Leif Magne Tangen

1978 born in Lofoten, Norway

Lives and works in Reine In Lofoten And Leipzig, Norway

Leif Magne Tangen is an art critic. He is currently a member of the editorial board of the Norwegian magazine Billedkunst, City Editor for Leipzig for Contemporary and Correspondent in Germany for
Art.Es .He is also the curator of the not- for profit art space Kunstraum D21 in Leipzig (www.d21-leipzig.de). He lives in Leipzig, Germany and in Reine in Lofoten, Norway.

Education
2000 University of Oslo, Art History
1999-2000 Robert Meyers Kunsthøgskole
1998 Ex.fac, Ex.Phil
University of Bergen
1997-1998 Photography course
Fredheim Folkehøgskole


Published texts

2006
Om Stamsund Internasjonale Kunstfestival
(www.kunstkritikk.no)
The Pleasure of the Exhibition -
Or why openings are a matter of heart attacks, In Print Magazine (July)
Personlige Provokasjoner (www.kunstkritikk.no)
...then we take Berlin (www.kunstkritikk.no)
LIAF 06 (www.kunstkritikk.no)
Rundletherwelten, Contemporary nr. 84
The Dream of Being Able to Fly
(reprint, Manifesta Journal)
Why I Write (Catalogue, Super,
FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou)

2005
Pølsesnakk som kuratorisk grep?
Om toget til Venezia og Laura Horellis avhopp (Billedkunst 3/05)
Intervju med Anton Vidokle (Billedkunst 2/05)
Om Harald Szeemanns bortgang (Billedkunst 2/05)
Stanley Kubrick (April 05 Neue Review) – co-written together with Øystein Aasan
What You Can Predict. You Can’t Prevent –
om kunsten til Lars Morell (Catalogue, Academy of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition, Oslo).
Can capitalism think socialy? - The Passion of the collector, (Art.es nr. 9 May/June)
Leif Magne Tangens kunstblogg-blogg
(www.kunstkritikk.no)
Documenta dokumenterer seg selv
(www.kunstkritikk.no)
Kunstmesser i Miami (www.kunstkritikk.no)
Galleri Wang, et galleri uten galleri?
(www.kunstkritikk.no)

2004
Katastrofer og andre konstruksjoner –
intervju med Ingar Dragset (Billedkunst nr. 5/04)
Gigantgallerier og tendenser – om hvordan gallerier i Europa vokser til museer (Billedkunst 6/04)
Art Cologne (Billedkunst 7/04)
Kunstkompass (Billedkunst 7/04)
The Dream of Being Able to Fly (SITE Magazine 9/10)
Momentum 04 (www.konsten.net )
Andy Warhol: Motion Pictures (June04 Neue Review) – co-written together with Øystein Aasan
Overkill (September 04 Neue Review) –
co-written together with Jan Christensen
Bull.Miletic and Monika sosnowska (December 04 Neue Review) – co-written together with Øystein Aasan
Danger Museum (December 04 Neue Review) – co-written together with Grant Watson



Translations

2005
Betyr Kunstkritikeren fremdeles noe, av Marc Spiegler (www.kunstkritikk.no) [english - norwegian]
Om Harald Szeemann, av Hans Ulrich Obrist (www.kunstkritikk.no) [german- norwegian]
Om kunstens Autonomi, av Viktor Misiano (www.kunstkritikk.no )[german - norwegian]


Exhibitions and projects

2004
Salong 100, cureted by Josefine Lyche, Steinar H. Kristensen and Leander Djønne, Oslo

2003
Handicapped Future, The Raw Space, Oslo (with Tobias Arnell, Ane Graff, Espen Dietrichson, Michael O`Donnell, Karl Larsson & Andreas Mangione, Josefine Lyche, Lars Morell, Kalle Runesson and Anders Smedbye). Curated by Josefine Lyche og Lars Morell.

Self Organisation, SUPERFLEX, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig. Curated by Jan Winkelmann

2002
oVERstation / Passasjer, Astrup Fearnly Museet for moderne Kunst, Oslo (with among others Jan Christensen, Øystein Aasan, Lars Morell, Josefine Lyche, Kalle Runeson, Aksel Høgenhaug and Rirkrit Tirivanija ). Curated by Øystein Ustvedt

2001
Årsutstillingen 2001 for Robert Meyer Kunsthøgskole, Oslo (With among others Camilla Storm and Marianne Straw), Curated by Elise Storsveen

2000
I Put this Moment Here (together with among others Aksel Høgenhaug, Kjersti Bergersen and Marianne Straw). Curatert by Anders Eiebakke.


Curated exhibitions

2007
I Will Never Make It. Group exhibition (Including Jan Christensen, Mikkel McAlinden, Mark Hamilton, Reto Pulfer, Paolo Chiasera, a.o.), D21, Leipzig

Fern der Heimat (co-curated with Kaeseberg ), D21, Leipzig

Representations of the artist as a intellectual , D21, leipzig

2006
PHILIP
a project by Heman Chong / Leif Magne Tangen, curated by Mai Abu ElDahab, Project Art Space, Dublin

Isabelle Cornaro, solo exhibition, D21, Leipzig (September)

Reto Pulfer, solo exhibition, D21, Leipzig
(September)

Zu Wahr, um Schön zu Sein,
Lotte Lindner & Till Steinbrenner, solo exhibition, D21, Leipzig (July )

Obscure Yourself (Including Endre Aalrust, Heman Chong, Yvan Derwéduwé, Marion Porten, Henriette Pedersen and Vemund Thoe), Kunstverein D21 @ Pierogi / Leipzig

2005
Mein Leipzig (including Lage Opedal, Sveinn Fannar Johannsson, Verena Winkelmann, Henriette Pedersen and Norwegian students in Leipzig), The Royal Norwegian consulate, Leipzig, Oslo Concert Hall,
the University of Oslo, the University of Leipzig

2002
Easy living (Kjersti Bergersen), galleri 21:26, Oslo

Miscellaneous

2005-
City Editor for Leipzig for Contemporary Art Magazine
2005-
Member of the Editorial board of the Norwegian magazine Billedkunst
2005-
Correspondent in Germany for the Spanish magazine Art.Es
2003-2004
Assistent, Jan Winkelmann/Düsseldorf Galerie, Berlin
2001-2002
Gallery Assistant, Fotogalleriet, Oslo
2001
Assistant to Professor Robert Meyer, Oslo

Grants
2006
International Support Grant: I Will Never Make It (D21). OCA (September)
International Support Grant: PHILIP (www.project.ie)/Project Art Space, Dublin. OCA (November)

2005
International Support Grant: ARCO, Madrid. OCA (februar)
Norwegian Art Critics Association: Travel grant to Benesse Art Site Naoshima