about
Marie Wengler is located in Copenhagen, Denmark. As simultaneously a social scientist (PhD Fellow) and a contemporary art photographer, she works in the intersection between art-based research and research-based art, exploring and exposing the limits of what is perceived as “normality” in society. She works with a medium-format Hasselblad camera, planning her projects in detail before carrying them out.
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
Shortlisted for ‘Portfoliopris’, Preus Museum, 2024
Shortlisted for Athens Photo Festival, 2024
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 & UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
Les Fransiscaines, Deauville, FR, October 2024
“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
RECENT RESIDENCIES
Tremplin Jeunes Talents, 2024
COLLECTIONS
REJECTED purchased for the permanent collection at the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (KMoPA), part of “Young Portfolio”, 2022
MEDIA & PUBLICATIONS
Magasinet Fotografi, April 2024
Prix Pictet, HUMAN, 2024
Interview in See:Zeen