JEPPE HEIN
ST AGNES
ST. AGNES, BERLIN, GERMANY
FROM 6 SEPTEMBER 2024
An ensemble of a yellow bench and a street light welcomes visitors at the entrance to KÖNIG GALERIE. Jeppe Hein’s installation theatrically offers a place to sit, lie, rest, or play, inviting users to become active participants in the performance. The energetic presence of the street lamp and the modified social bench, both having broken free from their traditional forms, encourages participants to step out of their comfort zones and act more freely.
FROM 6 SEPTEMBER 2024
An ensemble of a yellow bench and a street light welcomes visitors at the entrance to KÖNIG GALERIE. Jeppe Hein’s installation theatrically offers a place to sit, lie, rest, or play, inviting users to become active participants in the performance. The energetic presence of the street lamp and the modified social bench, both having broken free from their traditional forms, encourages participants to step out of their comfort zones and act more freely.
Jeppe Hein, YELLOW MODIFIED SOCIAL BENCH #11, 2023 and MODIFIED STREET LIGHT #08, 2021
The bench and the lamp are part of Jeppe Hein’s series of Modified Social Benches and Modified Street Lights based on his long-term research into proxemics and distance and borrow their basic form from the ubiquitous park or garden benches and lamps found the world over. In their “modified” form, his artworks transform their surroundings into places of social activity and foster dialogue between the users and the passersby.
EXHIBITED WORKS
Jeppe Hein
Yellow Modified Social Bench #11
Jeppe Hein