Born 29 August 1952 in Copenhagen.
1978 The School of Conservation. Copenhagen. Degree
1980-84 The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art. The School of Visual Arts. Copenhagen
1986-88 The Slade School of Fine Art. University College London. Post Graduate diploma.
Study supported by grants from the British council and Knud Hoejsgaards fond.
Anders Rindom is a Danish citizen but has since 1986 lived and worked in the United Kingdom.
From 1995 to 2006 he was employed as a lead tutor and a lecturer in media and fine art at West Herts. College, Rycotewood College and Amersham and Wycombe College.
After a large scale survey of work in 2000 at Buckinghamshire County Museum, Anders stopped exhibiting and only returned nine years later, now working predominantly in collaborations under the umbrella of Paintedwithsound, a collective which he initiated the year before. Paintewithsound is a registered publisher.
Selected one person exhibitions
1985 Gallerie A gruppen. Copenhagen. Legat udstilling.
1989 ‘Overgaden’. The Danish Ministry of Culture. Copenhagen. Exhibition supported by various grants.
1993 The Photographers Gallery. London . Exhibition supported by the arts council of England and curated by Ruth Charity.
1995 Museum of Photography. Brandts Klaedefabrik. Odense.
2000 Buckinghamshire County Museum. Aylesbury. A large sale exhibition surveying work from 1995 to 2000, curated by Suzanne Anderegg. Catalogue available.
2017 X-bunker. Multikulturhus Sønderborg. Exhibition received financial support from by The Danish Arts Foundation.
Projects
‘Project: Arch 350‘. Ermine mews, Laburnum Street. London. An Installation of paintings and sound with Tom Hopkins. Documented on DVD, running time 29:51 min. 2009. The project was supported by Space, an east London Arts Charity.
‘To Dust‘. B/W film with Tom Hopkins and Matthew Hawkins. Published on DVD (with an a booklet) , running time 50.01 min. 2011. Independent production by Paintedwithsound, commercially available through Amazon.co.uk and the U.K. bookseller Waterstone’s. Has been purchased by The Poetry Library at the Southbank Centre and included in the sound archive at the British Library.
‘Alla Turca’. (2012) Union Works (upper floor), 60 Park Street, London SE1 9AR.2012. An installation of cotton rags, reliefs and polychrome sculpture (Anders Rindom) with sound (Tom Hopkins). A film documenting the installation, with photographs from the two travels (Anders Rindom) that prompted it has been released online in 2014 on the Painted with Sound website; running time 19:20 min. The installation was carried out with support from Caroline Jones and Illuminate Productions.
‘Timepieces’. (2013) Project room at Berliner-Liste, Berlin. An installation of twenty composite paintings (Anders Rindom) with a sound score (Tom Hopkins). A limited edition folder documenting the project has been issued by Painted with Sound and are available through Amazon.co.uk..Curated by dr.Peter Funken and supported by Berliner-Liste.
‘The Suitors’. (2015) A project for the bi- annual exhibition ‘Sculpture by the Sea’, installed at Tangkrogen by Aarhus in Denmark. The project was prepared at The Danish Arts Workshop in Copenhagen, but in part assembled on site. It was completed thanks to extensive support, both practical and financial from the organizers of the exhibition. A short film by Conor O’Callaghan about the project has been completed, but not yet released.
‘Two large scale projects and a modest, time based piece.’ (2017). Art in Perpetuity Trust gallery. Harold Wharf, 6 Creekside, Deptford, London SE8 4SA. A presentation in a gallery setting of two projects: ’Over Sø og Land’ and ‘Foraars Fabrikken’ plus a small time based piece titled ‘En Juleleg’ with live music by the double bass player Henrik Jensen.The presentation was made possible thanks to support from Grosserer F. L. Foghts Fond. The realisation of ‘Foraars Fabrikken’ took place- by and large- during an extended residency at the Danish Arts Workshop in Copenhagen.
