Sebastian Holmbäck (b. 1971) is a Danish artist living and working north of Copenhagen, in the small town of Humlebæk. His practice spans sculptural and painterly works, as well as experimental, performative explorations of human perception and consciousness.
“I am interested in the human being as both biological matter and conscious presence.”
My work explores consciousness not as an abstract belief system, but as something lived, sensed, and experienced. Alongside material-based practices, I engage intuition and heightened perception as tools of inquiry—treating them not as beliefs, but as capacities inherent to human experience.
Through geometry, material, repetition, and symbolic form, I investigate how meaning, memory, and information appear to extend beyond the purely physical—yet always manifest through it.
Many of my works take the form of geometric reliefs or archaic figures, referencing early human markings, cave paintings, and symbolic systems that predate written language. These forms are not nostalgic; they point to something persistent: a shared human attempt to understand our place in the world through form, rhythm, and pattern.
I approach art as a field of inquiry rather than a statement of truth. My practice moves in a third space—between scientific materialism and spiritual dogma—where subjective experience, intuition, and perception are treated as valid sources of knowledge. Not as answers, but as instruments.
At its core, my work is an exploration of consciousness as something relational—between self and world, matter and meaning, past and present. A quiet investigation into what remains unchanged as everything else evolves.
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Furniture and indutrial design, The Danish Design School 1998
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2025 - M A N. Solo exhibition, Copenhagen (DK)
2024 - Contrasts. Group exhibition, Galleri Kindt-Larsen (DK)
2023 KP - Kunstnernes Påskeudstilling, Århus (DK)
2010 S-E, Snedkernes Efterårsudstilling. Glyptoteket, København (DK)
2009 S-E, Snedkernes Efterårsudstilling w.Dupont Corian (DK)
2008 S-E, Snedkernes Efterårsudstilling w.Källemo (DK)
2007 100% Design, London. Made in Denmark (UK)
2006 S-E, Snedkernes Efterårsudstilling (DK)
2004 Planken Ud II, Kulturhuset, Stockholm (S)
Planken Ud II, La Maison du Danemark, Paris (F)
2003 Planken Ud II, Tokyo Designer Block, Tokyo (JP)
Planken Ud II, Kunstindustrimuseet, København (DK)
2002 Ex. arc. “What is Design?” Dansk Design Center (DK)
2001 Form i Forandring. Horsens Kunstmuseum (DK)
2000 Danmarks Designskoles Jubilæumsudstilling
Efterårsudstillingen, Charlottenborg, Kurator Design & Kunsthåndværk,
Instant Room, a PANIC project, Dansk Design Center
1999 Deutsche Patentamt, PANIC. München (D)
“Klassisk og moderne design”, Greve Museum (DK)
“Planken Ud”, Kunstindustrimuseet, København (DK)
“The Nordic Transparency”. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL)
1998 “Young Forum”, Form/Design Center, Malmö (S)
“Young Forum”, PANIC. Helsinki (F)
1997 Scandinavian Trade Mart, PANIC (DK)
“Cinq jeunes createurs danois d’art mobilier”, La Maison du Danemark, Paris (F)
Scandinavian Furniture Fair, PANIC
PANIC, Kunstindustrimuseet, København (DK)
1996 Scandinavian Furniture Fair, PANIC. Nomineret til BO BEDRE’s møbelpris
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2021: Tableware International Awards of Excellence
2017: Red Dot Award
2017: IF Product Award
2015: German Design Award, Special Mention
2014: Red Dot Award
2014: IF Product Award
2013: Designer of the Year, Boligmagasinet
2011: Red Dot Award, Best of the Best
2011: GIA Award
2011: Accent on Design, NY
2011: Formland Design Award
2005: Red Dot Award