Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen
Work inquiryAbout the artist
Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen (B. 1970 in Manila, Philippines) lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. Rasmussen's praxis is based on performance art, also transformed to different materials and media such as video, photography, sculpture, and installations. Cuenca’s productions involve the body, scripted texts, songs; and composed music as well as intricate visual elements as costumes used as set design. She gathers, adapts, and universalizes her narratives in both a critical and humorous approach regarding issues such as identity, culture, religion, gender, and social relations.
Her work has been widely covered by international media including Phaidon, Art Matter, Louisiana Channel and Dazed.
Education
1996-2002
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen: Video Art, Copenhagen, DK
Solo exhibitions and performances
2024
Ateneo de Manila Gallery, Manila Quezon City
2023
Looping the Hoop, Gl. Holtegaard, DK
2022
Renaissance Twirl, Politikens Hus & Andersen's Contemporary, Copenhagen, Dk
I am not what you see, Helsinki Art Museum, HAM, Helsinki, FI
2021
Re-staging Stages (solo exhibition), Andersen's Contemporary, Copenhagen, DK
Blood Feathers, Andersen's Contemporary, Copenhagen, DK
I am not what you see (solo exhibition), Copenhagen Contemporary, DK
Gynophobia, Rudolf Tegners Museum, Drøningmølle, DK
2020
Seafocus Art Fair, Singapore
The Drawing Room Gallery, Manila, PH
2019
Herfra hvor vi står, From where we stand, Horsens Art Museum, DK
2018-2019
Tow with the Flow, A collaboration with Art2030 Denmark and Sur le Chemin; Roskilde Festival, New Design High, New York City, SMK, National Gallery Copenhagen, Palm Beach Art Fair, Miami, Heart, Museum of Modern Art Herning, Fringe, Manila, South by Southwest, Heartland Festival, Austin, TX, Folkemødet Bornholm, Personal Structures, ECC, Palazzo Mora, Venice May & September, 20
2018
Re-inventing Domesticity and the Decomposing of the Self, W. Drawing Room Manila, Art Basel Hong Kong
The Decomposing of the Self, TDC Guerilla Space, Manila, PH
Code, Art fair Copenhagen, Hans & Fritz Contemporary Barcelona and London
2017
Vestige, Drawing Room, Manila, PH
Unfolding Seeds and Vestige, Choreographed traces an homage to Oscar Niemeyer Two interventions in public spaces in Brasilia, Brasilia, BR
2016
Being Human Being, Hans & Fritz Contemporary, Barcelona, ES
2014
Being Human Being, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, DK
Musical skies dropping down to earth, making trees fly, Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg, SE
Inbetweeness, 20, DK
2013
Mobile Mirrors, Christian Larsen Gallery, Stockholm, SE
Anger ist Power, performances in retrospect, The museum goes downtown, Museum of Contemporary Art Roskilde, Roskilde, DK
GAIA # 3, Wundergrund Festival & Eventministeriet, The Red Room, Skuespillerhuset, The Royal Danish Theatre, DK
2012
Afghan Hound, Christian Larsen Gallery, Stockholm, SE
2011
Afghan Hound, Location1, New York City Transformations, Museum of Religious Art, Lemvig, DK
2010
Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, DE
2008
Mis United, Lilith Performance Studio, Malmö, SE
A Void & Mis United, Renwick Gallery, New York City, US
2007
A Void 1, Kirkhoff Contemporary, Copenhagen, DK
2006
EgoShow, The National Gallery, X-Room, Copenhagen, DK
Woman in the Rhytym, Gävle Kunstcentrum, Gävle, SE
2004
Life is Too Short, Kirkhoff Contemporary, Copenhagen, DK 2
2003
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, I.N.K., Copenhagen, DK
2001
Buzz, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, FI
2000
Family Show, Akershus Kunstsenter, Lilleström, NO
Group exhibitions and performances (selected)
2021
Octopada, Skisarnes Night, Skisarnes Museum, Lund, SE
Danse et Rituel, C_ND, Paris, FR
Whereever I lay my hat..., Performance for the inauguration of sculptures by Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen: "Lily & Flora", Holbæk, DK
