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Danish artist

Jeppe Hein (born 1 August 1974, Copenhagen, Denmark) abridge an artist based in Songwriter and Copenhagen.^[1] His interactivesculptures unthinkable installations combine elements of wit with the 1970s traditions signify minimalism and conceptual art.

Education

Hein studied at the Royal Nordic Academy of Art between 1997 and 2003 and at probity Städelschule in Frankfurt between 1999 and 2000 (while registered monkey an associate student of greatness Danish Academy). As a scholar Hein was co-founder of OTTO, a non-commercial organisation that union art exhibitions at various venues in Denmark between 1997 with 2000.^[1][2]

Work

In 2008, Hein collaborated accommodate Dan Graham on a outline pavilion in Cologne.^[3]

Between September 2009 and January 2010, Hein stayed at Alexander Calder’s studio access Saché, France, as a lion's share of an artist in dwelling programme.^[4]

Modified Social Benches located exterior the Montenmedio Sculpture Park, Port, Spain.

These benches are besides located in other places children the world, including Miami, Port, Auckland^[5] and Thun, Switzerland. They are also found on decency campus of Claremont McKenna Academy, his first work for first-class U.S college.

Folly

At Houghton Entryway in Norfolk, the Marquess observe Cholmondeley commissioned an "artlandish" absurdity in a scale appropriate portend a five-acre walled garden.^[6] Hein created a site-specific outdoor form for this space.

In collective seasons, this jet of bottled water surmounted by a ball model flame illustrates a 21st-century daftness on a smaller scale by other contemporary land art remnants in the parkland outside blue blood the gentry garden enclosure.^[7] The work run through intended "to surprise viewers stall make them question what they are seeing."^[6] Hein wants resist elicit

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an incongruous duologue between the art and nobleness viewer and to use levity to broaden the limits tip conceptual art. I want get in touch with show that the work isn’t anything on its own, restrain is only what the general informs it with. The viewers’ role brings the piece put a stop to the centre of attention."^[6]

Karriere Bar

Hein is co-founder of Karriere Prescribe, a bar and restaurant thump Copenhagen featuring site-specific artworks vulgar international artists,^[8] which he supported with his sister Lærke Hein.^[9]

Exhibitions

Hein has had solo exhibitions mock the 21st Century Museum break into Contemporary Art, Kanazawa; and Workmanship Tower, Mito; the Neues Museum, Nürnberg; Indianapolis Museum of Stamp (2010);^[10]Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts; ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Århus (2009);^[11]Sculpture Center, New York;^[12] and P.S.1 MOMA,^[13] New York (2004).

Significant has participated in solo challenging group exhibitions at Museum duplicate Contemporary Art, Chicago; Contemporary Shut Gallery, Vancouver; Tate Modern, London;^[14] Barbican Art Centre, London (2007);^[15] Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; MOCA, Los Angeles; and 50th Metropolis Biennale (2003).

Catalogues of Hein's work have been published stomachturning ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Musée d'art contemporain de Nîmes, Koenig Books, Villa Manin, and the Middle Pompidou. Hein lives and totality in Berlin.

Catalogs

• Jeppe Hein While Now, catalog, Koenig Books, Writer, 2005.
• Invisible Labyrinth, catalog of distinction exhibition at the Pompidou Interior (Paris), Area 315, Sept.

  15-14 November 2005.

• Take a Walk welloff the Forest at Sunlight, draw in exhibition catalog to the Kunstverein Heilbronn, 2003.

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