BIO

 

 

CHRISTIAN SKJØDT HASSELSTRØM


Artist and composer born in Aalborg, Denmark. Lives and works in Copenhagen.

Working in the intersection between sound, visual art, and science, Skjødt Hasselstrøm’s work aim to challenge our sensory perception and point towards its limitations. Often working site-specific, exploring natural and scientific phenomena, Skjødt Hasselstrøm creates large scale installations and immersive environments consisting of autonomous systems. His works can be seen as manifestations or witnesses of what we as human beings are unable to perceive, and of the boundaries between our sensory apparatus and the materiality of the world. 

Skjødt Hasselstrøm has presented his works at galleries, museums, festivals, and concert spaces throughout the world, including Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Mois Multi in Quebec Canada, A plus A Gallery in Venice, Műcsarnok Kunsthalle Budapest, Sound Reasons in New Delhi, Skan II / Skanu Mežs in Riga, Üle Heli in Tallinn, Ostrava Days in Czech Republic, Ultima in Oslo, Overgaden - Institute of Contemporary Art in Copenhagen and Museum of Contemporary Art Denmark. He has been artist-in-residence at Avatar in Quebec, Canada, EMS in Stockholm, Notam - Norwegian Centre for Technology, Art and Music in Oslo, and Inter Arts Center in Malmö / Lund University, Sweden. 

Skjødt Hasselstrøm’s work has been awarded by Prix Ars Electronica, Japan Media Arts Festival, Edigma Semibreve and Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen’s Foundation, and he holds an Master’s degree from the Royal Academy of Music in Denmark.

CV

 


SOLO EXHIBITION (selected)
2022 Donaueschinger Musiktage (Donaueschingen, Germany)
2021 Semibreve. Salão Nobre, Theatro Circo (Braga, Portugal)
2021 Regelbau 411 - International Art Center (Thyholm, Denmark)
2021 Urum, Brønshøj Vandtårn (Copenhagen, Denmark) Cancelled due to Covid-19
2020 Donaueschinger Musiktage (Donaueschingen, Germany) Cancelled due to Covid-19
2019 Struer Tracks (Struer, Denmark)
2018 Salão Medieval, Largo do Paço, Archiepiscopal Palace (Braga, Portugal)
2016 Overgaden - Institute of Contemporary Art (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2016 IHC Experimental Gallery (New Delhi, India)
2016 Spanien 19c (Aarhus, Denmark)
2015 Museum of Contemporary Art (Roskilde, Denmark)
2014 Cruce Contemporáneo (Madrid, Spain)
2013 68 Square Metres (Copenhagen, Denmark)


GROUP EXHIBITION (selected)
2022 Ars Electronica Festival (Linz, Austria)
2022 Bloom (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2020 Kunstsatellit Egholm / Kunsthal Nord (Aalborg, Denmark)
2018 Mois Multi - Festival international d’arts multidisciplinaires et électroniques (Quebec, Canada)
2018 DIAS Kunsthal, Vallensbæk Station (Vallensbæk, Denmark)
2017 Ars Electronica Festival 'The Other I' (Linz, Austria)
2017 Museum of Artistic Process and Public Art (Skissernas Museum) / Kungshuset. 'On the Thresholds of Knowledge' (Lund, Sweden)
2017 Skulpturi/Pirpa. 'Engros' (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2017 IAC - Inter Arts Center 'Intonal' (Malmö, Sweden)
2016 SPOR Festival. 'WYSI(N)WYG' (Aarhus, Denmark)
2015 A plus A Gallery. 'Symphony of Hunger' (Venice, Italy)
2015 'Mørke Dage Festival' (Aalborg, Denmark)
2014 Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle Budapest. ‘On the Edge of Perceptibility’ (Budapest, Hungary)
2014 Riga Botanical Garden. 'SKAN II - International Sound Art Exhibition', Skanu Mežs (Riga, Latvia)
2014 Dome of Visions. ‘Together in Small Spaces' (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2014 Vrå Kunstsal. 'Apriludstillingen' (Vrå, Denmark)
2013 'Bunkerlove Festival' (Furreby Strand, Denmark)
2013 Transformator (Aalborg, Denmark)
2012 Dronninglund Kunstcenter (Dronninglund, Denmark)
2011 Platform4 (Aalborg, Denmark)
2010 'Port 20:10 - Festival of Contemporary Art and Social Technology' (Thingbæk Kalkminer, Denmark)


