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Marie Wengler lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. Besides her artistic practice as a contemporary art photographer, she is also a PhD Fellow in social sciences. Her artistic and research practices are deeply intertwined: in both her art and research, she explores and exposes the limits of “normality” in society. It places her in a dynamic position in-between art-based research and research-based art. 

What characterises Marie’s approach to photography as an artistic medium is the use of medium format cameras as a slow-paced tool for capturing carefully staged images, following the tradition of tableau and deadpan photography.  

As part of her staging of images, Marie often uses herself like a sculptor modelling clay – as a transformative material – to humanise wider societal comments. She breaks down the barrier between the viewer and viewed, both being in front of and behind the camera. The camera thus further becomes a tool for capturing performative acts in which Marie explores social phenomena by bodily putting herself into the very investigation of these phenomena. 

EDUCATION

PhD Fellow, Copenhagen Business School (2021-2024)

MA Cognition & Communication, The University of Copenhagen (2017-2019)

BA Sociology, The University of Copenhagen (2013-2016)

INTERNSHIP

Susanna Hesselberg, 2012

RECENT AWARDS & NOMINATIONS

Longlisted for Aesthetica Art Prize, 2024

Selected for the HUMAN publication as part of the Prix Pictet Award (2023), nominated by curator Yuko Yamaji from KMoPA 

Shortlisted for International Photography Exhibition 164, The Royal Photographic Society, UK

One of 23 winners of YP2022, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (KMoPA), Japan 

Selected as one of 30 under 30 women photographers, Artpil, 2022 

Shortlisted for IWPA Award 2021/2022

RECENT EXHIBITIONS

“JustWomen”, 2023, group exhibition, curated by Slavica Veselinovic for ImagineNation, Galerie Joseph, Paris, FR, May 19-21

“Young Portfolio Satellite Exhibition”, 2023, Place M, Tokyo, Japan

“REBEL”, 2022, The Untitled Space, New York, NYC, September 29-October 27

“30 Under 30 Women Photographers”, 2022, Opera Studio, Rome (as part of Rome Art Week, October 24-29)

“YP2022”, 2022, Group exhibition, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (KMoPA), Japan 

COLLECTIONS

REJECTED purchased for the permanent collection at the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (KMoPA), part of “Young Portfolio”, 2022

MEDIA & PUBLICATIONS

Prix Pictet, 2023, HUMAN

Interview in See:Zeen