Astrid Specht Seeberg is a Copenhagen-based sculptor whose practice investigates identity, intimacy, and the environmental and social conditions shaping human and more-than-human relations. Working through an immersive and sensorial sculptural language, she creates figurative beings, sponges, and vessel-like sculptures that function as containers of fossilised or sealed life. Her works are defined by complex glazes and tactile surfaces, developed by the artist herself, in which colour and materiality unfold gradually through close attention.
Specht Seeberg’s practice is informed by scientific inquiry, drawing on anatomy, marine biology, and natural systems. Rather than directly anthropomorphising non-human forms, Specht Seeberg allows emotional, material, and scientific knowledge to converge within the sculptural process, producing works that resonate with shared, embodied experience. Grounded in a playful yet rigorous engagement with clay, Specht Seeberg’s practice has developed rapidly in recent years. In 2022, she received the Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Talent Award. She frequently collaborates with marine biologists, architects, and performance artists, extending sculpture beyond the object and situating her work at the intersection of art, science, and ecological thought.
Astrid Specht Seeberg has taken part in The Juried Exhibition at Den Frie Kunsthal and INTUITION REVOLUTION at Sophienholm, and she took residency at Asger Jorn’s Residency and Sculpture Centre in Albisola, Italy.
