Sabine Wedege (b. 1993, she/her, visual artist)
Lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark
ARTIST STATEMENT
My interdisciplinary practice spans a variety of mediums including sculpture, film/video, music/sound, performance, drawing, and text through artistic research and sociocultural systems which question and explore the social, cultural and financial aspect of materialism and artistic production in late capitalism. Approaches storytelling, communication and phenomena by incorporating references and elements such as esotericism, ecology, consumerism, feminism, internet culture and technologies, merging to create new constellations. Reflecting on the making and production, to gather, the using, harvest, distribution and their iterations in different social contexts, as well as different archiving and memory practices, in relation to a certain environment, this for a collective understanding and an awareness of identity. Addresses contrasts from agricultural trends to the city dwellers imitation, to show it for the masses, or to get the masses to buy the mass-produced item, from country to city - the hunter-gatherer, peasantry and industrialization to the Anthropocene, intellectual property and artificial intelligence – with an idea that historical subjectivities can take shape by cutting, copying, and pasting different sources and iconography to create a pastiche of juxtapositions, where the works presents a tableau and/or scenery claiming the sculptural aspect of both objects, items, stuff and props. A curiosity towards local production, accessibility, and privilege, where materials are made, collected or brought - generational crafts, traditional sculpture making, ready-mades, gathering, purchasing. Working non-linear for an open and sustainable process where sources get reused, and to be able to stay in the process while in the making of works. The composition of the works allows an overload of a reference ensemble to free it from epistemological structures, where repetitions and recognition demystifying the works to intuitively relating, encompasses an awareness for familiar forms and objects to appear, humor as a significant role, as well as horror, kitsch and pop aesthetics.
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Education
2023-2025: The New Centre for Research & Practice, Art & Curatorial Practice, Seattle, USA
2018-2019: University of Arts in Belgrade, Faculty of Fine Arts/Универзитет уметности у Београду, Факултет ликовних уметности/Univerzitet umetnosti u Beogradu, Fakultet Likovnih Umetnosti, MFA, Belgrade, Serbia
2015-2021: Jutland Art Academy/Det Jyske Kunstakademi, MFA, Aarhus, Denmark
Educational courses
2023: Frieze New Writers Programme, OCA (Office for Contemporary Art Norway), Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
2022: WHAT COULD/SHOULD CURATING DO? - WCSCD, Belgrade, Serbia
2020: Writing School, Forlaget Gladiator, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
Solo exhibitions
2028: TBA (Midnight Movie Trilogy), TBA
2027: Pay Me All Your Horror (Midnight Movie Trilogy), TBA
2026: The Devil's Nest (Midnight Movie Trilogy), Peepshop, 1000fryd, Aalborg, Denmark
2023: TOP STAR, OTTE, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Visual Artists Association (BKF), Copenhagen, Denmark
Pagan Geopolitics, Heerz Tooya, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
2022: BLEED! BREED! BREAD!, Center424, Belgrade, Serbia
Heksetrappen, Heksetrappen (Strandvejen/Heibergsgade), Aarhus, Denmark
2020: 0, RUM 10, ORAUM
2019: Ø-острво, KC Magacin, Belgrade, Serbia
Navigate River, Art Room 1000fryd, Aalborg, Denmark
2015: Pre-Mørke Dage event, Baby it's Midnight, UNDERFLADEN, Aalborg, Denmark
Group exhibitions
2026: TBA, Utterslev Mose, Copenhagen, Denmark
Skulpturelt Eksperimentarium Silkeborg - S.E.S, KunstCentret Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg, Denmark
Tender Cuts, Abattoir, Copenhagen, Denmark
2025: Heerup som Spejl, Samsø Billedkunstråd, Anton Rosen Huset, Samsø, Denmark
Spejling, Skulptur Ølgod, Dansk Billedhuggersamfund, Ølgod, Denmark
Free Range, Abattoir, Copenhagen, Denmark
Virtual Studio Groups, Supermarket 2024 - Stockholm Independent Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden
2024: Skelner Vandene, Christmas Calendar, Kunstkiosk44, Samsø, Denmark
)The Stage(, Supermarket 2024 - Stockholm Independent Art Fair, RUM два, Stockholm, Sweden
Prismer: Riter og mørke, Skovhuset Kunst & Natur, Værløse, Denmark
2023: This could be us, but you're so hardcore, big feelings club, festival, Basement, Copenhagen, Denmark
)The Library(, Juxtapose Art Fair, RUM два, Rå Hal, Godsbanen, Aarhus, Denmark
Spirefestival, Holbæk, Denmark
Perron Ceremoni, Automatic Display, iOM, Copenhagen Central Station, Copenhagen, Denmark
Salon46, rum46, Aarhus, Denmark
It's Really Wheel, duo with Clara Jozefine Morks, se!, Aarhus, Denmark
2022: Muld (Soil), S&M, RUM два, Center424, Belgrade, Serbia
LANDING 2022, Kunsthal Kongegaarden, Korsør, Denmark
