Sidsel Meineche Hansen *1981, Denmark. Lives and works in London and Copenhagen

Exhibitions
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    2026

    • Peripherals, COMB, Copenhagen group
    • Performing Conditions: Artistic Labor and Dependency as Form, MIT List arts Centre, Cambridge, Massachusetts group
    • Kunstindustrie, Seventeen, London group
    • New Humans: Memories of the Future, New Museum, New York group

    2025

    • Lily, Christian Andersen , Copenhagen solo
    • Animal Farm , Institut Funder Bakke, Silkeborg group
    • Once Within a Time, 12th SITE International, Sante Fe group
    • Fernweh, or Nostalgia for Unknown Lands, Irene Y. Panagopoulos Collection, Athens group
    • Courtisane festival, Arca Theater, Ghent group
    • Medardo Rosso Inventing Modern Sculpture, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel group
    • Void, Blank Canvas x Hin Bus Depot, Penang group
    • Hyper Functional, Ultra Healthy, Screening of Grumpy, Somerset House Studios, London screening
    • Just Kids, Gammel Strand, Copenhagen group

    2024

    • 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

    2023

    • 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

    2022

    • 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

    2021

    • 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

    2020

    • 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

    2019

    • 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

    2018

    • 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

    2017

    • 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

    2016

    • 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

    2015

    • 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

    2014

    • 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

    2013

    • Resolution 978 HD, Gasworks, London group
    • THE NORDIC MODEL®, Slottet Malmöhus/Malmö Museer, Malmö group

    2012

    • BB#8: Dawdle, SPACE, London group

    2011

    • Model Court, Koh‐i‐noor, Copenhagen group

    2009

    • The Generic Stone, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen group
    • Session_2_Flags, Am Nuden Da, London group

    2008

    • Session_1, Am Nuden Da, London group

    2007

    • EXIT 07, Kunstforeningen GL Strand, Copenhagen group

    2003

    • The Master School, Videoproject, Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen group

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