CV

Jeppe Hein

1997

Royal Danish Academy of Arts, Copenhagen

1999

Städel Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt / Main

Lives and works in Berlin

Upcoming shows

2024

FEEL ME – are emotions real?, Trapholt Museum of Modern Art and Design, Kolding, Denmark (group)

Breathe with Me at UC San Diego, UC San Diego – Stuart Collection, USA

60th October Salon - Belgrade Biennale, Belgrade, Serbia

Jeppe Hein, KÖNIG TELEGRAPHENAMT, Berlin, Germany

Solo exhibitions

2024

Project Room: Jeppe Hein, 303 GALLERY, New York, USA

Every Moment is a New Moment, KÖNIG BERGSON / MUNICH

2023

Under overfladen / Under the surface, SMK Thy, Denmark

Appearing Rooms, Kunsthaus Baselland, Freilager-Platz, Basel, Switzerland

WHEN YOU CLOSE YOUR EYES WHAT DO YOU SEE, Maruani Mercier, Knokke, Belgium

Share your perspectives, The Artbarn, Cape Schanck, Australia

2022

The best things in life aren't things, Herbert Gerisch-Stiftung, Neumünster, Germany

Distance, Konschthal Esch, Luxembourg

RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW, Carte Blanche Maison Ruinart 2022

Who are you ... really?, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

Changing Spaces, Rockefeller Center, New York City, USA

Seriously Fun - Jeppe Hein and Frederik Næblerød, Studio Jeppe Hein, Berlin, Germany

2021

Space in Action. Action in Space, Das Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany

Your Light is the Light in Me, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark

kunst findet stadt - Jeppe Hein, Kurgarten Baden-Baden, Germany

YOU MAKE ME SHINE, KÖNIG SEOUL, MCM HAUS, Seoul, Korea

YOU ARE EVERYTHING, Galería RGR, Mexico City, Mexico

2020

Nothing is as it appears, KÖNIG GALERIE, St. Agnes, Chapel, Berlin, Germany

Circular Appearing Rooms, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Germany

Today I feel like, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany

2019

Change Yourself, Politikens Forhal, Copenhagen, Denmark

Intervention Impact, artconnexion, Lille, France

Behind Hein, KÖNIG GALERIE, Dessauer Strasse, Berlin, Germany

Jeppe Hein, SCAI PARK, Tokyo, Japan

I Am With You, 303 Gallery, New York, USA

Breathe with Me, UN Headquarters and Central Park, New York, USA

2018

In is the only way out, Cisternerne, Copenhagen, Denmark

INHALE-HOLD-EXHALE, Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland

Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsens Award 2018, Den Frie, Copenhagen, Denmark

2017

At sanse verden i dig selv, Museet for Religiøs Kunst, Lemvig, Denmark

Distance, SKMU Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway

DON'T EXPECT ANYTHING BE OPEN TO EVERYTHING, KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin, Germany

Jeppe Hein, Modified Social Benches NY, Southbank Centre, Festival Terrace & Queens Walk, London, United Kingdom

YOUR WAY, Château La Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France

2016

Reflection, Kistefos-Museet, Jevnaker, Norway

Sculpture 21st, Jeppe Hein, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany

Jeppe Hein Semicircular Space, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

A New End, World's End, Trustees of Reservation, Boston, USA

Interact With Art - Modified Social Benches, Ventana Contemporary Ibiza, Spain

2015

This Way, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany

ALL WE NEED IS INSIDE, 303 Gallery, New York, USA

Jeppe Hein: Please Touch the Art, Public Art Fund at Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York, USA

Opening, König Galerie, St. Agnes, Berlin, Germany

2014

Distance, LIFE - Lieu International des Formes Emergentes, France

Stillhet, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark

2013

A Smile For You, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden

A Smile For You, Wanås Konst, Knislinge, Sweden

Distance, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Åarhus, Denmark

Jeppe Hein, Ordrupgaard, Charlottenlund, Denmark

YOU, Johann König at St. Agnes, Berlin, Germany

There are no ordinary moments, Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland

