birgitte moos chalcraft
Curriculum VITAE
E d u C a t i o N
2020
Master´s Degree Positive Psychology, Aarhus University, Copenhagen, Denmark
1998
Master´s Degree (Cand.) Spatial Art, The Royal Academy, Copenhagen, Denmark
1997 .
MFA studies, Painting and Set Design, Berlin University of the Arts (Hochschule der Künste), Institute for Performing Arts, Berlin, Germany, in Professor Achim Freyer´s class
1996
Bachelor´s Degree Spatial Art, The Royal Academy, Copenhagen, Denmark
1995 - 1996 .
BFA studies, Painting and Set Design, Berlin Weissensee Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
1991
BA, Textile Design, University College Copenhagen, Denmark
SOLO E x h I B I t i o n S /// A r T E V e n T s
2023
»Interference«, ArtLab_21 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2015
»White Cows«, Brick Lane Gallery, London, UK
Duke of York, Bristol, UK, »White Cows«
2014
»White Cows«, Jess Projects, Los Angeles, USA
»The Memory Palace«, Mike Kelley Gallery (Beyond Baroque), Los Angeles, USA. With Bob Branaman (aka Barbitol Bob) 2013 .
»The Memory Palace Series«, The Featured Artist of LA, Downtown Art Walk, Maldef Building, Downtown Los Angeles, USA
2012 - 2013
»White Cows«, San Francisco, Oakland, Portland, Seattle, Phoenix and Los Angeles, USA
2012
»Sampled Asia«, Zip Fusion, The Arts District, Downtown, Los Angeles, USA
»Anachronious Mind Tree«, Caporale Bleicher Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
»Memories«, Novel Gallery, The Arts District, Downtown, Los Angeles, USA
2011 - 2014 .
»People Come Back, Transformed«, Skid Row, Downtown Los Angeles, USA
2011
»My bloody Valentine«, Gloria Delson Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles, USA
2009
»Memory Palace«, Edgar Varela Fine Arts, Downtown Los Angeles, USA
2008
»Memory Palace«, Galleri Westphall, Copenhagen, Denmark
»Retro-Perspective«, Hotel Fox, Copenhagen, Denmark
2007
Dopamine Love, Art Squared, Pershing Square, Downtown Los Angeles, USA
The Memory Palace Project Bedlam Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
The Memory Palace Series Santa Fe Art Colony, Los Angeles, USA
The Memory Palace Project Phantom Galleries, Los Angeles, USA
2006
Repulsive Repetition Series. 410 BOYD Street Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Dopamine Love. M.J. Higgins Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
»Low or No Profile«, Spring Arts Tower, Los Angeles, USA
2004
»Wings of Desire«, Langelinie Pavillion«, Copenhagen, Denmark
Buddha Lounge Don O'Melveny Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2003
»Wings of Desire«, Nikolaj Church, Copenhagen, Denmark
»Wings of Desire«, Carolina Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
1998
»3D pain-things«, Krasnapolsky, Copenhagen, Denmark
1997
»be-long-island«, The Video Gallery, Berlin, Germany
G r o u P E x H i b i t I o n S
2015
»Root Systems«, Art Share Gallery, The Arts District, Los Angeles, USA
2014
»People Come Back,Transformed«, Art Benefit for Los Angeles Family Housing, Room & Board, The Arts District Downtown, Los Angeles, USA »People Come Back, Transformed«, Art Share Gallery, The Arts District Downtown, Los Angeles, USA
2013
»Transformed Memory«, Christmas Show, Art Share Gallery, The Arts District, Los Angeles, USA
»Deconstructed Sunflower«, The Arts District Winterfest, Art Share Gallery, The Arts District, Los Angeles, USA
»Molecule of Your Spirit«, Jubilee Music and Arts Festival, The Arts District, Downtown Los Angeles, USA
»The Memory Palace Series«, Lacy Street Arts Complex, Los Angeles, USA
2012
»People Come Back, Transformed«, 7th BERLIN BIENNALE FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS 2012. ArtWiki
»Skull Bank Hamlet«, Crewest Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
»SugarShock«, Art Share Gallery, The Arts District Winterfest, Los Angeles, USA
»Viking Woman«, The Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2011
