DO IT! Socle du Monde Art Festival 2024

Basurama

24.5. – 24.11.2024
HEART – Herning Museum of Contemporary Art and citywide
​Overall concept by Mattijs Visser

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The 9th Socle du Monde is all about a greater awareness of our environment in which up-cycling should play an important role. With the title “DO IT” we have invited around seventy national and international artists, plus several architects, designers and curators to develop projects and exhibitions.
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Under the title "DO IT yourself" Hans-Ulrich Obrist has asked twenty-one artists including Marina Abramovic, Olafur Eliasson and Yoko Ono to formulate an assignment for the residents and visitors of Herning. Jean-Hubert Martin has “recycled” several museum collections from Denmark under the title “Everything is wrong”. Artists Theo Jansen and Sui Park have developed new works with plastics, to increase the awareness of these polluting products. Simon Njami invited the Spanish collective Basurama to create an installation with residual materials from the local textile industry. In a retrospective we future the French “New Realist” artists, including Jean Tinguely, Arman, and Christo; they seem to have invented the concept of “up-cycling” avant-la-letre, already in the sixties. And so the 9th Socle du Monde consciously looks at the past, present and future, but it is up to you to make the change: just DO IT.

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The festival is curated by Mattijs Visser, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jean-Hubert Martin, Simon Njami, Lotte Korshøj, Sara Duborg Døssing, Holger Reenberg