Miriam Kongstad

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View works. Miriam Kongstad, High-Octane (III), 2024
High-Octane (III), 2024
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Miriam Kongstad (b. 1991) is an artist based in Berlin and Copenhagen. Expanding from a background in choreography and performance, her practice is anchored in artistic research on embodiment and the human body, whilst materialising as images, installations, performance, sculpture and sound. Her work takes place in a social realm, depicting cultural and political structures surrounding the human body while honing in on themes such as identity, sexuality, health, desire, pain and pleasure. Miriam’s work questions how currents and societies are changing bodies and ideals; and how bodies and ideals are changing societies, by exploring the metaphysical, organic, social and spiritual aspects of inhabiting a body - the extended experience of being flesh. 
 
Miriam Kongstad originally trained as a choreographer at Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin (HZT) and subsequently completed an MFA in Fine Arts from the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam in 2020. Kongstad has exhibited and performed internationally, most recently at Glyptoteket (DK), Bergen Kunsthall (NO), Het Hem (NL), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (DK), KØS - Museum of Art in Public Spaces (DK), Kunsthal Aarhus (DK), MMAG Foundation (JO), Fundación Botín (ES), Hamburger Bahnhof (DE), PPL (USA) and Sophiensaele (DE). In 2022 and 2023, Kongstad's works were acquired by The National Gallery of Denmark (SMK) and in October 2023, she will premiere a newly commissioned performance at The Centre Pompidou in Paris.
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Kunsthal Charlottenborg Biennale 2021: Miriam Kongstad from I DO ART Agency on Vimeo.

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