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Nis Rømer Born in Viborg, Denmark, 1972 Address; Nis Rømer, Glentevej 1A, 4300 Holbæk, Denmark Phone: +45 22170730 Mail: nisroemer@gmail.com CVR-nr.: 38175114 www.nisroemer.dk   EDUCATION 2020 1999-2001 1997-98 1994-97 Master of Public Governance (MPG) at CBS (DK) The Berlage Institute, postgraduate urban planning study, Rotterdam (NL) Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Audio-Visual department, Amsterdam (NL) The Jutland Academy of Fine Arts, Århus (DK) SHORT RESUME: Through fieldwork and local investigations I examines the social and political organization of space and how processes of globalization affects the city and our natural environment. I teach and give lectures internationally and occasionally i curate exhibitions.  WEBSITES www.nisroemer.dk www.publik.dk www.gaaafstand.blogspot.com www.skovgro.dk SELECTION OF SHOWS AND PROJECTS (shows marked * = catalog available) 2021 "Me Make House", Galleri NU 2020 Planetarisk Poetik, essay Kunsten nu Planteparlamentet, Metabolisme, På den Anden side, Møn The Dark Reaction, with Pia Rönicke for Mossutstallningar 2019 The Golden Standard at Mossudställningar, with Walking distance, Stockholm 2016 It's the Political Economy Stupid, DAAP Galleries at the University of Cincinnati, US 2015 Standard, Walking Distance, Holbæk, Denmark Spisefællesskabet, Kunsthøjskolen, Denmark ”Ind i skabet” Svends Bibliotek på Bakkehusmuseet 2014 It's the Political Economy Stupid, NeMe Arts Centre, Limassol, Cyprus* Ud af Skabet / artist books på Nivaagaards Malerisamling, Denmark Lige i skabet,  Bakkehusmuseet, Frederiksberg, Denmark State of Exception,with Walking Distance, Copenhagen Art Week Svends Library, Artists Books, Copenhagen It's the Political Economy Stupid, WHW, Galerija Nova in Zagreb, Croatia* 2013 It's the Political Economy Stupid,Gallery 400/Univ. of Illinois at Chicago * Actions, Centro Cultural Sao Paulo, The 10th São Paulo Architecture Biennale. Kommunen er din!, Poster project, public space  Møn, Denmark Gå Løs, curated by Louise Trier, with Walking Distance, Vanløse, Denmark A Queer history of Haninge, Kunsthallen Haninge, Sweden* It's the Political Economy Stupid, Pori Art Museum, Finland, w Field Work* Incomparable histories, w. Field Work, Koldo Mitxelena, San Sebastian, Spain It's the Political Economy Stupid, The Center for Cultural Decontamination, Belgrade Reform, curated project with Publik, Kunsthall C and Landmark. Scandinavia.* 2012 Extreme Crafts, Freies Museeum, Berlin, Germany with Fieldwork Mønstersamfundet, with Gåafstand, Visit Tingbjerg. Øvelser, Danske Grafikeres hus with Berit Nørgaard and Stine Krøijer Book of professions, by Oda Projesi, online at http://bookofprofessions.blogspot.com 2011 Living as Form, Creative Time archive, with Free Soil, New York, US* Being with Others, Overgaden, Copenhagen Curating; Giving Harbor with Brett Bloom, publik, Copenhagen Harbor Alt_Cph 11, alternative art fair, with Fieldwork, Copenhagen (re)designing nature, Staedtische Galerie, Bremen, Germany* Planteplejehjem, Albertslund, Danish Architecture Center Imaginistisk velfærdsarbejde, Syddansk Universitet,Odense, Denmark Workarounds, w Fieldwork, Credo Bonum, Sofia, Bulgaria 2010 Hem Ljuva Hem, with Gåafstand, kunsthal C, Stockholm Gåafstand, Djursholm, Sweden Gentle Actions, with Field Work Kunstnernes hus, Oslo, Norway Alt_Cph, Free Apples, Copenhagen Gåafstand, Albertslund, Day of Architecture, Copenhagen Taler til folket, Curating the show with “publik”, Public space Copenhagen Workarounds, Goloss, with Lise Skou/ Field Work, Copenhagen Workarounds, Bucharest Biennale, BB4, with Lise Skou/ Field Work* Vi jubler ikke - en status over nationen, with Gåafstand, Overgaden, Copenhagen 2009 Environmental Justice, Arthal Charlottenborg, w Lise Skou, Copenhagen Migrating Gardens, with Oda Projesi (TR) Møstings Hus, Copenhagen Ideen om at dele, Brønshøj Library, by Arthal Nikolaj, Copenhagen Deep Green, Den Frie, Copenhagen. Land of Human Rights, with Field Work, Rotor - Association for Contemporary Art, Graz (A) OS DEM DEMOS, publik.dk with Pia Rönicke, public spaces Copenhagen (DK)* Eco Media, Sala