Curriculum Vitae
Since the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo in 2016, Luther has been working solo. Prior to that, she worked exclusively in collectives, co-founding Learning Site (active 2004 to 2015) and N55 (active with original members 1996 to 2003). In 2021 Luther defended the PhD Concrete Aesthetics: From Universal Rights to Financial Post-Democracy. It is planned be published in 2024 with extended texts by Esther Leslie and Jaime Stapleton.
Education and research
2023-2024 Novo Nordisk Practic-based art Post doc The Ocean-Lands: Mud Within the Earth System, Queen Margrethe’s and Vigdís Finnbogadóttir´s
Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Ocean, Climate, and Society (ROCS), Center for Macro-biology, Evolution and Climate (CMEC),
Globe Institute, Copenhagen University
2019-2022 Digital Materialities - The New Mud, [Research project], The Royal Danish Art Academy of Fine Art, Denmark
2018-2019 Lunar Concrete - Regolith Extraction in Outer Space and 3D printing on the Moon and in Mud on Earth, [Research project], The Royal
Danish Art Academy of Fine Art, Denmark
2017- 2020 Novo Nordisk Practic-based art PhD Concrete Aesthetics: From Universal Rights to Financial Post-Democracy, Institute of Art and Culture
(IKK), University of Copenhagen, The Danish Royal Art Academy of Fine Art, Denmark, and ACT, MIT program in Art, Culture and Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, US. Defended April, 2021. Opponents: Esther Leslie (Political Aesthetics, Birkbeck, London University); Kim West (writer and curator) and Solveig Gade (IKK, University of Copehagen)
1991-1998 The Royal Danish Art Academy of Fine Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Part time/ honorary positions: Selected research, Public Talks, Guest Lectures, Symposia and teaching
2022-2024 GRASS fellow, BAC and Uppsala University Graduate School in Sustainability Studies (GRASS)
2022-2024 Research project More Mud for Art Hub under Nordic Alliance of Artists’ Residencies on Climate Action (NAARCA) is a part of the Post Doc. It includs working with institutions in Iceland (Skaftfell), Sweden (Baltic Art Center), Denmark (Art Hub Copenhagen), Svalbard (Artica) and Finland on research, production, exhibitions and seminars.
2021 Aesthetic Agency - Please Engage Me!, [Seminar], SMK, Copenhagen, Denmark
2018 Nordic Geography Doctoral Network, Thinking Spatiality: Cities, Nature and Society, Lund University, Sweden
2018 WERN2018 – World-Ecology Research Network Conference, Helsinki University, Helsinki, Finland
2018 - Affiliate at the MIT program in Art, Culture and Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, MA, US
2017-2018 The Eco Commons ... In the Time of Messed Up Democracy, The Danish Royal Art Academy, Copenhagen, Denmark
2017 Collaboration and Community-Building in Contemporary Art in Japan and Denmark, IKK, The University of Copenhagen, Denmark
2016 Zooetics, Bozar - Center for Fine Art Brussel, Belgium
2015 Public Place in it ́s Melt Down Area, Towards Civic Art, MIT program in Art, Culture and Technology, (ACT), School of Architecture and
Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, US. Teacher and Guestspeaker
2015 KHIO, Art & Public Space, Oslo, Norway. Teacher and Guestspeaker
2014 Design as Survival, Resistance, and Transformative Action, Harvard University, Graduate School Design, Boston, US. Guestspeaker
2013/05/01 Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, Stockholm, Sweden. Teacher and Guestspeaker
2010 Creative Time Summit, Cooper Union, New York, US
2010 The Politics and Aesthetics of Organization, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
