Timo Menke

Timo Menke is an interdisciplinary artist based in Stockholm. His practice is driven by an interest in dark objects, processes and methodologies to cultivate a “dark holism”. Using a wide spectrum of light-sensitive, performative, conceptual and text-based methods, his work deals with various forms of nature-cultures and their entangled histories, phenomena and agencies—from Danish sperm donors to Finnish male choirs, from a defunct Swedish mine to a waste landfill in southern Sweden. Menke graduated from Konstfack in 1999 where he also taught as Assistant Professor in the Art Department between 2004 and 2014. Menke’s work is represented in Moderna Museet Stockholm, Kalmar konstmuseum, Pori Art Museum, and is distributed by Filmform—The Art Film and Video Archive. He is the recipient of major grants from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee/IASPIS and was on the board (treasurer) of The Nordic Art Association (NKF)—a non-profit organisation dedicated to the visual arts in the Nordic countries—in 2022–25.