CV HENRIK KOPPEN
b. 1990 Velsvik, Volda municipality.
Norwegian artist working with performance, video, installation, sculpture and sound/music. Often collaborating with other artists and musicians, and engaged in ongoing projects such as Svarteboka, HITYAMAC and the performance duo Koppen & Jorkjen. Currently based in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Member of Performance Art Bergen, UKS and NBK.
Contact: h.koppen(a)gmail.com
The photo on the left is from Performance Camp Finse, 2018. Photo: Petter Lønningen.
EDUCATION
2023 - 2025 Iceland University of the Arts, Reykjavik, MA in Performing arts
2012-2015 Bergen National Academy of Art and Design (BA)
2010-2012 Rogaland School of Art
2009/2010 Trøndertun Folk High School - Art
2006-2009 Volda High School - music
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 'Cuckoo 4ever' - Koppen & Jorkjen in Kolbotn Garasje Galleri, Kolbotnj
2021 'Soft Awakening' - Koppen & Jorkjen in Heimdal kunstforening, Trondheim
2019 'PANTHALASSA' - Salongen Visningsrom, Stavanger
2016 'The Weeping Madonna of Kronborg' - Galleri Kronborg, Bergen
2015 'PANTHALASSA' - Galleri Snerk in Tromsø
2015 'Giving and Taking II' - Galleri Blunk in Trondheim
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2022 'Cuckoo 4ever' - Koppen & Jorkjen in Kolbotn Garasje Galleri, Kolbotn
2021 'The Boxes' - at DiaD in Esparraguera in Spain
2021 'Second Attempt' at Hamar Performancefestival 'Nærhet på avstand', Kunstbanken, Hedmark Kunstsenter
2021 'Svarteboka' - video art and light performance for a concert with Unni Løvlid and Marianne Baudouin Lie at Riksscenen in Oslo as a part of the Ultima festival
2021 'Ich ruf zu dir' performance with Koppen & Jorkjen in kunsthuset Kabuso in Øystese
2021 '98' - performance at the Vigeland park in Oslo, arranged by Collective Oslo
2021 'Soft Awakening' - live streamed performance with Koppen & Jorkjen
2020 'Vent' - performance i Mottaket visningsrom i Ålesund
2020 'Preludium' - performed at PAB Lokal: Alt har sin tid in Storetveit Church in Bergen
2020 'The Boxes' - performed at Høstutstillingen in Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
2019 'Panthalassa II' - performed at the Sommarljom Festival, Ørsta
2019 'Soft Awakening' - performance and exhibition with duo Koppen & Jorkjen at Galleri Kladden, Oslo
2019 'Body of Water - performed at Performance Crossings festival in Prague, Czech Republic
2019 'Giving and Taking - Birch Sap' - performed at Kube art museum in Ålesund
2018 'The Boxes' - performance at the festival B-Open at Isotop fellesatelier
2018 'Eostre Calling' - performance with duo Koppen & Jorkjen at the festival Feminine Tripper in Oslo
2017 'Giving and Taking IV - tar' - performance at PAO performance festival in Oslo
2017 'The Bullroarer' - in a fish factory in Seydisfjördur, Iceland
2017 '20x20x20' - performance together with improvising Jazz Musicians at Bergen Kjøtt
2016 'The Bullroarer' - performed on the performance festival “Territories” i Torún, Poland
2016 'Crepuscular Pieces' - performance and concert with HITYAMAC in Vigelandsmausoleet, Oslo
2016 'The Bullroarer' - performed at Stiftelsen 3,14, Bergen, at the event Pab Lokal
2015 '24 Jahre und 100 Tage' - performed at the group exhibition 'Sounds' in Galerie Schlecker i Kiel, Germany
2015 'Giving and Taking II' -performed at Pab Nå #1 at Stiftelsen 3,14, Bergen
2014 'The Hatch' - performed at Landmark, Bergen Kunsthall
2014 'Giving and Taking - Birch Sap' at Pals performance festival in Stockholm
2014 'MAREA' - video composition in collaboration with the jazz trio Mapping Oceans, Ørsta church
2013 '23 år og 67 dagar' - performed at Borealis overtid nr 3, Bergen
2013 'The cleansing' - performed at Pab i Kalfarlien 18, Bergen
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 'Monument - Vestlandsutstillingen' traveling exhibition in western Norway, (KUBE Art Museum, Rogaland Art Centre, Haugesund Billedgalleri, Sogn og Fjordane art museum, Kunsthuset Kabuso,
2020 'Recordare' in Volda church
2020 'Tidshorisontar' in Mottaket Gallery in Ålesund, Norway together with Rita Marhaug, Hild Borchgrevink and Terese Longva
2019 'SOFT AWAKENING' - exhibition in collaboration with Finn Adrian Jorkjen in the duo Koppen & Jorkjen, Galleri Kladden, Oslo
2018 'Stories About Love' - Bakketunet på Bjørke, Norway
2017 'Hendelser på nyhamna' - 'Kvelving' sculpture made for an event outside in public space in Trondheim, Norway
2016 'SKYLLE SAMLE KVERNE SLIPE' - group exhibition in boat house in Velsvik, Volda
2016 'Ein fullkomen skulpturpark' - Munkehagen - festival in a park in Stavanger
2015 'Crepuscular Pieces 1-14' - performance exhibition in Studio 17, Stavanger with HITYAMAC
2015 'O.T.V.O.V.T' - Gratuation show BFA Khib, Strømgaten in Bergen
2015 'Remembrance' - exhibition in Galerie Schlecker in Kiel, Germany
2014 'Dynamiske konstanter' - Ytre Arna Gamle fabrikker
2014 'KOPPEN/JORKJEN #1' performance exihibiton in collaboration with Finn Jorkjen in Galleri Kit, Trondheim.
ORGANIZER
2022 'Between Sky & Sea VI - Temporal Horizons' in Longva outside Ålesund, performance event
2019-2022 'Sommarljom' an annual festival for art and music in Ørsta
2020 'Recordare' - event with art, music and poetry in Volda church
2018 ‘PAB Lokal - Majestic View in the Mountain Side’ in an Airbnb in Bergen. Organized in collaboration with Mari Norddahl.
2016 ‘Skylle, samle, kverne, slipe’ - group exhibition in a boat house in Velsvik
2013 ‘RECORDARE’ - concert and group exhibition in Korskirken church in Bergen
2013 ‘Back to Eden’ - exhibition/happening in a garden in Laksevåg
contact: h.koppen(at)gmail.com