2012

Robert-Jacobsen-Preisträger, Museum Würth, Bad Mergentheim, Germany

Hexagonal Water Pavilion, Neues Museum Nürnberg, Germany

Sacra Conversazione by Alexander Tovborg and Jeppe Hein, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark

2011

I am right here right now, Johann König, Berlin, Germany

360°, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan

303 Gallery, New York, USA

2010

1 x Museum, 10 x Rooms, 11 x Works, Jeppe Hein, Neues Museum Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany

Jeppe Hein and Larry Bell, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France

backyardoutdoorsculptureseries#5: Modified Social Benches, Johann König, Berlin, Germany

Distance, IMA -Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, USA

Jeppe Hein, PICA - Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, Australia

Mobile Mobile, Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark

Appearing Rooms, Perth International Arts Festival, Perth, Australia

2009

Artist in Residence Atelier Calder, Saché, France

Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, USA

Hello? Shall I call you back?, Jan Mot, Brussels, Belgium

Sense City, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark

Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen, Germany

Invisible Labyrinth + Frac Île-de-France, Théâtre National de Chaillot, Paris, France

Please, Please Please ..., Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

Kuru Kuru, SCAI -THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo, Japan

2008

Illusion, Frieze Art Project, London, United Kingdom

From Seriousness to Silliness, Dan Graham + Jeppe Hein, Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne, Germany

From Seriousness to Silliness, Dan Graham + Jeppe Hein, Gallery Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany

Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany

PLEASE..., 303 Gallery, New York, USA

2007

Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear, Carré d’Art, Musée d’art contemporain de Nîmes, France

Illusion, Sculpture Center, New York, USA

Johann König, Berlin, Germany

Distance, The Curve, Barbican Art Centre, London, United Kingdom

Inbetween, SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo, Japan

2006

Fontane, ZERO Gallery, Milano, Italy

Diagonal Space, Base Room, Florence, Italy

Reflection, Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark

Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Delme Synagogue, Delme, France

Usynlig Labyrint, X-Rummet, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark

This exhibition is in some way a contribution to the beauty, the ugliness, the stupidity and the cheerfulness in life., Sies + Höke Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany

Appearing Rooms, Preston, United Kingdom

2005

Simplified, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France

Distance, The Moore Space, Miami, USA

Private Rain, Sculptureparc Bodø, Norway

Neonwall, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Invisible Labyrinth, Espace 315, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

Roller Coaster, Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg, Sweden

Minimal Overload, Johann König, Berlin, Germany

New Minimal, La Salle de bains, Lyon, France

2004

Anziehung/Abstoßung, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany

Appearing Rooms, Villa Manin, Passariano, Italy

Intervention Impact, Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany

Distance, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany

Flying Cube, P.S.1. MOMA, New York, USA

2003

Bear the Consequences, Gallery Brändström & Stene, Stockholm, Sweden

Continuity Reflecting Space, Foundation La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain

Presenting/Representing, Gallery Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark

Take a Walk in the Forest at Sunlight, Kunstverein Heilbronn, Germany

2002

Take a Walk in the Forest at Moonlight, CAPC Musee d'art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France

360° Presence, Johann König, Berlin, Germany

Space in Action / Action in Space, Lenbachhaus & Kunstbau München, Germany

2001

Sving, Galerie Michael Neff, Frankfurt / M., Germany

1998

Summer, OTTO, Copenhagen, Denmark

Group exhibitions (selection)

2024

SURREAL SURROUNDINGS, KÖNIG MEXICO CITY

Métro ! Le Grand Paris en movement, CITE de l’architecture et du patrimoine, Paris

PLANET UTOPIA - Kinder Biennale, Japanese Palace, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany

NEON, LED & CO., Schauwerk Sindelfingen, Germany

BE.LIKE.ME. Social Media und ich, Stiftung Welt der Versuchungen, Erfurt, Germany

INTERACTIONS 2024, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany

Liebe ist alles, Galerie Judith Andreae, Bonn, Germany

303 Gallery: 40 Years, 303 GALLERY, New York, USA

Breathe with Me at PIN. Kindertag, Meadow between Pinakothek der Moderne and Museum Brandhorst, Munich

2023

Imaginary Friends, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain

Gedanken spielen Verstecken, Haus Kunst Mitte - House for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany

Solaris, Frac Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur, Marseille, France

Au bout de mes reves, La Tripostal, Lille, France

Mouvement et lumiere, Fondation Villa Datris, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France

Wildes Morgen, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Germany

Noor Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi-Arabia

Multitude & singularité - Art in the digital age, Le Bicolore - Maison du Danemark, Paris, France

Double Up! Mirrors and System, Neues Museum, Nuremberg

2022

Aus Spiel wird Kunst, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch, Germany

Minimal Art. Körper im Raum, Bucerius Kunstforum, Hamburg

Jeppe Hein, Anne Veronica Janssen, Rob Pruitt, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland

at dawn, Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin, Germany

Sport, Spass & Spiel, Kunsthalle Würth, Künzelsau, Germany

Atmen, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

Camiños creativos, Gaiás Centre Museum, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Andre dimensioner, Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, Esbjerg, Denmark

2021

MIRROR I MIRROR, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, The Netherlands

Me, Myself and I (group), Centre culturel numérique Saint-Exupéry, Reims, France

2e Bienniale Kunst in de Heilige Driehoek, Monastery St. Catharinadal, Oosterhout, The Netherlands

Albion Fields, Albion Barn, Church Hill, Little Milton, Oxford, Great Britain

Work it Out, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, Denmark

Light & Space, Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark

Tempo! Alle Zeit der Welt, Museum Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg, Germany

Spiel, Spaß und Sport, Kunsthalle Würth, Künzelsau, Germany

2020

Neon Delight, Centre for International Light Art Unna, Unna, Germany

ECHT UND FALSCH, Skulpturen Triennale Bingen, Bingen, Germany

Medgang og modgang - Udvekslinger mellem dansk og tysk Kunst, Museerne i Tønder, Tønder, Denmark

Who am I, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

In aller Munde, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany

Right here. Right now. Jeppe Hein zu Gast in der Sammlung, Kunsthalle Kiel, Germany

You Are Right Here Right Now, Rønnebæksholm, Næstved, Denmark

Living the City, Tempelhof Airport, Berlin, Germany

There is another way of looking at things (group), Schauwerk Sindelfingen, Germany

Breathe with Me in Ebeltoft, Maltfabrikken, Ebeltoft, Denmark

Re-Art. Readymade recycelt feat. Precious Plastic, Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck, Germany

Vom Wesen der Zeit, Kunsthalle Göppingen, Germany

Ascensions, OFF PARADISE, New York City, USA

SZENE BERLIN, Hall Art Foundation, Schloss Derneburg, Germany

2019

MOVE, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum Aarhus, Denmark

I will be dead, KÖNIG London, United Kingdom

Prism Fantasy: New ways to view light, Paradise Art Space, Paradise City, Icheon, South Korea

Negativer Raum, ZKM, Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe, Germany

Now is the time, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany

58th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia curated by Ralph Rugoff, Venice, Italy

Lust der Täuschung, Ludwig Forum Aachen, Germany

SENSE ME, Trapholt, Kolding, Denmark

OpenArt 2019, Örebro, Sweden

Blickachsen 12, Bad Homburg, Germany

UNDER WATER, Fondazione Filatoio Rosso, Caraglio, Italy

A rose is a rose is a rose, HOW Art Museum (Wenzhou), Wenzhou, China

2018

Ausstellen des Ausstellens, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany

NO ORDINARY MOMENTS, EMMA Museum, Tapiola, Espoo, Finland

Collection Exhibition 3 - Adventures in Seeing, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan

SELVSPEJLINGER I, Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, Esbjerg, Denmark

Lust der Täuschung, Kunsthalle München, Germany

The Playground Project - Outdoor, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany

She sees the shadows, MOSTYN, Llandudno, Wales

Action <-> Reaction, 100 years of kinetic art, Kunsthal Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Wunderkammer, Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, Esjberg, Denmark

Welt ohne Außen. Immersive Räume seit den 60er Jahren, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany

Der flexible Plan, das Rokoko in der Gegenwartskunst, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany

Space Shifters, Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom

PLAY - City Circuit for contemporary art, Kortrijk, Belgium

BIG ART Large-scale contemporary art in architecture created by Bjarke Ingels Group, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark

CRËP, Galleria Doris Ghetta, Ortisei, Italy

POST WATER, National Moutain Museum of Turin, Italy

Starry Nights, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark

The Street. Where the World Is Made/ La Strada. dove il mondo si crea, MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy

2017

Miroir Miroir, MUDAC, Lausanne, Switzerland

Sichten einer Landschaft-Kunst auf der IGA, Internationale Garten Ausstellung 2017, Berlin, Germany

Karin Sander: Zeigen. Eine Audiotour durch die Sammlung der GfZK Leipzig, GfZK, Leipzig, Germany

Blickachsen 11 - Skulpturen in Bad Homburg und Frankfurt RheinMain, Bad Homburger Kurpark, Bad Homburg, Germany

Cool, Calm, and Collected, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark

Ways of Seeing, ARTER Space for art, Istanbul, Turkey

Light in Darkness, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark

This is not the reality - what kind of reality?, San Clemente Palace Kempinski, Venice, Italy

Jump, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark

Ways of Seeing, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium

Stage of Being, Voorlinden, Wassenaar, The Netherlands

2016

An Imagined Museum, works from the Centre Pompidou, the Tate and the MMK, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

The world was flat, MAZ Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Mexico

Reality Perceived, Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark

Skulptur im Fokus der Sammlung Würth. Die Robert-Jacobsen-Preisträger der Stiftung Würth, Forum Würth Rorschach, Switzerland

Art Festival Watou 2016, Watou, Belgium

An der Oberfläche_On Surface, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany

Let's Play, Danish Architecture Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark

Die Kerze, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany

How Long is Now?, KINDL , Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin, Germany

Festival of Love, Modified Social Benches NY, Southbank Centre, Festival Terrace & Queens Walk, London, United Kingdom

SOMMER.FRISCHE.KUNST., Bad Gastein, Austria

Auftrag Landschaft, Auftaktausstellung für Schloss Biesdorf-Zentrum für Kunst und öffentlichen Raum, Berlin, Germany

Roppongi Art Night annual event of Mori Art Museum, Roppongi Hills, Tokyo, Japan

Im Käfig der Freiheit, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany

LUSCIOUS THRILLS Baroque Reflections then and now, gl Holtegaard, Holte, Denmark

IDEALS. Concrete art - then and now, Fuglsang Kunstmuseum, Toreby Lolland, Denmark

Honey, I rearranged the collection, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

2015

Construire une Collection, Villa Sauber, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco

Playing future, Kunsthalle Kiel, Germany

Spieglein, Spieglein an der Wand, Kunstverein Wiesen, Germany

Kunst i sollys, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark

The Coming Museum, Forum Eugénio de Almeida, Évora, Portugal

Material, KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin, Germany

Art Altstetten Albisrieden, Stadt Zürich Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, Switzerland

Skulptur im Fokus der Sammlung Würth. Die Robert-Jacobsen-Preisträger der Stiftung Würth, Museum Würth, Künzelsau, Germany

Risk, Turner Contemporary, Margate, Kent, United Kingdom

Another Minimalism: Art after California Light and Space, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh , United Kingdom

The world was flat, Bildmuseet Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

2014

Spielobjekte, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland

Slapstick! Die Kunst der Komik, LENTOS, Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria

The grass is always greener, CAM, Foundation Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal

JORN LAB - Laboratorium for nutidig reception af Asger Jorn, KunstCentret Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg, Denmark

Man in the Mirror, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussel, Belgium

Moving Parts: Time and Motion in Contemporary Art, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at University in St. Louis, USA

Vanitas. Ewig ist eh nichts, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin, Germany

Bikuben, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, USA

Jorn-familien, Gimsinghoved Kunst- og Kulturcenter, Struer, Denmark

Art Festival Watou 2014, Watou, Belgium

Antworten auf Calder: Mobiles in der Gegenwartskunst, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Germany

Schwindel der Wirklichkeit, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany

The grass is always greener, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark

2013

DYNAMO. A century of light and movement in the art. 1913- 2013, RMN, Grand Palais, Paris, France

YOU, MOSTYN, Llandudno, United Kingdom

I knOw yoU, IMMA - Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

Visionen - Atmospären der Veränderung, Museum Marta Herford, Herford, Germany

Either / Or -Søren Kierkegaard 200 years reflected in contemporary art, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark

Either / Or -Søren Kierkegaard 200 years reflected in contemporary art, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany

Auf Zeit. Was hinter dem Putz steckt, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany

Slapstick! Alÿs, Bock, Chaplin, Hein, Laurel & Hardy, Keaton, Matta-Clark, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany

The Great Magic – Selected Artworks form the UniCredit Art Collection, MAMbo, Bologna, Italy

The World Turned Upside Down - Buster Keaton, Sculpture and the Absurd, Mead Gallery, Coventry, United Kingdom

The Phylogenesis of Generosity, Prinzessinnengarten, Berlin, Germany

FADING NIGHTS (Parra for Cuva), Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin, Germany

Acting in the City, Norrköping Konstmuseum, Norrköping, Sweden

2012

Regionale 12, Murau, Austria

When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, USA

Treffpunkt: Berlin, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark

Beaufort04, Den Haan, Belgium

30 Künstler / 30 Räume, Neues Museum Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany

House of Cards, Waddesdon Manor, London, United Kingdom

Parallelwelt Zirkus, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria

Sammlung Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany

Invisible, Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom

We Will Disappear You, Frutta Gallery, Rome, Italy

Wie kommt das Neue in die Welt? – Zehn Internationale Bildhauer, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany

ILOVIT, Copenhagen Art Festival, Denmark

Enlightened: Electric light as the fairy of art, Konsthallen Artipelag, Gustavsberg, Sweden

The Mystery Spot, Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, Paris, France

2011

Small, Medium, Large, Donjon de Vez, France

Our Magic Hour, Yokohama Triennale 2011, Japan

Commercial Break, Garage Projects, 54th Venice Biennale, Italy

Höhenrausch.2, OK Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich, Linz, Austria

No, No, I hardly ever miss a show, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland

Die Kunst der Entschleunigung. Bewegung und Ruhe in der Kunst, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany

Totem and Taboo, quartier21 International MuseumsQuartier, Wien, Austria

Rewriting Worlds, 4th Moscow Biennale of contemporary art, Moscow, Russia

2010

Bild für Bild - Film und zeitgenössische Kunst, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany

Nordic Models + Common Ground, Scandinavia House, New York, USA

Lichtparcours Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park: 100 Acres, IMA, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, USA

SNAPSHOTS OF TOURISM, Gallery Augusta - HIAP Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland

EMSCHERKUNST.2010 - European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010, Essen, Germany

Circus Hein at Open Space, Art Cologne, Germany

Spères 3 2010, Galleria Continua / Le Moulin, Boissy-le-Châtel, FR

2009

Circus Hein, FRAC Orléans, Orléans, France

Silent, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan

KURS: SØEN, Vestsjællands Kunstmuseum Sorø, Denmark

The city as a stage: 4 Cultures + 4 Elements = 4 Displays of Public Art in Urban Areas, Cordoba, Spain

DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture, Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom

The Kaleidoscopic Eye: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2008

Take Me There – Show Me The Way, Haunch of Venison Gallery, New York, USA

Platform Seoul 2008, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea

Fabricateurs d’espaces, Institut d’art contemporain Villeurbanne/Lyon, France

Wonder, Singapore Biennal, Singapore

Reality Check, SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark

LUSTWARANDE, Tilburg, The Netherlands

Museum as Medium, Museo de Arte Contemporánea, Vigo, Spain

Reconstruction #3, Sudeley Castle, United Kingdom

FLUID STREET: Alone, Together, KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland

The World as a Stage, ICA Boston, USA

2007

The World as a Stage, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom

Just Use it!, Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark

The Freak Show, Musée d'art contemporain, Lyon, France

Made in Germany, Kunstverein Hannover, Hanover, Germany

Phantasmagoria: Specters of Absence, touring exhibition by iCI

Half Square, Half Crazy, Villa Arson, Nizza, France

Absent Without Leave, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, United Kingdom

2006

This is not for you, T-B A 21, Vienna, Austria

Exportable Goods, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria

No. 14 Light Play, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium

Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Momentum 2006, Moss, Norway

Sid Ned, Copenhagen, Denmark

Nichts, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany

Testigos, Fundación NMAC, Cádiz, Spain

Johann König, Berlin, Germany

Kit-o-Parts, CAN Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Le mouvement des images, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

play station, Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany

Backdrop, Bloomberg Space, London, United Kingdom

2005

Visionäre Sammlung Vol. 1, Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich, Switzerland

The Pantagruel Syndrome, T1 Torino Triennial of Contemporary Art, Italy

Black Market Worlds, 9th Baltic Triennial of International Art, CAC Vilnius & ICA Vilnius, Lithuania

Ecstasy. In and about altered states, MOCA. Los Angeles, USA

Flux, Illuminate Productions, London, United Kingdom

Kunst findet Stadt, Gesellschaft für aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany

Wall to be destroyed, FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France

Extra Ordinary, Kulturhuset Stockholm, Sweden

Tanz im August, Berlin, Siemens Arts Program, Germany

Esprits du Lieu, Château du roi René, FRAC, Tarascon, France

Sous les ponts, le long de la vallée, Casino Luxembourg

Light Lab. In the name of the light, Museion, Bolzano, Italy

L’œil moteur, Les musées de Strasbourg, France

A Whiter Shade Of Pale – Kunst aus den nordischen Ländern, Kunstverein Kehdingen, Germany

Moving parts, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland

universal experience. art, life, the tourist eye, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA

Parklandschaften, Lüdenscheid, Germany

2004

Moving Parts, Kunsthalle Graz, Austria

Connected Presence, Union Gallery, with Johannes Wohnseifer, London, United Kingdom

Performative Architektur, Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany

Tra Monti 04, Rome, Italy

Reflecting the Mirror, Marian Goodman Gallery New York, USA

Gegen den Strich, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany

Rum I Rum, Vendsyssel Kunstmuseum, Hjørring, Denmark

A Secret History of Clay: From Gauguin to Gormley, Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom

Quicksand, De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Gallery Jan Mot, Brussel, Belgium

2003

Jeppe Hein, ROR ProjectRoom. Helsinki, Finland

Western, Charlottenborg, Autumn Show, Denmark

2nd Biennial of Ceramic in Contemporary Art, Albisola, Italy

Ten years Gallery Nicolai Wallner, Gallery Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark

Skulpturenpark, Graz 2003 Kulturhauptstadt Europas, Austria

Auf eigene Gefahr, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/M., Germany

Interludes, 50th Biennale di Venezia, Italy

Das lebendige Museum, MMK, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/M., Germany

aufgeschraubt & abgestaubt, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany

The Straight or Crooked Way, Royal College of Art, London, Great Britain

Schnittprojekte, Schnittraum, Köln, Germany

2002

Ingrepp, Uppsala Kunstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden

I promise it is political, Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany

Fuzzy, Galerie Minini, Brescia, Italy

Inside/ Outside, Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany

Gangurinn The Corridor Gallery, Reikjavik, Island

Hell, Galerie neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany

No Return. Positions from the Collection Haubrok, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany

Art Statements, Art Basel, Galerie Michael Neff, Switzerland

2001

Meglepetes 2 / Surprise 2, Budapest, Hungary

F20 P01. Frankfurter Positionen 2001, Städelschule Frankfurt / M., Germany

Changes possible, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany

Stage. Design of meeting point for interviews and discussions, In connection with the IASPIS, Venice, Italy

Neue Welt, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany

Arbeit, Essen, Angst, Kokerei Zollverein, Essen, Germany

Strategies against Architecture II, Pisa, Italy

Take off 20:01, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus Denmark

2000

Festival Junger Talente, Frankfurt/M., Germany

Dynamo Eintracht, Hauptzollamt, Städelschule Frankfurt / Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden, Germany

Charlottenborg, Autumn Show

Mandelbaums Wunderöl, Köln – Berlin, Germany

onepercent artspace, Video Lounge design, Stockholm Art Fair, Germany

1999

On Paper, Stalke Gallery, Copenhagen, Germany

Anarchitectur, De Appel, Amsterdam. In collaboration with Frans Jacobi and Lars Bent Petersen, The Netherlands

Cellar, OTTO, Copenhagen, Denmark

Commission work projects

2024

Water Pavilion Ordrupgaard, Ordupgaard, Charlottenlund, Denmark

Modified Social Bench for Jahnsdorf #01, Park an der Streuobstwiese, Jahnsdorf, Germany

Entangled Emotions, Forecourt of Skyper Tower, Frankfurt, Germany

2023

The Sky, the Earth and You, Salling Roofgarden, Aarhus, Denmark

Balance of Time, Frederiksberg Alle 41, Copenhagen, Denmark

Mirror Pavilion Neuer Kanzlerplatz Bonn, Neuer Kanzlerplatz Bonn, Germany

Tupilak Catcher, SPS College, Ilulissat, Greenland

2022

Social Playground Monheim, Eierplatz, Monheim am Rhein, Germany

Balance of Now, Østre Landsret Copenhagen, Denmark

Modified Social Benches Claremont, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, USA

2021

Gravity Mirror Pavilion & Sun, Moon and the Earth, LIFE Campus, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

ARKENWALK, ARKEN Museum for Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark

2020

All Your Wishes, Terminal B of La Guardia Airport, New York City, USA

Coloured Mirror Balloons, Kongens Nytorv Metro Station, Copenhagen, Denmark

Eye of the North, Langåsen Natur- og Skulpturpark, Svolvær, Lofoten, Norway

2019

Water Pavilion Rosemary Square, West Palm Beach, USA

Modified Social Benches Elsass Foundation, Elsass Fonden, Copenhagen, Denmark

2018

Path of Emotions, Fondation Carmignac, Porquerolles Island, France

Bench of Expectation, MGM Springfield, USA

Mirror Labyrinth Besthoff Sculpture Garden, New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, New Orleans, USA

2017

Coloured Mirror Balloons, Kongens Nytorv Station, Copenhagen, Denmark

Reflecting Gardens, IGA 2017, Gärten der Welt, Berlin, Germany

Water Pavilion Norra Djurgårdsstaden, Bobergsplats, Stockholm, Sweden

Endless Connection, Havnepladsen, Aarhrus, Denmark

Modified Social Benches for Lemvig, Lemvig Havn, Denmark

2016

Path of Silence, Kistefos Sculpture Park, Jevnaker, Norway

2015

Mobile of Enlightenment, VIA University College Aarhus, Denmark

Blue Modified Social Bench, Copenhagen/Kastrup, Denmark

Long Modified Bench Waitematā Green, Waitematā Plaza, Auckland, New Zealand

Hexagonal Light, Novo Nordisk, Plainsboro, USA

2014

Reflecting Frequencies, Musikkens Hus, Aalborg, Denmark

Double Reflection, Facade for New Media Library Högskolan Dalarna Falun, Sweden (With ADEPT)

2013

Hide and See(k), Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Encircle, Place Lapérouse, Albi, France

Spaces Between Trees and People, Munich-Pasing, Germany

Mirror Labyrinth Athletic Village London, Olympic Park, London, United Kingdom

2012

Water Pavilion Assens, Assens, Denmark

Appearing Rooms Forrest Place, Perth, Western Australia

2011

Water Pavilion Aalborg, KUNSTEN Museum for Modern Art Aalborg, Denmark

Double Exposure Blue, KPMG, Copenhagen, Denmark

2010

Water Island Morsbroich, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany

Mobile EnBW, Stuttgart, Germany

Connecting Views, EMSCHERKUNST.2010, European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010, Essen, Germany

Long Modified Bench Expo 2010, Water Pavilion Expo 2010, Danish Pavilion, Expo 2010, Shanghai, China (with BIG- Bjarke Ingels Group)

4-Dimensional Circle, Hotel Miramar, Cannes, France

2009

Follow Me, Bristol University, United Kingdom

Parcours, Neuland 07, Camp Reinsehlen, Schneverdingen, Germany

2008

Mirror Labyrinth Kraus Residence, New York, USA

Lightline, Sydbank, Aabenraa, Denmark

Water Pavilion Oppenheim, Long Modified Bench Oppenheim, Neon Light Object Oppenheim, Bankhaus Sal. Oppenheim, Cologne, Germany

Water Flame, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, United Kingdom

Appearing Rooms, Expo 2008, Zaragoza, Spain

Monsieur Canal, Thoraise, Canal du Rhône au Rhin, France

2007

Water Flame, Geo Center, Møns Klint, Denmark

Mirror Labyrinth Chiswick Park, London, United Kingdom

2006

Place de la Fleur, Lorient, France

Water Island, Leeuwenborgh College Maastricht, The Netherlands

2005

3-Dimensional Labyrinth and Long Modified Bench, Anyang Public Art Project, Corea

Private Rain, Sculptureparc Bodø, Norway

Illuminated Benches, Torino, Italy

2004

Blomsten, EPO Den Haag, The Netherlands

Changing Invisibility, DomAquarée Berlin, Germany

Changing Invisibility, Hiroshima Park Kiel, Germany

Collections (selection)

ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark

Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Arken Museum of Modern Art, Arken, Denmark

MNAM -Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

FNAC, Paris, France

FRAC, Marseille, France

Lehnbachhaus, Munich, Germany

MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA

MMK, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/M., Germany

SMK, Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark

Neues Museum Nürnberg, Germany

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, The Netherlands

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan

Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany

Awards, lectures and professorships (selection)

2018

Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsens Award, Denmark

2014

ARKENs KUNSTPRIS, Denmark

2013

Ars Fennica award of the Henna and Pertti Niemistö Ars Fennica Art Foundation, Finnland

2012

Robert-Jacobsen-Preis der Stiftung Würth, Germany

2011

Kulturpris i Vordingborg Kommune, Denmark

2010

3-year grant of Statens Kunstfond, Denmark

2009

Honorary Chair Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, USA

Lecture Emily Carr University Vancouver, Canada

Lecture Tokyo Art University, Japan

Artist in Residence Atelier Calder, Saché, France

2008

Visiting professor for Art and Technology at Aalborg Universitet; Aalborg, Denmark

Artist Talk with Dan Graham, 303 Gallery, New York, USA

Artist Talk with Dan Graham, Kunstverein Köln, Germany

Conference – Køge, Søndre Havn i Køge, Denmark

2007

Lecture Barbican Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Lecture Fundación Bilbao, Spain

Conference Metropolzonen, Denmark

Landschaftskunstpreis NEULAND der Stiftung Niedersachsen, Germany