Jeppe Hein Livres

Practicing yoga allows you to be aware of your ‘being-in-the-world-with-others’, strengthening not only your self-awareness but also your capacity to get in touch with your environment, with other people and finally with yourself. Jeppe Hein’s art creates an experience akin to that. By juxtaposing 54 yoga poses with Jeppe Heins’ artworks „Nothing is as it appears“ is a book that highlights how yoga has consciously and unconsciously played a significant part in the artists ways of expression.

The book is published on the occasion of the solo show with the Danish artist Jeppe Hein "Sensing the world inside yourself" at the Museum of Religious Art in Lemvig, Denmark. A variety of voices offer philosophical, art historical, as well as spiritual perspectives on both Jeppe Hein's work practice and the themes he addresses with his art and in the exhibition. The book also features a sensory experience. The work "Smells like... Stillhet" (2014) by Jeppe Hein, also featured in the exhibition, is implemented in the catalogue in the form of the scent of silence, requiring readers' engagement and sense of touch to activate it as well as their sense of smell to experience.00Exhibition: Museet for Religiøs Kunst, Lemvig, Denmark (04.06.-17.09.2017).

We consciously and subconsciously travel various kinds of distance every day--distance both literal and figurative, physical and spiritual. The work of Danish artist Jeppe Hein (born 1974), and its staging at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, address this theme. In a labyrinth of spaces, paths, intersections and squares, visitors not only encounter the minimally, kinetically and socially oriented works by Hein, but are also surprised by new and site-specific works. After his burnout in December 2009, the artist expanded his spectrum of material: sound, resonance, silence, scents or breath characterize his new works and reflect his examination of Eastern philosophies and practices such as Buddhism, yoga and meditation. The catalogue is as personal as his watercolor journal in the exhibition, as Hein becomes palpable as both artist and person in a very open conversation with curator Uta Ruhkamp, as well as in essays by Finn Janning and Peter Høeg.

In Jeppe Hein's work, objects begin to move or are set in motion, sensory stimuli are triggered, the exhibition space is altered, the viewers instigate active relationships between individual elements, the space and themselves, and the exhibition space is considered as an 'event space'. This work also includes a list and description of her works.