Born in Frederikssund, DK, 1981
Lives and works in Copenhagen, DK
Lea Porsager is an artist whose works play out in the triangular tension between quantum physics, tantric practices, and feminist theory. Working with industrial materials to display esoteric and often sexually charged themes. Her practice interweaves speculation, fabulation and materialization within a variety of mediums, including film, sculpture, text, and earth works. Porsager graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, and the Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, in 2010. Porsager holds a PhD from the Malmö Art Academy and Lund University, 2021.
Porsager’s practice interweaves fabulation and speculation with a variety of mediums, including film, sculpture, photography, and text. Porsager was awarded the Eckersberg Medal in 2023 and was selected as a CERN Honorary Mention for the Collide International Award in 2018. In 2012, Porsager participated in dOCUMENTA (13) with Anatta Experiment. Porsager's institutional solo exhibitions includes Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, 2021; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 2020-21; FuturDome, Milan, 2020; Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, 2019 and Brandts, Odense, 2016. Porsager has also created several public commissions such as Gravitational Ripples, an earthwork and memorial in Stockholm inaugurated in 2018 and KLIT, a shore biotope in Odense in 2021.
Photo: Petra Kleis
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