallery, New York
"Strange Phenomena", Ateneum, Helsinki
"Hybrid No. 4", The Kitchen, New York
1994"Who Has Enlarged This Hole?, Alice Fabian", 53 W. 9th St., New York
"Good Morning America", PS.1. Studio Artist Group Show PS.1. Museum, New York
"Revir, (Good Morning America)", Kulturhuset, Stockholm
1993"Brown Tableaux for Five Monitors", Sundsvalls Museum
"Ad Hoc", Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm
"Prospect", Fotografiska Museet, Stockholm
"Pimpinette: Ladies¹ Wear & Accessories, Villa Val Lemme",
1992"The City Stones" videoinstallation, Stockholms Stadsmuseum, Stockholm "Ecce Homo" Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm
1991"AVE, Audio Visual Art Festival", Arnheim (NL)
"Swedish Avantgarde Film Program 1990-1994", (organised by Anthology Film Archives), New York

Performance and Happenings
1991"Gretchens Monologue", Fylkingen Stockholm (also as radio theatre in collaboration with L. Ericsson)
1990"Queen of Mud Inspects the Art Fair", Sollentuna 179 Kg, Come and Go, Act-90, Kulturhuset, Stockholm
1989"Queen of Mud Visits the Perfume Counter", Varuhuset NK, Stockholm
1988"TSSS, Greetings to the Swedish Farmers and their Asian Women", Geneva

Film and video (single channel)
2001Prozim! Tschechischen Blumen, 8 min, 45 sec. video Head Gallery Piss Up, 11.22min. video
2000Head Lake Piss Down, 7 min. video
1999The Preparation, 38 min. video
1997QM, I Think I Call Her QM, a film by Ann-Sofi Sidén and Tony Gerber. 28 min.
1995The Trailer for Who is Queen of Mud?, video
1994Every Six Weeks, video
1993CODEX, video
1991Sofi¹s Room, video
1990Love Story, video
1988Cookie Puss, 16 mm
1987Life of a Sailor¹s Wife, 16 mm
1986I Still Got My Memory, video

Other activities
2007 Puzzled, public commission for Campus Gärdet , Stockholm
1999Rotterdam Film festival
1998First prize in Statens Konstråd¹s public sculpture contest Platser (Places), Stockholm
Screening of QM, I Think I Call Her QM at the Movie Theatre Zita, Stockholm
1997Rum i Rum ("Room Within the Room") a surveillance installation for an electro-acoustic concert at SVR, the Radio House, Stockholm
Theatre set design for Henry IV, by Pirandello, Directed by Jonas Cornell at Stadtsteatern, Stockholm

Collections
Borås Konstmuseum, Borås
Västerås Konstmuseum, Västerås
Winterhur Museum, Winterhus, Switzerland
CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela Spain
Dunkers Kulturhus Helsingborg
EVN Sammlung, Wien
Kalmar Slott, Kalmar
Kiasma Helsinki
Magasin 3, Stockholm
Margulies Collection, Miami
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
Norrköpings Museum, Norrrköping
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Wien
Sammlung Goetz, München
Wanas Foundation, CG & Marika Wachtmeister samling, Knisslinge
 
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