Lea Porsager: SNOOZE (90 Seconds to Midnight)

Lea Porsager’s practice fuses fabulation and speculation across film, sculpture, photography, and text. Drawing on intersections of science, politics, feminism, and esotericism, her works often channel complex cosmologies into tactile, time-based forms. With a distinct interest in energy—both physical and metaphysical—Porsager constructs installations and narratives that challenge binary thinking and linear time, inviting viewers into fields of entangled meaning.

Recent solo exhibitions include NILS STÆRK, Copenhagen (2023); Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2021); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2020–21); FuturDome, Milan (2020); Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde (2019); and Brandts, Odense (2016). Her work has also been shown at Moco (Montpellier Contemporain), Montpellier; the Contemporary Art Museum of Bordeaux (CAPC), Bordeaux; and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo (ACG Buffalo), as well as at Göttingen Kunstverein; Overgaden, Copenhagen; Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden; and the Emily Harvey Foundation, New York.

Porsager participated in dOCUMENTA (13) with Anatta Experiment (2012) and in the 14th Istanbul Biennial: SALTWATER: A Theory of Thought Forms (2015). She was awarded the Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Scholarship in 2014 and received an Honorary Mention from CERN’s Collide International Award in 2018. Her large-scale earthwork and memorial Gravitational Ripples was inaugurated in 2018 in Stockholm, commemorating the Swedish victims of the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia.

She holds a PhD from Malmö Art Academy and Lund University (2021) and graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and the Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, in 2010.