Another map to Nevada, Performative boatride, performanceagency, Copenhagen, DK
Overgange, Rundetårn Female Festival, Copenhagen, DK
Situations: Small talk about big things, Guest at Grønningen, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, DK
Brydningstid, Hollufgård, Odense, DK
Jubilee, Charlotte Fogh Gallery, Aarhus, DK
2020
Collaboration, with Shone Puipia, National Gallery Singapore, SG
Billboard festival Istanbul, Public space and Depo Istanbul, TR
Tak for Venligheden, Rønnebæksholm, Næstved, DK
Verbo Performance Art Festival, Galeria Vermelho (São Paulo, SP) and CHÃO SLZ (São Luís, MA)
Duo Show Rhine Stone and Lilibeth Cuenca, Gallery Laure Genillard, London, UK
Where I am Coming From, curated by inventory Platform, Guest Projects, London, UK
Golden Days Festival, Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen, DK
Skisarnes Museum, Lund, SE
Seafocus art Fair, Singapore
The Drawing Room Gallery, Manila, PH
Vestigios solo performance, Step in the right direction, Singapore Biennale, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Trouble Diaries: Failure is a mother of success, Museum of Modern Art in Cuenca & Museum of Contemporary Art in Guayaquil, Ecuador,
2019
Intermezzo, Momentum, Børsen, Copenhagen, DK
Writings of bodies -we know it from the inside, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, DK
Dragedukke, Middelheim Museum, Antwerpen, BE
Tilvægs Copenhagen Personal Structures, TIME SPACE EXISTENCE, Palazzo Mora, GAA foundation, Venice, IT
Transitions, Womens Museum, Aarhus, DK
2018
Cornell Art Museum, Miami, US
Superstition, Marres, Maastricht, NL
Mobile Mirrors, Domes of Vision, Aarhus, DK
Brief Encounters 18, Lustwarande Platform for Contemporary Sculpture in park De Oude Warande, Tilburg, NL
NIAN, Gothenborg; Sweden & Faroe Islands
Clay, Shaping Earth, Asger Jorn Museum, Silkeborg, DK
2017
Cool, Calm and Collected, ARoS Museum, Aarhus, DK
Nordwind Festival, Berlin and Hamborg Røst, KØS, Køge
Between Sky and Sea: Tourist, Lofoten Smartphonemania, Denmarks Technical Museum, Helsingør, DK
HEX (Witch), Vejle Art Museum, DK
Looking Glass, Cornell Art Museum at Old School Square, Miami, US
Billedstorm, Museum of Religious Art, Lemvig, DK
Unfolding Seeds & Vestigios, Public spaces in Brasilia in collaboration with The Danish Institute Brazil & Deborah Dodd Mercedo from University Brasilia,
Nordic Delights, Cable Factory Helsinki, Photographic centre, Copenhagen, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar, Oslo Kunstforening, Oslo,
2016
Nordlys, P-Noise, Pineapple Lab & Metropolitan Theatre Manila,
Crossing the Line, Critical Distance Centre for Curators, Toronto, CA
If you were a sound which sound would you be with Anik Lazar, KØS (MAPS), Køge, DK
Beijing Live, Beijing
Arctic Action, Svalbard Art Bar, Copenhagen Contemporary, DK
Platform 3, Performance festival, Vejle, DK
Unknown Landscapes,, Nordkystens Kunsttrienale, Tegners Museum, Gribskov, DK
Encounters with Memory, Galleri Metamatic: Taf, Athens, GR
Ingrediens, Danish Art curated by Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen, Varberg Kunsthal, DK
2015
Something Else, Darb1718 Contemporary Arts Center, Cairo Ø, Hans & Fritz Contemporary, Barcelona,
Delicate Bridges, in collaboration with Anik Lazar, Unten-am-Havn, Interpol, Hamburg, DE
Mikado, Verbo, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo & Largo Das Artes, Rio de Janiero,
Gender Heart, Varberg Billboard Project, Casablanca
2014
Kunstpark Ordrupgaard, Ordrup Live art, Gothenburg, SE
Now and Again, Performance for video, Copenhagen, DK
The Drawing Room Contemporary Art, Manila & Singapore
Gender Heart, Havremagasinet, Boden, SE
2013
DigitalLive & GuangzhouLive, Guangzhou Performance Festival, Oxhouse, Macau
Is it a girl?, Akerhus Kunstcentrum, LilleStröm, SE
The Beginning Is Always Today, Feminist Art in Scandinavia 1990 until now, SKMU, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway and Västerås konstmuseum,
Rendezvous with Nature, Northern Photographic Centre, Oulu Unten-am-Havn - Copenhagen meets Hamburg by Interpol, Hamburg Empowerment, Vejle Museerne, Vejle,
