The Museum Of Nothing’s Department of Voids was exhibited at the Black Sesame gallery in Beijing. The ongoing research project highlights the notion of absence both as a driver of an investigative creative process and as a way to infiltrate the institutional realm. Two historical…
benandsebastian participated in a six-month residency at the Institute for Provocation, where they conducted research into cross-cultural understandings of the role of replicas, forgeries and imitations of art objects and cultural artefacts in collaboration with the Palace Museum at the Forbidden City in Beijing and…
benandsebastian were interviewed about Museum of Nothing by Louisiana Channel at Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art. In the Museum of Nothing, the presence of absence is on display. And doubt is introduced into history. Because the visitors are asked to fill the voids and…
benandsebastian are participating in Zeigen. An Audio Tour through Copenhagen, an exhibition curated by Karin Sander at Copenhagen’s Nikolaj Kunsthal. Sander invited the participating visual artists to make a sound piece, any kind of sound, description, reading, music or whatever that would translate their work…
benandsebastian are taking part in an exhibition organised by resident curators at the Node Center of Curatorial Studies. Exhibition opens on Thursday 22nd August, at 6pm. Press release from Node: DYSRAPHIC CITY Exhibition by Node Center Resident Curators / Vernissage: August 22, 2013, 18.00-22.00 /…
benandsebastian will be participating in an exhibition curated by Cassandra Edlefsen Lasch and Annabelle von Girsewald opening on the 18th of September 2013. The exhibition is inspired by Hreinn Friðfinnsson’s House Project (1974) & Georges Perec’s Espèces d’espaces (1974). Homecomings press release: I would like there…
‘Substitutes’ are a sequence of projects by benandsebastian. Each brings the artist duo’s ongoing investigations into fragility, absence and incompletion back to the body through the emblematic form of the chair. The exhibition forms part of benandsebastian’s ongoing ‘Phantom Limbs’ project. The exhibition opens on…
benandsebastian are showing their new exhibition, ‘Following the Museum’, at Die Raum in Berlin from the 20th of April until the 9th of June, 2013. ‘Following the Museum’ asks questions about the itinerant identity of an object following the exhibition period: about its transition from…
benandsebastian have been awarded for their work entitled ‘Completely Dusty’. The Danish Arts’ Foundation justification for the award is given below: The Committee for Craft and Design has chosen to award a prize to benandsebastian for their work Completely Dusty, which was shown in the…
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 – shown above right) was a Danish dancer, choreographer and collector of contemporary…