Sabine Wedege (b. 1993, she/her, visual artist)
Lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark
Researcher at The New Centre for Research & Practice
Founder and curator at RUM два
Co-founder and art mediator at mockrelic
Artist duo S&M (Sabine Wedege, Denmark & Magdalene Solli, Norway)
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 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: ARV.I, Vishovgrad, Bulgaria
2023: Slagteriet, Holstebro, Denmark
2022: Konst i Halland, Varberg, Sweden
2022: Foundation Anne Grete, BKF, Fox-Amphoux, France
2019: Belgrade AIR, Center424, Belgrade, Serbia
Selected exhibitions
2024: )The Stage(, Supermarket 2024 - Stockholm Independent Art Fair, RUM два, Stockholm, Sweden
2024: Prismer: Riter og mørke, Skovhuset Kunst & Natur, Værløse, Denmark
2023: TOP STAR, solo, OTTE, Copenhagen, Denmark
2023: Window Exhibition, solo, Baggen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2023: This could be us, but you're so hardcore, big feelings club, festival, Basement, Copenhagen, Denmark
2023: )The Library(, Juxtapose Art Fair, RUM два, Rå Hal, Godsbanen, Aarhus, Denmark
2023: Spirefestival, Holbæk, Denmark
2023: Pagan Geopolitics, solo, Heerz Tooya, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
2023: Perron Ceremoni, Automatic Display, iOM, Copenhagen Central Station, Copenhagen, Denmark
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: 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
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: Pre-Mørke Dage event, Baby it's Midnight, solo, UNDERFLADEN, Aalborg, Denmark
Commissions
2018: Exhibition (horror prop artworks) in the movie “Hunger”, Dionysus Media/Zentropa, Aarhus, Denmark
2016: Permanent decoration, TAPE, Aarhus, Denmark
Readings/performances
2024: Music performance with Peter Diego, Prismer: Riter og mørke, Skovhuset Kunst & Natur, Værløse, Denmark
2023: Audio, Performing Arts Forum (PAF), Summer University, domestic broadcast/radio station (Tom Lye), Saint-Erme, France
2019: Performance lecture, ORGANON Exhibition Space, Odense, Denmark
2016: Reading, Hvedekorn, Nordic Literature Festival, Helsingør, Denmark
Publications/contributions/editorial
2023: Call the Bronze Age, they forgot their pictograms!, Triple Ambersand Journal (&&&)
2023: Frieze New Writers Pick the Best Shows to See in the Nordic, Critic's Guide, review
2023: Addenda, no. 10/11, magazine
2022: sustainartists.info, online zine and blog, SUSTAIN
2020: 0, book, ORAUM
2018: Hvedekorn 4, magazine for poetry and art, Rosinante & Co.
2016: Hvedekorn 3, magazine for poetry and art, Rosinante & Co.
Artist talks
2022: Hallands Konstmuseum, Halmstad, Sweden
2022: Kunsthal Kongegaarden, Korsør, Denmark
2021: Aarhus Art School/Aarhus Kunstskole (Byhøjskolen), Aarhus, Denmark
Curatorial
2024: )The Stage(, Supermarket 2024 - Stockholm Independent Art Fair, Laureta Hajrullahu, New Church, Bosko Begovic, Gordana Zikic, Peter Diego, S&M (Sabine Wedege & Magdalene Solli), RUM два, Stockholm, Sweden
2023: )The Exhibition( )The Library(, Juxtapose Art Fair, Laureta Hajrullahu, New Church (Nemanja Ciric & Sara Radulovic), Thermal Publishing House (Viktor Vejvoda), Gordana Zikic & Sabine Wedege, RUM два, Rå Hal, Godsbanen, Aarhus, Denmark
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: Muld (Soil), S&M, RUM два, Center424, Belgrade, Serbia
2022: Archive Dinner, WCSCD, Ostavinska, Belgrade, Serbia
Workshops/teaching
2023-2024: BKF course, "Share your art expertise with children" + workshop, "Still Life Toys", Gasværksvejens Skole, Copenhagen, Denmark
2023: Slagteriet, workshop, "Sculpture making from non-traditional materials", Holstebro, Denmark
2023: It's Really Wheel, se!, workshop, "Wheel of Life meditation session", "Wheel of Fortune Object Circle", Aarhus, Denmark
2022: ŠKART Collective (Belgrade, Serbia), workshop contribution, "Egg Tray Replaced Archive", Home for Children and Youth, Bela Crkva, Serbia
2022: Konstnärernas Kollektivverkstad (KKV), workshop, "Collecting materials", Varberg, Sweden
2021: Aarhus Art School/Aarhus Kunstskole (Byhøjskolen), visiting teacher, Aarhus, Denmark
Grants
2024, 2023, 2022, 2021: Statens Kunstfond/Danish Arts Foundation (production grant)
2023: Statens Kunstfond/Danish Arts Foundation (residency)
2023: Certificate Scholarship (The New Centre for Research & Practice)
2022: Oticon Fonden (William Demant Fonden)
2019: Den Hielmstierne-Rosencroneske Stiftelse
2019, 2017: Ny Carlsberg Fondet
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)
Foreningen for Samtidskunst (FSK)
Press
Ung kunst: Sabine Wedege, Art Weekend Aarhus (kunsten.nu) interview
Afgang 21 - Present Tense, I DO ART (idoart.dk), interview
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, ecology, internet culture and technologies. The works merge associations found in history to our present - creating new constellations.
The process is research-based concerning artmaking, craft, materials, and their specific iterations in different social contexts, as well as different archiving and memory practices, in relation to a certain environment. Concept and materials are 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. Finding source materials from phenomena, non-fiction, experiences, AI, etc. with the idea that historical elements can take shape through a series of cultural references and technologies by distorting trends – cutting, copying, and pasting different sources to create a pastiche of juxtapositions.
The composition of the works allows one to free oneself from epistemological structures, thereby opening the works. This encompasses an awareness and respect in imitation, as well as origin, but draws threads across culture, tradition, status, and age. 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
Bio
Sabine Wedege (b. 1993, she/her, visual artist) lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark, educated from Jutland Art Academy in Aarhus, Denmark, and the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia in 2021. Completed the educational curator program WHAT COULD/SHOULD CURATING DO? in Belgrade, Serbia, Frieze New Writers Programme at Bergen Kunsthall, and a researcher at The New Centre for Research & Practice, Art & Curatorial Practice, Seattle, USA. Shown works, i.a. Kunsthal Aarhus, Kunsthal Kongegaarden and Skovhuset Kunst & Natur in Denmark, Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, Serbia, and Heerz Tooya in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria. Attended artist in residency programs in France, Sweden, Bulgaria, and Serbia. Been published with critic writing, para-academic artistic research, and poetry respectively in Frieze, Triple Ambersand Journal (&&&) and Hvedekorn. She is also the curator at the platform RUM два, art mediator at Mockrelic, and part of the artist duo S&M with the Norwegian dancer Magdalene Solli.
Her interdisciplinary practice intertwines research and storytelling, primarily though sculptureas well as text, sound, and video – based on various of references, including esotericism, folklore, paganism, feminism, ecology, internet culture and technologies. The works merge associations found in history to our present - creating new constellations. The process is research-based concerning artmaking, craft, materials, and their specific iterations in different social contexts, as well as different archiving and memory practices, in relation to a certain environment. 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.