Sabine Wedege (b. 1993, Aalborg, Denmark, visual artist, she/her)
Lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark
Education
2023-2025: The New Centre for Research & Practice, Art & Curatorial Practice, Seattle, USA
2020-2021: Jutland Art Academy, MFA, Aarhus, Denmark
2018-2019: University of Arts in Belgrade, Faculty of Fine Arts, MFA, Belgrade, Serbia
2015-2018: Jutland Art Academy, BFA, Aarhus, Denmark
Educational programs/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
2021-2022: SUSTAIN, Artist Digital Exchange, Aarhus Center for Visual Art (AaBKC)/Castlefield Gallery, Aarhus/Manchester, Denmark/UK
2020: Writing School, Forlaget Gladiator, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
Residencies
2023: Slagteriet, Holstebro, Denmark
2022: Konst i Halland, Varberg, Sweden
2022: Foundation Anne Grete, BKF, Fox-Amphoux, France
2019: Belgrade AIR, Center424, Belgrade, Serbia
Upcoming/current
2023: The Visual Artists Association (BKF), solo, Copenhagen, Denmark
2023: ARV.I, Vishovgrad, Bulgaria
2023: Pagan Geopolitics, solo, Heerz Tooya, Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria
2023: Performing Arts Forum (PAF), Summer University, lecture, Saint-Erme, France
2023: Spirefestival, Holbæk, Denmark
2023: )The Library(, Juxtapose Art Fair, RUM два, Rå Hal, Godsbanen, Aarhus, Denmark
2023: RUM два: )The Exhibition( )The Library(, Juxtapose Art Fair, RUM два, Rå Hal, Godsbanen, Aarhus, Denmark
2023: Spanien19c, workshop, Aarhus, Denmark
Selected exhibitions
2023: The Visual Artists Association (BKF), solo, Copenhagen, Denmark
2023: Salon46, rum46, Aarhus, Denmark
2023: It's Really Wheel, duo with Clara Jozefine Morks, se!, Aarhus, Denmark
2022: BLEED! BREED! BREAD!, solo, Center424, Belgrade, Serbia
2022: Muld (Soil), S&M (artist duo with Magdalene Solli), RUM два, Center424, Belgrade, Serbia
2022: Heksetrappen, solo, Heksetrappen (Strandvejen/Heibergsgade), Aarhus, Denmark
2022: LANDING 2022, Kunsthal Kongegaarden, Korsør, Denmark
2021: BAIR retrospective exhibition, Center424, Belgrade, Serbia
2021: Present Tense, Afgang 2021, Jutland Art Academy, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
2021: RUNDGANG, 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, Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade (MSUB/MoCAB), Belgrade, Serbia
2019: Ø-острво, solo, KC Magacin, Belgrade, Serbia
2019: Navigate River, solo, Art Room 1000fryd, Aalborg, 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: Kunstnernes Påskeudstilling (KP16), Kunsthal Aarhus, 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
Commissions
2018: Exhibition in the movie “Hunger”, Dionysus Media/Zentropa, Aarhus, Denmark
2016: Permanent decoration, TAPE, Aarhus, Denmark
Readings/performances
2019: Performance lecture, ORGANON Exhibition Space, Odense, Denmark
2016: Reading, Hvedekorn, Nordic Literature Festival, Helsingør, Denmark
Publications/contributions
2023: Addenda, no. 10/11, magazine
2022: Sculptural Archive Binder, binder
2022: sustainartists.info, online zine and blog, SUSTAIN
2021: O s.1,1, publication, Forlaget TEGALROF
2020: 0, book, ORAUM
2018: Hvedekorn 4, magazine for poetry and art, Rosinante & Co.
2016: Hvedekorn 3, magazine for poetry and art, Rosinante & Co.
Curatorial
2023: Wiehler's tapestries then and now, Daliborka Djuric, RUM два, KØN - Gender Museum, Aarhus, Denmark
2022: Subpoena, Heidi Nikolaisen, RUM два, Center424, Belgrade, Serbia
2022: Archive Dinner, WCSCD, Ostavinska, Belgrade, Serbia
Artist talks/lectures/teaching
2023: Slagteriet, workshop, Holstebro, Denmark
2022: Contribution for workshop with ŠKART Collective, Bela Crkva, Serbia
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
2023: Statens Kunstfond/Danish Arts Foundation (residency)
2022, 2021: Statens Kunstfond/Danish Arts Foundation (production grant)
2022: Oticon Fonden (William Demant Fonden)
2019: Den Hielmstierne-Rosencroneske Stiftelse
2019, 2017: Ny Carlsberg Fondet
Member of
Kunstnersamfundet/The Danish Artist's Society
Billedkunstnernes Forbund/The Visual Artists Association (BKF)
Organisationen for Kunstnere, Kuratorer og Kunstformidlere/Organisation for Artists, Curators and Mediators (UKK)
Foreningen for Samtidskunst (FSK)
Other
Curator/founder at RUM два
Editor/founder at Forlaget TEGALROF
Artist duo S&M (Sabine Wedege, Denmark & Magdalene Solli, Norway)
Artist statement
My interdisciplinary practice intertwines research and storytelling, primarily though sculpture as well as text, sound, and video – based on various of references, including esotericism, folklore, paganism, feminism, and ecology. The works merge associations via connections found in history to our present, which results in new constellations.
Working cyclically with both material and concept, where I examine the properties and character of both, in order to encapsulate the concept in the materials. The composition allows one to free oneself from epistemological structures, thereby opening up the works. This encompasses an awareness and respect in imitation, as well as origin, but draws threads across culture, tradition, status, and age.
The choice of materials bears the stamp of craft – it’s experimental and manifests itself as cheap, non-toxic, and sustainable materials, while latently staying between the traditional and the non-traditional in sculpture making. An increased curiosity towards local production, accessibility, and privilege.
The process is research-based, and I find source materials from i.a. archives and experiences, with the idea that historical elements and phenomena can take shape through a series of cultural references, by distorting trends – cutting, copying, and pasting different sources to create a pastiche of juxtapositions. In addition, there are repetitions and transformations of already existing sources – a sustainable approach with almost newly created iconographies, but also an approach that is fluid. The repetition and recognition are essential in the works to demystify, as the research is directly incorporated in the works – where a trust in familiar forms and objects enables the viewer to intuitively relate to the works. Following on from this, humor plays a significant role, as well as kitsch and pop aesthetics to loosen the layers of the reference ensemble. A kind of overload of materialism and cultures mixing, exactly as a reflection of modern society.
Sabine Wedege
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