f. 1951

UTDANNING
1974 – 1977 Sociology, psychology & philosophy
University of Oslo
1996 – 2002 Professor in electronic media at the Art Academy of Fine Arts Oslo

SEPARATUTSTILLINGER
2012 Plassen, Kunstnersenteret Møre og Romsdal, Molde
2008 Kill Your Timid Notion, “Figment Light”, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee
2007 Bergen Art Museum, with Aernoudt Jacobs, Bergen SNO 33 with Salvatore Panatteri , Sydney Galleri K, Oslo
2006 Burnside Flicker, H29 Brussels
2005 Taku-de-Art, Ichikawa Tokyo, Japan
2004 Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo
CCNOA. Brussels
2002 FLICKER, Galleri K, Oslo
2001 TIME FRAMED, Kongsberg Prison, Kongsberg
1999 FLICKERSCAPE YazzydAutoSpaceArtClub, Oslo
1998 TRUE BLANKING Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen
1997 TRUE BLANKING Artists House, Oslo
SHIFT Experimental Intermedia Huis, Gent
1996 SHIFT, Eisfabrik, Hannover
1995 SHIFT, Gallery K, Oslo
SHIFT, State Library, Mariehamn
1994 ROM, Trondheim Art Association, Trondheim
1991 “RIFT”, Gallery K, Oslo
“RAND”, Rogaland Art Center, Stavanger
1990 “VIDEO ROAD” Pori Art Museum, Pori
“VIDEO ROAD” Randers Art Museum
1987 Mala Galeria, Warszawa
1986 Photo gallery, Oslo
1982 Art Aid Gallery, Oslo
1972 Henie-Onstad Art center, Høvikodden
1971 Kongsberg Jazzfestival, with Svein Finnerud

GRUPPEUTSTILLINGER
2012 I Want The Beatles to Play at My Art Center, Henie-Onstad Artcenter, Høvikodden
2011 “Blodig Alvor”, Trondhein Kunstmuseum
Parallels, Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum, Tromsø
Retrospective, Film-and videoart in Norway, The Stenersen Museum, Oslo
2010 Grid Gallery, Sydney, with Salvatore Panatteri (Australia)
”Blodig Alvor”, Bergen Kunstmuseum, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Haugar Kunstmuseum
With your Eyes Only, YUM, Brussels
Composite Visions, CAN, Neuchatel
2009 With Your Eyes Only, Kunstverien Medienturm, Graz Fuzzy Electronics, Netwerk, Aals
2008 Standard Sizes, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
“My Eyes Keep me in Trouble”
Sydney College of the Arts Gallery, Sydney
The Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand
“La vie en rond”, H29 Brussels
2007 Art 4, The National Museum, Oslo
Pixels - Gallery W52 - New York
“My eyes keep me in trouble”, Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem
2006 Double Exposure, CCNOA, Brussels
Art Forum, Berlin
AUFLOESUNG Grenzen der Wahrnehmung, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin
2STEP Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, UH Galleries, Hatfield
2005 The Robert Meyer Collection, The National Museum, Oslo
Art Forum Berlin
2004 Jan Groth’s Collection, Rogaland Museum of Fine Art
2003 The Golden Age of Norwegian Photography, Preus photomuseum
Beyond Paradise, Shanghai
2002 ARTCHITECTURE, Kenny Schachter conTEMPorary, New York
2 STEP, CCNOA, Bruxelles
Slow Motion, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen
Beyond Paradise, TIME FRAMED, The Art Center, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok,
Beyond Paradise, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur
Mala Galeria ZPAF-CSW, Warszawa
“Displaced Replaced” with Natasha Barrett ICMC 2002 Gothenburg Art Museum
2001 OSCILLATIONS Rogaland Art Museum,
Kjell Bjørgeengen, Jan Groth, Stein Rønning, Heidi Skjerve, Rogaland Art Museum
TRUE BLANKING Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo
2000 SYNAESTHESIA
Kjell Bjørgeengen , with Jan Groth, Stein Rønning, Heidi Skjerve, Kristiansand Art Museum
1998 SHIFT 80/90 Speglar Samtimans, Listasafni Iceland
1997 RELATIVE TO ZERO “Extended Points” Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
SHIFT Lab.6. Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski castle, Warszawa
1996 SHIFT, 9.VideoFest, Podewill, Berlin
SHIFT, Haags Gemeentemuseum, World Wide Video Festival
SHIFT, Electronic Undercurrents, State Museum of Art, Copenhagen
1995 Arkipel. Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo
THE BRIDGE , Silver & High Tech, Kongsberg
1994 Nohka installation version, Center of contemporary Art, Warszawa
THE BRIDGE “Winterland,” Lillehammer Art Museum
1993 THE BRIDGE “Winterland”, Fernbank Museum of Natural History, Atlanta,
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo,
Salo del Tinell, Barcelona,
Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munchen
1992 VIDEO PASSAGE, Ostsee-Biennale 1992, Das steinerne Licht, Rostock
VIDEO ROAD“, Norwegian Road Museum, Fåberg
1991 ASCENDENT ”The Synthetic Image“, ” Artists House, Oslo
VIDEO PLACE, Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm
1990 VIDEO ROAD, “Ten from the North”, Museum of Contemporary Art , Oslo
Nordic Video Art, Nordic Art Center , Sveaborg
1989 “Photographic sculpture”, Brands Klædefabrik, Museum of Photographic Art ,
with Bjørn Ross, and Erik Gram-Hansen, Odense
from the collection”, Henie-Onstad Art Center, Høvikodden
1988 “Video Art”, Gallery F-15, Jeløya
1987 “Simulo”, Contemporary Photography , Oslo
“10 Lat istenienia Malej Gallerii”, Mala Galeria,Warszawa
1984 “Norway - USA - Norway ”,with Jan Groth, Henie-Onstad Art center, Høvikodden,
“New York Graffiti”, Louisiana, Humlebæk
“Exposed”, UKS, Oslo
Videowork, Northsound Festival, Henie Onstad Art Center, Høvikodden
1983 “Young Norwegians”, Trondheim Art Association , Trondheim
1982 “Photography in Norway” ,Henie-Onstad Art center, Høvikodden
1970 “Pollution” Henie-Onstad Art center, Høvikodden

