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In this special interview edition of The Process, Somerset House Studios Director Marie McPartlin speaks with artist Sidsel Meineche Hansen about the making of Grumpy, her online commission for Channel.

A computer-animated interpretation of the anatomical Venus — an 18th-century wax model of a dissected woman, adorned with pearls and used to teach anatomy — Grumpy explores the intersections of gender, technology, and desire.

🎧 Listen now on Channel, our online platform for art, process and ideas featuring documentaries, podcasts, articles and more. Link in bio.

Produced by Alannah Chance

Sidsel Meineche Hansen’s “Grumpy” (2025) confronts viewers with fractured digital bodies and techno-feminist ghosts of Enlightenment ideas. In their essay, Bianca Stoppani unpacks the work’s uneasy intimacy – where surveillance, sexuality, and spectral labor converge. Through horror, humor, and code, Hansen reanimates the politics of representation in grotesque, glitchy form.

Hit the link in bio to read “Never Let Go,” @no_sid by @abinoppst from 351 Summer 2025.

Sidsel Meineche Hansen’s work will be on view in “Once Within a Time,” the 12th SITE SANTA FE International at @sitesantafe from June 27, 2025 until January 13, 2026.

#SidselMeinecheHansen
#BiancaStoppani
#FlashArt351
#FlashArtMagazine

Sidsel Meineche Hansen’s “Grumpy” (2025) confronts viewers with fractured digital bodies and techno-feminist ghosts of Enlightenment ideas. In their essay, Bianca Stoppani unpacks the work’s uneasy intimacy – where surveillance, sexuality, and spectral labor converge. Through horror, humor, and code, Hansen reanimates the politics of representation in grotesque, glitchy form.

Hit the link in bio to read “Never Let Go,” @no_sid by @abinoppst from 351 Summer 2025.

Sidsel Meineche Hansen’s work will be on view in “Once Within a Time,” the 12th SITE SANTA FE International at @sitesantafe from June 27, 2025 until January 13, 2026.

#SidselMeinecheHansen
#BiancaStoppani
#FlashArt351
#FlashArtMagazine

Sidsel Meineche Hansen’s “Grumpy” (2025) confronts viewers with fractured digital bodies and techno-feminist ghosts of Enlightenment ideas. In their essay, Bianca Stoppani unpacks the work’s uneasy intimacy – where surveillance, sexuality, and spectral labor converge. Through horror, humor, and code, Hansen reanimates the politics of representation in grotesque, glitchy form.

Hit the link in bio to read “Never Let Go,” @no_sid by @abinoppst from 351 Summer 2025.

Sidsel Meineche Hansen’s work will be on view in “Once Within a Time,” the 12th SITE SANTA FE International at @sitesantafe from June 27, 2025 until January 13, 2026.

#SidselMeinecheHansen
#BiancaStoppani
#FlashArt351
#FlashArtMagazine

Sidsel Meineche Hansen’s “Grumpy” (2025) confronts viewers with fractured digital bodies and techno-feminist ghosts of Enlightenment ideas. In their essay, Bianca Stoppani unpacks the work’s uneasy intimacy – where surveillance, sexuality, and spectral labor converge. Through horror, humor, and code, Hansen reanimates the politics of representation in grotesque, glitchy form.

Hit the link in bio to read “Never Let Go,” @no_sid by @abinoppst from 351 Summer 2025.

Sidsel Meineche Hansen’s work will be on view in “Once Within a Time,” the 12th SITE SANTA FE International at @sitesantafe from June 27, 2025 until January 13, 2026.

#SidselMeinecheHansen
#BiancaStoppani
#FlashArt351
#FlashArtMagazine

“Grumpy (2025) is an eviscerated yet undead killjoy — an agential feeling before being a subject.” — Bianca Stoppani, Flash Art Issue 351, Summer 2025

Commissioned for Channel, our online curated space for art, ideas and the artistic process, Sidsel Meineche Hansen’s Grumpy is a visceral new moving-image work combining melodic voice recordings, CGI animation and an 18th-century wax-casting technique to explore love, consent, and the function of bodies in digital and medical spaces.

