Wang & Söderström

Wang & Söderström are a Swedish born, Copenhagen-based artist duo. In a hybrid practice that spans the physical and the digital, Anny Wang and Tim Söderström investigates the relationship of digital technologies, materials and living things in the current and future digital and ecological shift. The ideas that emerge are a synthesis of technology and material craft, taking form in sculpture, installation, and visual imagery. In this tangled space between the tangible and the transient, Wang & Söderström emphasise the emotional and haptic qualities of materials and textures, reframing their value and recasting their meaning. By working aesthetically exploratively and across mediums, the duo wants to stretch what the digital can be and look like in order to bring the digital closer to the human and the nature we are part of. Probing conventions, their ingenuity is germinating a new sensuality in the digital age. Their works have been shown around the globe in museums such as La Galleria Nazionale in Rome, The Design Museum in London, Museum Kranenburgh in Bergen NL, MMCA in Seoul, ArkDes in Stockholm and Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York. Along with their artistic practice their work has been realised at an international range with collaborations for renowned cultural institutions like the Nobel Prize Organisation and Alte Oper, leading fashion brands like Nike, Burberry, Rimowa, and some of the largest media and communication platforms like The New York Times and Apartamento Magazine. 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 Art and Design, University of Gothenburg (BFA), Gothenburg. They received the prestigious three-year work grant from the Danish Arts Foundation and won The Biennale Award 2023, which is considered the biggest recognition of current Danish craft & design.