LIVE VIDEO PERFORMANCES
2012 Kim Myhr, Tor Haugerud, Kjell Bjørgengen, Metamorf Trondheim
Kim Myhr, Tor Haugerud, Kjell Bjørgengen, Bidrobon, Drivhuset, Oslo
Okkyung Lee, Kari Rønnekleiv,Ole Henrik Moe & Kjell Bjørgeengen , 300 Acting Spaces, Oslo
Lasse Marhaug & Kjell Bjørgeengen, Plassen, Kunstnersenteret Møre og Romsdal, Molde
Thomas Lehn & Kjell Bjørgenegen, Plassen, Kunstnersenteret Møre og Romsdal, Molde
John Tilbury, Keith Rowe & Kjell Bjørgeengen, Molde Jazzfestival
Keith Rowe & Kjell Bjorgeengen, Plassen, Kunstnersenteret Møre og Romsdal, Molde
Keith Rowe & Kjell Bjorgeengen, Interstice[07 Caen
Keith Rowe, Toshimaru Nakamura & Kjell Bjørgeengen, Gift Lab, Tokyo
Keith Rowe & Kjell Bjørgeengen, Super Deluxe, Tokyo 2012
Keith Rowe & Kjell Bjørgeengen,Nuooh, Osaka
Keith Rowe & Kjell Bjørgeengen, Guggenheim House, Kobe
Keith Rowe & Kjell Bjørgeengen, Art Hall, Oita, 2
Keith Rowe & Kjell Bjørgeengen, Art Space Tetra, Hakata
Keith Rowe & Kjell Bjørgeengen, Gallery Soap, Kokura
Keith Rowe & Kjell Bjørgeengen, All Ears, Høvikodden Art Center
Keith Rowe & Kjell Bjørgeengen, Landmark, Bergen Arthall Landmarkt
Keith Rowe & Kjell Bjørgeengen, Bomuldsfabrikken Kunsthall, Arendal
Keith Rowe & Kjell Bjørgeengen, Ny Musikk, Trondheim
2011 Feed Noise I, Solo Video performance at 0047, Oslo
Keith Rowe & Kjell Bjørgeengen. Harder Hall Alfred University, Alfred NY
Keith Rowe & Kjell Bjorgeengen, Namesless Saound, Houston, TX,
Galleri Lüttgenmeijer, Berlin, with Keith Rowe
New Music. “Not a concert”, workshop result with Taku Unami and Jarrod Fowler”, Oslo
2010 Instants Chavires, with Keith Rowe, Paris
Experimental Intermedia Foundation, with Keith Rowe, New York
Cut & Splice, BBC, “Four Systems” by Earle Brown. London
FRISCHZELLE - Festival für Intermedial Improvisation und Komposition, with Keith Rowe Cologne
With Evan Parker’s Electro-Acoustic EnsembleGulbenkian Foundation Lisbon
Göteborg Art Sounds GAS Festival, with Keith Rowe and Streifenjunko, Gøteborg
Sonic Acts XIII, The Poetics of Space, with Keith Rowe and Streifenjunko, Amsterdam
Festival Cable# Keith Rowe / Kjell Bjørgeengen/Streifenjunko,
Musee Des Beaux Arts, Nantes
CAN, with Keith Rowe, Neuchatel
2009 SIC, with Keith Rowe and Espen Reinertsen, Oslo
Fri Resonans, with Keith Rowe,Trondheim
Roulette, with Okkyung Lee, New York City
Kontraste, with Keith Rowe and Okkyung Lee, Krems
