Pia Rönicke

Pia Rönicke (b. 1974, Roskilde, Denmark. She lives in Copenhagen, Denmark) uses archiving and collection work to investigate the artistic environments and perspectives of female activists, architects, and artists within botany and history. Rather than conforming to temporal constrains of formalism, she has mainly adopted a long-term project approach. Over the past few years, exhibitions such as Drifting Woods (Galve Konstcentrum, Gavle, 2021), Word for forest (Parallel Oaxaca, Oaxaca, 2019), and The Cloud Document (Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, 2017) have seen her retracing the expeditions of Danish botanists to collect plants samples, conducting research everywhere from botanical gardens in Copenhagen to the vast forests of Mexico. Adopting a range of representational approaches that include specimens, flower pressings, photogravures, and the production of maps using metadata on collection sites, dates, coordinates, and altitudes, she reveals the geopolitical conditions associated with plant migration, systematisation, and concepts of territory based on colonialism and territorial wars.

Drifting woods

Nomination and screening of the work by Pia Rönicke
Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
March 20, 18:45

FREE HANDS

Group show including the work of Pia Rönicke
Den Frie Udstilling, Copenhagen
April 22 - May 29, 2023

Chaleur humaine

Group show with the work of Pia Rönicke and Hassan Sharif
Triennale Art Industrie, Dunkerque Hauts-De-France
June 10, 2023 - January 14, 2024

Ecosystem Assembly

Group show with the work of Pia Rönicke
Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg
March 2 - April 16, 2023

Becoming Flower

Group show with works by Pia Ronicke
MAMAC, Nice
November 9, 2022 - April 30, 2023

Busan Biennale, We on the Rising Wave

Biennial with with a new commission by Pia Rönicke
Busan Biennale, Busan
September 3 - November 6, 2022

Pia Rönicke: Drifting Woods

Solo show
Munkeruphus Art Center, Dronningmølle
August 28 - October 30, 2022

Busan Biennale 2022

Busan Biennale, including the works of Pia Rönicke
Busan, Korea
September 3 - November 6, 2022

Moving Image Art Prize

Nomination of works by Pia Rönicke
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin – New cinema and contemporary art
Goethe-Institut, Paris
May 8, 2022

Art Paris 2022

Art Fair
Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris
April 6 - 10, 2022

Perspectives #01

Group show with works by Pia Rönicke
Fonds régional d’art contemporain Alsace, Sélestat
September 3 - November 14, 2021

Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin – New cinema and contemporary art

International festival with works by Pia Rönicke
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
August 25 - 29, 2021

The secret Life of Plants

Group show with works by Pia Rönicke
Casa de Cerca, Almeda
May 8 - July 4, 2021

Pia Rönicke: Drifting Forest

Solo show
Gävle Konstcentrum, Gävle
March 27 - May 9, 2021

Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin: LIVE

Online event with works by Pia Rönicke
Musée du Louvre, Paris
February 26, 15h

Activity of Matter

Group show
gb agency, Paris
From November 30th 2019 to January 11th, 2020

one artist / two films / one week

Film projections
gb agency
From February 2 to February 26, 2019

Pia Rönicke: The Pages of Day and Night

A Solo Show by Pia Rönicke
gb agency
November 12th till January 16th 2016

A common feeling

Group exhibition
gb agency
from April 21 to May 26 2012

Pia Rönicke: Dream and action find equal support in it

A solo exhibition by Pia Rönicke
gb agency
From January 7 to February 18, 2012

Both before and after

Group show
gb agency
7 May to 3 July 2010

Nord, Nord-Ouest

Group show
gb agency
From June 25 to July 25, 2009

Cinematic Panorama

Group exhibition
gb agency
From 1 December to 19 January 2008

Pia Rönicke & Zeynel Abidin Kizilyaprak

A solo show by Pia Rönicke & Zeynel Abidin Kizilyaprak
gb agency
From September 13 to November 8, 2008