Parpalló, Valencia (ES)* Beyond Green, DeVos Art Museum, Michigan (US) 2008 Actions: What You Can Do With the City, Canadian Centre for Architecture (CA) SOUP with Carsten Hoff, public space organized by The Danish Art Fund. (DK) Get Lost, organized by Danish Architecture Center (DK)* Virtual moves, The Danish National Gallery (Statens Museum) (DK) Open studio, Platform Garanti, Istanbul (TR) Outdoor Library, The Pineapple Project Room,Social Forum, Malmö (S) FRUIT, Free Soil at the Finnish Workers Museum, Helsinki, (FI) Conducting mobility at greenmuseum.org with Free Soil (web) Posters of Radiant Optimism, Mess Hall, Chicago, (US)* Zero1, Free Soil Bus Tour of Radical Education, San José, (US) Eco media, with Free Soil, Plug-In, Basel (Switzerland)* Katastrofenalarm, NGBK, with Field Work, Berlin (D)* Kritisk Form (Critical Form), with Walking Distance, Skulptur i DK, (DK) Beyond Green, Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, Connecticut (US)* Beyond Green, Museum London, London Ontario (CA)* Free Culture, with Field Work, Rum 46, Århus (DK) 2007 Publik Picnic, gardens as sites for critique, counterculture and sociality, Copenhagen CRIR at Stadens museum for art, Christiania, (DK) Welcome to the Danish Pavillon, Westverk, Hamburg (D) Public Address, with Katarina Stenbeck and Gregory Sholette, New York, (US) Eco media, w Free Soil, Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg (D)* Social Mental Environmental, Sparwasser Hq Berlin (D) Beyond Green, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio (US)* Everyone is Friends With Paulo Freire, PS122, New York (US) Public Air Quality Indicator, publik, Copenhagen City Hall (DK) Surface Tension_Copenhagen, public space, Copenhagen Beyond Green, Free Soil, Smith College of art (US)* 2006 Posters of Radiant Optimism, YNKB, DK and Mess Hall, Chicago (US) Hot summer of Urban Farming, curated by Nis Rømer in the context of publik; Copenhagen Beyond Green, The University Art Museum, LA, (US)* Hybrid Fields, Sonoma County Museum, with free-soil, (US)* Free Soil Bus Tour, ISEA2006, San Jose (US)* Commissioned public work Søllerødgade, Copenhagen Urban Organizations, with Pia Rönicke and “Fri Klasse”, tv-tv, Copenhagen Turn on, tune in, drop out, w Free Soil, International Festival of Computer Arts, Slovenia Væg til Væg, curated by Camilla Nørgaard, Amagerfælledvej 40, Copenhagen Un pas de côté, w free soil, The Centre of Contemporary Art (CNAC), Grenoble, France Time in, Berchidda festival , Sardinia, Italy Beyond Green, with Free Soil, Museum of Arts & Design, New York (US)* Satellite of love, with tv-tv, Witte de With, Rotterdam, (NL) Faculty of Radical Aesthetics, Hamburg/Barcelona/Vienna Walking distance, a series of urban walks in CPH with guests initiated w. Pia Rönicke 2005 What to do next? Neighborhoods and Artistic Practices, YNKB (DK) Experimental Station, an interview with Dan Peterman, TV-TV-news (DK) Beyond Green: Towards a Sustainable Art, Chicago Smart Museum of Art, (US)* Public Air Quality Indicator, www.org-urb.dk/luft Øjenhøjde, seminar Odense Selective Memory, w Free Soil, Garage Festival, Stralsund, Germany,* Free Soil, web portal on ecology, technology and utopian architecture www .free-soil.org City Rumble, w Jesper Dyrehauge & Marie Markman, Overgaden, Copenhagen * Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, w Jesper Dyrehauge & Marie Markman, Rum 46, Århus 2004 Stafetten, Esbjerg Museum of Fine Arts* Arts + Communication, Trans Cultural Mapping, Riga, (Latvia)* futurefarmers.com/lofoten ISEA 2004, www.isea2004.net talk & workshop +exhibition at KIASMA, Helsinki (Fi)* Smoke on the water, www.smokeonthewater.dk temporary settlement at Tippen (DK) “Lofoten: Game of the Future” w Amy Franceschini & Stijn Schiffeleers, Lofoten, (N) Climbing Club CPH, with Lottie Child and others, Copenhagen city spaces CountrySite, with Jesper Dyrehauge and Marie Markman, Brænderigården, Viborg (DK)* Lets walk while we talk, curator/participant, Overgaden, Cph (DK) 2003 www.virtuelvandring.dk curated by Jon Paludan, Internet project/ Amar Fælled* Index03, Lemvig, DK* Glentehaven w. Jesper Dyrehauge and Marie Markman, “NB! –lad os mødes” Copenhagen NV * Kunstfragt/Artfreight, seminar and workshop, at: www.ynkb.dk Copenhagen 2002 www.org-urb.dk Project group Stadtflur (art and urban planning project) Copenhagen * CopKøb, Gallery Asbæk, Copenhagen BOARDS AND MEMBERSHIPS. 