ABOUT

The inter-disciplinary artist group ‘benandsebastian’ straddle the boundary between art and architecture. This is not only due to the fact that they can excite the curiosity and fascination of the spectator; ’benandsebastian’s’ works of art become architecturally and sculpturally interesting because they play with different scales, materials and have a high standard of craftsmanship. Their works of art also become interesting because they not only focus on aesthetics, but are also able to incorporate political, ethical and cultural motives in their sculptural works.

Ben Clement (1981) and Sebastian de la Cour (1980) live and work in Copenhagen and are both graduates from The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College in London. They have been working together for the past three years as the artist duo ‘benandsebastian’ and in 2008 received several national prizes and awards for their artworks. In 2009 the duo received The Danish Arts Foundation’s 3-year work grant. ‘benandsebastian’ were exhibition designers for the recent Fifty/Fifty SE exhibition and will be participating at several other exhibitions this year, for example at the Museum of Modern Art (Roskilde). Recently they have also contributed to the artists’ paper Internationalistisk Ideale #2, which was released in connection to the exhibition Utopia, at Arken – Museum of Modern Art.