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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Resort (2023)

Resort is an exhibition and performance by Filip Vest. The exhibition takes the form of a surreal holiday paradise where disaster lurks just beneath the luxurious surface. The performance revolves around a couple who have gone on holiday to a resort to fix their relationship. They begin a role play, pretending to be two strangers meeting in a hotel bar. But as they try out different scenari- os, they slowly lose control of the game and their sense of self. At the resort everything appears porous. Nature and culture, identities, and relations, past, present, and future coalesce. Resort enters a conversation with the current climate and biodiversity crisis through the lens of a crumbling rela- tionship. Movements small and large affect each other: plate tectonics and relationship dynamics, a breakup and/or the end of the world.

Resort was first shown at Møstings in 2023 and then selected for the curated programme at CPH Stage where it repremiered in 2024.

Reviews: 
Bastard
Iscene
Den 4. Væg
co-produced by: TOASTER, CPH Stage, AVENY-T
Supported by: Statens Kunstfond, frederiksbergfonden, Arbejdernes Landsbank, Beckett Fonden, Colour Ceramica and Rosendahl Design
Photos: Torben Eskerod, Palle Bo Nielsen, Erik andré nes