Artist
Sidsel Meineche Hansen
1981, Denmark · London, UK
Sidsel Meineche Hansen is a Danish visual artist whose practice explores virtual and robotic bodies and their relationship to human labour within the gaming, pornographic and tech industries. Working across wood, clay, metal, woodcuts, textiles, CGI animation and video, they describe their approach as a "techno-somatic" investigation foregrounding the body and its industrial complex.
In 2020 Hansen received a Turner Prize bursary from Tate Britain, in recognition of work including Welcome to End-Used City (Chisenhale Gallery, 2019). Solo exhibitions include shows at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Bergen Kunsthall; and Christian Andersen, Copenhagen. Hansen participated in the 59th Venice Biennale, The Milk of Dreams (2022).
Represented by
- Rodeo, London
- Christian Andersen, Copenhagen
Selected solo exhibitions
- 2025Lily, Christian Andersen, Copenhagen
- 2024WAX, Kiosk, Ghent
- 2024Metal Works, Ordet, Milan
- 2024SILVER SPOON, Four Boxes Gallery (Krabbesholm Højskole), Skive
- 2023HOOK NO 10., gta exhibitions, Zürich
- 2023Missionary, Company, New York
- 2023Missionary, Édouard Montassut, Paris
- 2021Inner Child, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen
- 2021Flat 46, Twyford house, Christian Andersen, Copenhagen
- 2020home vs owner, Rodeo, London
- 2020home vs owner, Rodeo, Piraeus
- 2019LIVE LIFE WELL®, Center for Contemporary Arts, Prague
- 2019Welcome to End-Used City, Chisenhale Gallery, London
- 2019An Artist's Guide to Stop Being an Artist, SMK, The National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen
- 2018Real Doll Theatre, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
- 2018End-user, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus
- 2018OVER, Index, The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm
- 2017OVER, Ludlow 38, New York
- 2016SECOND SEX WAR, Trondheim Art Museum, Trondheim
- 2016SECOND SEX WAR, Gasworks, London
- 2016NO RIGHT WAY 2 CUM, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
- 2014INSIDER, Cubitt Gallery, London
Selected group exhibitions
- 2025Medardo Rosso Inventing Modern Sculpture, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel
- 2025Just Kids, Gammel Strand, Copenhagen
- 2024Artificial Optimism, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen
- 2024Glasstress 8½, Fondazione Berengo Art Space, Murano
- 2023After Laughter Comes Tears, Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- 2023Human Is, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin
- 202259th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, The Milk of Dreams, Venice
- 2022Cubitt 30, Victoria Miro, London
- 2021Vogliamo tutto, OGR, Turin
- 2021Psycopathia Sexualis, Overgaden, Copenhagen
- 2021Portals, NEON, Athens
- 2020Witch Hunt, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
- 2019Mud Muses, a Rant about Technology, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
- 2019The Assembled Human, Museum Folkwang, Essen
- 2019I, I, I, I, I, I, I Kathy Acker, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
- 201874 million million million tons, Sculpture Center, New York
- 2017University of Disaster, Pavilion of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 57th Venice Biennale, Venice
Education
- MFA, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
- MA Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London
Awards & grants
- 2020Turner Prize bursary, Tate Britain
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