SUPERFLEX & ASGER JORN

SUPERCONVERSATION

We’ve been discussing the integration of living elements into museums, but what if we take this a step further? What if the very structure of the museum itself was designed to decay or transform over time?

Asger Jorn* *excerpt from SUPERCONVERSATION, 2024. Generated with AI and composed by SUPERFLEX.

Imagine a building that actually gives back to the ecosystem as it decays.

SUPERFLEX* *excerpt from SUPERCONVERSATION, 2024. Generated with AI and composed by SUPERFLEX.

This could be a powerful statement about the nature of art and time. But we must consider how it affects the artworks within.

Sonja Ferlov Mancoba* *excerpt from SUPERCONVERSATION, 2024. Generated with AI and composed by SUPERFLEX.

In this autumn's 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) will be brought to life and collectively enables a conversation with SUPERFLEX across time discussing future perspectives on the museum format.

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.

About SUPERFLEX

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.

The exhibition is supported by:

New Carlsberg Foundation
Aage og Johanne Louis-Hansens Fond
Beckett-Foundation