Sofie Winther

Winther examines the themes of consumerism, identity and our relationship with ownership.

Tickets: This performance is free and open to everyone. If you want to make sure you can experience the performance up close, you can book a special guest spot here. 

ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE

Sofie Winther presents a new performance piece, which is developed site-specifically in and around Den Frie Udstillingsbygning. Arising from the concept of mass hysteria, revisiting society’s fixation on ownership and the addictive nature of consumption, the work explores how individual expression and consumer behavior are shaped by societal structures and how these dynamics contribute to a fractured world.

At the same time, Winther examines the strengths and vulnerabilities of collective behavior, focusing on behaviorism, synchronization, and empathy. The performance explores how communal practices can foster community and empathy, offering a response to overconsumption and hyper-individualism. It questions how collective behavior can simultaneously dominate the individual and create synchronicity, while strengthening bonds through mechanisms like mirror neurons.

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ABOUT THE ARTIST

Sofie Winther is a Danish artist living and working in Copenhagen, Denmark. Winther graduated with an MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2023) in Copenhagen. Her work has been exhibited at Den Frie Udstillingsbygning (DK), Inter.pblc (DK) and at Art Hub Copenhagen (DK). Winther is the recipient of honorary awards from the 2023 15. Juni Foundation, Paul Erik Bech Foundation, Birgit Vibeke Tofts Memorial Foundation, and Ragnvald & Ida Blix’ Foundation.

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PERFORMANCE BULLETIN

Den Frie and Toaster presents the upcoming performance festival The Performance Bulletin, which will take place June 5-8 2025. Together with Danish and international performance artists, we investigate how situational performance pieces can introduce alternative ways of engaging and experiencing contemporary art.  Formed by artistic actions that disrupts our attention and opens the senses, the program asks what kinds of imaginations can be activated through embodied, situated, and processual performances.

The program is based on close collaborations with artists, who experiment with everything from feminist openings of symbols and monuments in the city, to collective dance ecstasies, vocal performances, joints dinners, performative explorations of the city’s infrastructure,s and traffic hubs, to as well as performance pieces that slow down the paste pace and enhance our sensitivity. Improvisation and movement are central forces in the program, which experiment with access and negotiate of the use of the public space. Celebrating the unexpected, indeterminate, and estranged impulse of performances, the program tests public attention and social processes by the happening of art.

The program is curated by Iben Bach Elmstrøm in close collaborations and dialogue with the artists and the, Toaster and Den Frie curatorial teams. The program is generously supported by New Carlsberg Foundation, Bikuben Foundation, Danish Arts Council and Roskilde University.