Solo exhibition at Den Frie awarded by Danish Arts Council
benandsebastian are currently exhibiting Department of Voids at Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art in Copenhagen, in the new downstairs gallery. The exhibition has been awarded by the Danish Arts Council for its “fascinating wealth of details and layers of meaning.”
Department of Voids runs at Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art until the 16th of September. During the exhibition period there are guided tours of an otherwise inaccessible part of Department of Voids in the following languages: Arabic, Bosnian, Danish, English, Faroese, German, Greenlandic and Turkish.
Department of Voids is accompanied by a new book, which is available via Kerber Art (see link below), or at a discounted price at Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art.
Department of Voids is accompanied by a book with essays by Cassandra Edlefsen Lasch, Michael Marder and Ursula K. Le Guin. Both book and exhibition include texts by twelve museum directors and specialists: Annette Johansen, Director of Thorvaldsen’s Museum; Ion Meyer, Heads of collections at Medical Museion; Christian Holmsted Olesen, Head of Collections at Designmuseum Denmark; Christian Gether, Director of ARKEN Museum of Modern Art; Rane Willerslev,Director of the National Museum; Christine Buhl Andersen, Director of Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek; Louise Cone, conservator at the National Gallery of Denmark; Marie Laurberg, Curator and Head of Research at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Kjeld von Folsach, Director of the David Collection; Catherine Lefebvre, Director of the Karen Blixen Museum; Søren Bak Jensen, Director of the Copenhagen Workers Museum and Peter Kjærgaard, Director of the Natural History Museum of Denmark.
benandsebastian are in the final stages of creating a new permanent installation at the Niels Bohr Building, part of the University of Copenhagen’s new science park.
The Niels Bohr Building includes research and education activities for the Faculty of Science and the Niels Bohr Institute at The University of Copenhagen. It will be located in the University Park, as a part of North Campus, Copenhagen.
The Museum of Nothing was shown at Göteborgs Konsthall as part of the Gothenburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art. A Story within a Story, was curated by Elvira Dyangani Ose and presented works addressing several aspects of the production of history.
GIBCA is a biennial exhibition of contemporary art in Gothenburg, Sweden
