Stine Deja

*1986, Denmark

“Deja’s practice explores the sticky in-between of real and virtual worlds with a striking arsenal of media that includes 3D animation, immersive installation, moving image, and digital surrogates. In Deja’s simulated spaces, uncanny avatars hinge between what’s strange and familiar, seducing us with not quite-real products informed equally by the artist’s simultaneous fascination and revulsion with our hyper-commercialized contemporary culture.Concealed beneath a sleek surface, multiple layers of social critique meld with absurdist aesthetics and tragicomic narratives to create a cybernetic landscape of fantasy and desire. At the heart of all of Deja’s projects is a keen interest in how these heightened emotional states, often coaxed out by late capitalist narratives of self-care and guilt-free indulgence, are displaced onto the body.”

– Alice Bucknell
*1986, Denmark

“Deja’s practice explores the sticky in-between of real and virtual worlds with a striking arsenal of media that includes 3D animation, immersive installation, moving image, and digital surrogates. In Deja’s simulated spaces, uncanny avatars hinge between what’s strange and familiar, seducing us with not quite-real products informed equally by the artist’s simultaneous fascination and revulsion with our hyper-commercialized contemporary culture.Concealed beneath a sleek surface, multiple layers of social critique meld with absurdist aesthetics and tragicomic narratives to create a cybernetic landscape of fantasy and desire. At the heart of all of Deja’s projects is a keen interest in how these heightened emotional states, often coaxed out by late capitalist narratives of self-care and guilt-free indulgence, are displaced onto the body.”

– Alice Bucknell

Education

2013 – 2015

MA | Royal College of Art, London

2009 – 2012

BA | Interaction Design, Kolding School of Design

2008 – 2009

School of Fine Art and Design, Arhus

Awards / Grants / Residencies

2023

Residency TIDAL | Signal, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, UK

2021

Residency ‘NEW NOW’ | Essen

2020

Working grant | Den Hielmstierne-Rosencroneske Stiftelse

3 year working grant | The Danish Art Foundation

2019

PLOP residency | London

Working grant | The Danish Art Foundation

SPACE Art & Tech residency ‘Future Human’ | London

2018

Grant for Hard core, soft bodies at Schimmel Projects | Danish Arts Foundation

Synthetic Seduction at KH7 Artspace awarded by Spatens Kunstfond

Working Grant | Danish Art Foundation

2017

Working Grant | Danish Arts Foundation

2015

Chris Graham Prize

Selected Solo and Duo Shows

2023

HEAVY RENDER | OTP Gallery, Copenhagen

Synthetic Seduction Revisited | with Marie Munk, Kongegaarden, Kosor, Denmark

2022

Nervous Energy| with Richie Culver, Tick Tack, Antwerpen

Assembly | Poly Udstillingsplatform, Vordingborg

Divine Desires | with Marie Munk, ALBA Gallery, Vienna

Divine Desires | with Marie Munk, Politikens Forhal, Copenhagen

2021

Dawn Chorus Beta | Fragment, New York

Dawn Chorus | Vestjyllands Kunstpavillion, Videbaek

Cold Sleep | Tranen, Gentofte

Last Resort | Kim? Contemporary Art Center, Riga

2020

Last Resort | Annka Kultys Gallery, London

Synthetic Seduction | untitled projects, Vienna

2019

HYPERSEA | Permanent installation commissioned by The Danish Art Foundation

2018

Hard core, soft bodies | Schimmel Projects, Dresden

Synthetic Sedcution | KH7 Artspace, Aarhus

4K ZEN | Unit110, New York

Synthetic Seduction | SixtyEight Art Institute, Copenhagen

Synthetic Seduction | Annka Kultys Gallery, London

2017

Theres life outside | Annka Kultys Gallery, London

Cyphoria | Annka Kultys Gallery, London

Selected Group Shows

2023

After Laughter Comes Tears | MUDAM, Luxembourg

Teknokroppen | Fuglsang Kunstmuseum, Denmark

Tumbling in Harness | Art Museum of the University of Toronto, Canada

Selected | Annika Nuttall Gallery, Aarhus

2023 – 2024

Multitude and Singularity | Le Bicolore of La Maison du Danemark, Paris, France

2023

Screening at H.C. Andersen Festival | Odense, Denmark

2022

WAVELENGHT | Pinkou, Shanghai, China

Continuous Shift | Kristianstads Konsthall, Sweden

Web 3.0 Aesthetics: In the Future Post-Hype of the NFTs | Annka Kultys Gallery x LA Collection

