In 2026, Maja Malou Lyse represents Denmark at the Danish Pavilion for the 61st Venice Biennale. In 2023, Maja Malou Lyse was part of the group exhibition at Index titled BODIES AND ANTIBODIES.

The exhibition at Index presented work by four artists: Malin Hallgren, Cassie Augusta Jørgensen, Maja Malou Lyse, and Erika Stöckel, and framed questions around the unstable notion of the body, investigating the relationship between the body and its construction.

The exhibition took its title from Lyse’s video work Antibodies (2022), a 10-minute long piece embracing the tone and ironic drawl from Sex and the City, drawing attention to the sometimes contradictory layers within its portrayal of multiple feminisms.

From the exhibition text:
Does the body have the agency to exhibit itself or is it unwillingly exposed? The voice – and the possibility of having a voice – resonates in the exhibition as a political desire to dismantle the status quo. Who has agency to self-determination, the right to desire and pleasure, through sexualization, commercialization, invisibility, hypervisibility, voyeuristic behaviors? Maja Malou Lyse’s work offers an intelligent provocation into the role of bodies in a world based on the circulation and currency of their image.

Read more about the exhibition here and Maja Malou Lyse’s work here.

Image: Still from Antibodies, Maja Malou Lyse, 2022. Courtesy Maja Malou Lyse.