benandsebastian awarded the Finn Juhl Prize 2020
benandsebastian have been awarded the Finn Juhl prize 2020 by the committee of the Wilhelm Hansen Foundation, which comprises Bjørn Bredal (chairman), Bente Lund Poulsen, Katrine Gislinge, Steffen Aarfing and Karen-Maria Bille.
The Finn Juhl Prize was established by the Danish designer’s wife, Hanne Wilhelm Hansen, in his memory. Royalties from sales of Juhl’s furniture go towards the annual award.
benandsebastian published in the MIT journal ‘Thresholds’
benandsebastian are part of MIT’s newly released Thresholds journal. For the launch of this issue, Thresholds 48: KIN, the contributors created a webcast in the form of an abridged audiobook, each contributor reading from another’s text. benandsebastian read from Ivan Munuera’s fascinating and highly topical ‘HIV and AIDS Kin: The Discotecture of Paradise Garage’ and Nana Last read their own text, ‘Gilding our Ghosts’, which follows a reusable gilded pill through the digestive tract and their own body of work.
Thresholds is the annual peer-reviewed journal produced by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Each independently themed issue features content from leading scholars and practitioners in the fields of architecture, art, and culture.
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.
Department of Voids, the book
Department of Voids is accompanied by a book, which is available at Kunsthal Charlottenborg , DAC, and at Butikken Art & Books in Copenhagen, or online via Kerber Verlag (see links below).
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 attended 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 pursued 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’s ‘Department of Voids’ have been part of the exhibition ‘Where We Stand Now—In Order to Map the Future’ at the 21st Century Museum of Art in Kanazawa, Japan from 12.10.2019 – 12.4.2020.
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa is a museum of contemporary art located in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan.
benandsebastian have installed 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.