Room with a view, Rønnebæksholm Art Centre, Næstved, DK
Lips Painted Red, Trondheim Kunst museum, Trondheim, NO
Immanent Geographies, The Drawing Room, Singapore
Café´Dancers, Dance&Performance programme, Nada Art Fair, New York, US
Out of Fashion, Textiles in Contemporary Art, gl. Holtegaard, Holte & Kunsten, Aalborg, DK,
You have every right, Ateneo De Manila Gallery, Manila, Philippines
Ground. Materiality no.2. (Earth), Sorø Kunstmuseum, Sorø, DK
Re-actfeminism #2, performing archive, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany + European Tour 2012-13,
2012
Connected by Art, Staatliches Museum Schwerin, DE
6 Generous Gestures, Galleri Lars Olsen ApS, Copenhagen, DK
How am I, Kastrupgaard Collection, DK
Lessico Famigliare, A.I.R. Futura, Prague, Czech Republique
The Instrumental Man, ACTS, Musicon, Museum of Contemporary Art Roskilde, The Womens Museum, Århus, Horsens Art Museum, Athelas, Denmark,
Festival, Republique, Copenhagen, DK
Verbo, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, BRA
Transdance Festival, Cairo, Egypt
City of Women, Ljubliana, Slovenia
Friction, International Performance Festival Uppsala, SE
Kulturmetroen, Horsens, DK
Mellemrum (INBETWEEN), Performance festival, Kitt Johnson-X -act, Copenhagen, DK
The Armory Show, Performance and panel with Linda Nochlin, New York City, US
Århus Kunstbygning, Centre for Contemporary Art, Aarhus, DK
Facetime, Imo Projects, Copenhagen, DK
On Stellar Rays, New York City, US
2011
Speech Matters, The Danish Pavillion Venice Biennale, Venice, IT
Anniversaire # 4, reims scenes déurope, FRAC-Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, FR
Who is Afraid of Performance Art, BAC, Geneva, CH
Out of the Left Field, Museum of Riejka, Quadrianale, Croatia
Afghan Hound, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen & Horsens Art Museum, DK,
Merging Grounds, Audio Visual Loop, Performance, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, DK
Palace Party, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK
Vokseværk, Kunsten Aalborg & Esbjerg Museum of Art, Denmark,
2010
Picasso Meets Degas, Museum Picasso, Barcelona, ES
Between Cultures, Socle du Monde, HeArt, Herning Museum of Art, DK
The Present doesn´t Exist in my mind and the future is already far behind: Verbo, Galleri Vermelho, Sao Paulo, BRA
Hélio, Oititica, Rio de Janiero
Location1, New York, US
ARoS, Museum of Modern Art, Aarhus, DK
Living Room, Auckland City, NZ
Ravello film festival, Ravello, IT
Liste Performance Project during Art Basel, Basel, CH
I want you under my Skin, Lilith Performance Studio, Malmø, SE
Anti-gravity, Gallery Parotta, Stuttgart, DE
Handlinger (Actions), Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, DK
2009
Dans, dans, dans, National Gallery, SMK, Copenhagen, DK
The Future is already way behind, Present doesn't exist in my Mind, Performa09 & Sculpture Center, New York City, US
Power to the Brand, Museum of Contemporary Art, Banja Luka, Bosnia
Circus Hein, on tour, Atelier Calder and FRAC Orleans, FR
Incarnational Aethetics, curated by Jenny Jaskey and Stamatina Gregory, NYCAMS, New York City, US
Viva, La Centrale, Montreal, CA
Once more with feeling, Tate Modern, London, UK
No soul for sale, Filipa Oliveira & Miguel Amado, The X-initiave, New York City, US
My Home, is where my Heart is, Living Room, Auckland City, New Zealand
Performance Series (Group Show), Renwick Gallery, New York City, US
Kopf oder Bauch, Wie Viel Theorie braucht die Kunst?, Hub:kunst.diskur e.V. Eisfabrik, Hannover, DE
Praxis: Art in Times of Uncertainty, Biennale of Contemporary Art, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, GR
She Devil, National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest & Studio Stefania Miscetti,, Rome, IT
re.act.feminism, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Festival of Women, Ljubljana, Kunsthaus Erfurt, Germany,
Ex-voto, The Third Space, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Mash up, Artspace, Auckland City, NZ
ISCP, open studios, (May & November),, New York City, US