Recent group shows
The AAF, Battersea park, London. 2012
The Other Art Fair. University of Westminster. Ambika 3. London. 2013
Showcase- Cities. Rich Mix. London 2013
Platform Stockholm, Fargkontoret, Liljeholmen, Stockholm. 2014. (Curated by Cameron MacLeod /Curatron and supported by a.o. Konstnarsnamnden, Kulturbryggan, Innovativ Kultur and Stockholm city)
The Other Art fair. The Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London E1 . 2014
The Discerning Eye. The Mall Gallery. London SW 1.(selected by Simon Martin). 2014
Sculpture by the Sea. (Outdoor sculpture biannual, selected by an international panel), Aarhus .2015
Nicolas Samson- Agnez Gallery. (Dualite’ des sexes.) 4 Rue Bernard Palissy 75006, Paris,
France 2015
Nicolas Samson- Agnez Gallery. Les Arpant du Soleil, Grisy, 14170 Saint-Pierre sur Dives,
France 2015
Residency exhibition at Rektors Lysthus (Latinerhaven), Viborg. A pop-up exhibition arranged by the artist, but generously supported and publicised by the host institution. 17-28 March 2016
‘Sixty’ Lubomirov/Angus- Hughes Gallery.13-22 May 2016. Curated by Anna Bleeker and Alessandra Falbo. London, E5 0PD
Stipends and awards (Danish only):
San Cataldo, Italien 1978
Georg Jensen soelvsmedies kunstnerpris 1982
C. O. Carlsons praemie.82
C.O. Carlssons legat. 82-84
Akademiraadets rejselegat 1982
Gerda Iversens maler legat. 1984
Louis Poulsen kunstnerpris 1985
Statens vaerksteder for Kunst 1989, 2015, 2017
The Danish Arts Foundation (Statens Kunstfond) arbejdslegat/ grant 2014
The Danish Arts Foundation (Statens Kunstfond) grant (construction of own website) 2014
Artist-in-residence at Riddergade/ Viborg Kunsthal. Viborg, Denmark. Funded by the Obel Family Foundation. February and March 2016
Grosserer F.L. Foghts Fond 2017
The Danish Arts Foundation (Statens Kunstfond). Projektstøtteudvalg for Billedkunst 2017
Recent reviews/ writings:
Participation in The Other Art fair at the Truman Brewery resulted in two online reviews:
BDALondon.com. The other Art Fair and Moniker. Posted 20/10 2014. Link: http://www.bdalondon.com/the-other-art-fair-and-moniker/
WNOL Westminster News Online. Culture roundup. Posted 24/10 2014. Link: expired
The project for Sculpture by the Sea, The Suitors (2015) has generated some interest:
A brief mention in a review in a Danish online magazine www.kunsten.nu has appeared. To read it in full, please follow this link: http://kunsten.nu/journal/kvaliteten-halter-stadig-paa-sculpture-by-the-sea/
(With a spelling mistake in the artists last name)
Four articles of various lengths has been publish online by The Danish Arts Workshop where a major part of the production took place:
Links
http://svfk.dk/artikel/kunstens-endeloese-muligheder-2
http://svfk.dk/project/the-suitors
Residency exhibition at Rektors Lysthus/ Viborg Kunsthal (2016) has generated two illustrated/full page articles both written by Jesper Overgaard
Viborg Stifts Folkeblad. Fredag 04.03.2016 page 13
Viborg stifts Folkeblad. Fredag 18.03. 2016 page 17
Links:
http://viborg-folkeblad.dk/viborg/ud-med-haveredskaberne
http://viborg-folkeblad.dk/foto/galleri-ryk-ind-i-lysthuset
An article about the project Forårs Fabrikken (2017) has been publish online by The Danish Arts Workshop. It was during an extended residency at this institution, that the majority of the production took place. Link: http://svfk.dk/project/foraars-fabrikken
Kunstavisen. December/January 2018 issue. Review by Christa Conradsen: Den nye X-bunker i Sønderborg. Anders Rindom som første udstiller i det nye rum: “Erindringer, set og rørt.”