Isolotto, Uffe
Uffe Isolotto (b. 1976, Copenhagen, DK) graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2007. His works interrogate how the changing technological reality we live in can be understood through composite bodies. Spanning sculpture, installation, and time-based media, his works challenge the established distinctions between the human and the non-human.
He has participated in solo exhibitions at Arken, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Nikolaj Kunsthal, and Malmö Konsthall, among others. His work is in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Denmark and Holstebro Art Museum.
In 2022, Isolotto presented We Walked the Earth, curated by Jacob Lillemose for the Danish Pavilion, as part of the 59th Venice Biennale The Milk of Dreams, curated by Cecilia Alemani. Across curatorial projects and productions, Isolotto’s work has traversed different ecologies—both biological and synthetic—through an embodied practice that encompasses technology and ecologies in the broadest sense.
Holstebro Kunstmuseum presented the artist's largest museum exhibition to date. The exhibition Mælkeøje ("Milk Eye", June 7 - November 30, 2025) was his first commissioned project since representing Denmark at the Venice Biennale.
The work in the museum garden
- Universal Serial Bus
Uffe Isolottos (f.1976) Universal Serial Bus from 2018 consists of two sculptural parts connected by an iron chain, paint, USB ports, LED light and dried animal parts. It was purchased in 2021 with support from 15. Juni Fonden.
It was installed in the summer of 2021, where the artist personally arranged the "innards" in the two cabinets (dried natural products of horse intestines, chicken feet, pig ears, etc.)
The two sculptural elements both have a luminous ring around USB ports.
And the title is also an expansion of the acronym USB, which refers to the port you use to transfer information or energy to your digital devices. In this context, the work's cabinets refer to both a curiosity cabinet and a computer cabinet.
The work deals with the relationship between nature and culture, and how the body is constantly interconnected with digital networks. The sculpture's supporting legs consist of ornaments and "stylized nature".
The power supply of the work is hidden underground.
The power supply enables the luminous rings around the USB ports, which are seen more clearly in this photo from the fall.
From the installation of the work in the museum garden. The artist placing dried animal parts inside of the installation's two cabinets.
