Wooloo is a Danish artist collective founded by Sixten Kai Nielsen, Russell Ratshin, and Martin Rosengaard.

History

The collective was founded in 2002. In 2006 Wooloo exhibited their interactive conceptual work "Asylum" at the WhiteBox Gallery in New York City wherein five international artists were detained while they competed to win the service of an immigration lawyer to help them obtain an O-1 United States visa. The same year, the group received the

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"Future of the Present" award. In 2007 Wooloo created and staged the work "Life Exchange" in the environs of a private New York City apartment. Wooloo participated in the 2010 addition of the roving contemporary art biennial

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with 'New Life Residency" where the art group invited five artists to live in the dark. A project by Wooloo was included in the

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pavilion at the 2013 55th edition of the

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. In the summer of 2019, Wooloo exhibited an edition of their long running project "The Human Hotel" at the

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, as part of the group exhibition "The Coming World:

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as the New Politics 2030-2100".

References

External links

biography and list of exhibitions
at artfacts.net
Putting Participation on the map
Rhizome {{DEFAULTSORT:Wooloo Danish artist groups and collectives 1979 births Living people