(Long Island City, NY, March,
2004) - P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents the New York
debut of Danish artist Jeppe Hein (b. 1974, Copenhagen).
Hein will present a new site-specific installation, Flying
Cube (2004).
Flying Cube, a white cube floating in the center
of the exhibition space, challenges gravity and activates
the traditional gallery space. The floating cube responds
to unique visitor interaction: although the audience plays
the role of an active observer, the viewer’s relationship
to the physical space is called into question. Through design
of furniture, leisure/work facilities and wall/space constructions,
Hein interrupts and redefines the environment.
Jeppe Hein articulates a lively and often unexpected dialogue
between his work, the viewer and the site of intervention.
While his sculptures refer to Minimalism and question the
authoritarian nature of the museum or gallery exhibition
space, his method necessitates that the audience physically
trigger the work. His work is thus at odds with the phenomenological
interpretations of Minimalism, in which the viewer interacts
only abstractly with the work. Hein delights in apparently
serendipitous events, suspends common sense laws of cause
and effect and conjures scenarios in which, responding to
the viewer’s presence, seemingly sentient behaviour
is coaxed from inanimate objects.
Jeppe Hein has recently participated in exhibitions at the
Shirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2003), the 50th Venice Biennale,
Venice, Italy (2003), MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst,
Frankfurt, Germany (2003), and the Royal College of Art,
London (2003); Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany (2002);
CAPC Musee d'art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France (2002);
Lenbachhaus Museumsplatz, München, Germany (2002; the
Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany (2002);
the Arhus Kunstmusuem, Arhus, Denmark (2001); and the Frankfurter
Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Fermany (2001).
This exhibition is curated by P.S.1 Curator Jimena Blazquez.
Flying Cube is made possible through support from Johann
Konig Gallery, Berlin and DCA Foundation, Denmark.
For more information, please contact Rachael Dorsey, P.S.1
Press Office, at press@ps1.org
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