2021: Present Tense, Afgang 2021, Jutland Art Academy, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
RUNDGANG, Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus, Denmark
2020: *Letter*, Jutland Art Academy, Art Weekend Aarhus, Splab, Aarhus, Denmark
2019: U Dodiru Sa, Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade (MSUB/MoCAB), Belgrade, Serbia
2018: Parliament of owls, murder of crows, 3rd year exhibition, Jutland Art Academy, Splab, Aarhus City Hall, Aarhus, Denmark
2016: Interiør, 2nd year exhibition, Jutland Art Academy, Vesterbro Torv, Aarhus, Denmark
Klumpglomerate, Jutland Art Academy, Art Weekend Aarhus, Splab, Aarhus, Denmark
Kunstnernes Påskeudstilling (KP16), Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
2015: Den første, 1st year exhibition, Jutland Art Academy, Splab, Aarhus, Denmark
Mørke Dage Festival, Aalborg, Denmark
Performances/screenings/readings
2026: TBA, music performance, TBA, Utterslev Mose, Copenhagen, Denmark
TBA, performance, S&M, Tender Cuts, Copenhagen, Denmark
Tehnocannibalism, movie screening, The Wrong Biennale
2025: My Little Figure, music performance, Heerup som Spejl, Anton Rosen Huset, Samsø, Denmark
2024: Bukkehorn, music performance with Peter Diego, Prismer: Riter og mørke, Skovhuset Kunst & Natur, Værløse, Denmark
2024: Devil, what a clitoris! - gossip about capitalist witches, performance lecture, The New Centre for Research & Practice, Seattle, USA
2023: DARK WAVERS 6 SNIPPETS, music performance, Performing Arts Forum (PAF), Summer University, domestic broadcast/radio station (Tom Lye), Saint-Erme, France
2019: Energy, performance lecture, ORGANON Exhibition Space, Odense, Denmark
2016: Poetry reading, Hvedekorn, Nordic Literature Festival, Helsingør, Denmark
Residencies
2026: Performing Arts Forum (PAF), S&M, Saint-Erme, France
2023: ARV.I, Vishovgrad, Bulgaria
Slagteriet, Holstebro, Denmark
2022: Konst i Halland, Varberg, Sweden
Foundation Anne Grete, BKF, Fox-Amphoux, France
2021-2022: SUSTAIN, Artist Digital Exchange, Aarhus Center for Visual Art (AaBKC)/Castlefield Gallery, Aarhus/Manchester, Denmark/UK
2019: Belgrade AIR, Center424, Belgrade, Serbia
Publications/contributions/editorial
2026: The Shoggoth in the Chthulucene: Using Magic to Understand Modern Technology, essay, I DO ART
Philosophies of Illusion: An Anthology of Unreal Worlds, edited by Jason Mohaghegh, Bloomsbury Press
2023: Call the Bronze Age, they forgot their pictograms!, Triple Ambersand Journal (&&&)
Frieze New Writers Pick the Best Shows to See in the Nordic, Critic's Guide, Frieze
Addenda, no. 10/11, magazine
2020: 0, book, ORAUM
2018: Hvedekorn 4, magazine for poetry and art, Rosinante & Co.
2016: Hvedekorn 3, magazine for poetry and art, Rosinante & Co.
Commissions
2018: Exhibition (horror prop artworks) in the movie “Hunger”, Dionysus Media/Zentropa, Aarhus, Denmark
2016: Permanent decoration, TAPE, Aarhus, Denmark
Artist talks
2025: Anton Rosen Huset, Samsø, Denmark
2022: Hallands Konstmuseum, Halmstad, Sweden
Kunsthal Kongegaarden, Korsør, Denmark
2021: Aarhus Art School/Aarhus Kunstskole (Byhøjskolen), Aarhus, Denmark
Curatorial
2026: Tender Cuts, Abattoir, Copenhagen, Denmark
2025: Free Range, Abattoir, Copenhagen, Denmark
2024: )The Stage(, Supermarket 2024 - Stockholm Independent Art Fair, RUM два, Stockholm, Sweden
2023: )The Exhibition( )The Library(, Juxtapose Art Fair, RUM два, Rå Hal, Godsbanen, Aarhus, Denmark
2022: Archive Dinner, WCSCD, Ostavinska, Belgrade, Serbia
Workshops/teaching/lectures
2025: Heerup som Spejl, workshop, Anton Rosen Huset, Samsø, Denmark
2023: Slagteriet, workshop, Holstebro, Denmark
2022: ŠKART Collective (Belgrade, Serbia), workshop contribution, Home for Children and Youth, Bela Crkva, Serbia
Konstnärernas Kollektivverkstad (KKV), workshop, Varberg, Sweden
2021: Aarhus Art School/Aarhus Kunstskole (Byhøjskolen), visiting teacher, Aarhus, Denmark
Grants
2026, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021: Statens Kunstfond/Danish Arts Foundation (working grant, residency, production)
2026: Statens Værksteder for Kunst/The Danish Art Workshops (production residency)
2025, 2019: Den Hielmstierne-Rosencroneske Stiftelse (working grant, travel grant)
2023: The New Centre for Research & Practice Certificate Scholarship
2022: Oticon Fonden (travel grant)
2019, 2017: Ny Carlsberg Fondet (travel grant)
Member of
Kunstnersamfundet/The Danish Artist Society
Billedkunstnernes Forbund/The Visual Artists Association (BKF)
Dansk Billedhuggersamfund/Danish Sculptors Society (DBS)
Organisationen for Kunstnere, Kuratorer og Kunstformidlere/Organisation for Artists, Curators and Mediators (UKK)
Other
Part of the studio collective H11 at Halmtorvet 11A
Researcher at The New Centre for Research & Practice
Artist duo S&M (Sabine Wedege, Denmark & Magdalene Solli, Norway)
Co-founder and organizer at Abattoir
Co-founder and organizer at mockrelic
Founder and curator at RUM два
Founder and teacher/mediator at Ial