The artist won the first prize at the 2012 Hugo Boss Award and entered the Venice Biennale on behalf of Denmark in 2015. His works and various art projects are also exhibited in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, the Pompidou Centre in France, the Kunstmuseum Basel in Switzerland, M+ in Hong Kong, the Berlin Biennale and the Singapore Biennale, among other large art galleries and exhibitions. He explores the inheritance and construction of cultural conflicts, trauma and values, and addresses issues of history, politics, faith and identity in a poetic way.