09.11.24 – 12.01.25, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, WAX

WAX is Sidsel Meineche Hansen's first solo exhibition in Belgium. WAX includes new and existing sculptures as well as two never-exhibited series of eight methylene blue drawings, and three oil paintings on canvas created in collaboration with Joanne Robertson.

The production of the exhibition's central work, Anatomical Venus, would not have been possible without the precious assistance of James B Stringer, Sam Fuller (3D modeling of the body), Pascale Pollier (wax casting of the sexual organs), 10 Tons, Copenhague (wax casting of the body) and BIOMAP, Antwerp.

Sidsel Meineche Hansen

Born in 1981 in Denmark, Sidsel Meineche Hansen studied at Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, and at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College in London.

Since her first solo exhibition INSIDER ten years ago at Cubitt Gallery, London, Sidsel Meineche Hansen has been using shifting and complex strategies to question the body and to reflect on processes of image-making around it. She is using materials as various as wax, wood, clay, metals, oil paint, or methylene blue as well as a wide range of traditional and contemporary technologies (CGI animation, VR, or video). She frequently combines her own low-tech manual craft with outsourced, skilled digital labor, collaboration playing a central role in her practice.

Currently based in Copenhague, Meineche Hansen started in 2024 a PhD project with Art Hub Copenhagen - Post-human sex: an artistic inquiry into automated sex and the new pornographic language of algorithmic visualization -, giving a new impetus to her research-based practice.

Sidsel Meineche Hansen participated in the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, The Milk of Dreams(2022), is a bursary recipient of the 2020 Turner Prize, and had solo exhibitions worldwide (Paris, Bergen, Copenhagen, Prague, London, Stockholm, New York, Glasgow, Cologne, Bremen…).