Miriam Kongstad

Miriam Kongstad (DK, b. 1991) is a Danish artist based in Berlin who represented Denmark at the 15th Gwangju Biennale in 2024. 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 at the Gwangju Biennale, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, the New Carlsberg Glyptoteket Museum, Copenhagen, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Het Hem Art Center, the Netherlands, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen MAPS - Museum of Art in Public Spaces, Køge, Møstings Hus, Copenhagen, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, MMAG Foundation, Jordan, Fundación Botín, Estland, PPL, USA, and Sophiensaele, Berlin. In 2022 and 2023, Kongstad’s works were acquired by The National Gallery of Denmark and the Danish Arts Foundation.