press release

12.06.2021– 31. 10.2021

8. SOCLE DU MONDE BIENNALE 2021
"WELCOME BACK MY FRIENDS TO THE SHOW THAT NEVER ENDS" (April 24th – August 27th, 2020)

The Socle du Monde Biennale 2020 “Welcome Back My Friends to The Show That Never Ends” bridges past, present and future by fostering an exchange between different generations of international artists. The city of Herning, three museums and a former high school are transformed into a showplace for seven unique stages, connecting historical Arte Povera works with younger and emergent positions.

With architectural interventions, playful objects and installations, thought-provoking images and sound, Socle du Monde invites visitors to participate in a festival-like experience where real and artistic life melts, where geographic and artistic boundaries are blurred and where old and new friends meet.

El Anatsui, Giovanni Anselmo, Arad Arefe, Kirsten Astrup & Maria Bordorff, Alighiero Boetti, Mauro Bonacina, Ry David Bradley, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Ahmet Civelek, Sven Dalsgaard, Herman de Vries, Marcin Dudek, Luciano Fabro, Antony Gormley, Kari Anne Helleberg Bahri, Jannis Kounellis, Charles LeDray, Marisa Merz, Mario Merz, Klaus Munch, Rasmus Myrup, Giulio Paolini, Pino Pascali, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jaume Plensa, Emilio Prini, Maria Roosen, Lauren Seiden, Kimsooja, Kristian Touborg, Spencer Tunick, Gilberto Zorio