SUPERFLEX

SUPERFLEX is an artist group founded in 1993 by Jakob Fenger, Bjørnstjerne Christiansen and Rasmus Rosengren Nielsen.

Conceived as an expanded collective, SUPERFLEX is renowned for its playfully subversive projects and installations in museums and public spaces around the world. Engaging with alternative models of social and economic organisation, SUPERFLEX’s works take the form of energy systems, beverages, sculptures, hypnosis sessions, infrastructure, paintings, plant nurseries, contracts and public spaces.

The art group is celebrated for public commissions, from the award-winning park Superkilen (2012) in Copenhagen to “Interspecies Assembly” at the United Nations Headquarters in New York (2021) and the Hyundai Commission (2017), which brought their large-scale installation “One, Two, Three, Swing!” to the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in London. These projects often involve participation, involving the input of local communities, specialists and children. Recent works have involved soliciting the participation of other species: SUPERFLEX has been developing a new kind of urbanism that includes the perspectives of plants and animals, aiming to move society towards interspecies living.

SUPERFLEX’s work has been presented widely, with solo exhibitions at Tate Modern, London; the Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Fundación JUMEX, Mexico City; 21^st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa; Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary, Vienna; among many others. SUPERFLEX’s work has featured in several iterations of the Venice Biennial as well as the Liverpool Biennial, Sharjah Biennial, Shanghai Biennial, Moscow Biennial, among others.

Its work is part of public collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk; Jumex Collection, Mexico City; Kunsthaus Zürich; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C; and the National Museum of Art, Copenhagen; among others.