We create imaginaries of the present and future through digital narratives.
Occupying the liminal realm between physical and digital, we seek to combine technological advancements with sensual qualities to activate a digital sensuousness.
Selected Works
2024
Techno Mythologies
Exhibition
2024
Hand in Hand
Interactive Installation
2023
The Liminal Eatery
Interactive Installation
2023
Digital Indulgence
Sculpture
2023
Royal Chambers - Book
Publication
2023
Handling
Digital Imagery
2023
Synthetic Crops II
Digital Imagery
2022
Royal Chambers
Exhibition
2022
Wh331 0f 1!f3
Video Installation
2022
Rehousing Technosphere
Animation
2022
Between Earth and Cloud
Sculptural Installation
2022
Nest of You
Interactive Installation
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© 2016 — 2024 Wang & Söderström
About
Wang & Söderström is a Swedish-born, Copenhagen-based artist duo consisting of Anny Wang and Tim Söderström. We are interested in investigating the relationship of technology, ecology, materials and senses in the current and future digital and ecological shift.
Our synthetic realities translates into sculptures, visual imagery and installations that bring craft, body, nature and technology together.
Wang & Söderström’s works have been shown internationally in museums and art centers such as Ars Electronica in Linz, La Galleria Nazionale in Rome, The Design Museum in London, Copenhagen Contemporary in Copenhagen, MMCA in Seoul, ArkDes in Stockholm and Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York.
Their solo exhibition Techno Mythologies in Copenhagen was recognised as one of the most remarkable exhibitions of the year in 2024 by the Danish Arts Foundation. In 2023 they won the Lumen Art Prize and The Biennale Award of Crafts & Design and in 2021 they received the Danish Arts Foundation’s three-year working grant.
Tim Söderström (b.1988) graduated in 2015 from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture (MAA), Copenhagen. Anny Wang (b.1990) graduated in 2014 from HDK, Academy of Design and Crafts, University of Gothenburg (BFA), Gothenburg.
Tim Söderström (b.1988) graduated in 2015 from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture (MAA), Copenhagen. Anny Wang (b.1990) graduated in 2014 from HDK, Academy of Design and Crafts, University of Gothenburg (BFA), Gothenburg.
Photo by: Luke & Nik
Contact
For general enquiries or collaborations,please email:
︎︎︎ contact@wangsoderstrom.com
Instagram: @wangsoderstrom
Selected Exhibitions
- ‘Sharp Feelers – Soft Antennas ’ – Solo show. Röhsska Museum, Gothenburg, SE, 2025
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‘Sense Machine ’– Group show. Bloom Festival, Copenhagen, DK, 2025
- ‘ArkDes Samling’ – Group show. ArkDes, Stockholm, SE, 2024-25
- ‘Techno Mythologies’ – Solo show. Christianborg Palace, Christian IV’S Bryghus, Copenhagen, DK, 2024
- ‘OPEN ART’ Scandinavia’s biggest public art biennal – Group show. Örebro, SE, 2024
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‘Generation WHY’ – Group show. Rundetaarn, Copenhagen, DK, 2024
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‘Neo-Materialities’ – Group show. Le Cube Garges,
Garges-lès-Gonesse/ Paris, FR. 2024
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‘Rehousing Technosphere’ – Screening. Vita Kuben, Norrlandsoperan, Umeå, SE. 2024
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‘Sensory Response’ – Group show. Formation Gallery, Copenhagen, DK. 2023
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‘Rehousing Technosphere’ – Screening. Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, AU. 2023
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‘The Biennale for Craft and Design’ – Group show. Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen, DK. 2023
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‘Food Age’ – Group
show.
The Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna
e Contemporanea,
Rome, IT, 2023
- ‘Generation WHY’ – Group show. Risør Kunstpark, Risør, NO, 2023
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‘In:Tangible’ – Group
show. Form Design Center, Malmö, SE, 2023
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‘Royal Chambers – Home as Host, Host as Home’ — Solo
show. inter.pblc, Copenhagen, DK, 2022
- ‘Weird Sensation Feels Good’ — Group show. The Design Museum, London, UK, 2022
- ‘Watch and Chill’– Group show. MMCA National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, KR, 2022
- ‘KOPP/CUP’ — Group Exhibition. QB Galleri, Oslo, NO, 2022
- ‘The Roaring Twenties’ — Group show. Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen, NL, 2021
- ‘Sustainable Societies for the Future’ Chicago EDIT — Group show. The Floating Museum, Chicago, US, 2021
- ‘Translucency’ — Group show. Tallinn Applied Art Triennial, Tallinn, ES, 2021
- ‘Sustainable Societies for the Future’ — Group show. Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, SE, 2021
- ‘Kleureyck’ — Group show. Design Museum Gent, Gent, BE, 2021
- ‘The Age Of Entanglements’ — Group show. Volvo Studio, Stockholm, SE, 2020
- ‘Objects With Love’ — Group show. Design Miami, Basel, BE, 2019
- ‘The Senses: Design Beyond Vision' — Group show. Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, US, 2018
- 'Transitional Speculation' — Solo show. Volvo Studio, Stockholm, SE, 2017/18
Grants & Honours
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Project Grant: ‘5+senses, Danish Arts Foundation, 2025
- Award: Danish Arts Foundation Annual Exhibition Award ‘Techno Mythologies’, 2024
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Project Grant: ‘Inventing Patina’ w/ Office Kim Lenchow, Danish Arts Foundation, 2024
- Award: The Biennale Award for Crafts & Design, Winner, 2023
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Award: Lumen Art Prize: Nordic Award, Winner, 2023
- Project Grant: ‘The Liminal Eatery’, Danmarks Nationalbanks Jubilæumsfond af 1968, 2023
- Project Grant: ‘The Liminal Eatery’, Danish Arts Foundation, 2023
- Publication: ‘Royal Chambers’, Wang & Söderström, Arvinius+ Orfeus Publishing, 2023
- Working grant: Three-year long, Danish Arts Foundation, 2022
- Project Grant: ‘Royal Chambers’, Danmarks Nationalbanks Jubilæumsfond af 1968, 2022
- Project Grant: ‘Royal Chambers’, Danish Arts Foundation, 2022
- Working grant: Danish Arts Foundation 2021
- Acquisitions: Malmö Art Museum, Permanent collection, 2021
- Award: Dezeen Awards: Emerging Designer of The Year, Winner, Public Award, 2021
- Award: Lumen Art Prize: Still Image and Nordic Award, Finalist, 2021
- Public Art: Permanent digital installation, Danish Architecture Center, 2020
- Acquisitions: Röhsska Museum, Permanent collection, 2020
- Jury: The One Club / Young Guns18 Awards, 2020
- Working grant: Danish Arts Foundation, 2020
- Jury: Frame Awards, 2019
- Publication: ‘Why Material Matters’, Seetal Solanki, Ma-tt-er, Prestel, 2018
- Travel grant: Konstnärsnämden/ Swedish Arts Grants Committee, 2018
- Publication: ‘The Senses: Design Beyond Vision’, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, Princeton Architectural Press, 2018
- Award: Adobe Nordic Creative Talent Award, Winner Sweden, 2016
Educating & Workshops
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Guest Teacher: ‘Pollinator Paradise’
— WS23-24 Course/Semniar, All Dept. HfG Karlsruhe, University of Arts and Design, DE, 2023/2024
- Visiting lecturer: Department of Design, the Swedish School of Textiles, Borås, SE, 2023
- Visiting lecturer: Interior Ecologies, MA Interior Architecture, HEAD Geneva University of Art and Design, Geneva, CH, 2023
- Guest Teacher: ‘The Liminal Eatery - A Seat at the Table for a Multisensory Digital Future’ — SS23 Course/Semniar, All Dept. HfG Karlsruhe, University of Arts and Design, DE, 2023
- Guest tutor: UIA Word Congress of Architects, Workshop, Royal Danish Academy, Copenhagen, DK, 2023
- Guest tutor: Design Master Programme, Workshops, Royal Danish Academy, Copenhagen, DK, 2019-23
- Guest tutor: MAD Summer Design School, Sigulda, LV, 2017
Talks
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‘Making a Living in Liminal Spaces’ — HDK Academy of Art & Design, Gotheburg, SE, 2024
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Artist Talk
— Umeå Institute of Design, Umeå, SE, 2024
- ‘Tactile Threshold’ — Google Visual Design Summit, 2023
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‘Together in an Ecology of Technology’
— Post Design Festival, Copenhagen, DK, 2023
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Kohlswat Lecture
— HfG Karlsruhe. Karlsruhe, DE, 2023
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Artist Talk
— SPOK, Rian Design Museum, Falkenberg, SE, 2023
- Brown Bag Lunches — Museum of Artistic Process and Public Art, Lund, SE, 2022
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‘Sensing Life and Structures in Micro, Macro and Cyberspace
— Forward Festival. Vienna, AU, 2022
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Panel Talk — Softer Digital Futures, Copenhagen, DK, 2022
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Artist Talk
— Designmuseets Venner, Designmuseum Denmark, Copenhagen, DK, 2022
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‘Acting in the Intersection Between Physical and Digital’ — Konstfack Research Week, Stockholm, SE, 2020
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‘Physical and digital as equals’
— Nicer Tuesdays, It’s Nice That, London, GB, 2020
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‘Bridging the Digital & Physical’
— Design Salon Seoul, Seoul, KR, 2019
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‘In-Between’
— Us By Night, Antwerp, BE, 2019
- Artist Talk — Ocean Plastics Exhibition, Röhsska Museum, Gothenburg, SE, 2019