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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Filmkys / Movie Kiss (2022)

“Filmkys” (”Movie Kiss”) is a performance and exhibition about cinema, desire, intimacy and our oversaturated and deficient language for love. It’s a story about clichés, fake kisses on the screen and hesitant kisses in the dark, about which roles we cast and miscast each other as in the film, we call our life.

At the opening a performance took place, where people reenacted famous movie kisses. During the exhibition period a film was screened in the cinema about all the things that happen in the dark, while the movie is running. A hand brushes another hand, a distracting smell, a piece of candy is eaten, another piece is lost, the moment your realize it’s the wrong movie, moving out from the dark into the light streets, losing the sense of time, an awkward goodbye, “I’m going that way”, “Me too”, “Okay”…

The exhibition was originally developed for the opening exhibition of the new exhibition space Foyer Contemporary that inhabits the foyer of the cinema, Park Bio. The project was later remade for Celsius Projects in Malmö.