2006/05/01 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, US. Guestspeaker
2005 Cátedra Arte de Conducta, University of Havana, Cuba
Professional Teaching Appointments
2007 - 2013 Professor, DJK (The Academy of Jutland), Denmark
2012 - 2013 Guest Professor, Haute École D'art de et design Genève, work.master, MA, Switzerland
2007 Guest Professor, The Sculpture Department, The Royal Danish Art Academy of Fine Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
SECELECTED LIST OF EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
Rikke Luther Exhibitions and Projects Since 2016
2023 First There is a Mountain, Blåvandshuk, Denmark, [Stenka Hellfach & Tyra Dokkedahl]
2022/2023 Consume By, Museum Arnhem, Holland [Manon Bratt]
2022 On Moving Ground - Sand, Mud And Planetary Change, Skaftfell, Seydisfjörd, Iceland [NARCA] (Julia Martin)
2021 The New Mud, Astrid Noacks Atelier - ANA, Copenhagen, Denmark (Katherine Bolt)
2021 Nature in Transition - Shifting Identities, Nordic House, (Hulda Stefánsdóttir & Hanna Styrmisdóttir), Reykjavík, Iceland
2020 Spolied Waters Spilled, Manifesta 13 Les Parallèles du Sud, (Clelia Coussonnet & Inga Lāce), Marseille, France
2020 Revelation Perth International Film Festival, Australia
2019 GIBCA / Göteborg Ineternational Biennal for Contomporary Art, (Lisa Rosendahl), Sweden
2019 Corruption: We Lost Control Again, Aarhus Kunsthall, (Jacob Fabricius), Aarhus, Denmark
2019 CPH:DOX* - Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival / Next:Wave, Copenhagen, Denmark
2018 Rivers of Emotion, Bodies of Ore, Kunsthall Trondheim, (Lisa Rosendahl), Trondheim, Norway
2018 Aesthetics of Persuasion, (Linda Weintraub), Woodstock Byrdeliffe Guild Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, US
2018 In Our Present Condition, (Gediminas Urbonas, Lars Bang Larsen, Laura Knott), MIT, Cambridge, US
2016 Living in the End Times, (Katharina Stenbeck), Galerija Nova, Croatia
2016 Mesures of Uncertainty, 32nd Bienal de São Paulo, (Jochen Volz with Gabi Ngcofo, Júlia Reboucas, Lars Bang Larsen), São Paulo, Brazil
Selected Writings and Print Publications
2021 Concrete Aesthetics: From Universial Rights to Financial Post-Democracy [PhD], Copenhagen University, Denmark
2017 Sand in the Architecture of Democracy [paper]
2017 Public Space - Lost and Found, Gediminas Urbones & Ann Lui (eds.,), MIT Press, Boston, US
2016 Sound Art, Sound as a Medium of Art, (ed. Peter Weibel), text by Brandon Labelle, MIT Press, Boston, US
2015 Moments of Freedom - Woman’s Council Text Collections for 100 Years of Suffrage, People’s Press
2014 An Edge Effect/Art & Ecology in the Nordic Landscape, (ed. Bonnie Fortune), Half Letter Press, US
2012 Architectural Inventions - Visionary Drawings, Eds. Bua and Goldfarb, Laurenceking, US
2010 Dark Matter - Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture, G.Scholette, Pluto Press, UK
2010 Kritische Komplizenschaft/Critical Complicity, edt. L. Mazza / J. Moritz, Schlebrügge.Editor, Austria
2006 LAND, ART: A Cultural Ecology Handbook, ed. Max Andrews, RSA publication, London, UKPo
Posters from the seminar 'The Eco-Commons . . . In the Time of Messed Up Democracy', 2017
Selected work of Learning Site (2004-2013) and N55 (1996-2003)
