OLIVER GODOW
born 26.03.1968 in Lübeck (DE)
lives and works currently in Oldenburg (DE) and Paris (FR)
Education
MFA Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, 1995-97
BA Photography Bournemouth College (UK) 1990-94
Awards & Fellowships & Stipends
Niedersachsen dreht auf / Project support / Ministry of Culture / Lower Saxony (DE) 2021/22
Strukturbrücke / City of Oldenburg 2020 and 2021
10qm Stipend / City of Stuttgart 2020
IFA Institute for Foreign Affairs Germany / Projectgrant Reykjavik 2017
City of Munich / Fotomuseum, Villa Waldberta Fellowship 2015
Norsk-tysk Willy Brandt Foundation Berlin/Oslo 2014
nominated for the DZ Bank Stipendium für Fotografie in Frankfurt a.M. 2013
nominated for the Entrepreneur Award Berlin 2014
Villa Sträuli Winterthur (CH) 1year Artist Residency & Stipend 2011
Kulturstiftung Winterthur, Project Grant 2011
IFA Stuttgart Travel support New York 2009
Hope Scott Trust Grant, Edinburgh 2008
St. Chad’s College / University of Durham Senior Artist Fellowship / Durham Cathedral 2006-07
Willy Brandt Foundation Berlin 2006
Helen Abbot Scholarship New York - Berlin 2005
IFA Stuttgart Project Support 2004 & 2005 & 2017
Artist annual stipend by the Ministry of Lower Saxony 2005
Project grant by the Ministry of Lower Saxony 2000,2003,2005
The Elephant Trust London Artist grant 2000
The London Arts Board Artist grant 2000
The Norwegian Embassy Travel grant London 2000
Hasselblad Foundation Gothenburg Artist grant 2000
Solo Exhibitions
Sunny Side / Merck Finck Hamburg / from June 2., 2022 onwards
HIER UND DA UND DANN UND GLEICH / Berlin-Vienna / Austrian Cultural Forum Berlin 2021-22
Just beginning…(Oslo) Part II / Munch Hus Warnemünde, April 2020 / postponed to 2022
Looking twice to See / Kunstverein Jesteburg (DE) 2019
Haus am Waldsee, Berlin ( Billboards across Berlin ) August 2018
Central Station / HBF Oldenburg / Billboards on Platform / Landesmuseum Oldenburg 2014
Maison Heinrich Heine / Cité Universitaire Paris, France 2013
Aberdeen Art Museum, Aberdeen (UK.), 2012-13
Kunstsammlungen Augsburg, incl. billboards, Augsburg, Germany 2011
ICA Institute for Contemporary Arts London, The Bar Commission, London 2011
Goethe Institut Helsinki, Finland 2010
City Chambers Edinburgh - German Consulate 50th Anniversary Oct.6,2009
All over the place, curated by William Ewing, New York Photofestival, May 2009
The Return Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 2008
Reg Vardy Gallery, University of Sunderland England 2007
Kerava Art Museum Finland 2006
Brouwer edition, ArtForum Berlin, Germany 2006
Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, Germany 2005
Goethe Institut Oslo, Norway 2005
Schloss Wolfsberg, Ermatingen, Switzerland 2004
Konsthall i Lund, Lund, Sweden 2003
Goethe Institut London, England 2002
Kunstverein Lingen, Ems, Germany 2002
Galerie Preiswerk, Zurich, Switzerland, 2000
Turku Art Museum, Project room, Turku, Finland, 1998
Group Exhibitions
Sunday’s / Screening on the harbor promenade / Fototage Oldenburg (DE) 2021
ILYMNP / Somerset House / London & L’espace 35/37 / Paris / 2021
Abgefahren / Kunsthaus Marktoberdorf (DE) 2021
Stories from Lismore and beyond, together with Lucian Freud etc., Lismore Castle (IRL) 2020
1. Oslo Biennial / Billboards in Oslo, Oslo 2019
Secret18 / RCA Royal College of Art London 2018
Echoes of the Past / Berlin / Tokyo / Sinkka Art Museum / Helsinki (FIN), 2018
Drive Drove Driven / Kommunale Galerie Berlin / 2018 / touring to Innsbruck, Tokyo until 2019
Fokus Stuttgart / Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (DE) with Dieter Roth & Günther Förg, 2018
Do you remember? – with Alicja Kwade, Jorinde Voigt / Finnish Institute Berlin 2017
CARS / curated by Dr. Matthias Harder, Berlin / Omaha Art Gallery ( USA ) 2017
Art Dubai / RCA London, Dubai 2016
Perlen der Sammlung, Stadtmuseum Oldenburg 2014-15
5x3, Kunstraum Düsseldorf – curated by Andreas Prinzing, Düsseldorf 2014
Landesmuseum Oldenburg with Jochen Gerz, Simone Nieweg, Laurenz Berges, Oldenburg 2014
