Iben Li

Iben Li (b. 1977)

Education

1998–2001 – Aarhus School of Architecture, Aarhus, Denmark
2002 – Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design, St. Petersburg, Russia
2017–2020 – Master’s degree in Learning Processes, specializing in Innovation and Creative Learning Design

Selected Exhibitions

2025 – Peech Cph, “Secret Forest”
2022 – Kirsten Kjær Museum, “Everything That Is Simultaneously Possible and Impossible”
2021 – Kirsten Kjær Museum, “A Plant Attempts to Grow into a City”
2020 – Viborg Kunsthal, Staircase Gallery, “Nature is High-Tech”
2013 – ArtPlay, Melbourne, Australia, “Future Postal Service”
2011 – Viborg Kunsthal, “Time Cycles”
2011 – Horsens Industrial Museum, “Time Cycles”
2010 – The Artists’ Autumn Exhibition (KE10)
2010 – North Atlantic House, Hanstholm, “The Abyss”
2009 – Viborg Museum, “Water Visions”
2008 – Salling Sund Museum, “Water Visions”

Iben Li is a Danish artist with a long and diverse practice. With a background from the Aarhus School of Architecture, Iben early on developed an understanding of form and spatiality. Combined with an apprenticeship at the Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design, focusing on developing and acquiring classical methods, this has provided Iben with a unique and broad foundation for her artistic work.

Artistically, Iben works across multiple media, including ceramics, drawing, painting, film, installation, and performative works. Her practice has encompassed exhibitions, VJing, total installations, illustration, and the development of young talents.

In her artistic exploration, Iben is particularly concerned with the Anthropocene, as well as the interconnectedness of all things and the transformation from one form into another. Many of her works explore new mythologies that draw attention to cyclical and ephemeral states, where no clear distinction exists between human, nature, or culture, but where everything emerges and dissolves within the same atoms.