More than 300 students participated in the educational program around the exhibition PROTEIN. Within the framework of the installation by Nina Beier and Simon Dybbroe Møller, this was developed in collaboration with schools on the island, with visits and creative workshops based on the concepts of eco-dependency and interdependence. A mediation action aligned with the Foundation's objective of inspiring local audiences and motivating them to explore, participate in and learn from the arts. It has been a very enriching experience and encourages us to continue working and deepening in the area of artistic education.
During their residence on Ibiza, Nina Beier and Simon Dybbroe Møller collaborated with Kris Latocha to create the poster that is part of PROTEIN exhibition, in which they borrow the Ants logo—a party that takes place in Ushuaïa, one of the biggest clubs on the island—to devise a design that manages to conflate bugs, club culture and real estate. The poster includes the text about PROTEIN written by the artists.
If visitors are customers, a party is business, a home for sale is real estate and ants in real estate are a pest. As this and other histories show us, our perception of a thing is entirely circumstantial. If food becomes scarce for example, bugs will become protein.
Nina Beier, Simon Dybbroe Møller, excerpt of PROTEIN, julio 2023
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Last 20th of July, the foundation inagurated it´s 2023 summeer artist´residency. PROTEIN, is a collaborative project by Danish artists Nina Beier and Simon Dybbroe Møller, curated by Elise Lammer. The show was developed fo La Carpinteria, and is currently on show, till the 21st of October.
Animals and machines are recurring motifs in both Simon Dybbroe Møller and Nina Beier’s work. Each of their respective practices taps into the mutable tropes found in mass-produced goods traveling between different geo-political realities.
In PROTEIN, the exhibition they are currently developing for our current exhibition space: La Carpinteria, the world of the commodity is united with that of animals/machines. Departing from the widespread assumption that the human being is better than the animal and other than the machine, the artists have been investigating Ibiza’s insects and cultural life to produce a new collaborative installation featuring a large colony of solar-powered mechanical bugs.
During this talk, the artists discussed the muddled reality of the island’s varied, contrasting and coexisting cultural and natural features, and shared with the audience some aspects of their individual artistic approaches, as well as the collaborative nature of the project as the result of their residency on Ibiza between the months of April and July 2023.