CURRICULUM VITAE for Birgitte Moos
birgitte@birgittemoos.com
EDUCATION
2000
Multimedia Institute - Copenhagen. Supplementary training in Virtual Visualisation
1993-98
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts –- Copenhagen. MFA Set Design
1997
The
Berlin University of the Arts, UDK - Berlin. Faculty of Performing
Arts; Stage Design for Theatre & Performance. Student of
Professor Achim Freyer
1995-96
Berlin-Weissensee Academy of Fine Arts - Berlin. Faculty of Set Design for Theatre. Student of Professor Volker Pfuller
1992
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts –-Copenhagen. Faculty of Visual Communication
1987-88
Roskilde University, RUC - Denmark. Faculty of the Arts. BA Studies in the Humanities
1986
University of Copenhagen - Denmark. BA Studies in Art History
AWARDS, NOMINATIONS, GRANTS and SCHOLARSHIPS
2012
'SugarShock' paintings selected as 1 of 10 finalists for the SAATCHI GALLERY'S Showdown Open Call, London
2012
'SugarShock' paintings selected as 1 of 10 finalists for the SAATCHI GALLERY'S Showdown Open Call, London
2011
THE 32ND ANNUAL LA WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS OF BEST THEATRE IN LA. Nominated for best set design: ’The Arsonists’ at the Odyssey Theatre, L.A.
Stage and Cinema. THEATER IN LOS ANGELES NOMINATION: THE BEST OF 2010. ’The Arsonists’ at the Odyssey Theatre, L.A. Set design
2010
Critics Choice, Los Angeles Times . Odyssey Theatre - L.A. ’The Arsonists.’ Set Design
Winner Rogue Monk Design Competition
2009
Artist in Residence. The Watermill Center by Director Robert Wilson - Southhampton, NY
2006
Winner DV Awards 2006. Director Niels de Cederfeld. ’Angel City.’ Graphic Designer
2003
USC, Cinema and Television School - L.A. Division of Animation and Digital Arts. Scholar in Residence
2002
The National Bank of Denmarks' Big Grant, Knud Hoejgaards Grant, Nordic Film Grant, Danish Set Designers Association Grant,
Nordea Bank Denmarks Grant, The Employers Association Jubilee
Foundation Grant, The Beckett Foundation, The Augustinus Foundation
2001
Knud Hoejgaards' Travel Grant
1999
Grand Prize Winner. Close-Up Scandinavian Shorts Competition - Copenhagen. ’Lack of Oxygen’. Director Christian Fonnesbech. Set & Costume Designer
Reumert Prize Award winner; ’The Taming of the Shrew.’ Gladsaxe Theatre – Copenhagen. Director Kasper Holten (Head of The National Danish Opera and new director of opera at the Royal Opera House - London). Set Designer Assistant for Marie I Dali
1997
The Design Foundation Grant for studying abroad
1985
The Metropolitan High School High Grade Grant
LECTURES, TALKS and TEACHING
2012
Member of University of La Verne's, California, Think Tank on 'Interdisciplinarity and Community'
2012
Member of University of La Verne's, California, Think Tank on 'Interdisciplinarity and Community'
2004-11
Station Next (Zentropa Productions by Lars von Trier, Nimbus Productions, Nordic Film, Danish National TV) - Copenhagen. Lecturer in production design for film
2003-10
Private Art Instructor
2009
The Watermill Center by Director Robert Wilson - Southampton/ NY. Artist in Residence for research. Public talk on my book ’Revolutionary Spaces’
MOCA – L.A. Art Guide
1998 – 2000
FOF (Public Information Organization) - Copenhagen. Fine Art Instructor
AOF (The Workers Cultural Organization) - Copenhagen. Fine Art Instructor
1990 – 1991
FOF (Public Information Organization) - Copenhagen. Clothing Design Instructor
WRITING
2009-12
Research and writing for my non-fiction book ’Revolutionary Spaces - interdisciplinary scenography’
2011
Columbia
University - New York. Ph.d.-Project proposal ’Revolutionary Spaces -
interdisciplinary scenography after post dramatic theatre’
2010
RUC,
Roskilde University - Copenhagen. Ph.d.-Project proposal ’Revolutionary
Spaces – interdisciplinary scenography after post dramatic theatre’
2009 – 06
Citizen
Magazine - L.A. Opera reviews from Los Angeles Opera on Wagners
’Parsifal’ and ’The Ring Cycle’ directed by Robert Wilson and Achim
Freyer
2002
Denmarks
National College of Design / Danmarks Designskole - Copenhagen.