»Draw-In«, Veletrzni Palace, Czech National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
»SugarShock«, Light Over Lolland, Højbygaard Sugar Factory, Museum Lolland Falster, Denmark
»Cool Up«, The Fridge Project, Projectroom, Berlin, Germany
»Dopamine Love«, City of Brea Art Gallery, Southern California, USA. Open call to the Annual Juried Exhibition
2010
»Micro Gestalt«, Bleicher Golightly Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
»Memory«, Arts District Winterfest, Art Share Gallery, The Arts District Downtown, Los Angeles, USA
»Mani-Fest«, Transit Station DE, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark
»The Memory Palace Series«, Optical Allusion Gallery, The Arts District, Downtown Los Angeles, USA
»Cunt-Fetti«, Spring Arts Tower, Los Angeles, USA
»Made in China«, Zirrat Bankasi Museum, Ankara, Turkey
»Made in China«, 11th International Istanbul Biennial Parallel Exhibition, ISIK University Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2009
»Memory Palace«, 410 Boyd Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
»White Cows«, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, USA
»Fake it Till You Make it«, Pershing Square, Los Angeles, USA Autumn Lights
»The Memory Palace Series«, Factory Place Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
»Pleasure Guilt Syndrome«, Katalyst Foundation for the Arts, Los Angeles, USA
2008
»White Noise«, Santa Monica Airport, Los Angeles, USA
2007
»Unseen, Unknown«, Goethe Institutte, Bruxelles, Belgium
»Reflections«, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, USA
»Conspirazy Puzzle«, Two07 Gallery, NYC, USA
»Art is Money«, Politikens Hus / Pressen, Copenhagen, Denmark
»Pleasure Guilt Syndrome«, Caltrans Plaza, Los Angeles, USA
2006
2020 Visions«, Kings Street Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
»Money Kills«, Øksnehallen, The Meatpacking District, Copenhagen, Denmark
2004
»Women Focusing«, Dannerhouse, Copenhagen, Denmark
2003
»Dreamwaves«, Annenberg Center of Communication, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, USA
»Katarina & the Waves«, M.J. Higgins Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
1998
»Hamletmachine«, Øksnehallen, The Meatpacking District, Copenhagen, Denmark
1997
»Time is Now / ALT2000«, Glassalen, The Royal Academy, Copenhagen, Denmark
1991
»Corpus in C«, Brøndsalen, Frederiksberg Gardens, Copenhagen, Denmark
»Corpus in C«, Annual Autumn Exhibition, Arthall Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
A w a r d S, N o m i N a t I o n S, S c h o l a R S h I p S, G r a n t S & A r t I s T i n R e s i D e n c i e S
2023
Awarded as Winner of the 1st Prize: "Most Creative Interdisciplinary Artist of the Year 2022 (Europe)" by Corporate Vision´s Media Innovator Awards
2021
Full Scholarship by Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman, Center for Human Potential´s Transcend course: The New Science of Self-Actualization. Certified
2013
The Featured Artist of LA, Downtown Artwalk, The Maldef Building, Los Angeles, USA
2012
»SugarShock«, Saatchi Gallery, London. Open Call for Abstract Art. Shortlisted
2011
Columbia University, NYC. Accepted Ph.D. proposal with Full Scholarship, »Revolutionary Spaces - interdisciplinary set design after post- dramatic theater«
THE 32ND ANNUAL LA WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS OF BEST THEATRE IN LA. Shortlisted/Nominee (one of five) for best set design of the year in LA, Los Angeles, USA
Stage and Cinema. THEATER IN LOS ANGELES NOMINEE: THEATER OF THE YEAR
Los Angeles Times. Critics Choice for set design: Birgitte Moos, »The Arsonists«, Odyssey Theatre
Artist/Scholar in Residence, The Watermill Center (Robert Wilson), Southhampton, NY, USA
2010
Winner, Rogue Monk T-shirt print design competition
2003
Artist/Scholar in Residence, University of Southern California, Division of Digital Arts, Los Angeles, USA