In the film, a chilling echo of the porn industry’s production of silicone bodies for automated use is conflated with the figure of the Anatomical Venus, who is cut open to eroticise the function of the reproductive and sexual organs.

📖 Read the full feature in Flash Art Issue 351, available to buy now
🔗 in bio to watch the film, best experienced on mobile with sound on

“Grumpy (2025) is an eviscerated yet undead killjoy — an agential feeling before being a subject.” — Bianca Stoppani, Flash Art Issue 351, Summer 2025

Commissioned for Channel, our online curated space for art, ideas and the artistic process, Sidsel Meineche Hansen’s Grumpy is a visceral new moving-image work combining melodic voice recordings, CGI animation and an 18th-century wax-casting technique to explore love, consent, and the function of bodies in digital and medical spaces.

In the film, a chilling echo of the porn industry’s production of silicone bodies for automated use is conflated with the figure of the Anatomical Venus, who is cut open to eroticise the function of the reproductive and sexual organs.

📖 Read the full feature in Flash Art Issue 351, available to buy now
🔗 in bio to watch the film, best experienced on mobile with sound on

“Grumpy (2025) is an eviscerated yet undead killjoy — an agential feeling before being a subject.” — Bianca Stoppani, Flash Art Issue 351, Summer 2025

Commissioned for Channel, our online curated space for art, ideas and the artistic process, Sidsel Meineche Hansen’s Grumpy is a visceral new moving-image work combining melodic voice recordings, CGI animation and an 18th-century wax-casting technique to explore love, consent, and the function of bodies in digital and medical spaces.

In the film, a chilling echo of the porn industry’s production of silicone bodies for automated use is conflated with the figure of the Anatomical Venus, who is cut open to eroticise the function of the reproductive and sexual organs.

📖 Read the full feature in Flash Art Issue 351, available to buy now
🔗 in bio to watch the film, best experienced on mobile with sound on

“Grumpy (2025) is an eviscerated yet undead killjoy — an agential feeling before being a subject.” — Bianca Stoppani, Flash Art Issue 351, Summer 2025

Commissioned for Channel, our online curated space for art, ideas and the artistic process, Sidsel Meineche Hansen’s Grumpy is a visceral new moving-image work combining melodic voice recordings, CGI animation and an 18th-century wax-casting technique to explore love, consent, and the function of bodies in digital and medical spaces.

In the film, a chilling echo of the porn industry’s production of silicone bodies for automated use is conflated with the figure of the Anatomical Venus, who is cut open to eroticise the function of the reproductive and sexual organs.

📖 Read the full feature in Flash Art Issue 351, available to buy now
🔗 in bio to watch the film, best experienced on mobile with sound on

Grumpy: Body Cast in Wax, Voice, and Digital Motion ⁠
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Working with an anatomist to execute the dissection of a body donated to research and a medical artist to cast the sexual and reproductive organs of this medical specimen, Sidsel Meineche Hansen (@no_sid) combines a sculpted 3D character and an anatomical wax model, as the basis for the Grumpy artwork. The film reproduces the organs and reanimates the body, partly scanned and transformed into a high-fidelity digital render, prompting questions around love in connection to agency, consent and function. ⁠
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Commissioned by and developed in residence at Somerset House Studios, this new work is part of Hyper Functional, Ultra Healthy, a programme. 🔗 Watch now—link in bio.

📢 A New Online Commission- Available to Watch Via Channel

We’re thrilled to present Grumpy, a bold new work by Sidsel Meineche Hansen, commissioned by and developed in residence at Somerset House Studios as part of Hyper Functional, Ultra Healthy—our ongoing programme exploring health and well-being in the face of technological and ecological change.

Grumpy is a declaration of unrequited love, blending melodic voice recordings, CGI animation, and ceroplastic—an 18th-century technique for casting anatomical wax models. Through the figure of the Anatomical Venus, the work explores the unsettling intersections of industry, intimacy, and identity.

Watch it now → [link in bio]

Step Inside, Think Outside.

