1994-1998, The Academy of Fine Art, Bergen, Norway
1996-1997, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (Prof. Thomas Bayrle)
Lives and works in Oslo, Norway
Selected solo exhibitions
2012
Shall I Whrite It, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland
Bit Rot, Standard (Oslo), Oslo, Norway
Portrait Portrait of of a a Generation Generation, curated by Marta Kuzma, Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Oslo, Norway
Intervention #21 - Matias Faldbakken, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Maintenance, Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong, Republic of China
Portrait Portrait of of a a Generation Generation, curated by Marta Kuzma, WIELS, Centre d'art contemporaine, Brussels
2011
Oslo, Texas, The Power Station, Dallas/TX, USA
Matias Faldbakken, bbb, centre régional d'initiatives pour l'art contemporain, Toulouse, France
Television/Moonshine, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York/NY, USA
One Night Only, UKS, Oslo, Norway
2010
The HHills, Standart (Oslo), Oslo, Norway
You Think You Go But You Gon’t, Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, Belgium
An Alpha Disguised as a Beta, Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin, Germany
Known to Few, Unknown to Fewer, Simon Lee Gallery, London, Great Britain
That Death of Which One Does Not Die, Kunsthalle Friedricianum, Kassel, Germany
War After Peace (After War), Neue Achener Kunstverein, Achen, Germany
Schinkel Pavillion, Berlin, Germany
2009
Shocked Into Abstraction, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, Great Britain
Extreme Siesta, Kunst Halle St Gallen, St Gallen, Switzerland
Shocked Into Abstraction, The National Museum of Art, Design and Architecture, Oslo, Norway
Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York/NY, USA
2008
The Way of the Bummer, Simon Lee Gallery, London, Great Britain
Empty Glass, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin, Germany
2007
Nothing Doing, Standart (Oslo), Oslo, Norway
I Don't Think So, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis/MN, USA
A Hideous Disease, Statements / Art Basel 38, Basel, under the auspices of Standart (Oslo), Oslo, Norway
2006
I Missed the Part Where That's My Problem, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
II, Schnittraum, Cologne, Germany
2005
All That Fall, Standart (Oslo), Oslo
Sharing Space, Dividing Time (The Nordic Pavillion) (Curator: Åsa Nacking), La Biennale de Venezia, Venice, Italy
New Works, Gallery Huuto, Helsinki, Finland
2004
Rank Xerox (with Gardar Eide Einarsson), Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
2003
Getaway, Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway
2001
Osculum Infame (with Gardar Eide Einarsson), NIFCA Gallery, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Selected group exhibitions
2012
Painting Now, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
Oscar knows Gardar. Gardar knows Matias. Matias knows Fredrik. Fredrik sort of knows Gardar. Gardar knows Marius. And that Gardar knows Matias we already know. But Matias also knows Anders, STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo, Norway
A Group Exhibition Featuring the Work of Robert Overby, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, USA
Bitume et astres dansent, parfois, dans la pure peur, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Paris, France
Gestures in Time, curated by Katya Garci_a-Anto_n, Qalandia International, Jerusalem Concatenation. Signature, Seriality, Painting, curated by Peter Amdam, Blain Southern, London, United Kingdom
Painting...EXPANDED, Espacio 1414, San Juan, Puerto Rico
dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany
Remote Control, ICA, London, UK
Abstract Possible – The Stockholm Edition, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
The Devil's Fidelity, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
An Ocean of Limonade, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2011
Secret Societies, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Secret Societies, Musée d'art contemporaine, Bordeaux, France
REBUS, Simon Lee Gallery, London, Great Britain
Home of Metal: You Should be Living, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, Great Britain
Out of Storage. Provisoire & Définitif, Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, Netherlands
Sculpture Now, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
Screaming from the mountain, Sorlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway
Politics is Personal, Stonescape, Napa Valley, California, USA
Nothing Besides Remains, a LAND project, Marfa, Texas, USA
