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INSTALLATIONS
DOCUMENTATION
2008-1983

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SELECTED WORKS

     
bvhhs   GLOBAL HOPE – GLOBAL DESPAIR
Sarang Building 1 / Yogyakarta / Indonesia 2018

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This 'Global Time Installation' with 12 ticking clocks raises a visual question to some of the major global problems in the world. Has the time run out ?
GLOBAL CLOCK WATCH UP CLOCK TICKING LAST DROP TRUMP TIME STARVATIONŸ EARTH & SKYŸ UPSIDE DOWN
     

 

INSTALLATIONS
Kersan Art Studio / Yogyakarta / Indonesia 2015

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The material I chose for my exhibition are Indonesian everyday materials like bamboo and clay - in the form of jars and bowls, as well as a common Indonesian visual symbol language. In this way I hope both physically and mentally to engage in dialogue with the Indonesian spirit.

     

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REQUIEM
Solbjerg Cemetery Southern Chapel / Copenhagen 2013
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The project 'REQUIEM' is a reflection upon the themes that I, as an artist, have chosen to work with over the past 30 years - installations that are created for specific spaces and places. - Artworks created temporarily in Space and Time. The works are destroyed and therefore physically out of Time and Space
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  ToBeOrNotToBe
Kronborg Carstel / Elsinore / Denmark 2008
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I am working with three stages of the legend of Hamlet, freely adapted from Shakespeare: To Be / The Past, Or Not / The Present, To Be / The Future. From the organic body of primitive man - via our time’s preoccupation with the brain and artificial organs - to the control of the future of genes and technology.

     
bvhhs line GLOBAL ‘SUPPER’
OVERGADEN – Institute of Contemporary Art / Copenhagen 2005
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ART SCIENCE SPIRITUALITY PHILOSOPHY ETHICS CULTURE
LANGUAGE
RACE SEX LABOUR ECONOMY POLITICS UNIVERSE
     
bvhhs line GLOBAL ‘HEART’ CIRKULATION
Arken Museum of Modern Art / Denmark 2002
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The installation, visualizes society as a pulsing heart chamber that has the rhythm and sound of a ticking bomb – a reactor bursting with energy affecting life and death.
     
bvhhs line GLOBAL - INHALATION - EXPIRATION
Water Reservoir / Plenzlauer Berg / Berlin / Germany 2001
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Staged like a ‘lit de parade’, the installation is a reflection on the air we breathe, physically and mentally. How political leaders pollute other people’s lives. How power and finances corrupt, inducing a global lack of oxygen.
     
bvhhs line PLACE NIKOLAJ PLACE
Nikolaj - Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center / Denmark 2000
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PLACE TO DIE
PLACE TO BE OR NOT
PLACE TO SIT OUT-SIDE
PLACE TO PLAY THE GAME
     
bvhhs line GREY - ZONE - ZONE
Museum of Contemporary Art / Roskilde/ Denmark 1999
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The exhibition presents 5 installations which involve the spectators both physically and mentally, thus making them a part of these three-dimensional works.
     
bvhhs line KOMMUNE’ IK@TION
Rødovre City Hall / Copenhagen 1998
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The radars substitute for the classical vessels of sacred fire placed on top of the most important buildings in the ancient Greek communes to communicate with the gods above. In a democracy like Denmark, small talk is received.
     
bvhhs line RELATIVISME
Kunsthal Charlottenborg / Copenhagen 1996
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Below six slate stones swinging above a lead-covered floor, speakers emitted different digitalized sound sequences – one for Art, one for Science and one for Spirituality.
     
bvhhs line ATTENTION
Helsingør Harbour / Denmark 1996
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A 17-meter sculpture placed at an angle in the sea directly outside Kronborg Castle, Elsinore, like a giant antenna turned to Europe, with its back to Scandinavia.
     
bvhhs line SPHERE
Kunsthallen Brandts / Odense / Denmark 1993
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Twelve black burned wooden sculptures, dangling like lifeless bodies from metallic umbilical cords, are suspended among sculpture fragments, resting only on their bronze points.
     
bvhhs line CIRCULAR ARC
Roskilde University Center / Denmark 1990
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‘Circular Arc’ visualizes theoretical notions of ‘The Golden Cut’ in dialog with
life’s opposites of outer-inner / preservation-destruction / weight-lightness /
culture-nature / practice-theory.
     
bvhhs line METAMOR’PHOSIS
B & W Ship Hall / Copenhagen 1989
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The former B & W Shipyards hall (90x30x22 meters), is a ‘Contemporary Cathedral’ in an aesthetics-of-decay age.
     
bvhhs line PLUS - MINUS
Glerie Asbæk / Copenhagen 1988
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‘Plus-Minus’ a poetic, quiet installation, a magically lingering force field suffused with the internal energy of opposites: Fire-Ice / Black-White / Light-Heavy / Airy-Grounded.
     
bvhhs line ‘ SOUL’
La Mama La Galleria / New York 1988
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Installation & Opera-performance ‘SOUL’ is a reflection of New York, the visible
SOUL’ of America
     
line 5 SPIRES
Sortedams Lake / Copenhagen 1987
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bvhhs line DEAD LIGHT / LIFE LIGHT
Kunsthal Charlottenborg / Copenhagen 1986
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Gentofte Art Library / Copenhagen 1986
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The installation ‘INSEMINATION’ is an open, planet-like, rhythmic landscape, a visual laboratory touching on past, present and future.
     
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Langelinie Harbour / Copenhagen 1985
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The Langelinie Project was a unique event, taking place in Denmark. A total of 38 visual artists were invited to create installations in the long low 3000-square-meter storehouse alongside the quay of Langelinie.