Sidsel Meineche Hansen at KIOSK, Ghent
“WAX”
November 9, 2024 – January 12, 2025
Photos: ©Isabelle Arthuis, images courtesy of the artist and KIOSK, Ghent
@kioskgent @no_sid #kioskgent #sidselmeinchehansen

Sidsel Meineche Hansen at KIOSK, Ghent
“WAX”
November 9, 2024 – January 12, 2025
Photos: ©Isabelle Arthuis, images courtesy of the artist and KIOSK, Ghent
@kioskgent @no_sid #kioskgent #sidselmeinchehansen

Sidsel Meineche Hansen at KIOSK, Ghent
“WAX”
November 9, 2024 – January 12, 2025
Photos: ©Isabelle Arthuis, images courtesy of the artist and KIOSK, Ghent
@kioskgent @no_sid #kioskgent #sidselmeinchehansen

Sidsel Meineche Hansen at KIOSK, Ghent
“WAX”
November 9, 2024 – January 12, 2025
Photos: ©Isabelle Arthuis, images courtesy of the artist and KIOSK, Ghent
@kioskgent @no_sid #kioskgent #sidselmeinchehansen

Sidsel Meineche Hansen at KIOSK, Ghent
“WAX”
November 9, 2024 – January 12, 2025
Photos: ©Isabelle Arthuis, images courtesy of the artist and KIOSK, Ghent
@kioskgent @no_sid #kioskgent #sidselmeinchehansen

Sidsel Meineche Hansen at KIOSK, Ghent
“WAX”
November 9, 2024 – January 12, 2025
Photos: ©Isabelle Arthuis, images courtesy of the artist and KIOSK, Ghent
@kioskgent @no_sid #kioskgent #sidselmeinchehansen

In conjunction with the opening this Saturday 9/11 of Sidsel Meineche Hansen’s solo exhibition 𝘞𝘈𝘟, 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗱𝗲 𝗦𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 and 𝗝𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗪𝗶𝗸𝘀𝘁𝗿ö𝗺 will discuss the eerie shifts between subject and object in Hansen’s work. The conversation, organised by Merzedes Sturm-Lie, will focus on concepts of excitation, horror, and pornography, defining Hansen’s multifaceted practice.

𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗱𝗲 𝗦𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 is professor of legal theory at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Sciences-Po Paris. He has authored 30 award-winning books on law, sex, drugs, images and transgression, published into 15 languages. His most recent works in English include Narcocapitalism: Life in the Age of Anaesthesia (Polity, 2018), After Law (Polity, 2021) and Deleuze’s Philosophy of Law (Edinburgh UP, 2023). His Superweak: Thinking in the 21st Century is forthcoming with Polity.

𝗝𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗪𝗶𝗸𝘀𝘁𝗿ö𝗺 is a Swedish researcher and art critic working on the intersection between cultural theory and post-Kantian philosophy with a particular focus on performance and dance within contemporary art. She is a Senior Lecturer in Aesthetics at Södertörns Högskola and is the author of Practices of Relations in Task-Dance and the Event-Score (Routledge 2021) and has published in Radical Philosophy, Dance Chronicle and Performance Research Journal.

𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
•Conversation 9/11, at 2 pm.
•Opening 𝘞𝘈𝘟, 9/11, from 4 - 7 pm.
•Free entrance
•Cirque Auditorium: Louis Pasteurlaan 2, 9000 Gent

Organised by Merzedes Sturm-Lie (@merzzedes21), within her ongoing project Public Mediation as an Artistic Project

#kioskgent #kiosktalks #kioskexhibits #sidselmeinechehansen #wax

👁️ Who you’ll find at #LoopFair2024

⟡ Baby Jesus (2023)

Sidsel Meineche Hansen @no_sid and Therese Henningsen @theresehenningsen

Presented by Sylvia Kouvali @sylvia_kouvali

The video work presents an extraordinary case of the entanglement between property, the self, and survival. In collaboration with Therese Henningsen, Hansen portrays four nuns from the Little Sisters of Jesus congregation who live in a tower block in Hoxton, London, and a shared house in Walsingham, a Catholic pilgrimage village in the UK. By taking “The Cross” and the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, the nuns renounce ownership and feelings of possessiveness.

