Performances, shows, exhibitions
2023 Wadden Tide 2023, Blåvandshuk Beach, Denmark, group show: First There Is a Mountain, performance: Infinite, at the opening Aug 31, following dates Sept 10, 17, 24 and the closing date Oct 1
2023 H.C. Andersen Art Center/ Klostertorvet, Kalundborg, Denmark, performance: Circles, Sep 16
2023 Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Performance, Golden Days, performance: I Am the Oats, Sept 1
2023 Vega Skola, Haaninge, Stockholm, inauguration of Vega Skola, performative presentation: Knee-Deep, sculpture and public commission by Aspasia Balta and Molly Haslund, Aug 26
2023 CHART Art Fair, Public Programme, Kongens Nytorv 1, performance: Flower Drop, Aug 25, 27
2023 Free Hands, Den Frie Exhibition, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, group show, video documentation: People on the Ground (2022) and live performance at the opening: People on the Ground– Example live performance at the opening Apr 21-May 29
2023 Wanås Konst, Sweden, Social sculpture & Molly Haslund Weekend, March 4, 5
2022 Åben Festival, Copenhagen, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, performance: Flower Drop, Sept 9
2022 Metropolis Copenhagen, performance program in public space: Mennesker på Jorden/ People on The Ground at Blågårds Plads, Sep 3
2022 FABRIKKEN Afd. AC, Amager Centret, Say It With Flowers, a paper flower & poem workshop with Lawrence Ebelle, Tomas Lagermand Lundme and Molly Haslund, June 12
2022 Up Close – performance art at Folkemødet, Bornholm, Denmark, Arr. Den Frie Center of Contemporary Art and New Carlsberg Foundation, performance: Flower Drop, June 5-7
2022 Fabrikken Afd. AC #7, Amager Centret, Copenhagen, performance: Flower Drop, May 6th, June 24th, exhibition: (photo documentation on advertising spots) May 6-June 30
2022 Den Frie Center of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, group show, Atmosfærer – Aktion, Eufori, Melankoli, Spiritualitet, video documentation of performance: I'm Bored as Hell, Mar 26-May 29
2022 #værkdinverden Make a Move, Mariaparken, Vejle, Denmark, catalog release, readings: Alphabet Camp, Mar 2
2022 Kunsthal 6100, Haderslev, Denmark, readings, performances: Visited / Farewell ball, Feb 26
2021-22 Kunsthal 6100, Haderslev, Denmark, solo exhibition, Visited Oct 16 '21-Feb 26
2021 The Round Tower, Copenhagen, Denmark: Overgange #2, in collaboration with Lærke Posselt, object and photography: Venindering, Sept 4-Oct 31
2021 SMK Fridays: Thy – a dream scenario, performance: I am the Oats, Aug 20
2021 Den Frie Exhibition, Copenhagen, Denmark, performance program: Free Morning, Vol. 2, performance: Flower Drop, June 18
2021 #værkdinverden Make a Move, Vejle, Denmark, curated by Another Public, public space: Alphabet Camp, Thursdays-Sundays, May
2020 SMK – National Gallery of Denmark, 2020. Performance: Teenagers Eating Ice Cream Cones, Oct 18
2020 Billboard Istanbul, Istanbul, Tyrkiet, Oct 5-18
2020 Hvidovre Library, Denmark, exhibition featuring signs used in previous performance, documentary film of previous performance by Christian Brems: I am not a mistake - and other personal statements, 18 Sep-18 Oct
2020 Hvidovre Kunstråd, Denmark, Raaderum (curator), performance in public space involving students from Hvidovre Gymnasium: I am not a mistake - and other personal statements, 12 Sep
2020 Kunsthal 6100, exhibition and activities in public space: Coordination Models, July 17-Aug 28
2020 Metropolis, Wa(l)king Copenhagen, performance: I'm Bored as Hell, June 30
2020 UP CLOSE Performance Festival, arr. Ny Carlsberg Foundation, performance: Flower Drop, June 21
2019-2020 Absolute Art Space, Tainan, Taiwan, solo exhibition: Clown Wall, Nov 30 '19-Jan 5
2019 Absolute Art Space, Tainan, Taiwan, opening performance: Artist Statement Clown Wall, Nov 30
