Who are Numen / For Use?

Numen / For Use is a Croatian-Austrian collective of artists and designers. Industrial designers Sven Jonke, Christoph Katzler and Nikola Radeljković founded it in 1998 under the name For Use. In 1999, they created Numen for their artistic projects.

^{Numen / For Use, Tape Chatham, The Historic Dockyard, 16.03.23. Photo: Thierry Bal og Numen/ForUse}

What is their artistic practice?

They work where contemporary art, architecture, scenography and design meet. Since the late 1990s, the group has explored how simple materials and precise constructions can change the way we experience and use space.

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What will they create for Arken?

Tape Ishøj is an installation made of kilometres of tape stretched between the gallery walls. Bit by bit, the tape forms a complex, organic structure in the room, and the physical properties of the material shape the artwork itself.

In this way, Tape Ishøj meets Arken's architecture, designed by Søren Robert Lund. Rather than neutralising the space, the work adds a new spatial dimension. Where it meets the museum's massive concrete forms, a tension arises between heaviness and lightness, rigidity and flexibility. At the same time, Tape Ishøj follows, extends and disrupts the lines and perspectives already found in the building.

^{Numen / For Use, Tape Chatham, The Historic Dockyard, 16.03.23. Phoyo: Thierry Bal og Numen/ForUse}

Numen / For Use – Tape Ishøj 20.03.27 til 31.10.27

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