NILS AGDLER

Screening in snow (2024)

Screening of  the 2-channel film installation GLIDE on May 4th at 10 pm, for a selected audience in Ullådalen, Åre, Sweden. GLIDE was projected on snow in a "ski-in cinema”, using one HD-projector and five headphones. In the winter of 2025, a new screening will take place in a similar way, but to a larger audience.

Documentation from screening in Åre, May 2024

 

With support of the Swedish Arts Grants Committee

 

 

 

Anniversary Exhibition 2003-2023 (2023)

Group show at Studio 44 in Stockholm, Sweden.

Anniversary Exhibition 2003-2023

 

Ostrale Biennale O23 (2023)

Group show at Ostrale Biennale O23, Robotron Kantine in Dresden, Germany.

Ostrale Biennale O23

 

Ostrale Biennale O21 (2021)

Group show at Ostrale Biennale O21 in Dresden, Germany (with Timo Menke). Screening of the three-channel film installation Gifted Men (67 min, 2015) at different venues.

Ostrale Biennale O21

 

With support of the Swedish Arts Grants Committee

 

 

Analogue Funny Weather (2020)

Group show at Eldhunden in Stockholm, arranged by Konstnärshuset.

Analogue Funny Weather

Review in Dagens Nyheter, October 29, 2020

 

 

Andropause (2018)

Solo show at Ahlbergshallen in Östersund, Sweden.

 

With support of the Swedish Arts Grants Committee

 

Donor portraits, Pori (2018)

Solo show at Pori Art Museum in Pori, Finland (with Timo Menke).

Review in Wall Street International Magazine, Juli 31, 2018

 

With support of the Swedish Arts Grants Committee

 

Liquid Excess (2018)

Group show att Galleri 54 in Gothenburg with Nils Agdler, Birt Berglund, Timo Menke and Johan Sundell.

In what ways do public bathrooms for gay men and sperm bank booths for straight men constitute enclosed spaces for desire and excess? And in what ways can they be unfolded, turned inside-out, for new connections, flows and deregulations? Liquid Excess is concerned with partially invisible ecologies and economies of male fluids, and explores how sperm and piss as bodily substances are negotiated and transformed through noisy medical policies and social practices.

The show and its reciprocal manifestations ranged from sound works and (re)-constructed architectural models to large-scale film installations. Birt Berglund’s and Johan Sundell’s queer noise project (Homotopos) was rooted in unwanted desire as noise and excess, while Nils Agdler’s and Timo Menke’s film installation (Gifted Men) about Danish sperm donors inquired a highly wanted and scarce product.

The opening weekend featured a performance in public Gothenburg, followed by a donation performance in the exhibition space, and finally concluded by a conversation with sociologist Arne Nilsson, which was linked to the themes of queer desires and architecture, reproductive techniques and masculinity.

Liquid Excess

 

With support of the Swedish Arts Grants Committee

 

 

Donor portraits, Kalmar (2015)

Solo show at Kalmar Art Museum in Kalmar, Sweden (with Timo Menke).

Donor Portraits

Catalogue

 

With support of the Swedish Arts Grants Committee

 

Andrografi (2015)

Solo show at Galleri Verkligheten in Umeå, Sweden (with Timo Menke).

Andrografi

 

With support of the Swedish Arts Grants Committee