Ph.d.-Project proposal ’Transcendental images and spiritual symbols in
the millenium epoch of Hollywood films’
SET DESIGN THEATER
2010
Odyssey Theatre - L.A. ’The Arsonists.’ Director Ron Sossi. LA Weekly Award nominated Set Design; Critics Choice, Los Angeles Times
2009
Cantabile2 Theatre - Copenhagen. Kaleidoskop K2. ’The Beggars Opera.’ Director Nullo Facchini. Music Marilyn Mazur. Set and Costume Designer
2006
Ark Theatre - L.A. ’Sexual Perversities in Chicago.’ Director Paul Wagar. Set design
Ark Theatre - L.A. ’The Death of an Anarchist.’ Director Georgia Harell. Set design
2005
Ark Theatre - L.A. ’Frozen.’ Director Paul Wagar. Set design
Ark Theatre - L.A. ’The Fox.’ Director David Grammer. Set design
2002
The Second Opera - Copenhagen. ’Bridge of Sighs.’ Set and costume design concept
1999
Cantabile2
Theatre - Copenhagen. Kaleidoskop, Junge Hunde Festival, Finland and
Sweden. ’Agnes.’ Director Nullo Facchini. Set and Costume
Designer
1996
Deutsches Theatre - Berlin. ’Oedipus’. Director Alexander Lang. Set Designer Assistant for Professor Volker Pfuller
1991
Groennegaards
Theatre - Copenhagen. ’True or False.’ Director Staffan Valdemar Holm
(Director of Dramaten, Stockholm. Director of Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf,
Germany), Costumier
Tivoli/ Grøften - Copenhagen. ’True or False.’ Director Staffan Valdemar Holm. Costume Coordinator
1990
Boldhus Theatre - Copenhagen. ’Three Sisters.’ Costume Designer
PRODUCTION DESIGN - FILM, TV, GAMES, SHORTS
2007-2010
LA Edge - L.A. Production designer on various web videos
2004
TV-2 (Danish National TV) - Copenhagen. Visual Concept Developer
Circadian Rhythms Productions - L.A. Director Niels de Cederfeld. ’Angel City.’ Graphic Designer
2003-04
Media City Stages, Set Masters, Universal Studios, Glendale Studios, VPS Productions - L.A. Production Designer Assistant on many commercial productions
2002
Lisa Rosenmeier - Skagen / Denmark. ’Dissapearing Into Silence.’ Art Video. Director Lisa Rosenmeier. Actress and Set Dresser
2000-01
Tristone - Copenhagen. Interactive games and TV entertainment. Lead Production Designer
1999
Nordic Film - Copenhagen. ’Kimera.’ Director Christian Fonnesbech. Production design concept
1995
The National Danish Filmschool - Copenhagen. ’DJ.’ Director Shaky Gonzales. Production Designer Assistant for Sabina Mlejnek
COMING SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
Gallery B&K Projects - Copenhagen. Installation ’People Come Back from War, Transformed’
Gallery Stixs - Copenhagen. ’Sugar Schok’
Skid Row - Downtown L.A. - Installation and performance ’People Come Back from War, Transformed’
Skid Row - Downtown L.A. - Installation and performance ’People Come Back from War, Transformed’
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
Zip's Fusion - L.A. Sitespecific installation
2012
Zip's Fusion - L.A. Sitespecific installation
2011
Museum of Lolland, Hoejbygaard Sugarfactory - Denmark. Set Design as Art . ’Light Over LOL-land.’ Sitespecific Installation
2009
Edgar Varela Fine Arts - L.A. ’The Memory Palace Series’
2007
Bedlam Gallery - L.A. ’The Memory Palace Project’ Paintings. ’The Memory Palace Project’
2006
410 BOYD - L.A. Paintings. ’Repulsive Repetition Series’
Danish Furniture Design Showroom - Culver City / L.A.
2005
Danish Furniture Design Showroom - Culver City / L.A.
2004
Carolina Gallery - Studio City / L.A.
2003
Nikolaj Church – Copenhagen. Paintings. ’Ode to Wim Wenders’
The Langelinje Pavillion – Copenhagen. Paintings
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
Warehouse 613 Imperial St. Downtown - L.A. Arts District Winterfest
2011
Prague Quadrenniale of Performance Design and Space. Veletrzni Palace; National Gallery Prague
Projectroom - Berlin. ’The Fridge Project’
Gloria Delson Contemporary Arts - L.A. ’Driven to Abstraction’;
’My bloody Black Valentines Show.’ Two person show. Birgitte Moos and Gil Mares
Caporale / Bleicher Gallery - L.A. ’Anachronious Mind Tree’
2010
Bleicher / Golightly Gallery - Santa Monica, L.A. ’Micro Gestalt and Burned Fingers’
Warehouse 833 E. Third St. Downtown - L.A. Arts District Winterfest
The Royal Danish Academy of Art - Copenhagen. Performance with Christian Johansen, Transitstation DE. Curator Dagmar Glauschnitzer, ’Mani-Fest’
Optical Allusion Gallery - L.A.