So Abstrakt! - curated by Dr. Christine Nippe, The Wand, Berlin 2013
Secret, RCA Royal College of Art London 2013
Salon Salder, Schloss Salder, Salzgitter (DE), 2012
Learning from Rotterdam…, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, 2012
Obsessions, curated by Nathalie Herschdorfer, La Filature, Mulhouse, 2012
Objectified, curated by Roy Exley, Charlie Smith Gallery London, 2012
Dezemberausstellung, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, 2012
secret, Royal College of Art London, 2011
Formen informellen Forschens, Kunstraum München, 2011
We are the Artists, Kunsthalle Winterthur, 2011
Never the same river, curated by Simon Starling, Camden Arts Centre,London 2010 / 2011
Fototage Trier, curated by Christoph Tannert, 2010
secret, Royal College of Art London 2010
Nordschau III&IV, HSH Nordbank Hamburg 2010 / 2011
Siehst Du mich?,curated by Lisa LeFeuvre, Galerie m, Bochum 2010
PAK Palais aktuelle Kunst Glückstadt 2010
UZZZ-thisiscentralstation at GFT Glasgow 2009
Almost Everything, Caruso St.John Architects at ETH Zurich 2009
Desire Lines, Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh 2009
secret, Royal College of Art London 2008
secret, Royal College of Art London 2007
Portrait:Berlin curated by Dr. Mathias Harder, Goethe Institut Washington DC. 2006
Pure edition, Art Cologne 2005
Reopening, Camden Arts Centre London 2004, groupshow with Christopher Wool
On Glueckstadt, PAK Glueckstadt Germany 2004
Perspective 2001, Ormeau Bath Gallery Belfast 2001
Contemporary Art & Architectural Photography, Museum Ludwig Cologne 2000
Blue Suburban Skies curated by Jeremy Millar, The Photographers’ Gallery London 1999
Artist Commissions
John Cranko School / State Opera Stuttgart / Stuttgart 2019-21
Haus am Waldsee Berlin / Interpretation of the transformation / 2017-18
Vontobel Private Bank, Winterthur (CH) 2015-16
Douglas Gordon – the diary of installation / Folkwang Museum 2013/14
Douglas Gordon – A portrait of an artist world between Frankfurt and Tel Aviv 2011-13
C/O Berlin moves into Amerikahaus Berlin 2013/14 – Hatje Cantz book 2015
17. Tischgesellschaft, Museum Moderner Kunst MMK Frankfurt 2013
C/O Berlin loves Monbijou Park, C/O Berlin 2012-13
16. Tischgesellschaft, Museum Moderner Kunst Frankfurt MMK 2012
AA Architecture School London, Art Commission on site & beyond 2010- June 2012
Sauerbruch&Hutton Studioportrait Berlin 2009
General German Consulate Edinburgh 2008-09, 50th anniversary of the consulate
HWDesign Munich 2007-08, T55-57 book project about Maxvorstadt, Munich
UBS Bank Switzerland 2007-08, 16 works for swiss branches
Caruso St. John Architects London 2007
Hugh Lane Gallery Dublin,The Studio 2006, special installation shot commission by APFEL
KUMU The New National Art Museum of Estonia 2005-06
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart / The new Museum Building 2004-05
Camden Arts Centre London 2002-04 ( incl. participation of reopening exhibition,monograph, postcard bundle, billboard campaign on London tube stations, TV feature)
Residencies
Das Weisse Haus on invitation by Kunsthaus Wien, Vienna (AT) 2020
Hafnarborg Museum / Reykjavik / in cooperation with Goethe Institut Copenhagen 2017
City of Munich / Stadtmuseum Munich / Villa Waldberrta 2015
Goethe Institute Rotterdam 2012
Villa Sträuli Winterthur Switzerland 2011
Frankfurter Kunstverein FKV / Deutsche Börse Residency Program 2010
HIAP Helsinki 2010
Stills Centre for Photography Edinburgh 2008-09
Stadtatelier Zurich CH 2008
Durham Cathedral / St. Chad’s College Artist Fellowship England 2006-07
SIM Reykjavik 2005
Camden Arts Centre London 2002 - 04
Delfina London 2003
USF Bergen 2000
NIFCA Helsinki 1998
Shortlisted for the Int. Artist Residency at Fonderie Darling Montreal 2007&2009
Bibliography
PRESTEL Encyclopedia / Photographers from 1839-2001 Prestel Verlag Munich New York
NWZ Oldenburg / Fototage Oldenburg / 1.9.2021
SZ Süddeutsche Zeitung / Kunst auf Rädern / zur Ausstellung ‚Abgefahren‘ / 4.6.2021
