About

benandsebastian

(Ben Clement, 1981 Oxford, UK; Sebastian de la Cour, 1980 Copenhagen, DK)

“benandsebastian’s work questions how gaps in knowledge shape identity and how particular absences, for example in the form of lost objects, incomplete artefacts, or excluded narratives, act upon the imagination.”

‘In curating the void that courses through The Department of Voids benandsebastian have attempted the impossible: they have arranged what is not. They have broken the void down into parts, or, to be more accurate, have seized upon its parts, the lacunae in museum collections, and drawn out the energy dormant in the husks of past presence without much nostalgic hand-wringing about originality and loss.’

Michael Marder,
Ikerbasque Research Professor of Philosophy, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz
 

‘The work of the collaborative artist practice, benandsebastian, teeters on a cusp between designed physicality and intangible theories of the mind. Trained in architecture and theoretically versed, their sculptures take on elaborate mechanics and boast intricate detailing, yet speak to vast philosophical and sociological systems.

Cassandra Edlefsen Lasch,
independent curator, DAMn magazine, issue 33

E X H I B I T I O N S

P U B L I C A T I O N S

T A L K S

P R I Z E S

2020:

Finn Juhl Prize 2020

2018:

Danish Arts Council award for the exhibition Department of Voids

2017:

Award from Esther and Jep Fink Foundation

2015:

Honorary Award from the Danish National Bank’s Jubilee Foundation

2012:

Niels Wessel Bagge Art Foundation Award

2009:

Awarded 3-year work grant by the Danish Arts Foundation