Solo exhibition at Den Frie awarded by Danish Arts Council
benandsebastian’s Department of Voids exhibition at Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art in Copenhagen has been awarded by the Danish Arts Council for its “fascinating wealth of details and layers of meaning.”
Department of Voids was shown at Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art from the 22nd of June until the 16th of September 2019. During the exhibition period there were guided tours of an otherwise inaccessible part of Department of Voids in the following languages: Arabic, Bosnian, Danish, English, Faroese, German, Greenlandic and Turkish.
New publication
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.
Residency at Delfina Foundation
benandsebastian have been selected to attend an artist residency at Delfina Foundation in London in November and December 2019, with support from the Danish Arts Foundation . During their residency at Delfina, benandsebastian plan to pursue research, crossing the fields of law, cybernetics and biology, associated with the creation of a new public artwork in the Court of Aarhus, Denmark. The artwork, Tavse Parter (Silent Parties), focuses on mute participants in legal history—animals and robots that are spoken for in courts of law because they do not have a voice of their own.
Delfina Foundation is an independent, non-profit foundation dedicated to facilitating artistic exchange and developing creative practice through residencies, partnerships and public programming.
benandsebastian on air
benandsebastian have been talking about animal trials and an upcoming project on Reboot.fm with the artist Kat Schneider and Tales from Beneath host Nina Kettiger.
Reboot.fm is an artist run radio station: 88.4 Mhz in Berlin, 90.7 MHz in Brandenburg
benandsebastian on Louisiana Channel
benandsebastian were interviewed by the Louisiana Channel in connection to the Museum of Nothing.
Louisiana Channel is a non-profit website based at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark.
benandsebastian have created a large installation which has been acquired by the 21st Century Museum of Art in Kanazawa, Japan.
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa is a museum of contemporary art located in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan.
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.
benandsebastian on Instagram
Follow benandsebastian’s Friday Morning desktops by clicking the link to instagram below.
Friday Morning Desktops are a collection of screenshots taken on benandsebastian’s computer screen on Friday mornings.
