Museum of Nothing opens at Den Frie

benandsebastian have opened the Museum of Nothing at Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art in Copenhagen. The museum forms part of ‘Beyond Reach’, an exhibition also including works by AVPD, Bank & Rau, Margrét Bjarnadóttir & Elín Hansdóttir.

Beyond Reach  opens on the 28th of February and runs until the 13th of April 2014.
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Homecomings at HORSE

benandsebastian have participated in an exhibition curated by Cassandra Edlefsen Lasch and Annabelle von Girsewald. The exhibition was inspired by Hreinn Friðfinnsson’s House Project (1974) & Georges Perec’s Espèces d’espaces (1974).

HORSE is a project space and former horse stable at 93 Boxhagener Strasse, Friedrichshain, Berlin.
Other participating artists include:  Anton Burdakov, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson, Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez, Eric Ellingsen, Jean-Pascal Flavien, Hreinn Friðfinnsson, Elín Hansdóttir, Florian Neufeldt, Sophia Pompery.
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Present Absence

DAMn°: “I detect an invisible presence hovering between the individual meanings and histories of each piece – your own or those of the museums’ collections. Would you also describe this ephemeral linkage as a work of its own?”

benandsebastian: “Absolutely. We see Phantom Limbs both as a single work and as a series of fragments. The Phantom Limbs exhibition creates its own ghost network of implied absences. We see these absences as having the capacity to link things together. When someone loses an arm or a leg, it is the continuation of sensation in that amputated limb that allows the body to accept and employ a prosthetic limb as part of itself. We’re fascinated by this capacity for absences to create dynamic connections and these are at the core of the exhibition.”

Interview with Cassandra Edlefsen Lasch, DAMn° magazine 33

 

Phantom Limbs

benandsebastian’s ongoing Phantom Limbs exhibition project has been on view during the course of the last year at Trapholt Museum of Contemporary Art following the initial show at the Danish Museum of Art and Design in Copenhagen.

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Danish TV documentary

benandsebastian were followed around Berlin for a day by the Danish national broadcasting corporation, Danmarks Radio, which has made a documentary about the duo (watch here).

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benandsebastian awarded Two Virgins

benandsebastian have received the ‘Two Virgins’ award in association with HCA Festivals 2013. The award was handed over by art historian Bente Scavenius in Odense on the 20th of August 2013.

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Niels Wessel Bagge Award

benandsebastian have received an honorary award from the Niels Wessel Bagge foundation. The award ceremony was held at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art on the 27th of November 2012.

Niels Bagge (1908-1990) was a Danish dancer, choreographer and collector of contemporary art and pre-Columbian ceramics. His collection included works by Robert Rauschenberg, Rafael Canogar, Andy Warhol, Edward Kienholtz and Rinaldo Paluzzi. Following his death in 1990, the Niels Wessel Bagge foundation was established to support contemporary visual artists. Previously Mie Olise, Michael Kvium, Lise Malinovsky, Christian Lemmerz, Tal R, Kaspar Bonnen and Malene Landgren have received the award.