Jeppe Hein - Sense City

A 400-metre-long marble run, a smoking bench and a wall-smashing marble were just some of the things you could experience when the young artist Jeppe Hein took over ARoS Aarhus Art Museum. The exhibition invited museum visitors into the city of the senses, where they could explore Jeppe Hein's spectacular and innovative works that set both the art and the viewer in motion.

Despite his young age, Jeppe Hein has already achieved great recognition on the international art scene, and his innovative and ground-breaking works have been shown in some of the biggest museums around the world. In recent years, he has participated in numerous exhibitions around the world and has had solo exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, PS1, New York, Barbican Centre in London, Sculpture Centre in New York, among others.

The desire to create interaction between art and social life was at the centre of the exhibition at ARoS. "Sense City" presented Jeppe Hein in full format with a number of his greatest works, which visitors experienced from the moment they entered the museum, when they were first greeted by the work Distance - the largest work by Jeppe Hein to date.

The work is designed as a ball track hundreds of metres long, whose balls make their way through the museum and the open street space through a complex sequence of loops, drops and hoists. When encountering Distance, it was clear that a dynamic, playful and innovative artist had taken over ARoS!

Jeppe Hein spent several years working on the exhibition for ARoS to give it a unique character. As a result, the museum's special exhibition gallery and foyer were staged as a city of the senses, where the architecture allowed visitors to explore Jeppe Hein's spectacular works.

Jeppe Hein's extensive artistic production can best be placed at the intersection of art, architecture and technical inventions, and in addition to possessing a high artistic and aesthetic quality, his works are often interactive (walls that move, benches that smoke, balancing balls, etc.).

Jeppe Hein's works often contain surprising and compelling elements that put the viewer at the centre, and it was this focus on the viewer's experience that formed the crux of the exhibition.