JEPPE HEIN

b. 1974, Copenhagen, Denmark

Lives and works in Berlin

 

Jeppe Hein bases much of his practice on the relationships that exist between our internal consciousness and more physical elements. Using minimal yet elegant materials that often reflect our own image, as well as forms that playfully encourage us to move our bodies and to change positions, Jeppe Hein creates an interactive and constantly changing dialogue between the spectator, the work, and the exhibition space that surrounds it.

 

His sculptures, site-specific installations, watercolours and public works create environments in which we are encouraged to imagine new possibilities. In so doing, he challenges us to re-think the ways in which our mind and our bodies are connected, and to reflect on how we navigate through the metaphysical and physical worlds.

 

Jeppe Hein’s works employ seductive means to bring us up close with reality, face to face, you could say. They make it more evident, but they also hand it back to us. It is up to us to make something of it, to interact...feel... wonder..., for each one of us is in the world as the heart is in the organism.”

 

Jeppe Hein has had solo exhibitions at several prestigious institutions including; Centre Pompidou (Paris), Tate Liverpool (Liverpool), Sprengel Museum (Hannover), Schirn Kunsthalle (Frankfurt), ARoS (Aarhus), IMA Indianapolis Museum of Art (Indianapolis), Barbican Art Centre (London), Hayward Gallery (London), the National Gallery of Denmark (Copenhagen), Bass Museum of Art (Miami), Mito Tower Art Museum (Tokyo), 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art (Kanazawa), and Bonniers Konsthall (Stockholm) among many others. In 2015, Hein had a major solo public exhibition as part of the Public Art Fund (New York) in Brooklyn Bridge Park, as well as a solo exhibition at Kusntmuseum Wolfsburg (Wolfsburg), Nouveau Musee National de Monaco (Monaco) and Kunsthalle Kiel (Kiel). He has had recent public installation placed at The Artbarn, Cape Schanck, Australia, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland, Rockefeller center, New York City, USA, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden,  Kistefos Museum (Jevnaker), Fondation Carmignac (Porquerolles), and in the cities of Lemvig, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Berlin, Aarhus, and Copenhagen.

 

Hein’s work can be found in the public such as the Tate Gallery, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/Main; Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles among many others.