Upcoming
2020
Living Architecture
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago (IL)
Curated by Tricia van Eck and Teresa Silva
2019
Tainted Love (Le Club Mix)
Villa Arson, Nice (F)
Curated by Yann Chevalier
New Age, New Age
DPAM DuPaul Art Museum, Chicago (IL)
Curated By Julie Rodriguez Widholm
HATORADE RETROGRADE: THE MUSICAL
A femi-futurist extravaganza presented by
Southern Exposure, San Francisco (CA)
at McLaren park/The Wild Overlook
Libretto and art production by Lise Haller Baggesen
Score by avery r young
Curated by Valerie Imus
Résumé
(Last 5 years/ scroll down for bio & full CV)
Education & Residencies
2017 Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity(AB)
2011-13 MA Visual and Critical Studies, SAIC,
Chicago (IL)
1996-97 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten,
Amsterdam (NL)
1992-95 BFA AKI Akademie voor Beeldende Kunsten,
Enschede (NL)
Prizes/Awards/Fellowships
2015 The Joan Mitchell Foundation New York (NY)(Nomination)
2014 Propeller Fund Award (TRACERS), Chicago (IL)
2013 VCS Fellowship Award SAIC Chicago (IL)
Books
2017 Poor & Needy Poor Farm Press/Krabbesholm Chicago/Skive (DK)
2014 Mothernism Green Lantern Press/Poor Farm Press, Chicago (IL)
Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
2019 HATORADE RETROGRADE: The Musical SoEx, San Francisco (CA)
2018 I Am The Horse (duo w Iris Bernblum) Goldfinch, Chicago (IL)
Mothernizing ANA, Astrid Noach’s Atelier,
Copenhagen (DK)
2016 HATORADE RETROGRADE 3 Walls, Chicago (IL)
Mothernism The Contemporary Austin, Austin (TX)
2014 Mothernism Vox Populi, Philadelphia (PA)
Peace in the US! Terrain, Oak Park, Chicago (IL)
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2019 New Age, New Age, DPAM,
Chicago (IL)
Tainted Love (Club Edit) Villa Arson, Nice (F)
2018 Living Architecture 6018 North, Chicago (IL)
Splitsville Smells Like Irises, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, New York (NY)
2017 Tainted Love, Le Confort Moderne, Potiers (F)
TRINITY, The Suburban, Milwaukee (WI)2016
Pegasus and Mermaid, The Poetry Foundation, Chicago (IL)
New Maternalisms:ReduxUniversity of Alberta, Edmonton (AB)
Do You Hear What I Hear?A.I.R. Gallery, New York (NY)
The Letdown Reflex EFA Project Space, New York (NY)
2015 EAM Biennial Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst (IL)
Pleasure Zone, Théâtre de la Ville, Paris (F)
2014 Division of Labor Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago (IL)
2013 HOME 6018 North @ EXPO, Chicago (IL)
The Great Poor Farm Experiment VPoor Farm, Manawa (WI)
Collaborations
2016-2017 Poor & Needy (With Yvette Brackman)
The Poor Farm(WI) Krabbesholm(DK)
2013-18 Boulevard Dreamers (with Kirsten Leenaars)
Art Institute of Chicago, The Poetry Foundation, MCA, The Franklin, Chicago (IL)
Curriculum Vitae, Lise Haller Baggesen
Born in Aarhus, Denmark 1969. Lives and works in Chicago.
Bio
Lise Haller Baggesen (1969) left her native Denmark in 1992 to study painting at the AKI in Enschede and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. She received the Prince Bernhard’s Prize in 2000, and the Dutch Royal Award For Modern Painting in 2003.
In 2008 she relocated to Chicago with her family. She completed her MA in Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the art Institute in 2013, for which she received a SAIC VCS Fellowship Award. She was a 2015 nominee for The Joan Mitchell Foundation’s Emerging Artist Grant. In 2017 she was a resident at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.
