Sidsel Meineche Hansen *1981, Denmark. Lives and works in Copenhagen
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HOOK NO 10., gta exhibitions, Zürich, 2023. Installation view.
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HOOK NO 10., gta exhibitions, Zürich, 2023. Installation view.
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Sidsel Meineche Hansen
Hook 10, 2023
Bronze, investment cast
74 x 56,5 x 2 cm (29 x 22 x 1 in) -
Sidsel Meineche Hansen
Untitled (Sex Robot), 2018
Ball-jointed wooden doll. Pinewood and stainless steel.
176 x 25 x 40 cm (69 ½ x 10 x 16 in) -
The Milk of Dreams, 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Venice 2022. Installation view.
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Sidsel Meineche Hansen
Home vs owner (rule of six), 2021
Cutlery set, 18 pieces. Silver, forged and recast. Textile support made by Louis Backhouse.
29 x 78 cm (11 ½ x 30 ½ in) -
Sidsel Meineche Hansen
Inner Child, 2021
Letters, cast in tin
55 x 44 x 0.4 cm (21 ½ x 17 ½ in) -
Inner Child, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, 2021. Installation view.
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Sidsel Meineche Hansen
Baby Mould, 2023
Crystal glass, cast in multiple parts.
40 x 25 x 28 cm (16 x 10 x 11 in) -
Sidsel Meineche Hansen
Missionary, 2023
Chandelier, ten pendants. Crystal glass and stainless steel.
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Sidsel Meineche Hansen
Love Doll Resurrect, 2019
Digital video in color (still), 57 sec.
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Sidsel Meineche Hansen
Untitled (Sex Robot), 2018
Ball-jointed wooden doll. Pinewood, stainless steel.
176 x 25 x 40 cm (69 ½ x 10 x 16 in) -
Sidsel Meineche Hansen & Therese Henningsen
Maintenancer, 2018
Digital video with sound (still), 13:05 min.
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Sidsel Meineche Hansen
Public sculpture, 2019
3D printed head. Bronze, investment cast.
20 x 25 x 16 cm (8 x 10 x 6 ½ in) -
Welcome to End-Used City, Chisenhale Gallery, London, 2019. Installation view.
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Sidsel Meineche Hansen
Every 3rd party needs a pooper, 2018
Pencil on paper
13 x 21 cm (5 x 8 ½ in) -
Sidsel Meineche Hansen
shows (cross work), 2018
Laser-cut drawing on plywood
105 x 84 cm (41 ½ x 33 in) -
End-user, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, 2018. Installation view.
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OVER, Index, Stockholm, 2018. Installation view.
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Sidsel Meineche Hansen
Hollow Eyed #4, 2017
Silicone metal, investment cast
16 x 16 x 3 cm (6 ½ x 6 ½ x 1 in) -
SECOND SEX WAR, Gasworks, London, 2016. Installation view.
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Sidsel Meineche Hansen
No Right Way 2 Cum, 2015
CGI animation on flat screen, HD video with sound, 01:11 min.
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Sidsel Meineche Hansen
DICKGIRL 3D(X), 2016
CGI animation in VR format. Gaming PC and Oculus Rift headset with sound, 3 min loop. Vegan leather beanbag.
Variable dimensions -
ONE-self, Temporary Gallery, Cologne, 2015. Installation view.
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Sidsel Meineche Hansen
Toxic institution, 2014
Wood cuts on paper
47 x 36.5 cm (18 ½ x 14 ½ in) -
Sidsel Meineche Hansen
Seroquel®, 2014
CGI animation on flatscreen, HD video with sound (still), 8:16 min.
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Sidsel Meineche Hansen
DICKGIRL 3D(X), 2016
CGI animation, HD video with sound (still), 3 min loop.
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Sidsel Meineche Hansen
DICKGIRL 3D(X), 2016
CGI animation, HD video with sound (still), 3 min loop.
