Madeleine Andersson’s (b. 1993 Sweden, based in Copenhagen) artistic practice proposes alternative historisations and speculative structures to expose and disrupt the psycho-social dimensions of knowledge production. Her multidisciplinary work across video, sculpture and performance blends together academic discourse, scientific instruments, pseudo-scientific excitement, social media and horror films in playful installations. This fun collection of things allows her to investigate the intersection of science and pop culture; their self-experimentation, quest of inner truth and struggle with perversion.
Contact:
madeleineanderssoncool@gmail.com
Current:
Residency: Art Hub Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DK
Upcoming:
2025 Lecture performance: Perversion of Science, Trust, Berlin, DE
2026 Group Exhibition: Motvek(s)t, BO, Oslo, NO
2026 Residency: ISCP, New York, US
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
10K VIRGIN BRAINS, Trondheim Kunsthall, Trondheim, NO, 2025
Shock value, Index - The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm, SE, 2025
Degenerative Knowledge Production, O-Overgaden, Copenhagen, DK, 2024
Re-enchanting Logistics, documenta institute, Kassel, DE, 2024
Toilet Science, FOYERcontemporary, Copenhagen, DK, 2023
Petrosexuality, 35m2, Prague, CZ, 2023
Petrofeminism, NFSW, Gothenburg, SE, 2023
I count to ten and then I’m back at it again, AEON, Copenhagen, DK, 2022
Petrosexuality, Bærum Kunsthall, Bærum, NO, 2022
Dirty Coal, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, DK, 2022
your hole is our goal, KH7 Artspace, Aarhus, DK, 2021
I need to find myself before the icecaps have melted, Delfi, Online exhibition, 2020
we're all motherfuckers, Konstfack, Stockholm, SE, 2018
Selected Group Exhibitions:
Guessing and doing, Æsken, Aarhus, DK, 2025
Sunset every two years, Klaipeda Bienale, LT, 2025
Art Meets Companies, documenta institute, Kassel, DE, 2025
London Fix, easyside, Dallas, US, 2025
Siphons, Vermillion Sands, Copenhagen, DK, 2024
tear, Norberg Festival, SE, 2024
è ora di alzarsi, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, IT, 2023
Pixelache, Helsinki, FI, 2023
The Secret Third Pill, Frappant, Hamburg, DE, 2023
Extraction, Färgfabriken, Stockholm, SE, 2023
Open Studios, HIAP, Helsinki, FI, 2023
Office Overload, Bikubefonden, Copenhagen, DK, 2023
Perception of Reality, SixtyEight Art Institute, Copenhagen, DK, 2023
Atypical Book Fair; Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FR, 2022
Paris+ par Art Basel; MEP, Paris, FR, 2022
ArtVilnius22, Vilnius, LT, 2022
MFA Degree Show 2022, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK, 2022
Memoirs of the Abyss: Three Ecologies and More, SixtyEight Art Institute, Copenhagen, DK, 2021
Nature as Infrastructure; Public Program at Atlantis Luminère via bruisemagazine.com; MANIFESTA 13, Marsielle, FR, 2020
FOKUS Video Art Festival 10-year Anniversary; Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen; Kunsthal 6100, Haderslev; Kunsthal Nord, Aalborg; Viborg Kunsthal, DK, 2020
Grodregn, Ronneby Konsthall, Ronneby, SE, 2020
FOKUS Video art Festival, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, DK, 2019
Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition, Charlottenborg Kunsthal, Copenhagen, DK, 2019
Two Girls One Space ”Another-Fucking-Self-Exploring-Exhibition”, with Mari Mattson, Gallery Fisk, Bergen, NO, 2017
PLX PLX PLX, Art Festival, Tjärö, SE, 2017
NUDA Paper Release, Young Art Gallery, Stockholm, SE, 2017
Lecture Performances:
Toilet Science and the Rise of Sewer Protestantism, Moderna Muséet, Stockholm, SE, 2025
Degenerative Knowledge Production, Leisure Class Symposium, Deichtorhalle, Hamburg, Germany, 2024
Toilet Science and the Rise of Sewer Protestantism, Ud af røret, Captive Portals, Copenhagen, DK, 2023
Petrosexuality - A lecture on power, sex and fossil fuels, Hydrofeminism Conference, Copenhagen University, DK, 2023
Petrosexuality - A lecture on power, sex and fossil fuels, Sculpture park Amager, Copenhagen, DK, 2022
Petrosexuality - A lecture on power, sex and fossil fuels, ArtWeek Copenhagen, Friisland, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2022
Screenings:
Dirty Coal, Färgfabriken, Stockholm, SE, 2023
Dirty Coal, Unearthed Foundations; The Golden Pixel Cooperative, Vienna, AT, 2022
your hole is our goal, Videokunst på Havnen, Kunsthal 6100, Haderslev, Denmark, 2022
Dirty Coal, Memoirs of the Abyss: Liquid Ground, SixtyEight Art Institute, Copenhagen, 2021
Dirty Coal, Jordbegär, Färgfabriken + 20TAL, Stockholm, Sweden, 2021
we’re all motherfuckers, Praxis, ”Film I Samtidskonsten”, Stockholm, Sweden, 2020
I need to find myself before the icecaps have melted, Etcetera VII, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium, 2019
I need to find myself before the icecaps have melted, MANIFEST-Symposium, Godsbaren, Aarhus, Denmark, 2019
we’re all motherfuckers, Radikal Salong 2, Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, Stockholm, Sweden, 2019
we’re all motherfuckers, This is survival, Accelerator, Stockholm, Sweden, 2019
Curating:
Knowledge at the edge of Collapse, Symposium, Index - The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm, SE, 2025
The hand who rocks the cradle, fuxia.2, Malmö, SE, 2025
Radical Stupidity (at the workplace), Art Salon, Art Week Copenhagen, Bikubefonden, Copenhagen, DK, 2023
Alas, Inertia! – Art Science Salon, Sorte Firkant, Copenhagen, DK, 2023
Jason Exhibition Platform, Den Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi, DK, 2022
Residency:
XXVII CSAV, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy, 2023
HIAP Helsinki International Artist Programme, Helsinki Finland, 2023
SelfPublishBeHappy x MEP Residency, MEP, Paris, France, 2022
ARoS Atelier together with Project Art Writing, Aarhus, 2019
Awards:
2022 Blix Prisen
2019 FOKUS Video art festival - First Prize
Press:
Review of Shock Value: https://www.dn.se/kultur/dissekerade-hjarnor-och-dekapiterade-flugor-pa-index/
Review of Shock Value: https://www.frieze.com/article/frieze-new-writers-best-shows-nordics-2025
Review of Shock Value: https://kunstkritikk.se/var-dumma-hjarna/
Education:
2019-2022 Master in Fine Arts, The Royal Danish Art Academy
2016-2019 Bachelor in Fine Arts, Konstfack, Stockholm