New publication: Jeppe Hein, A Smile For You
Bonniers Konsthall
Torsgatan 19
SE-11390 Stockholm
T 46 (0) 8 7364248
“I’d like to think that happiness looks like that whale, that it’s always swimming around under the surface, and now and then it looks up and becomes visible.”
Answer to: Happiness – What does it look like?
With the title Jeppe Hein, A Smile For You a new catalogue published by Koenig Books explores happiness. It is a topic Danish artist Jeppe Hein intends to research for many years. Hein’s first outward step of this exploration includes circulating questions about happiness in a media campaign, two parallel exhibitions in Sweden at Bonniers Konsthall and at Wanås Konst and this publication. Together they build the project A Smile For You.
The publication contains a wide range of voices discussing both Jeppe Hein’s artwork and the subject of happiness as well as responses to Hein’s five questions about happiness and shared experiences from Berlin, Copenhagen, and Bhutan. Contributors are Sara Arrhenius, Kirsty Bell, Jeppe Hein, Randall Krantz, Bjarne Villy Larsen, Kay Larson, Elisabeth Millqvist, Nadja U. Prætorius, Winnie Rode and Oliver Stilling.
The publication is the result of collaborative work including Studio Hein, Berlin, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Wanås Konst, Skåne, the graphic designers All the Way to Paris, Copenhagen and Hanna Schmandin, editor at Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König.
Jeppe Hein, A Smile for You
ISBN: 978-3-86335-383-4
Editors: Sara Arrhenius, Mattias Givell, Jeppe Hein, Camilla Larsson and Wiebke Petersen
Graphic Design: All the Way to Paris
Language: English
Published by: Koenig Books, London, 2013
Jeppe Hein, A Smile for You is now available at Bonniers Konsthall, Wanås Konst and through Koenig Books.
Jeppe Hein, A Smile for You
Bonniers Konsthall 24 April–28 July
Wanås Konst 19 May–27 Oct
For more information about the publication, exhibitions and related events, please visit www.bonnierskonsthall.se and www.wanaskonst.se.
Media contact:
Sofia Curman: sofia.curman [at] bonnierskonsthall.se / T +46 8 736 42 66 and
press [at] wanaskonst.se / T +46 44 660 71
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Bonniers Konsthall
Torsgatan 19
SE-11390 Stockholm
www.bonnierskonsthall.se
T 46 (0)8 7364248
Wanås Konst
Box 67
SE-289 21 Knislinge
Sweden
www.wanaskonst.se
T 46 (0)44 66071