Prepper Paradise | Bureau Europa, Maastricht

Biennale “Art For The Future” | Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow

abandon all hope ye the enter here | Transmediale, Berlin

Liminal Space Records | Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna

Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishoj

There Must Be Some Kind Of Way Outta Here | Galerie Crone, Berlin

2021

REFRESH #4 New Realities: Design-Arts-Technology | Zhdk, Zurich

Screening “HMKV Video of the month” | HMKV, Dortmund

It enters what we become | Gallery 3 By You, Rotterdam

Gravmonumenter | Art Sonje Center, Seoul

Future Proof | Refresh.bzh, Brittany

Hybrid by Nature | Goethe-Instituts in East Asia x HEK Basel, online

NFTism: No Fear in Trying | Unit Gallery, London

‘Real Feelings’ | MU, Eindhoven

‘To Be Human’ | Zone Mist, London

Enter Art Fair Public Programme | Copenhagen

Synthetic Seduction | Platform Bunker, Copenhagen

‘AI PORTRAITURE: US AND THEM’ | Annka Kultys Gallery, London

‘La nudité de l’âme’ | Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus

Gravmonumenter | Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus

Networked Visions | isthisit?, online

2020

The Artist is Online | König Galerie, Berlin

Body Hacking | Lichte Momente, Osnabrück

‘Turning’s Lover’ | Jinan Art Museum, Jinan

LYS.MUR| Svendborg

‘Soft Bodies’ | Castlefield Gallery, Manchester

Real Feeling | HEK, Basel

Ars Electronica | with König Galerie, online

‘AI: Love and Artificial Intelligence’ | Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing, Beijing

Come Closer | Office Impart, online

White and Viscous Gold | Outsight, South Korea

NO BODY | Galerie Manqué, New York

Schimmel Art Projects | Brixen, Tyrol

Hypersurface | Austrian Cultural Forum, London

Art Lovers Movie Club | Art Review

Extemporary: Art Out of Time | Perm Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm

Screening Mock Jungle | Metoché, Bologna

Hyper Functional, Ultra Healthy | Somerset House, London

2019

Link in Bio | MdbK, Leipzig

Extemporary: Art Out of Time | National Center for Contemporary, Nizhny Novgorod

Biotechnosphere | Tranen, Gentofte

Goingaway.tv | Wrong Biennale Pavillon, online

Super Host | Like a Little Disaster, Polignano a Mare

Beyond the Skin | Museum Villa Roth, Burgrieden

Copernicus | E.M.Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island

We Sing the Body Electric | Gallery 46, London

HERE + NOW | Pablo’s Birthday, New York

PLOP residency show | London

Life & Beyond | Lewisham Arthouse, London

Synthetic Seduction | SUB Festival, Holstebro

Future Human | Space Studios, London

4K ZEN | Vitrine Gallery x Kino Digital, London

A closed mouth gathers no feet | DASH Gallery, Kortrijk

A glass is not a reference for an amount | In de ruimte, Gent

2018

Flow My Tears, Hard core, soft Body | Data Editions, online

Digital Pleasures | Mira Festival, Barcelona

Spread the Virus | Dateagleart, online

I’m sorry, I didn’t quite catch that | Arbeite Gallery, London

Lend me a hand | Elmer Projects, London

The Wrong – New Digital Art Biennale | Cidade das Artes, Rio de Janeiro

2017

Time Horizons | Secret Project Robot, New York

And if I left off dreaming about you? | Lika a little disaster, Polignano a Mare

Bodies of water | National Gallery of Denmark x Roskilde Festival, Copenhagen

You and I are like that red wall. It’s a good idea but somehow it doesn’t quite work | isthisitisthisit.com, online

2016

Synthetic Resonances | Assembly Point, London

Festival of Endless Graditute | Copenhagen

Age Does Not Matter | Bargehouse, London

2015

KE-15 | Den Frie Center of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen

CPH:DOX | Concrete Lab, Copenhagen

Green | 71A Gallery, London

Cyber Cafe | Royal College of Art, London

Physical Connections 2 | Artbar, London

Offprint | Tate, London

Hyperstore | WHAT’S NEXT Camden, London

The Perfect Human | Royal College of Art, London

2014

Kay Lise, SKIN/CELLS | Fringe Film Festival, London

What’s your story woman | Dansk Kvindesamfund, Copenhagen

2013

Enter The Common | Senior Common Room, London

The Elastic Holster | No Man’s Art Gallery, Shanghai

2012

The Elastic Holster | No Man’s Art Gallery, Copenhagen

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