In the meantime, her work evolved from a traditional painting practice toward a hybrid, research based, practice including curating, writing and installation work.
Her first book, Mothernism, was co-published by Green Lantern Press and Poor Farm Press in 2014. Since then, the book and installation has travelled extensively in North America and Europe, with the aim to stake out the “Mother-shaped hole in contemporary art discourse.” Venues include The Poor Farm (WI) The Elisabeth Foundation (NY). A.I.R. Gallery (NY) and The Contemporary Austin (TX); it served as “mother-ship” for the academic conference Mapping the Maternal: Art, Ethics and the Anthropcene at the University of Alberta (AB) and also spawned the curatorial suite 3AM Maternal for Vox Populi, Philadelphia (PA) and the international symposium The Mothernists in collaboration with Deirdre Donoghue and m/other voices. The first Mothernists summit took place in Rotterdam in 2015, and the next, titled The Mothernists 2: Who Cares for the 21st Century, took place at Astrid Noacks Atelier and at the Royal Academy for Fine Art in Copenhagen in fall 2017. Mothernism was reviewed in Art21, KQED, Canadian Art, Hyperallergic and ArtForum.
The femi-futurist costume drama HATORADE RETROGRADE debuted at Threewalls (Chicago, IL) in 2016, and was was received with a Critic’s Pick in Artforum. In 2019 its autonomous sequel HATORADE RETROGRADE: The Musical will premier at Southern Exposure in San Francisco. For the musical Lise Haller Baggesen will develop the score, libretto, costumes and scenography in collaboration with avery r young and the SoEx YAB (youth advisory board), to create a Science Fiction Epic based on Science Fact, set in San Francisco anno 2069, where the next generations are battling the adverse effects of climate change and pollution.
Baggesen exhibits internationally, including 6018 North; The Poetry Foundation; and MCA; Chicago (IL); Terrain, Oak Park (IL); The Suburban, Milwaukee (WI); Overgaden (DK);Württembergischem Kunstverein (D); MoMu Antwerpen (B); Théatre de la Ville de Paris (F); Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers and Villa Arson, Nice (F)
Curatorial projects include Mutualisms (for which she and Kirsten Leenaars received a 2010 Propeller Award) and Poor and Needy co- curated with Yvette Brackman for the Great Poor Farm Experiment IIX, Manawa (WI) and Krabbesholm (DK) (2016/17); the publication Poor & Needy: An Exhibition on Art, Migration and Debt (2017)was co-published by Krabbesholm and Poor Farm Press. Her writing has appeared in Bad at Sports, Chicago Artist Writers, and Third Rail Quarterly.
For recent writing and visual documentation please visit: lisehallerbaggesen.wordpress.com
email: lise@baggesen.org
Education
2011-13
MA Visual and Critical Studies, SAIC, Chicago (IL)
1996/97
Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam (NL)
1992-95
AKI akademie voor Beeldende Kunsten, Enschede (NL)
1989-91
Billedskolen, Copenhagen (DK)
Prizes/Awards/Fellowships
2015
The Joan Mitchell Foundation New York (NY)
(Nominated for Emerging Artist Grant )
2014
Propeller Fund Award (TRACERS), Chicago (IL)
2013
Fellowship Award Visual and Critical Studies, SAIC Chicago (IL)
2012
Curatorial Fellow SAIC MFA Exhibition 2012, SAIC Chicago (IL)
2010
Propeller Fund Award (Mutualisms), Chicago (IL)
2002
The Royal Award For Modern Painting, Amsterdam (NL)
2000
Prince Bernhard’s Prize for Art School Graduates (NL)
Books
2017
Poor & Needy (with Yvette Brackman)
Poor Farm Press/Krabbesholm Editions Chicago/Skive (DK)
2014
Mothernism Green Lantern Press/Poor Farm Press, Chicago (IL)
Residencies
2018
Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers (F)
