| Dates: | born 1974
| | Biography: | (artist biography as of 2006)
Born 1974, Copenhagen, Denmark. Lives
and works in Copenhagen, Denmark and
Berlin, Germany
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Museum of Modern Art, 2007, Honolulu,
Hawaii
The Curve, 2007. Barbican Centre,
London
X-Rummet, Statens Museum for Kunst,
Copenhagen, 2006 Denmark
Kit-o-Parts, 2006, CAN Neuchâtel,
France
Neonwall, 2005, Art Gallery of New
South
Wales, Sydney, Australia
Invisible Labyrinth, 2005, Espace 315,
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Distance, 2004, Ludwig Forum für
Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
Flying Cube, 2004, PS.1 MOMA, New
York. USA
Continuity Reflecting Space, 2003,
Foundation La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
Take a Walk in the Forest at Sunlight,
2003. Kunstverein Heilbronn, Heilbronn,
Germany
Take a Walk in the Forest at Moonlight,
2002. CAPC Musée d'Art contemporain,
Bordeaux, France
Selected Group Exhibitions
play station, 2006, Sprengel Museum,
Hannover, Germany
Backdrop. 2006. Bloomberg Space.
London, UK
The Pantagruel Syndrome, 2005, T1
Torino Triennale Tremusei Turin, Italy
Black Market Worlds, 2005, 9th Baltic
Triennial of International Art, CAC Vilnius
& ICA Vilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania
Universal Experience: Art, Life, the
Tourist Eye, 2005, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago IL, USA
Intervention Impact, 2004, Galerie für
zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig,
Germany
A Secret History of Clay: From Gauguin
to Gormley, 2004, Tate Liverpool,
Liverpool, UK
Quicksand, 2004, De Appel,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Skulpturenpark. 2003. Graz 2003
Kulturhauptstadt Europas
Interludes, 2003, Venice Biennale
Das lebendige Museum, 2003, MMK,
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
am Main, Germany
I Promise it is Political, 2002, Museum
Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Inside/Outside, 2002, Galerie für
zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig,
Germany
Neue Welt, 2001. Frankfurter
Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
Arbeit, Essen, Angst, 2001, Ko-kerei
Zollverein, Essen, Germany
Co-founder of OTTO, a noncommercial
exhibition forum in Denmark. See
www.artnode .dk/otto
Further Reading
Jeppe Hein (ed), Jeppe Hein Until Now,
London: König Books. 2006
Jeppe Hein and Finn Janning (eds.), The
Vital Coincidence, Cologne: Walther
König. 2003
'Jeppe Hein: Pinball Wizard', The Art
Newspaper, Art Basel/Miami Beach
Edition, Saturday 3 December 2005
Jeppe Hein, exh. cat., Paris: Editions du
Centre Pompidou, 2005
The Straight or Crooked Way, exh. cat.,
London: Royal College of Art, 2003
| | | Source: | International 06, Liverpool Biennial exhibition catalogue | | | Date of source: | 2006 |
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| | Description: | Jeppe Hein, like many artists of his
generation, is not interested in the
artwork as statement but in the relational
aesthetic that is created when
art 'works'. While most art,
conventionally, can be thought of as a
mirror in which we find ourselves
reflected, or as a lamp to throw light on
an unnoticed aspect of the world, Hein's
art is more proactive - intended to
provoke a reaction in the viewer that is in
itself something new in the world: The
focus of my artistic work
is...problematising the situation between
the viewer, the artwork and the
space/environment.'
From this point of view, the artwork
becomes the locus of a series of events.
Although Hein does create art for
institutional contexts, he has focused
recently on inserting architectural'
materials such as water, light and fire
into public spaces, in which his art can
function like stones dropped into the
pool of city life. The ripples of reactions,
the waves of consciousness that spread
out and produce rumours as people tell
each other about their experience,
become the content of as well as the
context for the artwork. Their ever-
changing nature ensures that the art
always remains fresh.
Lewis Biggs
| | Description Source: | International 06, Liverpool Biennial exhibition catalogue | | Description Source Date: | 2006 | | Gender: | male | | Type: | person |
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