F.K.I.T., Ars and Modus, Hammenhög, SE
2008
Act out: performative video by Nordic Women Artists, Centre of Art History and Artistic Investigation (CHAIA) of the University of Évora, Portugal
Lens Politica, Art Academy of Helsinki and KIASMA, FI
In the Loop, Alfred Univeristy, New York, US
Perform History, Aarhus Kunstbygning, Aarhus, DK
KropAmok, Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, DK
U–Turn, Quadrennial for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK
New Zealand Gallerinatten, Lilith Performance Studio, Malmö, SE
In Transit, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE
Soclé du Monde, Herning Kunstmuseum, DK
HotDocs, Documentary Film Festival, Toronto, CA
Food for Thought, U turn & Thorbjørn Christiansen, Stege Sukkerfabrik, Møn, DK
Danskjävlar – en svensk kærlighedserklæring, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK
Frelst Fiktion, Museet for Religiøs Kunst, Lemvig, DK
2007
Global Feminisms, Brooklyn Museum, New York, US
Global Feminisms, Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, US
LIPZ, 3rd Lianzhou International Photo Festival, Lianzhou Machine-RAUM, BIZ-ArT in collaboration with Vejle Kunstmuseum, Vejle About Time, Ålborg Kunstmuseum, Ålborg,
The Suitcase Project, Old Library, Cardiff, S.Wales, UK & Beaver Projects, Copenhagen, Denmark,
Su búsqueda - "exotismo o pornografía" - no produjo ningún resultado, zero1, Museu Comarcal de la Garrotxa, Olot, ES
Frac Nord-Pas de Calais, touring exhibition in France, FR
Kærlighed, Kunsthal Brænderigården, Viborg, DK
2006
A Tale of Two Cities, Busan Bienale, Busan, South Korea
New Adventures, Sejul Gallery, Seoul & The Danish Art Space (DAS), Beijing, China
Regarding Denmark, Illena Tounta Contemporary Art Centre, Athens, GR
Wake up!, Ars baltica Bienale, Rauma Art Museum, Rauma, FI
Esplanaden, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK
RF- Det reale og det Fantastiske, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK
Bandits-Mages, Bourges, FR
2005
Accent, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, DK
Doppeltop, Køge Skitse samling, DK
2004
SuperDanish, Habourfront Centre, Toronto, CA
Anders Zorn and Nordic Contemporary art, ARKEN - Museum of Contemporary Art, Ishøj, DK
The Inagural Show, Kirkhoff Contemporary, Copenhagen, DK
LASTWINTERSPRINGNEVERCAME, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, TR
2003
Rohto, Menegh Museum, Skt. Petersborg, RU
The Sound of Video: Rhythm and Musicality in Audiovisual Art, LAB, Copenhagen, DK
De bortbjudna, Malmö Konstmuseum visits Rooseum,
Sweden Home Sweet Home, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, DK
Stunt, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, FI
Familiebilleder, Kunsthal Brænderigården, Viborg, Denmark
2002
Fundamentalisms of The New Order, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK
There´s No Accounting for Other People´s Relationships, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Over The Horizon, Malmö Kunst Museum, Malmö, SE
Clockwise, Vejle Museum of Art, Vejle, DK
Nordens Hus, Reykjavik, IS
Race-Face, Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
Subjective Panoramic View, Ecole Supérieure d'Art of Perpignan, FR
ROHTO, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, FI
2001
Ars 01, KIASMA, Helsinki, FI
Fall Exhibition, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK
Anders Zorn and Nordic Contemporary art, ARKEN - Museum of Contemporary Art, Ishøj, DK
Neue Definition Der Familie, Shedhalle, Zürich, CH
2000
North, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, AT
BIG The Biennial for young European artists, Torino, IT
1999
PROMS 4, Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, DK
Hasta la vista, OTTO, Copenhagen, DK
Dispensing with Formalities, Copenhagen, Denmark
1998
Wrapped, Vestsjællands Kunstmuseum, Sorø, DK
Boomerang, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, DK
National and permanent collections
2006
Absolute Exotic, National Gallery, SMK,
Family Sha-la-la, National Gallery, SMK,
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