Sabine Wedege (b. 1993, Denmark, visual artist, she/her)
Curator at RUM два
Editor at Forlaget TEGALROF
Artist duo S&M (Sabine Wedege, Denmark & Magdalene Solli, Norway)
Education
2015-2021: Jutland Art Academy, BFA/MFA
2018-2019: University of Arts in Belgrade, Faculty of Fine Arts, MFA
Educational programs/courses
2022: WHAT COULD/SHOULD CURATING DO? - WCSCD, Belgrade, Serbia
2020: Writing School in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland, Forlaget Gladiator
Residencies
2022: Konst i Halland, Varberg, Sweden
2022: Foundation Anne Grete, BKF, Fox-Amphoux, France
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/current
2022: Archive Dinner, Ostavinska, Belgrade, Serbia
2023: TBA, duo with Clara Jozefine Morks, Se!, Aarhus, Denmark
2023: Spanien19c, workshop, Aarhus, Denmark
2023: TBA, Kvaka 22, Belgrade, Serbia
2023: TBA, BKF secretariat, Copenhagen, Denmark
Selected exhibitions
2022: BLEED! BREED! BREAD!, solo, Center424, Belgrade, Serbia
2022: Muld (Soil), S&M (duo with Magdalene Solli), Center424, Belgrade, Serbia
2022: Heksetrappen/The Witch Staircase, solo, Heksetrappen (Strandvejen/Heibergsgade), Aarhus, Denmark
2022: LANDING 2022, Kunsthal Kongegaarden, Korsør, Denmark
2021: BAIR retrospective exhibition part 1, Center424, Belgrade, Serbia
2021: Present Tense, Afgang 2021, Jutland Art Academy, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
2021: Matrikel Uden Kroppe/RUNDGANG TV 2021, Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus, Denmark
2020: *Letter*, Jutland Art Academy, Art Weekend Aarhus, Splab, Aarhus, Denmark
2020: 0, solo, RUM 10, ORAUM
2019: U dodiru sa (Vane Živadinović Bor), MSUB/MoCAB, Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
2019: Ø-острво, solo, KC Magacin, Belgrade, Serbia
2019: Poezija I Kreativno Pisanje, Dev9t Alhemija Festival, Belgrade, Serbia
2019: Earth Day Exhibition, Center424, Belgrade, Serbia
2019: Navigate River, solo, Art Room 1000fryd, Aalborg, Denmark
2018: Presented at Fijuk prodavnica/Fijuk sajam, Belgrade, Serbia
2018: Paintings/exhibition in the movie “Hunger”, Dionysus Media/Zentropa, Aarhus, Denmark
2018: Parliament of owls, murder of crows, 3rd year exhibition, Jutland Art Academy, Splab, Aarhus City Hall, Aarhus, Denmark
2017: 777, solo, The Demo Room at Galleri Image, Galleri Miel, AMOK, 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
2016: Permanent decoration, TAPE, Aarhus, Denmark
2015: Den første, 1st year exhibition, Jutland Art Academy, Splab, Aarhus, Denmark
2015: Mørke Dage Festival, Aalborg, Denmark
2015: Baby it’s midnigt, solo, UNDERFLADEN/Mørke Dage Festival, Tomrummet, Aalborg, 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
Publications/contributions
2022: sustainartists.info, online zine and blog, SUSTAIN
2021: O s.1,1, publication, Forlaget TEGALROF
2021: Archival material for:, binder
2020: 0, book, ORAUM
2018: Hvedekorn 4, 2018, magazine for poetry and art, Rosinante & Co.
2016: Hvedekorn 3, 2016, magazine for poetry and art, Rosinante & Co.
Artist talk/workshop/teaching
2022: Konstnärernas Kollektivverkstad (KKV), workshop, Varberg, Sweden
2022: Hallands Konstmuseum, artist talk, Halmstad, Sweden
2022: Kunsthal Kongegaarden, artist talk, Korsør, Denmark
2021: Aarhus Art School, teaching/artist talk, Aarhus, Denmark
2019: Belgrade AIR, artist talk, Belgrade, Serbia
Grants
2021, 2022: Statens Kunstfond/Danish Arts Foundation (production grant)
2022: Oticon Fonden
2022: AaBKC/Konst i Halland stipend
2019: Den Hielmstierne-Rosencroneske Stiftelse
2019: Ny Carlsberg Fondet
2017: Ny Carlsberg Fondet
Member of
Billedkunstnernes Forbund (BKF)
Organisationen for Kunstnere, Kuratorer og Kunstformidlere (UKK)
Foreningen for Samtidskunst (FSK)
Center424
Artist Statement
Works primarily with sculpture, but also with text, video, and sound. I research how to harmonize concept and material by putting associations in a new frame of references. Occupied with history versus topicality, to connect the past to contemporary issues and questions.
It about creating a space where the elements can be allowed to speak together – ranging from paganism, occultism, splatter, folklore, traditions, art history, prehistoric art to intersectional feminism, racism, capitalism, consumerism, ecology, landscapes, patterns, and systems. Heavy and lots of references and stories that are combined with the material, thereby “composing the composition” with symbols, motifs, textures, and colors – working with the material both as classic sculpture work with plaster and stone, but also experimenting with rope, wax and salt dough. The material is like an extra layer that encapsulates the works’s references, leaving it as a fused constellation that almost makes its own newly created iconography and carries its own symbolism. A kind of overload, materialism and cultures mingling, exactly as a reflection of society.
My practice is research based, archive, literature, the internet, sketches, notes, etc. In my process, there is a distinction between source material, where it comes from, credibility and a permit for everything can be archive material regardless. For me, and for our contemporaries, we get information from various sources, and I take it directly into my way of working. That’s why I use both sources from local historical archives and non-fiction, but also SoMe platforms like TikTok and Pinterest – which all carries their very own phenomena and realities.
Strives for a certain recognizability in the works, which should be inclusive for the viewer and to reach as broadly as possible. A quest to demystify, with an awareness of the process can be exclusive, whereas the dissemination of this must be able to be inclusive – the viewer must be able to have an immediate approach to the work. My works are a distorted reality of familiar objects, tools, and trends in addition humor plays a significant role, as well as kitch and pop aesthetics to the complex reference ensemble.
- Sabine Wedege
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 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)
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