about
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
AWARDS
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
EXHIBITIONS
JustWomen, 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
“Young Talent”, 2017, Group Exhibition, National Gallery of Denmark, Denmark,
“Uncensored”, 2017, Group Exhibition, Subliminal Projects X GirlGaze, Los Angeles
COLLECTIONS
Pictures from REJECTED purchased for the permanent collection at the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (KMoPA), part of “Young Portfolio”, 2022
Picture purchased for private collection, 2016, Australia
Picture purchased for private collection, 2014, Norway
MEDIA
Interview in See:Zeen