2009 Audible Dwelling (with Cecilia Wendt and speech by Jaime Stapleton), Ohio, US. Learning Book #004 / 2008 Paper Dwelling, Land; Market and Economy (with Cecilia Wendt, text by Jaime Stapleton), New Delhi, India. Learning Book #003 / 2010 House of Economy (text by Anthony Iles), Auckland, New Zealand. Learning Book #005 / 2010 Compost Dwelling, HKW, Berlin, Germany / 2005 Collected Dwelling, detail Learning Poster (with Julia Castro), Monterrey, Mexico. Learning Book #001 / 2013 House of Welfare (text by Jaime Stapleton), London, UK. Publication· Smell The Patchouli Flower / 2007 Underground Mushroom, detail Learning Poster #004-A, (with Julio Castro and Cecilia Wendt), Singapore Biennale, Singapore. Learning Book #002 / 2013 Pod #001 (with Cecilia Wendt, originally created for Weather Report - Clima Change curated by Lucy Lippard, 2007), Pod #002, Compost House (originally created for Überleben, the Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, 2007) and N55 Spaceframe & Floating Platform (with Cecilia Wendt, Ingvil Aarbakke and Jon Sørvin, 1999/2000) - ongoing, now at Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark / 1995 - 2003 N55 periodical, #1-#63
Rikke Luther’s Work as Founder of Learning Site (2004-2015)
Selected Exhibitions of Works by Learning Site
2013-15 Audio Dwelling 0.2, Sound School Part II, Blekinge, Sweden, Sound School Part I, Blekinge, Sweden, Audio Dwelling 0.2, Copenhagen
Malmö Port (CMP), Malmö, Sweden, European, Audio Dwelling 0.2, Spallation Source (ESS), Lund Science Park, Malmö, Sweden
2015 Lokale, (Pia Rönnike & Johanne Løgstrup), Flensborggade 57, Copenhagen, Denmark
2013 Reflections from Damaged Life. An Exhibition on Psychedelia, (Lars Bang Larsen), Raven Row, London, UK
2013 The Society Without Qualities, (Lars Bang Larsen), Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
2012 The Reykjavik Arts Festival 2012, (Jonatan Habib Engqvist) The Nordic House and Reykjavik City, Iceland
2011 Living as Form – Archive of Socially Engaged Practices from 1991-2011, (Nato Thompson), Creative Time, N.Y., US
2011 Über Lebenskunst, (Paula Marie Hildebrandt), Haus der Kulturen den Welt, Berlin, Germany
2010 The 4th Auckland Triennial – Last Ride in a Hot Air Balloon, (Natasha Conland), Auckland Art gallery,New Zealand
2009 Pedagogías colectivas y políticas espaciale (open classroom), (Javier Rodgigo), University of Granada, Spain
2009 Descent to Revolution, (James Voorhies), Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio, US
2009 Foodprint Expo, Art & Architecture Center, (Marieke Berkers), Stroom Den Haag, Holland
2008 48C Public.Art.Ecology, (Pooja Sood), Delhi, India
2008 Radical Software, (Will Bradly & Katarina Steinbeck), Den Fri Udstillingsbygning, Denmark
2007 Weather Report: Art & Climate Change, (Lucy Lippard) Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado, US
2006 Pedagogical Island, with Nance Klehm, Learning Site, Copenhagen, Denmark
2006 Belief, (Fumio Nanjo & Roger Mc Donnald), Singapore Biennale, Singapore
2005-09 Beyond Green: Towards a Sustainable Art (Touring Exhibition), (Stephanie Smith), Smart Museum of Art, Chicago; Museum of Arts and
Design, New York; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle; Museum
London, London, Ontario; Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, Connecticut; The Ronna and Eric Hoffman
Gallery of Contemporary Art, L. & C. College Portland, Oregon; The DeVos Art Museum, Northern Michigan University Marquette, US
2005 Local Sources: Collected Material Dwelling #002, occupied land, Monterrey, México
2004 Learning by Sea Urchin, (Paper Dwelling, Model 1:1), AIT, Tokyo, Japan
2004 Walking City, (78 school children on the streets of Tokyo), Japan
Rikke Luther’s Work as Co-Founder of N55 (1996-2003)
Selected Exhibitions of Works by N55 (Relating to the 1996-2003 era I was an active member)
2011 The Avantgarde Specters of the Nineties, (Lisette Smits & Matthieu Laurette), Marres-Centre for Contemporary Culture, Holland
2006 LESS - strategies alternative dell’abitare, (Gabi Scardi), Milano, Spain