Faces

Group show
gb agency
From May 24 to July 19, 2008

Pia Rönicke: 'Rosa's Letters- Telling a Story

A solo show by Pia Rönicke
gb agency
From October 21 to November 25, 2006

Outside The Living Room

Group show
gb agency
29 April to 31 May 2006

Pia Rönicke: Without a Name

A solo show by Pia Rönicke
gb agency
From November 13 to December 23, 2004

Present Perfect

Solo exhibition
gb agency
10 June to 23 July 2003

Catalogues

2022: Busan Biennale. We, on the raising wave, 2022, texts by Haeju Kim, Wonhwa Yoon, Jin-Sung Chun, et al.
2008: Danskjävlar - a Swedish Declaration of Love, text by Élodie Royer, Kunsthal, Copenhagen (curated by Bo Nilsson and Maria Gadegaard)
2007: Anachronism, text by Elena Filipovic, Argos, Brussels (curated by Elena Filipovic).; Elephant Cemetery, Artist Space, New York (curated by Christian Rattemeyer); Fantasmagoria - Dibujo en Movimiento,text by Montse Badia, Fundacion ICO, Madrid, (curated by Juan Antonio Álvarez Reyes).
2006: Dreamlands Burn, text by Livia Paldi & Pia Rönicke, Mucsarnok/Kunsthalle Budapest; Habitat /Variations, text by Véronique Baccheta, BAC / Bâtiment d’art contemporain, Genève, (curated by M. I. Rodríguez).; #1 The Plan is Dictator! What is the plan, Pia Rönicke, published by Lunds Konsthall, Sweden.; Version animée, Centre pour l’image contemporaine (CIC), Geneva.
2005: Architectual Adventures, Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen; Monument, Cityscape, Copenhagen
2003: Feu de bois,entretien avec Alexis Vaillant & Pia Rönicke, Ateliers Internationaux du Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, curated by Alexis Vaillant; GNS, text by Nicolas Bourriaud, Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Utopia Station Posters, Haus der Kunst, Munich ; Museum in Progress, Vienna.; Poster Project, Utopia Station, 50th Venice Biennale
2002: The Fall Exhibition, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; Culture meets culture, Busan Biannale, Corea; Urbane Sequenzen, Kunsthalle Erfurt/Museum Schloss Hardenberg; Manifesta 4, European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
2001: Pia Rönicke, Moderna Museet Projekt, Stockholm.; Blick, Screening touring Nordic and international venues; Exile Video, Rum46, Aarhus.; Take Off, Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus
2000: Momentum, Nordic Biennale for Contemporary Art, Moss

Press articles (selection)

2012: Artforum, Pia Rönicke, gb agency, Paris, text by Claire Moulène, May; Art in America Pia Rönicke, text by Ellen Leblond-Schrader, March.; Les Inrockuptibles, Maison Flottante, text by Jean-Max Colard, February.; Artreview, Now see this, texte by Martin Herbert, January & February.; LE BEAU VICE](web), L’archive rêvée de Pia Rönicke (galerie GB Agency, Paris), *text by Elisabeth Lebovici, January.
2011: Mak/Zine, Envisioning Buildings, #1
2009: Bidoun, # 16, Facing, texte par Jason Simon, Winter
2007: Art Forum, Pia Rönicke, text by Jennifer Allen, September; Frieze, Imagine Action, by Dan Fox, October; Artforum, Imagine Action, by Rachel Withers, October
2006: Artinvestor, Pia Rönicke, March
2005: Flash Art, Pia Rönicke, text by Henrikke Nielsen, November/December; Frieze, Pia Rönicke, text by Staffan Boije af Gennäs, November/December; Art Forum, Pia Rönicke, gb agency, text by Jean-Max Colard, February; Metropolis M, #1 Wereldberoemd in eigen Land, February-March
2004: Libération, Les feux de la lampe, by Elisabeth Lebovici, 27-28 November; Les Inrockuptibles #469, Romance, text by Judicaël Lavrador, November 24-30
2003: Le Journal des Arts #3, Pia Rönicke, by Anaïd Demir, 11 October
2002: Frieze #69, The Concrete Jungle by Lars Bang Larsen„ September; Kunstrevy, The Weekend Paper, February.
2001: NU: The Nordic Art Review, Vol. 3, #5 Pia Rönicke, text by Pernille Albrethsen, May.; Frieze # 61, New Settlements, Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, by Jan Verwoert, September.; Kunstverein Munich, No Swimming, by Justin Hoffmann, Jan/feb.; NU: The Nordic Art Review, Vol. 3, #3-4, New Settlements, Nikolaj Exhibition Building, Copenhagen, by Kristine Kern; NU: The Nordic Art Review, Vol. 3, #2 Take Off, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, by Line Rosenvinge
2000: Frieze # 54, Momentum 2000, Moss by Jörg Heiser, Sept/Oct 2000