PUBLIC ART / COMMISSION (selected)
2016 The Danish Arts Foundation. Permanent site-specific installation w. Jørgen Carlo Larsen (Ryde, Denmark)


LIVE PRESENTATION (selected)
2023 GEIGER (Gothenborg, Sweden)
2022 ISCM - World New Music Days (Auckland, New Zealand)
2022 Sound of Stockholm (Stockholm, Sweden)
2019 Ultima (Oslo, Norway)
2018 Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2018 Sonic Festival (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2018 Open Days Festival. Vor Frue Kirke (Aalborg, Denmark)
2018 Tegners Museum (Dronningmølle, Denmark)
2018 Utzon Center (Aalborg, Denmark)
2017 Berner Münster (Bern, Switzerland)
2017 Skuespilhuset (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2017 Koncertkirken (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2016 A2+ (Praha, Czech Republic)
2016 Fiducia (Ostrava, Czech Republic)
2016 Cinemateket (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2016 IHC Amphitheatre. 'Sound Reasons IV’ (New Delhi, India)
2016 JazzHouse (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2016 Radar (Aarhus, Denmark)
2015 National Library of Latvia (Riga, Latvia)
2015 Üle Heli Festival (Tallinn, Estonia)
2015 Glyptoteket, Vinterhaven. ‘Slow’ (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2015 Mayhem (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2015 KUNSTEN - Museum of Modern Art (Aalborg, Denmark)
2015 Dansehallerne (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2015 Mørke Dage. 'Noise, pain, gloom' w. Torben Sangild (Aalborg, Denmark)
2014 Museum of Contemporary Art (Roskilde, Denmark)
2014 Nikolaj Kunsthal (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2014 Open Days Festival. Musikkens Hus (Aalborg, Denmark)
2013 Trondheim Kunstmuseum (Trondheim, Norway)
2013 Dampfzentrale (Bern, Switzerland)
2013 GOG Arena & Gudmefyrstens Hal. w. Wooloo (Gudme, Denmark)
2013 Madame Claude. ‘eXperimontag’ (Berlin, Germany)
2012 G.A.S. Göteborg Art Sounds Festival (Göteborg, Sweden)
2012 Verona Risuona (Verona, Italy)
2012 Block T (Dublin, Ireland)
2012 SpLab, Det Jyske Kunstakademi (Aarhus, Denmark)
2011 Ostrava Gallery of Fine Arts. ‘Ostrava Days’ (Ostrava, Czech Republic)
2011 Agder. ‘Punkt Festival' (Kristiansand, Norway)
2010 Cökxpôn (Budapest, Hungary)
2010 Kunsthal Nord (Aalborg, Denmark)
2010 ARoS - Aarhus Art Museum (Aarhus, Denmark)


COMMISSIONED SOUND WORKS / COMPOSITION (selected)
2017 LYMICUM MARE, commissioned by Open Days (Aalborg, Denmark)
2015 DISSOLUTION & SUSPENSION, commissioned by The Danish Cultural Institute. (Riga, Latvia)
2015 CLOTHES MAKES THE MAN, commissioned by Wilma Version. Koncertkirken (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2014 OMDREJNINGER, commissioned by SNYK for Wundergrund 2014, Koncertkirken (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2014 INTERNAL PROPELLANTS, site-specific sound piece commissioned by Ny Musik. Krudttårnet (Fr.Havn, Denmark)
2014 ASSATUS SUM, site-specific sound piece commissioned by Museum of Contemporary Art (Roskilde, Denmark)


