Hedvig Greiffenberg’s practice spans sculpture, installation, and writing. In her work she investigates systems of signification in a sculptural-poetic context, examining how the gaze shapes the world and how the act of reading is destabilized.

Greiffenberg’s work is driven by an interest in how we as humans categorize and structure the world. Rooted in a foundational interest in language, structuralist theories, and epistemological liminality, her practice explores the relationship between perception and knowability in simple yet poetic sculptural constellations.

Working with a strong material sensibility, she investigates how associations and references are embedded in the materials she works with. As a sculptor, material and spatial negotiations are central to Greiffenberg’s work. Employing both traditional cast materials and found or readymade objects, she questions the semantics of the material itself, exploring layering and framing of objects as well as the void in between, hereby creating installations with subtle rhythmic properties. She actively blurs the boundaries between the known and the unfamiliar, working both with and against the associative properties of materials, challenging habitual patterns of perception and drawing attention to how perception is inherently contingent and mutable. Within each of her works, elements touch, transform, and inscribe meaning upon one another so that new meanings and associations arise through contact and interaction.