2017
Body As Site Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff (AB)
ANA AIR Astrid Noacks Atelier, Copenhagen (DK)
Solo Exhibitions
2019
(Upcoming) HATORADE RETROGRADE: The Musical
Southern Exposure, San Francisco (CA)
2018
I Am The Horse (duo show with Iris Bernblum)
Goldfinch, Chicago (IL)
Curated by Claudine Ise
2017
Mothernizing ANA,
Astrid Noach’s Atelier, Copenhagen (DK)
A LIPSTICK SUPREMATIST MOOD BOARD,
Nicholas Frank Public Library/The Open, Milwaukee (WI)
2016
Hatorade Retrograde 3 Walls, Chicago (IL)
Mothernism The Contemporary Austin, Austin (TX)
2014
Mothernism Vox Populi, Philadelphia (PA)
Mothernism
Ordinary Projects/Mana Contemporary Chicago (IL)
Peace in the US! Terrain, Oak Park, Chicago (IL)
2011
The Letter X What-It-Is, Oak Park (IL)
2010
Chronic Youth CoProsperity Sphere, Chicago (IL)
2009
The Black Album MCProjects, Amsterdam (NL)
2005
Electric Motherland
Galerie de Praktijk, Amsterdam (NL)
2004
reMake/reModel
NICCfreespace/MoMu ModeNatie, Antwerp (B)
Stories for Boys
Galerie de Praktijk,Amsterdam (NL)
2002
Mini Apocalypse
Walter van Beirendonck/WINDOW, Antwerp (B)
Beware at Thirtythree!
Galerie de Praktijk, Amsterdam (NL)
2001
Deep in the Heart of Darkest America…
Galerie de Praktijk, Amsterdam (NL)
1999
Weeks in the Prison of Beauty
Galerie De Praktijk, Amsterdam (NL)
1998
Close Encounters of the Kind
Galerie De Praktijk, Amsterdam (NL)
Collaborations
2013-18
Boulevard Dreamers (with Kirsten Leenaars)
The Art Institute of Chicago (2018)
The Poetry Foundation (2016) Chicago (IL)
MCA (2014) Chicago (IL)
The Franklin (2013) Chicago (IL)
2016-2017
Poor & Needy (With Yvette Brackman)
Krabbesholm (2017) Skive (DK)
The Poor Farm (2016) Manawa (WI)
2016
VOX POP: THE DISCO VOTING STATION (with Aram Han Sifuentes)
Jane Addams Hull House Museum, Chicago (IL)
2014-2016
Feminist Parking Lot (with TRACERS)
Weinberg/Newton Gallery, Chicago (IL)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (IL)
Columbia College, Chicago (IL)
NUY Florence, Florence (I)
UIC, Chicago (IL)
2011
Mutualisms (with Kirsten Leenaars)
Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago (IL)
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2020
Living Architecture
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago (IL)
Curated by Tricia van Eck and Teresa Silva
2019
New Age, New Age
DPAM DuPaul Art Museum, Chicago (IL)
Curated by Julie Rodriguez Widholm
Tainted Love (Le Club Mix)
Villa Arson, Nice (F)
Curated by Yann Chevalier
2018
Splitsville Smells Like Irises
Tiger Strikes Astroid, New York (NY)
Curated by Matt Morris
I am (I am) a Revolutionary (a Revolutionary)
CoProsperity Sphere, Chicago IL
Curated by Nick Wylie
Living Architecture
6018 North, Chicago (IL)
Curated by Tricia van Eck and Teresa Silva
2017
Tainted Love,
Le Confort Moderne, Potiers (F)
Curated by Yann Chevalier
TRINITY
The Suburban,
Milwaukee (WI)
The Letdown Reflex
Blackwood Gallery, University of Ontario (ON)
Curated by Amber Berson and Juliana Driever
2016
Institutional Garbage,
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago (IL)
Curated by Caroline Picard and Lara Schoorl
Pegasus and Mermaid,
The Poetry Foundation, Chicago (IL)
Curated by Fred Sasaki
em(body) {Reflections; Extensions; Projections;},
Uptown Art Center, Chicago (IL)
Curated by Eden Unlüata
Spun, Stuart & Co Gallery, Chicago (IL)
Curated by Kevin Maginnis
Yelling at the Sky,
Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, Chicago (IL)
Curated by La Keisha Leek
New Maternalisms:Redux
University of Alberta, Edmonton (AB)
Curated by Natalie Loveless
Your Body is a Battleground,
Weinberg/Newton Gallery, Chicago (IL)
Curated by Meg Noe
Do You Hear What I Hear?