DISCOGRAPHY, SOLO WORK (selected)
2023 'ÆTER' (10" - Tonometer)
2023 'Ventilator, trio' (10" - Tonometer)
2023 'Interdependencies I' (LP - Tonometer)
2019 'Squaring Circles' (LP - Tonometer)
2018 'Dissolution & Suspension' (LP - Tonometer)
2018 'Illumination' (10" - Tonometer)
2014 ‘Works of Uncommitted Crimes’ (LP - Tonometer)


DISCOGRAPHY, COLLABORATION AND MORE (selected)
2023 Maapallo (LP - Tonometer / Ikuisuus)
2017 Omdrejninger (2xLP+USB - Ilk)
2016 Chrysakis/Kobi/Skjødt/Sőrés: ‘Carved Water’ (CD - Aural Terrains)
2016 Klapper-Skjødt: 'Lux Nocturno' (LP - Tonometer)
2016 Blixa Artzine #4 (cassette tape - Blixa)
2014 '1 minute autohypnosis mail sound art project': 'Guitar 05' (CD - Mute Sound Records)
2011 The Wire Tapper 25: 'Innocent Square' (CD - Wire Magazine)
2011 Compilations 4 Lesser Mortals: 'Into' (CD-R - LesserMortals)
2010 You Had Me At Hello: 'Meet Oliver Lake' (7" - Tonometer)
2010 You Had Me At Hello: 'Meet Ab Baars & Michael Moore' (7" - Tonometer)
2009 Glöggerne & Martin Klapper: 'With Dr. Chadbourne' (10" - Tonometer)
2009 Astro Black: 'Is Love The Blood Of The Universe?' (7" - Tonometer)
2007 Glöggerne & Martin Klapper: 'With Sound!' (10" - Tonometer)
2007 Knob A Siesta: 'In My Head There Is Silence...' (LP - Tonometer)
2006 Christian S feat Tone: 'NJL016' (digital - Noisejihad Live)
2005 Moskus: 'Moskus' (CD - Ninth World Music)


FESTIVAL APPEARANCE (selected)
2024 Darmstädter Frühjahrstagung (Darmstadt, Germany)
2022 Donaueschinger Musiktage (Donaueschingen, Germany)
2022 Sound of Stockholm (Stockholm, Sweden)
2022 ISCM - WNMD (Auckland, New Zealand)
2022 Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria)
2021 Semibreve (Braga, Portugal)
2020 Donaueschinger Musiktage (Donaueschingen, Germany)
2020 ISCM - World New Music Days (New Zealand)
2019 Struer Tracks (Struer, Denmark)
2019 Ultima (Oslo, Norway)
2018 On/Off Noite Branca (Braga, Portugal)
2018 Mois Multi - Festival international d’arts multidisciplinaires et électroniques (Quebec, Canada)
2018 Sonic Festival (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2017 Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria)
2017 Intonal (Malmö, Sweden)
2017 Zoom In Festival (Bern, Switzerland)
2016 Sound Reasons Festival (New Delhi, India)
2016 SPOR Festival (Aarhus, Denmark)
2015 Üle Heli Festival (Tallinn, Estonia)
2015 Sparkling Sound Festival (Aalborg, Denmark)
2014 Wundergrund Festival (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2014 IN-SONORA - Muestra de arte sonoro e interactivo (Madrid, Spain)
2014 Zsámbék Theatre Festival, Színházi Bázis (Zsámbék, Hungary)
2013 LAK 2013 - Festival of Nordic Sound Art (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2012 Verona Risuona (Verona, Italy)
2012 G.A.S. Festival - Göteborg Art Sounds (Göteborg, Sweden)
2011 Ostrava Days - New Music Festival. Minimarathon of Electronic Music (Ostrava, Czech Republic)
2011 Geiger Festival (Göteborg, Sweden)
2011 Punkt Festival (Kristiansand, Norway)
2010 3. Relative (Cross)Hearings International Contemporary Music Meeting (Budapest, Hungary)
2009, 2012 Bottlenote Festival (Dublin, Ireland)
2008, 2009, 2011 Varia Festival (Göteborg, Sweden)
2007, 2008 Roskilde Festival (Roskilde, Denmark)
2006, 2008, 2009 Spot Festival (Aarhus, Denmark)


