Your browser is out-of-date.

In order to have a more interesting navigation, we suggest upgrading your browser, clicking in one of the following links.
All browsers are free and easy to install.

 
  • in vitruvius
    • in magazines
    • in journal
  • \/
  •  

research

magazines

newspaper

agenda cultural

In his conceptually rigorous and often witty work, Berlin-based artist Henrik Olesen (b. 1967, Esbjerg, Denmark) investigates structures of power and systems of knowledge to reveal inherent logics and rules of social and political normalization. Olesen’s projects, based on in-depth research, have addressed a range of subjects including legal codes, the natural sciences, distribution of capital, and art history, and have taken the form of posters, fliers, text, collages, found-object sculptures, and spatial interventions. In past works, Olesen has compiled examples of “sodomy law” from around the world as testimony to the persistent criminalization of homosexuality; assembled a vast atlas of conspicuous and yet rarely acknowledged expressions of same-sex desire or affection in Western art history; and, most recently, created a historical and imagined portrait—in photo-text collages and sculptural objects—of British mathematician Alan Turing, who was persecuted for his sexual orientation despite his professional achievements and patriotic contributions. For Projects 94, Olesen presents a new site-specific work.

Henrik Olesen. Imitation/Enigma (2). 2008. Box, adhesive tape, rope, padding material, and blanket, 23 5/8 x 39 3/8 x 11 13/16" (60 x 100 x 30 cm). © Henrik Olesen. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne and Berlin

Henrik Olesen. Imitation/Enigma (2). 2008. Box, adhesive tape, rope, padding material, and blanket, 23 5/8 x 39 3/8 x 11 13/16" (60 x 100 x 30 cm). © Henrik Olesen. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne and Berlin

Projects 94: Henrik Olesen

happens
from 09/02/2011
to 23/05/2011

where
MoMA NY
Museum of Modern Art New York
11 West 53 Street
New York, NY 10019-5497
Sun, Mon, Wed and Sat 10h30–17h30. Thu 10h30–17h30 (open until 8:45 p.m. on April 22, June 3, and every Thu in July and August) Fri 10h30–20h. Sat 10h30–17h30
+1 (212) 708-9400

source
MoMA
NY USA

share


© 2000–2024 Vitruvius
All rights reserved

The sources are always responsible for the accuracy of the information provided