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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Prøvedage / The Tryouts (2024)

“What if the fire isn’t the end, but the beginning?”

Prøvedage (”The Tryouts”) is a play by Filip Vest about crises, hope, identity, and work. It’s about all the stories we tell about ourselves, each other, and the world we live in – and about other stories that might be possible.

We follow three interns who have been tasked with cleaning up a theatre after a fire. While working, they are accidentally locked inside, and to pass the time, they begin sharing stories from their lives and imagine new tales from the charred remains of the set pieces they find. Meanwhile, they navigate their own tangled identities, both minor and major crises, and the role of art in society.

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Concept / directing / scenography: Filip Vest 
Script: Filip Vest, Sidsel Ana Welden, Jihaan Yussuf
Actors: Ludvig Brostrup, Marie-Lydie Nokouda, Rebecca Langley Jensen
Music: Joakim Wei Bernild
Light design: Rosa Birkedal
Choreography: Kai Merke
Script consultants: Marie Bjørn, Joan Rang Christensen
Directing consultant: Astrid Lindhardt Iversen
Producer: Maja Bonde Holtze (prfrm)
Co-produced by: TOASTER and The Round Tower
Supported by: Statens Kunstfond, Ny Carlsberg Fondet, Augustinus Fonden, Knud Højgaards Fond, Wilhelm Hansen Fonden, København Kommunes Scenekunstudvalg, Statens Værksteder for Kunst
Thank you to: Værk APS, Anne Sofie Skjold Møller, Miu Beydin, Frederik Albrecht, Pernille Emilia Kjær, Anna Caroline Kristensen
Photos: Johan May Nitschke
Trailer: Søren Meisner