2004 X-treme Houses, (Courtenay Smith), Lothringer 13, Münic, and Halle 14, Leipzig, Germany
2004 The Interventionists – Art in the Social Sphere, (Nato Thompson & Gregory Scholette), MASS MOCA, North Adams, US
2003 Between the Lines, (Rebecca Gordon Nesbitt), Apexart, New York, US
2003 Living Inside the Grid, (Dan Cameron), The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, US
2002-03 We Are All Sinners, (Magalí Arriola), Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico and MARCO, Monterrey, Mexico
2002 N55, (Gianni Jetzer), Kunsthalle Skt. Gallen, Switzerland
2002 Shop, (Rebecca Gordon Nesbitt), CCA, Glasgow, Scotland
2002 Enactments of the Self, (Maia Damianaovic), Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria
2002 Science Fair, (Sally O'Reilly), Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
2002 Big Torino, (Michelangelo Pistoletto), Turin, Italy
2001 Mobile Architecture, (SKOR), Werk Spoor, Amsterdam, Holland
2001 Artificial Natural Networks, (Trudy van Riemsdijk-Zandee & SKOR), Art Landscape Nature/De Verbeelding, Zeewolde, Holland
2001 Waterproof, (Birgitte van der Sande), Fort Asperen, Nederland
2001 Days of Hope - 49th Venice Biennale, (Maia Damianaovic), Italy
2000 LKW (Leben, Kunst und Werk), (Paulo Bianchi), Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria
2000 Collective Art Works, (Pascal Pique), Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
2000 Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, (Fumio Nanjo), Japan
2000 What If/Tänk Om, (Maria Lind), Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
1999-01 Mirror's Edge, (Okwui Enwezor), Bild Museet, Umeå, Sweden, Vancouver Art Gallery, Castello di Rivoli, Italy, Tramway, Scotland.
1999 N55 Spaceframe, Copenhagen, Denmark
1998 Cool Places, (Kestutis Kuizinas), Contempoary Art Center, Vilinius, Lithuania
1998 Pakkhus, Momentum-1. Nordic Art Biennial, (Daniel Birnbaum, Lars Bang Larsen & Atle Gerhardsen), Moss, Norway
1998 Come Closer-90`s art from Scandinavia and its predecessors, (Maria Lind), Liechtensteinische Staatliche Kunstsammlung, Liechtenstein
1998 The Campaign Against Living Miserably, RCA, London, UK
1996 NowHere, Work in Progress, (Iwona Blazwick), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
Selected printed publications
2012 The Architecture of Transgression Architectural Design, Rachel Sara & Jonathan Mosley, UK
2008 More Mobile: Portable Architecture for Today, Jennifer Siegal, Princeton Architectural Press
2008 Hatch: The New Architectural Generation, Kieran Long, Laurence King Publishing
2006 Talking Cities Magazine; Micropolitic of Urban Space, Ferguson, Franceca, Birkhäuser Arkitektur, Germany
2006 Small City Houses, Evergreen, Taschen
2005 Water House, Felix Flesche, Prestel Pub
2005 Portable architecture - and unpredictable surroundings, Pilar Echavarria M., Links International
2004 New Art Examiner, "Until It’s Gone: Talking stock of Chicago’s Multi-Use Center", N. Thompson
2003 N55 BOOK, Pork Salad Press, København, Denmark
2002 Xtreme Houses, Prestel Verlag, Munchen, Berlin, New York
1999 Frieze #49, “Loving the Alien”, review, Lars Bang Larsen, nov.-dec., UK
1999 Like Virginity, Once Lost - Five Views on Nordic Art Now, Daniel Birnbaum, John Peter Nilsson (edts.), Prospexus, Sweden
1999 After All #1, “Social aesthetics: 11 examples to begin with, in the light of parallel history”, Lars B. Larsen, Glasgow, UK
1999 KUNSTFORUM International #146, “Das Archiv als Weltgarten”, Paulo Biranchi, Köln, Germany
1998 Cream - Contemporary Art in Culture, Åsa Nacking, Phaidon Press, London, UK
1997 Frieze, #35, “Home Hydroponic Unit”, Lars Bang Larsen, London, UK
1996-2003 N55 Periodical, #1-#63, Copenhagen, Denmark