A.I.R. Gallery, New York (NY)
Curated by Anthony Elms
The Letdown Reflex
EFA Project Space, New York (NY)
Curated by Amber Berson and Juliana Driever
2015
EAM Biennial Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst (IL)
Curated by Staci Boris
Pleasure Zone, Théâtre de la Ville, Paris (F)
Curated by Tricia van Eck
The Suburban 16 Years
Mount Airy Contemporary, Philadelphia (PA)
Curated by Michelle Grabner and Alexander Herzog
The Mothernists Upominki, Rotterdam (NL)
Curated by Deidre Donuhue and Weronika Zielinska
2014
Division of Labor Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago (IL)
Curated by Crista Donner and Thea Nichols
Bling Bling 6018 North @ EXPO, Chicago (IL)
Curated by Tricia van Eck
Queen Bee Terrain, Oak Park (IL)
Curated by Allison Glenn
The Great Poor Farm Experiment VI
Poor Farm, Manawa (WI)
Curated by Michelle Grabner
2013
HOME 6018 North @ EXPO, Chicago (IL)
Curated by Tricia van Eck
The Wholy Grail 6018 North Chicago (IL)
Curated by Tricia van Eck
The Great Poor Farm Experiment V
Poor Farm, Manawa (WI)
Curated by Michelle Grabner
Back Matter SAIC MAVCS Thesis Show
CoProsperity Sphere, Chicago (IL)
Curated by Happy Collaborationists
2012
Detroit: Site, Space, Narrative
Sullivan Galleries, Chicago (IL)
Curated By Kirsten Leenaars and Kevin Kaempf
Home: Public or Private?
6018 North, Chicago (IL)
Curated by Tricia van Eck
2010
I’ll Be your Mirror
Koh-I-Noor, Copenhagen (DK) & Spoke, Chicago (IL)
Curated by Anni Holm and Lise Haller Baggesen
Family Affairs LUMC, Leiden (NL)
Curated by Sandrine van Noort
2009
A Days Darkness in a Light Bulb,
Arti and Amiciae, Amsterdam (NL)
2004
Amsterdamned,
Kunsthallen Brænderigården, Viborg (DK)
2003
Polypol IV: In the meantime- Superalltag Allegorie,
Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart (D)
Curated by Holger Bunk
2002
Royal Painting Prize 2002,
The Hague Municipial Museum (NL)
2001
She CEAC Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen (CN)
1999
After Image Overgaden, Copenhagen (DK)
1997
Farewell Welfare W139, Amsterdam (NL)
Curating
2016
Poor & Needy
The Great Poor Farm Experience IIX, Manawa (WI)
2015
GOLD Terrain Biennial/Terrain Denmark, Viborg (DK)
2014-15
3AM Maternal Vox Populi, Philadelphia (PA)
2012
SAIC MFA Thesis Show, SAIC, Chicago (IL)
2011
Mutualisms, Co Prosperity Sphere, Chicago (NL)
2010
I’ll Be your Mirror
Spoke, Chicago, IL, and Koh-I-Noor, Copenhagen (DK)
2007
Unbescheiblich Weiblich, RC de Ruimte Ijmuiden (NL)
2004
Amsterdamned
Kunsthallen Brænderigaarden, Viborg (DK)
1999
After Image Overgaden, Copenhagen (DK)
1997
Farewell Welfare W139, Amsterdam (NL)
Editing
2017
Poor & Needy, with Yvette Brackman,
Poor Farm Press/Krabbesholm Publishing,
Milwaukee (WI)/Skive (DK)
2012
The Mutualisms Issue, with Kirsten Leenaars
Proximity Magazine, Chicago (IL)
2004
Amsterdamned,
Kunsthallen Brænderigården, Viborg (DK)
Published Articles & Essays
2018
Who’s Your Mama? in The True Meaning of S.M.H
Onomatopee, Eindhoven (NL)
(In Peer Review) A Convo: Lise Haller Baggesen and Tina Kinsella in Correspondence in Loveless, Natalie S. and Sheena Wilson [eds.], Mapping the Maternal: Art, Ethics, and the Anthropocene. A special issue emerging from the 2016 colloquium Mapping the Maternal: Art, Ethics, and the Anthropocene. University of Alberta Press.