Taz Tageszeitung (DE) 17.3.2020
The nomad magazine No. 8 Winter 2019-20
Monopol Magazin ( DE ) January 2018
Die ZEIT online ( DE) January 2018
taz (DE) 12.2.2018
CITY Magazine Helsinki, January 2018
Blue Wings Magazine, Inflight issue, Finnair Helsinki, October 2017
Zitty Magazin Berlin 22.9.2017
Nordwestzeitung NWZ, Oldenburg 14.8.2014
tip Berlin 23/2013 ( 'So Abstract' / The Wand )
THE GUARDIAN, London 19.1.2013 ( on Aberdeen soloshow ) + 26.1.2013 ( Pick of the week )
artist Kunstmagazin Nr. 92 Aug. – Okt. 2012 / New Positions
Nordwestzeitung, Oldenburg 29.6.2012
Magazin über Orte No.9, Berlin 2011/12
Archithese (CH), Zurich No. 4-2011, 6-2011
Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung, Augsburg 25.8.2011
The Scotsman, Edinburgh 17.4.2009
MAP Magazine,Scotland 2007/08
European Photography, Berlin No.81/2007
Henry Moore Foundation Leeds Newsletter No. 73/2007
Sleek Magazine Berlin No.12/2006
Helsingin Sanomat, Helsinki 4.4.2006
Frieze Magazine, London 4-2004
Flash Art Magazine, Milan 3/2004
Financial Times London 9.2.2004
Independent on Sunday London 23.2.2004
Hamburger Abendblatt, Hamburg 24.9.2004
Thurgauer Tagblatt, Kreuzlingen (CH) 21.2.2004
St. Galler Tagblatt, St. Gallen (CH) 16.3.2004
artist Kunstmagazin Nr. 56 / 2003
ArtPress Paris 2002
Camera Austria No. 78 / 2002
Neue Zurcher Zeitung NZZ Zurich 31.1.2000
Lectureships
Nordeuropa Institut / Humboldt University Berlin / workshop ‚Oslo - thoughts on urbanism‘ / 2020
Aalto University / Photography / 2 days guest / Helsinki 2018
Iceland Academy of Art LHI / BA Painting / Reykjavik 2017
Nordeuropa Institut / Humboldt University Berlin 2016
Gray's School of Art / Aberdeen University 2013
Royal College of Art RCA London 2012
Royal Academy of Fine Art Antwerp 2012
Platform12 / Swiss Art Academies, ewz Zurich 2012
Hochschule Augsburg, Faculty of Art&Design, Master’s Unit, Augsburg 2011-12
Edinburgh College of Art ECA 2009
University of Sunderland,Faculty of Fine Art 2006-07 (p/t lecturer)
University of Cambridge,School of Architecture 2005-06 (visiting)
University of Oxford,Ruskin School of Fine Art&Drawing 2004-05 (visiting)
Reykjavik Art Academy of Iceland 2005-06
Turku Art Academy, Dept. of Photography 1994-1999
Shortlisted for 50% Professorship Contemporary Art at National Art Academy Oslo ( NO ) 2015
Shortlisted for 100% Professorship Photography at KhiB Bergen Art Academy, Bergen ( NO ) 2009
Shortlisted for the 50% Professorship in Photography at NTNU Trondheim University ( NO ) 2006
Shortlisted for the Course leader at Nordlands Kunst og Filmskole i Lofoten, Kabelvag ( NO ) 1999
Works in Collection and permanent Installations
KIASMA / National Galleries of Finland, Helsinki, Finland
Turku Art Museum, Turku, Finland
Kerava Art Museum, Finland
Lunds konsthall, Lund, Sweden
Camden Arts Centre, London ( permanent installation )
Aberdeen Art Museum, Scotland
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
Landesmuseum Oldenburg, Germany ( incl. site specific installation )
Stadtmuseum Oldenburg, Germany
Deutsche Botschaft / German Embassy Helsinki, Finland ( permanent Installation )
German Generalkonsulat Edinburgh, Scotland ( permanent Installation )
Auswärtiges Amt / Ministry of Forein Affairs in Berlin, Germany
Landesvertretung Baden Württemberg in Berlin, Germany
Hamburg Commercial Bank / HSH Nordbank Hamburg, Germany
Vontobel Privatbank, Winterthur/Zurich, Switzerland ( permanent Installation )
UBS Bank Switzerland & Italy
Im Norden, Art Collection of Landessparkasse Oldenburg, Germany
Sparkassenstiftung Kiel, Germany
Norwegian-German Chamber of Commerce / Handelskammer Oslo
City of Lingen (Ems), Germany
City of Lund, Sweden
HWDesign Munich, Germany ( permanent Installation )
Memberships
Member of the International Artist Association IAA/Unesco Paris
Glasgow School of Art Alumni
Member Forbundet frie Fotografer FFF / Norway
Member Städel Verein Frankfurt a.M.
Member Kunstverein Oldenburg OKV
Member Albertina Vienna