2019 The Women Museum in Denmark, Aarhus, Transitions, group show, May 10-Sept 29
2019 Den Frie Center of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, performance festival: Mellemting mellem ting, performance: Postcards and Snacks from Taiwan, Nov 21-24
2019 O–Overgaden, Copenhagen, solo exhibition, Teenagers Eating Ice Cream Cones, Jun 14-Aug 25
2019 O–Overgaden, Copenhagen, performance: Is it Genuine?, with performers Sigrid Muraour, Steffen Galster, Sophie Pucill and Molly Haslund, Aug 8
2019 Statens Konstråd, Stockholm, Sweden, group show in public space: Choreographies of the Social, usable sculptures: Coordination Models and performances, Aug 13-18
2019 Rønnebæksholm, Næstved, Denmark, group show: Taletid, performance at the opening: Groundbreaking Thoughts, April 6-Jun 23
2018 KØS Museum of Art in Public Spaces, Tournament, performance objects and video, July 7-Aug 25
2018 KØS Museum, KØS Art Stage, Tapperiet, Køge, performance involving 11 young performers: Tournament, Apr 13
2018 Vejle Art Museum, Vejle, Denmark, group show: HEX, the power of the image, Oct 14 -Apr 2
2018 Coast Center Thyborøn, Denmark, documentation of The Thyborøn Trawl Dance 2017, Feb 9-Nov 1
2018 Lokale, gruppeudstilling: Arkiv Deluxe, Copenhagen, Denmark, Jun 14-29
2017 Randers Art Museum, Denmark, group show Idealer, performance: Circles, exhibiting compasses and photography, June 10-Oct 1
2017 Meetings Festival, Thyborøn, Denmark, participatory performance: Thyborøn Trawl Dance, Sept 10
2017 Kyoto Art Center, Japan, group show: Lean Issues, performance and exhibition of performance-object: Islands Chewing, Spitting Part II, III, group: Lean Issues, Apr 15-May 14
2016 Reflex16, Dragør, Denmark, participatory performance in public space: Ghost Tent, Nov. 19, 20
2016 Little Berlin, Philly, USA, group show: Villus, performance: Islands Chewing Spitting Part I, Sept 3-30
2016 Astrid Noack's Børneatelier, Mimersparken, Denmark, workshop-exhibition: Corpo Planta, June 1-30
2016 Ordrupgaard Museum, Denmark, performance with Michiel van Leeuwen: Spoon Ball, May 26
2016 Thornwillow Press INC., group: RE-JUVENATION, New York, USA, Apr. 30-May 15
2015 Västerås Art Museum, Sweden, group show: Here and Now, installation: Swings, Nov 21-Mar 6
2015 Hudson Valley MOCA, New York, USA, group show: Peekskill Project #6, performances and installation: 1000 Wooden Balls, Sept 26-31
2015 Gallerie FOE, Munich, Germany, solo exhibition: Asymmetric Garden & Group Photo, Aug 31-Sept 9
2015 Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, installation, performance objects: Cabinet Studio and Queetar, performances: Er der forskel på Betændelse, Women Sing, group exhibition: Ceasefire 100 years of Acts, Jun-Aug
2015 National Gallery of Denmark, Cph, performance: Circles, opening of: What’s happening?, Mar 26
2014 The 50th Anniversary of the Danish Arts Foundation, Ringkøbing, Denmark, event: Cup, Nov 15-16
2014 Wanås Konst, Sweden, group show: Dance me!, coordination models and the new work: Three Double Wall Bars including the performance: Constant Hanging, May 18-Nov 2
2014 Museum Jorn, Denmark, opening of: My Jorn 100 favorites, performance: ÉTUDE No.1–19, Oct 3
2014 O–Overgaden, Copenhagen, Denmark, group show: Coming From, installation: Ribbe, Aug 23-Sept 14
2014 O–Overgaden, seminar: Lecture Performance – Between Art and Academia, (lecture-) performance: In the Beginning There Was Rhythm, June 9
2014 INTER±POL, Hamburg, Germany, performance: I Shot John Wayne, Aug 21
2013 MOCA Roskilde, Denmark, solo exhibition, and performances: Rock Around the World, Sept 21-Dec 15
2013 Roskilde Monastery, Denmark, performance: Cruel Act, solo show: Rock Around the World, Dec 14
2013 Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center (Nikolaj Kunsthal), Copenhagen, Denmark, performance: I Shot John Wayne, Tower Session, Nov 18
