Installation by Danish artist Benedikte Bjerre with Inserts by Richard Hamilton, Fred Sandback and Al Taylor

For our participation at Art Rotterdam we have asked the young Danish artist Benedikte Bjerre, born 1987 in Copenhagen, currently until 2018 scholar at De Ateliers in Amsterdam, to conceive an intervention in our booth. She decided to include in our stand one of her signatures pieces, a long aluminum rod made from parts of a camping tent fixed in the room through a mouth guard. The title of the work is A hero never dies. This will be a minimal intervention defining the booth space and at the same time allowing to include other works. Benedikte Bjerre will add one of her composite sculptures hanging from the ceiling composed of ready-made material. In a further step she will include works on paper, prints and drawings by famous artists, to which her work refers. These will be prints from 1979 by the English artist Richard Hamilton (1922-2011) showing interiors, drawings by the American artist Al Taylor (1948-1999) depicting notes and studies for sculptures and prints by the minimal artist Fred Sandback (1943-2003). All these works allude to Benedikte Bjerre's installation and allow cross-references to her working practice. It is by coincidence that the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt a/M is including Benedikte Bjerre's work in a group show which touches a similar subject: Showing the work by a generation of young artists being interested in the works by the heroes of minimal and conceptual art. The show is called "Primary Structures: Masterwoks of Minimal Art", and the opening reception will be 21 Februrary 2017. This show will run until 13 August 2017.

In her solo show Trickortreater at the gallery in autumn 2016 Benedikte Bjerre created through her works and intervention a tangible atmosphere of uncanniness and revealed the certitude of her artistic gesture. Exhibitions by Benedikte Bjerre follow a coherent dramaturgy: Her aim is to show the interaction of the single works regarding volume, sculptural quality, architecture and content. Her exhibitions manifest an understanding for the spatial circumstances and provoke with simple means a nearly corporeal experience for the viewers.