Sidsel Meineche Hansen

Sidsel Meineche Hansen
Born1981
Denmark
Known forInstallation, Film, Image, Photography, Sculpture, VR and AR.
AwardsTurner Prize, 2020

Sidsel Meineche Hansen (born 1981, Denmark) is a visual artist based in London.[1]

Biography

Their work explores "virtual and robotic bodies and their relationship to human labour within the gaming, pornographic and tech-industries", and includes pieces in materials as varied as wood, clay, metal, wood cuts, textiles, CGI animation and video.[2][3] They were one of ten artists selected for the £10,000 bursary which was awarded in lieu of the usual Turner Prize in 2020, as the judges adapted the prize in light of impacts of the coronavirus pandemic.[4][5][6] The other recipients were Arika, Liz Johnson Artur, Oreet Ashery, Shawanda Corbett, Jamie Crewe, Sean Edwards, Ima-Abasi Okon, Imran Perretta and Alberta Whittle.[7][8] Hansen was selected for "innovative use of VR and AR" in the shows An Artist's Guide to Stop Being An Artist (2019) and Welcome to End-Used City (2019).[4]

Selected works and exhibitions

In October - November 2014 Meineche Hansen had a solo exhibition at Cubitt Gallery, London. INSIDER collected works that "reflect[ed] on self-destruction and mutation".[1][9]

In March–May 2016 gasworks London hosted Meineche Hansen's solo show SECOND SEX WAR.[10] Included in the show was a piece made by Meineche Hansen, Manuela Gernedel, Alan Michael, Georgie Nettell, Oliver Rees, Matthew Richardson, Gili Tal and Lena Tutunjian, called CULTURAL CAPITAL COOPERATIVE OBJECT #1 (2016), which the artists called "an attempt to congeal the group's cultural capital into a cooperatively owned object".[11]

Real Doll Theatre was a solo show at KW, Berlin, in 2018. The show included "collaborative works with filmmaker Therese Henningsen and musicians Asger, and Holger Hartvig, as well as a live set by the London-based Music project Ectopia of Adam Christensen, Jack Brennan and Viki Steiri".[12]

Work by Meineche Hansen was included in the 2019 ArkDes Stockholm iteration of the Cruising Pavilion: Architecture, Gay Sex and Cruising Culture project, which was initiated at the Venice Biennale in 2018.[13]

An Artist's Guide to Stop Being An Artist was installed at SMK/ National Gallery of Denmark, in 2019. The show included the "life-sized ball-jointed figure with orifices that were compatible with oral and vaginal inserts made in silicone, which are sold for current sex robots on the market", Difficult to work with? (2019).[14]

Chisenhale Gallery hosted Meineche Hansen's solo show Welcome to End-Used City, displaying existing and newly-commissioned work in 2019.[2] The exhibition included the participatory installation End-Used City (2019), which participants could control with an Xbox handset, partly inspired by the seventeenth-century frontispiece by Abraham Bosse in Thomas Hobbes's philosophical treatise Leviathan.[15] It included the work Hellmouth (To Madame) (2018), which Flash magazine called a "gendered theological device".[16] Writing in Mousse magazine, India Nielsen notes that Meineche Hansen's work "visualize[s] the invisible, internalized structures of surveillance capitalism, highlighting the slippery trade-off between desiring something and becoming subject to it".[15] The show was highlighted by the 2020 Turner Prize judges for its use of VR and AR.[17]

In October–December 2020 Meineche Hansen's solo show home vs owner was installed at Rodeo gallery, London.[3]

Artist's website, labourpower http://www.labourpower.co.uk/

References

  1. ^ a b "INSIDER, Sidsel Meineche Hansen - Exhibition at Cubitt Gallery in London". ArtRabbit. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Sidsel Meineche Hansen – Chisenhale Gallery". Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  3. ^ a b "home vs owner – London with Sidsel Meineche Hansen. October 10 – December 19, 2020- RODEO". rodeo-gallery.com. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  4. ^ a b Tate. "Turner bursaries". Tate. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  5. ^ Tate. "£10,000 Turner Bursaries awarded to 10 artists – Press Release". Tate. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  6. ^ Fitter, Rosie. "The Tate Britain announces the winners of the £10,000 Bursaries in place of this year's Turner Prize – The Glass Magazine". Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  7. ^ "Tate Britain announces recipients of £10,000 Turner bursaries". the Guardian. 2 July 2020. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  8. ^ Magazine, Wallpaper* (2 July 2020). "Turner Prize 2020 bursary winners announced". Wallpaper*. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  9. ^ "INSIDER, Sidsel Meineche Hansen". Cubitt Artists. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  10. ^ "Exhibitions | Gasworks". www.gasworks.org.uk. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  11. ^ "A conversation between Sidsel Meineche Hansen and Nils Norman | Cell Project Space". www.cellprojects.org. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  12. ^ "Sidsel Meineche Hansen". KW Institute for Contemporary Art. 22 August 2018. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  13. ^ "Cruising Pavilion: Architecture, Gay Sex and Cruising Culture at ArkDes". ArkDes - Sweden's National Centre for Architecture and Design. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  14. ^ "Sidsel Meineche Hansen". SMK – National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen (Statens Museum for Kunst). 19 December 2018. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  15. ^ a b "My Body Was a Temple in the End-Used City: Sidsel Meineche Hansen — Mousse Magazine and Publishing". www.moussemagazine.it. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  16. ^ "Sidsel Meineche Hansen Chisenhale gallery / London |". Flash Art. 9 December 2019. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  17. ^ "In pictures: Turner Prize awards bursaries to ten artists". artreview.com. Retrieved 8 November 2021.