WORKS FOR STAGE / DANCE / PERFORMANCE (selected)
2020 'Pigeon Superstition' (Dynamo. Odense, Denmark)
2018-2019 'DÉJÀ' (The Krumple. France / Norway / Denmark)
2016 Conditoriet (Hurup Thy / Teater Nordkraft. Aalborg, Denmark)
2015 'Pigeon Superstition' (Dansehallerne. Copenhagen, Denmark)
2013 Jakob Ejersbo's 'LIBERTY' (Teater Nordkraft. Aalborg, Denmark)
2013 Jakob Ejersbo's 'EKSIL' (Teater Nordkraft, Aalborg / Teater Republique, Copenhagen, Denmark)
2013 'Axis Mundi' Alejandro Jodorowsky Necromancy (Atrium. Budapest, Hungary)
2013 'Behind The Wind' (Müszi. Budapest, Hungary)
2012 'RED' (Aalborg Teater / KUNSTEN - Museum of Modern Art. Aalborg, Denmark)
2012 'The Mixed Zone' (Kunsthal Nord. Aalborg, Denmark)
2011 'I Overmorgen Bliver Jeg En Anden' (Teater Nordkraft. Aalborg, Denmark)
2011 'Hands On The Table' (Cinnober Teater. Göteborg, Sweden)
2011 'It's Like One Unregulated But High Disciplined And Intense Swim' (Atalante. Göteborg, Sweden)
2010 'As I Got K' (Transformator. Aalborg, Denmark)
2010 'Hvidt Kød/Sort Kød/Citron' (ARoS. Aarhus, Denmark)
2010 'CseresznyeBál' (Tűzraktér. Budapest, Hungary)
2010 'Studies In Water For Movement And Sound' (Kunsthal Nord. Aalborg, Denmark)
2008 'Rekyl' (Platform4. Aalborg, Denmark)


ARTIST TALK (selected)
2024 EMAP - European Media Art Platform. Cyprus University of Technology Media and Design Lab (Limassol, Cyprus)
2024 MediaAC - Erasmus Mundus, Aalborg University (Aalborg, Denmark)
2023 Titanik (Turku, Finland)
2022 Next Generation. Donaueschinger Musiktage (Donaueschingen, Germany)
2022 DKF: Nye Veje. Radar (Aarhus, Denmark)
2021 Brandon Labelle 'The Freedom Room'. Struer Tracks - International Biennial of Sound Art (Struer, Denmark)
2021 University of Minho. Gnration (Braga, Portugal)
2019 Media Art History Conference (MAH 2019), Re:Sound (AAU / Struer, Denmark)
2018 Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2017 De l'École d'art de l'Université Laval (Quebec, Canada)
2017 The V.Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire (Tbilisi, Georgia)
2016 Vadehra Art Gallery, FICA Reading Room (New Delhi, India)
2015 KUNSTEN - Museum of Modern Art (Aalborg, Denmark)
2014 Nikolaj Kunsthal (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2014 Kunsthal Nord (Aalborg, Denmark)
2013 Művelődési Szint, Müszi (Budapest, Hungary)
2013 The Danish National School of Performing Arts (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2013 Högskolan för scen och musik, Göteborgs Universitet (Göteborg, Sweden)
2012 Conservatorio Di Verona (Verona, Italy)
2012 G.A.S. Göteborg Art Sounds Festival (Göteborg, Sweden)
2012 Aalborg Universitet (Aalborg, Denmark)
2011 Conservatoire des Arts et métiers Multimédia Balla Fasseké Kouyaté, Bamako (Bamako, Mali)


RESIDENCY (selected)
2024 WRO Art Center (Wrocław, Poland)
2023 Titanik (Turku, Finland)
2018, 2019 NOTAM - Norwegian Centre for Technology, Art and Music (Oslo, Norway)
2017 AVATAR (Quebec, Canada)
2017 IAC - Inter Arts Center (Malmö, Sweden)
2016, 2017 EMS Elektronmusikstudion (Stockholm, Sweden)


