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 Dark Wave, 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 Reading present issues through historical references, while playing with the idea that formal elements can take shape through a variety of cultural references, the artist exacerbates contemporary tendencies of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
Sabine Wedege (b. 1993, Aarhus, Denmark)
Education
2015-2021: Jutland Art Academy
2018-2019: University of Arts in Belgrade, Faculty of Fine Arts
Courses/education
2020: Writing School in Seyðisfjörður, Forlaget Gladiator
2014-2015: Aarhus Art School
Residence
2019: Belgrade AIR (Center424)
Upcoming
2021: Somnambulist, Oslo
2021: Aarhus Art School, teaching/workshop
2022: LANDING 2022, Kunsthal Kongegaarden, Korsør
Selected solo exhibitions
2020: 0, RUM 10, ORAUM
2019: Ø-острво, KC Magacin, Belgrade
2019: Navigate River, Art Room 1000fryd, Aalborg
2017: 777, The Demo Room at Galleri Image, Galleri Miel, AMOK, Aarhus
2015: Baby it’s midnight, UNDERFLADEN, Tomrummet, Mørke Dage Festival, Aalborg
Selected group exhibitions
2021: Present Tense, Afgang 2021, Jutland Art Academy, Kunsthal Aarhus
2021: Matrikel Uden Kroppe/RUNDGANG TV 2021, Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus
2020: *Letter*, Jutland Art Academy, Art Weekend Aarhus, Splab, Aarhus
2019: Poezija I Kreativno Pisanje, Dev9t Alhemija Festival, Belgrade
2019: Earth Day Exhibition, Center424, Belgrade
2018: Parliament of owls, murder of crows, 3rd year exhibition, Jutland Art Academy, Splab, Aarhus City Hall, Aarhus
2016: Interiør, 2nd year exhibition, Jutland Art Academy, Vesterbro Torv, Aarhus
2016: Klumpglomerate, Jutland Art Academy, Art Weekend Aarhus, Splab, Aarhus
2016: KP16, Kunsthal Aarhus
2015: Den første, 1st year exhibition, Jutland Art Academy, Splab, Aarhus
2015: Mørke Dage Festival, Aalborg
Curatorial
Founder/editor at Forlaget TEGALROF
Founder/curator at RUM два
Commission/public
2019: U dodiru sa (Vane Živadinović Bor), MSUB/MoCAB, Belgrade
2018: Presented at Fijuk prodavnica/Fijuk sajam, Belgrade
2018: Paintings/exhibition in the movie “Hunger”, Dionysus Media/Zentropa, Aarhus
2016: Permanent decoration, TAPE, Aarhus
Readings/performances
2019: Reading, Poetry Event #00777, AMOK, Aarhus
2019: Performance lecture, Energy, ORGANON Exhibition Space, Odense
2016: Reading, PerformanceRUM: DADA 100år, Spanien 19C, Aarhus
2016: Reading, nORD, Nordic Literature Festival, Helsingør
2013: Reading, Dome, Roskilde Festival
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
2021: Jutland Art Academy, artist talk
2019: Belgrade AIR, artist talk
Grants
2019: Den Hielmstierne-Rosencroneske Stiftelse
2019: Ny Carlsberg Fondet
2017: Ny Carlsberg Fondet
Other
2020-2021: Reviewer at POESIENS HUS
2019: Short intern at visual artist Maya Peitersen
2015: Volunteer at KUNSTHAL AARHUS
Member of Billedkunstnernes Forbund (BKF)
Member of Organisationen for Kunstnere, Kuratorer og Kunstformidlere (UKK)
Member of Foreningen for Samtidskunst (FSK)
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