2017
(In Press) The Revolution Will Be Mothernized and Lise Haller Baggesen Interviews Natalie Loveless in Loveless, Natalie S. [ed.] New Maternalisms Redux. University of Alberta Press.
2016
FEMME PHTALE (with Sofia Leiby)
The Composing Rooms, Berlin (D)
HATORADE RETROGRADE
Threewalls, Chicago (IL)
A WOMB OF ONE’S OWN
Third Rail Quaterly, Minneapolis (MA)
Sympathy for the 90s, Part I & II
Generous Mag, Milwaukee (WI)
I ❤ POETRY Bad at Sports, Chicago (IL)
The Mothernists Audio Guide To Laguna Gloria
The Contemporary Austin, Austin (TX)
2015
A World of Pain Bad at Sports, Chicago (IL)
Future Perfect Trash Chicago Artis Writers, Chicago (IL)
Who’s Yo Mama? Femina/Acres Paper, Baltimore (MD)
Sweeter Than Sweeden Bad at Sports, Chicago (IL)
The Ballad of Planned Obsolescence:
on Carol Jackson’s Pandemonium
Cleve Carney Art Gallery, College of Du Page (IL)
Mother of Invention
Third Rail Quarterly, Minneapolis (MA)
Emotional Landscapes Bad at sports, Chicago (IL)
2014
Entaglement Practice (cover art) Poetry Magazine, Chicago (IL)
How’s My Painting? Call 1-800 EAT SHIT Bad at Sports, Chicago (IL)
Swimming Tiger Lotus Envy Bad at Sports, Chicago (IL)
Mother of Redemption Serpentine Magazine, Philadelphia (PA)
All The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell New City, Chicago (IL)
Chair Pose Bad at Sports, Chicago (IL)
2013
Year of The Scavenger Bad at Sports, Chicago (IL)
2011
Please Do (Not) Disturb! Teaching artist Journal #10,
Taylor and Francis, Philadelphia (PA)
Press/Interviews/Reviews
(recent selection)
2018
Borderland Creatures: Lise Haller Baggesen & Iris Bernblum at Goldfinch
Matt Morris, genderassignment.tumbler.com, Chicago, IL
I am The Horse
Elisabeth Lalley, Goldfinch Gallery, Chicago (IL)
“Tainted Love” sarabande érotique
Judicaël Lavrador, Libération, Paris (F)
2017
De Moedernistische Revolutie
Richtje Reinsma, Metropolis M no. 6 Dec/Jan 2017/2018, Amsterdam (NL)
2016
Critic’s Pick: Lise Haller Baggesen
Matt Morris, Artforum.com, New York (NY)
8 Questions About Art, Motherhood, and the Anthropscene
Leah Sandals, Canadian Art, Toronto (ON)
Q+A with Lise Haller Baggesen
Rebecca Marino, Conflict of Interest, Austin (TX)
Lise Haller Baggesen: Mothernism, Julia Hendrickson
The Contemporary Austin (W/S exhibition guide) Austin (TX)
Put the MOM in MOMA!
