JEPPE HEIN -SENSE CITY

09. october - 23. february 2010

SPECIAL EXHIBITION GALLERY

The curator of the exhibition is Marie Nipper 

What happens when a huge ball is released and follows a visitor along a 400 meter track the moment they enter the door? Or, who would expect a seemingly ordinary bench to envelope in a cloud of smoke as soon as a visitor stops for a rest? Or, who could predict that a huge metal ball in an otherwise empty room would purposely smash into museum walls as visitors move about the space? These are just a few of the unexpected happenings in Jeppe Hein’s SENSE CITY.

This year, as ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum celebrates its 150th anniversary, it gives us great pleasure to present the largest exhibition ever staged for the internationally acclaimed Danish artist, Jeppe Hein. 

ABOUT THE ARTIST JEPPE HEIN

The world has taken note of Jeppe Hein. In recent years, he has contributed to many exhibitions worldwide and has staged solo exhibitions at e.g. the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Tate Liverpool; PS1, New York; and most recently the Barbican Centre, London, and the Sculpture Centre, New York. Jeppe Hein is also represented at the MoCA Los Angeles, and the Lehnbachhaus in Munich. He is also shares ownership of a popular bar/restaurant, Karrierebar at Flæsketorvet in Copenhagen – where the works of international artists are displayed. Jeppe Hein is currently engaged in creating a major work to be presented at the Danish pavilion at EXPO2010 in Shanghai next year.

 Sving

 360 Presence

 360 Illusion

WORKS

360 Illusion III

360 Presence

Changing Neon Sculpture

Continuity Inbetween

Distance, 2004

Enlightment

Invisible Moving Wall

Invisible Text

Let me show you the world

Mirror Angle 30/60/120

Mirror Wall

Modified Social Benches #1-10 

No Presence - Presence

On Trail

Rotating Labyrinth

Rotating Pyramid I

Rotating Square

Screw on Wall

Shaking Cube

Smoking Bench

Sving

Why are you here and not somewhere else

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

The desire to generate interplay between art and social life takes centre stage when SENSE CITY opens to the public at ARoS October 9th.

The exhibition presents Jeppe Hein on a major scale; showing a range of his largest, most important works. Visitors will experience the magic of SENSE CITY from the moment they enter the museum doors. Greeted by the work Distance – the largest work created by Jeppe Hein to-date, the journey begins with a long ball track or roller coaster type display.

Through several hundred metres of space, over-sized balls make their way through the museum, along a street space, through complex sequences of loops, drops, and hoists. The encounter with the work Distance makes it clear that a dynamic, playful, and innovative artist has taken hold of ARoS!

THE SPECTATOR TAKES CENTRE STAGE

Jeppe Hein’s extensive artistic production can be most accurately positioned at the junction where art, architecture, and technical inventions intersect.

 In addition to having high artistic and aesthetic qualities, his works are often interactive (moving walls, smoking benches, balancing balls, etc.).

Jeppe Hein’s works often feature surprising and captivating elements, which place spectators at the centre of events. This focus on the spectator’s experience is the pivotal point of the exhibition. 

ARTISTIC BENCHES IN AARHUS

On the way to SENSE CITY, Aarhus residents and visitors can experience the work of Jeppe Hein, before entering the actual exhibit.

During the summer, Jeppe Hein placed ten works throughout the city of Aarhus, his so-called Modified Social Benches. Like Jeppe Hein’s other works created for public spaces, the benches aim at generating more life and energy in the city while strengthening the sense of community, which arises spontaneously through the urge to play.

Modified Social Benches have already been greeted with enthusiasm in cities worldwide, such as Helsinki and Dublin, attracting a great deal of attention with their amusing, unconventional appearance; inviting people to play and be together.

EXTRA:

The exhibition SENSE CITY is accompanied by a lavishly illustrated catalogue in English and Danish, featuring an introduction to the artist and his works.

The catalogue includes texts by the curator behind the exhibition, Marie Nipper, ARoS; the art historians Peter Kirkhoff Eriksen and Christian Skovbjerg; the writer Finn Janning, the architect Bjarke Ingels (BIG); curator at the Centre Pompidou in Paris Christine Macel; the art critic Michel Gauthier; PhD Line Marie Bruun Jespersen; and the artists Olafur Eliasson and Ernesto Neto as well as an artists’ talk between Jeppe Hein and the US artist Dan Graham.

The catalogue is available for purchase in ARoS Shop.

Price: 198 DKK

Members: 148,50 DKK