Klaus Nyqvist (b.1976 Helsinki) is a multidisclipinary artist working mainly with video as a
medium. He has been exhibiting his art internationally with artist group ROR (Revolutions On
Request) and has been working as a VJ for over 15 years doing visuals for techno acts like
Jeff Mills, Sven Väth, Nina Kraviz, Ritchie Hawtin and so on. Klaus’s visuals have also been
seen in festivals, theatrical productions, on live television and on fashion shows.
Selected exhibitions:
2020 VJ Finland: Years 2007-2012, Video Installation, Collaboration Piece, Helsinki City Art
Museum, Helsinki
2017 GNARS (Gullichsen Nyqvist Art System), Galleria Heino, Helsinki
2015 Koneellinen/Maskinell, Power Plant Museum, Helsinki
2014 Ars Lieke, Kouvola City Museum, Kouvola, Finland
2012 Locked Groove, collaboration with Petri Kuljuntausta, Finnish Institute, Stockholm
2010 Dialogues - Underground, Videoperformance, Cartes Flux 2010 Festival, Espoo
2008 Fennofolk - New Nordic Oddity, Designmuseum, Helsinki
2007 O ́SUOMIFEST, Club Midway, New York
ROR: Revolutions On Request, Brändström & Stene gallery, Stockholm
2006 The State of Thing, Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design, Oslo
2005 ROCK ́N ́ROR, "Faites Vos Jeux”, Shedhalle, Zurich
ROR FOREVER! MAM Projects 003, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2004 ror: Ultima Thule, DaDaDa, Temporary Contemporary Gallery, London
ror: Ultima Thule, Together Forever, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
2003 ror: Ultima Thule, Tirana Biennale 2, Tirana
NYKYMUOVIA/ CONTEMPORARY PLASTIC, "ctrl_alt_del", Marres, Maastricht
Utopia Station, 50th Venice Biennial, Venice
ror: piece by piece, "The Straight or Crooked Way", Royal College of Art Galleries, London
2002 ror: piece by piece, Fundamentalisms of the New Order, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
ror: piece by piece, Manifesta 4, Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main
2001 ROR: UTOPIA, Skulpturens Hus, Stockholm
ROR: UTOPIA, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel
ROR: UTOPIA, Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki
2000 ROR: TERROR 2.0, Finnish Institute of Stockholm, Stockholm
ROR: TERROR 2000, Nordic House, Reykjavik
ROR: TERROR 2000, Into-Gallery, Helsinki