Lieneke Hulshof, Mr. Motley, Amstedam (NL)
The Politics of Being a Parent in the Art World
Gregory Cholette, Hyperallergic, New York (NY)
On the Parent-Shaped Hole in the Art World
Maibritt Borgen, Canadian Art, Toronto (ON)
All together now: A new biennial in Elmhurst
Lori Waxman, Chicago Tribune, Chicago (IL)
Six Questions About Art and Parenthood
Leah Sandals, Canadian Art, Toronto (ON)
2015
The 21 Exhibitions You’ll Be Talking About Next Year
Priscilla Frank Huffpost Arts & Culture New York (NY)
Creative Parenting: Supporting Artistic Motherhood
Alana Dao The Chart Portland (ME)
Lise Haller Baggesen, Artiste de Chicago
Joëlle Gayot France Cultur/Radio France Paris (F)
Lise Haller Baggesen: On the Mother-Shaped Hole in Contemporary Art
Julie Niemi Art21 New York (NY)
Lise Haller Baggesen’s Disco Feminism
Kate Sierputowski Inside/Within, Chicago (IL)
Mothernism: An Interview with Lise Haller Baggesen
Melissa Potter Gender Assignment Chicago (IL)
2014
Division of Labor
Caroline Picard, Artforum, New York (NY)
A Year of Favorites
Mairead Case, Vol.1 Brooklyn, New York (NY)
Page turners: A 2014 Art book Gift Guide
Sarah Hotchkiss KQED, San Francisco (CA)
Eye Exam: Mother of Invention
Matt Morris, Newcity, Chicago (IL)
Lise Haller Baggesen’s Mothernism: Extended Web Exclusive Interview
Matt Morris, Newcity, Chicago (IL)
Mining The Mother Lode: Chicago Artists Deliver
Lise McKean, Bad at Sports,Chicago (IL)
Chicago Hope
Linda Yablonsky, Art Forum, New York (NY)
2013
Domestic Interventions: an Interview with EXPO Chicago’s Home
Caroline Picard, Bad at Sports, Chicago (IL)
2012
Home is Where the Feral Cats Watch TV
Lori Waxman, Chicago Tribune, Chicago (IL)
Lectures, Conferences, Symposia
2017
The Mothernists 2: Who Cares for the 21st Century?
Astrid Noachs Atelier and The Royal Academy, Copenhagen (DK)
2016
Mapping the Maternal: Art, Ethics, and the Anthropocene
University of Alberta, Edmonton (AB)
2015
The Mothernists PrintRoom/Leeszaal Rotterdam (NL)
Motherhood and Creative Practice:Maternal Structures in Creative Work
Transart Institute/London South Bank University, London (UK)
WHATHAVEYOUDONEFORMELATELY? MOTHERNISM
Tracers media series #001, The Nightingale, Chicago (IL)
Intercontinental Tracing NUY Florence, Florence (I)
Anne Collier, Gallery talk, MCA Chicago (IL)
2014
Mothernism Gallery 400 UIC, Chicago (IL)
The M Word, TFAP, CAA College Art Association, Chicago (IL)
Boulevard Dreamers Artist talk, MCA Chicago (IL)
2013
Sass, Brass, Pizass! Gallery talk, MCA Chicago (IL)
Teaching Experience/Commitee Work (selection)
2015
SAIC Department of Visual and Critaical Studies, Chicago (IL)
Visiting artist, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam (NL)
Visiting artist, UofM University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (MN)
2010-15
CAPE (Chicago Art Partnership in Education), Chicago (IL)
2005-07
Fonds BKVB Ducth Fund for Art and Design, Amsterdam (NL)
2002-03
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, basis year, Amsterdam (NL)
2000-03
AKI, painting department, Enschede (NL)
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