Filip Vest (DK, b. 1995)holds an MFA from Malmö Art Academy. Through performances, installations, films, and texts, they examine queer love, loneliness, and desire in the 21st century. Applying rehearsal methods from theatre, they test the relationship between the script and the body to inve- stigate the different ways we perform our identities and relations. Vest’s universe is inhabited by a vast network of things of different scales, each affecting the other: climate change and crumbling relationships, role play, doomsday karaoke and re-enacted kisses, a bird falling in love with a statue, and a frog having a breakdown in the middle of a striptease. Through mobile phones, walls and windows, the characters communicate and miscommunicate across species and time while attempting to make themselves legible to each other.
Filip Vest has previously shown their work at SMK, Copenhagen Contemporary, Møstings, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Arken, Den Frie, Charlottenborg, Roskilde Festival, Tallinn Kunsthal, and at Manifesta13.
BFA+MFA, Malmö Art Academy 2016-2021
HISK, Gent, Belgium, 2020
Co-founder and curator, DELFI, 2017-2021
Contact: filipvest (at) gmail.com
Selected projects:
2024
The Round Tower, Copenhagen, Solo show, November
Ringstedgalleriet, Solo show, August
Bærum Kulturhus, Oslo, “An Unconvential Striptease”, in collab. w. Ian Ancheta and Iannes Bruylant, January
2023
Inter Arts Center, Malmö, “Self Tape”, September
Sydhavn Station, “Den Bredmundede Frø”, performance, September
Kulturmødet Mors, “Hjertet på Ærmet” performance, August
Copenhagen Pride, “The Wide-Mouthed Frog”, performance, August
SOL, Nexø, “Solastalgia” group show, July
Roskilde Festival, Museet for Samtidskunst, June
Bikubenfonden, pro temp “Phantom Roots”, audio walk, June
Inkonst, Malmö, “The Wide-Mouthed Frog”, performance, June
M100, Odense, solo, May-June
Workspace Brussels, Belgium, performance, April
Møstings Hus, Frederiksberg, “Resort”, solo, March-June
2022
Teater Får / HAUT, Copenhagen, performance,November
Foyer Contemporary, Copenhagen, solo, October-January
Heerz Tooya, Vishovgrad, Bulgaria, solo, September-October
Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Kroatien, group show + performance, June-August
Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, performance, June
Hollufgård Skulpturpark, Odense, group show + performance, May
2021
Villa Kultur, “Searching for Nigel”, Copenhagen, solo show, September
Augustenborg Project, “From the Inside Out”, group show, June-Octomber
KHM2 Gallery, “Foot Fault”, Malmö, solo show, June
Nikolaj Kunsthal, “Nikolaj Kunsthal 40 år”, Copenhagen, group show, February-June
2020
Adelaïde/Atlantis, Marseille, MANIFESTA13, “Nature as infrastructure”, curated by The Winter Office, November
das weisse haus, Vienna, “New Homes for Horses, Cats and Canaries ”, group show (postponed)
Mana Contemporary, New Jersey “TRANSATLANTICO” curated by Palazzo Monti, October-April
2019
Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, “mellemting mellem ting”, performance festival, November
Hot Dock Projects, Bratislava, “No Scrubs”, group show, July
Tallinn City Gallery, “A Situation”, group show, June
Axel Towers, “The Final Exhibition 2”, group show, (curator), May
Celsius Projects, Malmö, “ALEA: Five Forms of Play”, group show, March
PLX, Malmö, “Hotellet på Norra Vallgatan”, group show, March
CCA Andratx, Mallorca, residency, January
2018
Kulturstationen Humlebæk, “Postkort hjemmefra”, group show
LOKALE, “Club La Santa or The Odyssey of My Hips”, performance
Koldinggade 12, “Portrætter af sprogets opløsning”, group show
2017
ADULT, “Well it’s very exasperating when you can’t get it right”, group show and performance series (curator)
Palazzo Monti, Brescia, Italy, residency and group show
Galleri Susanne Ottesen, “Allow me to introduce myself”, protemp, group show
SOMEWHERE Festival, Boesdal Kalkbrud, site specific installation
KVIT Galleri, “Mail Art Exhibition”, group show
Galleri Christoffer Egelund, “Pæne Ting”, group show
Kunsthal ved siden af, “PARTY”, group show
2016
Charlottenborg Kunsthal, “The Spring Exhibition 2016”
2015
Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen “The Artist’s Autumn Exhibition 2015”
Different venues in New York, London and Shanghai, “The Lumen Prize Exhibition”, tour
KBH Kunsthal, “At konservere en sæbeboble”, solo show
Statens Museum for Kunst, “Mix it up!”, group show