about
Marie Wengler is located in Copenhagen, Denmark. As simultaneously a social scientist (PhD) and a visual artist, she works in the intersection between art-based research and research-based art, exploring and exposing the limits of what we perceive as “normality” in the society.
Marie’s primary medium is photography, although she also works with poetry and performance.
Specifically, she works with a medium-format Hasselblad X2D 100c. She does not use generative AI. Instead, she carefully devises and stages each of images, further adjusting her photographs in post-production.
EDUCATION
PhD Fellow, Copenhagen Business School (2021-2024)
MA Cognition & Communication, The University of Copenhagen (2017-2019)
BA Sociology, The University of Copenhagen (2013-2016)
RECENT AWARDS & NOMINATIONS
Selected for FRESH EYES, Gup Magazine I Haute Photographie, 2025
Shortlisted for ‘Portfoliopris‘, Preus Museum, 2024
Shortlisted for Athens Photo Festival, 2024
Longlisted for Aesthetica Art Prize, 2024
Selected for the HUMAN, Prix Pictet (2023); facilitated by V&A Museum; nominated by curator Yuko Yamaji from KMoPA
Shortlisted for International Photography Exhibition 164, The Royal Photographic Society, UK
One of 23 winners of YP2022, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (KMoPA), Japan
Selected as one of 30 under 30 women photographers, Artpil, 2022
Shortlisted for IWPA Award 2021/2022
RECENT & UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
“FRESH EYES”, Haute Photographie, Rotterdam, NL, 2025
Planches Contact, Les Fransiscaines, Deauville, FR, October 2024
“JustWomen”, 2023, group exhibition, curated by Slavica Veselinovic for ImagineNation, Galerie Joseph, Paris, FR, May 19-21
“Young Portfolio Satellite Exhibition”, 2023, Place M, Tokyo, Japan
“REBEL”, 2022, The Untitled Space, New York, NYC, September 29-October 27
“YP2022”, 2022, Group exhibition, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (KMoPA), Japan
RECENT RESIDENCIES
Tremplin Jeunes Talents, Planches Contact, March-July 2024, FR
COLLECTIONS
The French Ministry of Culture/Les Fransiscaines: 5 works from NOR[THJMAN
Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (KMoPA): 5 works from REJECTED
MEDIA & PUBLICATIONS
FRESH EYES / Gup Magazine (book)
zrfdbck (book; upcoming)
Magasinet Fotografi, Preus Museum, April 2024
Prix Pictet Publication / HUMAN / V&A Museum, 2023
Interview in See:Zeen