Ny Musikk, with Streifenjunko and Keith Rowe, Soria Moria, Oslo
Sound Cafe Dzumi, with Toshimaru Nakamura (no-input Mixing board),
and Hideaki Shimada (violin) Kichijoji, Tokyo
Solo performance, Loop-Line, Tokyo
The Fuzz Factor, duo with Keith Rowe, Netwerk, Aalst
Video performance with Streifenjunko, NMH, Oslo
2008 Kill Your Timid Notion Tour, with Keith Rowe and Philipp Wachsmann ,London ICA, Bristol Spike Island, Glasgow CCA
MULTIMAL, with Espen Rud, Morten Qvenild and Jon Eberson, Høvikodden Artcenter
Kill Your Timid Notion, Dundee Contemprary Arts, with Keith Rowe and Philipp Wachsmann
Høvikodden Live performance with Keith Rowe and Philipp Wachsmann, Høvikodden Artcenter
Duo with Okkyng Lee, Optosonuc Tea, Experimental Intermedia Foundation, New York
2007 Duo with Marc Ribot, Issue Project Room, New York 2007
Duo with Okkyng Lee, The Stone, New York
Duo with Keith Rowe, Mercado Negro ,Aveiro
Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art , Porto
Zoom Auditório Municipal, Barcelos
2006 With Evan Parkers Electro Acoustic Ensemble, Queen Elisabeth Hall, London
Novas Músicas, Casa da Música with Keith Rowe,Günter Müller and Tomas Korber, Porto
Duo with Keith Rowe, CCNOA Brussels
EyeFuel, Paradiso, The Holland Festival, with MIMEO
2005 Argos festival. Bruxelles with MIMEO
Ultima Oslo, with Keith Rowe
Freedom Of the City, Duo with Philipp Wachsmann, London
Duo with Philipp Wachsmann , CCA Glasgow
2002 MEMORY VISION with Evan Parker Electro Acoustic Ensemble, Ultima
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield
Transart, Rovereto 2003, Barcelona 2004, Cross Talk, Porto 2004, ICC Glasgow 2004,
London Queen Elisabeth Hall 2006
Synaesthesia Live, Kjell Bjørgeengen/Asgeir Bjørlykke with Otomo Yoshihide,
2001 Kongsberg Jazz festival
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Evan Parker
2000 RELATIVE TO ZERO live, with Evan Parker, Kevala Jazz Festival. Finland
1996 J.Flicker, with Joëlle Léandre, Rockefeller Music Hall Oslo
SPIN, with Jon Balke/ The Magnetic North Orchestra & Isnel da Silveira, National Theatre, Oslo
1991 NOHKA with Joëlle Léandre Ultima, Henie-Onstad Art center, Høvikodden
NOHKA, with Joëlle Léandre, Music Factory, Bergen,
1990 “Open Patch”, with Jon Balke trio, World Music Days, Oslo
1971 MULTIMAL, with Svein Finnerud Trio and Trond Botnen

