Name, title and affiliation
Claus Carstensen
Professor
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Cph 

Short Biography
In what is now becoming his trademark manner, Carstensen indiscriminately mixes media, processes, tools, and techniques to produce an imagery that is at the same time abstract and concrete, surreal and literal. Just as Carstensen forces traditional ideas of art-making to the edge and beyond, he compels viewers to extend their ways of seeing and thinking well past conventional boundaries of meaning and experience. 

EDUCATION AND TEACHING
1993-2002 Professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Cph.
1986-1993 Lives and works in Cologne (Germany)
1981-1983 Participant in the Copenhagen Circle of Semiotics
1979-1983 Student at the Department of Comparative Literature, University of Copenhagen
1977-1983 Student at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Cph.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
Pavilion of the Naked. Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Cph., 2008
Colony of the Psychotic. Beaver Projects, Cph., 2008

UNTITLED ROOM FOR ZOE (slide return). Museum Soenderjylland – Kunstmuseet i Toender, 2007
Field Work - Deterritorializations/Reterritorializations, site specific works 1976-2006 Køge Skitsesamling, 2007
Praxis. Randers Kunstmuseum, Randers, 2005

Only Rats, Which Are Mutually on Guard of Each Other, Are Found In the Labyrinth. Galleri Franz Pedersen Horsens, 2004
U.N.A.M.E.R.I.C.A.N. A.C.T.I.V.I.T.I.E.S. Galleri Franz Pedersen, Horsens, 2004
A.M.E.R.I.C.A. A.T. W.O.R.K. Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto (Canada), 2004

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
Art As Idea – Conceptual Photografy in Denmark 1965-1979*. Det Nationale Fotomuseum, Cph., 2007
Housewarming. Amagerfælledvej 40, Cph. , 2007
Outside the rules – Nordiska Kunstskolan on the road 2007-2008. K.H. Renlundin Taidemuseum, Kokkola and Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki, 2007
Under Neglene (Under My Nails). Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Cph., 2007
Clinch. The Danish National Gallery of Art (SMK), Cph., 2004
Sted/Place. Oliewenhuis Art Gallery, Bloemfontein (South Africa) & Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg,(South Africa), 2004
Everwanting Streets. Röda sten, Göteborg (Sweden), 2004
Wall Drawings-16th International Drawings Exhibition. Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka (Croatia), 2004

CURATORIAL PRAXIS (SELECTED)
The Map Is Not The Territory. Co-curator, Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, Esbjerg, 2008
Abschiedskonzert. Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Cph., 2002