CV
- Hyper Functional, Ultra Healthy, Screening of Grumpy, Somerset House Studios, London screening
- WAX, Kiosk, Gent solo
- Artificial Optimism, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen group
- Metal Works, Ordet, Milan solo
- Glasstress 8½, Fondazione Berengo Art Space, Murano group
- SILVER SPOON, Four Boxes Gallery (Krabbesholm Højskole), Skive solo
- Oh, the storm, Rodeo, London group
- HOOK NO 10., gta exhibitions, Zürich solo
- After Laughter Comes Tears, Mudam Luxembourg, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg group
- Missionary, Company, New York solo
- Missionary, Édouard Montassut, Paris solo
- Man In House, Institut Funder Bakke, Silkeborg group
- Fear and Fauna, ARIEL, Copenhagen group
- Human Is, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin group
- At Gate, Blue Velvet Projects, Zürich group
- Kino Roland, gta, Zürich group
- Cubitt 30, Victoria Miro, London group
- Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Analisa Teachworth, Shuang Li, Company, New York group
- 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, The Milk of Dreams, GIARDINI, ARSENALE, Venice group
- Give up, Provider, Home vs Owner, Angel, Self Lovesong, Anarchy in the UK, Death, Kitchenfloor, Together butterflies, I am on crutches and tube, Bizarro, Copenhagen solo
- Building Information, Architekturmuseum, Berlin group
- Le Royaume des Clowns, Le Bicolore, Paris group
- *standstill, Rodeo, London group
- ανάβασις, Rodeo, Piraeus group
- The Modern Exorcist, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei group
- It’s Just a Phase, K.U.K, Trondheim group
- Inner Child, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen solo
- Vogliamo tutto. An exhibition about labor: can we still want it all?, OGR, Turin group
- Psycopathia Sexualis, Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen group
- Flat 46, Twyford house, Chisley Rd., N15 6PA, £250.000, Christian Andersen, Copenhagen solo
- Portals, NEON, Athens group
- Host Modded, Art Sonje Center, Seoul group
- Witch Hunt, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen group
- The Body Electric, MDC MOAD, Miami group
- home vs owner, Rodeo, London solo
- home vs owner, Rodeo, Piraeus solo
- Radical Passivity: Politics of the Flesh, nGbK, Berlin group
- MÁSCARAS (MASKS), Galeria Municipal do Porto, Porto group
- LIVE LIFE WELL®, Center for Contemporary Arts, Prague solo
- Mud Muses, a Rant about Technology, Moderna Museet, Stockholm group
- Welcome to End-Used City, Chisenhale Gallery, London solo
- iwillmedievalfutureyou1, Art Sonje Center, Seoul group
- The Assembled Human, Museum Folkwang, Essen group
- I, I, I, I, I, I, I Kathy Acker, Institute of Contemporary Art, London group
- ΨΥΧΟΣAΒΒΑΤΟ - ΜΕΡΟΣ I All Souls All Day - Part I, Rodeo, Piraeus group
- The Body Electric, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis group
- An Artist’s Guide to Stop Being an Artist, SMK – The National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen solo
- Real Doll Theatre, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin solo
- WE, Rodeo, London group
- End-user, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus solo
- 74 million million million tons , Sculpture Center, New York group
- OVER, Index - The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm solo
- Altered States. Substances in Contemporary Art, Kunstpalais, Erlangen group
- New Frontiers Sundance Festival, Park City Utah, Utah group
- My House is Your House, Solo shows, São Paulo solo
- Free thought free speech free markets, Christian Andersen, Copenhagen group
- CULTURAL CAPITAL COOPERATIVE OBJECT #1 & 2, Rodeo, London group
- Ovartaci & the Art of Madness, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen group
- Work it, feel it!, Vienna Biennial 2017, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna group
- Rest in the Furrows of my Skin, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg group
- OVER , Ludlow 38, New York solo
- Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Nancy Buchanan , Potts, Los Angeles group
- University of Disaster, Pavilion of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 57th Venice Biennale, Venice group
- The World Without Us, HMKV, Dortmund group
- Un Reino De Las Horas , TEOR/etica, San Jose group
- The Cypress Broke, Rodeo, London group
- SECOND SEX WAR, Trondheim Art Museum, Trondheim solo
- SECOND SEX WAR, Gasworks, London solo
- NO RIGHT WAY 2 CUM, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow solo
- Liquid Identities: Lynn Hershman Leeson, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg group
- FLUXESFEVERFUTURESFICTION, Azkuna Zentroa, Bilbao group
- Visceral Blue, La Capella, Institut de Cultura de Barcelona, Barcelona group
- Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966), Whitechapel Gallery, London group
- The Uncanny Valley, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge group
- Rehearsals in Instability, Andreas Huber Gallery, Vienna group
- Out of the living, Supplement Gallery, London group
- ONE-self, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen solo
- ONE-self, Temporary Gallery, Cologne solo
- Lets Destroy the Earth but keep the Humans, Galerie Gregor Staiger, Zurich group
- INSIDER, Cubitt Gallery, London solo
- Je suis féministe, Unit 21, London group
- Schizo-Culture: Cracks in The Street, Space Gallery, London group
- EUROPE, EUROPE, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo group
- J’ai Froid, (with Matias Faldbakken), Castillo/Corrales, Paris solo
- FORENSICS, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin group
- Late Barbarians, Gasworks, London group
- Resolution 978 HD, Gasworks, London group
- THE NORDIC MODEL®, Slottet Malmöhus/Malmö Museer, Malmö group
- BB#8: Dawdle, SPACE, London group
- Model Court, Koh‐i‐noor, Copenhagen group
- The Generic Stone, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen group
- Session_2_Flags, Am Nuden Da, London group
- Session_1, Am Nuden Da, London group
- EXIT 07, Kunstforeningen GL Strand, Copenhagen group
- The Master School, Videoproject, Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen group
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Education
2010 MA Research Architecture, Visual Culture Goldsmiths, University of London, London
2008 Staatliche Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste, Frankfurt am Main
2007 MFA The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
Grants
2022 - The Danish Arts Foundation working grant
2016, 2017, 2018 - The Danish Arts Foundation 3 year working grant
Awards
2020 Turner Prize, Tate Britain
2020 Niels Wessel Bagges Kunstfond Award
Publications
Metal Works. Edited by Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen. Published by Lenz Press, 2024
Second Sex War. Co-edited with Robert Leckie. Co-published by Gasworks Gallery and Trondheim Art Museum, 2019
Politics of Study. Co-edited with Tom Vandeputte. Published by Open Editions / Funen Art Academy, 2015
Selected Press
Collections
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel
SMK – The National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen
ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus
The New Carlsberg Foundation, Copenhagen
Polyeco Contemporary Art Initiative, Piraeus