Joen Vedel
(He/him)
Address: Hausmania, Hausmanns gate 34, 0182 Oslo
Floor: 2
Room number: 1205 A
The studio is open Sunday 27 April from 12-17
Joen Vedel is a visual artist educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Whitney Independent Study Program in New York, with a PhD in artistic research from the Academy of Fine Arts in Trondheim. Vedel primarily works with video, sound, text, performance and in various forms of collaborations. He has been a member of numerous artist and activist collectives and self-organized spaces. He has exhibited at Documenta 15 in Kassel, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Overgaden in Copenhagen and Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo. His practice revolves around the representation of political events and the possibilities of grasping them as they unfold.
Video, installation, performance, text, sculpture
NOW-TIME TV, Joen Vedel, series of live-edited videos, 2025, Kunstnernes Hus, process image
"Korbinian Apple Tree (after Jimmie Durham)", Joen Vedel, appletree, Documenta 15, 2022, installation image
In my studio
In my studio, visitors can gain insight into my practice and the way I work with the relationship between research, form and content. I will talk about my contribution to Documenta 15 in Kassel, present previous works from solo exhibitions at Overgaden in Copenhagen and Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo, and invite visitors to join me and my partner, the artist Yaniya Mikhalina, to reflect on our upcoming solo exhibition at UKS.
Planned projects and exhibitions
- “NOW-TIME TV”, solo-exhibition in Kunstnernes Hus, January – February 2025
- “Slow Violence”, solo-exhibition in Xow-Rumi (Rio de Janeiro), 2025
- Solo-exhibition in UKS, 2026
- Group-exhibition in Kunstpakhuset, 2026
CV
Education:
• Ph.d. i Kunstnerisk forskning, Kunstakademiet i Trondheim, Norge, 2020 – 2024
• Whitney Independent Study Program, New York City, 2014
• Maumaus Independent Study Program, Lissabon, 2007
• MFA. Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi, 2011
Selected solo-exhibitions:
• Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NOW-TIME TV (kommende 2025)
• Xow-Rumi (Rio de Janeiro), Slow-Violence II (kommende 2025)
• Astrid Noacks Atelier, Peter Petersen (1953-2020) – et sørgespil, 2021-2023
• Cité Internationales des Arts (Paris), May ’68 Did Not Take Place, 2019
• Hospital, Prison, University, Archive, Kunst for Vare, 2018
• Solo-Shows (São Paulo), When Are We Now?, 2016
• Kunsthal Aarhus, Venskaber, 2015
• Overgaden, Downstairs Productions Presents…, 2012
• Lumiar Cité (Lissabon), O Modelo, 2009
Selected group-exhibitions:
• Tallinn Art Hall, Difficulty Pasts. Connected Worlds, 2024
• DOCUMENTA 15, Kassel, 2022
• KiT Gallery, In the End, Trondheim, 2021
• Arthub, Prekær Filmpraktik, København, 2021
• Overgaden, Press Print, Copenhagen, 2019
• Kunsthal Aarhus, Post Institutional Stress Disorder, Aarhus, 2019
• Riga International Biennal for Contemporary Art, Riga, 2018
• Vermilion Sands, A Matter of Fact, København, 2017
• G-MK Gallery, Living in the End of Times, Zagreb, 2016
• Nikolaj Kunsthal, FOCUS, New Danish Video Art, København, 2015
• Temp Gallery, Five O’clock Somewhere, New York City, 2014
• Electronic Arts Intermix, Uncanny Valleys, New York City, 2013
• Bureau Publik, Revolution Happened Because Everybody Refused…, København, 2013
• Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Artreach, København, 2012
• Lunds Kunsthal, Escape, Lund, 2011
• Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Generous Gestures, København, 2011
• Overgaden, En Vejledning til Nationen for Verdens Lykkeligste Folk, København, 2010
• Frankfurter Kunstverein, The Great Game to Come, Frankfurt, 2008
Selected artist-residencies:
• Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris) 2019
• Bertolt Brecht’s Hus i Svendborg, 2019
• Capacete (Rio de Janeiro), Danish Art’s Council’s residency, 2015-16
• SALT (Istanbul), Danish Art’s Council’s residency, 2015
• The Danish Institute in Athens, 2012, 2013, 2017
• BAC, Baltic Art Center (Gotland), 2012
Grants:
• Statens Kunstfonds working grant (DK), 2015, 2016, 2018, 2022, 2022, 2023
• Henry Heerups memorial grant, 2022
• Fulbright Scholarship, 2013