Frederikke Jul Vedelsby

Frederikke Jul Vedelsby is a visual artist working with drawing, text, and time-based media. In the work I must see more of you or I will be quite sad, a blind singer, a retired childcare worker, and a poet organizing flea markets appear among drawings made with oil, beeswax, and pigment. In her intuitive, material-based approach, presence and relationships are central. Her drawings function as visual scripts, inspired by the bodies and gestures that populate her films. Care and absurdity are interwoven in works that move close to something known, yet invite new ways of seeing.

Graduated with an MFA from the Malmö Art Academy, Sweden (2020), Frederikke Jul Vedelsby studied at the Maumaus Independent Study Programme, Portugal (2021), and specialized in critical writing at Biskops Arnö, Sweden (2022). Recent residencies: PAiR, Latvia, The Nordic Art Association (NKF), Sweden, Materia Abierta, Mexico, DIA, Greece, Can Serrat, Spain, LungA, Iceland and a workshop at Fundation Botín led by Roni Horn and Isabel de Naverán in Santander, Spain (2023). 

Frederikke's films have been screened at the International Seminar about Blindness and Deafness in Art and Music at Inter Arts Center, a Cinema at the Woodland Book Center in Milwaukee, WI, US, the Flat Earth Cinema in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland and at Shower in Seoul, South Korea. She has received grants from the Danish Art Foundation and the Swedish Arts Grants Committee and a scholarship to attend the Othering & Belonging Conference organised by The Othering and Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley.

Visit Frederikke Jul Vedelsby's artist page - frederikkejul.com