The list of artists participating in the seventh edition of Denmark’s Socle du Monde Biennale—slated to open on April 21—is in, and it’s a mixed bag.
Described by the biennial as a group of “artist icons and the rising stars of tomorrow,” the list includes big-hitters like Yayoi Kusama, Rikrit Tiravanija, and Piero Manzoni alongside emerging names like Anders Bonnesen or Hannah Heilmann.
Titled “To challenge the Earth, the Moon, the Sun & the Stars,” the exhibition is conceived, as in past years, as an homage to Manzoni, and to all artists “who accepted the challenge of turning our world upside down,” reads the press release.
Headed by Mattijs Visser, founding director of ZERO foundation, the curatorial team includes Olivier Varenne, Jean-Hubert Martin, Daniel Birnbaum, and Maria Finders. Each of the five curators have been allotted a “chapter,” based on a work by Manzoni.
“The fact that Manzoni, with his epoch-making residency in Herning, produced art that made world history, obviously begs a gathering up of the past and continuously challenging the future, specifically here in Herning”, says Holger Reenberg, Director at Herning Museum of Contemporary Art (HEART), which is hosting the Biennale.
The full list of participating artists is as follows:
Agostino Bonalumi
Ana Prvacki
Anders Bonnesen
Antony Gormley
Armando
Art Barter
Asger Jorn
Belu Simion-Fainaru
Cameron Robbins
Carl-Henning Pedersen
Celeste Boursier-Mougenot
Charles Fréger
Chiharu Shiota
Christian Megert
Conrad Shawcross
Dadamaino
Enrico Castellani
Ernest Mancoba
Eva Steen Christensen
Francois Morellet
Gerhard von Graevenitz
Gianni Colombo
Gutai
Günther Uecker
Hannah Heilmann
Hans Haacke
Hans Salentin
Heinz Mack
Henk Peeters
Herman Bartels
Herman De Vries
Hermann Goepfert
Hesselholdt & Mejlvang
Ilja & Emilia Kabakov
Jan J. Schoonhoven
Jef Verheyen
Keisuke Matsuura
Kimsooja
Koen Vanmechelen
Lindsay Seers
Lucio Fontana
Mahsa Karimizadeh
Mischa Kuball
Nanda Vigo
Oliver Beer
Oskar Holweck
Otto Piene
Paul Gadegaard
Paul van Hoeydonck
Piero Manzoni
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Romuald Hazoume
Sadamaso Motonaga
Shen Yuan
Spencer Tunick
Sven Dalsgaard
Tomás Saraceno
Walter Leblanc
Wim Delvoye
Yayoi Kusama
Yves Klein
Zoro Feigl