Filip Vest

Filip Vest (they/them, DK, b. 1995) holds an MFA from Malmö Art Academy. Through performances, installations, films, and texts, they examine queer love, loneliness, and desire in the 21st century. Applying rehearsal methods from theatre, they test the relationship between the script and the body to investigate the different ways we perform our identities and relations. 

Filip Vest has previously shown their work at SMK The National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen Contemporary, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Arken Museum for Contemporary Art, Den Frie, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Roskilde Festival, Tallinn Art Hall, MMCA Seoul, Museum of Modern Art Zagreb and at Manifesta13 as well as The 15th Gwanju Biennale. Their work is in the collection of Moderna Museet.

Selected projects:
Self Tape (2024)
Prøvedage / The Tryouts (2024)
Resort (2023)
The Wide-Mouthed Frog (2022)
Bunk (2022, 2024)
Filmkys / Movie Kiss (2022)
Bed Made To Look Like Body (2021)
Foot Fault (2021)

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Bunk (2022, 2024)

Bunk is a work about longing, intimacy and the passage of time: being young and wanting to be older, getting older and wishing to be younger. 

We follow three characters during a series of sleepless nights. They can't see or hear each other and spend each night talking to themselves and building new realities and escapes: a rope made from a blanket or a blue duvet cover turned into a swimming pool. 

Fantasies, desires, dreams, anxieties and memories mix somewhere between sleep and consciousness. It’s a story about imagined childhoods, queer temporalities, sleepless nights and multiple puberties. 

Bunk was originally developed in 2022 in collaboration with the three dancers and choreographers: Kai Merke, Andreas Haglund and Denise Lim during a residency at Hollufgård Gæsteatelier. A new iteration of Bunk was made in 2024 for the project In Situ Philippines at Manila Metropolitan Theater in collaboration with choreographer Kai Merke and the three local performers: Sasa Cabalquinto, Jeremy Mayores and Kyle Confesor.

Concept / directing / scenography: Filip Vest
CHOREOGRAPHY: Filip Vest, KAI MERKE
TEXT AND MOVEMENT DEVELOPED IN COLLABORATION WITH: KaI Merke, andreas haglund, denise lim, sasa cabalquinto, jeremy mayores, kyle confessor
Music: Joakim Wei Bernild
curated by: Vanini Belarmino
Co-produced by: belarmino and partners, cultural center of the philippines
Supported by: Statens Kunstfond, Ny Carlsberg Fondet, hollufgård
Thank you to: EYA BELDIA, RENZ SEVILLA
Photos: GERIC CRUZ, FILIP VEST