About

My name is Susanne Layla Petersen, I am an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker based in Copenhagen, Denmark. My works include video, digital art, collaborative installations, web projects, NFTs, photography, texts and sound. This website glasslabs.works is my artist website.

Why “glasslabs”?
Because “glasslab” was not available when I registered the .com, there was always only meant to be one lab, my lab. “Glass” refers to the shattered glass that has appeared in much of my work from the beginning.

GENERAL STATEMENT
My approach to art is centered around the idea that the artwork itself is the primary medium of communication, I reject the relevance of extensive artist statements or explanatory texts. I believe that art should provoke reflection and interpretation directly through the experience of the work.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS, SHOWS, SCREENINGS (there is a longer list here)
2025
2025 (upcoming) Art Is, March 12–30, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea
2025 (upcoming) EXI, February 19–23, Crypt Gallery St Pancras, London, UK
2025 (upcoming) VASTLAB Experimental – VLX6, February 14, 15, and 22, KAW Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2024
2024 The Hollow Hour, October 31–November 11, art’otel Hoxton, London, UK
2024 Digital Impressions – Silicon Valley International Art Exhibit, October 18–28, ArtX Gallery, Fremont, CA, USA
2024 CINEMATOGRAPHIE, September 20–28, Fox Yard Studio, Stowmarket, Suffolk, UK
2024 Reflections on Our Warming Planet/Part Three, August 26–September 27, Boone Family Gallery and V Gallery at Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA, USA
2024 DELETE TV, July 17, London, UK, broadcast and streaming on okto.tv
2024 FilmArte Festival Spring 2024 edition, April 4, and Autumn 2024 edition, October 24, Wein Salon, Berlin, Germany

2023
2023/2024 VASTLAB Experimental – VLX5, December 9 at Theatre 68 in Los Angeles, and February 9 2024 at Chicago Filmmakers’ Firehouse Cinema in Chicago, USA
2023/2024 The Wrong Biennale: Self As A Service [SAAS], November 1 2023–March 1 2024, XOR Space, VR experience and screening program
2023 TECHNOLOGIA, December 9, Kino Club, Gallery Augusta, Suomenlilla, Helsinki, Finland
2023 Open Video XVI, October 27–29, Kunstrum Fyn, Tårup, Denmark
2023 6th FilmArte Festival, October 5, Wein Salon, Berlin, Germany
2023 Reflections on a Warming Planet, March 4–April 9, LA Artcore, Los Angeles, USA

2022
2022 11th Athens International Digital Film festival AIDFF, December 8–14, Studio New Star Art Cinema, Athens, Greece
2022 Algorithmic Random Selected AV Exhibition, Internationales Digitalkunst Festival, November 5, Kulturinsel, Stuttgart, Germany
2022 Declare/Decay, launch September 30, XOR Space, VR, online
2022 Reflections on Our Warming Planet, July 16–September 3, Lois Lambert Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
2022 Memorial To The Future, LA Art Show 2022, January 19–23, LA Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2022 Perspectives 2022, January 5–23, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea

2021
2021 10th Athens International Digital Film Festival AIDFF, December 9–15, Studio New Star Art Cinema, Athens, Greece
2021 XPRMNTL anti-festival, guerrilla screenings, London, UK
2021 Utopaphobia, October 21–November 15, The Green Exchange, Chicago, IL, USA
2021 NFTapping, Intervals Festival 2021, August 27–29, The Mayak Building, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
2021 VIDEOFENSTER, June 22–27, Cologne, Germany
2021 Streetlight, March 8–28, Roman Susan, Chicago, IL, USA

2020
2020 Word Revolt VR, November 1–14, (Word Revolt Gallery, Atlantic Beach, FL, USA), VR
2020 CICA Experimental Film and Video 2020, May 27–June 14, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea
2020 SPAMM – 4BR3 4 tU4 M3NT3, D35con3c+4, March 19–May 16, (Zaratan Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, Portugal and SPAMM the Super Modern Art Museum), online
2020 FORCES, March 13–19, The Old Biscuit Factory, London, UK
2020 Environmental Crisis, February 13–March 14, Gerald Moore Gallery, London, UK
2020 In My House, January, a house in Southampton, UK

2019
2019 Simultan Festival XIV, November 8–10, Corneliu Miklosi Museum, Timişoara, Romania
2019/2020 The Wrong biennale: BIG or BIGGGEST, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, UNION, Frederiksberg library, Copenhagen, Denmark, and online
2019/2020 The Wrong biennale: EPICENTRE, Centre del Carme Cultura Contemporània, Valencia, and 20 other locations in Comunitat Valenciana, Spain

Before 2019
2018 Videos and images in Red Line Art Works Gallery, online
2010 1st International Photo Exhibition, Swayam Art Gallery, Dharan, Nepal

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
2024 “Chaos” won Best Experimental International at Alternative Film Festival Summer 2024 edition, Toronto, Canada
2019 and 2020 Red Line Art Works’ (UK) Highly Commended, for series of works which has globally significant humanitarian or ethical importance (for “The End of the World as we know it” and older works)

My works have received Honorable Mentions and other recognitions from International Avant-Garde Film Awards (New York City, USA), Chroma Art Film Festival (Miami, FL, USA), LA Underground Film Forum (Los Angeles, CA, USA), Experimental Forum (Los Angeles, CA, USA) and others

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (longer list here)
2018 Cover image, the literary magazine Slagtryk, December edition
2018 3 cover images in Penny Thoughts arts publication issue #7
2018 Poetry in the literary magazine Slagtryk, August edition
2017 Poetry in the literary magazine Slagtryk, May edition
1997 Poetry in the literary magazine Hvedekorn 1/97
1996 Poetry in the literary magazine Hvedekorn 3/96

OTHER
2019/2020/2021 RIOT POEMS, Instagram @riotpoems
2018 Instagram online residency, Art4 U December 10–16
2000-2009 web sites and GUI design, web graphics and animation for business and NGO
1999 – or so – first sites with my poetry and images on WWW

FAVOURITE QUOTES
“My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion” – Lars von Trier

“When you finish anything, people want you to then talk about it. And I think it’s almost like a crime. A film or a painting – each thing is its own sort of language and it’s not right to try to say the same thing in words. The words are not there. The language of film, cinema, is the language it was put into, and the English language – it’s not going to translate. It’s going to lose.” – David Lynch

CONTACT
studio@glasslabs.com

SOCIAL MEDIA
My Facebook and Instagram accounts are deactivated, check my Linktr.ee to see where I might be active.

SUPPORT MY WORK
Buy me a coffee