Exhibition
Antibodies: Maja Malou Lyse
She has hosted her own TV program on DR, been a leading voice of fourth-wave feminism, and will now represent Denmark at the 2026 Venice Biennale. We are happy to present a solo exhibition by the Danish artist Maja Malou Lyse at Roskilde Station, featuring a work from the museum’s collection
Body Politics on the Platform
In the solo exhibition, visitors can experience Lyse’s video work Antibodies at Roskilde Station. The video blends humor, pop culture, and critical reflection on themes such as body politics, sexuality, pleasure, and self-representation, which are subjects that Lyse has consistently explored in her artistic practice.
In the work, we encounter a collage of video sequences, including a wide range of feminist literature, found clips from film and television, Lyse posing as a model in a photoshoot, and the animated sex toy, Satisfyer Pro. Antibodies clearly builds upon the legacy of cultural historians, feminist thinkers, artists, and activists, as Lyse openly asks both herself and the audience some of the complex questions and considerations that arise in the relationship between body, gender, identity, and image.
Antibodies is Maja Malou Lyse’s graduation project from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2022 and was first shown at Afgang at Kunsthal Charlottenborg. The work is twofold: one part is a video piece, and the other is a magazine cover and article featuring a series of self-portraits created for the fashion magazine Eurowoman, which was published and sold between April 20 and May 20, 2022.
The work extended beyond the traditional exhibition space, being distributed, seen, and purchased across the country during the same period. Copies of this edition of Eurowoman are also included in the exhibition, allowing the audience to experience both parts of the work together.
During Christmas, the exhibition is closed on December 25th and 26th.
The exhibition is open on Saturday the 27th.
We are open again after New Year’s on January 2nd.
Maja Malou Lyse
Maja Malou Lyse
Maja Malou Lyse (b. 1993, Aarhus) works with performance, sculpture, video, and photography—and has also explored alternative media and distribution platforms such as the DR2 television program Sex med Maja (Sex with Maja, 2019) and Instagram, where she has more than 44,000 followers under the name @habitual_body_monitoring2.
Lyse graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2022) and has received several awards, including the Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Talent Award (2023). She has previously exhibited at ARoS, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Brandts, SMK, INDEX (SE), Copenhagen Contemporary, Art Basel Miami (US), and the V&A – Victoria and Albert Museum (UK). Most recently, Lyse has presented solo exhibitions at O – Overgaden (2024) and Politikens Forhal (2024), and she has been selected to represent Denmark at the Venice Biennale in 2026, as the youngest artist ever to do so.
Roskilde Main Central
The Station Building
For the first time, the museum is exhibiting in the old ticket office of the station building at Roskilde Station — a place where people are constantly on the move and observe one another, precisely where her work on the gaze and identity unfolds.
With support from
THE COLLECTION
Antibodies was acquired by the Museum of Contemporary Art Roskilde for the collection in 2022 with support from the June 15’th Foundation.
The Museum of Contemporary Art Roskilde holds a collection of Danish and international contemporary art, which is continually expanded with works created from 1960 to the present day. The collection focuses on time-based art forms such as performance, interventions, installations, sound-based art, text-based art, video art, socially engaged art, and art on digital and virtual platforms. It includes works by, among others, Yoko Ono, John Cage, Henning Christiansen, AK Dolven, Ursula Reuter Christiansen, and many more.