Sabine Wedege (b. 1993, Aarhus, Denmark, she/her)
Education
2015-2018/2020-2021: Jutland Art Academy
2018-2019: University of Arts in Belgrade, Faculty of Fine Arts
Courses/education
2020: Writing School in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland, Forlaget Gladiator
2014-2015: Aarhus Art School
Residencies
2021-2022: SUSTAIN - Artist Digital Exchange (Aarhus Billedkunstcenter/Aarhus Center for Visual Art, Castlefield Gallery), Aarhus/Manchester, Denmark/UK
2019: Belgrade AIR (Center424), Belgrade, Serbia
Upcoming
2022: LANDING 2022, Kunsthal Kongegaarden, Korsør, Denmark
2022: Huset i Provence, Tegneren Anne Gretes Fond/Foundation Anne Grete, Fox-Amphoux, France
Selected solo exhibitions
2020: 0, RUM 10, ORAUM
2019: Ø-острво, KC Magacin, Belgrade, Serbia
2019: Navigate River, Art Room 1000fryd, Aalborg, Denmark
2017: 777, The Demo Room at Galleri Image, Galleri Miel, AMOK, Aarhus, Denmark
2015: Baby it’s midnight w/ collaborative performance by Max Brohus & Sall Lam Toro, UNDERFLADEN/Mørke Dage Festival, Tomrummet, Aalborg, Denmark
Selected group exhibitions
2021: Present Tense, Afgang 2021, Jutland Art Academy, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denamrk
2021: Matrikel Uden Kroppe/RUNDGANG TV 2021, Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus, Denmark
2020: *Letter*, Jutland Art Academy, Art Weekend Aarhus, Splab, Aarhus, Denmark
2019: Poezija I Kreativno Pisanje, Dev9t Alhemija Festival, Belgrade, Serbia
2019: Earth Day Exhibition, Center424, 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
2016: Klumpglomerate, Jutland Art Academy, Art Weekend Aarhus, Splab, Aarhus, Denmark
2016: KP16, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
2015: Den første, 1st year exhibition, Jutland Art Academy, Splab, Aarhus, Denmark
2015: Mørke Dage Festival, Aalborg, Denmark
Curatorial
Founder/curator at RUM два
Founder/editor at Forlaget TEGALROF
Commission/public
2019: U dodiru sa (Vane Živadinović Bor), MSUB/MoCAB, Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
2018: Presented at Fijuk prodavnica/Fijuk sajam, Belgrade, Serbia
2018: Paintings/exhibition in the movie “Hunger”, Dionysus Media/Zentropa, Aarhus, Denmark
2016: Permanent decoration, TAPE, Aarhus, Denmark
Readings/performances
2019: Reading, Poetry Event #00777, AMOK, Aarhus, Denmark
2019: Performance lecture, Energy, ORGANON Exhibition Space, Odense, Denmark
2016: Reading, PerformanceRUM: DADA 100år, Spanien 19C, Aarhus, Denmark
2016: Reading, nORD, Nordic Literature Festival, Helsingør, Denmark
2013: Reading, Dome, Roskilde Festival, Roskilde, Denmark
Publications/contributions
O s.1,1, publication, Forlaget TEGALROF, 2021
0, book, ORAUM, 2020
Hvedekorn 4, 2018, magazine for poetry and art, Rosinante & Co., 2018
Hvedekorn 3, 2016, magazine for poetry and art, Rosinante & Co., 2016
Slagtryk, magazine for poetry and short prose, 2015
Authorship at Roskilde Festival, Anthology, Rosinante & Co./Gyldendal, 2013
Teaching/workshop/talks
2021: Aarhus Art School, teaching/workshop/artist talk, Aarhus, Denmark
2019: Belgrade AIR, artist talk, Belgrade, Serbia
Grants
2019: Den Hielmstierne-Rosencroneske Stiftelse
2019: Ny Carlsberg Fondet
2017: Ny Carlsberg Fondet
Other
2021: Assistent at Nønne Mai Svalholm & Henrik Vibskov, BIG BANG - Collective Matter, SVALHOLM
2019: Short intern at visual artist Maya Peitersen
Member of Billedkunstnernes Forbund (BKF)
Member of Organisationen for Kunstnere, Kuratorer og Kunstformidlere (UKK)
Member of Foreningen for Samtidskunst (FSK)
Member of Center424
Sabine Wedege’s interdisciplinary practice moves between sculpture, text, video, and sound, used in parallel and in contrast with each other. Drawing from a variety of references, including esoterism, environmental issues and iconography, her works morph from connections between often very disparate issues found in (art) history and in our present world. Inspired by narratives as diverse as Land Art and Constructivism, prehistoric art and Yugoslav darkwave, her practice takes unexpected detours. From geoglyphs to synthetic red blood in Grand Guignol theatre, from microplastic-filled fishes to dark rooms of neon graffiti and Israeli 90s punk, all the way to commercials, memes, and cannibalistic capitalism.
Through her works, Wedege investigates the potential of material and concept to reconcile through wacky associations, freed from epistemological structures. Reading present issues through historical references, while playing with the idea that formal elements can take shape through a variety of cultural references, the artist exacerbates contemporary tendencies of cutting and pasting disparate sources to create a pastiche of juxtapositions. This approach resists the concept of ‘finished form’ and instead operates experimentally and cyclically, welcoming repetitions and transformations. The task of demystifying this idiosyncratic approach of incorporating research is entrusted to a certain recognizability of form that allows the viewer to intuitively approach the works beyond the complexity of their references.
- South into North
(Francesca Astesani & Julia Rodrigues)
© 2021 https://www.sabinewedege.com/