© Courtesy the artist and Sylvia Kouvali

🗓 19 - 21 Nov. 2024
📍Almanac Barcelona @almanacbarcelona

#SidselMeinecheHansen #ThereseHenningsen #BabyJesus #SylviaKouvali #videoart #artistsfilm #artistscinema #loopfair #loopbarcelona

Sidsel Meineche Hansen: Metal Works

This publication is devoted exclusively to the metal works of Sidsel Meineche Hansen. Catalogued here is every cast, forged, and fabricated metal sculpture made since 2017. Poems by the artist Diego Marcon annotate and respond to the individual pieces. 

Edited by Fredi Fischli (@fredifischli ) and Niels Olsen ( @fredi_niels_official )
Poems by Diego Marcon ( @die.marcon )
Design by Teo Schifferli ( @teoschifferli_studio )
2024, English, softcover, 16.5 x 22 cm, 96 pages
€ 20
ISBN: 979-12-80579-40-9

Photos: Paola Caputo (@paolacaputo_studio )

#SidselMeinecheHansen #metalworks #lenz #lenzpress

Sidsel Meineche Hansen: Metal Works

This publication is devoted exclusively to the metal works of Sidsel Meineche Hansen. Catalogued here is every cast, forged, and fabricated metal sculpture made since 2017. Poems by the artist Diego Marcon annotate and respond to the individual pieces. 

Edited by Fredi Fischli (@fredifischli ) and Niels Olsen ( @fredi_niels_official )
Poems by Diego Marcon ( @die.marcon )
Design by Teo Schifferli ( @teoschifferli_studio )
2024, English, softcover, 16.5 x 22 cm, 96 pages
€ 20
ISBN: 979-12-80579-40-9

Photos: Paola Caputo (@paolacaputo_studio )

#SidselMeinecheHansen #metalworks #lenz #lenzpress

Sidsel Meineche Hansen: Metal Works

This publication is devoted exclusively to the metal works of Sidsel Meineche Hansen. Catalogued here is every cast, forged, and fabricated metal sculpture made since 2017. Poems by the artist Diego Marcon annotate and respond to the individual pieces. 

Edited by Fredi Fischli (@fredifischli ) and Niels Olsen ( @fredi_niels_official )
Poems by Diego Marcon ( @die.marcon )
Design by Teo Schifferli ( @teoschifferli_studio )
2024, English, softcover, 16.5 x 22 cm, 96 pages
€ 20
ISBN: 979-12-80579-40-9

Photos: Paola Caputo (@paolacaputo_studio )

#SidselMeinecheHansen #metalworks #lenz #lenzpress

Sidsel Meineche Hansen: Metal Works

This publication is devoted exclusively to the metal works of Sidsel Meineche Hansen. Catalogued here is every cast, forged, and fabricated metal sculpture made since 2017. Poems by the artist Diego Marcon annotate and respond to the individual pieces. 

Edited by Fredi Fischli (@fredifischli ) and Niels Olsen ( @fredi_niels_official )
Poems by Diego Marcon ( @die.marcon )
Design by Teo Schifferli ( @teoschifferli_studio )
2024, English, softcover, 16.5 x 22 cm, 96 pages
€ 20
ISBN: 979-12-80579-40-9

Photos: Paola Caputo (@paolacaputo_studio )

#SidselMeinecheHansen #metalworks #lenz #lenzpress

Sidsel Meineche Hansen: Metal Works

This publication is devoted exclusively to the metal works of Sidsel Meineche Hansen. Catalogued here is every cast, forged, and fabricated metal sculpture made since 2017. Poems by the artist Diego Marcon annotate and respond to the individual pieces. 

