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ABOUT LARS SCHWANDER

Director, writer, photographer, and art collector

 Photo © Joyce Tenneson, 1991

Biography

*57
M.A. in Nordic Philology & Film Science, University of Copenhagen
Founder and director of Institute of Photography (Cph)
Founder and former director of Photographic Center (Cph)
Former photographic curator, Louisiana, MoMA (Denmark)
Represented in Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon (Who's Who, Danish Art)
Represented in Den blaa Bog since 2011 (Who’s Who, Denmark)
Member of AICA, Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art
Member of the board, The Finnish Cultural Institute (Foundation) (Cph)

Honors & Awards

08
Chevalier de l’ordre des arts et des letters (French Ministry of Culture)
Danish Book Design award

Work

11
Founder of Institute of Photography
08
Nuit de l’Europe, Festival d’Arles (Arles, France)
Freelance, Arken, MoMA (Denmark)
07
Jury, International Color Awards (London/Beverly Hills, California)
Nomination group, Infinity Awards 2007 (ICP/Getty Foundation, New York)
Jury, Hasselblad Award (Gothenburg, Sweden),
06
Jury, Prix BMW (Paris Photo, Paris)
06-07
Artistic adviser, Hasselblad Center (Gothenburg)
05-10
Jury, Fogtdals Prize for Photographers (Cph)
04-
Nomination Group, Deutche Börse Prize (Photographer’s Gallery, London)
Board member, The Finnish Cultural Institute (foundation) (Cph)
01-02
Consultant, Bruun-Rasmussens Auctions (Cph)
99-04
Curator for photography, Louisiana, MoMA (Denmark)
96-11
Founder and director of Photographic Center (Cph)
94-96
Photographic coordinator, Cph 96, Cultural City of the Year (Cph)
94-96
Jury member for the arts, Cph 96, Cultural City of the Year (Cph)
94-94
Ass. 1. Librarian, Dept. of photographs, The Royal Library (Cph)
92-94
Subject specialist, Dept. of photographs, The Royal Library (Cph)
90-92
Publisher and editer-in-chief, Copyright Art Magazine (Cph)
89-90
Dept. of photographs, The Royal (Cph)
87-93
Publisher and editor, Lundtofte Publishing (Denmark)
86-88
Press secretary, The Art Hall and Museum of Photographic Arts (Denmark)
82-84
Member of the editorial group of the Magazine Sidegaden (Cph)

Publications (selected)
English */French **/Italian***/German****/Spanish*****)