Gardar Eide Einarsson, Matias Faldbakken, Sebastian Helling, Kostyal Project Space, London, Great Britain
MONODROME. 3rd Athens Biennale 2011, Athens, Greece
Abstract Possible, Museo Tamayo, Mexiko
Anonyme Skulpturen, Galerie im Taxipalais, Innsbruck, Austria
To The Arts, Citizens, Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal
2010
I like the work, but my wife is still concern. Please keep me inform about new works.,
Standard (Oslo), Oslo, Norway
Group Show (Almost A4 Person Group Show), (Curator: Brian Kennon), 2nd Cannon Project Space, Los Angeles/CA, USA
The Mass Ornament (Curator: John Rasmussen), Gladstone Gallery, New York/NY, USA
Today Art Museum Beijing, (Curator: Jonathan Watkins), Beijing, Northern China
The Moon is an Arrant Thief (Curator: Oliver Martinez Kandt), The David Roberts Arts Foundation, London, Great Britain
Destruction, Negation, Subtraction, Dissolution (Curator: Rob Teeters), Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles/CA, USA
Fresh Hell – Carte Blanche à Adam McEwen, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Groupshow, Praz-Dellavalade, Paris, France
The Secret Knows (Curator: Shamim M. Momin/LAND), The Virgin Mobile Free House, Austin/TX, USA
Barbaric Freedom (Curator: Anne Pontegnie), Simon Lee Gallery, London, Great Britain
Forms of Organization I (Curator: Dessislava Dimova), Red House, Sofia, Bulgaria
To The Arts, Citizens! (Curators: Joao Fernandes and Óscar Faria), SERRALVES, Porto, Portugal
Suppose it is true after all? WHAT THEN? (Curator: Asgeir Skotnes), Johan Berggren Gallery, Malmö, Sweden
2009
Rotations #2, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
The Malady of Writing. A project on text and speculative imagination, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona, Spain
Black Hole (Curator: Friedrike Nymphius), Kunsthalle Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
Minima Moralia, Marvelli Gallery, New York/NY, USA
Our Mirage, Art:Concept, (Curator: Caroline Soyez-Petithomme), Paris, france
Floors / Walls, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin, Germany
2008
Possibilities of an Island, (Curator: Ruba Katrib) Museum of Contemporary Art Miami, Miami/FL, USA
We have never met before, but it's with great anticipation of your understanding that I'm writing you and I hope you will in good faith give a deep consideration to my proposal below (Curators: Mikkel E. Astrup and Eivind Furnesvik) Standart (Oslo), Oslo, Norway
After October (Curator: Tim Saltarelli), Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York/NY, USA
The Soft Shields Of Pleasure (Curator: Søren Andreasen) Den Frie Udstilling, Copenhagen, Denmark
Art TLV (Curator: Andrew Renton), Tel Aviv Museum Of Art / Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for
Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
ABC – Art Berlin Contemporary, under the auspices of Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin, Germany
Revolutions – Forms That Turn, The Biennial of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Records Played Backwards (Curator: Daniel Baumann), The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland
35% VRAI 60% FAUX, Simon Lee Gallery, London, Great Britain
Zuordningsprobleme Johann König, Berlin, Germany
Norsk Hydro's Collection, The Henie Onstad Art Centre, Oslo, Norway
Lights On, The Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
2007
Paintings, Props and Problems (Still Unresolved), Standart (Oslo), Oslo, Norway
Memorial to the Iraq War (Curators: Mark Sladen), Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, Great Britain
Dislocations (Don't Try Popping Them Back Into Place), (Curator: Chus Martinez), Standart (Oslo)/ Arco, Madrid, Spain
Fade Away and Radiate (Curator: Andrew Leslie), Cohan and Leslie, New York/NY, USA
2006
Defamation of Character, (Curator Neville Wakefield), PS1 MoMA, New York/NY, USA
Art, Life and Confusion – The 47th October Salon" (Curator: René Block), ICA / Belgrade Culture Centre, Belgrade, Serbia
Deep Into That Darkness Peering, Galerie Joanna Kamm, Berlin, Germany
The Norwegian Sculpture Biennial (curator: Cecilia Widenheim), The Vigeland Museum, Oslo, Norway
The Metaphysics of Youth", (Curator: Luigi Fasso and Irina Zucca), Fuoriuso, Pescara, Italy
White Stains, Standart (Oslo)/Extra City, Antwerpen, Belgium
Theater of Life - Rhetorics of Emotions (Curator: Nicolaus Schafhausen), Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
Mafia (Or One Unopened Packet of Cigarettes), Standart (Oslo), Oslo, Norway
Entgrenzung (De-Limitation), Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunste, Berlin, Germany
Cluster, (Curator: Katie Holten), The Participant, New York/NY, USA
