Jeppe Hein

Jeppe Hein
Born	1974 Copenhagen, Denmark
Nationality	Danish
Education	Royal Danish Academy of Art (1997-2003) Städelschule (1999-2000)
Known for	Sculpture and installation

Jeppe Hein (born 1974, Copenhagen, Denmark) is an artist based in Berlin and Copenhagen. His interactive sculptures and installations combine elements of humour with the 1970s traditions of minimalism and conceptual art.

Hein studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Art between 1997 and 2003 and at the Städelschule in Frankfurt between 1999 and 2000 (while registered as an associate student of the Danish Academy). As a student Hein was co-founder of OTTO, a non-commercial organisation that organised art exhibitions at various venues in Denmark between 1997 and 2000.

In 2008, Hein collaborated with Dan Graham on a temporary pavilion in Cologne.

Between September 2009 and January 2010, Hein stayed at Alexander Calder’s studio in Saché, France, as a part of an artist in residence programme.

'Modified Social Benches' located in the Montenmedio Sculpture Park, Cadiz, Spain. These benches are also located in other places around the world, including Miami and Helsinki.

At Houghton Hall in Norfolk, the Marquess of Cholmondeley commissioned an "artlandish" folly in a scale appropriate for a five-acre walled garden. Hein created a site-specific outdoor sculpture for this space. In all seasons, this jet of water surmounted by a ball of flame illustrates a 21st-century folly on a smaller scale than other contemporary land art pieces in the parkland outside the garden enclosure. The work is intended "to surprise viewers and make them question what they are seeing." Hein wants to elicit

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