Aske Thiberg’s work transfers notions of detachment and alienation from digital space into the physical and shifts the social relations of analog bodies into computer-generated scenes, alternately fusing and juxtaposing the real with the virtual, motion with emotion, playfulness with melancholy, and collectivity with isolation. For four weeks later, Thiberg presents a choreography consisting of several sequences of video, text, and dance themed around family. Using the body as material, the artist’s performances largely draw from his practice of “locking,” a dance style that emerged in the 70s in the context of funk music. The dance’s repetitive, seemingly automated moves, its percussive clapping and stomping sounds, and its gestural locking —i.e., breaks and freezes—create a mechanical, even robotic expression. Circling both the connections and the separations of body and language, this physical rhythmicity is echoed in other elements of Thiberg’s work; 3D animated stop-motion films, intrusively beeping audio, and monotonously recited texts. Set in familiar social contexts, the artist’s anecdotal narratives, like the films, focus on mundane scenarios and details, while often taking increasingly absurd turns. Emphasizing the choreographic potential of text, Thiberg’s cross-media performances deploy reading aloud as a kind of movement. For the artist, performance itself is a medium for the expression of a shared feeling of isolation, a way of being “disconnected together”.

Aske Thiberg (b. 1994 in Sweden) is a Copenhagen-based visual artist holding an MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen (2023). Thiberg has exhibited and performed at various art venues including Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen (2025), inter.pblc, Copenhagen (2024), O–Overgaden, Copenhagen (2024), Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2023), Malmö Konstmuseum (2022), and Kunsthal Oslo (2021).

Organized by Clara Maria Blasius

(number of) weeks later is supported by The Gingko Foundation.