2013 Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Cph, Denmark, performance: In the Beginning There Was Rhythm, Lecture Performance Seminar, June 7-9
2012 Frac Champagne-Ardenne, France, performance: In the Beginning There Was Rhythm, Dec. 7-8
2012 West Jutland Art Pavilion, performance: I Shot John Wayne, group: Local Heroes, Sept. 15-Oct 28
2012 Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark, performance: In the Beginning There Was Rhythm, ACTS Festival, June 17
2012 The Factory of Art&Design May, Performance REQUIEM PART I, June 24
2012 Performance at Big Wheel Night Vordingborg, Denmark, performance: I Went Into a Bar, Apr 13
2011 Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark, performance: Songs About Poets, Dec. 8
2011 Tramp Tour in Denmark with Catherine Hoffmann: Overgaden Institute for Modern Art, Hygum Art Museum, The Folk Art High School Holbæk, Ove Sprogøes Plads Odense, Linie 74, Skagen,
2011 D7 Project Room, Copenhagen, Denmark, performance: The Best Rock Song in the World, Dec 1
2011 Beaver Projects, Copenhagen, Denmark, group show: xxxx, performance: I Went Into a Bar, Aug 12
2011 Dining Kitchen#, Copenhagen, Denmark, performance: I Went Into a Bar, May 19
2011 NON Performance Festival, Bergen, Songs About Poets Part II, Jan 30
2010 Contemporary Work Out Space/Toves Galleri, Copenhagen, group show, performance:The Whole of My Female Mind, Oct 29
2009 REAL-Projects, Bergen, Norway, peformance: Smart Addictions, Jan 28
2008 Music for poem by exhibiting artist Abraham Cruzvillegas, CCA, Glasgow: My Brothers Friend is Dead
2006 Kelvin Grove Project, Glasgow, performance and sculpture: Skipping Rope Pillar
2005 Tramway, Project Room, Glasgow, Scotland, solo exhibition: Every Morning
2005 Gallery Schmaek, Umeå, Sweden, performances and exhibition: 7 Songs Umeå
2005 Rutherglen Town Hall, Glasgow, Scotland, group show: Generating Form
2005 Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland, Exit MA Degree Show, Glasgow School of Art, performances and workshop:10 Songs Pollockshields
2005 EXIT 05, Degree show, Royal Danish Academy of Art Cph, Gl Strand, installation: Figures for Gl Strand
2005 M.A.M., Copenhagen, group show: Britney Spears & Other Holy Women
2004 The Molly Haslund Award, durational performance around Glasgow and Copenhagen
2003 Trekroner, Roskilde, Denmark, with the School of Wall & Space/Royal Danish Academy of Art, Copenhagen, group show in public space: Overview, sculpture: Hopscotch
2003 La Biennale di Venezia, Utopia station w. Martha Rosler / School of Wall & Space, Royal Danish Academy of Art, Cph
2002 Trapholt, Kolding, Denmark, group show: Konglomerat, with School of Sculpture, Royal Danish Academy of Art, Cph, sculpture: Swings
2002 Galleri Asbæk, Copenhagen, group show: Cop Kop, installation:The Apple Orchard
2002 Art Parade Cph, group show, mobile works in public space, performance and sculpture: Swings
Education
1999-2005 Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
2003-2005 Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
Residencies and research trips
2023 18th Street Residency, Santa Monica, CA 9040, Apr-May
2022 Research trip, KRAK Center for Contemporary Culture, Bihać, Bosnia, May 12-23
2020 Astrid Noacks Atelier, research, pandemic summer
2019 Absolute art Space, Tainan, Taiwan, Sept-Dec
2017 Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan, Apr
2016 Flux Factory / Little Berlin, New York, USA, Aug-Sept
2015 Ebenböck-Haus, Gallerie FOE, Munich, Germany, Aug
2014 ISCP, New York, USA, Jan-Apr
Talks and presentations
2023 KRAK Center for Contemporary Culture, Bihać, Bosnia, public discussion: Curating the Periphery, Irfan Hošić in conversation with Zdenka Badovinac, Molly Haslund and Šejla Kamerić, Oct 19