Downtown Artwalk - L.A. ’Cunt-Fetti.’ Installation in collaboration with Trine Koester and Tilde Bay Kristoffersen
2009
Zirrat Bankasi Gallery - Ankara / Turkey. Group Show. ’Trade Show’
410 Boyd - L.A. Group Show. ’The Rat Pack’
ISIK University Gallery - Istanbul / Turkey. 11th International Istanbul Biennial Parallel Exhibition: ’Trade Show’
City of Brea Art Gallery - Orange County / California. ’For Love or Money’
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park - L.A.
Pershing Square - L.A. ’Autumn Lights’: ’Fake it Till You Make it’
Factory Place Gallery L.A.
Katalyst Foundation for the Arts - L.A. ’Ma Vie Erotique’
The Hive Gallery - L.A. ’Girls Drawin’ Girls’
Stella Dottir Gallery - L.A. 1st Annual Sunflower Festival
Contemporanea Gallery - L.A. With Robert Reynolds and Gottfried Helnwein
2008
I-5 Gallery, The Brewery - L.A. Curated by Matt Gleason
Pershing Square - L.A. ’Art Squared’
Hotel Fox - Copenhagen. Two person Show
Lacy Street Arts Complex - L.A. Curated by Bert Green Fine Arts, Lili Muller and EVFA
Gallery Westphall - Copenhagen. ’Memory Palace Series.’ Three person show
Contemporanea Gallery - L.A. With Robert Reynolds and Gottfried Helnwein
2007
The Goethe Institute - Brussels / Belgium. Visual Arts and Politics
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park - L.A.
Two07 Gallery - New York. ’History of Conspiracy Theories’
Phantom Galleries - L.A. ’The Memory Palace Series’
Politikens Hus/ Pressen - Copenhagen. Art Money
The
Biscuit Factory - L.A. LA Magazine Event. Curated by Lilli Muller and
Seth Carmichael. With Richard Ankron, Robert Reynolds, Shepard Fairey,
Cyril Helnwein
Hangar 1018 Gallery - L.A. ’Where is LA’
Junglerush Gallery / Edgar Varela Fine Arts - L.A. ’The Love Show’
Hive Gallery - L.A.
Santa Fe Art Colony, Artwalk - L.A.
2006
The Hall of the Axe / Øksnehallen - Copenhagen. 101 Art Money
Regent Gallery - L.A. ’Book Illustrations, and Books as Illustrations’
M.J. Higgins Gallery - L.A. ’Far and Wide’. With Richard Godfrey and Moris Tepper
Bedlam Art Gallery - L.A. ’Spy Versus Spy’
Santa Monica Airport - L.A., with Trine Wejp Olsen
Caltrans Plaza - L.A. Grey Gardens
Bedlam Gallery - L.A. ’The Beauty and the Beast’; ’Repulsive Repetition Series.’
Junglerush Gallery / Edgar Varela Fine Arts - L.A. Red; ’Every Day has it's Price’
2005
M.J. Higgins Gallery - L.A. Katarina Fundraiser Show: ’Katarina & the Waves’
Spring Arts Tower - L.A. CREATE FIXATE. ’Low or No Profile’
Kings Steet Gallery - Amsterdam / Holland. ’2020 Visions’
2004
Dannerhouse - Copenhagen. ’Women Focusing’
Don O'Melveny Gallery - L.A. ’Buddha Lounge’
Annenberg Center of Communication, USC - L.A. ’Dreamwaves’
1998
The Hall of the Axe / Øksnehallen - Copenhagen. ’The Hamletmachine’
Cafe Krasnapolsky - Copenhagen. Three Dimensional Paintings. Three person show
1997
Glashall - Copenhagen. Installation ’Time is Now / ALT2000’
1996
The Video Gallery - Berlin. ’be-long-island.’ Two person show
1991
Arthall Charlottenborg Autumn Exhibition - Copenhagen. Performance ’Corpus in C’
Borups College - Copenhagen. Performance ’Corpus in C’
Broendhall, Frederiksberg Garden - Copenhagen. Performance ’Corpus in C’
