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Ryan Koopmans and Alice Wexell
Dutch-Canadian, Swedish, b. 1986, 1992

Ryan Koopmans and Alice Wexell Dutch-Canadian, Swedish, b. 1986, 1992

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    Ryan Koopmans (b. 1986) and Alice Wexell (b. 1992) are Sweden-based artists whose collaborative practice explores the evolving relationship between architecture, nature, and time. Working together for the past fifteen years, they create works that merge photography, motion, digital reconstruction, and sculptural form to reimagine built environments as living, transformative, and imaginative spaces. Koopmans is a Dutch-Canadian lens-based artist whose work examines architecture, society, and the natural world through geometry, repetition, and colour. Wexell is a Swedish digital artist whose background in animation, coding, and emerging technologies informs the duo’s distinctive approach to constructed environments that blur the boundary between the real and the imagined.

     

    Together, they are best known for The Wild Within, an acclaimed body of work that digitally revives historically significant and often abandoned interiors through the introduction of vegetation, light, and motion. Their work has been exhibited internationally and is held in leading private and institutional collections.

     

     

     

  • Exhibitions
    • Ryan Koopmans and Alice Wexell: The Wild Within

      Ryan Koopmans and Alice Wexell: The Wild Within

      10 Sep - 22 Oct 2026 New York
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    • Summer Group Show: Between Memory and Imagination

      Summer Group Show: Between Memory and Imagination

      10 Jul - 13 Sep 2026 Dubai
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