Tejn (artist)

TEJN
Born	1976 (age 40–41) Denmark
Known for	Street art, sculpture

TEJN (born 1976) is a pseudonymous Danish artist, who began his artistic work as a street artist in 2007 and occasionally exhibits contemporary art in galleries.

TEJNs gallery sculptures typically demands a more extended effort to interpret, than his street art sculptures, which he often gives a layer of a more digestible nature, allowing it to communicate with an audience passing by on foot or bike.

The highly symbolic works typically debate philosophy, politics or existentialism, suggesting a form of self-appraisal among the audience.

Based in Copenhagen, TEJN's street art has made its mark on most bigger European cities. He is best known by his trademark: "Lock Ons" which are site-specific sculptures or statues, typically welded in recycled iron and chained in the street without permission, often mounted to urban furniture with a bicycle lock. His second most preferred media is paintings on paper, pasted up with wheatpaste on a wall. TEJN also makes installations,stencil-art, and conceptual art.

TEJN finds metal scrap for his sculptures in urban areas and uses some of it in its original form. The rest is shaped and welded into figurative objects that express a narrative deadopen for interpretation.

The iron is later "given back to the street" as street sculptures, in the same areas where he originally collected the material.

Character winding up a peace sign

Lock on and stencil

Gun getting shredded in meat grinder

Grown Ups Can Be Tall, early paste up

Helicopter, figurative sculpture welded in iron, dressed in crochet

Closeup of gun sculpture

Iron sculpture

Slingshot-armed person makes soldier in tank surrender

Weary shopper pushing a shopping cart

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