Astrid Myntekær
Astrid Myntekær’s sensory installations often revolve around relationships that, at first glance, may seem incompatible.
Astrid Myntekær. Photo: Line Klein
Artist
About
Astrid Myntekær (b. 1985, Lejre) holds an MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen (2012), and studied under Haegue Yang at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg (2008–2009). She lives and works in Copenhagen.
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Installation
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Astrid Myntekær creates speculative environments shaped by the strange spectacle, inventiveness and fragility of life, treating biology as science fiction. Working across sculpture and installation, she combines light, metal, artificial skins and speculative technologies to construct unfamiliar anatomies somewhere between organism and apparatus. Her work explores the shifting boundaries between protection and exposure, seduction and camouflage, the threatened and the threatening.
Myntekær's solo exhibitions include Kunstforeningen GL STRAND, Overgaden – Institute of Contemporary Art, and Tranen Contemporary Art Center. She was an artist-in-residence at ISCP, New York (2015), where she later presented the solo exhibition Nocturn (2016). Her work has also been presented at ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Trapholt and the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.
She has realised permanent commissions for institutions and organisations including Danske Bank Headquarters, DTU – Technical University of Denmark, the Danish Tax Agency and the Danish Environmental Protection Agency. Myntekær received the Ferlov Mancoba Foundation Honorary Grant (2026) and a three-year working grant from the Danish Arts Foundation (2021). Her work is held in several public collections, including ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art, the Danish Arts Foundation and Örebro konsthall, Sweden.