AWARDS (selected)
2024 EMAP - European Media Art Platform
2021 Edigma Semibreve Award
2021 Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen’s Foundation - Talent Award
2021 Lumen Prize - shortlist
2019 Prix Ars Electronica - Honorary Mention
2018 21st Japan Media Arts Festival - Jury Selection
2017 ENCAC 'The European Network for Contemporary Audiovisual Creation'


MEMBERSHIP
The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Society of Artists (Kunstnersamfundets Billedkunstsektion)
Danish Visual Artists (BKF)
The Danish Composers’ Society (DKF)
OK Corral, chairperson (2020-2023) and curating member (2019-2022)


EDUCATION
autodidact
2003-2009 The Royal Academy of Music, Aalborg, DA. MA degree
2007 Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, CA.


Full CV available on request.

 
bibliography

 


ARTICLES, INTERVIEWS AND REVIEWS (selected)

Ars Electronica 2022. Welcome to Planet B. Hatje Cantz. ISBN 978-3-7757-5363-0. 2022
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN; 9781501338816. 2020
CyberArts 2019. Prix Ars Electronica. Hatje Cantz. ISBN 978-3-7757-4577-2. 2019
Seismograf. "Stille dage i Struer" by Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek. September 2019
Kristeligt Dagblad. "Lydkunsten har indtaget Struer" by Sune Anderberg. August 28.2019
Clot Magazine. Re:Sound - Sound, Media and Art by Laura Netz. August 2019
DR1 TV AVISEN (Danish Broadcasting Corporation). "Silo rummer lyden af solen" September 5.2019
Neural. Issue #61. "Illumination". ISSN: 2037-108X. Autumn 2018
Japen Media Arts Fesrtival. "Award-winning Works". CG-ARTS 2018
Neural. Issue #58. "ÆTER". ISSN: 2037-108X. Autumn 2017
Ars Electronica 2017 "AI - Das Andere Ich". Hatje Cantz. ISBN 978-3-7757-4335-8. 2017
NASA. The INSPIRE Journal. Volume 23. 2017
Leonardo Music Journal (LMJ). "Listening to Listening Machines" by Anne Vandsø. MIT Press Journals. December 2016
Kunsten.Nu, LYDKUNST #19. podcast. September 2016.
The Lake Radio. "Lydhør På En Søndag". podcast. September 1016
Neural, Issue #52, p.12. "Illumination, the voice of the daytime" by Benedetta Sabatina. ISSN: 2037-108X. Autumn 2015
Magasinet K, p.34-35. "Maskinrummet" by Thomas Garlov. #4 2015
'Symphony of Hunger; The Fifth Movement', Edited by September Collective. Published by Automatic Books. ISBN: 9788890125980. 2015
Balkon, No. 1, p.25-28. 'Kiszűrődő hangok. Az érzékelhető határán - Más hangok.' by Őze Eszter. 2015
Vital Weekly, No. 959. Frans de Waard. December 2014
Flash Art, Vol. 3, No. 14, 4-5., p.40-43. 'Más hangok. Az érzékelhető határán' by Kovács Balázs. 2014
The Wire, p.89. 'Skan II' by Nathaniel Budzinski. November 2014
DR P1 Radiofortællinger. December 14.2014
DR, live radio interview. March 13.2014
‘Kultur Bunker’, by Annette Damgaard m.fl. p.29-32. February 2014
Seismograf/DMT, by Sune Anderberg, ‘Elektronisk støj på skuldrene af Beethoven’. October 17.2013
Kunsten.Nu, by Britta Marie Wâtzold. April 12.2013
Kunsten.Nu, by TH. September 18.2013
Seismograf/DMF, July 2013
SNYK / Seismograf. May 05.2013
‘Worldmaking as Techné: Exploring Worlds of Participatory Art, Architecture, and Music’. Riverside Architectural Press, Canada 2013
Kunstavisen, by Kristian Jensen. November 2012
DR P4 Morgen, live radio interview. October 14.2012
DR P8, December 23.2011
DR P2. July 05.2011
Kunsten.Nu, by Marianne Egeskov Gasbjerg. November 26.2010