2017 SOCLE DU MONDE BIENNALE ANNOUNCES LIST OF PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Named after Italian artist Piero Manzoni’s piece Socle du monde (Base of the World), 1961, the Socle du Monde Biennale is co-organized by the ZERO Foundation in Düsseldorf and the Herning Museum of Contemporary Art (HEART) in Herning, Denmark. It will open on April 21 at the HEART, the Carl-Henning Pedersen & Else Alfelts Museum, Herning Højskole, and in the parks around HEART. Titled “To Challenge the Earth, the Moon, the Sun & the Stars,” the exhibition “pays homage to all great artists, before and after, who accepted the challenge of turning our world upside down.”
Running until August 27, the seventh edition of the biennial is curated by Mattijs Visser, the founding director of the ZERO Foundation, along with curators Olivier Varenne, Jean-Hubert Martin, Daniel Birnbaum, and Maria Finders. Assisting the team are Holger Reenberg, director at HEART and founding director of the biennial; Lotte Korshøj, the director at Carl-Henning Pedersen & Else Alfelts Museum; and Michael Bank Christoffersen, chief curator at HEART.
The full artist list is as follows:
Agostino Bonalumi
Anders Bonnesen
Armando
Art Barter
Asger Jorn
Barbara Hoheisel
Cameron Robbins
Carl-Henning Pedersen
Celeste Boursier-Mougenot
Charles Fréger
Chiharu Shiota
Christian Megert
Conrad Shawcross
Dadamaino
Enrico Castellani
Ernest Mangoba
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
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov
Jan J. Schoonhoven
Jef Verheyen
Keisuke Matsuura
Koen Vanmechelen
Lucio Fontana
Mahsa Karimizadeh
Nanda Vigo
Oliver Beer
Oskar Holweck
Otto Piene
Paul Gadegaard
Paul van Hoeydonck
Piero Manzoni
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Romuald Hazoume
Ryoji Ikeda
Sadamaso Motonaga
Shen Yuan
Spencer Tunick
Sven Dalsgaard
Tomás Saraceno
Wim Delvoye
Yayoi Kusama
Yves Klein
Zoro Feigl