2023 Molly Haslund / In Conversation with Bill Kelley Jr., 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica, May 25
2023 Herning Billedkunstskole, master class, Jan 13
2019 Tainan National University of the Arts, Taiwan, præsentations, workshops and tutorials
2019 Absolute Art Space, Open Forum: CHI Kai-Yaun ,YU Cheng-Ta, Molly Haslund, Nov 30
2019 Absolute Art Space, Tainan, Taiwan, Open Talk: Yeh Tzu-Chi and Molly Haslund, Oct 19, 20
2020 Talk at Kunsthøjskolen i Holbæk (Art School) Sept 16
2020 Free Lunch Series, Art Hub Copenhagen, Sept 22
2019 GMB Gladsaxe Music- and Art School, talk for teachers
2018 Salon ATTENTION, JAC Studios + Tegnestuen B33, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 1st
2017 Valand Academy, Göteborg, Sweden, talk at Frank Forum, Oct 17
2016 Thyborøn Sports Center, Thyborøn, Denmark, artist presentations, Aug 17
2015 Gl. Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark, Performance–the new public art?, Apr 23
2013 The Factory of Art and Design, Copenhagen, Denmark, Rethinking Residencies Seminar, Jun 7
Publications
2022 RSS Press, Flower Drop. Introducing Molly Haslund
2022 Forlaget Jelling, Alphabet Camp
2017 Pist Protta nr. 80. text: People on the Mountains, Nov
2014 Space Poetry, ÉTUDE No. 1–19, Sept
Public collections
2020 SMK, National Gallery of Denmark, performance and photography: Teenagers Eating Ice Cream Cones, National Gallery of Denmark, 2020 (black-and-white pre-documentation photography related to the performance holding the same titel)
2020 SMK, National Gallery of Denmark, installation: 53 chairs found in the bulky waste sections of five back yards in the Nørrebro district of Copenhagen, April-May, 2019 (2019)
2015 Lund Sketch Collection, Lund, Sweden, sketch model: Three Double Wall Bars
2014 Wanås Konst, Wanås, Sweden, sculpture: Double Wall Bars + instructions for the corresponding performance: Constant Hanging
2013 MFSK, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark, performance tools and photography: Circles
Public commissions
2023 Commission, Knee-Deep, Vega Skola and Activity House, Stockholm, Sweden.
Collaboration with architect Aspasia Balta
2022 Commission, Height Seats And Doodle-circles, Børnesymfonien, Tranbjerg, Aarhus, Denmark.
Collaboration with architect Aspasia Balta
2018 Commission, Lund, Sweden, public sculptures: Jump In Jump Out, Magic Circles, Short Cut Fountain
2018 Commission, Lunds Konsthall, Sweden, Three Sculptures, an animation:
In collaboration with filmmaker Carina Randløv
2013 Roskilde Council, Small Bench / Reduced Space, the Library Garden, Roskilde, Denmark
Open Calls applied for
2023 Stedet Tæller X
2018 O–Overgaden
Scholarships, grants and nominations
Sven Hols' Legat, honorary grant
2021 The Danish Arts Foundation, working grant
2020 The Danish Arts Foundation, working grant
2020 New Carlsberg Foundation,15. Juni Foundation, Danish Arts Foundation supports 2022-monograph
2019 Ceramicist Mrs.Ville Chriistensens Travel Grant
2019 Danish Arts foundation, Beckett Fonden, 15. Juni Fonden, Aage og Johanne Louis-Hansens Fond, Overretssagfører L. Zeuthens Mindelegat, L.F. Foghts Fond, Billedkunstrådet Københavns Kommune supports solo show at O––Overgaden
2017 Åge og Yelva Nimbs Fond, honorary award
2015 Nominated by Bukdals Bet, The Narrow Literature Award for ÉTUDE nr. 1–19
2014 The Danish Art Foundation, Three year working grant
Committees, boards and other positions
2022-2025 Member of the Danish Arts Foundation committee for project funding
2022-2025 Committee of Den Frie Udstilling
Member of
BKF Billedkunstnernes Forbund (artists association)
UKK Unge Kunstnere og Kunstformidlere (artists association)
Kunstnersamfundet (artist association)
* O–Overgaden previously Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art