Jeppe Hein (born 1 August 1974, Copenhagen , Denmark ) is an artist based in Berlin and Copenhagen . His interactive sculptures and installations combine elements of humour with the 1970s traditions of minimalism and conceptual art .
18-730: The Royal Fort House is a historic house in Tyndalls Park , Bristol. The building currently houses the University of Bristol 's Faculty of Science offices, the Brigstow Institute, Elizabeth Blackwell Institute for Health Research, the Cabot Institute and the Jean Golding Institute for data-intensive research. The house was built for Thomas Tyndall KCB, in the 18th century, on the site of bastions which were fought over during
36-409: A failed attempt to develop the gardens for housing, at the end of the eighteenth century, renowned landscape architect Humphry Repton was commissioned to reinstate a garden in the ' English Landscape ' fashion. Repton produced a design which filled in the unsightly excavations; created an undulating lawn and screened the undesirable - or framed the desirable - views. A high wall surrounds and retains
54-629: A part of an artist in residence programme. Modified Social Benches located in the Montenmedio Sculpture Park, Cadiz, Spain. These benches are also located in other places around the world, including Miami, Helsinki, Auckland and Thun, Switzerland. They are also found on the campus of Claremont McKenna College , his first work for a U.S college. At Houghton Hall in Norfolk , the Marquess of Cholmondeley commissioned an "artlandish" folly in
72-438: A scale appropriate for a five-acre walled garden. Hein created a site-specific outdoor sculpture for this space. In all seasons, this jet of water surmounted by a ball of flame illustrates a 21st-century folly on a smaller scale than other contemporary land art pieces in the parkland outside the garden enclosure. The work is intended "to surprise viewers and make them question what they are seeing." Hein wants to elicit Hein
90-1020: Is co-founder of Karriere Bar , a bar and restaurant in Copenhagen featuring site-specific artworks by international artists, which he founded with his sister Lærke Hein. Hein has had solo exhibitions at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa; and Art Tower, Mito; the Neues Museum, Nürnberg; Indianapolis Museum of Art (2010); Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts ; ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum , Århus (2009); Sculpture Center , New York; and P.S.1 MOMA , New York (2004). He has participated in solo and group exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; Tate Modern, London; Barbican Art Centre, London (2007); Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; MOCA, Los Angeles; and 50th Venice Biennale (2003). Catalogues of Hein's work have been published by ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Musée d'art contemporain de Nîmes, Koenig Books, Villa Manin, and
108-465: The English Civil War and demolished in 1655. The Baroque , Palladian and Rococo styles of architecture are because of the work of three different architects: James Bridges , Thomas Paty , John Wallis . The garden was laid out by Humphry Repton around 1800. The house was constructed on the site of a Civil War fortification, which had two bastions on the inside of the lines and three on
126-904: The Royal Danish Academy of Art between 1997 and 2003 and at the Städelschule in Frankfurt between 1999 and 2000 (while registered as an associate student of the Danish Academy). As a student Hein was co-founder of OTTO, a non-commercial organisation that organised art exhibitions at various venues in Denmark between 1997 and 2000. In 2008, Hein collaborated with Dan Graham on a temporary pavilion in Cologne. Between September 2009 and January 2010, Hein stayed at Alexander Calder ’s studio in Saché , France, as
144-670: The Victoria Rooms ), then became a conference and banqueting venue, and now houses the university's Faculty of Science, the Elizabeth Blackwell Institute for Health Research, Brisgstow Institute, Jean Golding Institute for data-intensive research and the Cabot Institute for the Environment. Tyndalls Park Tyndall's Park is an area of central Bristol , England. It lies north of Park Row and Queen's Road, east of Whiteladies Road and west of St Michael's Hill, between
162-633: The Victorian era and known as the Royal Fort Lodge, stands at the entrance to the driveway leading to Royal Fort House. It currently houses the University of Bristol security services. The house has been designated by Historic England as a grade I listed building . Although owned by the University of Bristol, the Royal Fort Gardens are open to the public for the majority of the year. Following
180-453: The crest of the hill, on the site of a Civil War fortification, and named it Fort Royal (now known as Royal Fort House ). In 1799 Tyndall's son Colonel Thomas Tyndall employed Humphrey Repton to landscape the gardens. In 1825 and 1833, two roads (Aberdeen Road and West Park) were built in the north western corner of the park, and developed for housing. In 1852 the Tyndalls began selling off
198-416: The districts of Clifton , Cotham and Kingsdown . It includes the campus of Bristol Grammar School , and many of the buildings of the University of Bristol . The area is named after Thomas Tyndall , a Bristol merchant and investor in the slave trade , who between 1753 and 1767 bought a number of fields which then existed in the area and turned them into an ornamental park. He built a stately house on
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#1732845125447216-413: The garden. This would have acted as a ' ha-ha ' to gain what, at the time, would have been unspoiled vistas. The garden is now widely used for student activities and general relaxing. It contains a small pond, trees and habitats, to increase the biodiversity, and visitors can also appreciate a mirror maze (called Follow Me ) designed by the artist Jeppe Hein . In 2016 a new art installation called Hollow
234-575: The outside. It was the strongest part of the defences of Bristol, designed by Dutch military engineer Sir Bernard de Gomme . It was one of the few purpose-built defensive works of the war era. The fort was designed as the western headquarters of the Royalist army under Prince Rupert . Royalists retreated into the fort when the Parliamentarians had broken through the lines in the siege of 1645, before eventually surrendering to Cromwell 's forces. The fort
252-668: The remainder of the western half of the park for development, and in 1877 5 acres (20,000 m ) were sold for a new building for Bristol Grammar School. From 1880, more land was sold to University College, Bristol . The Royal Fort was occupied by members of the Tyndall family until 1916, when Henry Herbert Wills bought it and gave it to the University. The following suburbs are in the same urban area, but lie in South Gloucestershire or North Somerset : Jeppe Hein Hein studied at
270-464: The separate designs of architects Thomas Paty , John Wallis and himself. This led to different classical styles: Baroque , Palladian and Rococo , for three of the facades of the house. It was built between 1758 and 1761, by Thomas Paty with plasterwork by Thomas Stocking . A later Colonel Thomas Tyndall employed Humphry Repton from 1799, to landscape the gardens which form a small part of Tyndall's Park, which extended to Whiteladies Road in
288-518: The west, Park Row in the south and Cotham Hill to the north. Over the years large parts of the park were sold for housing development, as the site for the Bristol Grammar School , purchased in 1877, and only a small part of the original area remains, as Royal Fort Gardens. The siting of drives in the Royal Fort park is still reflected in street plans today. The current stone gatehouse, built in
306-409: Was demolished around 1655. The "Royal" in the name was in honour of Prince Rupert , when he was made Governor of Bristol. An archaeological investigation in 2009 discovered a defence ditch, two bastions and the possible foundations of a defensive wall on the summit of St Michaels' Hill. The design of the mid-eighteenth-century house by James Bridges , for Thomas Tyndall KCB, was a compromise between
324-477: Was produced by Katie Paterson , with the assistance of Zeller & Moye. Hollow brings together samples taken from 10,000 species of tree which grow throughout the world. It is now owned by the University of Bristol , who were given the estate as a gift by Henry Herbert Wills of the Bristol tobacco company W. D. & H. O. Wills . For many years it housed the university's Music Department (which in 1996 moved to
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