Clear the ring for Jeppe Hein! During his
stay as artist in residence at the Atelier Calder in Saché,
France, he developed the CIRCUS HEIN project, with which he
follows up Calder’s own examination of the circus. During his
Paris years (1926-1933) Alexander Calder created his miniature
Cirque Calder – figures and attractions made of sheet metal,
wire and found objects – which he carried around in suitcases
and occasionally set up to perform. The Parisian avant-garde
came flocking to Calder’s studio to see his circus
performance. Today, Calder’s circus in a suitcase is part of
the collection of the Whitney Museum in New York.
Jeppe Hein would like to revive the circus
subject and to give it a contemporary take. Various projects,
which deal with the subjects art and circus and focus on
magic, illusion, sensation, participation and entertainment,
will be realised. The variety and motifs of circus life will
influence the conception of the installations, publications
and architectural elements. CIRCUS HEIN has invited
international fellow artists to provide contributions to wow a
circus audience.
Contributors: Kristoffer Akselbo,
Kenneth A. Balfelt, Nina Beier, Kaspar Bonnén,
Cocktaildesigners, Søren Engsted, Thilo Frank, Max Frey, Jeppe
Hein, Bjarke Ingels (BIG), Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Finn
Janning, Jacob Dahl Jürgensen, Emilie Bergrem, Annette Kelm,
John Kørner, Jason Kraus, Claus Larsen, Mads Lindberg, Florian
Neufeldt, Aprés Nous, Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen, Michael
Sailstorfer, Tomas Saraceno, Tove Storch, Kristian Sverdrup,
Koki Tanaka, Tanja Vibe All the way to Paris, Henrik Vibskov,
Ulrik Weck, Jordan Wolfson, Let me show you the
world
From April 2010 onwards CIRCUS HEIN will be
on tour and will stop over at international galleries,
institutes and museums in an ever-changing format. Its first
stop will be the ART COLOGNE, where it will set up camp at the
OPEN SPACE. The former lounge and bar area will be turned into
a playground for the circus. A selection of the artists listed
above will be showing their works in Cologne.
CIRCUS HEIN. A project for OPEN
SPACE at ART COLOGNE 2010.
DATES 21 – 25 April 2010
PREVIEW together with ART COLOGNE on 20 April
2010
LOCATION Art Cologne, Hall 11.3
PROJECT TEAM Adelheid Komenda, Kathrin Luz,
Meyer Voggenreiter
PROJECT ASSISTANCE Jana Strippel
