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alex/alexandra sofie jönsson


is a socially engaged artist working with queer, eco-feminist and pedagogical formats, exploring how artistic practice can become a site for collective labour that incorporates multimodal forms of knowledge. Often working in response to institutional spaces and contexts, and often collaborating with communities as part of their practice.

They have previously shown work at Art Center Nabi, Lewisham Hospital, Tate Modern, Kunsthal NORD and Roskilde Festival. They are one of the co-founders of lím collective, a platform based in Aalborg exploring artistic practices at the intersections of health and care, and a former organiser of Goldsmiths University collective The Open System Association, Autonomous Tech Fetish (ATF), and The Body Recovery Unit.


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bulk carrier (2024)
Metal structure, wood, glass, string, plastic bottles, tape, plants and seeds
Biotopia, Fraktal Ventesal for Kunst & Poesi, Skørping.
Photos: Mette Lucca



“bulk carrier” is a one-person wearable foraging construction for tired bodies suffering from isolation, care labour, pollution, plant anxiety and alienation in late capitalist society. The work is part of a larger research exploring how artists have worked with and along plants and their agency and knowledge. Bulk carrier enhances the bodily space for plantness, and experiments with the re-establishing ties between human and plant bodies through gathering and collecting activities.  



The work is inspired by historical queer plant biotops such as the garden, home and sanctuary of artist, filmmaker, gay rights activist and gardener Derek Jarman (1942 - 1994), as well as  queerhistorical locations in the North of Jutland such as Kirsten Kjær Museet. Foraging and research have been conducted in Tranekær Medicinal Gardens on Langeland, RCP Medicinal Gardens in London, Rold Skov and woodlands around Aalborg. 

Currently on show as a part of “Biotopia”, Fraktal Ventesal for Kunst & Poesi, Skørping between 13th September to 11th November 2024. Kindly supported by The Danish Art Foundation. 

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