Draft:Lea Porsager

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Lea Porsager (b. 1981) is a contemporary artist who probes the tension between quantum theory, tantric technologies, and feminist theory in a practice that spans film, sculpture, text, and earthworks. Her works are often rooted in situated experiments, readymades, and/or site-specific zones. She lives and works in Copenhagen.

Porsager graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, and the Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main (2010). She holds a PhD from Malmö Art Academy and Lund University (2021), followed by Mads Øvlisen Postdoc Fellowship (2023–25), hosted by the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, in collaboration with Arts at CERN, Geneva.

Lea Porsager has received a number of awards and recognitions, including Eckersberg Medal (DK), 2023; the New Carlsberg Foundation’s Artist Grant (DK), 2022; Niels Wessel Bagges kunstlegat (DK), 2021; Prins Eugen Medal (SE), 2020; H. C. Ørsted ambassador (DK), 2020; John and Margaretha Aspegren’s Scholarship (SE), 2019; CERN Honorary Mentions for the Collide International Award (CHE), 2018; Carl Nielsen & Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen’s Grant (DK), 2015; Danish Arts Foundation’s three-year work-grant (DK), 2015; Aage og Yelva Nimbs Fond (DK), 2012; Malerne Else og Henning Jensens Legat (DK), 2012; and the Montana ENTER Prize, 2008.

Previous solo exhibitions include: SNOOZE (90 Seconds to Midnight), Nils Stærk, Copenhagen, DK, 2023; STRIPPED, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK, 2021; STRIPPED, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE, 2020; Horny Vacuum – Pulsations and appetites, FuturDome, Milan, IT, 2020; [WEAK] FORCE, Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, DK, 2019; Z WAN (special display as part of the SMK2 project series), National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, DK, 2016; E(AR)THERIC SLIME ~ PRE-OP, Nils Stærk, Copenhagen, DK; E(AR)THERIC SLIME ~ POST-OP, Brandts13, Odense, DK, 2016; Ova Splash - Aftermath w/ delicious raw expansive eggnog served chilled (experiment), X and BEYOND, Copenhagen, DK, 2016; Ring-Pass-Not, Kunstverein Göttingen, Göttingen, DE, 2015; SPIN Φ, Overgaden – Institute for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK, 2015; ATU XI “LUST”, Nils Stærk, Copenhagen, DK, 2015; FOOD FOR THE MOON — Sluggish and Well-lubricated, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, NO, 2014; A Cosmic Mishap, The Emily Harvey Foundation, New York City, USA; How to program and use T-F, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen, DK, 2013; and CELESTIAL BODY – Disrupted Nerve Fluid and Crossed Shock Waves, Henningsen Gallery, Copenhagen, DK, 2011.

In 2012, Porsager participated in dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, DE, with Anatta Experiment. In 2015, Porsager took part in the 14th Istanbul Biennial: SALTWATER: A Theory of Thought Forms. Both exhibitions were curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev.

Porsager’s large-scale earthwork and memorial Gravitational Ripples was inaugurated in Stockholm in 2018. The work was commissioned by the Swedish government to commemorate the Swedish citizens who lost their lives in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. On December 26, 2004, Southeast Asia was struck by one of the most devastating natural disasters in modern history, resulting in the deaths of as many as 250,000 people, including 543 Swedes. In 2017, Porsager won the international competition to create the memorial with her proposal Gravitational Ripples. The work is inspired by the cosmic phenomenon of gravitational waves, predicted by Albert Einstein in 1916 and first observed and measured around 100 years later. These waves are generated when two massive celestial bodies orbit one another and spiral closer together, releasing vast amounts of energy that creates ripples through spacetime. It is a meditation on the boundless forces of the universe, a reminder of the cosmic disruptions that bind and unite us. As an earthwork, Gravitational Ripples is subject to the ebbs and flows of time. Following the changing seasons, it will always be in flux, always in a state of transition. Gravitational Ripples was created by Porsager in collaboration with Søren Assenholt, Synnøve B. Brøgger, and Rasmus Strange Thue Tobiasen.

Lea Porsagers work can be found in following collections: Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, USA; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE; Statens Museum for Kunst / The National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, DK; Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, NO; ARKEN, Ishøj, DK; Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, DK; Sorø Art Museum, Sorø, DK; Malmø Art Museum, Malmø, SE; Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, DK; Skissernas Museum, Lund, SE; Fuglsang Kunstmuseum, Toreby, DK; and Museet for Religiøs Kunst, Lemvig, DK.