SAMLINGER
2008 The National Museum, Oslo
2002 Museum of Contemporary Art, FLICKER Oslo
2001 Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, TRUE BLANKING special edition Aachen
1998 Museum of contemporary art, TRUE BLANKING Oslo
1996 National Gallery of Canada, GRAB
1995 Museum of contemporary art, SHIFT Oslo
1992 Museum of contemporary art, RIFT Oslo
1989 Museum of Photo Art, Brands Klædefabrik, Odense
1984 Louisiana, Humlebæk New York 10010, Humlebæk
1972 Henie-Onstad Art center, Høvikodden

UTSMYKNINGER
2004 Off_Set, Sandsli, Norsk Hydro Bergen

SCREENINGS
2011 25th Leeds International Film Festival. Leeds
2008 Screen Compositions, Visual Sounds, Cologne
Screen Compositions, Experimental Intermedia Foundation, New York
2007 Post Painterly Attraction, Netwerk / Center for
Contemporary art, Aalst
RAW, Monkeytown, New York
2004 Grasp IV, CCA Glasgow
R.L. Burnside, Muddy Waters, Oslo
1993 Fylkingen, Stockholm
1968-1993, 25 years of video, Video Workshop, Haslev
Norwegian Video Art, Høvikodden Art center, Høvikodden
1992 VIDEOFEST’92, Internationale Filmfestspiele, Berlin
VIDEONALE 5, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck
MEDIAWAVE’92,Visual Art Foundation,Gyor
SCREENTEST, Babylon, Berlin
Project / Cent Lieux, Haslev
1991 INFERMENTAL Edition 1990/91, Oberhausen
Centrum Sztuki Wspoleczesnej, Warszawa
1990 VIDEOFEST’90, Internationale Filmfestspiele,Berlin
Nordic Video Art, Nordic Art cnter, Sveaborg
VIDEONALE 4, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
WRO 90, Sound Basis Visual Art Festival, Wroclaw
Festival Video Liege 90 International, Liege
Vipfilm 8, Berlin
Pollcino 1. Festival Internationale di cinema e video sperimentale, Librino (Catania)
“Rencontre International”, Videotheque de Paris, Paris
European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck
Kuopio Video Festival, Kuopio
Art Show, Symposium on Electronic Art, Groenigen
International Audio-Visual Experimental Festival, Arnheim
No budget, Hamburger Kurzfilmfestival
Electric Cinema, Berlin
International Festival of Patras, GR Kunsthaus Wiesbaden
1989 VIDEOFEST ’89, Internationale Filmfestspiele, Berlin
Louisiana, Louisiana, Humlebæk
Festival International du Film d’Art Video, Palais de l’Unesco, Paris
Alternativ Film/Video, Dom kulture, Novi Klub, Nusiceva
Interfilm 7, Berlin
No budget, Hamburger Kurzfilmfestival, Hamburg
Kuopio Videofestival, Kuopio
Locarno Video Art Festival, Locarno
European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck
1988 Tokyo Video Art Festival, Tokyo
Locarno Video Art Festival, Locarno
Art Rock 88, St.Brieux
Art Show, First Symposium on Electronic Art, Utrecht
International Audio Visual Experimental Festival, Arnheim
Video Monitor, Frølunda, Gothenburg
European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck
1987 Video Monitor, Frølunda, Gothenburg
”Nordic Video“, Henie-Onstad Art center, Høvikodden
”CD’87“, 3rd. International Biennal, Lubljana
Locarno Video Art Festival, Locarno
Tokyo Video Festival, Tokyo
1986 N/Borealis, Berlin
Tokyo Video Festival, Tokyo
”Video Marathon” The House, Copenhagen, Brands Klædefabruk, Odense
“Video Art”, The Icelandic House, Copenhagen
Video Monitor, Frølunda Gothenburg
1985 Stockholm International Video Art Festival, Culture House, Stockholm
Tokyo Video Festival, Tokyo
Locarno Video Art Festival, Locarno
Video 85 Festival, The House, Copenhagen
1984 Tokyo Video Art Festival
“Goodbye Mr. Orwell”, Henie-Onstad Art center, Høvikodden
Locarno Video Art Festival, Locarno
1982 “Alternativ Video”, Henie-Onstad Art center ,Høvikodden

KURATOR
2006 Tilman Look Awry, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
MUSIKK
1987 “Tellus Video Arts Music”, audio cassette, New York

TEKSTER
2008 Stian Grøgaard, Double Subjectification, Bergen Art Museum, Catalogue
2004 Jørgen Sandemose, Galileo’s messenger Art, Science and commodity production,
exhibition catalogue
Gavin Jantjes, Visual ruins in the archaeology of feeling, exhibition catalogue 2004
2003 John Cratchley, On Location, Evan Parker and the Electro Acoustic Ensemble, The Wire January
2002 Beyond Paradise, exhibition catalogue,
Jan Kokkin , Flicker, Morgenbladet
2001 Trond Borgen, Stavanger Aftenblad
2000 Øystein Hauge, Kristiansand Art Museum
1998 Annette Lagler/Peer Bode, No Man‘s Land , Behind the Image, Hinter den Bildern/True Blanking , Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst Aachen
Masami Tsubouchi Interview Kjell Bjorgeengen Hara Museum Review #.41, Tokyo
1997 Jørgen Lund, Representation Set Free,The video art of Kjell Bjørgeengen, Extended Points, Hara Museum, Tokyo
1996 True Blanking , Artists House, Åsmund Thorkildsen, Oslo
Hyperfoto # .3-4, interview Jonas Ekeberg
1995 Gallery K, Stein Rønning, Oslo
1994 Hyperfoto # 2, interview Jonas Ekeberg,
1993 “Winterland”,, Jon-Ove Steihaug
1992 Video Passage, Peer Bode, Ostsee-Biennale “Das steinerne Licht”, Rostock
1991 Arnfinn Bø-Rygg, “Rift the locus of meaning”, Gallery K, Oslo
1990 “Unmovable Mover”, Espen Søbye, Nordic Video Art
Leena-Maija Rossi, “Past and Present ”, Terskel 2, Museum of Contemporary Art
Peer Bode, “Video Road”, Pori Art Museum
1988 Kjell Bjørgeengen, “Video Art and Technological Development” Samtiden 6
1987 Helge Krarup, Information, Copenhagen
Extraordinary Photograms, Robert Meyer Mala Galeria, Warszawa