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Jeppe Hein - Artists - GALERÍA RGR

Portrait Jeppe Hein. Photo by Tom Wagner

(Copenhagen, Denmark, 1974)

He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Arts in Copenhagen and the Städel Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Frankfurt. Jeppe Hein is widely known for his production of experiential and interactive artworks that can be positioned between the junction of Art, Architecture, and technical inventions.

Unique in their formal simplicity and notable for their frequent use of humor, his works engage in a lively dialogue with the traditions of Minimalist sculpture and Conceptual art of the seventies. Jeppe Hein's pieces often feature surprising and captivating elements that place spectators at the center of events and focus their experience and perception on the surrounding space.

The influence of conceptual art movements on Jeppe Hein's work can be seen in projects such as One Wish for You (2020), where he created balloons that, although they seem made of plastic and inflated by helium, they were actually made with fiberglass, chrome lacquer and a magnet that holds them to the ceiling. The material ambiguity of the piece lies in the naturalness with which the balloon moves against the most subtle breeze and the technical process behind it, something that allows Jeppe Hein to show how our understanding and perception of daily objects are more in a subjective assessment than in their materiality itself. At the same time, the distortion of space that can be seen on the surface of the balloons reaffirms the idea that our gaze is under constant transformation.

Currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

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