Edited by Fredi Fischli (@fredifischli ) and Niels Olsen ( @fredi_niels_official )
Poems by Diego Marcon ( @die.marcon )
Design by Teo Schifferli ( @teoschifferli_studio )
2024, English, softcover, 16.5 x 22 cm, 96 pages
€ 20
ISBN: 979-12-80579-40-9

Photos: Paola Caputo (@paolacaputo_studio )

#SidselMeinecheHansen #metalworks #lenz #lenzpress

Sidsel Meineche Hansen: Metal Works

This publication is devoted exclusively to the metal works of Sidsel Meineche Hansen. Catalogued here is every cast, forged, and fabricated metal sculpture made since 2017. Poems by the artist Diego Marcon annotate and respond to the individual pieces. 

Edited by Fredi Fischli (@fredifischli ) and Niels Olsen ( @fredi_niels_official )
Poems by Diego Marcon ( @die.marcon )
Design by Teo Schifferli ( @teoschifferli_studio )
2024, English, softcover, 16.5 x 22 cm, 96 pages
€ 20
ISBN: 979-12-80579-40-9

Photos: Paola Caputo (@paolacaputo_studio )

#SidselMeinecheHansen #metalworks #lenz #lenzpress

Sidsel Meineche Hansen: Metal Works

This publication is devoted exclusively to the metal works of Sidsel Meineche Hansen. Catalogued here is every cast, forged, and fabricated metal sculpture made since 2017. Poems by the artist Diego Marcon annotate and respond to the individual pieces. 

Edited by Fredi Fischli (@fredifischli ) and Niels Olsen ( @fredi_niels_official )
Poems by Diego Marcon ( @die.marcon )
Design by Teo Schifferli ( @teoschifferli_studio )
2024, English, softcover, 16.5 x 22 cm, 96 pages
€ 20
ISBN: 979-12-80579-40-9

Photos: Paola Caputo (@paolacaputo_studio )

#SidselMeinecheHansen #metalworks #lenz #lenzpress

⚒️OUT NOW Sidsel Meineche Hansen: Metal Works

This new book is a complete survey of the cast, forged, and fabricated metal sculptures made by artist Sidsel Meineche Hansen since 2017.

Edited by Fredi Fischli (@fredifischli ) and Niels Olsen ( @fredi_niels_official )
Poems by Diego Marcon ( @die.marcon )
Design by Teo Schifferli ( @teoschifferli_studio )
2024, English, softcover, 16.5 x 22 cm, 96 pages
€ 20
ISBN: 979-12-80579-40-9

Photos: Paola Caputo (@paolacaputo_studio )

#SidselMeinecheHansen #metalworks #lenz #lenzpress

⚒️OUT NOW Sidsel Meineche Hansen: Metal Works

This new book is a complete survey of the cast, forged, and fabricated metal sculptures made by artist Sidsel Meineche Hansen since 2017.

Edited by Fredi Fischli (@fredifischli ) and Niels Olsen ( @fredi_niels_official )
Poems by Diego Marcon ( @die.marcon )
Design by Teo Schifferli ( @teoschifferli_studio )
2024, English, softcover, 16.5 x 22 cm, 96 pages
€ 20
ISBN: 979-12-80579-40-9

Photos: Paola Caputo (@paolacaputo_studio )

#SidselMeinecheHansen #metalworks #lenz #lenzpress

59TH VENICE BIENNALE ARTIST SIDSEL MEINECHE HANSEN FOR ART NOT GENOCIDE 

“I signed the letter from ANGA, the Art Not Genocide Alliance, to exclude Israel from the Venice Biennale because I agree with the letter’s statement that any artwork that officially represents the state of Israel is an endorsement of its genocidal policies. Venice Biennale is part of the cultural industry and a total boycott of the Israeli state is needed to stop the occupation of Palestine and the genocide of the Palestinian people.” – Sidsel Meineche Hansen 

Hansen participated in the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022, curated by Cecilia Alemani. 

Image: IOF soldiers outside the Genocide Pavilion, 2024 

#angalliance #labiennaledivenezia #venicebiennale #venicebiennale2024 #foreignerseverywhere #labiennaledivenezia2024 #nodeathinvenice #sidselmeinechehansen 
#venicebiennale2022