13
Portraits, Artists & Friends (ART online)*
In. Mono vol. 1 (Gomma Books)*
In. Movement, Tiger Photobook Competition 2012 (Tigerstories)*
In. Danish Press Photography in 100 Years (Danish Press Photographers)
In. Tony Oursler (Avlskarl Gallery)*
OUI PARIS, Quelques Souvenirs, Dessins par L. Schwander (ART online)**
10
In. Landscapes with Weeds, Jeanette Land Schou (Space Poetry)*
In. Young Danish Photography ’10 (ed., Photographic Center)
09
In. Wandeln, Photographia Borealis, Anne Lass (Kiel)****
In. Boystown - The Perfume of Desire, Jeffrey Silverthorne (Gal. Wolfsen)*/**
In. young Danish Photography ’09 (ed., Photographic Center)
In. Camilla Holmgren (Aristo & Photographic Center)*
08
In. Victor B. Andersens Maskinfabrik #36 Det store nordatlantiske Ideselskab)
In. Young Danish Photography ‘08 (ed., Photographic Center)
Nordic Moods, Contemporary Landscape Photography (Arken MoMA)*
DLH - Passion for Wood (DLH Publishers)*
Manuel Alvarez Bravo, A Day in April 1999 (Nazraeli Press, USA)*
Aspects of Danish Photography, The collection of Lars Schwander
(ARTonline)*
07
In. Keld Helmer Petersen (picture ed. w/K. Vindum, Christian Ejlers Publishers)*
In. Delvist eksemplariske eksempler…, Jesper Fabricius (Photographic Center)
In. Directions for Leaving, Jeffrey Silverthorne (w/ Jon Hendricks)*
In. Young Danish Photography ‘07 (ed., Photographic Center)
In. Visit, Ole Schwander (Lundtofte Publishing)
06
In. Cph, Krass Clement (Fotogafisk Center)
In. Imaginary Realities, Astrid Kruse Jensen (Space Poety)*
In. A Day in Denmark (Fogtdals Publishers)
In. Young Danish Photography ‘06 (ed., Photographic Center)
In. Ladyboys, Anders Askegaard (Tiderne Skifter)*
In. Photographic Center – A Documentation (Photographic Center)
05
Danish Photography – in my Private Collection (ARTonline.dk)
In. Young Danish Photography ‘05 (ed., Photographic Center)
In. Scandinavian Photography II: Denmark (Faulconer G., Grinnell College, Iowa)*
04
In. Danish History of Photography (Gyldendal)
In. Young Danish Photography ‘04 (ed., Photographic Center)
In. Hovering in the dark, Charlotte Hjorth-Rohde (Photographic Center)*
In. In Mid Air, Ignacio Rabago (ARTonline.dk)*/*****
03
In. Lars von Trier Interviews (University Press of Mississippi)*
In. Related - Stephen Freiheit (Cph)*
In. Arnold Newman - Un maestro del ritrato (Palazzo Magnani)***
In. Arnold Newman - Un maître du portrait (Patrimoine photographique, Paris)**
In. Arnold Newman  - Portrættets Mester (Louisiana)*
02
Festival of Latin American Photography I-III (Photographic Center)*
In. The Sand Dreamer - Jette Rex... (Klim)
Beauty (Photographic Center)*
01
Artist Portraits (Rhodos)*/**
In. Magnum – The World Now (Louisiana)*
00
Viggo Rivad – Between Light & Shadow (Rhodos)
In. YES - Yoko Ono (Abrams, New York)*
Stardust - Annie Leibovitz 1970-1999 (Louisiana)*
In. Knud Odde - Some Buildings and a Few Persons (Lundtofte Publishing)*
Young Danish Photography 2000 (ed., Photographic Center)
98
Young Danish Photography '99 (ed., Photographic Center)
In. Tove Kurtzweil - Moment (Rhodos)
97
Young Danish Photography '98 (ed., Photographic Center)
In. Viggo Rivad - Amra (Gyldendal)
Herbert Strauss - Minefeltets Fotograf (Photographic Center)
In. Yoko Ono - Conceptual Photography (Photographic Center)*
96-97
In. Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon, Who’s Who in Danish Art (Weilbach)
96
Margrethe II – Portrait of a Queen (w/T. Kurtzweil, Djurs Publishers)
Nathalie Amand: Intimate Pictures (Photographic Center)*
Danish Landscape Photography (Photographic Center)*
Hollywood Portraits (Photographic Center)*
Eli Ponsaing - Krystallogrammer (Photographic Center)*
Sigvart Werner’s Copenhagen (Photographic Center)*
Man Ray, Rare Works (Photographic Center)*/**
95-96
In. Danish Art (Fogtdal’s Publishers)
94
In. Brøndum’s Encyclopedia  (Brøndum’s Publishers)
In. Danish Art (Fogtdal’s Publishers)
In. Jørgen Nash – Wings over Water (Borgen’s Publishers)
91
Klaus Lindewalds scenebilleder (Museum Tusculanum)
89
Lars Schwander - Introduction & Portfolio (North)*
In. Tove Kurtzweil – Space/Time (Museet for Fotokunst/Lundtofte Publishing)*
Tove Kurtzweil - Retrospektivt (Lundtofte Publishing)
86
Lou Reed (Publisherset Amadeus, Biblioteksforeningen)

Curatorial work (excl. Photographic Center, selected)

13
Jeffrey Silverthorne (Tom Christoffersen Gallery, Cph)
12
Viggo Rivad (for the Queen Isabella Foundation, Palau Moja, Barcelona)
Tony Oursler – Scribbles, Adumbartions (Avlskarl Gallery, Cph)
11
Roger Ballen (Tom Christoffersen Gallery, Cph)
10
Photography and what Resembles (AnnexOne, Cph)
The Object of [Sex and] Desire (Galerie RTR, Paris)
09
Tal der Sinne, Jeanette Land Schou (AnnexOne, Cph)
08
Dorotée Smith & Anaïs Boudot (AnnexOne, Cph)
Jeffrey Silverthorne (Festival d’Arles/Galerie Vu, Arles)
Nudes and what Resembles (Phototeket, Esbjerg)
Nordic Moods – Contemporary Landscape Photography (Arken MoMA, Ishøj)
Aspects of Danish Photography, from my prvate collection (Phototeket, Esbjerg)
07
Aspekte Dänischer Fotografie, Aus der Sammlung Lars Schwander (Berlin)
05
Desnudos – Nudes from my private collection (Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca)
04
Mirroring (Kulturhuset, Stockholm)
03
Master Portraits - Arnold Newman (Louisiana, Humlebæk)
02
From My Window - Yoko Ono (Galerie Klaus Engelhorn, Vienna)
01
Drawings from The Silverman Collection (Louisiana, Humlebæk)
Sartre & de Beauvoir  (The French Institute, Cph)
Magnum, Millennium (Louisiana, Humlebæk)
00
Stardust - Annie Leibovitz 1970-1999 (Louisiana, Humlebæk)
99
The Europeans (Louisiana, Humlebæk)
96
Margrethe II – Portrait of a Queen (w. Tove Kurtzweil, Rundetårn, Cph)
94
Intimate Pictures (Fotogalleriet, Lund, Sweden)
92
The Summer Show (The Royal Library, Cph)
89-90
Klaus Lindewald’s Theater Pictures (The Royal Library, Cph)

Collections (represented as photographer)

Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris)
Det kongelige Bibliotek (Cph)
Musée de la Photographie (Charleroi, Belgium)
Museet for Fotokunst (Odense)
Fondation Louis Vuitton (Paris)
Thomas Olbricht Collection (Germany)
Lenono Photo Archive (New York)
Private collectors: Mikael Andersen, John Hunov, etc.

