Filip Vest

Filip Vest (DK, 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 explore the relationship between script and body to investigate the different ways we perform our identities and relationships. Vest’s universe is inhabited by a vast network of things at 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, attempting to make themselves legible to each other.

Filip Vest has previously shown their work at SMK – The National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen Contemporary, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Arken Museum of Contemporary Art, Den Frie, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Roskilde Festival, Tallinn Art Hall, MMCA Seoul, Museum of Modern Art Zagreb, and at Manifesta 13 as well as the 15th Gwangju Biennale. Their work is part of the collection of Moderna Museet.