SILKEBORG.- In this exhibition, Asger Jorn and other major artists from the museum's collection join the collective SUPERFLEX for a conversation about the museum's functions, its future, transformation and change of perspective.
With the help of artificial intelligence, the ideas and philosophies of Asger Jorn (1914-1973), Jørn Utzon (1918-2008), Sonja Ferlov Mancoba (1911-1984), Per Kirkeby (1938-2018), Guy Debord (1931-1994), Jaqueline De Jong (1939-2024), Le Corbusier (1887-1965), Troels Andersen (1940-2021) and Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) have been brought to life and collectively enables a conversation with SUPERFLEX across time discussing future perspectives on the museum format.
One of the most comprehensive publications on the Danish artist collective SUPERFLEX is the monograph SUPERFLEX: The Corrupt Show and the Speculative Machine, edited by Patrick Charpenel and Daniel McClean. This 360-page volume delves into the group's diverse projects, exploring their engagement with economic forces, democratic production conditions, and self-organization. It features critical essays, project documentation, and interviews that provide an in-depth understanding of SUPERFLEX's practice.
ASGER JORN & SUPERFLEX – SUPERCONVERSATION presents a radical partnership between SUPERFLEX and Museum Jorn, resulting in extensive installations, innovative presentations of the collection and a working factory established at the museum, which produces the so-called “Superbricks” – pink, curved bricks of unfired clay. With their organic materials and geometry, Superbricks mimic natural habitats and accommodate animals and plants.
As the exhibition progresses, sculptures of Superbricks are built at the museum, initiating visionary ideas for design, material selection and architecture based on thoughts about ecological environments, sustainability and the co-existence and well-being of plants and animals in a man-made framework.
In the exhibition, SUPERFLEX animates the conversation about a new Museum Jorn with an artistic nerve. The bricks are both a symbolic and concrete element – material, immaterial and relational – that point towards an actual architectural design of a new museum building.
SUPERFLEX was founded in 1993 by Jakob Fenger, Bjørnstjerne Christiansen, and Rasmus Rosengren Nielsen. Conceived as an expanded collective, SUPERFLEX has consistently worked with a wide variety of collaborators, from gardeners to engineers to audience members. Engaging with alternative models for the creation of social and economic organisation, works have taken the form of energy systems, beverages, sculptures, copies, hypnosis sessions, infrastructure, paintings, plant nurseries, contracts, and public spaces.
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