2015-2021 Chairman of Danish Visual Artists (BKF) 2014-15 Board member Danish Visual Artists (BKF) 2012-13 Board member at “Fabrikken for kunst og design”. 2011-13 External advisory board to Overgaden, Institute for contemporary art. 2010-13 Member of the City of Copenhagens Visual Arts Board. 2009-12 Adviser to the city of Copenhagen, artists making playgrounds for the project “Plads til Leg" 2006- Board member of Christiania Researcher in Residence (CRIR) 2011-2023 Member of Kunstnersamfundet 2002-2017 Member of UKK. 2005 Board member of the C-SAM (Centre for Contemporary Art) Århus, Denmark 2004-6 Member of the UKK board   OTHER ACTIVITIES 2013 Jury, international street art competition 2011 Adviser to Haraldsgade kvarterløft, Public arts section. 2008 Curates the project Free Culture, Rum 46, Århus (DK) 2007 Starts the group Field Work with Lise Skou Curates the project; “Public Picnic” 2006 Curates the exhibition “Hot Summer of Urban Farming” 2005 Co-initiator of the seminar; “The Expanded Notion of Public Art” Copenhagen Co-initiator PUBLIK, an organization for art in public spaces, www.publik.dk Gåafstand is started w Pia Rönicke www.gaaafstand.blogspot.com Member of the international “Faculty of Radical Aesthetics” Jury KP 2005, Århus, DK 2003 Initiator of the exhibition “Monument” www.mo-nu-ment.dk about public art, Copenhagen Participating in www.5millionpeacemarch.org 1995-97 Co-founder and member of the project group and exhibition space LXX BOOKS/PAMPHLETS/TEXTS 2014 An Edge Effect: Art & Ecology in the Nordic Landscape, Half Letter Press  2014 Reform, Antipyrine and Bergen Kunsthall 2009 UKK's visionsbog 2008 Taide 2,2008 with free soil, Finnish artmagazine 2006 Land, Art: a Cultural Ecology Handbook, Edited by Max Andrews 2005 City Rumble, kunst, intervention og kritisk offentlighed, Politisk revy 2004 Kunstfragt, Theme 8, made by YNKB Åbenhed, demokrati og mangfoldighed”, w UKK cityspace, catalogue txt for “Monumet“ “En park på Nørrebro”, with Christel Lundberg debate in Jyllandsposten and “På Gaden” 2001  Interview w Joeb van Lieshout, in Hunch, 010 Publisher 1998  “Microscopic sculpture”, pamphlet   ARTICLES/WRITINGS ABOUT: Hus Forbi, 2011 on works in public spaces http://www.kopenhagen.dk/index.php?id=22669 Kopenhagen: http://www.kopenhagen.dk/interviews/interviews/interview_nis_roemer Århus Nu http://www.aarhus.nu/artikler/artikel.php/kunstnere+som+blander+sig Politiken, 15.09.06 Hot Summer of Urban Farming Frieze, on Beyond Green, www.frieze.com/review_single.asp?r=2443 Leonardo, Electronic Alamanc, MIT Press. ”Plant investigations” www.mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/LEA/GALLERY/locative/plant/index.htm Århus nu – on Free Soil www.aarhus.nu/reportage/06-06-21.html Artlink Magazine, Ecology: Everyone's Business Volume 25 no 4 Rhizome, www.rhizome.org/netartnews/story.rhiz?&timestamp=20051128 Landskab 4/05 “Byens rum og hvad skal det nytte” Aarhus.nu Kitchen garden www.aarhus.nu/reportage/05-06-03.html Politiken, saturday june 2005, Kitchen garden Aarhus.nu www . aarhus.nu/artikler/05-02-27.htm l on a collaborative public project BKF magazine 2004, theme on organization and selforganization, www.bkf.dk/media/filebank/org/BKF0404_OK_72dpi.pdf GRANTS/RESIDENCES 2013 The Danish Committee for Visual Arts, national and international board The Danish Art Fund, work grant 2012 The Danish Committee for Visual Arts, national and international board The Danish Art Fund, work grant 2011 The Danish Committee for Visual Arts, national and international board The Danish Art Fund, work grant 2010  The Danish Committee for Visual Arts, national and international board 2009 The Danish Art Fund, work grant 2008 Istanbul Residency, the Danish Committee for Visual Arts, international board Working grant, The Danish Art Fund 2003 Nifca, Aritst in residence, Riga, Latvia 2001 The Netherlands Foundation for Fine Arts, Design and Architecture, study grant Hjemmesiden er støttet af: