art meets city Kurgarten Baden-Baden31/07-26/09 2021

Jeppe Hein

Nora WaggershauserInitiator of the campaign “art meets city“

art meets cityKurgarten Baden-Baden.

Nora Waggershauser, Managing Director

Baden-Baden Events GmbH · Baden-Baden Kur & Tourismus GmbH

A new art event for Baden-Baden!You know us and you know that we always come up with something special for the summer months in the Kurgarten in front of the Kurhaus Baden-Baden. We have found something that appeals to the mind, encourages ex-change and puts the nature of the Kurgarten in a new light - from now on every year. The idea of the big public art event for Baden-Baden is born.

Open to all, in the open air.We call Baden-Baden the “European Capital of the Art of Living“, because its nature, health and culture form a unique bond. We have top-class museums and exhibitions, art-loving citizens, international guests - and the Kurgarten. So why notcreate a stage here for young artists from all over the world? Our greatest wish would be for you to discover what art can be under the open sky. Experience new forms, new expressions, new thoughts - and experience the Kurgarten in a completely different way. Exchange ideas! Art brings people together, makes people think and experience.

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Jeppe Hein

Born in Copenhagen in 1974, Jeppe Hein studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and at the Städelschu-le in Frankfurt/Main. Since 2001 he has been showing his works around the globe, including at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (2020); in Central Park and at the UN Head-quarters in New York City (2019); at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (2015); the 21st Century Museum of Contempo-rary Art, Kanazawa (2011); The Curve, Barbican Art Cen-tre, London (2007); the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2005); the P.S.1. MOMA, New York (2004) and twice at the Biennale di Venezia (2003 & 2019).

Jeppe Hein is a Danish artist living and working in Berlin. In his interactive art he combines aesthetics with play, publicity with individual experience, environment and inner world.

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Appearing RoomsWater walls rise and fall randomly. Visitors entering the water pavilion can move within the structure and find themselves in differently sha-ped spaces. Dare to enter! Enjoy the seclusion and relaxation, pure joy and free play!

“My works are meant to provide breaks and activity, to encourage dialogue with others and make you reflect, laugh and marvel”.Jeppe Hein

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Modified Social BenchesBenches! Essential in a park, in public spaces. Jeppe Hein has reinterpreted them. His „Modified Social Benches“ turn sitting into a conscious physical act, encourage new encounters and stimulate reflection: Where do you sit down? Or do you prefer to lie down? How do others use the benches? Find out and share your experience!

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ndMirror BalloonsMirrored balloons hang from the ceiling in the open space and subtly move with the air circulation. Only the roof seems to prevent the balloons from floating into the air and the reflection from extending into infinity. If they could fly away and take one wish, what wish would it be?

Shift in PerceptionLooking at the gradually rotating hanging mirror installation, an unusual perspective of the surrounding emerges from the movement of the reflections against the background of the surrounding. Fragments of the space are suddenly placed next to or in front of each other; layered images offer views that cannot be seen simultaneously with the naked eye, making the sur-rounding place seem infinite. Do you see reality or only mirrored reality?

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Margret Mergen Lord Mayor of Baden-Baden

Nora WaggershauserManaging Director Baden-Baden Events GmbH /Managing Director Baden-Baden Kur & Tourism GmbH

Prof. Dr. Florian MatznerArt historian and exhibition organizer,Professor of Art History at the Acade-my of Fine Arts of Munich, publicati-ons and exhibitions on contemporary art with focus on public art /art in public space.

Dr. Thomas KöhlerArt historian, Director (since 2010) of the Berlinische Galerie, State Museum for modern art, photography and architecture. His curatorial activities focus on contemporary art, especi-ally photography and site-specific works.

Henning SchaperDirector of Museum Frieder Burda, Chairman of the Frieder Burda Foun-dation. Prior to that, he held several positions at the Art Museum Wolfs-burg, including Executive Director, for more than 20 years.

Thank you to our partners:The Advisory BoardThe Lord Mayor of Baden-Baden Margret Mergen and the Managing Director of Baden-Baden Events GmbH Nora Waggershauser have a three member artistic advisory board at their side: Prof. Dr. Florian Matzner, Professor of Art History, from Munich and expert on public arts, Dr. Thomas Köhler, Di-rector of the Berlinische Galerie, as well as Henning Schaper, Director of the Museum Frieder Burda. Together they made the choice: After assessing the individual spatial situation and the unique flair of Baden-Baden, the decision was made in favour of the artist Jeppe Hein. He is known all over the world for his public art projects. His art enforces and initiates interaction with people. Thus, the first artistic intervention in the context of “art meets city“ is to be experienced three-dimensionally, appealing to all the senses and encouraging people to participate.

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ImprintBaden-Baden Events GmbH Solmsstrasse 1/Schloss Solms76530 Baden-Baden Phone: +49 7221 275 275Fax: +49 7221 275 222info@badenbadenevents.dewww.badenbadenevents.deRepresented by: Nora Waggershauser

EditingConcept: A&B One, Frankfurt/MainDesign: Medienhaus Baden-BadenPrinting: Späth Media GmbH

Photo credits:Cover photo: (left) Jeppe Hein, Appearing Rooms, 2004, Alain Roux ©; (right) Jeppe Hein, Modified Social Bench P, 2008, Laurin Schmid ©, Art and Exhibition Hall of theFederal Republic of Germany GmbH

Kurhaus Baden-Baden, Natalie Dautel ©;Nora Waggershauser, Baden-Baden Events GmbH ©; Margret Mergen, Baden-Baden ©; Prof. Dr. F. Matzner, Prof. Dr. F. Matzner ©; Dr. T. Köhler, Harry Schnitger ©; Henning Schaper, Museum Frieder Burda ©

For all artworks by Jeppe Hein:Courtesy KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin/London, 303GALLERY, New York, and Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen

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