Installations, permanent

02
Child- and Youth Psychiatry dept. w/ C.F. Møllers Tegnestue (Kolding)
95
Hôtel Dorinth, Expérience d'integration de la Photographie dans… (Bruxelles)

Solo Shows (selected)

10
Artist’s Portraits, Rosphoto (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
03
Michael Strunge 1981-1985 (Gladsaxe Main Library, Gladsaxe)
01
Artist’s Portraits (Galerie Mikael Andersen, Cph)
Portraits d'Artistes (Galerie Veneuille St.-Péres, Paris)
95
Photographs (Gladsaxe Main Library, Gladsaxe)
93
YES Paris (The French Institute, Cph)
Egypt (w. Tove Kurtzweil, Krasnapolsky. Cph, arr. Olafur Eliasson)
91-92
YES Paris (Galleri Image, Aarhus)
89
One Way, Pictures from New York (w. Tove Kurtzweil, Ringsted Galleriet)
85
Portraits (m. Tove Kurtzweil, The Booktrader, Cph)

Group Shows (selected)

10
Photography – And what resembles (AnnexOne, Cph)
The Object of [Sex and] Desire (Galerie RTR, Paris)
08
Nudes – And what resembles (Phototeket, Esbjerg)
Nordic Moods – Contemporary Landscape (Arken MoMA, Ishøj)
Aspects of Danish Photography, from my private collection (Phototeket, Esbjerg)
07
Aspects of Danish Photography, from my private collection (Berlin)
Scandinavian Photography #2 (Scandinavian House, New York)
05
Scandinavian Photography #2 (Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Iowa)
04
Nudes (Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca, Spain)
Arco (Galerie Asbæk, Madrid, Spain)
03
The reality of the illusions and myths of St. Petersb. (The Manége, St. Petersburg)
02
Copenhagen Modernism Show (Forum, Cph)
01
Art Forum, Berlin (Galerie Mikael Andersen, Berlin)
97
Nudes through 100 Years (Photographic Center, Cph)
93-94
Museum’s Permanent Collection (Museum of Photographic Arts, Odense)
92
Europe (w. Xavier Lambours & Didier Loire,
Museum of Photographic Arts, Odense)
Contemporary Danish Photography (Pakhus 4, Cph)
Self Portraits (Copenhagen Photo Week, Cph)
Photographer’s Self Portraits (The Art Hall, Fredericia)
Marks after Meetings #II (Kvinfo, Cph)
Marks after Meetings #I (North Jutland’s Art Museum, Aalborg)
Photographer’s self portraits #II (Round Tower, Cph)
Visages, paysages et autres ravages (Le Centre d'Art contemporain, Bruxelles)
91
Photographica’s Christmas Show (Photografica, Cph)
Photographer’s Artist’s Portraits #I (Aarhus Art Hall, Aarhus)
89
Charlottenborg’s Fall Show (Charlottenborg, Cph)
88
Opera, Death and... (Huset, Polaroid, Cph)
Holland House, , 1 for Hor (Køge Skitsesamling, Køge)
Holland House, documentation, Ruge & Schokking (Østre Gasværk, Cph)
Somebody we have shown… 10 Years of Danish Photography (Aarhus)
87
Photographer’s August Show (Billund Kunstforning, Billund)
86
Charlottenborg’s Spring Show (Charlottenborg, Cph)
84
The Roskilde Festival Music Show (Roskildefonden)
God & Grammer (Charlottenborg, Cph)
Charlottenborg’s Spring Show (Charlottenborg, Cph)
82
Artists’ Easter Show (Aarhus Art Hall, Aarhus)
Seed from the Side street (The magazine Sidegaden (Hvidovre Main Library)

Talks, Performances, etc.

11
Roger Ballen (Tom Christoffersen Gallery, Cph)
10
Fogtdal’s Photograhic Prize ‘10 (Posthus Teatret, Cph)
09
Fogtdal’s Photograhic Prize ‘09 (Hofteatret, Cph)
08
Fogtdal’s Photograhic Prize ‘08 (Hofteatret, Cph)
The Nordic Landscape (Arken MoMA, Ishøj)
07
Fogtdal’s Photograhic Prize ‘07 (Hofteatret, Cph)
06
Fogtdal’s Photograhic Prize ‘06 (Hofteatret, Cph)
Fogtdal’s Photograhic Prize ‘05 (Hofteatret, Cph)
04
Dialogue Meeting, Yoko Ono (Gran Theater, Aarhus)
01
Dialogue Meeting, Yoko Ono (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston)
Magnum, Millennium (Louisiana, Humlebæk)
00
Stardust - Annie Leibovitz 1970-1999 (Louisiana, Humlebæk)
99
The Europeans- Henri Cartier-Bresson (Louisiana, Humlebæk)
The History of Fashion Photography, Danish Design School (Cph)
98
What is Photography?, Krogerup School (Humlebæk)
94
The Memory of Images. Contemporary Danish Photography (Gdansk, Poland)
The Imaginary Image (American Studies Program, Cph)



Photo © Arnold Newman, 2003

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