Kasper Sonne

Born 1974, Denmark

Lives and works in New York City, USA


Education: BA, the Danish School of Design, Copenhagen.

Through a simultaneous construction and deconstruction of meaning, the reading of well established signs and symbols are deliberately obscured in the work of Kasper Sonne. Common signifiers - deployed to achieve instant recognition in the viewer in order to create an autonomous entrance point to the works – are manipulated to reveal and expose a shift from the familiar, rendering the obvious ambiguous and prolonging the process of decoding - something that Sonne refers to as ‘extending the narrative of the singular cliché’. Much interested in dualities, Sonne often investigate, invent and reinvent, words, phrases and objects that are capable of representing oppositional stances.


In 2009 his works are to be seen at three solo exhibitions – in Copenhagen, Mexico City and in New York.



Kasper Sonne, The Construction of Crisis, Window glass, mirror foil, aluminum, 100 x 100 x 3 cm, (2 separate works – same title), 2008.