Beckett Foundation Grant
Knud Højgårds Foundation Grant
Nordic Film Foundation Grant
Denmarks Nationalbank's Jubilee Foundation Grant
2002
Augustinus Foundation Grant
Danish Set Designers Foundation Grant
Nordea Denmark Foundation Grant
Danish Employers' Jubilee Foundation Grant
2001
Knud Højgårds Foundation Grant
1999
»Lack of Oxygen«, Grand Prize Winner of Close-Up Shorts Competition 1996
Danish Design Foundation, Scholarship for studying abroad
DAAD, Scholarship
S e T D e s I g N
2014
»Thieves«, Jess Projects, Los Angeles, USA. Director Jessica Shokrian 2013
»Civilization«, Son of Semele Theater, Los Angeles, USA. Director Don Boughton
2012
»The Sufferings of Joe Bean«, The Burning Opera Company, Los Angeles, USA
»Frozen«, Ark Theater, Los Angeles, USA. Director Paul Wagar
»The Fox«, Ark Theater, Los Angeles, USA. Director David Grammer
Media City Stages, Set Masters, Universal Studios, VPS Productions, Glendale Studios
Alien Chatter´s »Music For Aliens« tour, Satnam S. Ramgotra, Los Angeles, USA
2011
»The Arsonists«, Odyssey Theater, Los Angeles, USA. Director Ron Sossi
2010
»The Beggars Opera«, Cantabile2 Theater, Kaleidoskop K2, Copenhagen, Denmark. Director Nullo Facchini
2002
»Bridge of Sighs«, The Other Opera, Copenhagen, Denmark
2000 - 2001 .
Tristone, Copenhagen, Denmark. Lead Designer
1999
»Agnes«, Cantabile2 Theater, Kaleidoskop, Copenhagen, Denmark, Junge Hunde Festival, Finland and Sweden. Director Nullo Facchini
Nordic Film, Copenhagen, Denmark Shortfilm »Kimera«. Director Christian Fonnesbech
1996
»Oedipus«, Deutsches Theater, Berlin, Germany. Director Alexander Lang
ArT T a l k S /// LecturInG, ReseArcH etc ...
2017
Foreningen for Social Innovation (FFSI), Copenhagen, Denmark. Key Researcher in positive psychology
2015 - 2021 .
Independent research and artistic development of »hamlet_ex_tender«. Based on thesis »Hamletmachine«
2014
University of La Verne, Department of Theatre Arts, La Verne, CA, USA. Lecturing interdisciplinary set design for performance art and experimental theatre
Overgaden, Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark. Liveart.dk. On The intersection between Live Art, Art Writing & the discursive sphere
Overgaden, Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark . Taking Writing for a Walk. Masterclass (8 weeks) by Mary Paterson
The Mike Kelley Gallery (Beyond Baroque), Los Angeles, USA. Artist Talk
2004 - 2014 .
Station Next, Zentropa, Filmtown, Hvidovre, Denmark. Workshop facilitator and teaching arthouse film set design
2012 - 2014 .
University of La Verne, Department of Theatre Arts, Bureau on Social Research Unit, Los Angeles, USA. Think Tank Member Social Art, Performative Architecture & Performance Studies - Interdisciplinarity and Community in Performing Arts
2011
The Watermill Center (Robert Wilson), Southhampton, NY, USA. Lecture for Columbia University Alumni and the public
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, USA, Art Guide
2003
Scholar in Residence, University of Southern California, Division of Digital Arts, Los Angeles, USA
1998 - 2000 .
Public Information Association and Workers' Information Association, Copenhagen, Denmark. Arts educator
W r I t I n g S
2023
»People Come Back, Transformed« (to be published)
2019
Børsens Digital Culture Magazine, article, »The Art Scene of Los Angeles« 2018- .
Docufiction, »Life as an Artist in LA - the real story« (not finished yet)
2011
»Revolutionary Spaces - interdisciplinary set design after post-dramatic theater«
2009
Citizen Magazine, Downtown LA. Review of »The Ring Cycle«, directed by Achim Freyer, performed at LA Opera
2008
Citizen Magazine, Downtown LA. Review of »Parsifal«, directed by Robert Wilson, performed at LA Opera
2004
Film manuscript »Endless Rape Romance«
2002
»Transcending images and symbols in the Millennium epoch of Hollywood movies«