Draft Deceit (Curator: Marta Kuzma), Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
Down by Law (Curators: Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick), Whitney Museum of American Art / Whitney Biennial 2006 / The Wrong Gallery, New York/NY, USA
2005
Parallell Life (Curators: Sun Won Kim, Vanessa Müller, Nicolaus Schafhausen), Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Performance Festival, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Start Kapital, Standard (Oslo), Oslo, Norway
Populism, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Populism, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Populism, The National Museum, Oslo, Norway
Populism, CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania
2004
Now And Ten Years Ago, Kunst-Werke, Berlin, Germany
Standard Escape Routes, ISCP, New York/NY, USA
Criss Cross – Video/Film/Documentary Programme, NIFCA (Touring Exhibition)
LISTE 04, Basel, Switzerland
On Reason and Emotion, Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
MOMENTUM – Nordic Festival of Contemporary Art, Moss, Norway
Emotion Eins, Frankfurter Kunstverein/Ursula Bickle Stiftung, Frankfurt/Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim, Germany
2003
Art to the People, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen; Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo; Tromsø Fine Arts Society,
Tromsø; Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall, Arendal, Norway
Deathtime, 27. Canal, New York/NY, USA
Total Motiviert, Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany
BEKMÖRK, CCAB; Centre for Contemporary Arts – Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
2002
Where Am I? 2, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bjørvika, Oslo, Norway
Touching from a distance, Germinations 13, Cork, Ireland
2001
Fanzine 1, Gallery Konstakuten, Stockholm, Sweden
The UKS Biennial, Oslo, Norway
2000
Spring exhibition, Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway
The City Theatre, Stockholm, Sweden
1998
All or Nothing (videoscreening), MAC - Museum of Contemporary Art, Marseilles, France
The Society of Young Artists (UKS), Oslo, Norway
MK Ciurlionis National Museum of Art, Kaunas, Lithuania
1997
Kommunikationszentrale, Videoabend, Bockenheim, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
1996
ELECTRA – video room, Henie Onstad Artcenter, Oslo, Norway
Novels
2008
Unfun, J.W. Cappelen Publishing House
2006
Kaldt Produkt, Kagge Forlag
2005
Snort Stories, J.W. Cappelen Publishing House
2002
Macht und Rebel, J.W. Cappelen Publishing House / translated into Danish (Lindhardt&Ringhof) and Finnish (Johnny Kniga)
2001
The Cocka Hola Company, J.W. Cappelen Publishing House / translated into German (Blumenbar Verlag/and Heine [paperback]) and Russian (Baltrus)
Published writings/published projects (international)
2007
North Drive Press #4, History (Beginning of August 2007), Los Angeles/CA, USA
Adelantando, Olga and Momin, Shamim (editor): The Impossibility of Translation, Artist's book /
independent publication
2005
Lettre International, Scandinavian Issue, Copenhagen, Denmark
Frankfurter Allgemeine, Special Book Issue during Frankfurter Book Fair, October, Frankfurt
am Main, Germany
Catalogue for Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset: Welfare Show, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
Schafhausen, Nicolaus a.o.:Populism, catalogue, Lucas and Sternberg, Berlin/New York, Gemany/USA
2004
Lettre International, America
Fabrik #01.04
Adbusters magazine Norway #01
Dagbladet Information, January 3rd (i2), Denmark
2003
Den Blå Port, Copenhagen, Denmark
PACEMAKER 2, Paris, France
Corporate Mentality, Alexandra Mir (ed.), Lukas & Sternberg Inc, New York/NY, USA
Journal for NorthEast Issues, #2 2003, GER
Kunstverein München, Drucksache Fall 03, Munich, Germany
BLM – Bonniers Litterära Magasin, Sweden
O.K. Centre for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria
2002
NIFCA-info; Vapour Ware, Finland
MANIFESTA 4; catalogue, Germany
MARS; fanzine, Stockholm, Sweden
2001
NIFCA info 3/01; Reluctant Revolutionary; interview with J.O. Mallander, Finland
2000
MOMENTUM prospectus PARK; Mediation of a specialized art to a fragmented public, Norway
Other
2007
Theatre adaptation / performance of “Kaldt Produkt”
Teatret på Torshov / Nationaltheatret
2006
Theatre adaptation / performance of “The Cocka Hola Company”
Münchner Kammerspiele / Stuttgarter Staatstheater
2002-2005
Editor of UKS-forum for Samtidskunst
2000-2002
Oslo Kunsthall; editor of Publication 00, 01, 02
2000
Oslo Kunsthall; co-curator
UKS-Forum for Samtidskunst; guest editor of issue 1/2/00
1998
Bergen Museum for Samtidskunst; founder and owner