Jeppe Ugelvig

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Jeppe Ugelvig (b. 1993) is a curator and cultural critic based in New York and London. His research focuses on aesthetic production under capitalism.

Jeppe completed his undergraduate degree Communication, Curation, Criticism at Central Saint Martins in 2016, and his MA degree at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, in 2018. He was a resident of the 2019 Sandretto Foundation Young Curators Residency Programme in Turin, Italy, and a curatorial resident at Delfina Foundation in London in the winter of 2019.

Jeppe’s writing has appeared in Artforum, Frieze, parallax, ArtReview, Afterall, Flash Art International, Spike, Mousse and LEAP, amongst many others. He has contributed texts to exhibition catalogs of artists such as Dozie Kanu, Tenant of Culture, Alicja Kwade, Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė, and Vojtěch Kovařík. He is the founding editor-in-chief of Viscose, a journal for fashion criticism and analysis.

Jeppe has staged exhibitions at X Museum (Beijing), Tai Kwun (Hong Kong), Hessel Museum (New York), Goethe Institute (Ramallah), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen), and National Art Gallery (Copenhagen), and lectured at institutions such as Central Saint Martins, FIT, NYU, and Funen Art Academy on art criticism, fashion and curatorial theory, and art history.

His first book, Fashion Work: 25 Years of Art in Fashion was published by Damiani in 2020.